1. Some listening first: Jeanne Perret for the Pearson English Podcast on Storytelling – for all ages. https://www.english.com/blog/storytelling-pearson-english-podcast/

Other episodes here https://www.pearson.com/english/resources/pearson-english-podcast.html

2. The next Leiden University Centre for Linguistics lecture in their series on Language Policy and Practices in the Global North and South is a talk by Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen from Bath University at 12:00 UK time this Wednesday, 3^rd November: ‘Lost in Translation: Parents as Medium Translators in Intergenerational Language Transmission’.

More info here https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/series/language-policy-and-practices-series and registration here  https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Atf-CrrDIpHtTalMQ7CV6Kbm9DRFJtOmPh

“Family Language Policy (FLP) has received increasing attention in recent years. Of central interest is why some children, growing up in a bilingual environment, become monolinguals while other children, growing up in a monolingual society, become bilinguals.”

New one on me, FLP, but sounds interesting.

3. Dhofar University’s ‘English Scholars Beyond Borders’ online conference on Saturday 4^th and Sunday 5^th December is free to attend. If you’d like to present a paper, you have until 11^th November to submit your proposal.

More info here http://www.englishscholarsbeyondborders.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/ESBB-DUIC-2021-detailed-flyer.pdf and PDF below.

4. And, finally and demandingly, for a change of theme and perspective, Timothy Snyder’s recent talk for the Stanford Humanities Center (sic) on “The Five Forms of Freedom” Freedom takes five forms, says Snyder: sovereignty, unpredictability, mobility, solidarity, and factuality. https://youtu.be/O2f97SFlTsg Good subtitles if you want.