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H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 16d

The forum concludes with a response essay by Geoffrey Turnovsky, Univ. of Washington

H-France thanks all the participants in the Forum for their contributions

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 16d

Edited by James Steintrager, Univ of California, Irvine, the forum begins w/eviews of the book by:

Hélène Visentin, Smith College
Erec R. Koch, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Caitlin Dahl, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville
and
Guillaume Peureux, Université Paris Nanterre

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 16d

H-France Forum announces its newest issue (20:6) on Geoffrey Turnovsky, Reading Typographically: Immersed in Print in Early Modern France. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2024. ISBN: 9781503637214 (hb); 978150363916 (eb)

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H-France Forum: Volume 20 (2025) – H-France

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SDN @uksdn.bsky.social · Sep 9

Very excited for this semester's NCFS Unbound events (@ncfsassn.bsky.social). This is a great chance to hear from lots of fantastic 19th-century scholars who’ll be discussing their new books! Find out more here: ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-capt...

NCFS Unbound - Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association

A series of virtual book dialogues Fall 2025 Friday, October 3, 2PM EasternBetween the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in FranceHannah Frydman in conver...

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H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

Applicants will be notified by Dec. 1. Contributions will be due on June 1, 2026 & should be approx 4,000-6,000 words; practice-based works should feature video, photographic, or audio documentation, accompanied by an artist’s statement or commentary of approx. 1,000-2,000 words

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

Interested participants should submit an abstract of up to 500 words & a CV or brief bio (200 words or less) to Juliet Bellow (Assoc. Prof. of Art History, American Univ.) & Madison Mainwaring (Asst Prof of French & Francophone Studies, Univ. of Notre Dame) by Oct. 15, 2025

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

Submissions may define “dance” &/or “sculpture” capaciously. We welcome meta-reflections on how dance studies, art history, & related fields can inform one another, as well as practice-based contributions by visual or choreographic artists

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

This call is open to any consideration of the ways dance & sculpture relate, historically or in the present, w/in any Francophone context. The aim is not only to deepen knowledge about specific case studies, but also to reveal how approaches across these media can open up new ways of thinking

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

Rather than reducing the relationship to mere illustration or representation, interventions should consider the ways each responded to the other, & address how such encounters between artistic media illuminate, inform, or amplify hierarchies of gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality, & culture

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

This special issue aims to broaden our understanding of the intricate patterns of interconnection & mutual exchange betw the arts of dance & sculpture. We seek contributions that complicate what we call the “Degas dilemma,” whereby the (female) dancer passively serves as the (male) sculptor’s “muse”

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

H-France Salon CFP: Beyond the “Degas Dilemma”: Dance-Sculpture Encounters in Francophone Contexts, Past & Present

Guest editors: Juliet Bellow (American Univ.) and Madison Mainwaring (Univ. of Notre Dame)

Deadline: 15 Oct. 2025

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

and concludes with a response essay by Antónia Szabari, Univ. of Southern California

H-France thanks all the participants for their contributions to the Forum

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

Edited by Andreea Marculescu, Univ. of Oklahoma, &
published in fond memory of Michèle Longino, the Forum begins w/four reviews of the book by:

Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown Univ.
Katherine Ibbett, Oxford Univ.
Marcus Keller, Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Toby Erik Wikström, Univ. of Iceland

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 26d

H-France Forum announces its most recent issue (vol. 20:5) on

Antónia Szabari, Agents without Empire: Mobility & Race-Making in 16th-Century France. NY: Fordham Univ. Pr., 2024. xii+294 pp. ISBN 978-1-5315-0666-7 (cl), 978-1-5315-0667-4 (pb), 978-1-5315-0668-1 (eb)

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H-France Forum: Volume 20 (2025) – H-France

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University of Nebraska Press @univnebpress.bsky.social · Sep 1

"[FROM NEAR AND FAR is] a highly readable monograph that will be especially of use for undergraduate students in advanced seminars," writes Patrick Luiz Sullivan De Oliveira for H-France.

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Cover of "From NEar and Far: A Transnational History of France" by Tyler Stovall

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · Sep 3

I had the privilege of reviewing Tyler Stovall's last book for
@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.

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Tom Hamilton @tombhamilton.bsky.social · Aug 6

This was really interesting to work on alongside Elisa Jones, Sophie Nicholls, John O'Brien, @dcvanderlinden.bsky.social, and Paul-Alexis Mellet too – an important book with wide implications, and lots to explore in the discussion

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · Jul 25

H-France Forum is pleased to announce its newest issue (20:4) on Paul-Alexis Mellet, Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion (France, v.1557-v. 1603) Geneva: Droz, 2022. ISBN: 978-2-600-06336-4 (pb)

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HFrance Forum: Volume 20 (2025) – H-France

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · Aug 6

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H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · Jul 25

H-France Forum is pleased to announce its newest issue (20:4) on Paul-Alexis Mellet, Les Remontrances: discours de paix et de justice en temps de guerre. Une autre histoire des guerres de religion (France, v.1557-v. 1603) Geneva: Droz, 2022. ISBN: 978-2-600-06336-4 (pb)

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HFrance Forum: Volume 20 (2025) – H-France

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · Aug 6

The Forum concludes with a response essay by Paul-Alexis Mellet, Institut d’Histoire de la Réformation, Université de Genève

H-France thanks all of the participants in the Forum for their contributions

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · Aug 6

@lm8son.bsky.social & Corine Labridy would like to extend their gratitude to all of the excellent contributors to this issue

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · Aug 6

Hugo Bujon (Lehman College-CUNY) attends to POUR LA FRANCE’s reformulation of military experience & the formerly colonized, detailing a family’s fight to obtain burial w/military honors for a young man killed during a hazing incident at the Saint-Cyr military school

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En deuil pour la nation : Pour la France de Rachid Hami | Imaginaries

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · Aug 6

Ashley Harris (Trinity College Dublin) introduces readers to a singular vision of the Paris banlieues elaborated by director Alice Diop in her documentary, NOUS.

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Who are we? New portraits of the banlieues parisiennes in Nous by Alice Diop | Imaginaries

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sabrina Bouarour (Univ. of London Institute in Paris) focuses on the bande dessinée & film LES ALGUES VERTES, both of which address the cover-up of environmental hazards in Brittany.

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Les algues vertes : de la BD documentaire au film de fiction, portrait d’une lanceuse d’alerte écoféministe | Imaginaries

H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · Aug 6

IMAGINARIES announces vol. 15:2, "Off the Beaten Path"

The films & texts reviewed here offer alternate understandings of metropolitan France, taking novel approaches to environmental, social, & racial challenges weighing on modern France & finding space for hope

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Imaginaries | Films, Fictions, and Other Representations of French-Speaking Worlds

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Dr Ashley Harris @ashleyscottharris.bsky.social · Jul 29

Pleased to see the publication of my short piece on Alice Diop’s Nous for H-France’s Imaginaries

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Who are we? New portraits of the banlieues parisiennes in Nous by Alice Diop | Imaginaries