Lesley Graham
@lezzles
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Senior lecturer in English at the University of Bordeaux. Past president of French Society of Scottish Studies @SFEEcossaises Occasional conference interpreter.
Bordeaux
Joined March 2007
"Y'a pas d'argent à l'Education Nationale ! On doit faire des économies !" Regardez les prix catalogues des sociétés par lesquelles je suis OBLIGà de passer 80⏠la lampe de chevet QUATRE-VINGT EUROS 48,6⏠l'ampoule QUARANTE-HUIT PUTAINS D'EUROS POUR UNE AMPOULE
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In years to come, students in university departments around the world will be studying the propaganda embedded in this headline. As someone who regularly lectures in sociology, journalism and media studies, I could teach an entire lesson on the title alone. For example: 1.
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It's almost time to head off to Bochum for RLS2024, the biennial Robert Louis Stevenson conference. This year, the theme is Intertextual Stevenson. https://t.co/1NvJWotsqM
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Ditto France
"When I speak of Fascism in England, I am not necessarily thinking of Mosley and his pimpled followers. English Fascism, when it arrives, is likely to be of a sedate and subtle kind, Presumably, at any rate, at first, It wonât be called Fascism..." #Orwell
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Lesley Graham / @lezzles takes us to those 'opening-out places' and we love it. 'Risorgimento' on https://t.co/2IK0bd2lTt
#poem
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RLS 2024: Intertextual Stevenson, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, Preliminary Programme,
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Join the French Society for Scottish Studies International Conference 'Unions/Disunions,' hosted by Nathalie Duclos and Robert Irvine, at Edinburgh University, May 2-4, 2024. Keynote by Prof Robert Crawford @SFEEcossaises @NathalieVDuclos
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Thank you so much, @lezzles, for letting me know about this. What an interesting analysis in Ătudes Ăcossaises bilingual journal of The State of Me, my 2008 autobiographical novel on illness: https://t.co/3qXTeWcn4k Fascinating and gratifying to see your work read so closely.
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Introduction Nasim Marie Jafryâs The State of Me (2008) is a semi-fictional reimagining of the authorâs own life, through protagonist, Helen, of living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in late-t...
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International early-career seminar Strangers and foreigners: hospitality and hostility in Britain, France, and Germany, 1680-1850 Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 3-5 April @UBMontaigne & @unidue With the support of @DFHUFA
https://t.co/G0PBSt1suk
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Does you good just to spend two minutes with this, doesnât it?
"You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing." đ€« You can watch Under Milk Wood with Michael Sheen on #NationalTheatreAtHome
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đą We need your help! đïž To get the Brits abroad vote out for the GE we need everyone to register asap. We have a long way to go, so please share with all your family and friends abroad. đ UK nationals over 18 can vote wherever they live. https://t.co/PMeStFnJhq
gov.uk
Register to vote to take part in elections in the UK. Includes how to get on the electoral register and how to update your address on the register.
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CFP : Etudes Ecossaises: âScotland 30 years after Trainspottingâ
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Call For Papers_ âScotland 30 years after TrainspottingâDownload
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COP28 is now on the verge of complete failure. The world desperately needs to phase out fossil fuels as quickly as possible, but this obsequious draft reads as if OPEC dictated it word for word. It is even worse than many had feared. It is âOf the Petrostates, By the Petrostates
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I was at one of these gigs (canât remember which). Shane was incredibly drunk, arrived on stage hours late and could barely stand. It was still brilliant. ( đž @sudouest ) #ShaneMacGowan
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Just two days left to get your proposals in for RLS2024 Intertextual Stevenson at Ruhr University Bochum, 27 June â 29 June 2024
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