by Talking Humanities | Jun 6, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Languages & Literature
Dr Joseph Ford believes that falling admissions to modern languages (ML) programmes at UK universities and the ongoing threat of closure to some departments, makes it incumbent on academics to consider their research within the wider teaching landscape. ‘Doing so’,...
by Talking Humanities | May 14, 2019 | Events, Fellowships & Networks, Languages & Literature
The struggle continues at the 15th biennial Women in French UK (WiF) conference, ‘Women and Power in French and Francophone Cultures and Societies’, at Hinsley Hall, Leeds, 17–19 May. Professor Shirley Jordan provides some background about the formation...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 19, 2016 | History & Classics, Interviews, Research & Resources, Researcher Series
Dr Claire Launchbury, School of Advanced Study’s (SAS) research fellow in French and city studies in the Institutes of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) and Historical Research (IHR), discusses her research into Beirut’s memory cultures and how buildings and streets...