The University of Aberdeen will be hosting its twelfth international conference on the subject Literature of Region and Nation. This will take place from 30 July through to 2 August. Among the papers will be a presentation by Professor David Hewitt (University of Aberdeen) regarding the use of dialect in nineteenth-century fiction. The University is currently looking for further papers and anyone with an interest should contact J Derrick McClure at: j.d.mcclure@abdn.ac.uk