From everyone here at the CMS, a huge 🎉CONGRATULATIONS🎉 to our newest Doctors: Dr Max Fincher (French Loanwords in Early Middle English), Dr Teal St Nicklaus (Marginal Annotations in MSS of Aelfric), and Dr Sebrina Varley (Education in TH White's Once and Future King)! We're so thrilled for you! 🥳🎉
La Peugeot c'est certain! Le may work if you are talking of a man named Peugeot or Citroen (colloquial register).
Congrats to Leonie for publishing her short film 🎥 Such a great achievement 🎉
but post Brexit regulations, the impact of Covid on long-standing partnerships and cultural /regulatory shifts (including on safeguarding) mean that European and international youth exchanges are much more complicated to organise.
We discussed this very theme at the French Forum organised at the University of Bristol with the support of @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social + French embassy. It was great to hear from DfE representatives on this topic. There is a clear appetite from school teachers to organise trips and exchanges.
Weathering Storms, Sketching Monasteries (2022) is a 14-minute-long experimental documentary film about feminist transformations in the religious tradition of Theravada Buddhism
Watch Weathering Storms, Sketching Monasteries: www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...
Congratulations to our recent PhD graduate Leonie Gschwendtberger whose fascinating short film has just been published in the practice-as-research journal Screenworks. Here is the link to the issue:
www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...
🙌New co-edited collection in the Australian Journal of French Studies by @profnatedwards.bsky.social and Alistair Rolls: John West-Sooby: Scholar, Teacher, Colleague.
📖Read it here:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...
We talked about UK-French mobility with
@fhmjh.bsky.social, Prof. Vincent Latour (Toulouse Jean Jaurès) Bernadette Paccalin+Sophie Andrieu-Maurin (Académie de Bordeaux), C. Colvin & L Roberts (DfE) Uzma Zahoor (Cathedral School Llandaff)+ Amélie Bowers (Hills Road Cambridge)
Our head of School @profnatedwards.bsky.social and Prof. Bradley Stephens welcomed participants before the plenary on French as a Professional asset with Francis Pepett Employability Consultant, Stéphanie Demont and Bernardette Holmes.
We also discussed translation, AI, creativity in workshops.
Last month we had the honor to welcome over 70 delegates, including over 30 secondary teachers, for the annual UK French Forum organised in partnership with @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social and the French embassy in the UK.
We are so pleased to announce that the University of Bristol's School of Modern Language has signed a MoU with the Centre of Anglophone Studies, Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. This builds on a longstanding Erasmus+ and a burgeoning co-tutelle! 🇬🇧🇫🇷
What a fantastic few days we've had welcoming #sfsBristol !
Here our Head of School @profnatedwards.bsky.social + @frenchstudies.bsky.social President Nick Harrison delivering the Welcome to a full Great Hall in our beautiful Wills Memorial Building.
Bravo to the wonderful SFS conference team!
It was lovely to be a part of this and hear everyone's thoughts on the film afterwards. Wonderful programme organised by The Garden Cinema. Still running, check it out here... ❤️🎥
So pleased to host the Society of French Studies and promote the value, impact and importance of research in modern languages @frenchstudies.bsky.social @frenchatbristol.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social
The latest French Studies Bulletin mentions recent PhD success in @frenchatbristol.bsky.social and Film & TV @bristoluni.bsky.social, with thesis abstracts of recent doctorates 🎉
Out today (19 June)
félicitations!!!
Coming soon….
“Sex, race and colonial power in North Africa: the French Protectorate in Morocco” with @manchesterup.bsky.social
I’m away this summer for a fellowship at NIMAR in Rabat, Morocco to finish up, thanks to BILNAS funding via @britishacademy.bsky.social
Anyone in Rabat/Casa? Say hi!
Halfway!! Only 6 weeks left to submit to the Stephen Spender Prize and this year's #PortugueseSpotlight!
#SSTPoetryPrize2025
Our colleague Dr Albertine Fox is taking part in the Festival 'New Lebanese Cinema: Reclaiming Storytelling' at The Garden Cinema in Covent Garden. She'll introduce the film Caramel by Nadine Labaki next Wednesday evening. The season runs until July 11th.
www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/new-l...
Last week our colleague Dr Charlotte Faucher was invited to speak at the plenary session of the The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Paris conferences on Education and Arts and Humanities alonside Ambassadors Paolo Sabbatini Rancidoro and Takehiro Kano & IR scholar, Frédéric Ramel.
Congratulations to Prof Susan Harrow (@frenchatbristol.bsky.social) who has been appointed as Deputy Chair of a #REF2029 sub-panel on Modern Languages and Linguistics 🥳
Read more about the appointments and what @ref2029.bsky.social means in practice 👉 bit.ly/4kNvZRe
The UKYA co-organised a science diplomacy panel session with their Indian counterparts, INYAS, which included representatives from the British and Indian governments and policy specialists and scientists from Cameron, Japan, and the US. @uobartsmatter.bsky.social
Last week, Dr Clare Siviter represented the UK Young Academy in Hyderabad, India, which hosted the International Conference for Young Scientists and the Global Young Academy’s AGM.
Our colleague Dr Shuangyi Li’s collaborated with collector/curator Peter Carls of Franco-Chinese painter Zao Wou-Li’s works on exhibition in Oxford www.zaowoukioxford.com (ending Sunday!). He shares his current research on Kenyan writer Yvonne Owuor’s engagement with Zao’s artwork in the catalogue.
A modern premiere of the 'Life of Job' is definitely not to be missed! 😀 Don't forget to get your tickets today!
Last few tickets remaining! Registration and details below⬇️
Our colleague Prof Bradley Stephens was awarded an AHRC/UKRI Curiosity Award in partnership with @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social for the project 'Manhood in the Métropole: Representing Masculinities in Contemporary French Culture'
More on the project:
masculinityinthemetropole.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
