For anyone in New York, there is a screening and discussion this week of Money, Freedom: A Story of the CFA Franc. With Mamadou Diouf & Manthia Diawara, and the film director. Details here! 🎥 ias.columbia.edu/events/money-f…

This is a wonderful (temporary) teaching position, for anyone with a grounding in Francophone film & theory, at Cambridge's Centre for Film & Screen Studies. Please apply, share with colleagues, ask me if you have any Qs

It’s a full house at Close-Up Cinema for Jessica Sarah Rinland presenting a double bill of films by Narcisa Hirsch and Chantal Akerman

Toril Moi on The Mandarins: Acknowledging the Other – Cardiff BookTalk - here’s the link to full text of my essay. cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/tor…

“Cinema is being trapped in the dark with an image. Nothing more. The rest is nonsense. There is no theory that can support it.” ICA and Another Gaze Editions Another Gaze / Another Screen announce a major retrospective: ‘Let Cinema Go To Its Ruin: The Cinema of Marguerite Duras’ 18 Jul–25 Aug

All welcome to attend this event organised by our colleague Dr Dana Lungu . Come and discover (and discuss!) the findings of Dana's project on motherhood and migration. Registration is free but essential.

The Summer issue of Screen Journal is now online! academic.oup.com/screen/issue/6…

🗳️ It's polling day 🗳️ Today, the people of Bristol Central can make history You live in one of the only seats in the country where you can elect a Green MP today. Your vote here REALLY matters We need voices that can challenge the new Labour government to do better

#openaccess article by Albertinef on two female-directed Lebanese co-productions : "Visibility displaced: lesbian aurality and disruptive self-naming in Sukkar banat/Caramel and Three Centimetres" published in Screen doi.org/10.1093/screen…

We are thrilled that French Studies 66th Annual Conference is coming to University of Bristol in 2025! 📅30th June – 2nd July 2025 Panel sessions on the following topics are welcome: Adaptation and Intermediality Bricolage Celebrating Maryse Condé (1934-2024) A Century of Art Deco

Our #LanguageHubs are supporting the #mfl teaching community to help transform languages education. Find out where your nearest Hub is and what they can do for you: bit.ly/3UoknYK #mfltwitterati #edutwitter Goethe-Institut London British Council Schools

If you feel ready to turn your attention towards September plans, please remember our CfP is live until September 30th! Looking forward to reading your submissions.

Watching TV shows and films can be a useful tool in helping with language learning. ESOL learners @keighleycollege in Yorkshire told me how Mr Bean both teaches and entertains.

Humanities, social sciences and arts subjects made up 54% of GCSE students' subject choices in 2024. See the findings of our analysis and use our interactive tool to visualise subject trends and changes over time here: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/gcse-resu…

Congratulations to Dr Leonie Gschwendtberger who has won the SFPS Essay Prize for 'Beyond "the Human": The Refusal to Show the Other in Trinh T. Minh-ha's Film Reassemblage'! With thanks to her supervisors Albertinef Siobhán Shilton & Nariman Massoumi

Please enjoy perusing the new issue of Film Quarterly (78.1), featuring a special focus on Sembene's Xala at 50 and many other delights! Link for digital subscribers: online.ucpress.edu/fq/issue/78/1

Climate Action Filmmaking Project at St Anne's House, Bristol. Sounds great!🎥 stanneshouse.org/projects/filmm…

So exciting to see this happening 💕 two-month retrospective season at BFI Southbank on the work of Chantal Akerman bfi.org.uk/news/chantal-a…

Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA) Wendy Bennett timeshighereducation.com/opinion/cardif…

The SDN calls on the leaders of Cardiff University to reverse its damaging proposal to shut its School of Modern Languages. #SaveCardiffLanguages 1/11