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Hannah Grayson

@drhannahgrayson.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in French at Stirling. Postcolonial studies. Monénembo. Fiction & testimony. Débrouillardise. Maternity leave 2025-2026.

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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
My island of strangers: a poem by Michael Rosen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Uni of Barcelona invites researchers from sub-Saharan Africa to apply for 40 scholarships under EU co-funded MAPS project on migration & forced displacement. Research focuses include climate change, vulnerability, &socio-political dynamics across 10 African countries. aegis-eu.org/news/call-ap...
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Call for Applications: MAPS PhD Scholarships & African Politics Summer School | AEGIS - African studies in Europe
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Christie Margrave @christiesmbc.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Venez nombreux/-euses! Please do join us for this online roundtable discussion.
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Languages, Society and Policy @lspjournal.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
🎉 We’re delighted to present our new LSP series: Languages in UK Education, guest-edited by @cforsdick.bsky.social and Wendy Ayres-Bennett. The series explores how the UK can better support linguistic diversity and respond to the languages crisis. 🌍📘 📖 Read more: lspjournal.com
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
(Funded) PhD opportunity in African diasporas and the transcultural. Bordeaux. Deadline 4 June 2025. www.lam.sciencespobordeaux.fr/luniversite-...
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L’Université Bordeaux Montaigne recrute Un·e doctorant·e « Diasporas africaines et transculturalité » – Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM)
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
PhD position in Literary Studies on ERC project 'AFROPRESS' (Congo). Deadline 30 May. jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...
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PhD position in Literary Studies on ERC project 'AFROPRESS' (Congo)
PhD position in Literary Studies on ERC project 'AFROPRESS' (Congo)
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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
This piece I wrote may be useful to those seeking to understand President Macron's recent announcement of a 'commission of historians on Haiti' that, of course, does not engage with any of the structural legacies of colonialism. Symbolism short on substance. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Rupture and reconciliation: the neoliberal logics of Emmanuel Macron’s colonial memory policies
First as candidate and then as President, Emmanuel Macron has elevated colonial memory policy as a key site for the performance and enactment of the dual values of rupture and reconciliation that u...
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Laura Kennedy @laurapkennedy.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
There is still time to send your abstracts in for the @sfps.bsky.social postgraduate study day, on colonial toxicity and ecologies of empire, happening Friday 23rd May in University of Cambridge. Full CFP can be found here: sfps.org.uk/2025/03/18/c... Please share widely!
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CFP: Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Postgraduate Study Day – Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
So deserved, @donalh.bsky.social ! Everybody would benefit from reading this award-winning article.
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Deadline 22 April if you are thinking about applying!
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
6 fully funded PhD studentships (starting Oct 2025) available @stir.ac.uk in our new Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory placememory.net/apply-now-fo... Apply!
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Apply Now for PhD Studentships 2025
We are recruiting 6 PhD studentships, fully funded by the University of Stirling, which will aim to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory at multiple timescales a…
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Joanne Brueton @joannebrueton.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Join us at the University of London in Paris @londonu.bsky.social on 13th March 18h-20h: 'Towards a common library: In conversation with Mohamed Mbougar Sarr'. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/towards-a-.... We'll talk Présence Africaine, transnational literature, and writing in search of a common library.
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Towards a common library: A conversation with Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Join Mohamed Mbougar Sarr to discuss Présence Africaine, the politics of literary recognition, and writing in search of a common library.
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
SFPS Essay Prize 2025 @sfps.bsky.social invites PhD students and early-career academics to submit a contribution for the annual SFPS Essay Prize. Submissions (5,000 words) must respond to the theme ‘The End(s) of Empire’ sfps.org.uk/sfps-essay-p...
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SFPS Essay Prize – Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Getting to read brilliant publications by people I get to call colleagues is such a joyous way to end the week.
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Naomi Wells @naswells.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Please share this important survey on how graduates perceive the value of doctoral degrees in languages, aimed at those who have moved into different areas of research or work: forms.office.com/pages/respon... @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social @ucfl-eca.bsky.social
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Microsoft Forms
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Charles Forsdick @cforsdick.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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The deep cultural cost of British university job cuts | Letters
Letters: Arts and humanities are being hit hardest by cuts in higher education, write Prof Thea Pitman and Prof Emma Cayley, and Dr Ronan McLaverty-Head and another letter writer comment on cuts at Ca...
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Most of this new special issue of Ipotesi by my colleagues is in Portuguese, but my article is in English and OA. 'Tidalectic Memories of the Black Atlantic: Monénembo’s approaches to a past that is not past in Pelourinho and Les Coqs cubains chantent à minuit' periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/ip...
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v. 28 n. 2 (2024): “UMA NOVA REGIÃO DO MUNDO”? AS LITERATURAS FRANCÓFONAS PÓS-COLONIAIS E O BRASIL | IPOTESI – REVISTA DE ESTUDOS LITERÁRIOS
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
'Musk and his Silicon Valley acolytes are acting on a long-held fantasy of approaching the federal government like a software company and running it like a venture-backed tech start-up during the days of zero-percent interest rates.'
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Christie Margrave @christiesmbc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Please help us to save Modern Languages at Cardiff University: chng.it/Hmtvvdtptg
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Sign the Petition
Save MLANG at Cardiff University!
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French Studies @frenchstudies.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
We are currently accepting applications for the annual Visiting International Fellowship scheme, which includes a grant of up to £5,000. Applications close on 31 March 2025. 👩‍🎓 🇫🇷 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🏛️ For more information about eligibility and how to apply, see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/funding/visi...
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Visiting International Fellowships
The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.
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Khalid Lyamlahy @khalidlym.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Good to hear about this special "Theories & Methodologies" section of #PMLA on Mariama Bâ’s "Memories of Lagos", ed. by Tobias Warner. Essays by Tsitsi Jaji, Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Stéphane Robolin, Grace A. Musila, Merve Fejzula, Ainehi Edoro-Glines, Akua Banful bit.ly/4aej3ze #MariamaBa
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Beth Kearney @besskearney.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Thrilled to have co-edited, with Dr Françoise Campbell, a special issue in Francosphères (@livunipress.bsky.social)! Wonderful contributions by Shirley Jordan, @dcarliniversini.bsky.social, @drjoeford.bsky.social, Cliona Hensey, Kate Mackenzie! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/franc/13/2
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Contents | Francosphères 13, 2
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asmcf.bsky.social @asmcf.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
The ASMCF is happy to share the Call for Papers for this year’s conference on ‘Nomadismes’ at the University of Kent on 2-3 September 2025. 👉The deadline for submission is 14 February 2025.
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Fabrice Riceputi @campvolant.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Une ressource exceptionnelle sur les monuments liés à l’esclavage, la colonisation et leur contestation. Entretien avec Julie Marquet et Emmanuelle Sibeud sur la très riche base de donnée franco-britannique en ligne "Cast in Stone/Gravé dans le marbre". histoirecoloniale.net/une-ressourc...
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Une ressource exceptionnelle sur les monuments liés à l’esclavage, la colonisation et leur contestation
Entretien avec Julie Marquet et Emmanuelle Sibeud sur la très riche base de donnée franco-britannique en ligne "Cast in Stone/Gravé dans le marbre".
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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
NEW ISSUE | Featuring critical explorations of #postcolonial and political themes in Francophone literature and art. Including Sammy Baloji's 'L’Autre mémorial', Jean-Claude Charles's 'Manhattan Blues', and Boualem Sansal’s '2084: The End of the World'. Online🔗 bit.ly/CFC-Vol-49-4 @sfps.bsky.social
Background is a dark and bright blue image of marbleised paint. Journal cover in a rich blue overlaid for the journal 'Contemporary French Civilization'. LUP 125th anniversary logo sits in the bottom left corner, featuring an illustration of the Georgian townhouse that houses the press. White sticker with red text reads 'new issue'.
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Hannah Grayson @drhannahgrayson.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
'This is more than an institutional failure. It signals a cultural shift that risks leaving future generations without the critical, empathetic and intellectual tools provided by literature.'
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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Nice to be invited onto France 24 to discuss the upcoming no-confidence vote: with so many voices claiming deputies need to be 'responsible', I argued that France's current situation is a direct result of Macron's *incredibly* irresponsible decision to call a snap election.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 03/12/2024
"France is so attached to its so-called colour-blindness that it cannot stand the public existence of anyone who challenges the theoretical universalism of our republic" Spot on as always by @rokhayadiallo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How has the French far right managed to cancel a Black anti-racism scholar for ‘racism’? | Rokhaya Diallo
An event at the European parliament featuring the French academic Maboula Soumahoro was axed after French MEPs objected, says Guardian Europe columnist Rokhaya Diallo
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MBumatay @mbumatay.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
🔊🔊 CFP deadline Nov. 25 for the 5th Global Africas Conference: AFROTOPIAS (April 2025) with Felwine Sarr hosted by the Winthrop-King Institute Please apply and share widely! winthropking.fsu.edu/event/5th-gl...
Cross-section of the African continent with the conference title Afrotopias superimposed over it.
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Fraser McQueen @frasermcqueen.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hello! What is good research on the (post/colonial) history/present of Guadeloupe please?
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Fransiska Louwagie @fransiskalouwagie.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Starting January - new online course on Media and Memory on.abdn.ac.uk/courses/medi...
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Media and Memory - Online short course
Study media and memory in this flexible online short course, and earn credits towards a PgCert in Heritage and Memory Studies.
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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
The Wicked deny They threaten the press They revoke invitations They kill doctors They expel whole refugee camps They support methods of warfare wickedly consistent with genocide They starve a people It is official And still the Wicked deny www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...
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UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war
NEW YORK (14 November 2024) – Israel’s warfare in Gaza is consistent with the characteristics of genocide, with mass civilian casualties and life-threatening conditions intentionally imposed on Palest...
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Hey #academicsky, there's a great opportunity for a visiting fellowship for someone from the Global South in Arts and Humanities, to spend time at Cambridge. Do pass on! www.cai.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/vi...
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Visiting Bye-Fellowship for scholars from the Global South
The Opportunity
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