Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan

German broadcast. Nailed it

Delighted to share that I've joined French Studies Bulletin as Assistant Editor. I look forward to contributing to FSB, supporting early-career researchers, and helping to publish bold new ideas.

We are pleased to announce the CFP for next year's annual conference which will take place at the University of Galway. The deadline for submissions is 18 September 2026. For more information see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

2027 Annual Conference

The Society for French Studies is the UK's premier scholarly organisation for encouraging and supporting intellectual enquiry in French studies at all levels.

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NEOBANKS: any good articles on neobanks, especially in the EU?

Another great day at the SFS Annual Conference in Leicester with keynotes by Mary Harrod and Camille Robcis

Our 2026 Annual Conference kicks off with a welcome by Society President Nicholas Harrison and a plenary lecture by Patrick Crowley on 'Literary Criticism in a Time Before "After"'

Germany, hotbed of AI accelerationism. We're hoping to leapfrog the digital democracy phase – straight from fax-based government to rule by AGI.

I'm very please to share that I've been invited to share a poetic performance for the "It's A Merciless Format" gathering taking place in Brussels end of this month. Read more here: solangemanche.substack.com/p/its-a-merc...

It's A Merciless Format: programme

I'll be performing in Brussels, on Sunday the 28th of June

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housing is everything rise up “to the younger generation the housing squeeze is personal, and so is the policy response. While most lawmakers are homeowners — 80%, by one count — the youngest politicians are often renters,like the vast majority of Americans under 35” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/u...

A Youthful Crop of Politicians Run on Housing, and Their Own Rent

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A week ago, on the third of June, the Dutch poet Lieke Marsman passed away after years of fighting cancer. Her work meant a lot to me. solangemanche.substack.com/p/lieke-mars...

Lieke Marsman (1990-2026)

in memoriam

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Although it will still take at least nine months to appear, I had to write about finishing the manuscript of my first monograph! I am extremely grateful to @frenchstudies.bsky.social who enabled this. Very excited about what's next. solangemanche.substack.com/p/the-new-fi...

The New Financial Subject

on finishing my manuscript, Butler, and Malabou

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I started a substack to write about my recent archival research trip to IMEC, Caen. open.substack.com/pub/solangem...

It's a bit the Homo Academicus moment of Marxism right now...

As a library dweller and former resident of the city, I really enjoyed this article on Berlin's libraries by Laney Lenox. I'd definitely recommend anyone with a connection to the city to dig into the @slowberlin.bsky.social literary archives 👌 www.slowtravelberlin.com/berlins-best...

Berlin’s Libraries: More Than Just Books

Laney Lenox dives into Berlin’s libraries, discovering much more than just glorious books… on Slow Travel Berlin

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🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

Call for Abstracts: 11th annual conference

Freedom Eleventh annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Copenhagen Business School, Denmark2-3 October 2026 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme…

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Very disappointing to read a well-established literary scholar’s article about François Bon and see that he paid very little attention to the spelling of women’s names. Published in 2005, Akerman was hardly a niche filmmaker...

Important interview free to read here. Congratulations to both Martin and Dave @frenchstudies.bsky.social liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

Whither French Studies? An Interview with Martin Crowley and David Evans | French Studies Bulletin

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A wonderful initiative

French Studies@frenchstudies.bsky.social · 7mo ago

The Society for French Studies is now on LinkedIn! 🖇️ You can find us and join our new SFS LinkedIn Group via the link below. We will post SFS news on LinkedIn as on here, but you can also use the group to advertise events and opportunities related to the discipline. www.linkedin.com/groups/16713...

The Society is delighted to announce the five shortlisted entries for this year's R. Gapper Book Prize:

Most read in French Studies this week: Hauntology, Spectres and Phantoms by Colin Davis. Read it in the French Studies online archive: bit.ly/FS-Hauntology @frenchstudies.bsky.social #FrenchStudies #SubscribetoOpen

"no a la guerra" 🙏

Stop de verhoging van de AOW-leeftijd. Na de vakbonden zeggen zelfs werkgeversorganisaties dat de AOW-leeftijd niet verder moet stijgen. Afspraak is afspraak. Hoe betrouwbaar zijn D66, CDA en VVD eigenlijk?

NEW: A simple digital treatment involving gameplay has been shown to dramatically reduce intrusive trauma memories within one month. Six months on, some participants were symptom-free. Find out more ⬇️

Study shows that digital treatment with Tetris gameplay can

New research involving Oxford researchers has shown that a simple digital intervention that includes gameplay can dramatically reduce intrusive memories of trauma in a month, even to the point of

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New article! Far-right fossil fuel ignorance: the nostalgia of national-industrial modernity by Kjell Vowles. @kvowles.bsky.social doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2026.2620920

My level of exhaustion can be interpreted from my posts: commenting articles from the Guardian means "exhausted"

Another reason to dislike Tarantino... www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ja...

Paul Dano reacts to Tarantino criticism: ‘I was incredibly grateful that the world spoke up for me’

Actor says the defence of his peers and fans was ‘really nice’ after Quentin Tarantino’s scathing assessment calling Dano ‘a weak, weak, uninteresting guy’

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