Please sign and share! We don’t want the study of languages & the humanities to become a privilege for the lucky few, do we UOW? change.org/p/fight-the-cl…

Now out: A Transprovincial Movement? #Provincializing Frenchness in the Nineteenth Century via the Académie Provinciale of Lyon | Australian Journal of French Studies liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/aj…

Thrilled to be part of this special issue on Mo(u)vement in the Francophone world! My article examines a particular intercultural & intertextual mode of storytelling in contemp Algerian writing that resists fossilised state narratives & religious dogma. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.382…

Māori members of New Zealand’s parliament disrupted the passage of a bill that would  reinterpret the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi, which uplifts Indigenous peoples. The MPs performed a haka—a traditional Māori dance and chant—causing the session to be suspended.

Snow in Oxford this morning ❄️ 📷 | Luis_Louis_Lewis (Instagram), Petros Spanou, Matt Shaw & Christ Church

It was a genuine pleasure to read & review these 2 books on literary translation for FIT_Babel by 2 authors working in tandem: Delphine Grass (Translation as Creative-Critical Practice) & Lily Robert-Foley (Experimental Translation). In open access here: jbe-platform.com/content/journa…

Now on Bluesky.

Big news for Women in French: Australia! Thank you to our amazing first speaker Christie Margrave and to the creators Beth Kearney & @josiegoldman 💚🌟 See you later today for our end-of-year celebration! 🥳

Absolutely stellar keynote by @gemma_s_king Francophone Research Cluster about her Australian Research Council DECRA project at Australian Society for French Studies #ASFS2024 Bravo, Gemma!

This was such a profoundly inspiring keynote by Mame-Fatou Niang #ASFS2024! I feel very privileged to have been able to witness this moment. Un grand merci! Australian Society for French Studies

This devastating piece of news marks the official end of our youth. Paolo, his music, his poetry, since his beginnings with Scisma, represented everything for us. Ciao, Paolo, grazie di tutto ♥️ ci rivedremo presto, frantumare le distanze… R.I.P.

Please sign this petition to save the excellent School of Modern Languages at Cardiff, where some of our brilliant dix-neuviémiste colleagues work. chng.it/jy4kZyM65Y

Our special February issue L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels, guest-edited by Dominique Carlini Versini, is now available online ! tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/33/… ASMCF T&F Social Sciences and Humanities

Félicitations to our Communication co-officer, Dr Charlotte Mackay (Monash University), for the publication of her monograph Atlantic Bound: Writing Afro-Atlantic Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome with PeterLangOxford 🥳!

Now that my Princeton University Press book is with the printer, things are getting real! If you have an interest in creative translation, the link between translation & politics, multilingual writing, poetry & world literature, check out Translation Multiples: press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…

Many congratulations to our International Liaison co-Officer Dr Antonia Wimbush @awimbush.bsky.social for the publication of her book 🥳!

What's your favourite line of poetry in French? (especially if it's from the nineteenth century) #WorldPoetryDay2025

📣 Call for proposals 📣 We would like to invite you to coordinate an online seminar of the Women in French Australia Work in Progress Online Seminar Series on francophone women writers and artists! More details here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pape…