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Graphic announcing a Call for Special Issue Proposals 2027 for Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Expressions of Interest deadline: 30 March 2026. Liverpool University Press logo and journal cover shown.

📢 Reminder: Call for Expressions of Interest – 2027 Special Issue
Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

Proposals welcome on literature, linguistics, culture, film & visual arts within Hispanic Studies.

🗓 Submit by 30 March 2026

More info: bit.ly/BHS-2027-SI-Call
@ilcs.bsky.social
#HispanicStudies

ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day: Resonances and Dissonances

📢 Calling all students working in French history and Francophone studies!

"ASMCF-SSFH Postgraduate Study Day: Resonances and Dissonances". Moments of echo and reverberation, rupture and interruption.

📅 10 April, 9-5pm
📍 Hybrid

Free for all to attend. Full programme & registration 👇

Caribbean Studies Seminar

🗓️ 24 March Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands
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🗓️ 28 April Tracing Dutch Caribbean Migrants in Black Radical Encounters
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@soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social @deannalyncook.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain

⏰Our first event, 'Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain', is led by the @ilcs.bsky.social and the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and begins today at 1pm at Senate House.

www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

#IWD2026 #InternationalWomensDay #SAS #UniversityofLondon

International Women’s Day Series 2026 The SAS International Women’s Day Series brings together and celebrates the work of women as leaders, creators, and innovators in the Arts & Humanities within SAS and beyond.

🎉International Women’s Day at the School of Advanced Study

We’re marking International Women’s Day with a programme of events. From research showcases to collaborative workshops, this series brings together colleagues and partners across the humanities.

👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

🎭 Professor Catherine Boyle from @kingsdllc.bsky.social features at this #IWD2026 event by @ilcs.bsky.social exploring how we can make fruitful connections across different types of creative practice, such as theatre translation, poetry translation, creative writing, directing and film-making 👇

The business of producing and promoting women’s writing. How are books born? From idea to the global shelf

📢Still time to sign up for our 2-day conference on 12 & 13 March, marking International Women's Day!

This is the first part of a series of events investigating the book journey from idea to the global shelf.

For the full programme and to register, visit our webpage below 👇

#IWD2026

Suggested by Dr Andrea Capovilla, Director of @ilcs.bsky.social

Read the full entry on the map: www.europeanliterarylondon.org/feature/a724...

#EuropeanLiteraryLondon #EuropeanLiterature #Poetry #London

Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain

EVENT: Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain, 6 March 2026, @ilcs.bsky.social.
Includes hybrid roundtable chaired by Jamille Pinheiro Dias with Indigenous women filmmakers from Brazilian network Rede Katahirine
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Excellent and inspiring evening last night courtesy of
@ilcs.bsky.social at Senate House, London. Part of the Encounter series, author Joachim B. Schmidt was chatting with translator @jamielsearle.bsky.social. Expertly moderated by Godela Weiss-Sussex. So good to be talking about Kalmann again! 🦈

Graphic announcing a Call for Special Issue Proposals 2027 for Bulletin of Hispanic Studies. Expressions of Interest deadline: 30 March 2026. Liverpool University Press logo and journal cover shown.

📢 Call for Expressions of Interest: 2027 Special Issue – Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

The editors invite proposals on literature, linguistics, culture, film & visual arts within Hispanic Studies.

Submit by 30 March 2026.

Find out more at: bit.ly/BHS-2027-SI-Call
@ilcs.bsky.social #HispanicStudies

Creative Practice and Collaboration: Giving to Gain

In celebration of International Women’s Day on 6th March, this one day symposium at @ilcs.bsky.social will feature readings from The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Plays edited by Sophie Stevens & @wjg22.bsky.social! 🎭

🎟️ https://bit.ly/4tHUcNQ
📚 https://bit.ly/3MCfYSf

Jointly with the Chair of W+IGS and the President of the GLA, the President of the AGS, @pdavies.bsky.social, has sent a letter to the Principal of Heriot-Watt University opposing proposed staff cuts to the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies and threats to close German and Chinese.

For all fans of Kalmann! Author Joachim B. Schmidt and translator @jamielsearle.bsky.social will be in conversation on Thursday 19th Feb at the @ilcs.bsky.social, London, WC2 from 5-7pm, free to attend, registration needed! 🦈

bit.ly/4tFweT7

Call for Applications: Wasafiri Translator in Residence – Endangered Languages We are excited to open applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages — and invite proposals from translators…

📣 @wasafirimag.bsky.social invites applications for a UK-based Translator in Residence working with/in Endangered Languages. Applications close on February 15. Learn more: buff.ly/w3JVGFD

Sign the petition to save languages and intercultural studies at Heriot-Watt university. Friends there going through drastic times. They have an incredible interpreter training programme there

A promotional graphic for Contemporary French Civilization, a journal published by Liverpool University Press. On the left, white text on a dark blue marbled background reads: “Devoted to all aspects of civilization and cultural studies in France and the Francophone world.”

Most read in Contemporary French Civilization:
Voice-over and sharing bodies in Alice Diop’s Vers la tendresse (2016) by Athena Fokaidis.

Available to read online at: bit.ly/CFC-Alice-Diop
@sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
#FrenchStudies

Major new study will pave the way for better language learning across the Celtic Nations A major new study involving the University of London and led by the University of Stirling will explore how healthy language-learning cultures are built and sustained.

📢 A major new study led by the University of Stirling with an international team including our Dean, Professor Claire Gorrara, has been awarded £1.5m from the AHRC to explore how healthy language-learning cultures are built and sustained across the Celtic nations.

👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Roundtable: From Idea to the Global Shelf. The Decision-making Processes in the Publishing Industry

#IWD2026

📢 Roundtable: From Idea to the Global Shelf. The Decision-making Processes in the Publishing Industry
📅 13 March 2:30-6:30
🎙️Chair: Prof Maggie Humm (author & University of East London); Discussant: Prof Gisèle Sapiro (EHESS/CNRS-Paris)
Generously sponsored by the French Embassy in UK

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Author-Reading Event: The business of producing and promoting women’s writing. How are books born? From idea to the global shelf

We have 2 great #IWD2026 events coming up, organised as part of a larger 2-day conference on the book journey from idea to the global shelf.

📢 Author-Reading Event: The business of producing and promoting women’s writing. How are books born? From idea to the global shelf
📅 12 March, 3:30-6:30

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CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminars:
🗓️ 24 Feb Cricket, Caribbean Migration & Postwar England / 24 March Sorcery in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands / 28 April Dutch Caribbean Migrants & Black Radical Encounters shorturl.at/McW30
@deannalyncook.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social

UK Research and Innovation Arts and Humanities Research Council Executive Chair Candidate Prospectus January 2026

Important! AHRC is looking for a new Executive Chair. A critical role for arts and humanities. £160k - £170k. Please share widely to help get the best possible field!
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Mapping Post-War Italian Literature - University of London Press In the aftermath of the reconstruction period immediately after the Second World War, Italy experienced an unprecedented and unexpected phase of economic development, which transformed it from a tradi...

'In this important contribution to Italian studies, Brecciaroli successfully puts heterogeneous literary sources and critical approaches in dialogue'

Thanks to Italica 102:1 (Spring 2025) for this review of Mapping Post-War Italian Literature, available #OpenAccess:

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Thinking Strategically: Working in Partnership with Local Schools This session explores the possibilities of universities working in multi-year partnerships with local schools, drawing on the impact from the LFA project in Hounslow.

Last week we held a fantastic 'Thinking Strategically' event, exploring the possibilities of universities working in multi-year partnerships with local schools, drawing on the impact from the LFA project in Hounslow.

Catch up now with the recording 👇

@ucflangs.bsky.social @rhemus.bsky.social

Thank you for hosting us! This partnership is a real joy for me and the whole Royal Holloway languages team @llc-rhul.bsky.social

Open letter from Ian Chapman to research and innovation community UKRI Chief Executive outlines changes to UKRI investment approach, addressing concerns about research funding and the financial position of STFC.

Hot off the press - a letter from the Exec Chair of @ukri.org explaining his plans and in particular the financial position of STFC. It notes curiosity driven research is protected and will make up around half of UKRI spend over the coming period
www.ukri.org/news/open-le...

@michaelslav.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social

Thinking Strategically: Working in Partnership with Local Schools This session explores the possibilities of universities working in multi-year partnerships with local schools, drawing on the impact from the LFA project in Hounslow.

Last week we held a fantastic 'Thinking Strategically' event, exploring the possibilities of universities working in multi-year partnerships with local schools, drawing on the impact from the LFA project in Hounslow.

Catch up now with the recording 👇

@ucflangs.bsky.social @rhemus.bsky.social

The 2026 Free Issues: Read a free issue of each journal We are pleased to share the 2026 Free Issues. Each year, we make one issue from each of our journals free to read, showcasing the range of disciplines, approaches, and scholarly communities represe…

📣 We’re pleased to share the 2026 Free Issues.

Each year, we make one issue from each of our journals free to read, showcasing the range of disciplines, approaches, and scholarly communities represented across the Press.

Explore the free issues ⬇️
#AcademicSky

How do languages and cultures shape diplomacy, and how do we show it?

On 20 February, join @monjast96.bsky.social (KDP), @ezolotariov.bsky.social (MAHP), and @charlottefaucher.bsky.social (@bristoluni.bsky.social) for Putting the Humanities on the Knowledge Diplomacy Map.

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