Clàr-ama na Co-labhairt
Co-labhairt Comann Litreachas na h-Alba / Shabhal Mòr Ostaig 2026
‘Trì guthan ar dùthcha’:
Sruthan is saobh-shruthan ann an litreachas na Gàidhlig agus litreachasan Albannach eile.
An t-Eilean Sgitheanach
Gabhaidh a’ cho-labhairt seo àite aig Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, air deireadh na seachdaine 26–28 Ògmhios 2026.
Bidh na h-òraidean air fad ann an Talla Dhonaidh Chaimbeil, Àrainn Chaluim Chille.
Bidh dibhearsain air an oidhche anns an Talla Mhòr, Àrainn Ostaig.
Bidh na h-òraidean air fad sa Bheurla ged a thèid eisimpleirean Gàidhlig a chleachdadh.
FEASGAR DIHAOINE
18:00 Buffet Roghainneil
19:15 Fosgladh na Co-labhairt (Dàibhidh Goldie agus Gillian Rothach)
An t-Ath-bheothachadh Ceilteach
- 19:30: Contacts between Gaelic and Scots in Twentieth Century Gaelic Magazines (Petra Poncarová)
- 20:00: Dread and Revelation in Dòmhnall Mac na Ceàrdaich’s short stories (Aonghas MacLeòid)
An t-Ath-bheothachadh Albannach
- 20:30: The Crosbie illustrations for Sorley MacLean’s Dàin do Eimhir, and their wider contexts (Òraid shlàn: Murdo Macdonald)
22:00 Bàr Fosgailte (An Talla Mòr, Àrainn Ostaig)
DISATHAIRNE
An t-Ath-bheothachadh Albannach
- 09:00: Dàin do Eimhir and Auntran Blads: the impact of Sorley MacLean and Douglas Young in 1943 (Emma Dymock)
- 09:30: Contexts, texts and resistance: MacLean, Garioch and MacDiarmid (Alan Riach)
- 10:00: A woman of many parts – the tripartite influence of Scotland’s languages in the poetry of Helen B. Cruickshank (1886–1975) (Elaine Morrison)
- 10:30: Shifting Perspectives: Scots and English in Nan Shepherd’s novels (John Corbett)
11:00 COFAIDH/TÌ
- 11:30: ‘The Deeds of the Dead Remain’: Joseph MacLeod’s ‘Open Letter to the Countess of Sutherland’ (Nigel Leask)
Cruthachalachd agus Dearbh-aithne
- 12:00: A Light in the Dark: Lighthouses, Language, and the Afterlives of Walter Scott’s Lighthouse Yacht Journal (1814) (Hilary Clydesdale)
- 12:30: The Bilingual Basis of Creativity (Donald S. Murray)
13:00 LÒN
- 14:00: The literary qualities of a Scots township poet – Billy Henderson (Iain Howieson)
- 14:30: ‘Strange in His Foreign Tongue’: language and identity in Simon Taylor’s Mortimer’s Deep (1992) (Smilla Steiner)
Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn
- 15:00: Cultural hybridity and ageing: the representation of older women across Iain Crichton Smith/Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn’s Gaelic and English works (Gabrielle Fath)
15:30 COFAIDH/TÌ
- 16:00: The Shape of Seeing: Colour, Shape and Moral Vision in Iain Crichton Smith’s Work (Òraid shlàn: Kevin MacNeil)
17:00 DEIREADH ÒRAIDEAN DISATHAIRNE
- 18:30 Cur–air–bhog leabhair agus deoch (John Corbett)
Hugh MacDiarmid 1923–2023: Visions and Revisions, edited by Camille Manfredi, Fiona Paterson and Philippe Laplace
19:30 Dinnear na Co-labhairt agus Cèilidh
DIDÒMHNAICH
Meadhanan Measgaichte
- 09:30: Intermedial Polyphony and the Twentieth-century Makar: Margaret Tait and the Cross-currents of Poetic Hybridity (Anne Ciecko)
- 10:00: Three Voices, Living Archives: Gaelic Presence and Cultural Translation in Twentieth-century Scotland (Catherine MacPhee and Sorcha Dallas)
10:30 COFAIDH/TÌ
Eadar-theangachadh
- 11:00: Gaelic Poetry in Chinese (Daisy, Li Li)
- 11:30: Negotiating the contact zone: the politics of translation in contemporary Scottish Gaelic literature (Anne Morrison)
Deasbad Bùird Chruinn
- 12:00: Round table on Scots and Gaelic language development (Deasbad air a stiùireadh le John Hodgart agus Boyd Robasdan)
13:00 DEIREADH NA CO-LABHAIRT
Buffet Roghainneil