Wonderful to be welcoming offer-holders on our programmes in Literature & Languages (English, French, Spanish and Latin American Studies and Religion) to our Open Day University of Stirling Stirling Spanish & Latin American Studies

To brighten this rainy day, take a look at our first-ever video essay, by the marvellous Prof Rob Stone B-Film 'The Hunt for The Wild Bunch: Simultaneous Multiplicity and Alternative Genealogies in World Cinema'
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#CarlosSaura #SamPeckinpah

In 2008 Scotland had 1,070 French teachers; by last year it had 613.

Over the same period secondary student numbers increased by 3%

After being off last week I'm catching up on Henry Hepburn 's analysis of teacher numbers ⬇️

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“Solidarity saves lives” - as we continue reflecting on #solidarity networks in #Scotland we invite the community to explore “solidarity” through #arpilleras art making. Learn about this traditional Chilean craft, and make your own. Register here: events.bookitbee.com/university-of-…

Symposium on Autism and the Arts and Humanities happening at Stirling 30th August organised by my brilliant colleague Fiona Darroch #CFP

Britain’s universities are in freefall – and saving them will take more than funding | Gaby Hinsliff theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

False economies - why cutting SHAPE courses is bad for HE and bad for the country | Wonkhe wonkhe.com/blogs/false-ec…

Urgente de Observatorio Argentino: activista de #DDHH en #Argentina torturada y abusada por perpetradores invocando #Milei . tinyurl.com/yc6d4yfb LASA CONO SUR Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America Amnistía Internacional Américas H.I.J.O.S. Capital PuntoLatino.ch HumanRightsWATCH Pressenza castellano

A real pleasure to discuss this Memory Studies special issue (co-edited with Hannah Grayson) with Charles, Maria and Ben - hopefully it will give rise to more work in this fascinating area.

Sir Gerry McCormac took a 68k pay rise during UCU Stirling strikes ON TOP OF his three figure salary whilst raising rent for students on campus. disgusting! well done to the brig for covering this

SLAS Grants & Prizes with deadlines approaching!

UK Scholar Research Support (DEADLINE  15 March 2024)

PG & PD Research Support Grants (DEADLINE  15 March 2024)

Cátedra SLAS (DEADLINE  20 May 2024)

More Info on SLAS grant & prize deadlines:
slas.org.uk/funding

We are still accepting submissions for our yearly PGR Conference in June! What are you waiting for?! We encourage everyone to participate! Please share widely.

Possibly of interest to SLAS Society for Latin American Studies and Cara Levey

Job alert! Come and work in our Division Literature&Languages University of Stirling jobs.ac.uk/job/DFZ248/lec…

We are very excited to announce that the 2024 FAH PG conference will be held on the 7thJune! This year’s topic is ``Change and Disruption. ´´ The deadline for submitting a paper abstract is open until the 15th March. We are looking forward to reading yours! - Please share widely!

Save Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Subjects at the University of Kent - Sign the Petition! chng.it/XkvxnYGd via Change.org UK

We're in the news again! This must mean that we're absolutely flush and there's lots of money for staff and student investment. Right? Right?????

Atencion todos los delegados y presentadores de #SLAS2024 !!! Tienen hasta el 11 de Marzo para registrarse.

Mas info aqui slasamsterdam2024.nl/registration

.@UCFL expresses its concerns regarding the proposed institutional reforms at University of Kent and calls upon the University to build on successful curriculum development in Modern Languages to safeguard the offer of languages in the South East and East Kent
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