Littérature française Saisir, Jean-Christophe Bailly : Quatre pistes distinctes, ayant toutes à voir avec le Pays de Galles, forment la matière de ce livre

And inspired a whole section of this book
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Higher Education in the 2020s, ladies and gentlemen.

No one will save us. We have to save ourselves.

We have two SDN Publication Prize winners this year! Claire Dupin de Beyssat, Musée d'Orsay, and Rachel Coombes, Downing College, Cambridge. We also awarded a Highly Commended to Zofia Litwinowicz-Krutnik. See uksdn.co.uk/sdn-publicatio… for article titles and references.

Decapitating God: Revolution in Victor Hugo’s Le Livre des Tables and Dieu Hugo’s experience of seances in exile is closely bound up with his protest at the Second Empire and this article studies the visionary images of revolution which appear in the transcripts of these ...

“Decapitating God: Revolution in Victor Hugo’s Le Livre des Tables and Dieu” by Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe of Oxford University, which appeared in volume 29, issue 2: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Congratulations Katherine!

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

'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines.

And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3

Pwy oedd Cochfarf? Yn yr erthygl hon mae’r Athro Heather Williams o Ganolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant yn codi cwr y llen ar y cysylltiadau agos rhwng Cymru a Llydaw ar ddechra...

Yr Athro Heather Williams (@heatherhmw.bsky.social) sy’n codi cwr y llen ar y cysylltiadau agos rhwng Cymru a Llydaw ar ddechrau’r ugeinfed ganrif 👇
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Pwy oedd Cochfarf? Yn yr erthygl hon mae’r Athro Heather Williams o Ganolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant yn codi cwr y llen ar y cysylltiadau agos rhwng Cymru a Llydaw ar ddechra...

Pwy oedd Cochfarf? – @golwg.360.cymru
golwg.360.cymru/gwerddon/219...

There’s one week left to register for our annual conference! Register now and get ready to talk all things health and happiness in 19th century French and Francophone studies 😁

Postgraduate Poster Competition The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

To showcase research projects at Master’s and PhD level, we are pleased to invite expressions of interest in this year’s Postgraduate Poster Competition, which will be held at this year's annual conference in Leicester. See link below for more info:
www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/postg...

Researchfish — Information for Researchers Regarding Researchfish Sunsetting After careful consideration, Elsevier have made the difficult decision to sunset Researchfish on July 31st 2027, when the product will no longer be availab

OOOOH

Researchfish

Is going extinct 🐡🐟🐠

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According to Basile-Joseph it rained on 30 January 1826!
'Malgré la pluie tombée par torrents pendant toute la matinée, on arrivait de toutes parts. Avant midi le temps s’éclaircit et devint magnifique.' etw.bangor.ac.uk/accounts/iti...

Find out what French and German travel writers made of the Menai Bridge when it was new
footsteps.bangor.ac.uk/en/location/...

Fforwm Llydaw AM Rhan 2 YouTube video by Y Ganolfan Geltaidd / CAWCS

Cyflwyniad ar yr un pwnc ar sianel YouTube @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social
youtu.be/duOqZC7EVJY?...

For more background to Wales-Brittany archives see my Collection Profile on UCL's Paper Trails
The Social Life of Archives and Collections
ucldigitalpress.co.uk/BOOC/Article...

For some pretty examples of items from the Cochfarf papers relating to Brittany, see here frenchstudieslibrarygroup.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Figures and sources, a first look at Joseph Loth and Wales This article is the combined result of two talks given during the DreAM seminars, entitled “Joseph Loth et le pays de Galles, premières approches”, in February 2024, and “To Send or not to send bir...

Diddordeb mewn cysylltiadau Cymru-Llydaw? Erthygl yn Saesneg am Joseph Loth a Chymru gan Elisabeth Chatel:
journals.openedition.org/lbl/11477

Edward Thomas (Cochfarf) « premier ami de la Bretagne » Introduction Dans les relations interceltiques, l’Eisteddfod de Cardiff en août 1899 est un phénomène incontournable. Nul ne nierait que cet évènement qui a fait venir une délégation de vingt-cinq ...

Interested in Pan-Celtic relations? My article on Cochfarf and Brittany is out here:
journals.openedition.org/lbl/11337

La Bretagne Linguistique Revue consacrée aux pratiques linguistiques en Bretagne - Journal dedicated to linguistic practices in Brittany

Cyhoeddiad newydd sy’n ffrwyth y gweithdai ar brosiect archifau Cymru-Llydaw. New publication from the Wales-Brittany Project @heatherhmw.bsky.social @crbcbrest.bsky.social 👇
journals.openedition.org/lbl/?lang=en

La Bretagne Linguistique Revue consacrée aux pratiques linguistiques en Bretagne - Journal dedicated to linguistic practices in Brittany

The proceedings of the DreAM project www.openedition.org/47425 on Welsh-Breton archives are out, and available here open access:
journals.openedition.org/lbl/index.ht...

Submissions for the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
Publication Prize 2026 close this Friday!

This is our annual prize for the best journal article published by a postgraduate student, or an early-career researcher in the 2025 calendar year.

More details below:

💫 Mentorship opportunity 💫

After great feedback from our 2025 cohort, we welcome expressions of interest for our 2026 Mentorship Scheme.

The scheme seeks to establish a supportive network for PG & early career researchers by connecting them with mid- and late-career scholars.

Whither French Studies? An Interview with Martin Crowley and David Evans | French Studies Bulletin If the article has an Altmetric Attention Score, you will find this displayed below.

Important interview free to read here. Congratulations to both Martin and Dave @frenchstudies.bsky.social
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The Society for French Studies is now on LinkedIn! 🖇️ You can find us and join our new SFS LinkedIn Group via the link below. We will post SFS news on LinkedIn as on here, but you can also use the group to advertise events and opportunities related to the discipline.

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Our ECR workshop will now take place on Friday 23rd Jan at 3pm! It is open to all SDN members.

Join Professor Helen Abbott (Birmingham) and Dr Hannah Scott (Newcastle) who will discuss their experience of working outside the ivory tower and reaching a much broader audience.

The worst of times: Trouble at the British Library Cyber chaos, striking staff and a crisis of leadership. Claudia Cockerell investigates a national treasure’s year of reckoning

Not just a national asset but an international asset. Trashed, ignored, diminished.

Congratulations Max and Michael. I would love to get my hands on this one!

Calling all of our members interested in women in/and musical history! This promises to be a very exciting few days!

Erasmus scheme to return for UK students, BBC understands The UK ended its participation in the scheme in 2020 after agreeing a Brexit deal with the EU.

If confirmed, this is great news, offering thousands of young people in the UK and EU the life-changing opportunity to immerse in the language and culture of another country by studying there. Would make good a highly damaging consequence of Brexit. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...