Joseph Ford
@drjoeford.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in French Studies @ilcs.bsky.social | literature, culture and post/colonialism, comparative/world literature, Algerian culture/history | multilingualism and environments 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸
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A very insightful article on the recent threats to UK modern languages:
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
Support the petitions to stop the closures at Leicester and Nottingham, to sign click here:
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#languages #mfl
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Support the petitions to stop the closures at Leicester and Nottingham, to sign click here:
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
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#languages #mfl
November 14, 2025 at 9:13 AM
A very insightful article on the recent threats to UK modern languages:
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
Support the petitions to stop the closures at Leicester and Nottingham, to sign click here:
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
#languages #mfl
www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/late...
Support the petitions to stop the closures at Leicester and Nottingham, to sign click here:
www.change.org/p/save-moder...
www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...
#languages #mfl
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🪧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
👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#AcademicPublishing
📅 Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30
👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#AcademicPublishing
Revising Your PhD Thesis for Publication
www.sas.ac.uk
October 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
🪧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
👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#AcademicPublishing
📅 Monday 8 December, 14:00–15:30
👉 www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
#AcademicPublishing
This👇 and teaching materials are subject to intellectual property rights, not to be given to the chat bot billionaires for free
“You can have a verbal conversation like you would with a professor and you can interact with it.”
Alternatively, you can have a verbal conversation with your actual professor, who has office hours for this precise purpose.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Alternatively, you can have a verbal conversation with your actual professor, who has office hours for this precise purpose.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
How to use ChatGPT at university without cheating: ‘Now it’s more like a study partner’
The ubiquitous AI tool has a divisive effect on educators with some seeing it a boon and others a menace. So what should you know about where to draw the line between check and cheat?
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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 www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
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...
www.theguardian.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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...
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...
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.
www.sas.ac.uk
July 30, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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...
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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wonkhe.com/blogs/our-fu...
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
wonkhe.com
July 8, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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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wonkhe.com/blogs/our-fu...
Ce soir: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/what-...
What are we doing here? Seminar rooms as spaces for radical delight
ies.sas.ac.uk
June 10, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ce soir: ies.sas.ac.uk/events/what-...
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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
We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9
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...
goodlaw.social
June 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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
We've created a tool to make it easy to respond. Please use and share. goodlaw.social/9e59e9
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REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
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 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾
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 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾
Postcolonial Temporalities: Space, Time and Identity in the Maghreb
A three-day hybrid conference aims to interrogate the ongoing challenges involved in the decolonial process of the Maghreb.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
June 5, 2025 at 1:21 PM
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
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 🇩🇿 🇲🇦 🇹🇳 🇱🇾
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
In the 2010 UK TV general election debates everyone was rushing over themselves to agree with Nick.
Is anyone agreeing with Nick now?
www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
Is anyone agreeing with Nick now?
www.theverge.com/news/674366/...
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
www.theverge.com
May 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
I agree with Elton
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🎉 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
The series explores how the UK can better support linguistic diversity and respond to the languages crisis. 🌍📘
📖 Read more: lspjournal.com
May 6, 2025 at 12:43 PM
🎉 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
The series explores how the UK can better support linguistic diversity and respond to the languages crisis. 🌍📘
📖 Read more: lspjournal.com
anti-protest regulations unlawful www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
Liberty defeats Government appeal as Court rules anti-protest laws are unlawful - Liberty
www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk
May 2, 2025 at 2:51 PM
anti-protest regulations unlawful www.libertyhumanrights.org.uk/issue/libert...
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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
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...
jobs.leeds.ac.uk
April 30, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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
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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/...
April 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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/...
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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.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
"My choice in these volatile times is backing British brilliance," says Keir Starmer, who promises to deliver "British cars for British workers"
April 9, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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.
Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much.
Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.
Multilinguals could hold the key to Britain’s social and economic future www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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
www.theguardian.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Multilinguals could hold the key to Britain’s social and economic future www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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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...
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...
March 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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...
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...
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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
Postcolonial Temporalities
Visit the post for more.
maghrebtemporalities.wordpress.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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
*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
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.
www.sas.ac.uk
March 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
*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...
📢OPEN DAY! MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders!
Come along to one of our open days to meet the course convenors and learn more about this unique MA, taught at ILCS by academic staff across the University.
📅 5 March in person at Senate House, London
📅 10 March online
Register here 👇
Come along to one of our open days to meet the course convenors and learn more about this unique MA, taught at ILCS by academic staff across the University.
📅 5 March in person at Senate House, London
📅 10 March online
Register here 👇
Open Day: University of London MA programme, Languages and Cultures Across Borders
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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...
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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.
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if Nazi Germany is viewed
as an anomalous outlier
rather than an
ethno-nationalist model
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February 16, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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
February 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
AI makes you stupid
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📢 "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
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
Working with schools: '1000 Words for Belonging'
Find out more about a project exploring the language of emotion with school pupils in East London
www.sas.ac.uk
January 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
📢 "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
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' - 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...
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
ahead.mmu.ac.uk
January 27, 2025 at 2:10 PM
'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...
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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...
Brismes - the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, fundraiser to support Gazan universities & students: gofundme.com/f/the-brisme...
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
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December 22, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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...
Brismes - the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies, fundraiser to support Gazan universities & students: gofundme.com/f/the-brisme...