Susan Hiner
@srocher.bsky.social
French and Global 19C prof. Accessories to Modernity and Behind the Seams. Dogs know best.
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“Americans really like book festivals and local history museums…We especially like it when such gifts are available to everyone, and not just to those who can afford the price of a ticket.” Excellent @margaretrenkl.bsky.social on the high ROI of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
Opinion | Why DOGE Slashed the National Endowment for the Humanities (Gift Article)
Eliminating federal funding for the humanities saves next to no money, but it will cost the American people something precious.
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April 7, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“Americans really like book festivals and local history museums…We especially like it when such gifts are available to everyone, and not just to those who can afford the price of a ticket.” Excellent @margaretrenkl.bsky.social on the high ROI of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...
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Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.
1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Maria Scott recounting the history of @uksdn.bsky.social #SDNDurham2025
April 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Maria Scott recounting the history of @uksdn.bsky.social #SDNDurham2025
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It was an enormous pleasure and privilege to chair our first keynote speaker at #SDNDurham2025, Professor Pratima Prasad, with a fascinating paper on enslavement, marronnage and freedom in the French Indian Ocean in a spectacular venue. Very much looking forward to the book! @uksdn.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It was an enormous pleasure and privilege to chair our first keynote speaker at #SDNDurham2025, Professor Pratima Prasad, with a fascinating paper on enslavement, marronnage and freedom in the French Indian Ocean in a spectacular venue. Very much looking forward to the book! @uksdn.bsky.social
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From the songs of the workers to Wagner, vaudeville and yodelling - a great panel covering humour, parody and cultural identity throughout the C19th. #SDNDurham2025
April 1, 2025 at 11:53 AM
From the songs of the workers to Wagner, vaudeville and yodelling - a great panel covering humour, parody and cultural identity throughout the C19th. #SDNDurham2025
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A wonderfully warm welcome from Ed Welch and @MLACdurham colleagues in Durham Castle! #SDNDurham2025
March 31, 2025 at 8:57 PM
A wonderfully warm welcome from Ed Welch and @MLACdurham colleagues in Durham Castle! #SDNDurham2025
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Cloudless blue skies over Durham for day 2 of #SDNDurham2025 - starting the day with Nationalismes et imaginaires raciaux.
April 1, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Cloudless blue skies over Durham for day 2 of #SDNDurham2025 - starting the day with Nationalismes et imaginaires raciaux.
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Hope you are all looking forward to a great conference and wishing everyone safe travels to Durham #SDNDurham2025
@uksdn.bsky.social Here’s wishing a wonderful couple of days to all delegates at the SDN annual conference.
March 30, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Hope you are all looking forward to a great conference and wishing everyone safe travels to Durham #SDNDurham2025
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Pratima Prasad’s wonderful keynote in a beautiful setting #sdndurham2025
March 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Pratima Prasad’s wonderful keynote in a beautiful setting #sdndurham2025
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Delighted to be in Durham for #SDNDurham2025 - an opportunity to catch up and share ideas. Looking forward to the brilliant keynotes and papers, and to meeting up with all the PGs and ECRs! @uksdn.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Delighted to be in Durham for #SDNDurham2025 - an opportunity to catch up and share ideas. Looking forward to the brilliant keynotes and papers, and to meeting up with all the PGs and ECRs! @uksdn.bsky.social
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Pratima Prasad giving her plenary paper #SDNDurham2025 @uksdn.bsky.social
March 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Pratima Prasad giving her plenary paper #SDNDurham2025 @uksdn.bsky.social
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There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
March 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
There are scores of anti Trump/DOGE/Musk protests planned for April 5 handsoff2025.com
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Join us tomorrow afternoon at 3 central for Jeffrey Schneider’s virtual book talk about his new book, Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany.
If you’re interested in attending, don’t forget to RSVP to receive the Zoom link! Register here: go.wisc.edu/e3c4u1
If you’re interested in attending, don’t forget to RSVP to receive the Zoom link! Register here: go.wisc.edu/e3c4u1
March 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Join us tomorrow afternoon at 3 central for Jeffrey Schneider’s virtual book talk about his new book, Uniform Fantasies: Soldiers, Sex, and Queer Emancipation in Imperial Germany.
If you’re interested in attending, don’t forget to RSVP to receive the Zoom link! Register here: go.wisc.edu/e3c4u1
If you’re interested in attending, don’t forget to RSVP to receive the Zoom link! Register here: go.wisc.edu/e3c4u1
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My latest essay is up. “Selma is Stronger than MAGA: On Loving Your Country.” Inspired by the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday…and, ironically Justice Kennedy. READ AND SHARE.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Selma is Stronger than MAGA
On Loving Your Country
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My latest essay is up. “Selma is Stronger than MAGA: On Loving Your Country.” Inspired by the 60th anniversary of Bloody Sunday…and, ironically Justice Kennedy. READ AND SHARE.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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Lovely to receive the paperback edition of our edited volume on the French decadent movement, colonialism and oreientalism, with @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social !
February 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Lovely to receive the paperback edition of our edited volume on the French decadent movement, colonialism and oreientalism, with @ritorneropoeta.bsky.social !
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I wrote a piece about a certain flavor of academic abuse. I have carried parts of this story for upwards of 25 yrs, & I’m grateful to @chronicle.com for helping me to tell it.
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #PHDchat
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #PHDchat
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
What Do We Do With Monstrous Mentors?
It’s time for a reckoning.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:16 PM
I wrote a piece about a certain flavor of academic abuse. I have carried parts of this story for upwards of 25 yrs, & I’m grateful to @chronicle.com for helping me to tell it.
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #PHDchat
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
#AcademicSky #HigherEd #PHDchat
www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Late for trans day of visibility but wanted to share this drawing of Rachilde by one of my wonderful BU grad students #FrHistory #transhistory #LGBTQ 🌈🎓
#FrenchStudies
#FrenchStudies
November 21, 2024 at 9:59 PM
Late for trans day of visibility but wanted to share this drawing of Rachilde by one of my wonderful BU grad students #FrHistory #transhistory #LGBTQ 🌈🎓
#FrenchStudies
#FrenchStudies