Women in French UK-Ireland

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We are pleased to announce that Fatima Ouassak @FOuassak will be our invited keynote speaker at the upcoming @WIFUKIRE biennial conference. You can still submit your abstract until Sunday! 2025 Conference: Call for Papers – Women in French UK-Ireland (wifukireland.com)

We look forward immensely to welcoming everyone back to Hinsley Hall after the great success of last year's conference, and eagerly await your abstract submissions via the new WiF Conferences email!

The 2025 Conference Portal has launched on our website, and will be updated in due course with information about registration, accommodation and travel. You can view the landing page here: wifukireland.com/2025-conferenc…

We are delighted to share the call for papers for the WiF UK-Ire 2025 Conference, on the theme of 'Transformations'! Organised by @adina_s and Jasmine Cooper, this conference will take place from 30th May - 1st June next year at Hinsley Hall, Leeds. wifukireland.com/2025-conferenc…

📣Job claxon 📣 MHRA-funded Languages & Policy Postdoc with @UCFLangs_ECA @WendyBennett21 @charlesforsdick to take forward recommendations from the 'Languages & Policy: Building Collaborations between Academics & Policymakers' report @ILCS_SAS 👇 university-council-for-languages.org/2024/06/11/adv…

Delighted to see this new publication, which may be of interest to many of our members! Congratulations to the editors on such an exciting volume!

The deadline for the study day ‘Francophone Perspectives on Empathy and Care Today’ is fast approaching. We hope to receive your abstracts by this weekend. fabula.org/actualites/120…

More information on how to become a member of the Association is available here. We have tiered membership plans, in recognition of the difficult circumstances in which all academics are currently working, and offer exciting events year-round! wifukireland.com/contact/

We are delighted to announce the inaugural meeting of the WiF UK-IRE Culture Club! This member event will take place on Monday 20th May, and our first chosen text is Justine Triet's 'Anatomie d'une chute'. More info here: wifukireland.com/wif-uk-ire-cul…

@adina_s @QUBelfast @ModLangs_QUB Lovely to see so many Association members involved in this event already! Félicitations Adina!

We are now inviting proposals for the 'Francophone Perspectives on Empathy and Care Today' Study Day which is set to take place at @QUBelfast @ModLangs_QUB on Friday, the 14th of June. Deadline for submission is Friday, the 3rd of May. fabula.org/actualites/120…

We look forward to welcoming @profnatedwards and Dr Jasmine Cooper (Cambridge) as our keynotes. The ideas behind the study day were planted at a seed meeting organised at the @MFOxford in September 2022. We’d like to thank @MFOxford and @AmbascienceUK for the initial support.

More information about this excellent event is available on the conference website - click here! annie-ernaux.org/conferences/20…

We are delighted to co-sponsor the upcoming conference '1974-2024: Annie Ernaux's Years: A Global Perspective', co-organised by WiF UKIRE member @Elise_H_L! Full programme, featuring several Association members, available to view here: wifukireland.com/1974-2024-anni…

If you’d like to attend but aren’t yet a member, sign up at the link below. A range of membership options are available: wifukireland.wordpress.com/contact/

A reminder about our second online workshop with Lou Sarabadzic on Wed 10 April. At this session on Multilingual Creative Writing we’ll explore playful approaches to everyday materials, seeing academic work in a new way. Open to WIF UK-IRE members here: wifukireland.wordpress.com/workshops-with…

Gentle reminder that this is happening tomorrow morning (Wed 6th). Still some time to register at the link below 👇