Nottingham and Leicester are taking a swing at language departments. But those proposing closures have taken their eye off the ball, say four linguists

It’s graduation week 2025 and time to offer congratulations to all the Stirling students for whom this is such an important moment. But a special congratulations to our wonderful 2025 finalists in …

This article examines Armenian artistic and cultural practitioners’ uses of memory-mapping to create representational spaces in book form that challenge hegemonic national representations of territories with multiple, conflicted histories. Such mappings often draw on cartographic documents, but the projects discussed here reflect a broader definition of mapping as process. Vigen Galstyan and Nelli Shishmanyan's (2020) project Before the Crossfire. After the Wall provides a photographic record of everyday life in Armenian villages whose Azerbaijani populations have left since 1991 and tensions over Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) and Georgian villages where both ethnic Armenians and Azerbaijanis still co-exist. The NGO Cultural and Social Narratives Laboratory's project Firdus: Memory of a Place collects family stories, photographs, and documents from the multicultural residents of a central Yerevan street of around eighty houses. Our interpretations of these projects demonstrate that they employ artistic and cultural mapping practices in book form to recover memories of ethnic coexistence in Armenia; community memories that have been marginalized in the wake of three decades of conflict. The multimedial approaches to memory-mapping (oral histories, maps, social media, archival and original photographs) adopted by these texts offer a set of tools for the mapping of community memory. However, from an agonistic perspective, we argue that these tools could also be used to document the historical conditions that precipitated the collapse of coexistence. To this end, we analyze NGO Hazarashen's 2019 project Fragments of Armenia's Soviet Past: Tracing Armenian-Azerbaijani Coexistence to better understand how memory-mapping in book form can engage with political processes that facilitate the breakdown of coexistence.

The article addresses the multiple challenges faced by the language disciplines across the educational pipeline in the UK, with a particular focus on Higher Education (HE) It explores the reasons, bo...

Even the census ignores them, but multilinguals could hold the key to Britain’s social and economic future, says science journalist Laura Spinney

We’re halfway through the first week of the second half of our semester at Stirling and we thought it might be interesting to give you a snapshot of what a typical day in the life of French at Stir…

We are recruiting 6 PhD studentships, fully funded by the University of Stirling, which will aim to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory at multiple timescales a…

Advanced linguistic and cultural skills remain essential for deep insight into how people see themselves in the world, say five modern languages academics

As part of Languages Week Scotland, which ran from 3-7 February 2025, we are delighted to be launching Francofoot/Calciamo a new national competition for schools, in collaboration with Scotland’s N…

The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

We’re halfway through Languages Week Scotland and today’s post is an update from another of our brilliant former students, Laura, who graduated with a BA Hons in French and Spanish almost 10 years …

Day 2 of Languages Week Scotland and today we thought we’d give you an update on the work of one of our brilliant PhD students who happens to work across multiple languages: “My name is Clara and I…

What better way to start Languages Week Scotland 2025 than with an update from one of our most recent graduates, Jasmine, who graduated in French in June 2024…: “As I was reaching the end of my stu…

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