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Caroline Tagg @carotagg.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

"Modern Foreign Languages have the largest cold spots in the UK ... with Linguistics, Anthropology and Classics showing similar declines. If current trends continue, subjects like English, History and Drama could follow." @britishacademy.bsky.social

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We've got a chunky @britishacademy.bsky.social report out looking at the emergence of 'cold spots' where you can't study arts, humanities or social science subjects close to home. We call for an urgent review of HE funding & monitoring of at risk subjects www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

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University course closures leave students unable to study many SHAPE subjects close to home - report

A new report shows that students are shut out of SHAPE education in their home regions, as large swathes of the UK are ‘cold spots’ for humanities, social sciences and arts degrees.

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Robbie Love @robbielove.org · 06/09/2025

After a brilliant week in Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social, we’re already looking forward to next year’s conference at Aston University! #BAAL2025 ➡️ #BAAL2026 @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social

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Caroline Tagg @carotagg.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

My new special issue "At the interface: discourse at the intersection of digital design and user agency" published by @dcmjournal.bsky.social, co-edited with Göran Eriksson and Camilla Vásquez www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu... Free access to the editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Introduction: discourse at the intersection of digital design and user agency

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Jenni Hyde @wallyberry.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

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Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

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Rachele @racheledf.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

📣 Call for papers! Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI - Deadline May 16 Hybrid @The Open University 13-14 Nov'25 Details & submission: eurocall-languages.org/events/genai...

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GenAI Conference @ The Open University UK - Eurocall

Shifting Power in Language Learning and Applied Linguistics with GenAI A conference at The Open University UK, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, in Milton Keynes and online November 13t...

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Caroline Tagg @carotagg.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

A compelling case for linguistic and cultural skills in a 'precarious and rapidly changing world' and against damaging recent university course closures

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Caroline Tagg @carotagg.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thoroughly enjoyed making this podcast with @oliviakellyou.bsky.social on WhatsApp and wellness - I hope you enjoy listening to it 😊

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Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

CFP for the GOTH* SYMPOSIUM 💀 *Gender and Otherness in the Humanities Open University, 15-16 May Deadline for submission: 28 February All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/5th-an...

The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presentations focusing on any aspects of gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama, literature and visual culture, in two formats:

Postgraduate students only: 5-minute lightning papers on any aspects of human gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture.
Open call: 15-minute papers focusing on any aspects of gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture, with particular emphasis on:
Gender, race, disability and/or human physical otherness in religious and secular medieval and early modern theatre, with topics including but not limited to:
performed otherness
otherness in secular dramatic texts
otherness in religious drama (eg convent drama, liturgical drama within the church, performances of Biblical episodes or Saint’s lives in religious and/or secular spaces).
understanding performed otherness through the study of performativity, gesture, costume, crossdressing and/or textiles.
Gender, race, disability and/or otherness in creative writing, with topics including but not limited to:
Dark tourism
Ekphrasis
Milton Keynes
Female patrons and the fashioning of gender in medieval and early modern literary, dramatic and visual arts, with topics including but not limited to:
the role of gender in cultural creation, performance and patronage
cultural patronage as a pathway to female legal power and status.
Ways of using gender, costume, cross-dressing and textiles to study and reframe dramatic narrative (eg women as ’story-weavers’ /embroiderers of vestments/costumes).
The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group guest panel:
Radical Otherness?

Utopia and other ideal societies in the medieval and early modern world, with topics including but not limited to:

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Caroline Tagg @carotagg.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

@artsandhums.bsky.social Challenging reckless HE cuts on behalf of BAAL and other #artsandhumanities associations

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Robbie Love @robbielove.org · 17/11/2024

Call for papers: Corpus Linguistics 2025 #CL2025 Birmingham, UK First week of July 2025 Submissions welcome for papers, posters, thematic panels and pre-conference workshops! www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...

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CL2025 - Call for papers

Abstract submission is now open here

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Solange Manche @smanche.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Cardiff is planning to cut all modern languages. I’m afraid it will not be the last time we’ll see these announcements, with severe consequences for students’ prospects, researchers and staff but also our understanding of different cultures. A reminder that these courses were introduced after WWI.

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Sophie Heywood (she/her) @sophieheywood.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The devastating decline of modern languages provision in the UK continues - please support the wonderful and highly respected colleagues in languages and translation facing the closure of their department at Cardiff University: chng.it/t5xsFHPFcb

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Save MLANG at Cardiff University!

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