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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · 21d

📢 Galician Studies panel at the AHGBI Annual Conference 2026, hosted by @lancasteruni.bsky.social

Dr Martín Veiga, from University College Cork, is putting together a Galician Studies panel for the 71st Annual Conference of the @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social.

📩 Enquiries & abstracts: [email protected]

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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · Aug 14

We saw Samara Joy and her brilliant jazz musicians in Santiago, Chile last month. What absolute joy!

Rev. Dr. Liz Gloyn @lizgloyn.bsky.social · Aug 14

#TinyJoys is sitting on the sofa with a good book and the Proms on iPlayer. Specifically The Great American Songbook with Samara Joy. The *lungs* on that woman! And those brass players!

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Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway @llc-rhul.bsky.social · Aug 13

Wishing good luck to those getting their A-Level results tomorrow! If you enter Clearing keep calm and don't worry. We will have places available on courses including Languages, Liberal Arts and Comparative Literature and Culture. Call us from 8am on Thursday! Tel: +44(0)1784 772455

A poster for our Clearing Hotline: Tel. +44(0)1784 772455

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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · Jun 14

@llc-rhul.bsky.social Open Day @royal holloway

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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · Jun 14

Getting ready to meet everyone at today's Open Day @llc-rhul.bsky.social @royalholloway.bsky.social!

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · Jun 9

If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...

WHN Annual Book Prize

We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…

womenshistorynetwork.org

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StephenHenighan @stephenhenighan.bsky.social · Jun 9

Few obituaries of Forsyth mention that his remarkable career (whatever one thinks of his retrograde politics) was possible because he took the time to make himself fluent in five languages.

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Frederick Forsyth: adventurer and bestselling spy novelist

A pilot who turned to writing to clear his debts, British author Frederick Forsyth, who died Monday aged 86, penned some 20 spy novels, often drawing on real-life experiences and selling 70 million co...

www.france24.com

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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · Jun 9

Shout out to our Inter-Library team in the Library @royalholloway.bsky.social. I have recently placed two requests for specialist articles and they were sent to me the same day - fantastic service! 👏

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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · Jun 9

So wonderful to celebrate Ann Hobbs, administrator extraordinaire in the Humanities team today, who has spent 30 years at Royal Holloway!

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · May 17

'If ever you’re in need as I was
may you have an island of strangers
like I had.'

Michael Rosen nails it again.

My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen

The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds

www.theguardian.com

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · May 5

These are good, but my favourite example of this genre remains Dr Weliton Menário Costa's 2024 'Kangaroo Time': informative, inclusive and utterly joyful doctoral science: www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

Eurovision meets science, dance your PHD competition winners

Could you explain

www.bbc.co.uk

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Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway @llc-rhul.bsky.social · Apr 22

Don't miss 'In Our Time' on BBC Radio 4 this Thursday, 24 April, which will feature our colleague Professor Joe Harris as part of a panel discussing the life and work of the playwright Molière.

The programme airs at 9am (BST) and will then be available as a podcast on BBC Sounds.

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière

The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

www.bbc.co.uk

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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · Apr 16

📚Colleagues might be interested in this co-authored piece by AHGBI member María Delgado on the potential impact of decoupling outputs from individuals in the REF—just out on Wonkhe: wonkhe.com/blogs/portab...

#REF #HigherEd #AHGBI

Portability within REF remains key to fairness

Maria Delgado, Nandini Das, and Miles Padgett warn that separating research outputs from the researchers who created them in REF 2029 would undermine the integrity of the whole research environment

wonkhe.com

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · Apr 16

On Apple
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel
@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

Bulletin of Spanish Studies - Episode 8

Podcast Episode · Queens University Belfast - Bulletin Of Spanish Studies Podcast · 04/16/2025 · 45m

podcasts.apple.com

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Bulletin of Spanish Studies & Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies @spanishbulletin.bsky.social · Apr 16

What do MIA 16th-century Latin odes, the front page of El País, gracefully disproving your own theories and which biscuits are best (hint: not gingernuts) have in common? Find out in our podcast with the lovely Maria Czepiel @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social Now live
open.spotify.com/episode/3FHu...

Bulletin of Spanish Studies - Episode 8

Queens University Belfast - Bulletin Of Spanish Studies Podcast · Episode

open.spotify.com

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Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social · Apr 15

I really enjoyed presenting on MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the British Film Institute Reuben Library last night, and celebrating the publication of my BFI Film Classics volume on the film. Thank you *very* much to everyone who came, and to those who bought copies of the book! 1/2

A photo of myself (a middle-aged guy wearing glasses) presenting in the BFI library, with a screen in the background.

The library entrance, with my presentation visible on the screen inside.

The BFI programme for April, open at the page listing my event.

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Jon Hughes @riderjon.bsky.social · Apr 12

I’m looking forward to talking about MENSCHEN AM SONNTAG / PEOPLE ON SUNDAY at the BFI library in London this coming Monday, 6.30pm. More info and link to tickets here👇

Buy cinema tickets for New Writings: ‘People on Sunday’ and the Cultural Networks of Weimar Berlin with Dr Jon Hughes | BFI Southbank

2025-04-14T18:30:00.000

whatson.bfi.org.uk

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Sarah Wright @sarahwright.bsky.social · Apr 11

Excellent, @anndavies.bsky.social Congratulations!

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Ann Davies @anndavies.bsky.social · Apr 11

Out in July: my book on space and place in Spanish horror and Gothic. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/nightmare...

The Nightmares of Presence

From haunted houses to sandy beaches, The Nightmares of Presence explores the role of setting in inspiring fear and wonder through audiovisual media. With an em…

www.bloomsbury.com

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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · Apr 7

A wonderful evening of conversation and shared commitment to the promotion of Spanish language and culture ☀️☀️

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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · Apr 7

We were also delighted to be joined by the wonderful team from SPLAS, including Marian Aldaz Aréchaga, curator of the Edinburgh Spanish Film Festival, and Dr. Carlos Soler Montes, Senior Lecturer in Spanish Linguistics and Head of SPLAS at the University of Edinburgh.

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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Luis Garcia Montero on the importance of Hispanism, and of Humanities, at the opening ceremony

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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Luis García Montero at the opening of this year's AHGBI Annual Conference at the University of Edinburgh: "la gran tarea del hispanismo es difundir la transnacionalidad, para aprender y respetar la mirada del otro"

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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Prof. Sarah Wright (@sarahwright.bsky.social), president of AHGBI, with Caroline Boyle, Chilean Consul ☀️

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The Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland @hispanists-ahgbi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Parallel Session I: Medieval Studies (Room G.01, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh).

Gemma Pellissa Prades (Universitat de Barcelona): “Hispanic translations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the early printing press, 1494-1519”

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