“Social sciences and the humanities have never been more necessary. They give shape and meaning and so the core of what the academy does will be to make that case.” Professor Rana Mitter, British Academy vice-president for public engagement in today's Guardian culture

The UK is poorer without Erasmus: it’s time to rejoin the European exchange programme

Check out this piece in The Conversation by Sascha Stollhans on why we need to shift our mindset towards valuing languages & internationalisation
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theconversation.com/the-uk-is-poor… via The Conversation

CALL FOR PAPERS & POSTERS 🚨 for Society for Francophone Postcolonial studies SFPS PG Study Day (June 21,2024) , Lancaster University organised by
Languages & Cultures at Lancaster University) An excellent opportunity for PGRs to meet, share and network
SFPS
Prof. Charlotte Baker
Dr Holly Lawton
Benjamin Dalton

Maryse Condé obituary by ⁦Louise Hardwick theguardian.com/books/2024/apr…

The next Melbourne French Studies Seminar is coming up next Friday 19 April, 2-3pm, Faculty of Arts!

Dr Patrick Kennedy will be presenting on 'Victor Hugo, Theopoet: Re-reading the divine in Les Contemplations, Dieu, and La Fin de Satan'.

More info:
australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/2024/04/09/mel…

Enfants de la Creuse : une proposition de loi pour indemniser les victimes
👉Entre 1962 et 1984, plus de 2 000 petits Réunionnais ont été arrachés à leurs familles pour aller peupler des régions de l'Hexagone
💻📱la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/reunion/enfant…

Interested in becoming a mentor or a mentee in French Studies? Reminder to submit an expression of interest by 15 April!
australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/2024/03/13/asf…

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…

🟡 Un hommage national à Maryse Condé se tiendra à la Bibliothèque nationale de France Richelieu

👉 Une cérémonie aura lieu en présence d'Emmanuel Macron le 15 avril, à la BNF

📱💻 la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/personne-ne-me…

in our latest podcast, guest-editor Prof Nina Parish discusses our recent special issue on Memory Studies in the French-speaking world with Charles Forsdick and presenters Dr. Maria Tomlinson and Benjamin Dalton podbean.com/ep/pb-38nwt-15…

Louise Cain's seminar on Céline Sciamma is coming up tomorrow at 2pm at The University of Melbourne! Details below.

📢📢 We are very pleased to share the CFP for the SFPS 2024 Annual Conference: The End(s) of Empire!

sfps.org.uk/forthcoming-ev…

To be held Nov. 15 -16 at Senate House, London.
Keynotes from Prof Jennifer Yee and Dr Adi Saleem.

Abstracts are due April 12, 2024!

'Plonk, napoo, mayday & soo la voo: how French still influences modern English'
In this @humanitiesAU article, Professor Veronique Duche FAHA, former president of the ASFS, reflects on the close ties that bind French and English.
humanities.org.au/.../plonk-napo…

Expressions of interest for the ASFS Mentorship Program are now being accepted! ASFS members at any stage of their career (postgrad to full professor) are welcome to submit an EOI.

Visit the ASFS blog below to learn how to become a mentor or a mentee.

australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/2024/03/13/asf…

We are looking forward to Louise Cain's fascinating talk on Céline Sciamma and the Queer Forest! If you're in Melbourne do come along!

Dr Antonia Wimbush and I are excited to announce the speakers for the Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series!

The programme for the first half of the year (which includes Felicity Chaplin!) can be found here: australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/2024/03/04/mel…

‘Charles Forsdick is a once-in-a-generation figure, who has through his work with LUP made it the foremost venue in the world for work in contemporary French and Francophone studies.’
bit.ly/125Charles #LUP125
Charles Forsdick MMLL Cambridge French Studies University of Liverpool

Awful to have to share another petition to save language provision- please sign!
Concerns about the closure of modern languages at the University of Lincoln - Sign the Petition! chng.it/mXLXWSnX via @ChangeAUS

The CFP is now open for the Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) Colloquium! It will be hosted by USYD Languages and Cultures at University of Sydney in November 2024. #LCNAU2024

Deadline for proposals: 31 March 2024

australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/2024/02/09/cfp…