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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · May 21

Thanks! I didn't know him.

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · May 21

I want to know whose memoirs it was!

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · May 21

I had not noticed that, at long last, my review of Janet Polasky's important but flawed Asylum Between Nations had been published in the December 2024 issue of Comparativ.

Here it is:

comparativ.net/v2/article/v...

Janet Polasky: Asylum Between Nations: Refugees in a Revolutionary Era, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023, 312 pp. | Comparativ

comparativ.net

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Feb 3

A tous les collègues européens/ to all European colleagues:
Voici une tribune, de la part de Rogue ESR, qu'il faut signer. Nous ne pouvons contrer l'internationale fasciste qu'internationalement, avant de mener la lutte at home, face à la violence de l'attaque qui a lieu, à bas bruit, en ce moment.

In solidarity

In solidarity Dear Colleagues in the USA, We wish to express our unwavering support for you during these alarming times. From our positions as researchers and academics in Europe, we are observing …

rogueesr.fr

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Feb 3

Moi non plus je n'y comprends rien : on me dit que les prix ont baissé pour la banlieue, mais pour aller à Nanterre, c'est 2,50€ (où est la baisse ?) en sachant qu'il n'est pas possible d'avoir un pass navigo ou d'acheter les tickets par 10 à tarif dégressif. Merci Valoche !

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Jan 27

Oui, et pour l'administration française non plus. Je n'écris pas cela pour relativiser, mais pour pointer de quoi le macronisme est le nom :

www.francebleu.fr/infos/educat...

"L'école doit rester un sanctuaire", selon les syndicats après l'arrestation d'une collégienne à Maizières-lès-Metz - ici

Une collégienne de 14 ans a été arrêtée ce mercredi 22 janvier dans son établissement à Maizières-lès-Metz par les gendarmes pour la reconduire à la frontière belge avec sa mère et son frère. Originai...

www.francebleu.fr

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Jan 27

C'est demain et mercredi.

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Paul Chopelin @paulchopelin.bsky.social · Jan 27

Mise en ligne du dernier n° de la revue "La Révolution française" sur le thème "Vivre la Révolution de Saint-Domingue (1789-1804)". Un dossier coordonné par Frédéric Régent. ⤵️
journals.openedition.org/lrf/

La Révolution française

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Jan 6

My latest article has just been published in the History of European Ideas journal.

I explore what could have been an Irish popular republic in 1795-1796 had the French expedition succeeded, and therefore propose a re-assessment of the secret society of the Defenders.

‘“Love, liberty, and loyalty”: unearthing the Defenders’ popular project for the ‘Republic of the United States of France and Ireland’ (1795–6)

When Theobald Wolfe Tone arrived in France in February 1796, intent on securing French help to win Irish independence from England and to establish a republic in Ireland, his greatest challenge was...

www.tandfonline.com

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Dec 17

The best Master dissertation price of the history department at the Université Paris Nanterre have been awarded to three outstanding dissertations. You can listen to the students presenting their work here:

Les lauréats du prix du master 2024

Le prix du Master distingue chaque année les meilleurs mémoires de M2 d’histoire (en présentiel ou en EAD) soutenus à l’Université Paris Nanterre. Il vise à récompenser les recherches de jeunes cherch...

cmhn.hypotheses.org

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Dec 3

www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...

L’alerte des « universités en danger », qui manifestent pour dénoncer une « bascule vers un fonctionnement très dégradé »

Les établissements français se mobilisent, mardi 3 décembre, pour mettre en garde sur leur situation. Une majorité d’entre eux devront réduire leurs capacités d’accueil, revoir leur offre de formation...

www.lemonde.fr

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Dec 3

Macron has recently announced that he intended to 'pantheonize' Marc Bloch. Too bad his presidency has been synonymous with a concerted, willful destruction of everything Bloch fought for, and most notably an egalitarian school and university system.

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Dec 3

I have been updating my profile on HAL (HyperArticles en Ligne), the French open archive platform developed by the CNRS. It appears that my three latest publications (others are in the pipeline) are reviews. I already shared my review on Laurent Colantonio's book yesterday. Here is another one:

Making empire: Ireland, imperialism, and the early modern world

Published in Irish Studies Review (Vol. 32, No. 3, 2024)

www.tandfonline.com

Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Dec 3

The kit doesn't seem to work anymore, though.

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Dec 3

I would really like to be added. My PhD was focused on transnational history from below between France and Ireland. Now, I'm expanding my research into the popular protest movement in Ireland from 1760 to 1830 in an Atlantic and global context.

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Alyssa S. @drsepinwall.bsky.social · Dec 3

This posthumous essay by Natalie Zemon Davis, about how being politically persecuted by her government & having her passport stripped affected her historical scholarship, is really amazing. I'd missed it coming out in Sept. Thanks to @ebrandom.bsky.social for posting it.

Text: Looking back, then, at my time of exclusion, so much less dramatic than the herem cast by the Amsterdam rabbis against Spinoza, I am glad that it led me to the history of the book, or what I would call more generally cultural history. Without that, I might have written about peasant social movements, but not found my way to Judge Jean de Coras’s 1560 book about the case of the peasant impostor Martin Guerre that he had just settled. It seems as though I, too, picked up early on the role of dissimulation in human behaviour. Previously when I had asked myself about the link between my own background and my book on The return of Martin Guerre, I had thought of my years of self-fashioning as a Jew on the margins of a non-Jewish world. But now I see how the HUAC scare may have turned my historian’s antennae in that direction as well.

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Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Dec 2

"Anti-immigration candidates

Candidates that had immigration at the centre of their election platform fell flat around the country. [...] An effort to maximise the chances of candidates with far-right views on immigration under the banner of the so-called National Alliance – was unsuccessful."

Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Dec 2

Though, it also implies a "more of the same" idea with the neo-liberal consensus at the heart of Irish politics:

www.irishtimes.com/politics/202...

Labour and Social Democrats wary of joining Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael coalition

Election 2024: Fianna Fáil certain to be largest party in new Dáil with Fine Gael trailing slightly behind

www.irishtimes.com

Mathieu Ferradou @mferradou.bsky.social · Dec 2

There a few genuinely good news in today's world. So, when Ireland clearly shows that she rejects the hatred crap which is on the rise everywhere else (and despite a very active campaign spearheaded from the US), this is very good news indeed.