Women in French Australia

Positionalities Podcast Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast is a space for open conversations about the intersection of our lives with our work in feminist criticism, gender studies, and studies of …

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🎙️ New episode! Positionalities – Women in French Podcast
“Teaching French Through a Gender-Just Lens”
Dr Gemma King, Dr Dominique Carlini Versini @dcarliniversini.bsky.social & Dr Clara Sitbon share insights on inclusive French teaching. Hosted by Dr Beth Kearney @besskearney.bsky.social !

🎉 Join us for WiF Australia’s End-of-Year Research Showcase & Celebration!
📅 Friday, 28 Nov | 🕓 4–6 PM AEDT | 🌐 Online
🤝 Connect, collaborate & celebrate with colleagues!
✅ Everyone welcome!

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Positionalities Podcast Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast is a space for open conversations about the intersection of our lives with our work in feminist criticism, gender studies, and studies of …

🎃 Halloween Special Alert!
In Episode 5 of Positionalities, Dr @dcarliniversini.bsky.social speaks with Prof Michèle Bacholle & Dr @emmaafln.bsky.social about women reimagining horror.
Don’t miss this chillingly brilliant conversation!
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🎉 We invite you to our end-of-year online research showcase & celebration!
🗓️ Friday 28 Nov | ⏰ 3–6 PM AEST
💬 Share a 10-min informal talk on your 2025 research highlights—or just come listen & connect!
📩 EOI by 31 Oct: wifaustralia@gmail.com
#WiFOZ #ResearchShowcase

🎓 Join us for the next WiF Oz Work-in-Progress Seminar
"Shumona Sinha, exemple paradigmatique des xénographies féminines dans l’Europe d’aujourd’hui"!
📅 Thurs 23 Oct
🕚 11am (London) | 12pm (Madrid) | 9pm (Sydney)
📍 On Teams
🔗 Programme & link: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/work-in-prog...

Organised by artist Marie Julie, with fellow artists Sylvette Annibal, Claire Dehove, Emmanuelle Gibelle & Angèle Rohart.
🔗 Zoom link on our website! #WomenInFrench #Écosensibilité #ArtEtRecherche

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We are thrilled to invite you to the roundtable "La délicatesse comme ruse pour habiter le monde et la planète en écosensibilité?"
🗓️ 25 Sept | ⏰ 9–11am GMT | 📍 Zoom

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Organised by the artist Marie Julie, with fellow artists Sylvette Annibal, Claire Dehove, Emmanuelle Gibelle & Angèle Rohart.
🔗 Zoom link on our website! #WomenInFrench #Écosensibilité #ArtEtRecherche

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Positionalities Podcast Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast is a space for open conversations about the intersection of our lives with our work in feminist criticism, gender studies, and studies of …

🎙️ New podcast episode alert!
Dr Pooja Booluck-Miller speaks with Dr. Julie Fette about her book Gender by the Book, exploring how 21st-century French children’s literature reflects and resists gender norms. Check it out on our website: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...

Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer For all the talk of addressing the problem, things have got worse. Which is criminal when there is so much we could do, says journalist Sophia Smith Galer

Time for a reality check: Britain cannot be a big player on the world stage unless we speak more languages | Sophia Smith Galer

Tune in for a thoughtful discussion on navigating academia, building international connections, and finding your voice in the early stages of your career. Many thanks to @awimbush.bsky.social @josiegoldman.bsky.social @besskearney.bsky.social and Pooja Booluck-Miller for a great conversation!

Wonderful discussion on 'French Women Writing Environment in the Long 19th century' led by @christiesmbc.bsky.social and Dan Finch-Race as part of our WiP seminar series! Thank you very much to our speakers and attendees 😊

A great start to the @wifaustralia.bsky.social work-in-progress seminar on 'French Women Writing Environment in the Long 19th century', led by @christiesmbc.bsky.social & Daniel Finch-Race!

Details and joining info here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/work-in-prog...

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📢Women in French Australia Work-in-Progress Seminar Series 📢

We are delighted to host the roundtable discussion ‘French Women Writing Environment in the Long Nineteenth Century’ led by Daniel Finch-Race and @christiesmbc.bsky.social on 17 June 09am (BST), 6pm (AEST), 8pm (NZST) on Teams!

Deadline for proposals: 30/04/2025

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CFPs, EOIs & News Open Letter Opposing the Disbandment of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University Women in French: Australia, alongside numerous academic associations and colleagues worldwide, vehementl…

📣 Call for proposals 📣

We would like to invite you to coordinate an online seminar of the Women in French Australia Work in Progress Online Seminar Series on francophone women writers and artists!

More details here: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/calls-for-pa...

Deadline for proposals: 30/04/2025.

Please share!

CFPs, EOIs & News Open Letter Opposing the Disbandment of the School of Modern Languages at Cardiff University Women in French: Australia, alongside numerous academic associations and colleagues worldwide, vehementl…

Women in French Australia stands in solidarity with @cumodernlanguages.bsky.social. See our open letter here:

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Many congratulations to our International Liaison co-Officer @wimbush_antonia for the upcoming publication of her book 🥳!

Félicitations to our Communication co-officer, Dr Charlotte Mackay (Monash University), for the publication of her monograph Atlantic Bound: Writing Afro-Atlantic Diasporic Consciousness in the Works of Léonora Miano and Fatou Diome with #PeterLang 🥳!

Our special February issue L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels, guest-edited by @dcarliniversini.bsky.social, is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3... @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Developing Anti-Fascist Pedagogies

Delighted to share news of a free in-person workshop I've co-organised in May at the ILCS (@ilcs.bsky.social) to discuss the need for explicitly antifascist pedagogies against the rising tide of far-right support and what that practice would look like.

Info here: ilcs.sas.ac.uk/events/devel...

Ravie de la publication de ce numéro spécial de @francemodern.bsky.social! Les articles explorent les récits littéraires et filmiques d'avortement de la Belle Epoque à la période contemporaine, ainsi qu'une BD militante des années 1970...

Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley

Read now:

Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities

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In 2025, we’ll bring you a wealth of new material including:
· A special issue on abortion in February.
· A special issue on the BUMIDOM in August.
· A special section on Le Manifeste conspirationniste, in May t.co/Zne5lZ6xEK @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

So here's a starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies, very broadly defined.

If you'd like to be added or removed, comment below or send a message

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A truly fantastic #ASFS2024 so far! Thanks to all the organisers at the University of Melbourne inc. our very own @wifaustralia.bsky.social @awimbush.bsky.social

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