Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies
@ilcs.bsky.social
The national centre for research in languages, cultures and societies, at the School of Advanced Study, University of London https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
Starter pack for languages, literatures, cultures and societies: https://go.bsky.app/TdEXaP2
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Our new MA in Languages and Cultures Across Borders is now open for applications!
Taught by experts across the University of London in UCL, RHUL, KCL, QMUL, ULIP & ILCS, it delivers a unique interdisciplinary degree.
And 3 bursaries are available!
Find out more 👇
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/graduate-stu...
Taught by experts across the University of London in UCL, RHUL, KCL, QMUL, ULIP & ILCS, it delivers a unique interdisciplinary degree.
And 3 bursaries are available!
Find out more 👇
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/graduate-stu...
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How about trying a language taster for a new language? All of these will take place this week on campus! Which one will you choose!? #languages #mfl #leedscityoflanguages No need to book, just turn in!
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
How about trying a language taster for a new language? All of these will take place this week on campus! Which one will you choose!? #languages #mfl #leedscityoflanguages No need to book, just turn in!
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This session provides a foundational understanding of AI - its history, definitions, main types, and underlying technologies. Focusing on RAI in research contexts and professional practice, it offers practical strategies and frameworks for evaluating, developing and using AI responsibly.
November 7, 2025 at 12:44 PM
This session provides a foundational understanding of AI - its history, definitions, main types, and underlying technologies. Focusing on RAI in research contexts and professional practice, it offers practical strategies and frameworks for evaluating, developing and using AI responsibly.
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Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
Taster Session: Introduction to Responsible AI
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November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Join us in person on 18 November for an Introduction to Responsible AI (RAI): www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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Leeds City of Languages is here! What sessions are you attending this week?! #leedscityoflanguages #languages #mfl #leeds @lcs_leeds
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Leeds City of Languages is here! What sessions are you attending this week?! #leedscityoflanguages #languages #mfl #leeds @lcs_leeds
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If you are in London, and if you like, come and hear Susanne Gregor, Eleanor Updegraff and me discuss Susanne's novel Halbe Leben next Tuesday 18.11. www.acflondon.org/events/book-...
such a good book!
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such a good book!
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November 10, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If you are in London, and if you like, come and hear Susanne Gregor, Eleanor Updegraff and me discuss Susanne's novel Halbe Leben next Tuesday 18.11. www.acflondon.org/events/book-...
such a good book!
@ilcs.bsky.social
such a good book!
@ilcs.bsky.social
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Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
University of Nottingham students fight 'insane' cull of courses
Traitors composer Sam Watts is among those against plans to cut University of Nottingham courses.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Excellent article here. Our students are our greatest advocates. Counter proposals will be put forward, and we are supporting colleagues in Music, Modern Languages, Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies at Nottingham with their campaigns www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Coverage in The Times of our concerns about how languages will fare under the proposed changes to the national curriculum
www.thetimes.com/article/9b0f... @britishacademy.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/9b0f... @britishacademy.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Coverage in The Times of our concerns about how languages will fare under the proposed changes to the national curriculum
www.thetimes.com/article/9b0f... @britishacademy.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social
www.thetimes.com/article/9b0f... @britishacademy.bsky.social @cforsdick.bsky.social
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The Curriculum and Assessment review final report was published today by the government.
Professor Charles Forsdick, Lead Fellow for Languages at The British Academy, reflects on the review’s implications for UK language education: https://bit.ly/4okpkjf
Professor Charles Forsdick, Lead Fellow for Languages at The British Academy, reflects on the review’s implications for UK language education: https://bit.ly/4okpkjf
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The Curriculum and Assessment review final report was published today by the government.
Professor Charles Forsdick, Lead Fellow for Languages at The British Academy, reflects on the review’s implications for UK language education: https://bit.ly/4okpkjf
Professor Charles Forsdick, Lead Fellow for Languages at The British Academy, reflects on the review’s implications for UK language education: https://bit.ly/4okpkjf
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30% of respondents to our #OpenAccess survey said they only feel 'somewhat confident' about their knowledge of OA, & 5% said 'not at all confident'.
Our 'Open Access in the Humanities' course on RESHAPED is a great free resource for anyone wanting to learn more:
reshaped.sas.ac.uk/course/view....
Our 'Open Access in the Humanities' course on RESHAPED is a great free resource for anyone wanting to learn more:
reshaped.sas.ac.uk/course/view....
Log in to the site | RESHAPED
reshaped.sas.ac.uk
October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
30% of respondents to our #OpenAccess survey said they only feel 'somewhat confident' about their knowledge of OA, & 5% said 'not at all confident'.
Our 'Open Access in the Humanities' course on RESHAPED is a great free resource for anyone wanting to learn more:
reshaped.sas.ac.uk/course/view....
Our 'Open Access in the Humanities' course on RESHAPED is a great free resource for anyone wanting to learn more:
reshaped.sas.ac.uk/course/view....
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Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities
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Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities
Charles Forsdick concludes the Reading Bodies takeover and discusses how this project on historical discourses of illness in European literatures and cultures contributes to rethinking the medical …
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October 24, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Multilingual, Transnational and Translational: Rethinking the Medical Humanities
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CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026
We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!
Please share!!
We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!
Please share!!
October 23, 2025 at 10:51 AM
CFP - Crossing Borders: Transnational Perspectives on Life-Writing and Ego-Documents - 14 April 2026
We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!
Please share!!
We're pleased to invite proposals for this upcoming one-day conference at the University of Southampton!
Please share!!
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We are excited to be hiring for a Community and Advocacy Manager! The role, based in the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, will lead on developing and delivering a programme of community engagement and advocacy for the Association. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Community and Advocacy Manager, UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association:London Senate House - Hybrid
The University of London is a leading UK provider of distance and digital education internationally, offering programmes to 45,000 students in 190 countries around the world. Although proudly rooted in London, our community and impact are global.
www.jobs.london.ac.uk
October 22, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We are excited to be hiring for a Community and Advocacy Manager! The role, based in the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, will lead on developing and delivering a programme of community engagement and advocacy for the Association. www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Still time to sign up for our online Thinking Strategically seminar on Friday (24 Oct)!
Learn more about RESHAPED - the free training platform for humanities researchers.
Sign up below and receive the zoom link 👇
Learn more about RESHAPED - the free training platform for humanities researchers.
Sign up below and receive the zoom link 👇
Thinking Strategically: RESHAPED – the Training Platform for the Humanities
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October 21, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Still time to sign up for our online Thinking Strategically seminar on Friday (24 Oct)!
Learn more about RESHAPED - the free training platform for humanities researchers.
Sign up below and receive the zoom link 👇
Learn more about RESHAPED - the free training platform for humanities researchers.
Sign up below and receive the zoom link 👇
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As it's #OAWeek we'd like to ask #humanities researchers a few questions on how they feel about #OpenAccess - this will help us to inform the resources we create and share. If you have a couple of minutes, please fill this out, we'd love to hear from you!
www.surveymonkey.com/r/8RV273D
#Publishing
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Open Access 2025
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October 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
As it's #OAWeek we'd like to ask #humanities researchers a few questions on how they feel about #OpenAccess - this will help us to inform the resources we create and share. If you have a couple of minutes, please fill this out, we'd love to hear from you!
www.surveymonkey.com/r/8RV273D
#Publishing
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#Publishing
This online encounter brings together three Amazonian speakers to reflect on how Indigenous creative practices shape environmental education.
📅 20 Nov, 4-5pm GMT (UK time), online
Coinciding with COP30 in Belém, Brazil and 'Listening to the Voices of the Rivers' in Newcastle, UK
Sign up below! 👇
📅 20 Nov, 4-5pm GMT (UK time), online
Coinciding with COP30 in Belém, Brazil and 'Listening to the Voices of the Rivers' in Newcastle, UK
Sign up below! 👇
Environmental Education and Indigenous Creative Practice. An Encounter with Denilson Baniwa, Lilly Baniwa and Jamille Pinheiro Dias
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
October 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This online encounter brings together three Amazonian speakers to reflect on how Indigenous creative practices shape environmental education.
📅 20 Nov, 4-5pm GMT (UK time), online
Coinciding with COP30 in Belém, Brazil and 'Listening to the Voices of the Rivers' in Newcastle, UK
Sign up below! 👇
📅 20 Nov, 4-5pm GMT (UK time), online
Coinciding with COP30 in Belém, Brazil and 'Listening to the Voices of the Rivers' in Newcastle, UK
Sign up below! 👇
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The Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum on 6 November will bring together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically. Find out more and register: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
BRAID Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage forum
This forum brings together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically.
www.sas.ac.uk
October 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Responsible AI and Cultural Heritage Forum on 6 November will bring together the cultural heritage and research community to discuss current and future challenges of embracing AI in cultural heritage responsibly and ethically. Find out more and register: www.sas.ac.uk/digital-huma...
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📢 Sign up now for our training sessions this term!
Our first session is on 22 Oct:
🎙️'Podcasts to Engage Audiences in Languages, Cultures and Societies Research and Practice': ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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Our first session is on 22 Oct:
🎙️'Podcasts to Engage Audiences in Languages, Cultures and Societies Research and Practice': ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
ILCS Research Training Programme
Training Programme
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October 3, 2025 at 2:28 PM
📢 Sign up now for our training sessions this term!
Our first session is on 22 Oct:
🎙️'Podcasts to Engage Audiences in Languages, Cultures and Societies Research and Practice': ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
Our first session is on 22 Oct:
🎙️'Podcasts to Engage Audiences in Languages, Cultures and Societies Research and Practice': ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
Come and join us as the ILCS Creative Practitioner in Residence 2025-26!
Spend up to 3 months based in ILCS with a bursary of £1,000/month.
For full details of the scheme and the application process, please visit our website:
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Spend up to 3 months based in ILCS with a bursary of £1,000/month.
For full details of the scheme and the application process, please visit our website:
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
October 1, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Come and join us as the ILCS Creative Practitioner in Residence 2025-26!
Spend up to 3 months based in ILCS with a bursary of £1,000/month.
For full details of the scheme and the application process, please visit our website:
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Spend up to 3 months based in ILCS with a bursary of £1,000/month.
For full details of the scheme and the application process, please visit our website:
ilcs.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
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New special issue of Bulletin of Hispanic Studies: Expresiones posliterarias en el ámbito cultural ibérico.
Exploring how literature circulates beyond the book—through branding, tourism, memes & music—across Iberian cultures.
Available online at: bit.ly/BHS-posliterario
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Exploring how literature circulates beyond the book—through branding, tourism, memes & music—across Iberian cultures.
Available online at: bit.ly/BHS-posliterario
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September 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New special issue of Bulletin of Hispanic Studies: Expresiones posliterarias en el ámbito cultural ibérico.
Exploring how literature circulates beyond the book—through branding, tourism, memes & music—across Iberian cultures.
Available online at: bit.ly/BHS-posliterario
@ilcs.bsky.social
Exploring how literature circulates beyond the book—through branding, tourism, memes & music—across Iberian cultures.
Available online at: bit.ly/BHS-posliterario
@ilcs.bsky.social
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Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct:
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
Caribbean Studies Seminar
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
September 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Sign up for our next CLACS Caribbean Studies Seminar, 21 Oct:
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
Jamaica’s “Bitter Medicine”: Education and Women Teachers in Debt and Austerity w/ Shari-Lee Carter, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, & Human Development
@ilcs.bsky.social / @soccaribbeanuk.bsky.social
shorturl.at/BLplw
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The Out Of Practice Seminar has launched for 2025/26!
We are kicking things off with the first seminar on 22 October.
The Ridge Salon: Undisciplinary conversations at the house on chicken legs
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We are kicking things off with the first seminar on 22 October.
The Ridge Salon: Undisciplinary conversations at the house on chicken legs
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
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The Ridge Salon: Undisciplinary conversations at the house on chicken legs
ies.sas.ac.uk
September 30, 2025 at 9:30 AM
The Out Of Practice Seminar has launched for 2025/26!
We are kicking things off with the first seminar on 22 October.
The Ridge Salon: Undisciplinary conversations at the house on chicken legs
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
@ilcs.bsky.social
We are kicking things off with the first seminar on 22 October.
The Ridge Salon: Undisciplinary conversations at the house on chicken legs
ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...
@ilcs.bsky.social
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21 November ILCS event on thinking strategically about the challenges faced by language educators.
Don't miss it, sign up now!
university-council-for-languages.org/2025/09/24/t...
Don't miss it, sign up now!
university-council-for-languages.org/2025/09/24/t...
Thinking Strategically: Challenges Facing Language Educators – ILCS
An online event with the ILCS focussing on issues faced by language educators will take place on 21st November 2025, featuring Megan Bowler (Oxford), Emma Cayley (Leeds and UCFL), and Charles Forsd…
university-council-for-languages.org
September 25, 2025 at 2:59 PM
21 November ILCS event on thinking strategically about the challenges faced by language educators.
Don't miss it, sign up now!
university-council-for-languages.org/2025/09/24/t...
Don't miss it, sign up now!
university-council-for-languages.org/2025/09/24/t...
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📣Two new events in collaboration with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! 📣
Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/2uayfe7r
From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/3t2f435p
Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/2uayfe7r
From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/3t2f435p
Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500 - 1800
Join us at The London Archives for an illustrated talk by Professor Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics).
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August 21, 2025 at 8:58 AM
📣Two new events in collaboration with @thelondonarchives.bsky.social! 📣
Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/2uayfe7r
From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/3t2f435p
Apprenticeship and the Rise of London, 1500-1800 | 15 Oct | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/2uayfe7r
From Bones to Books to Blitz Scrap – What London Recycled during the Second World War | 10 Dec | 5.30 - 7.30pm
tinyurl.com/3t2f435p
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Please do sign up to join in our online conversation event on 21st November, 12 noon, about the recent report on language education in the UK from the @hepi-news.bsky.social by @meganlbowler.bsky.social, sponsored by #Duolingo Thanks to @ilcs.bsky.social
for hosting ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
for hosting ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
Thinking Strategically Seminar Series
Bringing together researchers to discuss issues of major concern and to ensure joined-up action for the future development of the study of languages and cultures.
ilcs.sas.ac.uk
September 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Please do sign up to join in our online conversation event on 21st November, 12 noon, about the recent report on language education in the UK from the @hepi-news.bsky.social by @meganlbowler.bsky.social, sponsored by #Duolingo Thanks to @ilcs.bsky.social
for hosting ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...
for hosting ilcs.sas.ac.uk/research-pol...