H-France
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All things related to the study of French & Francophone History & Culture. The official BlueSky feed of the H-France website (www.h-france.net).
H-France Salon pleased to announce that videos of selected recorded panels from the 69th Annual Meeting of the @sfhs.bsky.social, held at Hofstra University in March 2024, are now available: h-france.net/h-france-sal...
H-France Salon, Volume 16 (2024) – H-France
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Delighted to put together this curated collection for French Historical Studies, enhancing our recent INCARCERATION special issue with these fantastic articles from the archive – all deal with issues of race and the carceral in French history @sfhs.bsky.social 🗃️ @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social
Incarceration and Race | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
This curated collection presents an opportunity to showcase French Historical Studies articles that treat questions of race and incarceration in French his
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It’s nice to see everyone’s textual analysis of The Odyssey It’s almost like the humanities give you entertainment, feelings, pleasure, and fun/interesting stuff to talk about, as well as lenses into both past and current society
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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies)@semfsuk.bsky.social · 2mo agoBritish Academy Fellowship Honour for SEMFS member: We are delighted to share that Professor Anne Duprat (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Centre de recherche CERCLL). Congratulations, Anne! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof...
oh permanent full-time pre-1800 job at Limerick! Deadline 14 August -- start of the job in January 2027. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU993/a... #earlymodern #MedievalSky #Skystorians #Jobfairy
Assistant Professor in European and or Global History (pre-1800) at University of Limerick
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🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder
Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
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We also awarded an honorable mention to Clement Huang (York University, @clemhuang.bsky.social) for “David’s Black-and-White Bear: Global Networks of Sciences and Religions via the MNHN’s First Giant Pandas, 1869." frenchcolonial.org/awards-prizes/
Awards & Prizes – French Colonial Historical Society
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We are pleased to award the 2026 Eccles Prize to Abdelhakim Belhacel (ATER--Université Paris Nanterre, @abdelhakimbelhacel.bsky.social ) for "Une histoire connectée de la traite et des impérialismes français et omanais sur la côte swahilie." frenchcolonial.org/awards-prizes/
Awards & Prizes – French Colonial Historical Society
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Suzanne K. Kaufman “Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, and the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisa.” FHS 46 no 3 (2025) has won the FCHS article prize. CONGRATULATIONS! #historians #skystorians read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...
Stanford Univ. invites applications for the position of Director of the Stanford Language Center, a faculty position as Assoc or Full Prof (Teaching) in one of the language & literature departments in the School of Humanities & Sciences.
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CFP: Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference Univ. of Oxford, Jesus College, Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub 18 Nov 2026 Oxford’s EDM Conference is an annual event bringing together early-career researchers & graduates exploring digital methodologies across the humanities & related disciplines
Appel à contribution – Travailler avec les archives du Parlement de Paris (XIIIe -XVe siècle) : instruments, méthodes et perspectives de recherche rmblf.be/2026/07/13/a...
Appel à contribution – Travailler avec les archives du Parlement de Paris (XIIIe -XVe siècle) : instruments, méthodes et perspectives de recherche
À partir du XIIIe siècle, l’institutionnalisation progressive du parlement de Paris accompagne l’affermissement du pouvoir royal en France et joue un rôle central dans l’administration du royaume. …
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2026 Peabody Prize Winner Siba Barkataki, English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad, India), to present “Coolie History and Auto-theory: A Study of La mémoire délavée by Nathacha Appanah.”
2026 William Shorrock Travel Award Winners Emily Hardick (The Ohio State University), Clement Qiang Huang (York University), Marie Robin (Columbia University), Emma Bock (McGill University), and William Lesaicherre (Scuola Superiore Meridionale/Aix-Marseille Université).
Prix pour services distingués: Ken Orosz, Buffalo State University
Article Prize: Suzanne Kaufman, “Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, & the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisia.” Honorable Mention: Wallace Teska, "Arbitrating Abolition: Women's Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 1907."
Heggoy Prize: Benjamin Claude Brower, The Colonization of Names: Symbolic Violence and France's Occupation of Algeria. Columbia University Press. Honorable Mention: Karine Sitcharn, Gouverner la jeunesse: De Gaulle et l’ambition impériale (Gallimard).
Boucher Prize: Mélanie Lamotte, By Flesh & Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire. Harvard University Press. Honorable Mention: Julia Gaffield, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (Yale University Press).
Grad Students!! Apply for the J.W. Eccles Prize for Best Paper presented at the annual conference. Le prix Eccles s’est décerné à un.e doctorant.e jugé.e d’avoir présenté la meilleure intervention au congrès annuel de la Société de l’Histoire Coloniale Française. frenchcolonial.org/awards-prizes/
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The latest issue of French History is guest edited by Damien Tricoire on the theme of 'Court society and the politics of print in the eighteenth century' doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @frenchhistory.bsky.social
Introduction: court society and the politics of print in the eighteenth century
Abstract. Promoting a political agenda and attacking the reputation of rivals were essential tools in the power struggles at the French court during the an
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Thank you, @opencreative.bsky.social , for your continued excellent and expert work in this collaboration!
Open Creative Communications@opencreative.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis animation shows how Oxford University Voltaire brings The Complete Works of Voltaire – a 205-volume scholarly edition – into a flexible digital resource for research and teaching. 💻 Thank you to @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and @livunipress.bsky.social for their continued collaboration.
Still time to submit your book to the Society for the Study of French Book Prize! By 31 July 2026 📖📚🇫🇷 for 'an author based in the UK and Ireland, on a topic related to the history of France and the Francophone world in its broadest global context, which is the author’s first sole book publication'
IMAGINARIES co-editors Corine Labridy, Grace An, & @lm8son.bsky.social are delighted to announce vol. 16: 1 (Summer 2026), entitled "Into Focus," with many thanks to the authors for their perceptive, empathetic essays h-france.net/imaginaries/
Imaginaries | Films, Fictions, and Other Representations of French-Speaking Worlds
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We hope that lots of you will consider submitting a piece for our upcoming forum on early modern women and generations #EarlyModern
