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Congratulations to Matthew Brown for his book Sport in South America: A History on winning the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize 2024, awarded by the British Society of Sport History BSSH Souvik Naha Dr. Erica Munkwitz Yale University Press London 📖 University of Bristol sportinhistory.org

Latest publication from our Australian Research Council Discovery grant is Volume 2 (2024): Issue 2 (Sep 2024): Special Issue: Australia’s Multilingual Literary Landscape, edited by Christopher Hogarth and Natalie Edwards. Prof Natalie Edwards Article descriptions to follow brill.com/view/journals/…

My fabulous department and I are all excited to host the 2025 SFS conference at Bristol! Abstracts due 21 September. @BristolFrench Comparative Literatures and Cultures (CLC) Bristol SML Australian Society for French Studies Arts Matter Bristol University of Bristol

Debra Dank asks in Open Access interview in our issue "How can such a young language (English) articulate Aboriginal linguistic form/function when our communicative practice has been in place/evolving for at least sixty thousand years?" Prof Natalie Edwards brill.com/view/journals/…

A very warm welcome to the 300+ students of Modern Languages Bristol SML!

Happy first day of term to our students and colleagues! We hope you found our Welcome Week events helpful, including the talk by our Head of School Prof Natalie Edwards (pictured here addressing the Modern Language Class of 2028). Pic credits Christopher Hogarth #WeAreBristolUni

Key UUK Blueprint for HE recommendation today: 'There should be a national strategy to foster language provision in schools & to retain sufficient higher education capability in languages & interdisciplinary area studies to meet the long-term needs of the UK' UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social ILCS

Congratulations on this latest Routledge book from Megan Brown and Helga Lenart-Cheng, "Un/Bound" which includes my humble offering with Prof Natalie Edwards "Flawed Border Crossings in Life Writing by Fabienne Kanor and Gisèle Pineau" routledge.com/UnBound/Brown-…

UUK: "Graduates from more disadvantaged backgrounds who had a period abroad during their degree earned 4.2% more and were 6.1% more likely to be in a graduate level job compared to their non-mobile peers" universitiesuk.ac.uk/what-we-do/pol….

Our leading ladies! 💐 A wonderful inaugural to (belatedly) celebrate Professor Ruth Glynn and Professor Catherine O’Rawe and their roles in shaping Italian Studies in the U.K. and beyond. Expertly compèred by another BristolItalian legend, Prof DD. Hip hip, hooray!

This looks like one to pre-order Routledge Literature all right! I'm very pleased with Chapter 8 by Prof Natalie Edwards but each of the seventeen chapters looks interesting bloomsbury.com/us/life-writin…

Congratulations to @DrAshwinyOK on her excellent book, Refugee Afterlives, which I was pleased to launch at the RefugeeStudiesCentre centre University of Oxford this evening.

In a new piece for The Conversation, Dr José Lingna Nafafé (Department of HiPLA) uncovers new evidence highlighting the role Lourenço da Silva Mendonça, a Black African lawyer, played in championing slavery's abolition a full 150 years before William Wilberforce theconversation.com/angolan-prince…

Weberfest uber alles. Great to be reunited with friends and colleagues from Northwestern University and to celebrate the 35th and final anniversary of the Paris Program in Critical Theory of Samuel Weber which we enjoyed being part of 20 years ago! #northwesternuniversity #paris

Our call for articles on ‘Francophone Perspectives on New and Radical Forms of Care’ is now live on Francofil! Prof Natalie Edwards and I are looking forward to reading your proposals!

Read "Translingual, Transnational, and Transmedial Narratives", edited by Prof Natalie Edwards, Christopher Hogarth Christopher Hogarth, Kylie Cardell, Kate Douglas, and Shannon Sandford for the journal Auto/Biography Studies tandfonline.com/toc/raut20/cur…

Giving you a caring nudge! You may still submit your article abstracts before the end of the week. Prof Natalie Edwards and myself are looking forward to reading your proposals.

🚨 Applications for Bristol Translates 2025 are now open! Join us for a 5 day online summer school from 7 to 11 July 2025. There will be three days of translation workshops in eleven languages with leading translators in each language. Ros Schwartz Holly Langstaff

“The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level” | Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities timeshighereducation.com/opinion/cardif… via Times Higher Education

I love working on migration whilst I'm in transit, and wrote this on trains and during a long lay-over at Hong Kong airport: Caribbean Life Writing as World Literature bloomsbury.com/uk/life-writin…