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The internationally esteemed peer-reviewed journal offering a scholarly view of all aspects of France from 1789 to the present. Under development.
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@francemodern.bsky.social looks at Iván Argote's artistic interventions on colonial monuments in Paris, proposing their emphasis on play, friction and horizontality as means of 'uprooting' French hospitality from its theoretical mould.
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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This is an amazing opportunity for an outstanding postdoctoral researcher. Here @frenchdeptucc.bsky.social we’re keen to support at least one applicant. It’s a 4-year award incorporating a PhD studentship and experience at co-supervision. @francemodern.bsky.social @frenchstudies.bsky.social
‼️ Postdoctoral opportunity ‼️

The Department hopes to support at least one outstanding applicant to the Research Ireland Pathway Programme - a prestigious postdoctoral award programme. Email Prof @oliverjdavis.bsky.social (odavis@ucc.ie) for more information

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Research Pathway Ireland 26 | University College Cork
Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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🎃 Halloween Special Alert!
In Episode 5 of Positionalities, Dr @dcarliniversini.bsky.social speaks with Prof Michèle Bacholle & Dr @emmaafln.bsky.social about women reimagining horror.
Don’t miss this chillingly brilliant conversation!
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Positionalities Podcast
Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast is a space for open conversations about the intersection of our lives with our work in feminist criticism, gender studies, and studies of …
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October 30, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Listen to our new podcast: @benbgdalton.bsky.social and @drmariatomlinson.bsky.social discuss our special issue on the BUMIDOM with @awimbush.bsky.social and Jennifer Boum Make.
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Modern & Contemporary France podcasts | MCF
This series of podcasts accompanies special issues of our journal.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Ce 2 octobre sortent les 2 premiers volumes de la collection "Cette année-là à Paris".
L'un porte sur le + grave accident industriel de l'histoire de France (1794).
L'autre sur le retour des cendres de Napoléon (1840).
Ils sont brefs, accessibles, originaux, stimulants. Très heureux de ce lancement!
October 2, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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October 2, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Our 33.3 special issue on "The BUMIDOM and its Legacy" guest edited by @awimbush.bsky.social and Malika Danican is now available online !
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October 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Pleased to see the introduction to our special issue of
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'The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach', written with Malika Danican! Can't wait to see the rest of the issue & congratulations to all contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire
This introduction to the special issue of ‘The BUMIDOM and its Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire’ provides historical context to the ...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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We are recruiting a French post-doctoral researcher to our Wellcome Trust project: Work-related suicide. An international social justice analysis. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Postdoctorat - analyse internationale des suicides en lien avec le travail d’une perspective de justice sociale H/F
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July 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Pleased to share that my latest article, "Fantasies of power: sex, humour and complicities in French rap" has been published with @francemodern.bsky.social ! Many thanks to the journal editors and anonymous peer reviewers for their constructive remarks and support.
Fantasies of power: sex, humour and complicities in French rap
Since the mid-1990s, French rappers have faced legal action from police unions and the Ministry of the Interior for defamation, insults or inciting violence towards law enforcement and government o...
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July 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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📢 New special issue of Contemporary French Civilization: Discourse & Society in the Global French-Speaking World.
Explore research on language, identity & power across francophone contexts.
Online at: bit.ly/Discourse-and-Society
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June 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Grateful to share that this issue includes my article on the films of Lionel Soukaz, written before his passing earlier this year. There is still so much more to be said about his radical and inspiring vision for cinema, community and resistance - a vision that we all need, now more than ever.
Our May issue with a special section on 'Reading Le Manifeste conspirationniste (Seuil, 2022)' is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3...
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May 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Our May issue with a special section on 'Reading Le Manifeste conspirationniste (Seuil, 2022)' is now available online ! www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3...
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May 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
New podcast! Presenters @drmariatomlinson.bsky.social and @benbgdalton.bsky.social are joined by @dcarliniversini.bsky.social, guest-editor of our recent special issue on abortion and by discussant @dnduffy.bsky.social, author of Abortion Trail Activism
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Abortion
In this episode, presenters Dr Maria Tomlinson and Dr Benjamin Dalton are joined by Dr Dominique Carlini Versini, the guest-editor of issue 33,1 (2025), a special issue on abortion in literature and v...
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April 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
It was great to have you with us @jonathanervine.bsky.social and thank you for your continuous support of the journal.
It was great to be in London on Saturday for the @francemodern.bsky.social Editorial Board meeting.
April 7, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Pour commencer le weekend, nous vous invitons à lire l'article de Daddy Dibinga Kalamba qui propose une perspective décoloniale de la mise en espace dans les séries sénégalaises. @asmcf.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social
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La décolonisation spatiale dans les séries sénégalaises : L’exemple de Karma
Depuis plus d’une dizaine d’années, des soap opera sénégalais émergent. Ces séries, produites par les Sénégalais, pour des Sénégalais en premier lieu, parlent de leur quotidien. Karma, la série pro...
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March 28, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Delighted to learn that my book, Vichy's Double Bind: French Collaboration between Hitler and Mussolini during the Second World War, is now available in paperback. @strathhumanities.bsky.social

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March 27, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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La musique est omniprésente dans l'univers de Virginie Despentes. Dans l'émission "Décibels" en 2004, elle explique comment le punk a décomplexé son écriture. Sans cette culture, elle n'aurait jamais osé écrire.
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March 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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We are pleased to announce that the Gilbert Chinard Book Prize has been awarded to Elisa Camiscioli for Selling French Sex: Prostitution, Trafficking and Global Migrations . Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Congratulations! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...
March 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Coming soon in our Francophone Postcolonial Studies series!
March 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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📅 Le 8 mars est la journée internationale des droits des femmes.
Pourquoi cette date ? Depuis quand est-elle reconnue ?
👩‍🏫 Retrouvez les explications de Kerstin Wolff sur ehne.fr/fr/encyclope...

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Journée internationale des femmes du 8 mars (La)
La journée internationale des femmes du 8 mars
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March 8, 2025 at 11:42 AM
En cette journée internationale pour les droits des femmes, nous vous invitons à vous pencher sur les représentations artistiques et littéraires de cette réalité centrale des combats féministes avec notre dernier numéro spécial sur l'avortement. www.tandfonline.com/toc/cmcf20/3...
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L’avortement à travers la littérature et les arts visuels. Volume 33, Issue 1 of Modern & Contemporary France
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March 8, 2025 at 8:28 PM