.UofG Unesco RIELA 🧡 chair Alison Phipps አሊሰን 🧡🕊️ on 10 things that changed her life 2. Learning French and German

Applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant are now open. The closing date is 4th April 2025. For more information about eligibility criteria and how to apply, see the link below: sfs.ac.uk/funding/the-si…

Scholarship applications are now open! If you have applied, or are considering applying, for teacher training in French, German or Spanish, you could be eligible for CPD support and £28,000 of funding. Find out more and apply:👇

"I want people to experience film in their body." – Chantal Akerman We couldn't be more excited to be contributing to BFI Southbank's Chantal Akerman: Adventures in Perception season, with an intro from our @Melanie_Iredale for JE TU IL ELLE❤️‍🔥 🎟️whatson.bfi.org.uk

Proud to see my latest article out in The MHRA is no longer on X Working Papers in the Humanities! In it, I consider the body (of work) as a site of (in)hospitality in the 'Agata' photobook to ask how we might engage more hospitably with the visual text and the marginalised bodies within it.

It’s unironically wonderful that one of our biggest pop stars is opening up a huge audience to literature in translation

We are currently accepting applications for the annual Visiting International Fellowship scheme, which includes a grant of up to £5,000. Applications close on 31 March 2025. 👩‍🎓 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🏛️ For more information see the link below: sfs.ac.uk/funding/visiti…

RIP David Lynch (1946-2025) Blue Velvet (1986) Director: David Lynch

Absorbed By Light (2018). Installation by Gali May Lucas and Karoline Hinz for the Amsterdam Light Festival #womensart

Practise and celebrate a language your pupils are learning or use in their community! Pupils film a short piece in the target language; you upload to social media. Starts 1 Feb. Find out more: ow.ly/cw1450UFkIw @ALL4Language, National Consortium for Languages Education #Edutwitter #mfltwitterati

Language is power. To silence languages is to silence histories, cultures, and ways of being. Cardiff University’s Modern Languages School is one of the best—so why are they trying to shut it down? Stand with students and staff. Sign the petition and resist.

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…

Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities timeshighereducation.com/opinion/cardif… via Times Higher Education

Another well-informed contribution from Arts & Humanities Alliance (AHA) Emma Cayley 谷曦 @emmacayley.bsky.social and Thea Pitman. The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters theguardian.com/education/2025…

Add your voice to the wall of support: savecardifflanguages.org

Cardiff University is proposing to 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗽 𝗺𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀, including German - a deeply concerning step for a Russell Group university. Read about the vital role of language skills here: britishgermanassociation.org/11849-2/

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…

Modern languages departments are neither colonial nor obsolete timeshighereducation.com/opinion/modern… via Times Higher Education

Women in Revolt! Art & Activism 1970-1990 features 80+ women artists shaping a transformative era. The exhibition catalogue, featuring Dr Alice Correia, won the 2025 Historians of British Art Book Award! 📅Fri 7 Mar - Sun 1 Jun 📍The Whitworth More info: whitworth.manchester.ac.uk/whats-on/exhib…