Wonderful day on Monday celebrating all our incredible graduates in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies across our spectrum of degrees from the ancient to the modern. Always an uplifting experience! 🎓 🎉 @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsalumni.bsky.social

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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Join us for another amazing seminar! On 2 June, Saaleha Iqbal from @lcsleeds.bsky.social is presenting 'Reimagining the Status of Muslims and Muslim Women in Medieval French Culture'. More info linked⬇️ 🗓️ 2 June ⏰ 17:30 GMT 🏛️In person @ihr.bsky.social & 💻 Online Sign up now: bit.ly/londonmedieval

I’m delighted to present a paper on Donatus and stasis theory today, in honour of our much missed colleagues Malcolm Heath and Robert Maltby

Classics at Leeds@leedsclassics.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Today marks the start of ‘Rhetoric, Drama and Their Critics’, a two-day symposium in memory of Malcolm Heath, late emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leeds. View the symposium's programme: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/directory-re...

Today marks the start of ‘Rhetoric, Drama and Their Critics’, a two-day symposium in memory of Malcolm Heath, late emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leeds. View the symposium's programme: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/directory-re...

Looking for a Masters degree in Classics and/or Ancient History? Look no further: our new MA in Classics and Ancient History launches in September 2026! For more information and to apply, please visit: courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...

Later this week we'll be gathering for ‘Rhetoric, Drama and Their Critics’, a two-day symposium in memory of our much missed colleague Profressor Malcolm Heath. View the programme: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/directory-re... Read Professor Stafford's tribute to Malcolm: secretariat.leeds.ac.uk/home/obituar...

Congratulations to all our colleagues nominated or crowned winners at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social Faculty Partnership Awards this week. Peter Watson won Faculty Teacher of the Year, @profingrid.bsky.social was named Faculty Supervisor of the Year…

This coming Tuesday #medievalsky #disabilitystudies #histmed

Institute for Medieval Studies Leeds@leedsims.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Join us for our talk on medieval disability next week. 5 May 2pm. To attend online: forms.cloud.microsoft/e/zMBAKAxSpP. All welcome. Free. #medievalsky #histmed #disabilitystudies #disability

📣 'Rhetoric, drama and their critics: a symposium in memory of Malcolm Heath, late emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leeds' - register now to avoid disappointment! Register here: store.leeds.ac.uk/product-cata... For more information: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/r...

Languages and culture go together so well!: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

GCSE languages sees rise in Wales after new approach

After a long decline, the number of pupils taking language GCSEs in Wales rises for two years.

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Very pleased to be the runner-up in this year’s Postgraduate Essay Prize competition by the Society for French Studies! My essay was on Muslim women in the Old French Crusade Cycle. And many congrats to the winner, Isabel! 🎉 @frenchstudies.bsky.social

Congratulations @saalehaiqbal.bsky.social for receiving such great recognition from the Society for French Studies. Saaleha is part of the IMS postgraduate community in Leeds, one of the organizers of @thelongmiddleages.bsky.social #medievalsky #medievalfrench @lcsleeds.bsky.social. Very well done!

French Studies@frenchstudies.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Jury adjudged ‘From Dragons to Divinators: Re-Imagining Muslim Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle’, by Saaleha Iqbal (University of Leeds), to be the runner up.

The sun is out in Leeds and our wonderful student ambassadors are here to welcome you to our building! Refreshments available throughout the day in LG10. We hope you have a wonderful Offer Holder Day @universityofleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social! 🌞🎉

Centre for Ancient World and Classical Reception Studies webpage: ahc.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/447... Join our mailing list! Click here: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Join us for our first research seminar of 2026 with Travanti Tate on "Plato as Sociologist: eros and philia in the Symposium." Thursday 19 February 17:15 UK time in-person in Michael Sadler 1.01, and online via Teams (link in thread). All are very welcome to attend!

Today we remember our former colleague Emeritus Professor Robert Maltby whose funeral takes place this afternoon at Faversham and Mid-Kent Crematorium. secretariat.leeds.ac.uk/home/obituar... Photos of the Parkinson Building flag flying at half mast kindly provided by Dr Katherine Backler

A great pleasure this evening to attend the inaugural lecture of two @lcsleeds.bsky.social colleagues, Clare Wright and Rasha Soliman. But I didn't expect to learn that one of Clare's earliest jobs had been as a copy typist for the "right on" Paddy Ashdown MP. I'll have to grill her about that! 😁

Job Alert‼️We are hiring in interpreting and translation @ctilsleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social Looking for an experienced colleague at grade 8. Deadline is 25th February. Join our fabulous team! jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in Interpreting and Translation Studies

Are you an academic with proven abilities to carry out cutting-edge teaching and research in Interpreting Studies? We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated individual with research and ...

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Looking forward to my talk at @lcsleeds.bsky.social tomorrow! It'll be based on my current book project, Experimental Empire, and draw on this article I recently published with @livunipress.bsky.social's Contemporary French Civilizations: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Epistemological violence in the museum: animals, colonial knowledge, and challenges to decoloniality | Contemporary French Civilization

This article offers a novel intervention in decolonial museology by foregrounding animal representation and natural history collections as critical yet overlooked sites of epistemological violence in Belgium’s Royal Museum for Central Africa (RMCA). ...

liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

Great to meet the brilliant @jacquioatley.bsky.social - graduate of German @lcsleeds.bsky.social who shared her expertise with alumni and students. Moving & engaging discussion of how resilience gained during year abroad in Tübingen led to a successful career in sports broadcasting. Danke schön! ⚽️🦉

Leeds Alumni@leedsalumni.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sports broadcaster Jacqui Oatley MBE (German 1996) began her career in football as a player for the University. In January, Jacqui returns to campus for an exclusive alumni event. Read more and sign up: https://spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/leeds-magazine-2026/features/jacqui-oatley/index.html

We were deeply saddened to learn that our former colleague Robert Maltby died last week. Having taught at Leeds since 1989, Robert was Professor of Latin Philology by the time he took early retirement in 2013 and though he moved away from Leeds, he stayed in touch.

Our 'Myths & Legends: A Classics Competition 2026' is still open for Key Stage 3 students to enter! Entries will close on 2nd March 2026. artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-subjects...

New MA in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Leeds @universityofleeds.bsky.social - now open for applications for a September 2026 start! For more information and to apply, please visit: courses.leeds.ac.uk/k149/classic...

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research. We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Excited for our @ucflangs.bsky.social Winter Plenary today, beaming live from Senate House in London! Please register at the link below to join us online at 1pm today to get the low down on REF2029 from UoA sub panel chair and deputy chair, Jane Stuart-Smith and Susan Harrow, and other panels.

UCFL - University Council For Languages@ucflangs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Don't forget that UCFL winter plenary is this coming Friday, 16 January. Check the details here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#Languages and #cultures matter - to education, communities and regions. This quote from Professor Emma Cayley captures why Leeds City of Languages is such a powerful civic initiative. @lcsleeds.bsky.social @emmacayley.bsky.social

The UK re-joining the @euerasmusplus.bsky.social programme is fantastic news! In this article for @uk.theconversation.com, I outline some of the reasons why: theconversation.com/uk-to-re-joi... #Erasmus #education #international @lcsleeds.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

UK to re-join Erasmus+ – here are six benefits of the European exchange scheme

Erasmus+ an accessible and well-supported programme.

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Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...

The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas

Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists

timeshighereducation.com

We're happy to share: Amazing Blood Ties! written by Jieun Kim (PI of Hematopolitics) and illustrated by Leigh Bowser. This children’s book introduces kids aged 5–8 to the stories behind blood donation and how we’re all connected. Freely available at: hematopolitics.org/amazing-bloo...