Charles Forsdick

Charles Forsdick

@cforsdick.bsky.social

Drapers Professor of French, MMLL, Cambridge; Professorial Fellow, Murray Edwards College; Lead Fellow Languages, @britishacademy.bsky.social; Hon. Professor Centre for the Study of International Slavery (CSIS). Researches travel, empire, Haiti, comics..

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Liverpool University Press
@livunipress.bsky.social

What can translation do? To mark #InternationalTranslationDay, World Writing in French series editors Charles Forsdick and Martin Munro reflect on translation's role in sustaining linguistic and literary diversity. Read the blog post 👇️ @cforsdick.bsky.social #AcademicSky

liverpooluniversitypress.blogWhat Can Translation Do?In a new blog post to mark International Translation Day 2026, World Writing in French series editors Charles Forsdick and Martin Munro reflect on translation’s role in sustaining linguistic …

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Modern Humanities Research Association
@themhra.bsky.social

📣 Postdoc opportunity! @ucflangs.bsky.social is recruiting a MHRA-funded postdoc to implement recommendations from the Languages & Policy report and and strengthen research–policy collaboration. Supervised by @wendya-b.bsky.social and @cforsdick.bsky.social. www.mhra.org.uk/news/2026/06...

mhra.org.ukPostdoctoral Researcher — Building Policy-Research Bridges in LanguagesA new postdoctoral researcher is sought for policy work, in association with the UCFL: applications close 30 June.

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UCFL - University Council For Languages
@ucflangs.bsky.social

Languages are not in decline - access is. Our colleagues Marcela Andrea Cazzoli and Ana Medeiros show that the problem is not student aspriation, but structured access. Don't miss this very important read: wonkhe.com/blogs/modern...

wonkhe.comModern languages has a future – and it’s all about accessContraction of modern languages provision is often painted as a response to falling demand. For Ana de Medeiros and Marcela Cazzoli, if you look across the whole education system then HE starts to loo...

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Arts and Humanities Alliance
@artsandhums.bsky.social

The Arts and Humanities Alliance is proud to sponsor the 2026 @britishacademy.bsky.social SHAPE conference. Our session is Myth busting for the public with @ritagardner.bsky.social @jennyrichards.bsky.social & @sebgordon1.bsky.social Chair @emmacayley.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/shape-conf...

eventbrite.comSHAPE Conference 2026The British Academy's annual SHAPE conference will be held in London on 4 March 2026.
Charles Forsdick
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www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c... “If Australia has no one doing deep doctoral-level research on China, Russia, Indonesia, and a host of other polities and cultures, how will we grasp the nuances of these nations to craft our foreign policy and safeguard our national security?”

australianbookreview.com.au‘When universities mattered: Higher education in a country addicted to the plough’ by Stephen GartonThere was a time when Australian universities mattered. Should they again?

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Jennifer Yee
@jenwhy.bsky.social

Who has a right to tell someone’s story? Interesting read on Kamel Daoud’s novel Houris and the woman whose lived experience may have been stolen. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

theguardian.com‘I felt betrayed, naked’: did a prize-winning novelist steal a woman’s life story?The long read: His novel was praised for giving a voice to the victims of Algeria’s brutal civil war. But one woman has accused Kamel Daoud of having stolen her story – and the ensuing legal battle ha...
Charles Forsdick
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Dissonance patrimoniale, réparation mémorielle : la « Table de désorientation », un contre-monument décolonial à Nancy theconversation.com/dissonance-p...

theconversation.comDissonance patrimoniale, réparation mémorielle : la « Table de désorientation », un contre-monument décolonial à NancyLe « contre-monument » inauguré récemment à Nancy invite à la réflexion sur le sens que peut prendre aujourd’hui cet emblème de la statuaire coloniale.
Charles Forsdick
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“To translate is not just to haul stories across languages, but to help them remain when everything else falls away. It is a quiet, stubborn refusal to disappear.” www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

theguardian.comA moment that changed me: in the bombed-out ruins of an apartment block, I saw a book I’d translatedThe sight of my work, torn and singed but still legible, made me realise the importance of translating and protecting stories – so they remain when everything else falls away

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Margot Finn
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social

'One of the most consequential changes [in the September 2025 Immigration White Paper] is the reduction of the Graduate Visa route from 24 to 18 months, which directly undermines the ability of international trainees to complete their Early Career Teacher (ECT) induction.'

hepi.ac.ukWEEKEND READING: The 2025 Immigration White Paper and its impact on international teacher recruitment and retention in MFL and Physics - HEPIThis blog was kindly authored by Juliette Claro, Lecturer in Education at St Mary’s University Twickenham and Co-chair of the UCET Special Interest Group in Supporting International Trainee Teachers i...
Charles Forsdick
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Migrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.comMigrants are at the heart of our art, our music, our whole history. That’s what the right won’t admit to you | Rowan WilliamsFrom Britain’s medieval buildings to western pop and contemporary art, these creations showcase our interwoven stories, says former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams

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Hetan Shah
@hetanshah.bsky.social

Over 24 years, Louise Cocker has captured almost half a million Norfolk Gravestones. ‘As a result, she has produced a remarkable dataset… which experts consider one of the most comprehensive photographic records of gravestones and memorials in England.’ www.theguardian.com/education/20...

theguardian.com‘The hidden engine room’: how amateur historians are powering genealogical researchWealth of datasets compiled as private passions are now a goldmine for those hunting for their ancestors

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Hetan Shah
@hetanshah.bsky.social

Are you worried about the devastating cuts we are seeing to arts, humanities & social sciences in UK universities? Last call for my lecture in Leicester this Thurs 27th Nov on the value of these subjects and how they support UK security, cohesion and prosperity www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shaping-a-...

eventbrite.co.ukShaping a Brighter FutureThe first event in our Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series, delivered by Hetan Shah, Chief Executive, The British Academy