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Hélène Quanquin

@hquanquin.bsky.social

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C19 Americanist, Université de Lille, feminisms, Men in the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890: Cumbersome Allies (Routledge, 2020), Le droit de vote des femmes aux Etats-Unis, 1776-1965 (2022). Senior fellow Institut Universitaire de France.

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jul 10

Looking forward to tomorrow's conversations on the history of women in the Americas through the prism of emotions and activism @universityofleeds.bsky.social @leedsbeckett.bsky.social

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Asso Mnémosyne @assomnemosyne.bsky.social · Jul 9

Campagne du #PrixMnémosyne2025...
C'est parti ! 🥳

Retrouvez toutes les informations sur notre site ⤵️
mnemosyne-asso.com/prix-mnemosy...

Affiche de promotion du Prix Mnémosyne 2025.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Jun 26

BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏

@ccp-org.bsky.social
@profgabrielle.bsky.social
@jimccasey1.bsky.social

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · Jun 26

There's something really interesting going on here methodologically in Justice Jackson's Medina v. Planned Parenthood dissent. You can see it in one footnote.

In short, Jackson is emphasizing that Black Americans are part of the original "public" about which "originalists" should be concerned.

1 E.g., Colored People’s Convention of the State of South Carolina
(1865, Charleston, SC), Colored Conventions Project Digital Records
(last visited June 15, 2025), https://omeka.coloredconventions.org/items/
show/570 (“ ‘Right’ is defined to be the just claim, ownership, or lawful
title which a person has to anything”).

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 26

"“I SAW THE WRITTEN WORD AS THE TOOL TO CHANGE THE WORLD.” Barbara Grier’s Fight for Lesbian Visibility: Literary Activism and “Living Propaganda” (1933-2011)" (M1)

Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 26

"Transmasculine Representations in American Cinema of the 21st Century (1999-2023)"

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 26

"Sisterhood, Symbolism and (Eco)Feminism: The Women’s Pentagon Action (1980-1981)" (M1)

Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 26

"Modern Neoliberal Feminism: The ‘Girlboss’ Movement (2014-2016) and the “Depoliticization of the Personal” in Mainstream Feminist Spheres" (M1)

Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 26

“Women’s place in US high school history curricula and resources for teachers in the 21st century: The Cases of AP Program, The Library of Congress, Women and the American Story, and resources created by and for the State of Florida.” (M1)

Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 26

Marathon de soutenances de master 1 et 2 d'études anglophones, avec cette année encore, de très beaux mémoires de recherche, dont voici les titres: "La mort d’enfants noirs pendant le Mouvement des Droits Civiques (1955-1964) : deuil, mémoire et représentation entre personnel et politique" (M2)...

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 20

Notre table ronde finale sur Anna Julia Cooper, héritage et mémoire avec Sabrina Robleh (U. Sorbonne Paris Nord) et Pierre-Yves Bocquet (Fondation pour la mémoire de l'esclavage) @fondationme.bsky.social

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 20

Sabrina Evans ("No Flowers Please": Anna Julia Cooper's Practice of Scrapbooking to Preserve Her Black Feminist and Educational Legacy").

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 20

Now a penl on AJC and Black Feminism, with Mickaëlle Provost (Une nouvelle lignée de femmes solides et solidaires: imaginer la sororité depuis le clivage de race), Claire Delahaye (Ethics and Praxis of Solidarity and Responsibility: AJC's views and Experiences of the Women's Suffrage Movement), and

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 20

We start the second day of the conference with Martha Jones' keynote: "Family, Kinship, and the Ties That Bind." @marthasjones.bsky.social

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 19

Our last keynote of the day: Dr. Shirley Moody-Turner, "Anna Julia Cooper's Circuitous Route from M Street to the Sorbonne."

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 19

Next panel: « AJC et ses traductions »/« Translating Anna Julia Cooper » with Malaurie Pilatte (My Tongue Stupidly Stuck in My Throat: AJC, France and the Language of Equality) and @noelleromney.bsky.social (AJC en France et aux Etats-Unis: traductions, circulations, modernisme(s) noir(s)).

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 19

First panel: "Anna Julia Cooper et l'écriture de l'histoire / Anna Julia Cooper and the Writing of History", with Dr. Frédéric Régent (Analyse de la thèse d'AJC, 100 ans après) and Dr. Claire Parfait (AJC, Collective Biography, and African American Historiography), moderated by Dr. Myriam Cottias.

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 19

First day of "Anna Julia Cooper, 1925-2025: Une féministe noire en Sorbonne"! Our first keynote is Dr. Vivian M. May's "A Question of "Attitude": Anna Julia Cooper's 1925 Sorbonne Dissertation".

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 17

Anna Julia Cooper, 1925-2025. Une féministe noire en Sorbonne, c’est jeudi et vendredi! @mroyupc.bsky.social @noelleromney.bsky.social @audreycel.bsky.social @cecille-ulille.bsky.social @marthasjones.bsky.social

MC ChRabier @chrabier.cpesr.fr · Jun 17

C'est jeudi ! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
BRAVO @audreycel.bsky.social @hquanquin.bsky.social !

CECILLE @cecille-ulille.bsky.social · Jun 11

[COLL] 19-20.06.25 / @sorbonneparis1.bsky.social
ANNA JULIA COOPER, 1925-2025: Une féministe noire en Sorbonne
org: @gregorybekhtari.bsky.social, Magali Bessone, @audreycel.bsky.social, Myriam Cottias, @hquanquin.bsky.social, @noelleromney.bsky.social & @mroyupc.bsky.social

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 17

Merci! Très hâte!

Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 13

It’s a wrap!

Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 13

Our final roundtable of the day and the conference, "Generations and Generational Time in a Transatlantic Perspective" with Sophie Musitelli, Clare Elliott, and Bridget Bennett.

Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 13

Next panel on Creating Genealogies and Kinships with Jonathan Senchyne, Marlas Yvonne Whitley, and Anne-Claire Faucquez.

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 13

It's now time for our keynote of the day, Brigitte Fielder's "Early Black Futures and Generational Hope” @brigfield.bsky.social moderated by Thomas Constantinesco

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 13

Our second day of the conference is starting with a panel on "Kinship and Gendered Relations Across Borders: Black and Filipino Transnational Networks of Family, Freedom, and Citizenship" with Westenley Alcenat, Bianca Elan Dang and Michael Salgarolo.

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Hélène Quanquin @hquanquin.bsky.social · Jun 13

The first day ended with a roundtable on Transmission and the Shaping of the Long 19th century, with Hélène Valance, Michaël Roy and Anne-Claire Faucquez.

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