Our second October open day is off to a fantastic start! Welcome to all our prospective students, their families, carers and friends, and even the four-legged kind! Leeds also welcomes all its canine visitors to campus! 🐶 🐕 Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Call for Papers! Symposium in honour of our much-missed colleague Prof. Malcolm Heath, Leeds, 21-2 May 2026. Paper proposals of no more than 500 words to be sent by 1 December to Prof. Emma Stafford ([email protected]) ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir-record/r... fb.me/e/3B3AY9ZZZ

It may be stormy but the Leeds Open Day is still on! Chat to our staff and students in Michael Sadler LG 10 throughout the day, and check out our Classics and Ancient History talks at 10.00 in Roger Stevens Building Lecture Theatre 22 and 13.00 in Lecture Theatre 19 www.leeds.ac.uk/homepage/137...

It’s blowing a gale here in Leeds but it’s warm in our building and full of staff, students and stories! Welcome to our Open Day! 🥳🎉

We are so sorry to announce the death of our long time colleague and friend, Nigel Armstrong. He taught and researched here in French for twenty years and will be deeply missed by colleagues and students alike.

Our research seminars resume soon with a talk from Dr Simon Glenn (British Museum/ Leeds) on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on Thursday 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time (venue and online joining instructions below). All very welcome to attend!

Congratulations to finalist Sophie Starsmore who is the winner of this year's ASMCF essay prize! Her essay for the module, Paris in Revolt, was ‘Dans quelle mesure les feministes du MLF etaient-elles ‘les filles de mai ‘68’ (Lisa Greenwald)? Huge congratulations to Sophie! 🇫🇷 @asmcf.bsky.social

Absolutely delighted that Leeds finalist Sophie Starsmore has just won the ASMCF undergrad essay prize (Brian Darling) for an essay she submitted to my module on May 1968. Her essay, written in French, examined the legacy of 1968 for 2nd wave feminism in 🇫🇷 @lcsleeds.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social

For our latest blog, we spoke with Dr Gisela Tomé Lourido at the @universityofleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social to explore the real impact of accent bias. whiterose.ac.uk/news/tacklin...

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...

Graduation is always a wonderful and iconic day, particularly wie one of your @lcsleeds.bsky.social graduates drives their Trabi up to campus! Huge congratulations to the German graduating class of 2025, and to Dr. Corey Hartley #ProudDoktormutter

Job klaxon 🎉 More posts @lcsleeds.bsky.social - a fixed term 0.5 role in Ancient Greek History. Deadline 22nd August.

Come and join the team! Opportunity to get fantastic experience and be part of a world top 100 University! 🎉

Our permanent German lectureship now has a new deadline of 21st July. Apply at this link: jobs.leeds.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

16 July, starring @helencfinch.bsky.social (@lcsleeds.bsky.social) and @ankahajkova.bsky.social (Warwick):

The EST Congress 2025 kicked off today with the Online Pre-Congress Day, featuring 81 speakers! Great engagement and a fantastic way to begin the Congress! Huge thanks to attendees and chairs who kept the conversation flowing. #EST #ESTCongress #EST2025Leeds #TranslationStudies

Job klaxon! We are advertising for a permanent lecturer in German (Teaching and Research). Come and join our team here at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies. Deadline 9th July. @lcsleeds.bsky.social jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Delighted to be headed Devon-wards for the 10th #LanGW4 Colloquium. My focus is the importance of building creative communities & challenging the rhetoric of decline, through advocacy work. How are we building a positive narrative for our disciplines? @ucflangs.bsky.social @gw4alliance.bsky.social

great to see this terrific article on the French care economy by @sarahwatersleeds.bsky.social out online with @francemodern.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Curriculum and Assessment Review: ILCS, ALL and UCFL issue a statement. 'The development of a sustainable model for language provision across the whole of the educational sector is of the highest concern to all members of the subject community' Read the statement: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...

Always such a pleasure to welcome prospective students, their families and friends to campus for our June Open Days. It’s when we all fall in love with our subjects all over again and stop to take in the joy of working and learning in this tremendous city and institution ❤️ #universityofleeds

Very excited that this book has a publication date! Add it to your wishlists or pre order at the end of August! www.routledge.com/Political-Ou...

Good news that the government is working with the EU on setting up a youth mobility/“experience” scheme! This is a step in the right direction: young (and not so young) people benefit hugely from intercultural experiences! ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages/ne... @lcsleeds.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social

Excited to be part of this gorgeous film homage to the natural world through language inspired by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social, screening at Sheffield DocFest on 21 June! @HannahPapacekHarper @RetroviseurProductions @extinctionleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social www.lostforwords.fr

www.mhra.org.uk/news/2025/04... Read about our MHRA-funded project to produce readable summaries for policymakers @themhra.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social @oliviaglaze.bsky.social Watch this space for ways to engage!

In our next @lspjournal.bsky.social opinon piece @clairegorrara.bsky.social and Lucy Jenkins explore the new curriculum for languages in Wales. What could the rest of the UK learn from what Wales is doing? www.lspjournal.com/post/new-cur... @cforsdick.bsky.social

A very busy week for advocacy: @britishacademy.bsky.social & @ucflangs.bsky.social joint Strategic Committee on Langs in HE today; #SchoolofAdvancedStudy Humanities Summit on Thurs; and #UCFL Exec Committee meeting Friday. Never more important for us to undertake this work and never so urgent 🚨

A very exciting afternoon! I’m so grateful to the Faculty and all my wonderful collaborators - all the tackling accent bias in HE work has been (and continues to be) a huge collaborative effort! Congratulations to Henry, Karen, and all colleagues in @lcsleeds.bsky.social and the Language Centre! 🥳

'Rethinking the UK Languages Curriculum: Arguments for the Inclusion of Linguistics' by @mishee54.bsky.social, Alice Corr, Anna Havinga, @jrkasstan.bsky.social & Norma Schifano argues for linguistics in the UK Mod Langs curriculum. Read it #OA: bit.ly/MLO-linguisitics @ciol-linguists.bsky.social

Celebration time 🎉🎈💐 We have been awarded AHC School of the Year 2025 in the partnership awards! Many congratulations to our winners @gisetomelourido.bsky.social for Equality and Inclusion @henryhbclarke.bsky.social for Feedback & Assesment and our Language Centre for Global Impact! 🥳 🎉 🎈

📣 We now have our 4th speaker, Prof Antonio Martínez-Arboleda from @lcsleeds.bsky.social Join us at this in-person event (w lunch) at Uni Leeds on Wed 14 May (11am-2pm) for several exciting OR talks. Register: leeds.libcal.com/event/4369744 @researchcultureuol.bsky.social @openresleeds.bsky.social

I am so delighted to announce that we are #hiring! A two year full-time teaching and research post in French 🇫🇷 Come and join our big and beautiful School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in leafy Leeds! Please post to your networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @lcsleeds.bsky.social

A fascinating special issue on Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in German Language Teaching by @juditheberharter.bsky.social and @saschastollhans.bsky.social in gfl-journal.de @lcsleeds.bsky.social

Mourning the loss today of our colleague in Classics, Professor Malcolm Heath (1957-2025). ἡμεῖς δ’ οἷά τε φύλλα φύει πολυάνθεμος ὥρη ἔαρος, ὅτ’ αἶψ’ αὐγῆις αὔξεται ἠελίου, τοῖς ἴκελοι πήχυιον ἐπὶ χρόνον ἄνθεσιν ἥβης τερπόμεθα, πρὸς θεῶν εἰδότες οὔτε κακὸν οὔτ’ ἀγαθόν· Mimnermus

The Arts and Humanities Alliance deplores the cuts to the NEH budgets and the important research that will be lost as a result.

Are you a school language teacher? Have you signed up to the MFL teacher conference? @universityofleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social on 20th June. Registration is free but places are limited #languages #mfl #mfltwitterati More info and programme on 👇 artsoutreach.leeds.ac.uk/our-activiti...

Delighted to sign the renewal of the agreement between the Camões Institute and the University of Leeds last month. We are proud to have such a strong and active Portuguese section in the School. 🇵🇹 @splasatleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social

Wishing an Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating! 🌙

Opinion: “If we want that project to stay alive and relevant, we must engage more strongly with the factors that give it a place in society.” Defending the status quo will not protect the humanities’ future, writes Marion Thain #highered #EduSky

Congratulation to Dr Rachel Johnson @lcsleeds.bsky.social for a fantastic book launch yesterday for her new book "Film Festivals, Ideology and Italian Art Cinema: Politics, Histories and Cultural Value" from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social - BUY IT NOW! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Yesterday was such an inspiring afternoon! 47 language students (out of 2200) in the Yorkshire and Humberside area competed for the regional semi-final! 11 of these Y7 linguists will compete in June at Cambridge for the final! Good luck to all!!! 🐝 @lcsleeds.bsky.social

Just so encouraging to see our local young linguists of the future @lcsleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social today competing in the languages spelling bee 🐝 Thanks to them, their families, and the school staff who give up their time to participate. 🎉

New event aimed at colleagues in @lcsleeds.bsky.social with scholarship in their profiles: 𝗔𝗽𝗽𝗹𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 📆 Wednesday 26 March 2025, 11:00-13:00 📍 Parkinson SR (B.10) celt.leeds.ac.uk/events/apply...

Check out this brilliant piece written by our colleagues in Education, Law, Politics & International Studies, and Sociology & Social Policy here at Leeds. Read their reflections on research projects that address the numerous social science impacts of the pandemic. essl.leeds.ac.uk/education-so...

The funeral of our much missed colleague Professor Malcolm Heath will take place on Friday 11 April at 13.00 in St. Michael’s Church Headingley, of which he was a longstanding member, with refreshments afterwards: please let us know if you plan to come (RSVP to [email protected]) (1/2)

‘Language is not an ancillary service. It is crucial for expanding understanding of key issues of our age beyond anglophone perspectives and assumptions.’ A response by @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social and St. Andrews School of Modern Languages. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...

Extremely busy Visit day today in Leeds! Our prospective students brought the sunshine with them 🌞 Have a wonderful day and we hope to see you again soon @universityofleeds.bsky.social

This International Women's Day, read how women from the global Leeds community are inspiring others. From trailblazing record breakers to pioneering scientists, we share six stories from over the last year - as well as your tributes to inspirational Leeds women: spotlight.leeds.ac.uk/internationa...

I had a wonderful time at the launch of 'Blood: Ties & Tensions' last night! @hematopolitics.bsky.social have been working closely with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social to put together a brilliant display of objects, stories, and art pieces that bright to light the significance of our blood.

The Hematopolitics team are absolutely thrilled to share details of our upcoming exhibition in collaboration with @thackraymuseum.bsky.social, opening Feb 8! thackraymuseum.co.uk/event/blood/