Latin American authors on rise in International Booker prize lists theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

Come along to our next event which is focused on funding and fellowships - April 23rd, 10.30-11.30 - please share widely! All are welcome! UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social

Please spread the word: This year’s DAAD/ILCS language competition is live! We’re asking everyone to imagine what the big news stories will be on 31 December this year! DAAD_UKandIreland ILCS MMLL Cambridge e

📣The DAAD/ILCS German Language Competition 2024 is live!
Become a reporter and write the front page of your own newspaper in the German-speaking world. The catch: This is the final edition of 2024!
All levels of German learners can win exciting prizes. daad.org.uk/en/about-us/wh…

Ashoka University Duke University Press Franck Gaudichaud Massimo Modonesi Ben Bollig U Pittsburgh Press Paul Merchant 📕BOOK REVIEW📕

3. Catherine Davies (@ILCS_SAS) reviews Fortineras, mujeres en las fronteras. Ejércitos, guerras y género en el siglo XIX (@EdicionesImago, 2020) by María Cristina Ockier.

#LatinAmericanStudies #Argentina #Género

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bl…

Join us this Thursday as we continue our weekly online seminar series: 'Before Ferrante. Mapping Italian Women Writers in Translation'

This week we'll be discussing the Nobel Prize-winner, Grazia Deledda.

Find out more and register below! 👇

ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/ferrant…

Join us this Thursday as we continue our weekly online seminar series: 'Before Ferrante. Mapping Italian Women Writers in Translation'

This week we'll be discussing the Nobel Prize-winner, Grazia Deledda.

Find out more and register below! 👇

ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/ferrant…

Our CLACS Seminar 'Black Caribbean Archive: Sites, Methods and Imagination' ILCS is now online! Featuring Olivier Marboeuf who is currently hosted by University of London Institute in Paris as part of his Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship #distantislandsspectralcities

ilcs.sas.ac.uk/podcasts/black…

Our LAST @CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar of the semester. Please join us to round off what has been a fantastic year! With papers from the incredible Dr Amara Thornton Dr Joanne Norcup Dr Renée Landell Tré (he/him) 🇬🇩🇯🇲 Olivier Marboeuf Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/caribbe…

And then The British Academy Hon Fellow David Olusoga

‘History is not there to make us feel good, proud or comforted. It’s simply there to be fully understood, in all its wonder, pain and yes its cruelties and injustices.’

thetimes.co.uk/article/5c9247…

A couple of inspiring interviews about history in the press today. First Rijksmuseum director Taco Dibbits

‘History is always multi-layered, not always beautiful. To try to give that to the public is one of our duties’

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We need more young people studying languages across the UK. We need opportunities for them to meet and engage with peers, especially in Europe. Not engaging with #ERASMUS because we don't have the language skills we sorely need is so.... short-sighted. APPG Modern Languages

There's still time to sign up for our last Caribbean Studies seminar of the semester: 'Dancing Beyond the Black: A New Afro-Diasporic Ethnographic Research Method' w/ Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa (Leeds) Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa Thank you all who made it an amazing year!
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/caribbe…

Join us online on 9 April to listen to Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa (Leeds)'s talk 'Dancing Beyond the Black: A New Afro-Diasporic Ethnographic Research Method' as part of the Caribbean Studies Seminar Series. Register here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/caribbe… Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa Eve Hayes

Join us online on 9 May (17:30 BST) to discuss cultural representations of paid domestic workers in Latin America -- sign up here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/paid-ca… ILCS CLACS University of Texas Press CAP Academic Books

Important The British Academy Language Acts project on the role and usefulness of language skills across the whole range of academic research disciplines (sciences, social sciences, and humanities) in UK universities. Please share widely.

We are delighted to share the CFP for this year's ASFS conference, Global French Studies: Transnational, Transcultural, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, to be held at The University of Melbourne, 11-13 December 2024.

Abstracts due 17 June 2024: australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/events/asfs-co…

Out the special issue 'Building Colonial Exoticism: Transmedial Convergences in Fascist Italy' #memoriaericerca I've co-edited, featuring my essay on writer, director, and explorer Guelfo Civinini #twitterhistorians ILCS Edizioni del Mulino
rivisteweb.it/issn/1127-0195…

Terrible news from the University of Kent: 'we have taken the decision to phase out Anthropology, Art History, Health & Social Care, Journalism, Music & Audio Technology, and Philosophy/Religious Studies' kent.ac.uk/news/statement…

📢📢 We are very pleased to share the CFP for the SFPS 2024 Annual Conference: The End(s) of Empire!

sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-ev…

To be held Nov. 15 -16 at Senate House, London.
Keynotes from Prof Jennifer Yee and Dr Adi Saleem.

Abstracts are due April 12, 2024!