This is so true, and a timely pedagogical reminder for us all as educators/tutors/lecturers/teachers/mentors. Incisive and heartfelt words from Ocean Vuong on how we’ve created a world in which students are ‘more and more self-conscious of trying’. youtube.com/shorts/fsGsm...

Un bon début (enfin!) mais il reste encore beaucoup de chemin à parcourir… www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Happening tomorrow!!! ❤️🤍💚🖤

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾

Officially been ✨ upgraded ✨ So lovely to be back in Oxford for my (very belated) graduation! Featuring a very heavy, hard-bound thesis, and an equally heavy feast🥂 👩‍🎓 🎉

ONE WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS!!! Really looking forward to this interdisciplinary conference on the Maghreb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, June 19-20 - complete with film, feast & (Gnawa) fusion 🤗 We’d love to receive your proposals so don’t be shy! maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com Allez! !هيّا

Excited to announce the CfP for an interdisciplinary conference on the Maghreb in Edinburgh in June (19-20th)! @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🤗 @abdelbaqi.bsky.social & I cannot wait to receive your paper proposals! More info & full CFP here: maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com

Today’s lecture venue… complete with organ and chandelier! #McEwanHall @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social ✨

So, so disheartening. Not just for current staff; or for all of us who have just finished PhDs and are starting out on our academic journeys in the hope there will ever be some semblance of a stable job in the future; or even for the students who will have larger class sizes, less attention… (1/2)

Finally made the move to BlueSky so bringing my last post with me! Thrilled that my article is now out in #AJFS @livunipress.bsky.social! 🤗 It examines what I call the 'spectrality of intertextuality' in contemp Algerian francophone writing - enjoy! www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/abs/10.3...