Nicki Hitchcott

Brilliant keynote by
Kathryn Batchelor @sfps.bsky.social #SFPS2025

Great panel on Violence, Counter-Violence, War at @sfps.bsky.social conference #sfps2025

Get a copy of Nsah Mala and my edited book, Ecotexts in the Postcolonial Francosphere for half price in the @livunipress.bsky.social Winter Sale!
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Congratulations to all students graduating this afternoon from:

💼Business School
🧑‍🏫International Education & Lifelong Learning Institute
🎻Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
📚Classics
🗣️Mod Lang

🎓Watch live👇

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#ForeverSaints #ClassOf2025 #EverToExcel

A fantastic day at our @royalsoced.bsky.social workshop in Brussels with @jdmcinally.bsky.social @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

Nottingham University urged to reconsider proposed course suspensions Dozens of students and staff gathered to protest against the potential future course closures on Monday.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

We invite applications for the position of Reader or Professor in the Department of Chinese. Apply to join our brilliant team! Closing Date: 19 January 2026. Details here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN980/r...

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…

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

Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219 at University of St Andrews Searching for an academic job? Explore this Reader or Professor in Chinese Studies - AC2219 opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

Come and joins us in beautiful Fife! @sta-modlangs.bsky.social

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FIGHT BACK AGAINST COURSE CLOSURES Rallies outside Council: 1pm - Monday 24th November 10 am - Tuesday 25th November South Side of Trent Building All welcome UCU

48 courses have already been suspended. University council is expected to sign their death certificate. No music, no languages, no mental health nursing.

Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism.

#StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Applications are accepted for the R&A Ransome Scholarships, open to applicants from Canada, Mexico & the USA looking to start a postgraduate Masters degree in Sep 2026, our School's Masters in CompLit & Masters in Global Languages, Literatures & Cultures: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

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

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...

Sign the Petition Save Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester

When is this going to stop? Save Modern Languages at the University of Leicester 👇

You can apply for the University of St Andrews Sanctuary Scholarships for applicants seeking sanctuary in the UK & looking to start their degree in 2026, including the School of Modern Languages' in-person undergraduate, Masters & research degrees. Detailes here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

There is still time to apply for 2026-27 AHRC Doctoral Landscape studentships available from the University of St Andrews, open to UK & international applicants, including those looking to start a PhD degree with the School of Modern Languages. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Sign the Petition SAVE AMERICAN STUDIES TEACHING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM

Please sign and help to save my former department! Goodness knows this is no time to stop teaching about and researching North America!

www.change.org/p/save-ameri...

Sign the Petition Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!

www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

Please do sign these petitions! The change.org website will ask you for money - if you would like to donate to help stop the cuts, the local UCU hardship fund is a much more effective place for your generosity to go.

Direct bank details here: uonucu.org

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.

Did @uniofnottingham.bsky.social consult any students before announcing the proposed course closures? @uonucu.bsky.social
www.bbc.com/news/article...

We Can Make an Impact. Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!

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I leapt up swearing. Nottingham! Of Nottingham French Studies fame. A terrific, storied, innovative and important department.

Quietly Axing Your Courses (but Thank You for Your Support) In response to yesterday’s communication on course closures, a colleague—designated here only as CE-12 (Communications Entity 12)—has provided a translation that removes the corporate varnish and c…

This is well worth a read to understand what a complete mess higher education has become with @uniofnottingham.bsky.social among those leading the way muircheartblog.wpcomstaging.com/2025/11/06/q...

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham In a statement the institution also says it is

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... and once again the humanities and languages have to pay for years of unsustainable spending and mismanagement

Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham In a statement the institution also says it is

Terrible news from @uniofnottingham.bsky.social
Solidarity with my brilliant colleagues on yet another dark day for #UKHE
@uonucu.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Congratulations to our alumna Jasmine Mitchell, medicine graduate star baker, and now Champion of the Great British Bake Off! 🍰 ⭐ 🏆

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The School of Modern Languages is pleased to offer a full-fee Masters scholarship for Sep 2026 entry, open to UK applicants for our one-year Masters degrees, in Comparative Literature & in Global Languages, Literatures, & Cultures. More here: www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modern-langu...

Job: Assistant/Associate Professor - Francophone African literature/film and/or culture whose primary research focus lies south of the Maghreb @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social

R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

Submissions for this year's R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize – awarded to an essay of outstanding academic merit at postgraduate level – will open tomorrow, 1 November 2025.

For more information about eligibility and how to submit an entry, see the link below:

www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...

Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic at King's College London Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lecturer in Literatures and Cultures of the Black Atlantic opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic jobs.

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