Submissions are open for the 2026 Jarrod Hayes AJFS Prize, honouring the legacy of Jarrod Hayes and recognising excellence in postgraduate French Studies research. Open to postgraduate researchers at Australian and New Zealand universities. 📆 Deadline: 23 Oct Full details 👇️ @sfps.bsky.social

Jarrod Hayes AJFS Prize

Jarrod Hayes AJFS Prize Call for submissions 2026 The Australian Society for French Studies and the Australian Journal of French Studies are pleased to invite submissions for the annual co-sponsore…

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‘Many of the passengers aboard the 𝘞𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘩 were war veterans, returning to Britain to rebuild what they had fought to defend a few years earlier.’ Colin Douglas on the role of the Caribbean in building Britain’s Blitz spirit, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...

Colin Douglas | Beyond the Blitz

The story of the Blitz cannot be fully understood as a national story. It was part of a global war. While the Luftwaffe...

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"This is a crisis for social mobility, young people’s careers, the skills our economy depends on and the opportunities available in communities across the UK" Our newest data covered by The Guardian this evening and dropping tomorrow morning to our SHAPE Observatory. shorturl.at/Qpa9Q

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

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📣 The deadline for the call for papers for the upcoming Australian Society for French Studies conference has been extended until Tuesday 30 June. For more information follow the link below 👇 #FrenchStudies

ASFS Conference 2026 – CFP (extended)

(Un)learning, (Un)doing 34th Australian Society for French Studies Annual Conference 2026 –The Australian National University– 24-27 November including online morning (AEDT), 24 November Keynotes P…

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The special issue on incarceration for French Historical Studies is now out! In our (open access) introduction, we begin by journeying through the carceral archipelago in France and its empire from the early modern period through to today ... doi.org/10.1215/0016... 🧵🗃️ 1/7 @fuggbug.bsky.social

Aujourd'hui, à l'occasion du 22 mai, date de commémoration de l'abolition de l'esclavage en Martinique, (re)découvrez Joseph Zobel, auteur du livre majeur sur la Martinique d'après l'abolition « La Rue Cases-Nègres » (1950), adapté au cinéma par Euzhan Palcy en 1982. 👇 youtube.com/shorts/IZV9e...

Calling all French teachers interested in postcolonial studies! Special issue of Contextes et didactiques: 'La didactique du français au prisme des études postcoloniales : problèmes et possibilités', co-edited with Diane de Saint Léger journals.openedition.org/ced/7991 Abstracts due 1st September!

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Did you know (èske w te konnen) that Michel-Rolph Trouillot's *Silencing the Past* wasn't published in French until... 2025, 30 years after its publication in English?? 🗃️ Here's a review of the new French edition FAIRE TAIRE LE PASSÉ from @maheo.bsky.social: journals.openedition.org/lectures/70955

Michel‑Rolph Trouillot, Faire taire le passé. Pouvoir et production...

Il est difficile de rendre compte de cet ouvrage, tant il est riche de pistes pour une réflexion aussi bien sur l’histoire haïtienne que sur l’épistémologie de l’histoire et l’ontologie du passé. D...

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I've been working as a freelance professional academic editor for over 15 years and have finally got around to creating a website. If you're an academic writer seeking experienced editorial help on a writing project (e.g. book, chapter, journal article), get in touch! And please spread the word ✏️📖

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Briony Neilson Editorial and Manuscript Services – assisting writers and academic researchers through all stages of the writing and publishing process

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UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest. ‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’ www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-job-...

UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest

‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’

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The new issue of the @sfps.bsky.social Bulletin has just been published! Featuring the joint winners and the runner-up to the 2025 SFPS Essay Prize, as well as the usual range of reviews of new books in the field. Bonne lecture! 1/ sfps.org.uk/bulletin-of-...

and Louise Hardwick, Creole Cinema: Memory Traces (@livunipress.bsky.social 2025), reviewed by @awimbush.bsky.social: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Creole Cinema: Memory Traces | Home

Louise Hardwick is Professor of Francophone Studies and World Literature at the University of Birmingham (UK).

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It's that time of year again! We've published the CFP for our annual conference, this year on the theme of "Postcolonial Temporalities," from Nov 20-21st 2026! Please share and circulate widely within your networks! Abstracts due May 4 sfps.org.uk/2026/03/16/s...

'Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution.' Utterly inequitable & betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the teaching/research nexus. 1/3

Sheffield Hallam restricts TPS access to REF academics only

Teaching staff at post-92 institution to be employed by subsidiary firm and lose right to access expensive pensions scheme

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Fantastic to see Françoise Ega's important memoire now translated into English!

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“The worst part for a maid, I think, is the smell of other people’s lives.” —Françoise Ega

Foreign languages help children decode English says @susiedentwords.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/article/4730...

Susie Dent: Foreign languages help children decode English

Britain’s best-loved wordsmith cautions against the decline in the study of French and German — try our quiz to test your knowledge of etymology

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[À vos agendas] Rdv jeudi 29 janvier, aux #ad971, pour une conférence d'Antonia Wimbush : le #Bumidom dans la création artistique - mémoires et imaginaire d'une migration d'État.

It's out! This new article by me and my wonderful collaborator Charlotte Ann Legg looks at race, labour and affinities of whiteness in New Caledonia and Australia around the time of the White Australia policy. Part of our special issue on Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific🗃️

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The last of our open-access articles from the new special issue is Charlotte Ann Legg and Briony Neilson's article, 'Settler Colonial Dynamics Across the Coral Sea: White Australia and the Contours of French Settlement in New Caledonia'. doi.org/10.1080/0022...

Delighted to share the CFP for the Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate and ECR Study Day, happening on Friday 12th June at @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social. This year we are also opening the call up to final-year UG students and MA students. Please share widely!

We are pleased to share that David Evans is the new General Editor of French Studies, succeeding Martin Crowley after seven years. We thank Martin for his leadership. An interview with Crowley & Evans in French Studies Bulletin is free to read this January➡️bit.ly/FS-Editor @frenchstudies.bsky.social

The CFP for the 2026 Society for the Study of French History conference has just been launched. Come join us in Groningen! frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/conference2/

🎙️ New episode! Positionalities – Women in French Podcast “Teaching French Through a Gender-Just Lens” Dr Gemma King, Dr Dominique Carlini Versini @dcarliniversini.bsky.social & Dr Clara Sitbon share insights on inclusive French teaching. Hosted by Dr Beth Kearney @besskearney.bsky.social !

The universities of Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/latest-threat-uk-modern-languages-yet-another-faux-pas

So depressing to be signing another petition to save Modern Languages, this time at Leicester. Linguistic & intercultural understanding are vital to everyone in today's world.

Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester

Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses

Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.

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Awful news - co-supervised at Nottingham for my PhD & it was such a fantastic and vibrant department. BBC News - Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham

In a statement the institution also says it is

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Thrilled to see this introduction by me and Charlotte Ann Legg to our special issue on "Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain & the Pacific" is now out and in open access. The rest of our special issue – with a fantastic array of articles – will be out soon! @journalpacifichist.bsky.social

Connected Histories of Empire: France, Britain, and the Pacific

This special issue explores the connected histories of France, Britain, and the Pacific in the 19th and early 20th centuries at the level of states, colonial administrations, people, practices, and...

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🎉 We invite you to our end-of-year online research showcase & celebration! 🗓️ Friday 28 Nov | ⏰ 3–6 PM AEST 💬 Share a 10-min informal talk on your 2025 research highlights—or just come listen & connect! 📩 EOI by 31 Oct: wifaustralia@gmail.com #WiFOZ #ResearchShowcase

🎓 Join us for the next WiF Oz Work-in-Progress Seminar "Shumona Sinha, exemple paradigmatique des xénographies féminines dans l’Europe d’aujourd’hui"! 📅 Thurs 23 Oct 🕚 11am (London) | 12pm (Madrid) | 9pm (Sydney) 📍 On Teams 🔗 Programme & link: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/work-in-prog...

Great to be in conversation with Jennifer Boum Make about our special issue of @francemodern.bsky.social on the BUMIDOM, co-edited with Malika Danican!

Modern & Contemporary France@francemodern.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Listen to our new podcast: @benbgdalton.bsky.social and @drmariatomlinson.bsky.social discuss our special issue on the BUMIDOM with @awimbush.bsky.social and Jennifer Boum Make. @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social mcfrance.podbean.com