GCSE languages sees rise in Wales after new approach After a long decline, the number of pupils taking language GCSEs in Wales rises for two years.

Languages and culture go together so well!: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's the last chance to submit your proposals for Crisis or Catastrophe, our Annual Conference, in the @ilcs.bsky.social, Senate House, London on 2 – 3 September 2026.

Resonant Tongues: The Art and Practice of Listening. 3 - Being Civil (Society)

📢Conversation 3: Being Civil (Society)
How can small creative acts build belonging in displacement?

📅 Tuesday 2 June 2026, 4-6pm BST (UK time)

Guests: Collaborators from South West Councils, community arts and local projects

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📢Conversation 2: Tools for Listening
Can creative tools unlock voice, wellbeing and dignity?

📅 Tuesday 19 May 2026, 4-6pm BST (UK time)

Guests: Save the Children Netherlands collaborators and youth participants

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📢Conversation 1: Piloting in Practice
How can creative toolkits be piloted between communities?

📅 Tuesday 5 May 2026, 4-6pm BST (UK time)

Guests: Collaborators from Armenia and humanitarian storytelling projects

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Helen Patuck Helen Patuck is the ILCS Practitioner in Residence for 2026.

We're very excited to welcome Helen Patuck as our Creative Practitioner in Residence 2026!

As part of her Residency, Helen is convening a series of Conversations: 'Resonant Tongues: The Art and Practice of Listening'. They are all held online & in person at Senate House, University of London.

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RESHAPED RESHAPED is our new online training platform providing free and accessible training resources designed to support the learning and development needs of humanities researchers.

Interviews are a research method increasingly used across humanities disciplines and creative practice. Our "Interviews as a Humanities Research Method" course, from researchers @ilcs.bsky.social & @qmul.bsky.social covers different approaches, ethical considerations and more: https://bit.ly/4bu4zhx

Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices

Registration is now open for 'Teaching Anti-Fascism: Developing and Shaping Practice'! Papers will be short, practical and informal. The event is free and over two days in London. All welcome!

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Our online course on Born-Digital Research is nominated for the DH Awards: dhawards.org/dhawards2025.... You can access our course for free on RESHAPED: reshaped.sas.ac.uk/course/view.... @sas-news.bsky.social @jfwinters.bsky.social @beatricecannelli.bsky.social @caiomellodh.bsky.social

There's still time to sign up to today's Caribbean Studies Seminar w/Prof Lauren Derby talking about her new book Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands. shorturl.at/vjcKq
@ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @deannalyncook.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

RESHAPED is recognised at the 2026 Roger Mills Prize for Innovation in Learning and Teaching Congratulations to the team behind RESHAPED, which has been named the runner up for the 2026 Roger Mills Prize for Innovation in Learning and Teaching.

Congratulations to the team behind RESHAPED, SAS's online training platform, who have been recognised as runners up for the 2026 Roger Mills Prize for Innovation in Learning and Teaching sponsored by the Centre for Online and Distance Education, University of London.

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RESHAPED came in second to the winning project from @qmul.bsky.social.

Congratulations to the colleagues, partners and contributors who continue to help shape RESHAPED, especially Niilante Ogunsola-Ribeiro, Simon Parr and @naswells.bsky.social, and to all the teams who were recognised this year!

Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Saving Cultural Data in Times of Crisis

The third seminar in this year’s @dh-researchhub.bsky.social series on ‘The Fragile Record’ is concerned with ‘Cultural heritage under attack: saving cultural data in times of crisis’, 31 March, 16.00-17.30 BST. Free to attend online, but you’ll need to register.

The University of Essex has proposed to discontinue most of their undergraduate language provisions as well as the Languages for All programme as part of large-scale restructuring.

Sign their petition to urge the Executive Committee to reconsider the proposal: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ILCS Conference Grant Scheme The scheme is intended to support initiatives that provide a major contribution to the development of Languages, Cultures and Societies as a disciplinary field.

📢 ILCS Conference Grant scheme - call for applications now open!

Now accepting applications to hold a conference during 2026/27 academic year. Applicants can apply for a maximum of £2,000. Deadline for receipt of applications is 20 April 2026.

For full details of the scheme and how to apply 👇

Fellowship Applications and Renewals Applications for the 2026/27 academic year are now open.

Applications for IES Fellowships in the 2026/27 academic year are now open!

You can apply for an ECR or Research fellowship, with terms from 6 months to 3 years.

The application deadline is 10 April.

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Our first newsletter of 2026! Read for: our new #OpenAccess books, @oipassoc.bsky.social updates, and details of free training sessions for authors and researchers!

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@sas-news.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social @dh-researchhub.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

Author-Reading Event: The business of producing and promoting women’s writing. How are books born? From idea to the global shelf

Join us tomorrow for an author-reading and discussion from the @ilcs.bsky.social to mark #IWD2026: “Business, Producing and Promoting Women’s Writing: How Are Books Born from an Idea to the Global Stage?”

🗓️ 12 March

⏰ 3.30pm - 6.30pm

📍Senate House

🎟️ Details and booking: https://bit.ly/40rpmvo

How has the Kindertransport shaped British culture and memory?

Join the Leo Baeck Institute and the British-German Association for an online roundtable.

🗓 19 March 2026 🕖 19:00 – 20:00 💻 Online via Zoom

Attendance is free of charge. Register now: lbilondon.ac.uk/kindertransport-2026

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📢 Reminder: Call for Expressions of Interest – 2027 Special Issue
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Proposals welcome on literature, linguistics, culture, film & visual arts within Hispanic Studies.

🗓 Submit by 30 March 2026

More info: bit.ly/BHS-2027-SI-Call
@ilcs.bsky.social
#HispanicStudies

ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day: Resonances and Dissonances

📢 Calling all students working in French history and Francophone studies!

"ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day: Resonances and Dissonances". Moments of echo and reverberation, rupture and interruption.

📅 10 April, 9-5pm
📍 Hybrid

Free for all to attend. Full programme & registration 👇

Caribbean Studies Seminar

🗓️ 24 March Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands
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🗓️ 28 April Tracing Dutch Caribbean Migrants in Black Radical Encounters
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

@soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @deannalyncook.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain

⏰Our first event, 'Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain', is led by the @ilcs.bsky.social and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and begins today at 1pm at Senate House.

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay #SAS #UniversityofLondon

International Women’s Day Series 2026 The SAS International Women’s Day Series brings together and celebrates the work of women as leaders, creators, and innovators in the Arts & Humanities within SAS and beyond.

🎉International Women’s Day at the School of Advanced Study

We’re marking International Women’s Day with a programme of events. From research showcases to collaborative workshops, this series brings together colleagues and partners across the humanities.

👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

🎭 Professor Catherine Boyle from @kingsdllc.bsky.social features at this #IWD2026 event by @ilcs.bsky.social exploring how we can make fruitful connections across different types of creative practice, such as theatre translation, poetry translation, creative writing, directing and film-making 👇

The business of producing and promoting women’s writing. How are books born? From idea to the global shelf

📢Still time to sign up for our 2-day conference on 12 & 13 March, marking International Women's Day!

This is the first part of a series of events investigating the book journey from idea to the global shelf.

For the full programme and to register, visit our webpage below 👇

#IWD2026

Suggested by Dr Andrea Capovilla, Director of @ilcs.bsky.social

Read the full entry on the map: www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/a724...

#EuropeanLiteraryLondon #EuropeanLiterature #Poetry #London

Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain

EVENT: Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain, 6 March 2026, @ilcs.bsky.social.
Includes hybrid roundtable chaired by Jamille Pinheiro Dias with Indigenous women filmmakers from Brazilian network Rede Katahirine
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Excellent and inspiring evening last night courtesy of
@ilcs.bsky.social at Senate House, London. Part of the Encounter series, author Joachim B. Schmidt was chatting with translator @jamielsearle.bsky.social. Expertly moderated by Godela Weiss-Sussex. So good to be talking about Kalmann again! 🦈

Graphic announcing a Call for Special Issue Proposals 2027 for Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Expressions of Interest deadline: 30 March 2026. Liverpool University Press logo and journal cover shown.

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest: 2027 Special Issue – Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

The editors invite proposals on literature, linguistics, culture, film & visual arts within Hispanic Studies.

Submit by 30 March 2026.

Find out more at: bit.ly/BHS-2027-SI-Call
@ilcs.bsky.social #HispanicStudies