"Modern Foreign Languages have the largest cold spots in the UK ... with Linguistics, Anthropology and Classics showing similar declines. If current trends continue, subjects like English, History and Drama could follow." @britishacademy.bsky.social
10.09.2025 11:04 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
After a brilliant week in Glasgow @baal2025.bsky.social, weβre already looking forward to next yearβs conference at Aston University! #BAAL2025 β‘οΈ #BAAL2026 @stephenpihlaja.bsky.social
06.09.2025 14:27 β π 19 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
Introduction: discourse at the intersection of digital design and user agency
My new special issue "At the interface: discourse at the intersection of digital design and user agency" published by @dcmjournal.bsky.social, co-edited with GΓΆran Eriksson and Camilla VΓ‘squez www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
Free access to the editorial: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
07.08.2025 13:24 β π 6 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Sign the Petition
Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University β Hold Senior Management Accountable
Hello UK friends - please, please could you sign this petition against the job cuts at my place of work - 1 in 4 us will be out of a job by August next year if we don't stop the cuts. And once you've signed it, please share. We need your help! www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...
30.07.2025 19:14 β π 65 π 71 π¬ 4 π 7
A compelling case for linguistic and cultural skills in a 'precarious and rapidly changing world' and against damaging recent university course closures
12.03.2025 15:12 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Thoroughly enjoyed making this podcast with @oliviakellyou.bsky.social on WhatsApp and wellness - I hope you enjoy listening to it π
04.03.2025 07:52 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
The Annual GOTH Symposium welcomes scholars from within and outside The Open University for two days of productive interdisciplinary discussion and debate. The Program Committee invites proposals for presentations focusing on any aspects of gender and/or otherness in creative writing or pre-modern drama, literature and visual culture, in two formats:
Postgraduate students only: 5-minute lightning papers on any aspects of human gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture.
Open call: 15-minute papers focusing on any aspects of gender and otherness in creative writing or drama, literature and/or visual culture, with particular emphasis on:
Gender, race, disability and/or human physical otherness in religious and secular medieval and early modern theatre, with topics including but not limited to:
performed otherness
otherness in secular dramatic texts
otherness in religious drama (eg convent drama, liturgical drama within the church, performances of Biblical episodes or Saintβs lives in religious and/or secular spaces).
understanding performed otherness through the study of performativity, gesture, costume, crossdressing and/or textiles.
Gender, race, disability and/or otherness in creative writing, with topics including but not limited to:
Dark tourism
Ekphrasis
Milton Keynes
Female patrons and the fashioning of gender in medieval and early modern literary, dramatic and visual arts, with topics including but not limited to:
the role of gender in cultural creation, performance and patronage
cultural patronage as a pathway to female legal power and status.
Ways of using gender, costume, cross-dressing and textiles to study and reframe dramatic narrative (eg women as βstory-weaversβ /embroiderers of vestments/costumes).
The Open University Medieval and Early Modern Research Group guest panel:
Radical Otherness?
Utopia and other ideal societies in the medieval and early modern world, with topics including but not limited to:
CFP for the GOTH* SYMPOSIUM π
*Gender and Otherness in the Humanities
Open University, 15-16 May
Deadline for submission: 28 February
All info: www.rensoc.org.uk/event/5th-an...
11.02.2025 20:14 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Home | SaveCardiffLanguages
Save Cardiff Languages is a campaign to save the teaching of Modern Language degrees and Translation at Cardiff University.
Learn more about why modern language degrees at Cardiff University should be saved at www.savecardifflanguages.org
#Languages #SaveCardiffLanguages #CardiffUniversity #Japanese #JapaneseStudies #French #German #Italian #Portuguese #Chinese #Spanish #Translation #TranslationStudies
06.02.2025 09:36 β π 29 π 20 π¬ 0 π 0
@artsandhums.bsky.social Challenging reckless HE cuts on behalf of BAAL and other #artsandhumanities associations
03.02.2025 19:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
CL2025 - Call for papers
Abstract submission is now open here
Call for papers:
Corpus Linguistics 2025 #CL2025
Birmingham, UK
First week of July 2025
Submissions welcome for papers, posters, thematic panels and pre-conference workshops!
www.cl2025.co.uk/call-for-pap...
17.11.2024 15:49 β π 64 π 49 π¬ 0 π 0
Cardiff is planning to cut all modern languages. Iβm afraid it will not be the last time weβll see these announcements, with severe consequences for studentsβ prospects, researchers and staff but also our understanding of different cultures. A reminder that these courses were introduced after WWI.
02.02.2025 10:48 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
Sign the Petition
Save MLANG at Cardiff University!
The devastating decline of modern languages provision in the UK continues - please support the wonderful and highly respected colleagues in languages and translation facing the closure of their department at Cardiff University: chng.it/t5xsFHPFcb
31.01.2025 09:29 β π 7 π 7 π¬ 0 π 1
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to βunderstand the world and shape a brighter future.
SIG of British Association of Applied Linguistics @baal-linguistics.bsky.social A forum for people interested in promoting Language Awareness in Education through collaboration between researchers & practitioners. https://baallkale.wordpress.com/
Books. Music. Language. Science. Theology. Family. Talk. Think.
#FBPE #NHS π©΅ #KTTO
Remarried widower. Retd pilot. PhD research (applied linguistics)
Lecturer in TESOL, Doctor of Education, based in Glasgow, Scotland.
BAALβs EMI SIG unites scholars advancing research, innovation, and equity in English-Medium Instruction worldwide.
https://baalemi.com
Linguistic diversity in social life
By Ingrid Piller, author of "Linguistic Diversity and Social Justice" "Intercultural Communication" and "Life in a New Language"
https://www.languageonthemove.org/
Australian Senior Lecturer, language, law & society. #LLIRN. lawandlanguage.org
External CESSMIR UGent. @languageonthemove.bsky.social member.
Asylum, migration, disability, human rights, legal ed/prac, access to justice
ENG, FR, ES, IT, Ψ§Ψ±Ψ―Ω, ΩΎΪΨͺΩ
@_BAAL Language and Education for Social Justice Special Interest Group βοΈβπ½πͺ§ | Explore our website: http://baalsocialjusticesig.weebly.com
A new research network for scholars, practitioners, writers, activists and other stakeholders working on issues broadly related to the study of language and society, both in Scotland and around the world.
https://lasscotland.wordpress.com/
Publishing academic books in applied linguistics, language, ELT/TESOL and related disciplines. Keep in touch via our e-newsletter: bit.ly/2JAVp57
Critical Sociolinguist | Looking at language, capitalism, neoliberalism, colonialism, race, migration & activism | Really good at Tetris
Professor of applied linguistics at University of JyvΓ€skylΓ€, FI | forced migration | arts-based research | linguistic ethnography | licensed mushroom picker | knitting is not a crime
I am a Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at UCL. Iβm a Sociolinguist interested in: Language Policy; Ethnography; Placemaking; Future Making; Memory; Migration; (S)Exile; Queer Theory; All Things Colombian.
https://makingspacesformemory.wordpress.com
Associate Professor in Language Education, The University of Edinburgh, UK. Book review co-Editor for Language Policy.
Applied Linguistics | Language Policy | Conversation Analysis | Translanguaging | French Heritage Language Education
British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL) is a professional association and charity (264800), based in the UK, which provides a forum for people interested in language and applied linguistics. Account managed @melevans.bsky.social
The Linguistic Ethnography Forum (LEF) is a Special Interest Group of the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL).
πhttps://www.lingethnog.org
Professor of applied linguistics at Georgia State University, corpus researcher, pattern fan, yogi, University of Cologne and University of Hanover alumna
