Joseph Ford

Revising Your PhD Thesis for Publication

🪧A date for your diaries if you'd be interested in our training session, 'Revising your PhD Thesis for Publication', led by @drjoeford.bsky.social from @ilcs.bsky.social and our Publisher @emmagallon.bsky.social.

📅 Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30

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thanks so much for suggesting this, Michael!

This👇 and teaching materials are subject to intellectual property rights, not to be given to the chat bot billionaires for free

Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest The long read: The late Kenyan novelist and activist believed erasing language was the most lasting weapon of oppression. Here, Aminatta Forna recalls the man and introduces his essay on decolonisatio...

Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social @llc-rhul.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @uclssees.bsky.social @uclselcs.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @qmul.bsky.social

MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders This interdisciplinary MA brings together teaching and resources from several University of London federation members, offering a unique breadth of expertise.

Tomorrow is the *final opportunity to apply for our MA in Languages, Cultures and Societies* - co-delivered with RHUL, UCL, QMUL, ULIP and KCL Language Centre! www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Our future may depend on the humanities For Peter Sutoris, the humanities hold the key to understanding and responding to the many civilisational crises we face

The humanities are not a luxury—they are where a society’s ethical and imaginative life takes shape. They won’t give us all the answers, but they keep us asking the right questions—and without that, no future worth having can be built.

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What are we doing here? Seminar rooms as spaces for radical delight

Ce soir: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/what-...

How to respond to the EHRC consultation Good Law Project has taken advice from a leading public law King’s Counsel on how to respond to the EHRC’s consultation. What follows is a form which, after you complete it, will automatically be sent...

The EHRC Guidance is a wicked exercise in removing rights from trans people - and is bad too for employers and service providers, those outside gender norms, people with disabilities and the economy.

We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9

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So excited to release the programme for our upcoming conference on the Maghreb - June 19-21!! 🤗 We’ve made the event hybrid so make sure to register for the Zoom link (or to attend in person of course)! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/postcoloni... À bientôt! !أتطلع للقائكم 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾

I agree with Elton

🎉 We’re delighted to present our new LSP series: Languages in UK Education, guest-edited by @cforsdick.bsky.social and Wendy Ayres-Bennett.

The series explores how the UK can better support linguistic diversity and respond to the languages crisis. 🌍📘

📖 Read more: lspjournal.com

Liberty defeats Government appeal as Court rules anti-protest laws are unlawful - Liberty

anti-protest regulations unlawful www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...

Job Opportunity at University of Leeds: Lecturer in French & Francophone Studies (Teaching and Research) Are you an academic with proven abilities to carry out cutting-edge teaching and research in French and Francophone Studies? Could you deliver quality teaching in French and Francophone Studies in the...

I am so delighted to announce that we are #hiring! A two year full-time teaching and research post in French 🇫🇷 Come and join our big and beautiful School of Languages, Cultures and Societies in leafy Leeds! Please post to your networks. jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... @lcsleeds.bsky.social

Very true. And it's a sector with high economic benefits. Universities UK report an economic impact of £158bn, or £265bn including the impact of international students. Every £1 of public money invested into UK universities generates £14 of economic benefit. www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/latest/news/...

The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people.

Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.

Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

Swahili? Mandarin? The UK is increasingly multilingual – yet our politicians won’t talk about it | Laura Spinney Even the census ignores them, but multilinguals could hold the key to Britain’s social and economic future, says science journalist Laura Spinney

Multilinguals could hold the key to Britain’s social and economic future www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems.

As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting.

But what can authors do? Read here:
societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

Postcolonial Temporalities Visit the post for more.

Excited to announce the CfP for an interdisciplinary conference on the Maghreb in Edinburgh in June (19-20th)! @iashedinburgh.bsky.social @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social 🤗 @abdelbaqi.bsky.social & I cannot wait to receive your paper proposals! More info & full CFP here: maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com

MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders This interdisciplinary MA brings together teaching and resources from several University of London federation members, offering a unique breadth of expertise.

And information on our MA, inc. *further funding ops*, here: www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Master's Funding We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries that you don't need to pay back and are awarded based on personal circumstances or academic achievement.

*Final week* to apply for School of Advanced Study bursaries available for Masters degrees across the School, inc. our new MA in Languages Across Borders - check out the Master's funding page here: www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate... - @ilcs.bsky.social

New cross University of London MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders - Open Days on 5th March (in person) and 10th March (online) 👇check out our website for more info and funding opportunities: www.sas.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Black scholars argued this incessantly after the war. Britain killed 10’s of millions of Indians, Belgium enslaved and genocided the Congo, France slaughtered its Algerian subjects. Nazi Germany was the logical extension of US and European colonialism, not an aberration.

AI makes you stupid

Working with schools: '1000 Words for Belonging' Find out more about a project exploring the language of emotion with school pupils in East London

📢 "Working with schools: '1000 Words for Belonging'"

Read this great public engagement case study from @drjoeford.bsky.social! In partnership with Gearies Primary School & Neela Doležalová, the project explored the language of emotion with school students through a range of creative activities

Linguistic justice: a summer school for teachers - AHEAD (Arts and Humanities Engagement and Dialogue) Linguistic justice builds critical knowledge about language in order to challenge deficit thinking in schools and contribute to social justice

'Linguistic justice: a summer school for teachers' - workshop for teachers in/around Manchester. Looks amazing with @iancushing.bsky.social, fyi @ilcs.bsky.social @ucflangs.bsky.social @nalalanguages.bsky.social: ahead.mmu.ac.uk/2025/01/16/l...

Donate to The BRISMES Fund for Higher Education in Gaza, organized by British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Founded in 1973, the British Society for Middle Eastern Studi… British Society for Middle Eastern Studies needs your support for The BRISMES Fund for Higher Education in Gaza

If you are working in UK HE, consider donating to
Brismes - the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, fundraiser to support Gazan universities & students: gofundme.com/f/the-brisme...

Visualise someone working next to a physical letterbox. Imagine opening and reading every letter as soon as it arrives, and starting to compose a reply, even as more letters drop through the box
- all the while trying to do your main job.

Amazing! Congratulations, Emanuelle - can’t wait to read it!

The latest issue of Francospheres journal on a blue and pink gradient fade background with the LUP logo in white on the bottom right and an orange Open Access banner at the top of the image.

Francosphères 13.2 includes work by @besskearney.bsky.social, @dcarliniversini.bsky.social & @drjoeford.bsky.social on ambivalence, agency & selfhood in contemporary francophone narratives. Read it #OpenAccess: bit.ly/FRANC13-2 @openlibhums.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social‬ @ilcs.bsky.social