Sarah K. Miles
@skmiles.bsky.social
Historian of France, Québec, and the francophone world. Intellectual history, print and reading culture, and transnational militancy. SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow @ CRIDAQ & UQAM, coordonnatrice @CHCQ. https://sarahkmiles.wordpress.com/.
Jazzed to be part of Samia Henni's expo "Toxicité coloniale" (Colonial Toxicity) as it travels. Started out in Amsterdam & I caught part of it in London. Can't wait to visit this install at the Centre de Design @uqam.ca this month. Check the link for more info. centrededesign.com/toxicite-col...
Toxicité coloniale - Centre de design de l'UQAM
Architecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara Cette exposition de Samia Henni met en lumière les violences environnementales et humaines liées aux essais nucléaires et chimiques menés en...
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It was such a pleasure to have you - and what a rewarding and engaging weekend!
roxanne panchasi@rpanchasi.bsky.social · 9mo agoFantastic evening event + journée de travail hosted by @skmiles.bsky.social at UQAM this weekend on the theme « Mort et Militantisme ». Wonderful group of scholars doing fascinating research. It was a real delight and privilege to be involved!
"Death and Militancy" begins tomorrow! We open with a conversation with Félix Rose and mathilde capone Friday, November 7 at 5 p.m. at #UQAM (D-R200). Saturday, November 8 we continue with a workday beginning at 9 a.m. (free and open to the public!). Details at mortetmilitantisme.wordpress.com.
Sarah K. Miles@skmiles.bsky.social · 9mo ago"Mort et Militantisme" commence demain! Nous ouvrons avec une conversation avec Félix Rose et mathilde capone, vendredi 7 novembre a 17h au D-R200 (UQAM). Samedi 8 novembre, nous continuerons avec une journee de travail dès 9h également au D-R200. Détails: mortetmilitantisme.wordpress.com.
"Mort et Militantisme" commence demain! Nous ouvrons avec une conversation avec Félix Rose et mathilde capone, vendredi 7 novembre a 17h au D-R200 (UQAM). Samedi 8 novembre, nous continuerons avec une journee de travail dès 9h également au D-R200. Détails: mortetmilitantisme.wordpress.com.
@djshistorian.bsky.social discusses his new book, SENSATIONS, with @skmiles.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!
Daniel J. Sherman, "Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940" (U Chicago Press, 2025) - New Books Network
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Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky
Why don't French books believe in indexes? Don't they know how much easier life would be?
How lucky am I to share with wonderful colleagues AND to go home with flowers? I'm very thankful to have participated in the #GCFHSResist Colloquium, to have heard so many wonderful papers and gotten great feedback from colleagues! I'm now ready to get back home to my pup and get some rest.
Sara-Jane Vigneault@sjvigneault.bsky.social · last yr.Spent the last two weeks travelling between London & Paris for the Occupation Studies Research Network and the #GCFHSResist Conferences. Lots of stuff & sleep to catch up on, but l am incredibly grateful to have heard from and connected with so many kind and dedicated scholars doing excellent work!!
My book, Desiring Whiteness, was awarded the 2025 Alf Andrew Heggoy prize for best book in French colonial history (1815-present)! In a world that is falling apart, I cherish this bit of happy news and hope for brighter days ahead for all. You can get your own copy at 50% off with the code 095000
I've made it to Paris for some summer research and conferencing (in July)! If others are around and want to meet up for a coffee at the BNF or an after-archives drink, send me a message!
Is there a better time to read and review books than summer? I don't think so - and I'm looking for reviewers for lots of titles for the Journal of Contemporary History. We now do review articles of up to 4,000 words, covering three books. These and many more are up for grabs:
[Événement] C’est avec fierté que nous vous invitons à notre colloque, « Où en est le Québec d’hier ? Faire et refaire l’histoire du Québec contemporain », qui aura lieu les 26 et 27 septembre prochains au MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises !
My episode of the #NewBooksNetworkFrenchStudies is now out! The interview with @elisefranklin.bsky.social about her book Distintegrating Empire (Nebraska 2024) is available on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social now! newbooksnetwork.com/disintegrati...
Elise Franklin "Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France" (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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[Activité de nos cochercheur.euses] Aujourd’hui s’ouvre la réunion annuelle de la Société historique du Canada au Collège George Brown à Toronto. Trois de nos membres y interviendront : notre cochercheuse Magda Fahrni, notre nouvelle coordonnatrice Sarah Miles et notre cotitulaire Harold Bérubé.
[Présentation de l’équipe] Notre équipe bouge ! Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer que Sarah K. Miles, chercheuse postdoctorale propulsée par les fonds du CRSH, est notre nouvelle coordinatrice. Félicitations Sarah !
Heureux de recevoir mon exemplaire de la Rhaf. J'y parle des étudiants étrangers et de la diplomatie culturelle de l'UdeM. J'y suis en belle compagnie, avec les articles de @camille-robert.info sur la "contre-révolution tranquille" et de S. Labelle sur la Voix des femmes dans le jeu international.
Great new article out by the inestimable Teddy Paikin - just when you thought 19th century French political economy couldn't get more interesting! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
French capitalism and the developmental state in the political economy of Michel Chevalier
This paper advances a novel reading of the Saint-Simonian political economy of Michel Chevalier through the lens of the “developmental state”. It argues that Chevalier’s commitment to economic orga...
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Looking through archive photos today for a new piece on militant editorial practice in Québec. One internal comment about an MS submission is truly the stuff of authorial nightmares: "Faults: everything. The author... doesn't manage to write a single natural sentence. Summary: not worth sh*t." 👀
Journée de travail pour l'histoire du Québec! #chcq #histoirequebec
Chaire de recherche en histoire contemporaine du Québec@chaire-chcq.bsky.social · last yr.[Rencontre annuelle] Nos cochercheur.euses sont réuni.es à Orford ce samedi pour travailler sur nos chantiers. De belles discussions enrichissantes sur l'histoire contemporaine du Québec sont en cours ! ⚜️
Some really great replies here. (Others are less applicable.)
Charlotte Cavaille@ccavaille.bsky.social · last yr.Let's brainstorm over strategy Imagine you were part of the strategy team of a major US university: 1) what would be your short-to-mid term strategy to respond to current attacks on higher ed? 2) Who / how would you organize? 3) For what objectives? 4) With what means?
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
Thrilled that my article is now avaiable from French Politics, Culture and Society! You can read about militant advertising and sales techniques in French left-wing periodicals in the 1970s here (doi.org/10.3167/fpcs...) or DM me for access! Many many thanks to Liz Fink for her support for this. 🗃️
Selling Revolution
Abstract For left-wing revolutionary groups in 1970s France, to have a publication was to exist. In the face of a dramatic increase in the number of newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets, however, mili...
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Reposting this in case folks haven't seen it! 1 month left to apply to this #cfp #historians 🗃️
Sarah K. Miles@skmiles.bsky.social · 2y agoDo you work on the topic of death and militancy in the francophone world in the late twentieth century (in any discipline)? Do you want to join us in Montreal to talk about it? You're in luck! See the website for the CFP and more details! #🗃️ mortetmilitantisme.wordpress.com
So I need a job…. My current contract ends this academic year. 😕 I would love to be able to continue researching and teaching history of the Holocaust, Jews. Europe, and refugees/migration. Any leads would be appreciated!
I'm a terrible self-publicist but this is on *Friday* so please come/watch only as I tell my three jokes about Indirect Rule
John C@badsocialism.bsky.social · 2y agoAs I'm sitting down to work on it today, just a reminder that I'm doing a talk at the National Army Museum (and online!) at 12pm on the 21st of February!
Still looking for contributors for this series! Reach out if you (or anyone you know) might want to write on the heritage, histories, and/or archives of queer Atlantic Canada
ActiveHistory.ca@activehist.bsky.social · last yr.In today's post, @oncewilting.bsky.social introduces the series, Queering Atlantic Canada, she will edit this year.