Steven Wilson
@profstevenwilson.bsky.social
Professor of French Studies and Medical Humanities, Queen’s University Belfast | President @asmcf.bsky.social | Views my own.
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Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions! These summaries are impact-led and a great way to increase the visbility of your research.
Researchers in Modern Languages: consider submitting your research to the brand-new @ucflangs.bsky.social Languages Research Database, created for policymakers.
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
Even if you don't think your research has policy implications – you never know!
university-council-for-languages.org/research/lan...
Languages Research Database | University Council For Languages
A free, searchable resource of concise, impact-focused research summaries in the field of languages, created specifically for policymakers.
university-council-for-languages.org
February 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Feel free to get in touch with me if you have any questions! These summaries are impact-led and a great way to increase the visbility of your research.
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Aujourd'hui, le premier des livres issus de ma thèse a été publié! Destiné à un publique francophone et plutôt littéraire, il sera accompagné d'un autre ouvrage plus historique en anglais.
January 30, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Aujourd'hui, le premier des livres issus de ma thèse a été publié! Destiné à un publique francophone et plutôt littéraire, il sera accompagné d'un autre ouvrage plus historique en anglais.
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Hello and welcome to Francophone Friday, where we highlight research in or about the Francophone world. 1/6
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Hello and welcome to Francophone Friday, where we highlight research in or about the Francophone world. 1/6
We look forward to receiving your proposals for this conference and to seeing colleagues in London in September!
Instead of our traditional Members' Research Monday, we are delighted to share the CFP for our annual conference "Crisis or Catastrophe?", which will take place at the @ilcs.bsky.social on 2-3 September.
January 19, 2026 at 7:19 PM
We look forward to receiving your proposals for this conference and to seeing colleagues in London in September!
The second day of Christmas
December 26, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The second day of Christmas
Carols from King’s. Christmas has begun.
Joyeux Noël! 🎄🥂
Joyeux Noël! 🎄🥂
December 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Carols from King’s. Christmas has begun.
Joyeux Noël! 🎄🥂
Joyeux Noël! 🎄🥂
AI translation is replacing interpreters in GP care – here’s why that’s troubling
AI translation is replacing interpreters in GP care – here’s why that’s troubling
Across GP surgeries and hospitals, as migration increases and health systems strain, doctors are turning to an untested helper: Google Translate.
theconversation.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
AI translation is replacing interpreters in GP care – here’s why that’s troubling
Great news!
UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme
Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Great news!
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Just received copies of my new book 'French Sports Films: Visions of Masculinity'. It's available to order from @routledgebooks.bsky.social.
December 16, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Just received copies of my new book 'French Sports Films: Visions of Masculinity'. It's available to order from @routledgebooks.bsky.social.
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Hello and welcome to our Francophone Friday thread, where we come together to highlight research being conducted in or about the Francophone world! These threads are created with help of our members, so if you want to advertise events, publications, etc about Francophone research, do reach out! 1/9
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Hello and welcome to our Francophone Friday thread, where we come together to highlight research being conducted in or about the Francophone world! These threads are created with help of our members, so if you want to advertise events, publications, etc about Francophone research, do reach out! 1/9
Thank you for this lovely welcome to the @asmcf.bsky.social committee!
Hello and welcome to our first Meet the Committee Monday in a while! Today we are introducing our new president @profstevenwilson.bsky.social who was elected in September having previously served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Association's journal @francemodern.bsky.social since 2020.
December 2, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Thank you for this lovely welcome to the @asmcf.bsky.social committee!
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Between jabs, sleep regression, and falling down a Kristeva-on-Bakhtine rabbit hole, I nearly didn't get round to today's thread, but I'm trying to get back into a routine and it was for a good cause: learning more about @profstevenwilson.bsky.social's work and introducing him to our members!
Hello and welcome to our first Meet the Committee Monday in a while! Today we are introducing our new president @profstevenwilson.bsky.social who was elected in September having previously served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Association's journal @francemodern.bsky.social since 2020.
December 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Between jabs, sleep regression, and falling down a Kristeva-on-Bakhtine rabbit hole, I nearly didn't get round to today's thread, but I'm trying to get back into a routine and it was for a good cause: learning more about @profstevenwilson.bsky.social's work and introducing him to our members!
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Hello and welcome to our first Meet the Committee Monday in a while! Today we are introducing our new president @profstevenwilson.bsky.social who was elected in September having previously served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Association's journal @francemodern.bsky.social since 2020.
December 1, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Hello and welcome to our first Meet the Committee Monday in a while! Today we are introducing our new president @profstevenwilson.bsky.social who was elected in September having previously served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Association's journal @francemodern.bsky.social since 2020.
Check out this thread highlighting new work by @asmcf.bsky.social members ⬇️. Please do send the Web Officers a message if you would like us to give a Francophone Friday platform to your research.
With our team of Web Officers once again complete, we are delighted to resume our weekly threads! As a reminder, on Fridays we have our Francophone Friday thread, where we highlight research being done in or about the Francophone world. 1/8
November 28, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Check out this thread highlighting new work by @asmcf.bsky.social members ⬇️. Please do send the Web Officers a message if you would like us to give a Francophone Friday platform to your research.
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While we do have some new members of the Executive Committee to introduce, soon our Meet the Committee Mondays will become Members’ Research Mondays, so if you are a member and would like to share a new publication, event or anything relating to your research, do not hesitate to reach out. 2/8
November 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
While we do have some new members of the Executive Committee to introduce, soon our Meet the Committee Mondays will become Members’ Research Mondays, so if you are a member and would like to share a new publication, event or anything relating to your research, do not hesitate to reach out. 2/8
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With our team of Web Officers once again complete, we are delighted to resume our weekly threads! As a reminder, on Fridays we have our Francophone Friday thread, where we highlight research being done in or about the Francophone world. 1/8
November 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
With our team of Web Officers once again complete, we are delighted to resume our weekly threads! As a reminder, on Fridays we have our Francophone Friday thread, where we highlight research being done in or about the Francophone world. 1/8
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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/...
Terrific opportunity to see this thought-provoking film at QUB yesterday, thanks to the Centre for Documentary Research, and with introduction by my colleague Maeve McCusker.
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Terrific opportunity to see this thought-provoking film at QUB yesterday, thanks to the Centre for Documentary Research, and with introduction by my colleague Maeve McCusker.
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We are delighted to share details of the 16th Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social to be held on Monday 12th January 2026, at the Institut Français, London.
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
We are delighted to share details of the 16th Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised by @frenchhistory.bsky.social & @asmcf.bsky.social to be held on Monday 12th January 2026, at the Institut Français, London.
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My talk was titled: ‘“The hospital requires treatment in order to treat” (Jean Oury): healing the hospital with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film’ 🏥
Wonderful to see Steven Wilson, Maeve McCusker, Sarah Bowskill, and Emma Humphries! Thanks for such a warm welcome!!
Wonderful to see Steven Wilson, Maeve McCusker, Sarah Bowskill, and Emma Humphries! Thanks for such a warm welcome!!
November 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
My talk was titled: ‘“The hospital requires treatment in order to treat” (Jean Oury): healing the hospital with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film’ 🏥
Wonderful to see Steven Wilson, Maeve McCusker, Sarah Bowskill, and Emma Humphries! Thanks for such a warm welcome!!
Wonderful to see Steven Wilson, Maeve McCusker, Sarah Bowskill, and Emma Humphries! Thanks for such a warm welcome!!
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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
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
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
A pleasure to welcome Ben to QUB yesterday and to hear his brilliant talk on ‘healing the hospital’ with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film.
I’m in Belfast!! ✈️
So happy to be at Queen’s University Belfast today to deliver a talk at a research seminar hosted by Modern Languages and the Global Cultures of Health and Illness network at Queen’s University Belfast.
So happy to be at Queen’s University Belfast today to deliver a talk at a research seminar hosted by Modern Languages and the Global Cultures of Health and Illness network at Queen’s University Belfast.
November 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A pleasure to welcome Ben to QUB yesterday and to hear his brilliant talk on ‘healing the hospital’ with contemporary French philosophy, literature and film.
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"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes"
New piece in THE on #Nottingham and #Leicester proposals to close MLs.
@ucflangs.bsky.social
New piece in THE on #Nottingham and #Leicester proposals to close MLs.
@ucflangs.bsky.social
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes"
New piece in THE on #Nottingham and #Leicester proposals to close MLs.
@ucflangs.bsky.social
New piece in THE on #Nottingham and #Leicester proposals to close MLs.
@ucflangs.bsky.social
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Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Every university should renovate the disciplinary framework of its courses and ask whether it is responding to its global responsibilities. But no university should recognise any merit in withdrawing from the study of other languages, cultures & societies
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
Reposted by Steven Wilson
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The latest threat to UK modern languages is yet another faux pas
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...