Final deadline is 19th April to register for our annual conference! ☀️

A final reminder that the deadline for expressions of interest in the French Studies Postgraduate Poster Competition 2024 is tomorrow, Friday 12 April. Please feel free to be in touch with any questions! ✨

Honoured to have accepted an invitation to join the advisory board of ‘Loire Val-Health’, an €11.8M research and teaching project on illness and disease led by the Université de Tours. Tours was also where I spent my Erasmus year, so I’m doubly excited 🇫🇷 chu-tours.fr/actualites/lis…

After delivering my paper at #baftss2024 , with Ginette Vincendeau chairing, I’m humbled to find the article on which it is based now in print with French Studies Oxford Academic! A thousand thanks to Elly Walters & David Ewing for making it happen!

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David Ewing and I are delighted that this special issue following the French Studies 2022 Postgraduate Conference on the theme of 'AFTER WORK' is out in the world, with nine wonderful papers by contributors including Matthew Bruce olly w Benoît Loiseau academic.oup.com/fsb/issue/45/1…

New in Contemporary French Civilization: The 2020 Beirut port explosion and mapping the experience of grief in the illustrated book, 'Mon port de Beyrouth', by Lamia Ziadé. Online at: bit.ly/CFC-Vol-49-1 French Studies Denis Provencher CFC Michael Gott #FrenchStudies

we are delighted to announce that Siobhán McIlvanney (KCL) is the winner of our £1000 Best Article Prize (2023), for her brilliant analysis of Leïla Slimani’s bestseller, Chanson douce. ASMCF T&F Social Sciences and Humanities King's Languages, Literatures and Cultures tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

After an EPIC tour through Ireland & England -incl 12 days avec teenager- I am looking out my window at a sunny day in Vancouver.

The list of people to thank is too long for a tweet, but French Studies was at the heart of it all. Merci mille fois!

Participating in the Poster Competition is a wonderful way to share your work, to meet researchers working in similar areas, and to receive feedback. If you have any questions, please feel free to be in touch! 🌈

All the entries to the SFS Poster Competition 2023 can be found here: sfs.ac.uk/conferences/vi…

The winner of the SFS Poster Competition in 2022 was Louisa Esther, who presented a poster titled 'Towards a conceptualisation of exile journalism' 🌟

The winner of the SFS Poster Competition in 2023 was Sophie Ellis, who presented a poster titled 'The Spatiality of French Hospitality' 🇫🇷

A gentle reminder! If you'd like to submit a poster to this year's French Studies Postgraduate Poster Competition, please write to us at [email protected] by Friday 14 April. Below are some examples of posters (and their creativity, insight, and flair!) from previous years...

We are delighted to share the CFP for this year's ASFS conference, Global French Studies: Transnational, Transcultural, and Transdisciplinary Perspectives, to be held at The University of Melbourne, 11-13 December 2024.

Abstracts due 17 June 2024: australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/events/asfs-co…

New SI of Paragraph now available online! 47:1 'Difficulty's Knots', ed. Richard Mason & Kasia Mika-Bresolin. Editors' intro free to read. Articles by Maybe:nansi, Giovanni Menegalle, Kristin Fredricksson, Jennifer E. Rowe, Éamonn Dunne & the two editors. euppublishing.com/toc/para/47/1

Looking forward to my Institute of Historical Research talk UCL this evening, the last event of my French Studies Visiting International Fellowship tour.

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Hello and welcome to another #FrancophoneFriday ! The ASMCF is committed to highlighting research conducted in or about the Francophone world 🧵

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A real pleasure to discuss this Memory Studies special issue (co-edited with Hannah Grayson) with Charles, Maria and Ben - hopefully it will give rise to more work in this fascinating area.

A real treat to take our students to the European Commission, where they learned about opportunities to become an interpreter. They even got to give it a go in the booths! Thanks to EU Interpreters for a memorable experience and for taking the time to answer students’ questions.