Charles Forsdick
@cforsdick.bsky.social
Drapers Professor of French, MMLL, Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Murray Edwards College; Lead Fellow Languages, @britishacademy.bsky.social; Hon. Professor Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS). Researches travel, empire, Haiti, comics..
📣 Postdoc opportunity! @ucflangs.bsky.social is recruiting a MHRA-funded postdoc to implement recommendations from the Languages & Policy report and and strengthen research–policy collaboration. Supervised by @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social. www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/06...
Postdoctoral Researcher — Building Policy-Research Bridges in Languages
A new postdoctoral researcher is sought for policy work, in association with the UCFL: applications close 30 June.
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Languages are not in decline - access is. Our colleagues Marcela Andrea Cazzoli and Ana Medeiros show that the problem is not student aspriation, but structured access. Don't miss this very important read: wonkhe.com/blogs/modern...
Modern languages has a future – and it’s all about access
Contraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to loo...
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'What appears as declining demand is more accurately understood as the result of uneven access to language learning across the school system.'
Modern languages has a future – and it’s all about access
Contraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to loo...
wonkhe.com
"The issue is the system, not the subject.” Professor Charles Forsdick FBA on higher education funding cuts hitting language courses hardest and the wider risks to skills, research and opportunity in Times Higher Education: bit.ly/4tFzJbD
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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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’
timeshighereducation.com
My story in the @heraldscotland.bsky.social On how poet Kenneth White, who left his house in France to the local council on the proviso they use it for writers residencies, has had his legacy overturne www.heraldscotland.com/life_style/2... Petition against the move www.change.org/p/non-%C3%A0...
Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother
The long read: Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conversation
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1/ Explore the NEW website for the Legacies of Enslavement Special Initiative ⬇️ A central online hub for all research, collaboration and public engagement exploring @cam.ac.uk's historical links to slavery & the wider afterlives of enslavement and colonialism. 🔗 www.hist.cam.ac.uk/news/new-web...
"As always, Ros Schwartz rises to the challenge of providing an elegant translation. #VeniceRequiem was a thought-provoking read that made a great start to my African reading this year" - About my novel, translated by @rosschwa.bsky.social @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social annabookbel.net/two-shorter-...
What a viral speech in Ireland reveals about colonial history and Caribbean English www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...
What a viral speech in Ireland reveals about colonial history and Caribbean English
Linguists say reaction to Irish TD’s remarks reflects shared regional English roots and enduring impact of empire
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The Arts and Humanities Alliance is proud to sponsor the 2026 @britishacademy.bsky.social SHAPE conference. Our session is Myth busting for the public with @ritagardner.bsky.social @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @sebgordon1.bsky.social Chair @emmacayley.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/shape-conf...
SHAPE Conference 2026
The British Academy's annual SHAPE conference will be held in London on 4 March 2026.
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www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c... “If Australia has no one doing deep doctoral-level research on China, Russia, Indonesia, and a host of other polities and cultures, how will we grasp the nuances of these nations to craft our foreign policy and safeguard our national security?”
‘When universities mattered: Higher education in a country addicted to the plough’ by Stephen Garton
There was a time when Australian universities mattered. Should they again?
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Who has a right to tell someone’s story? Interesting read on Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris and the woman whose lived experience may have been stolen. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...
‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?
The long read: His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle ha...
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Dissonance patrimoniale, réparation mémorielle : la « Table de désorientation », un contre-monument décolonial à Nancy theconversation.com/dissonance-p...
Dissonance patrimoniale, réparation mémorielle : la « Table de désorientation », un contre-monument décolonial à Nancy
Le « contre-monument » inauguré récemment à Nancy invite à la réflexion sur le sens que peut prendre aujourd’hui cet emblème de la statuaire coloniale.
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Forthcoming in April: "The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics", edited by Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune B. Fall, and Cheikh Thiam @dukepress.bsky.social. Includes Senghor’s critical & philosophical writings spanning from 1937 to 1985 www.dukeupress.edu/the-essentia... #Senghor
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
“To translate is not just to haul stories across languages, but to help them remain when everything else falls away. It is a quiet, stubborn refusal to disappear.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A moment that changed me: in the bombed-out ruins of an apartment block, I saw a book I’d translated
The sight of my work, torn and singed but still legible, made me realise the importance of translating and protecting stories – so they remain when everything else falls away
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'One of the most consequential changes [in the September 2025 Immigration White Paper] is the reduction of the Graduate Visa route from 24 to 18 months, which directly undermines the ability of international trainees to complete their Early Career Teacher (ECT) induction.'
WEEKEND READING: The 2025 Immigration White Paper and its impact on international teacher recruitment and retention in MFL and Physics - HEPI
This blog was kindly authored by Juliette Claro, Lecturer in Education at St Mary’s University Twickenham and Co-chair of the UCET Special Interest Group in Supporting International Trainee Teachers i...
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Migrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Migrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you | Rowan Williams
From Britain’s medieval buildings to western pop and contemporary art, these creations showcase our interwoven stories, says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
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Over 24 years, Louise Cocker has captured almost half a million Norfolk Gravestones. ‘As a result, she has produced a remarkable dataset… which experts consider one of the most comprehensive photographic records of gravestones and memorials in England.’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical research
Wealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors
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