How can we design community engagement that’s ethical & culturally sensitive? 🌍

Join our Discipline+ Catalyst hybrid workshop for Arts & Humanities PhD researchers...

📅 Mon 13 Oct
📍Online & in-person (Aberdeen)

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Thanks @rgf26.bsky.social for organising such an engaging conference on Hostile environments/hospitable praxes @ University of Kent

Nadia Kiwan presents a slide on UK-French migration legislation.

Eri Kobayashi close reads Caryl Phillips’s A Distant Shore.

Maria Ridda addresses two texts: The Conscript and My Fourth Time, We Drowned.

This morning, the first panel focused on migration narratives in/to Europe. Nadia Kiwan, Eri Kobayashi, and Maria Ridda presented on the potential routes to hospitality, land and sea migration routes, and the unique border spaces of island and coastal edges.

We Can Make an Impact. End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University

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Stop cuts to Modern Languages at Bangor University Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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📚 Theorising Space, Place and Belonging
📍Aberdeen Uni or Online 💻
📅 19th May, 11am-3pm

Workshop for PGRs working on #urbanenvironments, experiences of space & place, #EuropeanHistory & culture, and related fields.

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Modern languages departments are neither colonial nor obsolete Advanced linguistic and cultural skills remain essential for deep insight into how people see themselves in the world, say five modern languages academics

‘Language is not an ancillary service. It is crucial for expanding understanding of key issues of our age beyond anglophone perspectives and assumptions.’ A response by @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social
and St. Andrews School of Modern Languages. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...

Hi Sarah - could I be added to the list please? Thanks!

Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley

On Cardiff’s proposals regarding the teaching of languages and cultures

The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley

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Senedd Members criticise ‘colossal’ Cardiff University cuts Senedd Members criticised Cardiff University’s plans to cut 400 jobs and courses including nursing, calling for ministers to intervene to prevent “educational vandalism”

Senedd Members criticise ‘colossal’ Cardiff University cuts

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