Emma Cayley 谷曦
Professor of Medieval French and Head of School of Languages, Cultures & Societies at Uni of Leeds; Chair of UCFL; Co-Chair of AHA; playing card collector; MSS & cat-lover.
- A very busy week for advocacy: @britishacademy.bsky.social & @ucflangs.bsky.social joint Strategic Committee on Langs in HE today; #SchoolofAdvancedStudy Humanities Summit on Thurs; and #UCFL Exec Committee meeting Friday. Never more important for us to undertake this work and never so urgent 🚨
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- Also Ying Peng who is crowned Teacher/Supervisor of the Year! 🎉
- Thanks to all for a fantastic awards ceremony today @universityofleeds.bsky.social I am so proud of all our staff and students and what we’ve achieved together @lcsleeds.bsky.social 💐🎉🥳
- If you fancy tuning into a bit of classical reception this afternoon, check this out! classicalassociation.org/events/newca...
- I am so delighted to announce that we are #hiring! A two year full-time teaching and research post in French 🇫🇷 Come and join our big and beautiful School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in leafy Leeds! Please post to your networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @lcsleeds.bsky.social
- Someone is cross they don’t fit into my suitcase… Headed to Westminster this evening to help crown the winners of the Duolingo Westminster challenge and talk about how we can collaborate to protect our crucial language capability in the UK! #Lily #Westminster #languages @duolingoverde.bsky.social
- What a wonderful occasion yesterday @queenscollegeox.bsky.social thanks to Provost Claire Craig’s initiative to gather women academics connected to Queen’s. Fab to see @vandawilcox.bsky.social @profalisonsfell.bsky.social @tamarajatkin.bsky.social @acantrill.bsky.social @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social
- And @kaszyma.bsky.social @qiaoj.bsky.social Rebecca Beasley, Polly Blakeskey, and many more I’m not sure are on Bluesky. A memorable evening and Oxford is beautiful draped in wisteria.
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- It was a fantastic evening and so nice to meet you and have the chance to find out about everyone’s fascinating careers and research!
- The Skin on Mysterious Medieval Books Concealed a Shaggy Surprise www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/s...
- UK academia’s lack of language skills ‘imperils research integrity’ www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-c...
- Delighted to sign the renewal of the agreement between the Camões Institute and the University of Leeds last month. We are proud to have such a strong and active Portuguese section in the School. 🇵🇹 @splasatleeds.bsky.social @lcsleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social
- Nice April fool here. I admit I hesitated. It’s actually horrifyingly plausible….
- Can’t wait for Wednesday- this will be such a key gathering for the Arts and Humanities 🎉
- Happy *’hug a medievalist’ day! *Please remember to ask….
- The Thornbirds’ Father Ralph was my pre-teen crush - devastatingly noble and absolutely unattainable. RIP to the brilliant Richard Chamberlain. 🌹
- Just so encouraging to see our local young linguists of the future @lcsleeds.bsky.social @universityofleeds.bsky.social today competing in the languages spelling bee 🐝 Thanks to them, their families, and the school staff who give up their time to participate. 🎉
- Wonderful to catch up with old friends and colleagues at Fudan University yesterday. Gave a class on fragmentology and French manuscript culture - thanks for the very warm Shanghai welcome 📖 💕
- Cannot wait to be back in China 🇨🇳 for work this week. Much delicious food will be consumed. 再见 See you all soon! 🥟 🥢
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- Thanks, Leona! So important we make our case together. Divide and conquer really rather passé!
- ‘Language is not an ancillary service. It is crucial for expanding understanding of key issues of our age beyond anglophone perspectives and assumptions.’ A response by @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social and St. Andrews School of Modern Languages. www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...
- A response: www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/mode...
- How I love an Open Day! Sunshine, enthusiasm, meeting prospective students with their families and friends, chats with colleagues, and falling in love with one’s workplace all over again ❤️🎉
- Fabulous evening ‘decarbonising the student journey’ with Duolingo in Leeds. Was also great to meet our local MP, Alex Sobel. I ‘may’ have brought Duo home with me as a souvenir… 🦉 @alexsobel.co.uk @lcsleeds.bsky.social
- Uplifting event today organised by @langforall.bsky.social and @royalholloway.bsky.social to encourage the uptake of languages at A-level and beyond. Great initiative with so much potential for us all. Bravo! @ucflangs.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
- Fantastic evening celebrating 30 years of our Language Centre at @lcsleeds.bsky.social Thanks to all who came to join in the festivities. We were also honoured to host the very first Director of the Centre.
- Delighted to meet Dr Asmaa Alduhaim from Gulf University of Science and Technology (GUST), Kuwait today and discuss collaborative research projects, courses, and staff mobility. Was wonderful to welcome you to @lcsleeds.bsky.social and looking forward to strengthening our partnership 🇰🇼 🇬🇧
- Brilliant opportunity for a permanent full-time role in Ancient History in our fabulous School! 🥳 ⚔️ @lcsleeds.bsky.social
- ‘We teach each other how to live’ - Anne Michaels. ‘Each language [is] a powerful transporting river bearing its own rich history, its own literature, its kitchens and songs.’ A little corner of multilingual reflection on the university campus in Toronto. 🍁🇨🇦
- Please help support our colleagues in languages at Cardiff by challenging the decision to exclude them from the category of ‘global humanities’ @ucflangs.bsky.social @artsandhums.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/card...
- So many incredible encounters today! Prof David Olusoga gave the inaugural National Humanities Lecture at the School of Advanced Study @SASNews on the value of the Humanities and the role of the public scholar. And I also met rock star of Languages advocacy, Michael Worton!
- An emotional evening celebrating our late colleague, Martin Thomas @lcsleeds.bsky.social with the première of Joanna Byrne’s astonishing memorial film, To remember…/ 记得 - Film streaming until 28.02.2025 at: vimeo.com/joannabyrne/...
- Remembering our colleague Martin Thomas three years after his untimely death on this day. Sleep peacefully at last.
- Always a great honour to welcome the West Yorkshire language assistants to @lcsleeds.bsky.social and remember what it was like to experience this in the opposite direction oh so many years ago! Thanks in particular to the volunteers who put the programme of events together.
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- A fantastic opportunity to commemorate an absolute giant in the field. God speed, Simon. You are never forgotten. ❤️
- The discontinuation of the Latin Excellence programme leaves pupils high and dry months before their GCSE exams. Proposed cuts to other language specific schemes are concerning at a time we should be investing in languages futures in the UK. schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-face...
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- Ooohh!!! Thank you! Just managed to unlock my account after a while and have seen this. Awesome 🤩
- Wonderful if fleeting trip to Geneva this week to deliver a class on manuscripts and Chartier’s Belle Dame sans mercy, its sequels and imitations. Thanks for the invitation! Always fabulous to be in such learned and convivial company by the shores of Lac Léman.
- Well, sorry for radio silence on here, folks! I got locked out when I changed my phone and only just managed to work out how to get back in! Hope everyone in the blue sky multiverse is thriving!
- This auction was so thrilling! Joined live online for the playing cards, and may have secured a lot or two. Not the £15k ones sadly 🙃♥️♠️♦️♣️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...
- New article in the Times Higher by Charles Burdett @ilcs.bsky.social Wendy Ayres-Bennett, and myself @ucflangs.bsky.social on the new lives of Modern Languages in HE and why the narrative of gloom and doom needs challenging. www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/demise-...
- Super proud moment! My child Oliver/Ori had their poem in Spanish published in a digital anthology this week for the #mothertongueothertongue competition as part of the events for #LeedsLanguageWeek 📚🇪🇸
- Fantastic fragments workshop with equally fantastic colleagues @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social last week. We looked at & thought about manuscript and print fragments from a range of collections across our institutions, & had a convivial team dinner at Al-Shami. Thanks to Leeds for generous funding.
- My favourite class of the year! Manuscripts 101 in Special Collections with @nkivilcimyavuz.bsky.social at the Brotherton Library, Leeds. So much fun to show these incredible objects to our MA Medieval Studies students & hopefully inspire budding codicologists/DH specialists of the future! 📖📚📜
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- This is such awesome news! Well done, Hamburg pal! 🎉🥳
- Very much looking forward to a day of advocacy for languages and cultures! First: a Policy workshop organised by @ilcs.bsky.social & Wendy Ayres-Bennett university-council-for-languages.org/2023/09/22/i... then launch 🚀of the new BA Languages Gateway @ucflangs.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
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- It’s such a beautiful melody & lyric 😢
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- That was awesome! I loved Fox 🦊 on Eldon St as well. You might like to see this - my recollection of what they sang in Leeds - I might have missed one or two….
- They really are! Caught them in Leeds in September on this tour. Fantastic stuff!
- Hamburg, you were magnificent! A wonderful two days of intense conversation about multilingualism in the medieval/early modern archive. Thanks to Natalia Filatkina @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social and all at Hamburg University for the warm welcome. Can’t wait for your visit to Leeds next year!
