Catriona Seth

@catrionaseth.bsky.social

18th-century cultural history, French literature, art etc. Currently Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, University of Oxford/All Souls College

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Catriona Jane Seth, FBA is a British scholar of French literature and the history of ideas. Since 2015, she has been Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. .. more

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2h

‘linking much-needed support for students to international recruitment – an unstable and overworked income stream - is risky and unsustainable. This measure could further weaken universities’
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...

The British Academy's response to the Autumn Budget

The British Academy has responded to the Autumn Budget (26 November 2025)

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Nora Baker @norabake.bsky.social · 3h

There's still time to apply to contribute a chapter to our edited volume 'L’Éducation et l’Autre pendant le long XVIIIe siècle (1693–1811)'. The deadline for submitting abstracts (c.500 characters) is December 15th. We will accept submissions in both French and English! More info: bit.ly/4ol1vXE

Regards croisés sur l’enfance, l’altérité et les pratiques éducatives dans les récits de voyage pendant le long XVIIIe s.

L’Éducation et l’Autre pendant le long XVIIIe siècle (1693–1811) : Regards croisés sur l’enfance, l’altérité et les pratiques éducatives dans les récits de voyage Les sociétés européennes sont marquée...

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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 8h

For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!

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TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025

TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…

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Jim Dickinson @jimdickinson.bsky.social · 9h

"Protest over future of University of Nottingham language courses"

Protest over future of University of Nottingham language courses

The University of Nottingham has suspended entry for new students on modern language courses.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10h

Want to hold a major academic conference in the humanities and social sciences? We offer up to £20k (and sometimes £25k) for a conference on any topic to be held between April 27/March 28. Apply by 29 Jan 2026.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

British Academy Conferences funding for UK-based researchers

An exceptional opportunity for UK-based scholars to run a landmark event featuring leading-edge research as part of the British Academy’s events programme.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Susie Dent @handle.invalid · 21h

This is your chance to vote for Oxford’s Word of the Year.

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Oxford Word of the Year 2025 - Oxford University Press

Voting is now open for Oxford Word of the Year 2025! Discover our shortlist and have your say by Thursday 27 November.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 1d

As Europe and its partners are fully engaged in the search for a just and sustainable peace, last night Russia escalated its attacks on Kyiv, with missiles and drones even violating Moldovan and Romanian airspace.

It is yet another reminder that Ukraine’s security is Europe’s security.

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Joseph Ford @drjoeford.bsky.social · 1d

**New article** on The Conversation UK about languages and the government's national curriculum review - theconversation.com/englands-nat... - @uk.theconversation.com @ilcs.bsky.social @sas-news.bsky.social

England’s national curriculum review misses opportunity to revitalise language learning

Capitalising on children’s existing multilingualism would be beneficial.

theconversation.com

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 1d

Opinion: “More than ever before, we need British diplomats, spies and soldiers to speak the language of our adversaries. We need universities like Nottingham to be pumping out Russian and Mandarin graduates each year, to work across Whitehall.”

🖊️ Ian Proud

https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X

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Katherine McDonald @katherinemcdon.bsky.social · 1d

Happy St Katherine's Day to all scholars, librarians, and Katherines. May you win an argument against an annoying man today, in the true spirit of Katherine herself.

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It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 1d

Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...

Shaping a Brighter Future

The first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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ISECS/SIEDS @isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 1d

Announcement: 2 Fellowships for Postdoctoral Researchers and 1 Fellowship for Doctoral Students

Gerda Henkel Fellowship for the History of Knowledge and the History of Science (IZEA, Halle).

Deadline for applications is 15 January 2026.

www.izea.uni-halle.de/en/opportuni...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

Important role - new Chair of the Board of @ukri.org
£33k for one day a week. Closes 11 Jan. Would be good from my perspective to get someone who understands higher education and the value of the arts, humanities and social sciences!
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Perrett Laver - Leading Global Executive Search Firm

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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 2d

I represented @houseoflords.parliament.uk at a Summit in Stockholm to remind the world of Crimea’s plight since 2014: killings, children sent to Russian camps, cultural heritage destroyed etc. Zelensky put it powerfully in his speech to us ‘Putin wants legal recognition for what he has stolen’.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 2d

Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh

Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve been quoted in @thespectator1828.bsky.social about the importance of taking a strategic approach nationally to language provision as universities are making individual decisions to slash provision which may collectively be very bad for the national interest
www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-p...

Critics of this proposal argue that the problem is not one of unsustainability but of under-resourcing. Language departments are easy targets because they tend to be relatively expensive to run, as they usually offer a large amount of contact hours and need comparatively high levels of staff. Yet the skills and intellectual rigour they foster are worth saving. As Hetan Shah, chief executive of the British Academy argues, we need to 'safeguard' our language provision: 'It would, for example, be geopolitically unwise to find ourselves without capable Russian or Chinese speakers. While it's easy to turn off the tap, it's much harder to turn it back on.
Foreign language degrees may not be the most traditionally lucrative, but do we really want to be a society that knows the price of everything and the value of nothing?

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 2d

'Ahead of the autumn budget on 26 November, Universities UK (UUK) has calculated that funding per student for teaching in 2025-26 is at 64 per cent of the level it was in 2015-16.' 1/3

University teaching income ‘£6.4 billon less’ than 10 years ago

UUK says shortfall in teaching money is ‘baked in’ to higher education funding system as institutions brace for new tax in upcoming budget

www.timeshighereducation.com

George Mann @sgfmann.bsky.social · 2d

i: Reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student
university fees #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 2d

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Peter Ricketts @lordrickettsp.bsky.social · 3d

The task for the European team in Geneva today should be to channel Trump’s impatience for a ceasefire into a plan which respects Ukraine’s vital interests and its sovereign right to decide its own security arrangements - and doesn’t leave Europe paying the whole bill.

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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 4d

This is so so so much worse than you think it is going to be - absolutely phenomenal reporting by Sirin Kale & Lucy Osborne

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Influencers made millions pushing ‘wild’ births – now the Free Birth Society is linked to baby deaths around the world

A year-long investigation reveals how mothers lost children after being radicalised by uplifting podcast tales of births without midwives or doctors

www.theguardian.com

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Catriona Seth @catrionaseth.bsky.social · 4d

If you want to help Nottingham Languages ([email protected])--and frankly who wouldn't?--take a look at the resources provided (disclosure: I'm a postcard writer so that is the route down which I went!) www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk/home#how-you...

savenottinghamlanguages

www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 4d

AHGBI, led by Professor Sarah Wright, opposes the University of Nottingham’s move to suspend—and effectively close—all Modern Languages degrees. SRUK/CERU, led by Dr Carlos Soler Montes, has also raised concerns.

AHGBI urges immediate reconsideration.

#SaveNottinghamLanguages

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Dr Anna Clark @drannaclark.bsky.social · 4d

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
Aldous Huxley, English writer, author of Brave New World, died #OTD 1963.
Photo by Charles Sheeler, Michener Art Museum

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 5d

Colleagues and UCU members from UoN's Department of Modern Languages have put together this wonderful guide on supporting their programmes. A lot of what they suggest is also helpful in challenging the 48 courses at risk across the university

www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

savenottinghamlanguages

The University of Nottingham has suspended applications to all languages degree programmes, with a view to permanent closure of all of its undergraduate languages degrees. Under the proposals, it…

www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 5d

We are seeing multiple university course closures across a range of arts, humanities & social sciences. I'll be in the East Midlands at De Montfort University on Thurs 27 Nov talking about why these disciplines are essential to the future of the UK. All welcome
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...

Shaping a Brighter Future

The first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Benoît Melançon @benoitmelancon.bsky.social · 5d

XVIIIe siècle : bibliographie • 679e livraison • 21 novembre 2025 • benoitmelancon.quebec/xviii/biblio... • #lumières #bibliographie • cc @lafoliexviiie.bsky.social @paulchopelin.bsky.social @csecsscedhs.bsky.social @alexandreklein.bsky.social @msonnet.bsky.social

Numéro 679, 21 novembre 2025

XVIIIe siecle : bibliographie (ISSN : 1207-7461) est un site bibliographique consacre au Siecle des lumieres. Il est gere par Benoit Melancon, professeur emerite, Departement des litteratures de langu...

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 5d

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist

Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds

Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.

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