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UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest ‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest.

‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-job-...

The new issue of the @sfps.bsky.social Bulletin has just been published! Featuring the joint winners and the runner-up to the 2025 SFPS Essay Prize, as well as the usual range of reviews of new books in the field. Bonne lecture! 1/ sfps.org.uk/bulletin-of-...

Creole Cinema: Memory Traces | Home Louise Hardwick is Professor of Francophone Studies and World Literature at the University of Birmingham (UK).

and Louise Hardwick, Creole Cinema: Memory Traces (@livunipress.bsky.social 2025), reviewed by @awimbush.bsky.social: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

It's that time of year again! We've published the CFP for our annual conference, this year on the theme of "Postcolonial Temporalities," from Nov 20-21st 2026!

Please share and circulate widely within your networks! Abstracts due May 4

sfps.org.uk/2026/03/16/s...

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.'

Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Fantastic to see Françoise Ega's important memoire now translated into English!

Susie Dent: Foreign languages help children decode English Britain’s best-loved wordsmith cautions against the decline in the study of French and German — try our quiz to test your knowledge of etymology

Foreign languages help children decode English says @susiedentwords.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/4730...

[À vos agendas]
Rdv jeudi 29 janvier, aux #ad971, pour une conférence d'Antonia Wimbush : le #Bumidom dans la création artistique - mémoires et imaginaire d'une migration d'État.

It's out! This new article by me and my wonderful collaborator Charlotte Ann Legg looks at race, labour and affinities of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia around the time of the White Australia policy. Part of our special issue on Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific🗃️

Delighted to share the CFP for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate and ECR Study Day, happening on Friday 12th June at @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social. This year we are also opening the call up to final-year UG students and MA students. Please share widely!

Graphic to promote the journal 'French Studies': Navy blue text reads ‘Publishing articles and reviews spanning all areas of the subject, including language and linguistics, literature, thought and the history of ideas, and cultural studies’. Journal cover for French Studies sits to the right of the text. The cover is a warm cream with a rich red uppercase font for the journal's title. A red line sits under the title and under that the table of contents is listed in a small black font. The Liverpool University Press logo sits in the left corner, it features a dark red minimalist swoosh which represents the Liver Bird, text underneath reads Liverpool University Press founded 1899. The Society for French Studies logo sits alongside. The logo is made up of a coral-coloured circle, a blue square, and a gold triangle which overlap to create a purple colour. In the background sits a soft lilac graphic with light grey lines running in different directions.

We are pleased to share that David Evans is the new General Editor of French Studies, succeeding Martin Crowley after seven years. We thank Martin for his leadership.
An interview with Crowley & Evans in French Studies Bulletin is free to read this January➡️bit.ly/FS-Editor
@frenchstudies.bsky.social

Congratulations Hannah, such brilliant news!

The CFP for the 2026 Society for the Study of French History conference has just been launched. Come join us in Groningen! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/

🎙️ New episode! Positionalities – Women in French Podcast
“Teaching French Through a Gender-Just Lens”
Dr Gemma King, Dr Dominique Carlini Versini @dcarliniversini.bsky.social & Dr Clara Sitbon share insights on inclusive French teaching. Hosted by Dr Beth Kearney @besskearney.bsky.social !

The universities of Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk...

Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

So depressing to be signing another petition to save Modern Languages, this time at Leicester. Linguistic & intercultural understanding are vital to everyone in today's world.

University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.

Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham In a statement the institution also says it is

Awful news - co-supervised at Nottingham for my PhD & it was such a fantastic and vibrant department.

BBC News - Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham - BBC News
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain, and the Pacific This special issue explores the connected histories of France, Britain, and the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th centuries at the level of states, colonial administrations, people, practices, and...

Thrilled to see this introduction by me and Charlotte Ann Legg to our special issue on "Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific" is now out and in open access. The rest of our special issue – with a fantastic array of articles – will be out soon! @journalpacifichist.bsky.social

🎉 We invite you to our end-of-year online research showcase & celebration!
🗓️ Friday 28 Nov | ⏰ 3–6 PM AEST
💬 Share a 10-min informal talk on your 2025 research highlights—or just come listen & connect!
📩 EOI by 31 Oct: wifaustralia@gmail.com
#WiFOZ #ResearchShowcase

🎓 Join us for the next WiF Oz Work-in-Progress Seminar
"Shumona Sinha, exemple paradigmatique des xénographies féminines dans l’Europe d’aujourd’hui"!
📅 Thurs 23 Oct
🕚 11am (London) | 12pm (Madrid) | 9pm (Sydney)
📍 On Teams
🔗 Programme & link: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/work-in-prog...

Great to be in conversation with Jennifer Boum Make about our special issue of @francemodern.bsky.social on the BUMIDOM, co-edited with Malika Danican!

[CONFÉRENCE] 16 octobre 2025

Les Archives départementales et la Société d'histoire de la Guadeloupe sont ravies d'accueillir le Dr @awimbush.bsky.social pour une conférence intitulée :
Le BUMIDOM dans la création artistique : mémoires et imaginaires d’une migration d'État.

#Bumidom #Guadeloupe

Michel-Rolph Trouillot : « Faire taire le passé », une autre approche de l’Histoire Trente ans après sa parution en anglais, Silencing the Past de Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) paraît enfin en français sous le titre Faire taire le passé – Pouvoir et production historique (Lux Éd...

🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English,

Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST

est paru *enfin* en français!!!

Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹

www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...

Fantastic to see so much interdisciplinary research on the BUMIDOM- congratulations to all contributors!

The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire This introduction to the special issue of ‘The BUMIDOM and its Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire’ provides historical context to the ...

Pleased to see the introduction to our special issue of
@francemodern.bsky.social
'The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach', written with Malika Danican! Can't wait to see the rest of the issue & congratulations to all contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Picture shows a book cover for Dangers of Youth

I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

We are thrilled to invite you to the roundtable "La délicatesse comme ruse pour habiter le monde et la planète en écosensibilité?"
🗓️ 25 Sept | ⏰ 9–11am GMT | 📍 Zoom

Cover image for the Australian Journal of French Studies special issue. The red journal cover appears on the left with the title Australian Journal of French Studies, Volume LXII, Numbers 3/4, 2025. On the right, text reads: “SPECIAL ISSUE: Corporeality: Critical Concerns in French and Francophone Studies. Guest edited by Sonia Wilson, Nathalie Ségeral, and Victoria Souliman.” Liverpool University Press logo in white at the top right. Background features abstract red and dark wave-like folds.

🧵 New Special Issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies: “Corporeality: Critical Concerns in French & Francophone Studies” and a tribute to Professor Jarrod Hayes