Professor Nigel Leask delivered the plenary paper on 'Burns's Prose in the New Oxford edition', with particular reference to Burns's tour of the Highlands.

Michael Morris discussed 'Robert Burns and the Caribbean', and paid particular attention to references in Burns's work to the slave trade.

Mr Frank Shaw, the past president of the St Andrew's Society of Atlanta, delivered a fascinating paper on 'The History of Atlanta Burns Club.'

Peter Kormylo and Hannah Dyka jointly presented their paper, 'Robert Burns - the Ukranian Translations', in which they discussed different facets of Ukranian translation of Burns's poetry.