English Literature are proud to host 'Calliberations', a celebration of Professor Willy Maley, on 24th May 2024. Speakers will reflect on Willy's wide-ranging scholarly, pedagogical, and cultural influence. Register here: eventbrite.com/e/calliberatio…

This is terrifying.

So I'm going to be speaking about infanticide ballads, the VERY long history of infanticide, and the concept of 'murderous mothers' at the symposium 'The Lethal Maternal: The Past in the Present and Future Projections' at ourANU on 31 May!
history.cass.anu.edu.au/events/lethal-…

Delighted to announce shortlist for English 4-11 Picture Book Awards 2024! Winners announced at our AGM on 24th May. englishassociation.ac.uk/2024-english-4… thx to all the publishers, authors, illustrators for fantastic submissions ! 😊 incl Scallywag Press Little Tiger Books Flying Eye B👀ks and ⬇️

2024 English 4-11 Picture Book Awards! Congratulations to this year’s shortlist! ☺️ Winners announced at our AGM,25th May. One book shortlisted in the non-fiction category will be selected as winner of the Margaret Mallett Award for Children’s Non-Fiction. englishassociation.ac.uk/2024-english-4…

Good Mornin’ 🌤️

Are you part of the conversation about the discipline of English yet? Come and join in at The English Association - The inclusive, subject association that supports and represents across EY, Primary, Secondary, FE and H.E 🌟

If you slash international student visas you will a) slash export earnings b) slash income to towns & cities across the country which can ill afford to lose it and c) slash jobs and opportunities- already 50+ unis are making cuts to jobs and courses.
thetimes.co.uk/article/fc88e9…

🧵🧵🧵😊🙌🏼 #EnglishCreates

“Social sciences and the humanities have never been more necessary. They give shape and meaning and so the core of what the academy does will be to make that case.” Professor Rana Mitter, British Academy vice-president for public engagement in today's Guardian culture

Moving exhibition by Issam Kourbaj Kettle's Yard, Urgent Archive, a living record of the ongoing conflict in Syria, of brave people & their stories.

How to radicalise your faculty in under 90 seconds.

Interested in opening doors to transition? Do register for this free event as part of ⁦English Association⁩ exciting programme. I’ll be talking with a leading teacher from the Chichester Diocese and the teaching and learning lead from ⁦Wonder Institute of Education⁩ eventbrite.co.uk/e/stepping-sto…

The destruction of English Higher Education continues apace. All the skills and buildings and infrastructure that you the taxpayer paid for, poured down the drain. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

“I had come by to make sure the university president had not called in the APD, but he did,” McAfee posted later. “Then I witnessed a young person being viciously pummeled by the cops. After demanding that they stop and refusing to step away, I was arrested.”

English 4-11 Picture Book Awards 2024. Congratulations to this year’s shortlist! Winners announced at the EA’s AGM on 25 May. The winner of the Margaret Mallett Award for Children’s Non-Fiction will also be announced Book tickets now to discover winners 😃 englishassociation.ac.uk/2024-english-4…

If you can be in Oxford on 20 June, please do come along. Thanks to Bodleian Libraries for this honour, and to Wadham College and Queen's College Library whose books I will be discussing

visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/fob-annual-lec…

Tagging Linguistics in MFL Project UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social #MFLTwitterari Team English Language & Linguistics at Newcastle

Friends near Manchester: go to this fab concert in June with the brilliant KANTOS / Ellie Slorach The Stoller Hall with music by me, Kristina Arakelyan and Britten/Anna Lapwood. Also George Herbert on organ. (Not THE George Herbert, but this one probably plays the organ better)

The politics stopping the UK from opening a youth mobility scheme with Europe

theconversation.com/the-politics-s… via The Conversation

On Monday I talked to David Thomas about why oracy matters, and why it matters in Maths. In today's podcast I talk to Barbara Bleiman 🎓 Education is Conversation about why oracy matters, and why it matters in English: #OracyForLearning .
Many more to come.