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Heather Williams

@heatherhmw.bsky.social
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Literature in French and Welsh/Cymraeg, travel writing, translation studies, comparative literature, minority studies, nineteenth century, Brittany/Breizh, Society of Dix-neuviémistes

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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We are delighted to announce that the winners of the 2026 Tim Unwin ECR Grant: Anna Paola Manna and Hervé Goerger 🎉🎉
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NHU Bretagne @nhubretagne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
✅ Et la Bretagne dans ce mouvement des nations celtiques ? À Cardiff / Caerdydd, Rhun ap Iorwerth, John Swinney, Michelle O'Neill et Mary Lou McDonald - Sinn Féin ont réaffirmé le droit de leurs nations à décider démocratiquement de leur avenir À lire sur Yes Breizh 👇 www.yes.bzh/reunion-card...
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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now that we are a few weeks into the new term, this is a routine reminder that we are always looking for new articles on 19th-century topics. If you want to produce a special issue, please consider sending it to @advancesjournal.bsky.social Open Call for Proposals 👇 in-csa.com/themed-speci...
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Call for Proposals: Special / Themed Issues - International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Call for Proposals Special / Themed Issues Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research, the journal of the International-Nineteenth Century Studies Association Follow on BlueSky Call for Book Reviews Adva...
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tra bod pawb wrthi'n trafod Charles de Gaulle, dyma rannu fy erthygl am y Siarl dy Gaulle *arall* golwg.360.cymru/gwerddon/220...
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Y Charles de Gaulle a siaradai Gymraeg
Yr Athro Heather Williams o’r Ganolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd sy’n cyflwyno’r ieithydd a’r bardd Charles Jules Joseph de Gaulle (1837–80), ewythr i’r Charles de Gaulle arall a ddaeth yn Arly...
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Y cymeriad cartwn dadleuol yn codi ei phen unwaith eto! #Llydaw #cymrullyddaw #bretagne #brittany #breizh www.nhu.bzh/cesar-editio...
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César Éditions et Bécassine
César Éditions relance Bécassine en 2026 avec « Le magazine des petits Bretons ». NHU analyse cette caricature de la femme bretonne.
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Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
📢 Thomas Pennant 300 Lansio golygiadau newydd digidol o’r 'Tours in Wales (1778 & 1781)' / Launching new digital editions of the 'Tours in Wales (1778 & 1781) 🗣️Mary-Ann Constantine, Elizabeth Edwards, Rhys Kaminski-Jones, & Ffion Mair Jones @curioustravellers.bsky.social 🗓️15/10/26 📍@LLGCymru & Zoom
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
So inspiring to hear about the wide range of people who made up French Studies in the UK: From the Entente Cordiale to the Cold War ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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French Studies in the UK: From the Entente Cordiale to the Cold War
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Paul Gauguin @gauguin.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The David Mill (1894) returns Gauguin to Brittany between his Tahitian voyages. The old watermill near Pont-Aven appears in dense green and violet, a palette carrying tropical heat into a cold northern landscape he now saw only through Tahitian eyes.
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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
CfP: Society of Dix-Neuviémistes for their 2027 Conference in Dundee: uksdn.co.uk/sdn-annual-c...
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Craft and Industry / Artisanat et industrie (Dundee 2027)
Gustave Caillebotte, Raboteurs de parquet, 1875 TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCESociety of Dix-Neuviémistes Craft and Industry / Artisanat et industrie Dundee, 14–16 April 2027 With the support of th…
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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 09/09/2026
What does it mean to live on an island, and why does it matter now? In his new book, Ireland: Why it matters to be an island, Michael Cronin asks us to rethink Ireland's relationship with the sea and consider what our island status means in an age of climate emergency Pre-order now: bit.ly/4cBfZ2H
Book cover of "Ireland: Why It Matters to Be an Island" by Michael Cronin, featuring stylized waves and a sun on a beige background.
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Very much looking forward to this: French Studies in the UK: From the Entente Cordiale to the Cold War ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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French Studies in the UK: From the Entente Cordiale to the Cold War
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Friday, October 16, 2PM Eastern 
Beyond Building: Architecture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France 
Heidi Brevik- Zender  in conversation with Laure Katsaros southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 7_1 Heidi Brevik-Zender with Laure Katsaros. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Heidi-Brevik Zender discusses her latest book, Beyond Building: Architecture and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France with Laure Katsaros.
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Marianna Dudley @dudleymarianna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Huge. Huge testament to the power of organising. Huge relief for Exeter friends and colleagues. Huge waste of time and resources. Huge reputational damage done. Huge warning to universities who want to treat their staff like they don’t matter.
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Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Photo credit: Michal Novotný (UK Forum). Official press release: www.ff.cuni.cz/2026/09/they...
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They learnt Celtic languages of their own initiative. Petra Johana Poncarová will be researching their stories thanks to the prestigious ERC Starting Grant | Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy
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Petra Johana Poncarová @poncarova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
After a long embargo, it is finally out: my ERC Starting Grant #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu has been funded. The 5-year project on creatively active new users of Celtic languages in the 19th and early 20th century starts in Jan 27 at @ff.unikarlova.cuni.cz. For news, follow us at @erc-nudgers.bsky.social.
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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
La liberté de récolter: seaweed, conflict and citizenship in coastal communities in Brittany during the Third Republic, by Chloé Duteil, doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @chloeduteil.bsky.social
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La liberté de récolter: seaweed, conflict and citizenship in coastal communities in Brittany during the Third Republic
Abstract. In Brittany, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, seaweed was more than just a fundamental element of coastal ecologies. It sust
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
If you are looking for some late-summer reading, we’ve got just the thing… the latest special double issue of Dix-Neuf, which features articles around Baudelaire's "À une passante", edited by Masha Belenky, @cherylperfume.bsky.social, and @rmesch.bsky.social
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Please visit our website for full details: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/ Application forms should be returned by 1 September 2026 to the Secretary of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, Heather Williams, h.williams@cymru.ac.uk
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Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant SDN ECR Grant_Application form with notesDownload Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to…
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Final call to apply for our Tim Unwin Early Career Research Grants, closing on 1 September! Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to assist with research projects related to 19th French studies.
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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🚨 Our double issue of Dix-Neuf is now up!! TO THE PASSERSBY: BEFORE & AFTER BAUDELAIRE has 8 stunning articles that center the passante herself through cultural, visual, and literary history, ecocritical, feminist, and queer perspectives
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Heartened to see that my university is ending its contract with Turnitin before the next academic year, because Turnitin is going to use student submissions to train AI models. Institutions can and should resist this stuff!
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Golwg360 @golwg.360.cymru · 10/08/2026
Y Charles de Gaulle a siaradai Gymraeg Cyflwyno’r ieithydd a’r bardd Charles Jules Joseph de Gaulle #GwerddonFach ✍️ Yr Athro Heather Williams
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Y Charles de Gaulle a siaradai Gymraeg
Cyflwyno’r ieithydd a’r bardd Charles Jules Joseph de Gaulle
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Tanguy Solliec @kiminell.eurosky.social · 10/08/2026
And here a kind of mise en abyme when Charles de Gaulle the youngest quotes some words from Charles de Gaulle the eldest… 😀 (Public speech in Quimper) www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-...
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Discours de de Gaulle en breton | INA
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Had fun in the archive reading the letters of the *other* Charles de Gaulle! golwg.360.cymru/gwerddon/220...
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Y Charles de Gaulle a siaradai Gymraeg
Yr Athro Heather Williams o’r Ganolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd sy’n cyflwyno’r ieithydd a’r bardd Charles Jules Joseph de Gaulle (1837–80), ewythr i’r Charles de Gaulle arall a ddaeth yn Arly...
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will pooley @willpooley.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Some historical background to the fires in southwestern France, drawing on reading I did for my 2019 book about the moorlands, and lamenting the deeply depressing reality that we have known many of the causes of this ecological disaster for 150years 🗃️ williamgpooley.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...
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Unintentional Arson
The fires in southwestern France are an appalling demonstration of the reality of climate change in 2026. But this is not the first ecological devastation in the region, and the role of human actio…
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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Have any other academics experienced the dystopian future of AI copyediting? In a kafkaesque doom spiral with @tandfonline.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social as their bot randomly reassigned authors to texts. Just one example of zillions of errors introduced, impossible to communicate with
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Huge few days for us at @britishacademy.bsky.social as we’ve brought issues of the humanities into the public eye with different stories in the Times, Guardian and FT. Well done to all my colleagues for the hard work that makes this happen
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We need humanities more than ever in the age of AI
Subjects like literature, languages and history are vital to a thoughtful and prosperous society
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Many humanities subjects have been suffering from low uptake and financial struggles, yet prioritising Al-prompt engineering over literature may turn out to be a mistake © Getty Images
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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres
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Literature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezedHetan Shah, its chief executive, said:
"Recent economic, geopolitical and societal shifts mean that linguistic skills are now firmly in the nation's strategic interest. The UK is on the brink of a language skills crisis, including in languages that are strategically vital for diplomacy, defence and national security as we need to know what our potential adversaries are thinking.
"Our research shows that both student and staff numbers in languages and area studies are contracting at an alarming rate, which should be a serious concern to the government. Once the expertise in a particular language has gone, it's not easy to rebuild. Decisions being taken by individual universities rather than overseen in a strategic way puts the nation at risk of accidentally losing vital language skills to make our way in an increasingly volatile world.""Universities will be central to achieving the regional growth aspirations of our new prime minister, but they are suffering a major financial emergency," Shah said.
"The result is greater inequalities, fewer opportunities for students and the gradual erosion of the world-leading research our economy, democracy and global standing rely on.
«The alarm bells are ringing, and policymakers should treat these findings as a wake-up call before more lasting damage is done."
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
First they came for the languages. In the hope that no one would have the words to say what was happening. 1/9🧵
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University of Aberdeen's plans to cut modern language degrees were 'rushed' - review
The University of Aberdeen says it accepts there were "missteps" in its process in 2023.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
The proposals will mean that Exeter’s history, English, modern languages and politics courses could see up to 25 per cent of their staff cut, it said. 3/3
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Really enjoyed our workshop on travel writing, the sea and the coast at Université de Bretagne occidentale, Brest. My paper was on « Écrivaines galloises de la mer : Eluned Morgan et ses devancières ». Huge thanks to Véronique Léonard-Roques.
Group of academics in a seminar
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
So pleased to see this coming out with Routledge; it contains my piece on Welsh industrial landscapes in French travel writing. Huge thanks to Dan Finch-Race and @valentinagosetti.bsky.social for seeing it through. www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
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Discovering Francophone Ecoregions of the Long Nineteenth Century | Da
This book examines how texts and visual culture from nineteenth-century French-speaking contexts can enhance understanding of twenty-first-century challenges.
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Lecture finished, Powerpoint finished, ready for my trip to Brest for: www.univ-brest.fr/crbc/fr/actu...
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Mémoires maritimes et portuaires au féminin du XVIIe siècle à nos jours | Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique
Quatrième séance du séminaire de l'axe 3 "Conscience(s) du maritime", programme "Dire et représenter la mer". Avec Caroline Fieschi, Marie Mossé et Heather Williams.
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Squadrons of Pigs www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Stefan Collini · Squadrons of Pigs: Bonfire of the Universities
The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Please visit our website for full details: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/ Application forms should be returned by 1 September 2026 to the Secretary of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, Heather Williams, h.williams@cymru.ac.uk
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Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant SDN ECR Grant_Application form with notesDownload Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to…
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
🚨Grants available 🚨 Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to assist with research projects related to 19th French studies. These are awarded on a competitive basis, and normally only 1 to 2 are awarded per year.
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
If you, like us, have felt like there was something missing in your life since our conference in Cardiff concluded, fear not! You can do it all again next year… our 25th annual conference will be in Dundee on 14-16 April on the theme of Craft and Industry. Find out more: uksdn.co.uk/sdn-annual-c...
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Craft and Industry / Artisanat et industrie (Dundee 2027)
Gustave Caillebotte, Raboteurs de parquet, 1875 TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL CONFERENCESociety of Dix-Neuviémistes Craft and Industry / Artisanat et industrie Dundee, 14–16 April 2027 We are now accepting s…
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Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The scale of the cull is appalling.
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Je découvre Yann Paranthoën 'sculpteur de sons' breton: www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
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Mémorat ou le voyage de Marie-Job Kerguénou : épisode 14/35 du podcast Yann Paranthoën, sculpteur de sons | France Culture
AUDIO Yann Paranthoën, sculpteur de sons, épisode 14/35 : Mémorat ou le voyage de Marie-Job Kerguénou. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Mémorat ou le voyage de Marie-Job Kerguéno...
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Christopher’s paper, ‘The Allegorical Architectures of Pleasure and Joy in Émile Zola’s Pot-Bouille and Au Bonheur des Dames’, was judged to be ‘a model of concision that wears its erudition lightly’ that embedded itself ‘impressively within the discourse of Zola criticism’.
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Congratulations to Christopher Goring (Cambridge) who is this year’s winner of the SDN Postgraduate Prize 🎉🎉🎉 The prize is awarded for the best postgraduate conference paper submitted for the Society’s Annual Conference (#SDNCardiff2026).
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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
“what happens at the BL is, mostly, the wrong kind of research. It’s about the dull old humanities, not the cutting-edge sciences. It mostly looks backwards, not forwards. So it’s regarded, not least by our political leaders, as a backwater.”
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
“The coming redundancies will officially be called ‘voluntary’ but this is the equivalent of giving a condemned man a pistol in his cell prior to being led to the gallows and classifying him shooting himself as suicide.” Grim and stark. The human faces of the UK university omni-crisis. 1/3
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‘I don’t think I’ll ever be able to be in the same room as former colleagues’
The results of Times Higher Education’s UK University Redundancy Survey vividly illustrate the deep human impact of the redundancy crisis on those who have lost their jobs. But respondents are torn ab...
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David Veevers @davidveevers.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Higher Education in the 2020s, ladies and gentlemen. No one will save us. We have to save ourselves.
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
We have two SDN Publication Prize winners this year! Claire Dupin de Beyssat, Musée d'Orsay, and Rachel Coombes, Downing College, Cambridge. We also awarded a Highly Commended to Zofia Litwinowicz-Krutnik. See uksdn.co.uk/sdn-publicatio… for article titles and references.
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
“Decapitating God: Revolution in Victor Hugo’s Le Livre des Tables and Dieu” by Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe of Oxford University, which appeared in volume 29, issue 2: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Decapitating God: Revolution in Victor Hugo’s Le Livre des Tables and Dieu
Hugo’s experience of seances in exile is closely bound up with his protest at the Second Empire and this article studies the visionary images of revolution which appear in the transcripts of these ...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
'The number of English language and literature academics fell by 8 per cent to 4,680 – among the largest decrease of all disciplines. And the number employed in modern languages dropped 7 per cent to 4,890. This is 17 per cent below peak levels in 2015-16.' 1/3
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UK job cuts hit English and modern languages staff hardest
‘Vicious cycle’ of course closures means system ‘gradually losing breadth and depth of expertise’
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Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd / CAWCS @yganolfangeltaidd.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Yr Athro Heather Williams (@heatherhmw.bsky.social) sy’n codi cwr y llen ar y cysylltiadau agos rhwng Cymru a Llydaw ar ddechrau’r ugeinfed ganrif 👇 golwg.360.cymru/gwerddon/219...
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Pwy oedd Cochfarf?
Yn yr erthygl hon mae’r Athro Heather Williams o Ganolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant yn codi cwr y llen ar y cysylltiadau agos rhwng Cymru a Llydaw ar ddechra...
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Heather Williams @heatherhmw.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Pwy oedd Cochfarf? – @golwg.360.cymru golwg.360.cymru/gwerddon/219...
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Pwy oedd Cochfarf?
Yn yr erthygl hon mae’r Athro Heather Williams o Ganolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru y Drindod Dewi Sant yn codi cwr y llen ar y cysylltiadau agos rhwng Cymru a Llydaw ar ddechra...
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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
There’s one week left to register for our annual conference! Register now and get ready to talk all things health and happiness in 19th century French and Francophone studies 😁
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French Studies @frenchstudies.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
To showcase research projects at Master’s and PhD level, we are pleased to invite expressions of interest in this year’s Postgraduate Poster Competition, which will be held at this year's annual conference in Leicester. See link below for more info: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/postg...
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Postgraduate Poster Competition
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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