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Latest Francosphères issue, edited by Dr Rebekah Vince, goes live online
11 August 2025

We are delighted to announce that the latest issue of Francosphères, edited by Dr Rebekah Vince, is now available online (table of contents below). Published by Liverpool University Press, Francosphères is an interdisciplinary, open access, bilingual journal that is essential reading for those working in and researching French-speaking cultures across the world.

QMOPAL53: New paper bringing together experimental semantics and language and law
7 August 2025

We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertation in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series.

 

 

QMOPAL54: New paper bringing about the tɨ- in Tigrinya
7 August 2025

We are excited to announce the publication of a recent outstanding MA dissertations in our Queen Mary Occasional Papers in Linguistics series. The full paper can be found in the Working Papers section.

 

 

Dr Rey Conquer publishes a book based on Holocaust Centre North residency
7 August 2025

Dr Rey Conquer, Teaching Fellow in German, has published a book, Conversation Time (June 2025), based on their residency at Holocaust Centre North in 2024. Their work was also included in the Centre's Memorial Gestures exhibition at Sunny Bank Mills in Leeds. 

Dr Bingham contributes chapter to the upcoming book 'The Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel'
17 July 2025

Dr Richard Bingham has a chapter in the upcoming Edinburgh Companion to the Millennial Novel with chapter titled "‘My generation, her generation, blah blah blah’: Forms of Generationality in the Millennial Novel".

Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar presents his research at BAFTSS
11 July 2025

On 27 March 2025, Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar presented his paper Piecing Together the Blast: Memory and Image Reconstruction in Natalia Garayalde’s Esquirlas at the BAFTSS (British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies) conference, Global Aesthetics, held at the University of Warwick, UK. 

New video essay by Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar
11 July 2025

Dr Vladimir Rosas-Salazar’s video essay Fading Echoes: Remembering and Forgetting through Videotapes was published in the March 2025 issue of [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies. 

Prof Köhler presents her research on medicalization of 19th-century spas
8 July 2025

Professor Astrid Köhler gave an invited paper about the "Medicalization of 19th-Century Spas" at an international Medical Humanities conference in Fribourg (Switzerland). The conference 4th-5th July 2025 brings together historians of medicine and of architecture, scholars from spatial and literary studies and healthcare architects – in order to stimulate interdisciplinary discussion on medical spaces, their history, significance and social dynamics.

Prof Köhler contributes to the upcoming book 'The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present'
8 July 2025

Professor Astrid Köhler has a chapter coming out in the book 'The German National Imagination from the Early Modern Period to the Present'.

Dr Xie joins panel on rising Chinese radical feminisms at AAS-in-Asia 2025
8 July 2025

Dr Xumeng Xie took part in a panel discussion at the 2025 AAS-in-Asia Conference (June 1-4), co-organised by the Association for Asian Studies and Social Science Baha in Kathmandu, Nepal. The panel focused on the recent rise of jinü (radical feminism) in China and across Asia, spotlighting the transnational nature of feminist resistance under intensifying authoritarian and patriarchal regimes.

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