Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies
@ilcs.bsky.social
The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
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Our new MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders is now open for applications!
Taught by experts across the University of London in UCL, RHUL, KCL, QMUL, ULIP & ILCS, it delivers a unique interdisciplinary degree.
And 3 bursaries are available!
Find out more 👇
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/graduate-stu...
Taught by experts across the University of London in UCL, RHUL, KCL, QMUL, ULIP & ILCS, it delivers a unique interdisciplinary degree.
And 3 bursaries are available!
Find out more 👇
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/graduate-stu...
REMINDER! Deadline for Call for Papers coming up on 30 Jan.
"Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices"
Still time to submit your proposal 👇
"Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices"
Still time to submit your proposal 👇
Friends! I’m so pleased to share the Call for our Antifascist Teaching Network event next year in London ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist.
Join us & bash the Fash?
with keynotes from the curators of the Berlin exhibition, Global Fascisms, Hope Not Not Hate, and Igiaba Scego, writer and activist.
Join us & bash the Fash?
CfP. Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
January 16, 2026 at 1:11 PM
REMINDER! Deadline for Call for Papers coming up on 30 Jan.
"Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices"
Still time to submit your proposal 👇
"Teaching Anti-Fascism Today: Developing and Shaping Practices"
Still time to submit your proposal 👇
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Did you know we have bursaries available for our MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders?
Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities!
📅 4 Feb online
📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)
Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities!
📅 4 Feb online
📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)
Online Open Day: University of London MA Languages and Cultures Across Borders
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Did you know we have bursaries available for our MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders?
Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities!
📅 4 Feb online
📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)
Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities!
📅 4 Feb online
📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)
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#ShoutOutForGerman
Reading this fantastic novel by @kaska-bryla.bsky.social and looking forward to her visit at @ilcs.bsky.social and the Austrian Cultural Forum next term. @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social @uk.diplo.de @ags-gbi.bsky.social
Reading this fantastic novel by @kaska-bryla.bsky.social and looking forward to her visit at @ilcs.bsky.social and the Austrian Cultural Forum next term. @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social @uk.diplo.de @ags-gbi.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
#ShoutOutForGerman
Reading this fantastic novel by @kaska-bryla.bsky.social and looking forward to her visit at @ilcs.bsky.social and the Austrian Cultural Forum next term. @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social @uk.diplo.de @ags-gbi.bsky.social
Reading this fantastic novel by @kaska-bryla.bsky.social and looking forward to her visit at @ilcs.bsky.social and the Austrian Cultural Forum next term. @daad-uk-ireland.bsky.social @goethe-institut-uk.bsky.social @uk.diplo.de @ags-gbi.bsky.social
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Register now for our 2026 CLACS Caribbean Seminars, @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
🗓️ Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott Discussion
🗓️ Cricket, Caribbean Migration & Postwar England
🗓️ Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
🗓️ Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott Discussion
🗓️ Cricket, Caribbean Migration & Postwar England
🗓️ Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Caribbean Studies Seminar
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
January 10, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Register now for our 2026 CLACS Caribbean Seminars, @ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
🗓️ Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott Discussion
🗓️ Cricket, Caribbean Migration & Postwar England
🗓️ Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
🗓️ Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott Discussion
🗓️ Cricket, Caribbean Migration & Postwar England
🗓️ Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Did you know we have bursaries available for our MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders?
Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities!
📅 4 Feb online
📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)
Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities!
📅 4 Feb online
📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)
Online Open Day: University of London MA Languages and Cultures Across Borders
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
January 12, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Did you know we have bursaries available for our MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders?
Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities!
📅 4 Feb online
📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)
Come along to one of our open days, either online or in person, and find out more about the programme and funding possibilities!
📅 4 Feb online
📅 4 March in person (details at bottom of linked page)
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Caribbean Studies Seminars 2026 @ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
27 Jan Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott shorturl.at/iWnlI
24 Feb Cricket, Caribbean Migration, & Remaking of Postwar England shorturl.at/YvyM6
24 Mar Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands shorturl.at/3o1CZ
27 Jan Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott shorturl.at/iWnlI
24 Feb Cricket, Caribbean Migration, & Remaking of Postwar England shorturl.at/YvyM6
24 Mar Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands shorturl.at/3o1CZ
December 19, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Caribbean Studies Seminars 2026 @ilcs.bsky.social @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
27 Jan Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott shorturl.at/iWnlI
24 Feb Cricket, Caribbean Migration, & Remaking of Postwar England shorturl.at/YvyM6
24 Mar Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands shorturl.at/3o1CZ
27 Jan Aimé Césaire & Derek Walcott shorturl.at/iWnlI
24 Feb Cricket, Caribbean Migration, & Remaking of Postwar England shorturl.at/YvyM6
24 Mar Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands shorturl.at/3o1CZ
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One of the reasons that emergence of ‘cold spots’ of subject provision matters: 52% of 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds (the most deprived quintile in the Indices of Multiple Deprivation) plan to live at home when they go the university
www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...
www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...
Nearly a third of university 18-year-olds will live at home
According to figures from Ucas, a record 89,510 18-year-olds with university offers plan to live at home when they begin their studies this autumn
www.thetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
One of the reasons that emergence of ‘cold spots’ of subject provision matters: 52% of 18 year olds from the most disadvantaged backgrounds (the most deprived quintile in the Indices of Multiple Deprivation) plan to live at home when they go the university
www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...
www.thetimes.com/article/22cc...
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Another successful conference in the books! Thanks to organisers @laurapkennedy.bsky.social and Sonia Lamrani, to @ilcs.bsky.social for hosting us in style, to @livunipress.bsky.social for their sponsorship, and especially to all the panelists for two days of thoughtful engagement w Fanon’s legacy
December 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Another successful conference in the books! Thanks to organisers @laurapkennedy.bsky.social and Sonia Lamrani, to @ilcs.bsky.social for hosting us in style, to @livunipress.bsky.social for their sponsorship, and especially to all the panelists for two days of thoughtful engagement w Fanon’s legacy
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The Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies' MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders explores how research methods of cultural and translation studies, linguistics, and area studies can be combined to offer new insights into complex societal issues. https://bit.ly/3O2gR3u
December 5, 2025 at 11:47 AM
The Institute of Languages, Cultures, and Societies' MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders explores how research methods of cultural and translation studies, linguistics, and area studies can be combined to offer new insights into complex societal issues. https://bit.ly/3O2gR3u
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Thank you to the @ciol-linguists.bsky.social for sharing @drjoeford.bsky.social's recent article for @theconversation.com on the CIOL Voices blog.
"Learning languages promotes cross-cultural understanding and tolerance of ambiguity in an increasingly ambiguous world."
Read more: bit.ly/3XCKRIh
"Learning languages promotes cross-cultural understanding and tolerance of ambiguity in an increasingly ambiguous world."
Read more: bit.ly/3XCKRIh
| CIOL (Chartered Institute of Linguists)
By Dr Joseph FordThe decline of languages education in England is a familiar and depressing story. Take-up of French at GCSE is down from 25% in 2009-10 to 18% in 2024-25. German has halved in the sam...
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December 4, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Thank you to the @ciol-linguists.bsky.social for sharing @drjoeford.bsky.social's recent article for @theconversation.com on the CIOL Voices blog.
"Learning languages promotes cross-cultural understanding and tolerance of ambiguity in an increasingly ambiguous world."
Read more: bit.ly/3XCKRIh
"Learning languages promotes cross-cultural understanding and tolerance of ambiguity in an increasingly ambiguous world."
Read more: bit.ly/3XCKRIh
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Back in the golden age of academic Twitter I used to say I'd never be a vanilla online academic who posted 'excited to be at a conference' every 6 months. I would live & die as a shitpost goblin. Look at me now: posting that I'm excited to be in London for this year's SFPS conference on Fanon at 100
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Back in the golden age of academic Twitter I used to say I'd never be a vanilla online academic who posted 'excited to be at a conference' every 6 months. I would live & die as a shitpost goblin. Look at me now: posting that I'm excited to be in London for this year's SFPS conference on Fanon at 100
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Ready to go for our annual SFPS conference, on Fanon at 100! Really looking forward to catching up with colleagues, meeting new ones, and hearing so many wonderful interventions, particularly keynote paper from my @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social colleague @maybenansi.bsky.social
#SFPS2025
#SFPS2025
December 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Ready to go for our annual SFPS conference, on Fanon at 100! Really looking forward to catching up with colleagues, meeting new ones, and hearing so many wonderful interventions, particularly keynote paper from my @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social colleague @maybenansi.bsky.social
#SFPS2025
#SFPS2025
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Lovely setup here at @ilcs.bsky.social for the "Fanon at 100: Revolutionary Afterlives" conference - with a side of spectacular holiday decorations
December 5, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Lovely setup here at @ilcs.bsky.social for the "Fanon at 100: Revolutionary Afterlives" conference - with a side of spectacular holiday decorations
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An exciting conference on Fanon is happening this week at @ilcs.bsky.social : ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Fanon at 100: revolutionary afterlives - Society for Francophone Postcolonial Studies Conference 2025
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
December 3, 2025 at 11:12 AM
An exciting conference on Fanon is happening this week at @ilcs.bsky.social : ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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📣Transforming your PhD thesis into a monograph? Our next training session is 'Revising your PhD Thesis for Publication'.
🧑💻Session leaders: @drjoeford.bsky.social & @emmagallon.bsky.social
⏰Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30
🔗https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/revising-phd-thesis-publication-3
🧑💻Session leaders: @drjoeford.bsky.social & @emmagallon.bsky.social
⏰Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30
🔗https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/revising-phd-thesis-publication-3
Revising Your PhD Thesis for Publication
www.sas.ac.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:55 AM
📣Transforming your PhD thesis into a monograph? Our next training session is 'Revising your PhD Thesis for Publication'.
🧑💻Session leaders: @drjoeford.bsky.social & @emmagallon.bsky.social
⏰Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30
🔗https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/revising-phd-thesis-publication-3
🧑💻Session leaders: @drjoeford.bsky.social & @emmagallon.bsky.social
⏰Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30
🔗https://www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/revising-phd-thesis-publication-3
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At the School of Advanced Study, our students learn directly from sector-leading experts who bring cutting-edge research and real-world experience into the classroom.
Join us and become part of a community where research meets opportunity: sas.ac.uk
Join us and become part of a community where research meets opportunity: sas.ac.uk
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
At the School of Advanced Study, our students learn directly from sector-leading experts who bring cutting-edge research and real-world experience into the classroom.
Join us and become part of a community where research meets opportunity: sas.ac.uk
Join us and become part of a community where research meets opportunity: sas.ac.uk
Delighted to see that Maria Delgado, Vice Principal at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Honorary Fellow of ILCS, has been given this year's Premio Ñ by the Instituto Cervantes. The award will be given by the King of Spain on 9 December.
Very many congratulations!
Very many congratulations!
El Instituto Cervantes otorga a la crítica e investigadora Maria Delgado el Premio Ñ 2025
El Instituto Cervantes otorga a la crítica e investigadora Maria Delgado el Premio Ñ 2025. Noticia del Instituto Cervantes. 2025
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December 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Delighted to see that Maria Delgado, Vice Principal at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, and Honorary Fellow of ILCS, has been given this year's Premio Ñ by the Instituto Cervantes. The award will be given by the King of Spain on 9 December.
Very many congratulations!
Very many congratulations!
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Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective, hosted by @ilcs.bsky.social
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Training: Engaging with Policy and Policy Papers from a Languages, Cultures and Societies Perspective, hosted by @ilcs.bsky.social
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
3 Dec, 2pm GMT
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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‘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...
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
November 26, 2025 at 4:48 PM
‘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...
Read our Budget response here www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/british...
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Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
November 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Our fabulous Environmental Humanities Summer School is open for applications for 2026! Together, we examine human relationships with nature on a Global scale, and with the city of Bristol. According to 2025 cohort student Choon Woi “Bristol itself became part of the classroom…
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Today is Linguistics Day! CLiE, LAGB, BAAL & CUP are launching the “Why Linguistics” video competition. UG, PG, and ECR linguists can submit a 1-minute video on what linguistics is and why it matters by 1 Feb 2026 for a chance to win cash prizes and a CUP book voucher.
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Today is Linguistics Day! CLiE, LAGB, BAAL & CUP are launching the “Why Linguistics” video competition. UG, PG, and ECR linguists can submit a 1-minute video on what linguistics is and why it matters by 1 Feb 2026 for a chance to win cash prizes and a CUP book voucher.
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New Special Issue of JRS 🎶
Edited by Hannah Scott & Jennifer Rushworth, it explores how real and fictional songs shape modern and contemporary French narrative across diverse francophone contexts.
Browse the issue online at: bit.ly/JRS-Vol25-4
@drhannahlscott.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
Edited by Hannah Scott & Jennifer Rushworth, it explores how real and fictional songs shape modern and contemporary French narrative across diverse francophone contexts.
Browse the issue online at: bit.ly/JRS-Vol25-4
@drhannahlscott.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
New Special Issue of JRS 🎶
Edited by Hannah Scott & Jennifer Rushworth, it explores how real and fictional songs shape modern and contemporary French narrative across diverse francophone contexts.
Browse the issue online at: bit.ly/JRS-Vol25-4
@drhannahlscott.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
Edited by Hannah Scott & Jennifer Rushworth, it explores how real and fictional songs shape modern and contemporary French narrative across diverse francophone contexts.
Browse the issue online at: bit.ly/JRS-Vol25-4
@drhannahlscott.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social
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Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents
University of Southampton, 14 April 2026
Submit by 31 Dec 2025
Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute).
More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
University of Southampton, 14 April 2026
Submit by 31 Dec 2025
Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute).
More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
November 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Call for Papers: Crossing Borders – Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents
University of Southampton, 14 April 2026
Submit by 31 Dec 2025
Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute).
More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
University of Southampton, 14 April 2026
Submit by 31 Dec 2025
Keynote: Prof. Éva Kovács (Vienna Wiesenthal Institute).
More: www.lbilondon.ac.uk/news/2025/10...
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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
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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
🖊️ Ian Proud
https://ow.ly/N6yw50XwM3X
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**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
November 25, 2025 at 8:59 AM
**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