Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies
The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London ilcs.sas.ac.uk
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
- A fantastic project, funded by @themhra.bsky.social! Come along to our online seminar on 2 May to hear more about it! ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/think...
- Very happy to be interviewed with @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social about our project to create a database of impact-focused summaries of languages research for policymakers - thank you to @themhra.bsky.social for their support, and stay tuned for updates! tinyurl.com/bdzner29
- 'Value linguistic diversity and forget “one nation, one language”' 👇
- Swahili? Mandarin? The UK is increasingly multilingual – yet our politicians won’t talk about it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- ILCS Visiting Fellowships for 2025-26 - call for applications now open! Non-stipendiary fellowships, and funded fellowships in German and Exile Studies available. Deadline 6 May 2025 - apply now! 👇 ilcs.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
- 📢 Coming up this Friday! 'Thinking Strategically: Taking Mentoring Programmes Forward' 📅 28 March, 12-1:15 pm 📍Online 🎙️Claire Gorrara (Cardiff) & Lucy Jenkins (Cardiff) Still time to register 👇
- In the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, a total of 699 jobs are “in scope”, with 84 of those in the School of Modern Languages.
- 'We must not let advanced linguistic and cultural skills slip away out of a misinformed sense that technology will solve all our problems or that colonialism’s legacy will always fatally undermine efforts to promote better transnational understanding'
- The School of Advanced Study is celebrating #IWD with a series of fantastic events throughout this month, featuring academics, creative practitioners and artists. Still time to sign up! 👇 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
- 📢 'Developing Anti-Fascist Pedagogies' Join us in our upcoming workshop, with speakers @amycking.bsky.social, @georgenewth.bsky.social, Charles Burdett & Angelica Pesarini 📅 12 May, 11-3:30pm 📍 In person, Senate House, London Further details and registration below 👇
- "The Welsh government has announced that it will provide £19 million in extra funding for its universities after several institutions announced wide-ranging cuts...The bulk of the money – £18.5 million – will be used to support universities to fund estate maintenance and digital projects"
- 📢OPEN DAY! MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders! Come along to one of our open days to meet the course convenors and learn more about this unique MA, taught at ILCS by academic staff across the University. 📅 5 March in person at Senate House, London 📅 10 March online Register here 👇
- "The research produced there is world-leading. If we lose these courses, we will lose more than thousands of devoted and pioneering academics. We will create a system where only the wealthy and privileged get to study the very subjects that make Britain what it is."
- "For Cardiff University final-year languages student Darcie James, 23, the headlines hit close to home after her university last month announced plans to cut 400 jobs and close some courses."
- "The future economic and cultural success of Wales depends significantly on the ability to engage effectively with the wider world, and this requires maintaining and developing language and translation capabilities"
- Institute of Translation and Interpreting raises serious concerns over University of Cardiff plans to close modern languages and translation courses, and warns of the serious economic, cultural and educational risks of such a move www.iti.org.uk/resource/iti...
- The planned MFL cuts placed the university in “direct contradiction” with Welsh govt policy and international strategy. The cuts undermine Cardiff’s role in supporting the linguistic diversity that is critical for the regional economy, the teacher pipeline, and for international partnerships.
- "Cardiff has embraced the entirely bizarre proposition that the global and transtemporal examination of culture is possible even without the provision of languages at degree level. There are very many reasons why this is alarming." 👇👇
- A fantastic job with a wonderful team! 👇
- Job klaxon! Come and work with us as Manager of the Digital Humanities Research Hub in the School of Advanced Study, University of London @dh-researchhub.bsky.social #DigitalHumanities
- Join our seminar next Friday (14 Feb) led by Charlotte Ryland, looking at the Languages Gateway, its purpose and how it can function in the most effective way possible 👇
- Want to know mores about the crisis in Languages? Consider consulting some of the many professionals who have devoted years to this subject. For example, check out the Languages Gateway: www.thelanguagesgateway.uk/who-this-web... and these reports: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/programmes/l... 2/3
- “The single biggest problem facing our country is the catastrophic decline in language learning, both in schools and now at universities”- Nick Hillman, director of the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI)
- "Ceasing subjects and programmes in Ancient History, Modern Languages and Translation, Music, Nursing, and Religion and Theology" "School of Global Humanities (merge English, Communication and Philosophy, Welsh, and remaining elements of History Archaeology and Religion and Modern Languages)."
- You can track the unfolding disaster at Cardiff University here LIVE, as one of the UK's constituent nations actually chooses to gut parts of its flagship HEI: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/educati...
- 📢 "Working with schools: '1000 Words for Belonging'" Read this great public engagement case study from @drjoeford.bsky.social! In partnership with Gearies Primary School & Neela Doležalová, the project explored the language of emotion with school students through a range of creative activities
- "Some of the most fascinating items are Tarnschriften or “hidden writings” – anti-fascist propaganda hidden in everyday items including powder shampoo and tea leaves"
- 📢 Our Spring programme of events in the 'Thinking Strategically' series kicks off next month! First up is 'The Languages Gateway' - find out more about its development and intended purpose, and how it can function in the most effective way possible 🎙️ Charlotte Ryland 📅 14 Feb, 12-1:15 pm GMT
- 📢 An exciting new MOOC launches next week! "Working with Cultural Data: A Creative Approach" Exploring the compelling intersection between creative arts and migration studies, uncovering new perspectives on global migration patterns @uofglasgow.bsky.social @alisonphipps.bsky.social
- Next Tuesday, 22 Jan at 4pm GMT. All welcome! Register below to receive the zoom link 👇
- Join us for an online talk by Dr Andreas Folkers (@afolkers.bsky.social) on "Future Theft," exploring how fossil capitalism steals from the future. Part of the Critical Conversations in Environmental Humanities series from @ehrh.bsky.social at the University of London. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
- Changes on the way for schools language hubs from April, with funding to be reduced. NCLE is “working closely” with DfE “on the next steps” 👇
- Kindertransport documents discovered in the archives at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center in Israel, by Dr Amy Williams
- Great to see the range of books published last year, including two from ILCS: "Mapping Post-War Italian Literature. Boom and Aftermath (1956–1979)" "More-Than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean. Decentring the Human in Environmental History" Read them now on open access 👇👇
- Interested to see what we publish? In case you missed any of them, here's every book we published last year! The majority are Open Access, so can be downloaded or read online for free. uolpress.co.uk/2024/12/2024...
- Looking forward to the new term's seminars in the interdisciplinary series "Behind-the-Scenes: Conversations on Fieldwork"! We kick off next week with: 📢 'Fieldwork as Emotion Work' 🎙️ Ruxandra Păduraru (Bucarest) 📅 15 Jan, 6-7pm GMT (UK time) 📍 Online, via Teams All welcome, sign up below 👇
- 'For the Rohingya people from Myanmar, who now mostly live as refugees in Bangladesh after decades of persecution, concerns about their mostly oral language being lost because of their dispersal abroad have led to attempts to develop a written version'
- New post on our blog, from @tillsb.bsky.social: "What, then, was the educational purpose of a jigsaw that depicts the production of a commodity closely linked to the cruel and dehumanizing system of slavery? What was a child supposed to learn by assembling the pieces of the colonial world order?"
- "University should be concerned with encouraging rational inquiry and the free play of the intellect; it is not about the creation of useful drones and it’s unfortunate that tuition fees have made the experience to some degree transactional"
- Come and join us, with writer Orsola Severini, graphic novelist Lorinda Peterson & matricentric theorist Andrea O’Reilly! 📢WombWor(l)ds: Transcultural Echoes on Reproductive Justice 📅 9 Dec, 5pm GMT 📍 online Discussing principles of reproductive justice in this roundtable session. Registration 👇
- Still time to sign up! 📢 "Aesthetic readings through field methods: on studying theatre and performance in Francophone Africa" 🎙️ Brian Valente-Quinn (University of Colorado Boulder) 📅 11 Dec, 6-7pm GMT (UK time) 📍 Online, via Teams For further information & to register for the joining link 👇👇
