🚨GRANT OPPORTUNITY🚨 We at AUPHF+ are once again opening a round of small grants! Up to £500 is available for those in French and Francophone Studies. Apply now and share widely: www.auphf.ac.uk/news-events

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At the AUPHF we defend the specificity of French within the general advocacy for languages. We represent and nurture all areas of French studies.

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Ashley Harris (Trinity College Dublin) introduces readers to a singular vision of the Paris banlieues elaborated by director Alice Diop in her documentary, NOUS. h-france.net/imaginaries/...

IMAGINARIES announces vol. 15:2, "Off the Beaten Path" The films & texts reviewed here offer alternate understandings of metropolitan France, taking novel approaches to environmental, social, & racial challenges weighing on modern France & finding space for hope h-france.net/imaginaries/...

Pleased to see the publication of my short piece on Alice Diop’s Nous for H-France’s Imaginaries h-france.net/imaginaries/... @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social

We at AUPHF+ are opening a new round of small grants! Five awards up to £500 are available. Apply now and share widely: www.auphf.ac.uk/news-events

Our next online event is all about impact and engagement! What is impact? How can you get involved? To find out, join us on Monday 16th June, 10.00-11.30 🌟 Register here: tinyurl.com/5fzxx2yc

UCFL Engagement and Impact for ECAs and PGRs

Join us for an online conversation around Engagement and Impact for ECAs and PGRs in Modern Languages.

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Register now to join our online event - ‘An Introduction to Policy Engagement & Languages Research’ - 5th June, 16:00. We have a fantastic line-up of speakers who will be sharing their experiences engaging with policy and policymakers. All are welcome: tinyurl.com/y3er47es

A fantastic role at UCFL ECA SIG: university-council-for-languages.org/early-career... @ucfl-eca.bsky.social

We are looking for a new Italian representative for our ECA Special Interest Group - this is a great opportunity to help improve conditions for ECAs and to ensure that researchers in Italian are well represented. A huge thank you to @serevandi.bsky.social for all her fantastic work in this role 💙

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A fantastic role at UCFL ECA SIG: university-council-for-languages.org/early-career... @ucfl-eca.bsky.social

📢📢 I'm recruiting for my project “Diaspora Diplomacy and the Migration-Development Nexus” here in DCU. Both positions are four years, from September. Postdoc (Brazilian diaspora focus): ⏱️ 9th June www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... PhD (Indian diaspora focus): ⏱️ 12th June www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

UCFL is calling for nominations to these roles: - Vice Chair Research - Vice Chair External Engagement & Communications - 6-month Project Coordinator Replacement - Early Career Academic Representative - Slavonic & East European Representative 👉 university-council-for-languages.org/2025/05/26/u...

UCFL Summer 2025 Call for Nominations

We are calling for nominations to the UCFL Executive Committee of suitably qualified people for the following roles: Vice Chair Research, Vice Chair External Engagemen…

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Are you a post-primary teacher in Ireland? Would you like to build on your skills to teach French too? We are delighted to have been awarded Department of Education funding to make this possible from this September! More info: www.tcd.ie/French/cours...

Coming up from brilliant colleagues @ucfl-eca.bsky.social online seminar: "An introduction to policy engagement and language research" 5th June at 16.00 (UK time) All welcome, register here: tinyurl.com/32mk9jvf @oliviaglaze.bsky.social @ashleyscottharris.bsky.social @llewelynhopwood.bsky.social

Joy to spend the afternoon at @tcddublin.bsky.social to hear @ashleyscottharris.bsky.social deliver the final public lecture on French Studies, focused on her forthcoming book… on the écrivain médiatique in contemporary French literature

Please share with your students! The School of Modern Languages and Cultures @languagesdurham.bsky.social and the Centre for Foreign Language Study at @durham-university.bsky.social are delighted to launch their third creative writing contest in French on the theme of “La justice”.

Stephen Forcer shares this open letter as AUPHF+ President to express our grave concern regarding the proposed cuts to Modern Languages at Cardiff University and to other subjects: secure.toolkitfiles.co.uk/clients/3412...

La musique est omniprésente dans l'univers de Virginie Despentes. Dans l'émission "Décibels" en 2004, elle explique comment le punk a décomplexé son écriture. Sans cette culture, elle n'aurait jamais osé écrire. ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/1uG

How I imagine Jeffrey Goldberg in the group chat

Yesterday, we had the pleasure of hosting the joutes oratoires 2025 here in @langslitscultures.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social We celebrated the excellent French of students across Ireland. Thanks @adeffi.bsky.social and the French Embassy in Ireland, amongst many generous sponsors

I'm on the look out for applicants for fully-funded, four year PhD research programme to come and study #diaspora #diplomacy with me here at @dublincityuni.bsky.social. Appropriate projects would engage with diasporas of #India and #Brazil in #Ireland. Deadline 28th March. www.dcu.ie/historygeogr...

Many thanks to Kathy Dillon for her rich talk on Moroccan women’s writing. @langslitscultures.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social Next up in the TCD French Seminar series below:

@ashleyscottharris.bsky.social has given me the nerdiest possible birthday gift of a vintage Vidal Lablache school map circa 1959. It’s a great example of cartography in the service of (failed) statecraft - the ‘communauté’ would be gone by 1960. Pride of place in my office 🫶

On 25/02, the Trinity College Dublin French Research Seminar Series hosts Kathy Dillon, from the University of Galway, to talk about “À la quête de la femme de personne: Moroccan women's writing as a practice of écriture feminine”. To sign up, contact Ashley Harris at TCD. 3/9

Friendly reminder if you're new to Bluesky and want to connect with fellow French/Francophone Studies, there's a starter pack for that: French Studies Starter Pack: go.bsky.app/KLzQfpg #academicsky #frenchstudies #starterpack

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SLLCS seminar series: 'Narratives of Trauma, Resilience and Resistance: How members of the Hongkonger community co-construct their responses to repression through talk and art' delivered by Mandy Lee, Assistant Professor at Trinity's School of Medicine. 📅 18 February, 4.00pm @tlrhub.bsky.social

Please share this important survey on how graduates perceive the value of doctoral degrees in languages, aimed at those who have moved into different areas of research or work: forms.office.com/pages/respon... @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social

Thanks to @maxmcguinness.bsky.social for providing a rich paper on Proust, Caillaux and High Politics to open our French Research Seminar series at @tcddublin.bsky.social 🏫 🇫🇷 Get in touch if you would like to join any of our future sessions:

Futilité de l’auto-promotion dans ce monde en pleine crise… Ce livre sort vendredi. Un de ses postulats et que les femmes ont payé très cher leurs désirs d’émancipation individuelle et collective (et qu’on semble entrer dans une nouvelle phase de régression de ces droits si durement acquis). 1/2

Solidarity with all colleagues at Cardiff affected these brutal cuts. It’s so depressing (and short-sighted) that the same essential subjects keep being targeted. chng.it/QR85x4XHSJ

We Can Make an Impact.

Save MLANG at Cardiff University!

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Wonderful to see our Early Irish and modern Irish undergraduate programme featured in The Irish Times today, as an "outside-the-box course" choice. Languages open doors to lots of different careers! Read all about it: www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

So what do you want to be when you grow up?

It’s one of the questions we commonly ask children, and it usually elicits a response along the lines of a garda, fireman, farmer, doctor or teacher

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