the absolute highlight of this years Olympics has been women WOMEN being the nicest kindest most beautiful and powerful humans, being strong and resilient, showing the best examples of sportsmanship and empathy, becoming friends, having fun and embracing the message of this event

I did not know Kavinsky was French. Was totally obsessed with this song after the movie "Drive" 🔥

Ah Air my teenage obsession ♥️😻 #ClosingCeremony (Feel so old now...)

Please convince me it is not a CAT with a spear 😼 #ClosingCeremony #JOParis2024

Yseult 🔥♥️ #ClosingCeremony

French singer Yseult just added a a performance at the Paris 2024 closing ceremony to her long list of accolades—and yes, she’s still just getting started. vogue.com/slideshow/yseu…

Now available - Refugee Afterlives: Home, Hauntings, and Hunger by @DrAshwinyOK is the first book to bring together different genres and forms of Vietnamese writing. Buy from our website for 20% off RRP ➡️ bit.ly/3ZdvVSI

‘tis the season to send us your abstracts! We are receiving abstracts until the end of the month. We look forward to reading you!

Teaching "A Soul of Small Places" by woppa Diallo and Mame Bougouma Diene next week, so just re-read it. It's just so powerful and beautiful. static1.squarespace.com/static/565c3d3…

"Le romancier Elias Khoury, auteur du chef-d’œuvre La Porte du soleil, s’est éteint à Beyrouth. Si Orient XXI s’est souvent fait le relais de ses œuvres, l’hommage qui lui est ici rendu par Z. Majed met l’accent sur l’intellectuel engagé qu’il était". orientxxi.info/lu-vu-entendu/…

Participated in the race La Parisienne today with AUP colleagues to fight breast cancer 🎀

The Holocaust’s Grandchildren Are Speaking Now nytimes.com/2024/10/20/art…

27 octobre 2005. Il y a 19 ans, jour pour jour, Zyed Benna et Bouna Traoré perdaient la vie suite à un contrôle de police à Clichy-sous-Bois. Les deux adolescents rentraient, à pied, d’un foot à Livry-Gargan, ville limitrophe à la leur

Le prix Renaudot 2024 attribué à Gaël Faye pour son roman "Jacaranda" #AFP

Saw the play "Deux sœurs" at Les Plateaux Sauvages yesterday. Wonderful performance by Océane Mozas based on a text by Marine Bachelot Nguyen about Vietnamese women. We had a special Q&A with the actress afterwards too! Strongly recommend. lesplateauxsauvages.fr/24-25-oceane...

I will be going to Dakar, Senegal with my students next semester for my course Francophone African Arts. Has anyone been with their students? Looking for tips, etc.

I know this is a long shot but anyone knows someone who works at the Ministère de l'Intérieur in Dakar? I am supposed to fly to Senegal tomorrow with some of my students and one student needs a letter from them to have a visa...

#RIPNgugiWaThiongo theconversation.com/five-things-yo…

Interested in Caribbean migration? Come to the book launch of my Edinburgh University Press new book, BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives! Thursday 5th June 5pm GMT. Sign up here: unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/regist….