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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jul 19

This is so true, and a timely pedagogical reminder for us all as educators/tutors/lecturers/teachers/mentors. Incisive and heartfelt words from Ocean Vuong on how we’ve created a world in which students are ‘more and more self-conscious of trying’. youtube.com/shorts/fsGsm...

Ocean Vuong on the unsettling way 'cringe culture' holds young people back | 7.30

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jul 12

Un bon début (enfin!) mais il reste encore beaucoup de chemin à parcourir… www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Un accord à l’arraché crée un « Etat de la Nouvelle-Calédonie »

Le texte marque l’engagement de l’Etat français, des indépendantistes et des non-indépendantistes, vers un nouveau statut du territoire, « une solution pérenne ». Un pacte de réformes économiques, inc...

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jun 18

Happening tomorrow!!! ❤️🤍💚🖤

Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jun 5

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾

Postcolonial Temporalities: Space, Time and Identity in the Maghreb

A three-day hybrid conference aims to interrogate the ongoing challenges involved in the decolonial process of the Maghreb.

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jun 5

More info on keynotes and the film screening here: maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com/about/ @drjoeford.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @uoe-llc.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social

Programme & Registration

Conference ProgrammeDownload Please register here for in-person attendance, the film screening, and/or to receive Zoom links. This conference is hybrid, so all keynotes and panels will be live-stre…

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jun 5

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾

Postcolonial Temporalities: Space, Time and Identity in the Maghreb

A three-day hybrid conference aims to interrogate the ongoing challenges involved in the decolonial process of the Maghreb.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · May 21

Well done, Fraser! (Clever indeed ;) )

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · May 18

#PhDone @ox.ac.uk @stannescollege.bsky.social

Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · May 18

Officially been ✨ upgraded ✨
So lovely to be back in Oxford for my (very belated) graduation! Featuring a very heavy, hard-bound thesis, and an equally heavy feast🥂 👩‍🎓 🎉

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · May 2

Congratulations!! 🙌🏻

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Apr 8

Keynote speakers are Dr Amina Zarzi from @ox.ac.uk and @drjoeford.bsky.social from @ilcs.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social and @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social for their generous support of this event.

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Apr 8

ONE WEEK LEFT TO SUBMIT ABSTRACTS!!! Really looking forward to this interdisciplinary conference on the Maghreb @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, June 19-20 - complete with film, feast & (Gnawa) fusion 🤗 We’d love to receive your proposals so don’t be shy! maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com Allez! !هيّا

Postcolonial Temporalities

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Mar 17

Finally, a huge thanks you to @iashedinburgh.bsky.social for their generous grant from the Susan Manning Workshop Fund, which has made this event and its accompanying activities possible.

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Mar 17

Keynote speakers: @drjoeford.bsky.social (@ilcs.bsky.social) & Dr Amina Zarzi (@ox.ac.uk). There will also be a film screening of David Fedele’s award-winning documentary on sub-Saharan migration in North Africa, “This Jungo Life” (2024), thisjungolife.com, and other cultural activities.

THIS JUNGO LIFE - Home

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Mar 17

Excited to announce the CfP for an interdisciplinary conference on the Maghreb in Edinburgh in June (19-20th)! @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🤗 @abdelbaqi.bsky.social & I cannot wait to receive your paper proposals! More info & full CFP here: maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com

Postcolonial Temporalities

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Mar 14

I really wish I could come to this- it sounds fabulous!

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Mar 5

Ooh exciting- what a venue for acoustics!!

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Mar 5

Today’s lecture venue… complete with organ and chandelier! #McEwanHall @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social ✨

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Mar 4

Huge congratulations Antonia-can’t wait to read!!

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Feb 12

HUGE congratulations!! 😃 👏

Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Feb 2

… and miss out on the expertise of brilliant scholars who’ve had enthusiasm & dedication stamped out of them, or who cannot properly commit to their temporary roles for needing to constantly look for new jobs, housing & be prepared to uproot again. Most of all, this is sad for society. What a loss.

Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Feb 2

Completely agree! And it also misses the point that Languages are essential for MORE than economic reasons…

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Feb 2

So, so disheartening. Not just for current staff; or for all of us who have just finished PhDs and are starting out on our academic journeys in the hope there will ever be some semblance of a stable job in the future; or even for the students who will have larger class sizes, less attention… (1/2)

Languages Direct @languages-direct.com · Feb 2

Language courses in danger of dying out as universities open redundancy schemes https://buff.ly/4hqjlpB #langsky

Language courses in danger of dying out as universities open redundancy schemes

There are 88 universities undergoing redundancies, restructuring schemes or department closures

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jan 26

Hahah the just popped up on my timeline- the second version is how us Aussies tend to pronounce it! (Always rounding out our vowels where possible…)

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jan 22

Thanks so much! Would that be possible Rachel and Sarah @rmesch.bsky.social @saraharens.bsky.social? Merci d’avance!

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Lillian Fontaine @lillianfontaine.bsky.social · Jan 22

Hi, what a great idea! Could you pls add me (French/franco poco)? Merciii