To celebrate our 125th anniversary this year, we are taking the opportunity to highlight and thank a selection of key figures in LUP's recent history. To start this series, our Chief Executive Officer Anthony Cond reflects on the impact of LUP's former Editorial Advisory Board Chair Charles Forsdick following their first meeting almost twenty years … Continue reading
Glissant Translation Project: An interview with Charles Forsdick and Alexandre Leupin
Since Édouard Glissant’s death in February 2011, the work of the Martinican author and thinker has provided increasing number of readers with a unique insight into contemporary questions of globalization and its various impacts. Glissant’s writings reflect on slavery, racism, colonialism and the afterlives of empire, offering a vision of a culturally diverse and interrelated … Continue reading
Transnational French Studies: it’s not all baguettes and berets
By Charles Forsdick and Claire Launchbury As a site of arrival, transit and departure, the airport epitomizes the transnational. Exemplary in this regard is France’s largest international airport, Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle. Opened in 1974, by taking the name of the recently deceased de Gaulle, it sought to project French exceptionalism, a renewed national self-confidence in the aftermath … Continue reading
As statues fall: rethinking the blindspots of French national memory
By Etienne Achille, Charles Forsdick and Lydie Moudileno Pierre Nora’s collective volume Les Lieux de mémoire (1984-1992) has been widely recognized as one of the most important historiographical interventions of the late 20th century. Emerging initially from a context dominated by debates around how to commemorate the bicentenary of the French Revolution in 1989, the … Continue reading
Charles Forsdick on publishing Modern Languages research Open Access
Throughout April, we've been focusing on Open Access content as part of our #LUP120 celebrations. Charles Forsdick is Chair of the Modern Languages Sub-Panel for REF 2021 and AHRC Theme Leadership Fellow for Translating Cultures. Charles has written Open Access articles for our journals Francosphères and Contemporary French Civilization, and for LUP's platform Modern Languages Open. He … Continue reading
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