Thank you to all who attended and presented yesterday! We had ~45 people joining online or in person throughout the day to discuss the rich topic of poetry and politics. Grateful to the department, to the Long Room Hub and to all those involved in the organisation of this event

Our conference was followed by a fascinating and eye-opening paper by Nicki Hitchcott on the stolen children of the Belgian empire in Rwanda Trinity Long Room Hub

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of France, we are organising an exhibition and roundtable on 28 June 2024 with the support of Mission Libération French Embassy UK🇫🇷🇪🇺 AUPHF+ All welcome! #DDay80 #DDay #6juin

📢📢📢 Applications open - UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social Postdoctoral Researcher. We're delighted to announce that we're funding a postdoctoral researcher post as part of our national contribution in the field of languages, cultures and societies. All info 👉 mhra.org.uk/news/2024/06/1…

🚨Postdoc Position🚨 Just a reminder that the COLVET project is currently advertising two positions. The first is a 24 month contract to work on colonial veterans in the Indian subcontinent in the interwar period. Deadline June 30. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-unive…

📢Announcement of new AUPHF+ President and Deputy🌟 Prof Stephen Forcer (Glasgow) will be the next President of tAUPHF+ from August and Prof Bradley Stephens (Bristol) will be taking the role of Deputy. We look forward to welcoming them to the committee. auphf.ac.uk

Thank you to our current President Prof Martin Hurcombe and to our Vice-President Prof Marion Schmid who have worked tirelessly in their roles. You will be sorely missed!

We have invited ALL South Belfast's PPCs (prospective parliamentary candidates) to our Foodbank, and are asking that they sign the The Trussell Trust pledge. ⬇️ To use their voice as MP to advocate for change, ensuring our welfare system protects ppl from using a foodbank to survive

Very excited to be hosting the French Studies annual conference Literature&Languages University of Stirling next week - check out the amazing programme here: sfs.ac.uk/conferences/sf…

Wonderful to see so many postgraduates at today’s workshop! Warmest thanks to Dr. Ashley (Scott) Harris, Jennifer Oliver, and Molly Crozier for such thought-provoking papers on interdisciplinarity! #SFSStirling2024

Day 2 French Studies My day started with Daoud’s excellent presentation on autofiction on a national scale, followed by my own paper alongside excellent colleagues on Experimental Communities. Finished by chairing a fascinating panel with Fraser McQueen & Louise Kari Méreau

To mark the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of France, an exhibition & roundtable took place @BristolFrench on 28 June with AUPHF+ support alongside Mission Libération French Embassy UK🇫🇷🇪🇺 #DDay80 Recordings of the roundtable & discussions are available on our site: auphf.ac.uk/news-events

Sandhurst Entry lives! Thanks to a micro-grant from 9ftinCommon and Social Farms & Gardens NI we’ve made a start on turning our entry from dump to garden with a lovely planter and a welcoming sign at each end. Compost supplied by Belfast City Council and several plants came from @ideaspace 🙏

Pic 1 is what we started with in our Belfast alley- endless landlord dumping. But as a group of neighbours we had a different vision for this space. Months of voluntary cleaning & a small grant mean we are on our way to a better shared space: introducing Sandhurst Entry

Any decolonial /comparative lit/ world lit scholars out there, a permanent lectureship now being advertised here at UCC! ucc.ie/en/future-huma…