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Hannah Frydman
@hannahfrydman.bsky.social
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Assistant Prof of French @ Harvard. c19-20; gender/sexuality; print culture; queer lit & reading. Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France shipping now from Cornell 🌈🌱 😷♾️
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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · Feb 25
I'm really excited to be able to share the cover of my new book, "Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France," coming out in July with @cornellupress.bsky.social and available for pre-order at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Book cover of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France with an illustration of a woman reading the newspaper set in a torn out excerpt from the classified page.
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timhitchcock.bsky.social
Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/
London Lives
www.londonlives.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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jdsargan.bsky.social
Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing.

The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j...

Athens GA and online
Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 PM
hannahfrydman.bsky.social
Farquad mafia
rpanchasi.bsky.social roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · Oct 10
a neighbour saw me carrying my regalia for fall convocation and asked me if it was a lord farquaad costume for halloween fml
Read and black academic regalia hanging from a French door.
October 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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drbernard.bsky.social
🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:
The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press
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October 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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profmarylewis.bsky.social
If you’re near @harvard.edu this afternoon, join us for a discussion of @hannahfrydman.bsky.social’s fabulous new book, in conversation with yours truly. ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2025/...
Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press…
Join us for a discussion of Hannah Frydman's recently published book Between the Sheets (Cornell University Press, 2025) with CES Resident Faculty Mary D.…
ces.fas.harvard.edu
October 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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rmesch.bsky.social
Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Flyer for NCFS Unbound
September 30, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
If you’re in the Boston area this Wednesday I’d love for you to come on out! This talk is free and open to the public. as.tufts.edu/art-architec...
A poster for the talk, “The AI heist: how the tech industry exploits the history of art and what we can do to stop it.” Details of the time and location are in the link in the post. The abstract is as follows: Over the last several years, universities and museums have partnered with commercial technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their AI products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises are not supported by the reality of what computer vision-the branch of AI most relevant to the history of art-can achieve. So why have major institutions in education and the arts been so quick to take up these firms' offers? This talk responds to this question by providing an introduction to computer vision's origins in military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. However, the main focus of this talk is not what computer vision does. Rather, I consider the culture of the AI industry, its main objectives, and the dangerous vision for the future that it promises-and whether those promises are credible or even in good faith. This vision for the future has relied on an exploitation of history, and art history in particular, and I argue that it is our responsibility as art historians to be knowledgeable about the forms this exploitation takes. I conclude with suggestions about what we can do to protect the subjects and practitioners of our discipline, as well as education in the humanities more broadly, against this incursion. I do not intend an intransigent rejection of a given technology; rather this talk articulates a challenge that is grounded in knowledge of the historical origins and corporate practices of the AI industry today.
September 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!!
Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here!
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
August 23, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com
AGAINST AI
against-a-i.com
August 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
hannahfrydman.bsky.social
"As sex worker, queer, and, more recently, abortion activists continue to remind us, the rights infringements oppressed communities are experiencing [on the internet] will not stop on the margins."

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...
Media, Sex, and Freedom: A Fraught History
Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
August 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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cornellupress.bsky.social
Hannah Frydman, author of BETWEEN THE SHEETS, discusses the history of sexual #advertising and the modern ways we see #media and #FreeSpeech grapple with sexual content.

@hannahfrydman.bsky.social

Now on the #SageHouseBlog: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...
Media, Sex, and Freedom: A Fraught History
Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
August 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
hannahfrydman.bsky.social
If you read "Between the Sheets," I wouldn't recommend starting with page 99, but, if you do, this blog post might help!
page99test.blogspot.com/2025/08/hann... @cornellupress.bsky.social @bethanywasik.bsky.social
Hannah Frydman's "Between the Sheets"
Hannah Frydman is Assistant Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures (French) at Harvard University. She applied the “ Page 99 Test ” ...
page99test.blogspot.com
August 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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bethanywasik.bsky.social
"'Between the Sheets' reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed... That space was the newspaper..." - @hannahfrydman.bsky.social

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-histor...
Media and the History of Sexual Advertising in Between the Sheets
Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
August 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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frenchcolonial.bsky.social
Be sure to read this new review of FIVE recent books on Algerian History (@tgpeterson.bsky.social, @elisefranklin.bsky.social, Sara Rahnama, Elizabeth Perego, and Susan Slyomovics) by @anaisfaurt.bsky.social in Contemporary European History!

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century | Contemporary European History | Cambridge Core
Beyond Independence: Rethinking the History of Algeria in the Twentieth Century
www.cambridge.org
August 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
hannahfrydman.bsky.social
It's pub day for Between the Sheets! So excited for this book to be officially out in the world. Looking forward to getting the chance to talk about it over the coming months! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Copy of the book Between the Sheets sitting on a cafe table in Paris
July 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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cornellupress.bsky.social
BETWEEN THE SHEETS by @hannahfrydman.bsky.social reveals a space where deviant sexualities + lives could be experimented with and financed, despite attempts at norming the population through the heterosexual family.

#NewBooks #CornellUniversityPress

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
Between the Sheets by Hannah Frydman | Hardcover | Cornell University Press
Between the Sheets reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed, despite republican attempts at growing...
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
July 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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carolinesequin.bsky.social
My book, among many others, is currently at 50% off on @cornellupress.bsky.social website with the code 095000. Don’t miss out!
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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laprofmme.bsky.social
Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️
A pale yellow book cover with a caricature of a dumpy white man in a black frock coat and white trousers holding a top hat with an umbrella over his shoulder facing a dark-skinned man in a long dark blue haik and white trousers with a turban on his head and a curved sword over his shoulder. The title reads: By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria, Jennifer E. Sessions
June 23, 2025 at 11:33 PM
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@hannahfrydman.bsky.social looks at the “infinite archive” and its search capability in “In Defense of the Search Bar,” and demonstrates how the “anarchy of the mass digitization and its search bar” can push researchers to “think outside of long-established classifications.” #AHR 🗃️
In Defense of the Search Bar
Mass digitized archival databases are anarchic, rhizomatic places. The search bar makes them this way. This is not to say that large-scale digital librarie
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June 23, 2025 at 3:04 PM
hannahfrydman.bsky.social
Really excited that my "In Defense of the Search Bar," which argues that keyword search allows us to queer the archive and how we see the past, is out now in the #AHR! doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...
June 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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rpanchasi.bsky.social
I wrote for @ca.theconversation.com re: the 30th anniversary (this Fri) of President Jacques Chirac's June 13th, 1995 announcement that France would be resuming nuclear testing in the Pacific.

210 detonations in Algeria & Mā'ohi Nui (French Polynesia) from 1960-1996. Thousands of victims.
France’s final nuclear tests in the South Pacific, 30 years on
Three decades after France’s last nuclear tests, those living near the test sites still await compensation for the harms caused.
theconversation.com
June 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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anneoneilhenry.bsky.social
Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲

www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
Current Table of Contents | ncfs
www.ncfs-journal.org
June 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
hannahfrydman.bsky.social
Good mail day! (Too camera shy for an unboxing video, so just imagine me opening this much-needed infusion of pink joy with delight)
A stack of copies of Between the Sheets, a hot pink book by Hannah Frydman
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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bethanywasik.bsky.social
Team #BlueSkyStorians & @sfhs.bsky.social, I have awesome news... @hannahfrydman.bsky.social's cleverly titled "Between the Sheets" is shipping! Intrigued? Find your copy at @cornellupress.bsky.social's page, add to your cart, and anxiously await arrival: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...
June 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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sfhs.bsky.social
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