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Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies @bristolcms.bsky.social · Jul 17

From everyone here at the CMS, a huge 🎉CONGRATULATIONS🎉 to our newest Doctors: Dr Max Fincher (French Loanwords in Early Middle English), Dr Teal St Nicklaus (Marginal Annotations in MSS of Aelfric), and Dr Sebrina Varley (Education in TH White's Once and Future King)! We're so thrilled for you! 🥳🎉

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 17

La Peugeot c'est certain! Le may work if you are talking of a man named Peugeot or Citroen (colloquial register).

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Albertine Fox @albertinefox.bsky.social · Jul 16

Congrats to Leonie for publishing her short film 🎥 Such a great achievement 🎉

French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congratulations to our recent PhD graduate Leonie Gschwendtberger whose fascinating short film has just been published in the practice-as-research journal Screenworks. Here is the link to the issue:

www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...

Volume 15.1

Vol. 15.1ISSN 2514-3123https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/15.1

www.screenworks.org.uk

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 15

but post Brexit regulations, the impact of Covid on long-standing partnerships and cultural /regulatory shifts (including on safeguarding) mean that European and international youth exchanges are much more complicated to organise.

French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 15

We discussed this very theme at the French Forum organised at the University of Bristol with the support of @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social + French embassy. It was great to hear from DfE representatives on this topic. There is a clear appetite from school teachers to organise trips and exchanges.

Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Jan 8

Editorial in the Times calls for abolishing passport requirements for school trips to improve language learning. (It would also help revitalise a niche but very strong UK sector which catered to school visits for English language learning)
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/c5db...

The Times view on the decline in language learning: Exchange Students

Abolishing passport requirements for school trips could aid the uptake of foreign languages

www.thetimes.co.uk

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 15

Weathering Storms, Sketching Monasteries (2022) is a 14-minute-long experimental documentary film about feminist transformations in the religious tradition of Theravada Buddhism

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 15

Watch Weathering Storms, Sketching Monasteries: www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...

Refusal as a Creative Force

Refusal as a Creative Force: Practices of Audio-Visual Obscuration in Weathering Storms, Sketching Monasteries (2021) Author: Leonie GschwendtbergerFormat: Video Duration: 14′ 18″Published: June 2...

www.screenworks.org.uk

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 15

Congratulations to our recent PhD graduate Leonie Gschwendtberger whose fascinating short film has just been published in the practice-as-research journal Screenworks. Here is the link to the issue:

www.screenworks.org.uk/archive/volu...

Volume 15.1

Vol. 15.1ISSN 2514-3123https://doi.org/10.37186/swrks/15.1

www.screenworks.org.uk

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 8

🙌New co-edited collection in the Australian Journal of French Studies by @profnatedwards.bsky.social and Alistair Rolls: John West-Sooby: Scholar, Teacher, Colleague.
📖Read it here:
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Editors’ Preface | Australian Journal of French Studies

View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 7

We talked about UK-French mobility with
@fhmjh.bsky.social, Prof. Vincent Latour (Toulouse Jean Jaurès) Bernadette Paccalin+Sophie Andrieu-Maurin (Académie de Bordeaux), C. Colvin & L Roberts (DfE) Uzma Zahoor (Cathedral School Llandaff)+ Amélie Bowers (Hills Road Cambridge)

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 7

Our head of School @profnatedwards.bsky.social and Prof. Bradley Stephens welcomed participants before the plenary on French as a Professional asset with Francis Pepett Employability Consultant, Stéphanie Demont and Bernardette Holmes.
We also discussed translation, AI, creativity in workshops.

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 7

Last month we had the honor to welcome over 70 delegates, including over 30 secondary teachers, for the annual UK French Forum organised in partnership with @frenchinstituteuk.bsky.social and the French embassy in the UK.

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are so pleased to announce that the University of Bristol's School of Modern Language has signed a MoU with the Centre of Anglophone Studies, Université de Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. This builds on a longstanding Erasmus+ and a burgeoning co-tutelle! 🇬🇧🇫🇷

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jul 4

What a fantastic few days we've had welcoming #sfsBristol !
Here our Head of School @profnatedwards.bsky.social + @frenchstudies.bsky.social President Nick Harrison delivering the Welcome to a full Great Hall in our beautiful Wills Memorial Building.
Bravo to the wonderful SFS conference team!

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Albertine Fox @albertinefox.bsky.social · Jun 26

It was lovely to be a part of this and hear everyone's thoughts on the film afterwards. Wonderful programme organised by The Garden Cinema. Still running, check it out here... ❤️🎥

French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jun 19

Our colleague Dr Albertine Fox is taking part in the Festival 'New Lebanese Cinema: Reclaiming Storytelling' at The Garden Cinema in Covent Garden. She'll introduce the film Caramel by Nadine Labaki next Wednesday evening. The season runs until July 11th.

www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/new-l...

New Lebanese Cinema: Reclaiming Storytelling / The Garden Cinema

www.thegardencinema.co.uk

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Natalie Edwards @profnatedwards.bsky.social · Jun 30

So pleased to host the Society of French Studies and promote the value, impact and importance of research in modern languages @frenchstudies.bsky.social @frenchatbristol.bsky.social @uobartsmatter.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social

Chris Hogarth @octolingualman.bsky.social · Jun 30

@profnatedwards.bsky.social looking delighted to welcome delegates to the 2025 conference of the Society for French Studies at the University of Bristol #sfsbristol @frenchstudies.bsky.social @frenchatbristol.bsky.social

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Albertine Fox @albertinefox.bsky.social · Jul 3

The latest French Studies Bulletin mentions recent PhD success in @frenchatbristol.bsky.social and Film & TV @bristoluni.bsky.social, with thesis abstracts of recent doctorates 🎉

Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · Jul 3

🆕 French Studies Bulletin 46.3 explores menstruation in medieval French biblical poetry, cinematic ageing & Beauvoir, Ernaux’s global reach, 19C ‘DomiNation’, & prize-winning research.

Read more ➡️ bit.ly/FSB-46-3

@frenchstudies.bsky.social
@menegalle.bsky.social
@centre2beauvoir.bsky.social

Publishing articles, conference reports, and news from the postgraduate community and the Society for French Studies. French Studies Bulletin journal cover sits to the right, the cover is cream with a warm red uppercase font for the title of the journal and small black font listing the table of contents below. LUP and Society for French French Studies logos sit at the bottom. Background image of a blue marbleised design with dashes of white.

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John Foot @footymac.bsky.social · Jun 19

Out today (19 June)

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jun 19

félicitations!!!

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Catherine Phipps @katyphipps.bsky.social · Jun 19

Coming soon….

“Sex, race and colonial power in North Africa: the French Protectorate in Morocco” with @manchesterup.bsky.social

I’m away this summer for a fellowship at NIMAR in Rabat, Morocco to finish up, thanks to BILNAS funding via @britishacademy.bsky.social
Anyone in Rabat/Casa? Say hi!

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The Stephen Spender Trust @stephenspender.bsky.social · Jun 19

Halfway!! Only 6 weeks left to submit to the Stephen Spender Prize and this year's #PortugueseSpotlight!
#SSTPoetryPrize2025

The Stephen Spender Trust @stephenspender.bsky.social · May 1

Calling all teachers and budding young translators!
#SSTPoetryPrize2025 is open for entries!
Translate into English any poem from any language, or a Portuguese poem from our Spotlight booklet, for your chance to join the SSP hall of eternal fame!
www.stephen-spender.org/stephen-spen...

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jun 19

Our colleague Dr Albertine Fox is taking part in the Festival 'New Lebanese Cinema: Reclaiming Storytelling' at The Garden Cinema in Covent Garden. She'll introduce the film Caramel by Nadine Labaki next Wednesday evening. The season runs until July 11th.

www.thegardencinema.co.uk/season/new-l...

New Lebanese Cinema: Reclaiming Storytelling / The Garden Cinema

www.thegardencinema.co.uk

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jun 17

Last week our colleague Dr Charlotte Faucher was invited to speak at the plenary session of the The International Academic Forum (IAFOR) Paris conferences on Education and Arts and Humanities alonside Ambassadors Paolo Sabbatini Rancidoro and Takehiro Kano & IR scholar, Frédéric Ramel.

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Arts Matter Bristol @uobartsmatter.bsky.social · Jun 17

Congratulations to Prof Susan Harrow (@frenchatbristol.bsky.social) who has been appointed as Deputy Chair of a #REF2029 sub-panel on Modern Languages and Linguistics 🥳

Read more about the appointments and what @ref2029.bsky.social means in practice 👉 bit.ly/4kNvZRe

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French at Bristol @frenchatbristol.bsky.social · Jun 17

The UKYA co-organised a science diplomacy panel session with their Indian counterparts, INYAS, which included representatives from the British and Indian governments and policy specialists and scientists from Cameron, Japan, and the US. @uobartsmatter.bsky.social