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The inaugural 'Gaming in Ed' Conference, September 15th - 19th 2014, is a free world-wide conference that will be held online and will be a unique chance to participate in a collaborative global conversation about games and learning in education with presentations by educators, researchers, game developers and innovators, and your peers. To be kept informed of the latest conference news and updates, please join the Gaming in Ed network and conference website at http://gamingined.com/

This index lists, and links to, articles, essays, conference papers and other material on Scottish literature and language available free on-line. In the index, articles are listed by author, and by subject or title. The names of authors of articles are in CAPITALS. Subjects of articles (including names of writers) are in bold. Bulleted items are written by the same author(s), or about the same subject, as the entries they follow. The first link in an entry is to the text of the paper. The second link is to the journal or conference page where the paper was published or presented. Some links lead to other sites; these will open in a new window.You can search the index using the Find function (under the Edit menu). If you have trouble connecting to any of these papers, or if you would like to recommend a link, please contact ASLS.

details of forthcoming conferences and other events of interest to Romanticists, calls for papers on Romantic-period topics, reports of recent Romanticism conferences, a postgraduate column, a large number of reviews of recent books on Romantic-period and related topics, and occasional articles.

Videoregistrazione della Plenary Lecture di Timothy WEBB (University of Bristol): "The Surprises of 'Hunting': Editing Leigh Hunt's Autobiography" tenuta durante la ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) Conference di Torino, Agosto 2010.

The Interpreter Diaries takes readers through the different phases of an interpreter's life and work, sharing details on everything from preparation for post-graduate training to testing at the institutions and beyond. The author of the Interpreter Diaries, Michelle Hof, is a professional conference interpreter and trainer. She works as a freelance interpreter (ACI) for the European Institutions in Brussels, Strasbourg, Luxembourg and Spain.

SHAKSPER, The Global Electronic Shakespeare Conference, is a web site offering access to the archives of the SHAKSPER Listserv discussion forum and related materials.

The website of the British organisation, Women in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies (WISPS), provides information about their aims, conferences, seminars, and members. The organization is a group of women colleagues working within all areas of Luso-Hispanism, such as feminist theory, history, cultural memory, literature, linguistics, cultural and textual theory, audio and film studies, performance studies, anthropology, geography, queer theory and theatre studies

SHAKSPER, now in its twentieth-first year of serving the academic community, is an edited and moderated, international, e-mail distribution list for discussion among Shakespearean scholars, researchers, instructors, students, and anyone sharing their academic interests and concerns. In addition to regular mailings to members, anyone can use the Internet to access the archives and other SHAKSPER materials from the SHAKSPER web site shaksper.net. SHAKSPER strives to emphasize the scholarly by providing the opportunity for the formal exchange of ideas through queries and responses regarding literary, critical, textual, theoretical, and performative topics and issues. For readers' convenience, these messages are lightly edited and grouped in separate digests according to topic

Zembla is one of the finest Internet resources devoted to the Russian / American novelist and poet Vladimir Nabokov. It is organised by the library at Pennsylvania State University, and will be of interest to: students; enthusiasts; teachers; and researchers. Resources available here include: extensive biographical information on the author; excerpts from his work (including Nabokov's own readings from his poetry and his novel Pale Fale); detailed critical essays, bibliographies, creative writing based on Nabokov; and news on Nabokov mailing lists, conferences, summer schools, etc. The site also give information relating to the International Vladimir Nabokov Society and its publication 'The Nabokovian

The Independent Literary Community consists of noncommercial literary presses and magazines, literary centers, writers conferences and festivals, writers who publish with noncommercial literary presses and magazines, service organizations which support the community, and independent bookstores which are the chief purveyors of noncommercial press books.

Welcome to the Messolonghi Electronic Library (MEL), an evolving online digital archive project devoted to promoting the scholarship and life of Lord Byron and his contemporaries. The goal of MEL is to further the field of literary theory about Lord Byron through the editing, development, and publication of credible online content. Recent additions to the library include Professor McGann's 2002 keynote lecture, "Romantic Scholarship and Culture, 1960-2001. A Byronic View" and Professor Graham's inaugural lecture for the 2001 opening ceremony of the Messolonghi Byron Society Research Center (MBSRC), entitled "Byron and Greek Mythology".Student Papers delivered at the Annual International Student Byron Conference will be vetted for online publication in the MEL archive, a process including examination and approval by a group of professors from the International Advisory Board.

This site is meant as a compilation of material and links that can be of direct practical help to trainee conference intepreters and their trainers.

The Dickens Project creates opportunities for collaborative research on Dickens and the Victorian age, and disseminates research findings through annual conferences, institutes, and publications.

Digital Medievalist is an international web-based community for medievalists working with digital media. It was established in 2003 to help scholars meet the increasingly sophisticated demands faced by designers of contemporary digital projects. Digital Medievalist publishes an open access journal, sponsors conference sessions, runs an email discussion list and encourages best practice in digital medieval resource creation.

China/Asia On Demand (CAOD)/Asia Document Delivery is an effective knowledge gateway to research materials from China in particular and Asia in general. It provides a powerful Web-based research, access and electronic information solution with unique searching and discovery capabilities. Documents can be retrieved in their original format including graphs and illustrations in a pay per-view manner or with a flat fee subscription. A wide range of journals (9,638 titles) (as of January 2011) can be accessed online. Millions of theses and dissertations, patents and conference proceeding papers could be requested with just a click away.

Izzui is a social media app uniquely focused on E-Learning in Facebook. Izzui made its debut to the technology start-up community at TechCrunch Disrupt on Monday, September 10th, in San Francisco. TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the most anticipated technology conferences of the year. As a Facebook app for end-to-end online learning collaboration, Izzui permits anyone with a Facebook account to teach, learn and share. Izzui allows users to create and post online content and presentations, invite friends to check them out and also subscribe to other people's Izzui posts. Users can also rate, evaluate and comment on their Izzui subscriptions, as well as share their course activities on their Facebook profile. Izzui brings social learning and E-learning to the wider public. The website http://www.izzui.com/ provides additional information and a link that will take visitors to the actual Facebook app.