Category: Teachers
ASMCF workshop on Outreach in French studies
On April 28th, the ASMCF ran an online workshop to discuss the principles, strategies, and challenges of designing and delivering outreach activities in French Studies. We were delighted to welcome Dr Daniel Finch-Race who talked about his ‘Post-16 French Enrichment Day on Environment...
ASMCF newsletter January 2021
Our January Newsletter is now available for members, friends and colleagues of the ASMCF....
ASMCF Annual Conference 2020 Online hosted by Leeds
Annual Conference: Exile, Home and Belonging. Online conference 10-11 September 2020. We are delighted that the annual conference of the ASMCF will go ahead online in September. The event was due to be held at the University of Leeds and we thank colleagues at Leeds for their hard work in putt...
‘Enjoy learning French outside the classroom’: tips from Dr Ashleigh Harris (QUB)
This post is part of a series on bridging the gap between secondary and higher education. It is intended for students and teachers from both systems to reflect on how to make the transition smoother. Dr Ashley Harris is a Lecturer in French Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. ...
Conference 2020 – Exile, home and belonging
Association of Modern & Contemporary France Annual conference, 10-12th September 2020, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Exile, Home and Belonging Confirmed keynote speakers: Johanna Siméant (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) Max Silverman (University of Leeds) Bill Marshall (Un...
Teaching La Haine Virtual Special Issue for teachers and students
We are delighted to launch the first of our virtual special issues of the journal Modern and Contemporary France on the theme of 'Teaching Kassovitz's La Haine.' The Virtual Special Issue is ideal for teachers of A-Level and their students and can be found at this webpage. The Virtual Special Iss...
Preparing to study French at university: the view from students in England
Preparing to study French at university: the view from students in England This post is part of a monthly series on bridging the gap between secondary and higher education. It is intended for students and teachers from both systems to reflect on how to make the transition smoother. ...
Preparing to study French at university: tips from Cristina Johnston and Hannah Grayson
This post is part of a monthly series on bridging the gap between secondary and higher education. It is intended for students and teachers from both systems to reflect on how to make the transition smoother. Cristina Johnston is a Senior Lecturer in French and Hannah Grayson is a Lectur...
Preparing to study French at university: tips from Marjorie Huet-Martin
This post is part of a monthly series on bridging the gap between secondary and higher education. It is intended for students and teachers from both systems to reflect on how to make the transition smoother. Marjorie Huet-Martin is a Senior Teaching Fellow in French at the University of...
Preparing students to study French at university: tips from Antonia Wimbush
This post is part of a monthly series on bridging the gap between secondary and higher education. It is intended for students and teachers from both systems to reflect on how to make the transition smoother. Dr Antonia Wimbush is a Teaching Fellow in Politics, Languages & Internatio...
The ASMCF Annual Conference Celebrates the Association’s 40th anniversary
The ASMCF will celebrate its fortieth anniversary at the Annual Conference, which is taking place from 4-6th September 2019 at the University of London Paris on the theme of the transnational city. Full details for the event and the programme can be found here....
Extended deadline for the Schools Liaison & Outreach Funding Initiative
The ASMCF’s Schools Liaison and Outreach Funding Initiative offers up to £500 to support members of the Association who organise teacher- or pupil-focused events which fulfill the following objectives: promote the learning of French in its social, political, historical and cultural context i...
Teaching Vichy and the Occupation: ASMCF-funded workshop for teachers
The Vichy regime and the German Occupation of France in the Second World War is a mainstay of A-Level curricula for French. Whether taught in the form of a set text or as a stand-alone module or topic, the Occupation is one of the few constants across examination boards. The one-day workshop, ‘Tea...
University of Stirling Schools Event
In June 2019, French at the University of Stirling ran a series of seminars, CPD workshops and plenary sessions for Higher and Advanced Higher pupils and teachers from schools across Scotland, supported by the ASMCF Schools Liaison and Outreach Fund and by the University of Stirling’s Division of ...
Teaching Vichy and the Occupation
Academics and teaching staff at the University of Warwick, Aston University and Finham Park School in Coventry were awarded £500 from our Schools' Liaison and Outreach Activities fund to organise an event on sharing best practice and creating additional teaching resources on the topic of the Occupa...
Post-16 French Enrichment Day on Environmental and Medical Issues
The ASMCF was delighted to support the Post-16 Enrichment Day on Environmental and Medical Issues at the University of Bristol on 11 May 2019 through its Schools’ Liaison and Outreach Activities. You can find a report of the day, written by Dr Daniel Finch-Race here....
Post-16 French Enrichment Day on Environmental and Medical Issues
The ASMCF was delighted to support the Post-16 Enrichment Day on Environmental and Medical Issues at the University of Bristol on 11 May 2019 through its Schools' Liaison and Outreach Activities. Below you can find a report of the day, written by Dr Daniel Finch-Race: #EnviroMedicalHuma...
Four successful applications to the Schools’ Liaison and Outreach Activities Fund
We are delighted to announce that four projects have been successful in the first round of the 2019 Schools’ Liaison and Outreach Activities Fund. Led by schools or by universities in different parts of the country, these projects demonstrate the range of actions and themes in which ASMCF members ...
ASMCF-funded project report: Queen University Belfast’s A-Level French Day
On 25 January 2019, 150 AS-Level pupils and their teachers from across Northern Ireland participated in a major outreach day hosted by French Studies at Queen’s University Belfast, funded by the ASMCF's Schools Liaison & Outreach Activities Fund. Demand for this event greatly exceeded supply a...
ASMCF Annual Conference 2019
Gathering in Paris to mark its 40th anniversary, the ASMCF annual conference on The Transnational City was co-organised and co-hosted by the University of London Institute and Paris and the American University of Paris. This conference considered the ways in which changing and accelerating patt...
ASMCF-SSFH Schools’ Liaison and Outreach Fund for French and French History
About the prize: This prize is jointly funded by the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France and the Society for the Study of French History. It aims to support outreach activities that promote the learning of French and the histories and cultures of the French-speaking world...
Individual Membership
Membership dues are currently £46 (US$82; €53) per year. Individual membership includes a year's subscription to the journal Modern & Contemporary France, entitlement to reduced conference rates, voting rights at Association meetings and eligibility for Association funding in support of appr...
Outreach Funding Initiative
The ASMCF’s Schools Liaison and Outreach Funding Initiative offers up to £500 to support members of the Association who organise teacher- or pupil-focused events which fulfill the following objectives: Promote the learning of French in its social, political, historical and cultural contex...
Comics and Nation 2017
Comics & Nation’, a two-day international event held at Bangor University with the generous support of the ASMCF, brought together scholars working on a variety of cultures and disciplines to provide a forum for the discussion of the interrelation between comic art and nation. The conferenc...