The Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster is holding a conference entitled 'Language and Literature in the time of Burns' in the AK Bell Library, Perth. Papers will be given by J Derrick McClure 'Allan Ramsay and the Scots Tongue', Carol Baraniuk 'Men of Independent Mind: Ulster Poets and the Scots Vernacular Tradition', and Andrew Noble 'Robert Burns and the Scottish Radical Poets of his Age'. The conference will include the AGM of the Forum. Tickets cost 35 (25 unwaged) and these include lunch and afternoon tea and coffee with a year's membership of the Forum. Please contact J Derrick McClure at j.d.mcclure@abdn.ac.uk.