🥳Former PhD student Fatema Alhalwachi has co-published an article with Prof Lisa McEntee-Atalianis in Narrative Inquiry: 'From offline to online stigma resistance: identity construction in narratives of infertile Muslim women.' In press soon on: benjamins.com/catalog/ni 🎊

💪How inspiring it was to have the wonderful María Galindo screen and talk about her film Revolución Puta here at Birkbeck cinema last Friday!💪 After a lively Q&A session, the conversation continued into the streets!🔥

application deadline tomorrow: Associate lecturer in Korean Language🇰🇷 cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/associ…

Dr Jackie Lou gave an online paper on the resemiotisation of Shanghainese in shop signs at Sociolinguistics Symposium 25 Sociolinguistics Symposium 25! Due to the time difference it was 3.30am in London 🦉🦉

Another Sociolinguistics Symposium 25 presentation - Dr Kinga Kozminska presented a paper on transnational family-making last week!

Here's Dr Michael Tsang giving his paper last week at Asian Studies Conference Japan 2024 in a very hot Tokyo🌞 His paper was entitled, ''Cultural Authenticity' and British Asian Poetry: Reading Sarah Howe and Tamiko Dooley'

Great news to start the year with: Our PhD student Iman Ahmed has passed her viva! 🎊 Her examiners, Dr Simon Coffey (Kings) and Prof Tammy Gregersen (Tennessee State), praised Iman's work very highly. Congratulations, Dr Ahmed! 👏

More good news to start the year！🎊🎊 Huge congratulations to Emeritus Professor Jean-Marc Dewaele for being the 3rd most quoted linguist in the world last year, according to Stanford's list of top cited scientists! BirkbeckArtsRes Birkbeck, University of London School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication

Last Saturday, Dr Michael Tsang gave a poetry reading as part of a group of Hong Kong poets, at Gathering Leaves in Belsize Park Community Library! Birkbeck academics are multi-talented🤷 #JustSaying

Last week, Dr Irene González-López and Francisco Algarín launched the retrospective on documentary director Haneda Sumiko at the Filmoteca Galicia with a fantastic roundtable discussion! Fundación Japón, Madrid Lumière Filmoteca de Galicia

Last Thursday, Dr Michael Tsang gave a research talk in Japanese at Kanagawa University on his research project: 20th-Century World Literature Influences on Japan.

🎊New book publication by our Professor Emerita in Linguistics, Penelope Gardner-Chloros! 'Bilingualism' is out now with the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series! mitpress.mit.edu/9780262549431/… #bilingualism #linguistics

At Birkbeck, careers and employability are always at the heart of what we do. Learn more about how we do this at the School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication: youtube.com/watch?v=0P6kZU…

Last week, our exchange students from Japanese universities were given a rare peek in BBC's Broadcast House! Thank you to all the super friendly staff at the BBC for sharing their insight in journalism and media!

We are one of London's two only unis offering a single-honours BA Japanese programme! Come and learn more about our programme in this video: youtube.com/watch?v=QeZNKf…

Check out our new page introducing our 🇰🇷 #Korean courses! bbk.ac.uk/school/creativ…