"Modern Foreign Languages have the largest cold spots in the UK ... with Linguistics, Anthropology and Classics showing similar declines. If current trends continue, subjects like English, History and Drama could follow." @britishacademy.bsky.social
We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...
After a brilliant week in Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social, we’re already looking forward to next year’s conference at Aston University! #BAAL2025 ➡️ #BAAL2026 @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social
My new special issue "At the interface: discourse at the intersection of digital design and user agency" published by @dcmjournal.bsky.social, co-edited with Göran Eriksson and Camilla Vásquez www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Free access to the editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
Upcoming GenAI conference at OU in November - in person and online! Submit now: eurocall-languages.org/events/genai...
📣 Call for papers! Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI - Deadline May 16
Hybrid @The Open University 13-14 Nov'25
Details & submission: eurocall-languages.org/events/genai...
A compelling case for linguistic and cultural skills in a 'precarious and rapidly changing world' and against damaging recent university course closures
Thoroughly enjoyed making this podcast with @oliviakellyou.bsky.social on WhatsApp and wellness - I hope you enjoy listening to it 😊
The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presentations focusing on any aspects of gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama, literature and visual culture, in two formats: Postgraduate students only: 5-minute lightning papers on any aspects of human gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture. Open call: 15-minute papers focusing on any aspects of gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture, with particular emphasis on: Gender, race, disability and/or human physical otherness in religious and secular medieval and early modern theatre, with topics including but not limited to: performed otherness otherness in secular dramatic texts otherness in religious drama (eg convent drama, liturgical drama within the church, performances of Biblical episodes or Saint’s lives in religious and/or secular spaces). understanding performed otherness through the study of performativity, gesture, costume, crossdressing and/or textiles. Gender, race, disability and/or otherness in creative writing, with topics including but not limited to: Dark tourism Ekphrasis Milton Keynes Female patrons and the fashioning of gender in medieval and early modern literary, dramatic and visual arts, with topics including but not limited to: the role of gender in cultural creation, performance and patronage cultural patronage as a pathway to female legal power and status. Ways of using gender, costume, cross-dressing and textiles to study and reframe dramatic narrative (eg women as ’story-weavers’ /embroiderers of vestments/costumes). The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group guest panel: Radical Otherness? Utopia and other ideal societies in the medieval and early modern world, with topics including but not limited to:
CFP for the GOTH* SYMPOSIUM 💀
*Gender and Otherness in the Humanities
Open University, 15-16 May
Deadline for submission: 28 February
All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/5th-an...
Learn more about why modern language degrees at Cardiff University should be saved at www.savecardifflanguages.org
#Languages #SaveCardiffLanguages #CardiffUniversity #Japanese #JapaneseStudies #French #German #Italian #Portuguese #Chinese #Spanish #Translation #TranslationStudies
@artsandhums.bsky.social Challenging reckless HE cuts on behalf of BAAL and other #artsandhumanities associations
Call for papers:
Corpus Linguistics 2025 #CL2025
Birmingham, UK
First week of July 2025
Submissions welcome for papers, posters, thematic panels and pre-conference workshops!
www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...
Cardiff is planning to cut all modern languages. I’m afraid it will not be the last time we’ll see these announcements, with severe consequences for students’ prospects, researchers and staff but also our understanding of different cultures. A reminder that these courses were introduced after WWI.
