Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

New translation from French into Italian of « Cassandre à bout portant » www.edizionijoker.com/cassandra-a-... #SandraMoussempès

Trieste

Skies @ Miramare

Hanging out where the latest Literature Nobel laureate hangs…

Details of the brutalist Thomas White Building at St John's College, @ox.ac.uk by Philip Dowson of Arup Associates #MondaysAreBrutal #BrutalMonday

Inside and outside the stunning brutalist Hilda Besse Building at St Antony's College, @ox.ac.uk by John Partridge of Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis. Also featuring part of the Zaha Hadid Architects building at the College. #MondaysAreBrutal #BrutalMonday

🔈 Bloomsbury Academic Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship by @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social aims to support early-career academics to turn book ideas into publishable works. Winner receives a full year of creative support in 2026. 📅 Apply 1 Sept–1 Oct 2025 Info 👉 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/discover/...

The deadline of 1 September is fast approaching - be sure to send your applications in!

Publication day!! Find out how C18th Welsh cultural revivalism positioned itself within an expanding British Empire and a newly-minted British state. Includes Welsh sources on slavery/abolition, settler colonialism, Indigenous America, and more 🚨🚨🚨 35% off all formats with the code BB135 🚨🚨🚨

“But the provincial, who is the true explorer, needs to experience for himself the things that will disappoint. Second-hand disappointment won’t do.”

🚨 Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant 🚨 Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies. Send us your application by 1 September! More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/

Rousseau, Nietzsche, Whitman, Thoreau, Flaubert... nombreux étaient les "écrivains randonneurs" pour qui la marche était une manière de libérer l'esprit et de laisser la pensée évoluer librement.⁠ ⁠ 🎧 "La Nuit de la marche", 13 épisodes consacrés à la randonnée ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/Qvp

We are pleased to announce that the Australian Society for French Studies are now accepting submissions for the Jarrod Hayes AJFS Prize for 2025. 🏆 Find out more: bit.ly/JH-AJFS-Prize @sfhs.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @profnatedwards.bsky.social

We're hiring - Teaching Fellow in Ancient Greek History! Please see below for details of a half-time post, starting as soon as possible in September, ending 31 August 2026, covering for temporary staff absences. Deadline for applications: 22 August. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

First sighting of my book out in physical form. It has mass!

One like, one Presses universitaires de France book cover from the 1990s

Exhibit S - seating for one in 17th-century French literature

1/ Check out our “Talking Point”-Intro: Networks and Transnational Communities of Letters: How Can Literary Studies Reclaim the ‘Network Turn’? url: academic.oup.com/fmls/article...

The emotional significance of objects sends ripples through our lives, which is why this is often my final poem when I give a reading. It's taken from my second full collection, Whatever You Don't, Just Don't. If you fancy a signed copy, drop me a DM and I'll sort one out for you...

Why Colbert's cancellation marks a dangerous new stage for the culture at large

@profnatedwards.bsky.social looking delighted to welcome delegates to the 2025 conference of the Society for French Studies at the University of Bristol #sfsbristol @frenchstudies.bsky.social @frenchatbristol.bsky.social

This is just awful (on top of the outrage of ancient history and religion and theology degrees going completely). How can you study a language at degree level without learning about the cultures, literatures and histories of that language?

Tomorrow (19 May) at 12:45 pm BST: Join @kaszyma.bsky.social‬ at @oxfordcct.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, Translation Multiples: From Global Culture to Postcommunist Democracy. Learn more: occt.web.ox.ac.uk/event/on-mul...

Venez nombreux/-euses! Please do join us for this online roundtable discussion.

🎉 We’re delighted to present our new LSP series: Languages in UK Education, guest-edited by @cforsdick.bsky.social and Wendy Ayres-Bennett. The series explores how the UK can better support linguistic diversity and respond to the languages crisis. 🌍📘 📖 Read more: lspjournal.com

📣 Call for proposals 📣 We would like to invite you to coordinate an online seminar of the Women in French Australia Work in Progress Online Seminar Series on francophone women writers and artists! More details here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...

Some real gems from Dr Emma Bielecki: ‘La chair est triste, hélas! et j'ai lu tous les livres' (Mallarmé, 'Brise Marine') And 'Je suis le Ténébreux, – le Veuf, – l’Inconsolé, Le Prince d’Aquitaine à la Tour abolie' (Nerval) #WorldPoetryDay2025

Je ne vous offre plus pour toutes mélodies Que des cris de révolte et des rimes hardies. Oui ! Mais en m’écoutant si vous alliez pâlir ? Si, surpris des éclats de ma verve imprudente, Vous maudissez la voix énergique et stridente Qui vous aura fait tressaillir ? #WorldPoetryDay @uksdn.bsky.social

Here are my favourite lines of 19C French-language poetry, because they make me laugh and think of the sun: 'Il fait s'évaporer les soucis vers le ciel Et remplit les cerveaux et les ruches de miel' (Baudelaire, 'Le Soleil') [Il = the sun] #WorldPoetryDay2025 @uksdn.bsky.social

What are your favourite lines of nineteenth-century poetry in French? #WorldPoetryDay2025

I wrote a post on the Breton correspondents in the collection of former Mayor of Cardiff and keeper of the Gorsedd's sword Edward Thomas Cochfarf! Who were these Bretons? What were they writing about? dreamcollex.hypotheses.org/7725#more-7725

Women in French Australia stands in solidarity with @cumodernlanguages.bsky.social. See our open letter here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...

Delighted that my monograph BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives is now in press & published in April with @edinburghup.bsky.social! Available for pre-order here: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-bumidom.... A huge thank you to @leverhulme.bsky.social for funding my project on the BUMIDOM!

NEW: The University of Oxford’s Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence is launching the Accelerator Fellowship Programme, a pioneering five-year initiative designed to address the ethical challenges posed by AI technologies. Find out more ⬇️

NEW: @engfac.bsky.social's Dr Leah Veronese has unearthed a rare manuscript copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 tucked away in a 17th-century poetry collection. This is only the second known manuscript copy of the sonnet ever discovered. More info ⬇️

A great opportunity to join a wonderful team of colleagues and work with excellent students: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/109266-...

'The Colonial Frontier Massacres Digital Map Project, spearheaded by the late emerita professor of history at the University of Newcastle, Dr Lyndall Ryan, officially concluded in 2022.' 1/2

'A musically sensitive ear and crystalline imagery are evident.' Jaya Savige on selections from the work of a ‘stand-out’ Australian poet

'Di Martino’s imaginative translations refract the light of the originals at unexpected angles.' Anna Aslanyan on a triumphant new translation of a Romanesco dialect poet

Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...

An #Umarell judging you on your desk in perpetuity: the only souvenir from Bologna you’ll ever need.

Such surreal views so close to Sydney.

From the #Magritte exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW. Recommended ☁️

This devastating piece of news marks the official end of our youth. Paolo, his music, since his beginnings with Scisma, represented everything for us. Ciao, Paolo, grazie di tutto ♥️ ci rivedremo presto, frantumare le distanze…

Coolest Xmas card of the year 😂 thanks @andrewogilvy.com

Hey Bluesky! My book #ThePicnic was named one of the best books of 2024 by critics in the @nrc.nl (One of the leading newspapers in the Netherlands). And in print! (pic attached)... www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2024/...

Read "Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives", edited by Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth @octolingualman.bsky.social , Kylie Cardell, Kate Douglas, and Shannon Sandford for the journal Auto/Biography Studies www.tandfonline.com/toc/raut20/c...

A truly fantastic #ASFS2024 so far! Thanks to all the organisers at the University of Melbourne inc. our very own @wifaustralia.bsky.social @awimbush.bsky.social

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