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Julien Nègre
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Maps, literature, whales.

Associate Professor, North American Studies, ENS de Lyon, France
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📢 International Conference “‘Monarch of all I survey’: Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies”
📍 ENS de Lyon, France | 🗓️ Nov 20–21, 2025

Keynotes: Julia Kühn (U. Groningen) & Nick Spengler (U. Barcelona).

Castaways! Butterflies! Abolitionists! Imperialism!

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19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec?

I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13

They would love to see some of you there! @c19americanists.bsky.social

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19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec? I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13. They would love to see some of you there! https://branca-2025.weebly.com/
October 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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🔈Join us for "21st-Century US: A Historical Assessment" U Paris Cité, Nov 20&21! Organized by @tamaraboussac.bsky.social @hbouvard.bsky.social & Anne Légier, supported by @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @institutdesameriques.fr @mondesamericains.ehess.fr @parissaclay.bsky.social
September 25, 2025 at 2:48 PM
juliennegre.bsky.social
📢 International Conference “‘Monarch of all I survey’: Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies”
📍 ENS de Lyon, France | 🗓️ Nov 20–21, 2025

Keynotes: Julia Kühn (U. Groningen) & Nick Spengler (U. Barcelona).

Castaways! Butterflies! Abolitionists! Imperialism!

monarch2025.sciencesconf.org
November 3, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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institutdesameriques.fr
💼 𝗔̀ 𝗹𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗷𝗼 

📍 @ubmontaigne.bsky.social

📅 Le 24 novembre 2025

👉 Pour plus d’informations : https://www.institutdesameriques.fr/agenda/la-rencontre-de-joy-harjo
October 31, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social

www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...
Young Abolitionists: Children of the Antislavery Movement on JSTOR
How children helped abolish slavery During the antebellum period, several abolitionist figures, including William Lloyd Garrison, the editor of the Liberator; S...
www.jstor.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Check out this CFP for the next Borders and Crossings conference, Aix-Marseille Université, September 2026: www.crlv.org/actualites/a...
Appel: Aix, 16-18 septembre 2026, "Perspectives croisées francophones et anglophones sur les recherches viatiques"  | CRLV / Astrolabe
See English version below Appel à communications « Nouvelles perspectives croisées francophones et anglophones sur les recherches viatiques »   Seuils et Traverses Centre de Recherches sur la Littérat...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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Un nouveau webinaire sur la procédure de qualification au CNU, qui j'espère sera utile aux jeunes chercheur·ses, que j'ai co-organisé avec la commission recherche et le collège des doctorant·es de la @saesfrance.org et le bureau de la section 11 du CNU!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq1L...
Webinaire sur la procédure de qualification au CNU 11e section
YouTube video by SAES
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October 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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🌎🔔 Come to Lyon in November!

📍https://monarch2025.sciencesconf.org/
official logo of the academic symposium "“Monarch of all I survey”: Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies", to be held at the ENS de Lyon in Lyon, France, on Nov. 20-21, 2025. It features a crude crown motif on a purple background. The crown is filled with the image of an ancient world map representing Robinson Crusoe's journey.
October 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Last night, over a billion birds passed over our heads as they migrated south. This is one of the most dramatic events in the natural world, but most of us are asleep while it happens. Radar tells the tale.
Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer)
With all the wonderful forest colors in autumn, we shouldn’t miss other dramatic events. Last night, I walked around the urban park across the street from my home. It was quiet enough, with urban traf...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Very happy to share that my article in the new issue of #Leviathan is out! It discusses Melville's Clarel, and the possibility of reading a philosophy of secularization at work in the poem. Many thanks to Melville scholars far and near for their friendship and support!🐋
👉 muse.jhu.edu/article/970196
Abstract of the article; @melville-society.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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📣 Registration is now open for the “Critical Health” conference (17-18 October 2025). Register for in-person or online attendance by clicking on the link below:
🔗 criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/registration/
September 17, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Paris-based artist Auriane Kolodziej will showcase her work during the “Critical Health” conference I’m coorganizing. Find out more about her sculptures and beautiful poetry here: criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/art-exhibit/
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Art Exhibit
Mirror, mirror by Auriane Kolodziej Auriane Kolodziej’s artwork will be on display at Le Club de la Sorbonne (galerie Gerson) on Friday 17 October, from 5:30 til 7:00 pm Auriane Kolodziej (bo…
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September 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.
Stenciled black paint on white that reads All Harpooners Are Bastards. Beside "All" and "Are" are stencils of stylized sperm whales, facing opposite directions.
September 7, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights
September 3, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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September is officially here!

American Studies scholars, what are your plans for the term? 💬
September 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Avec un chapitre de Marine Soubeille, nouvelle membre d'ECHELLES, sur Moonrise Kingdom de Wes Anderson !
September 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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#AgregAnglais2026 Publication
Ellipses Huck Finn et Moonrise Kingdom
Coordonation Frédéric Lefrançois et Rédouane Abouddahab Rédouane.
Merci aux collègues, dont @juliennegre.bsky.social
🙏
www.editions-ellipses.fr/accueil/1595...
Agrégation anglais 2026 - Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn et le film de Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom.
www.editions-ellipses.fr
September 2, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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unexpected research trajectories continue to emerge from this sperm whale madness
screenshot of an email with the following sentence highlighted: "We are writing to inquire with you whether you have interest on the topic Sperm quality in farmed animals which is scheduled to be published in AIMS Animal Science. With your high reputation and significant contributions in this field and the aim to publish high-quality articles in the first issue, we sincerely invite you to present your excellent research outcome"
August 29, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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Signs and wonders, eh?
July 30, 2025 at 4:47 AM
juliennegre.bsky.social
today: old yellow folders and X-files vibes ☢️
underground stacks at university library with an open drawer containing large topographic maps Yellow folder titled "Geology, Structure, and Uranium Deposits of the Shiprock Quadrangle, New Mexico and Arizona" from the US Department of Interior, containing a 1963 geologic map of the area detail of the title of the geologic map detail of the map showing black and white topographic relief and red lines indicating geologic structures and uranium deposits
July 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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🗺️In special collections @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social for new project: massive 1633 French ed of Mercator's atlas by Hondius. Includes stunning 1606 map of Virginia, predating Smith’s, with hints of 1550s French exploration in Florida. Renaissance Latin makes feel more fluent than I really am!
Frontispiece of 1633 French edition of Mercator's atlas by Hondius, with colored engravings 1606 map of Virginia and Florida with colored engravings and Latin text Detail of 1606 map of Virginia showing "Apaltcy Montes" (one of the earliest references to Appalachian Mountains on a European map) and Latin text indicating the presence of gold and silver. Detail of Virginia coastline on 1606 map. Rivers have French names like Charente, Garonne, Loire, etc.
July 9, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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It took M. F. Maury nearly 10 years to reach this representation of "sea drift and whales" in 1855. Melville's *Moby-Dick* (published before this map) registers this changing perception of the oceans. First time I come across a French version @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social, this one published in 1861.
1861 oceanic chart by M. F. Maury representing ocean currents and whale feeding ground (French edition) Title page of M. F. Maury's Géographie Physique de la Mer (1861 French edition) detail of Maury's ocean current chart showing the Pacific, 1861, in French detail of Maury's ocean current chart showing the Atlantic, 1861, in French
July 8, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Unnamed reader from 60y ago left their Théâtre des Célestins ticket as a bookmark in this volume @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social. Not sure anyone has opened this book since then. Chevalier's account of his travels in the US in early 1830s is very interesting and has a nice map focused on transportation.
Cover of Michel Chevalier, Lettres sur l'Amérique du Nord, 1837 This book must be returned before February 14, 1965. Old theatre ticket from the 1960s used as bookmark. Folded map of the US in 1836 at the end of Chevalier's book
July 7, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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#Comics scholars |fans: Help. This centerfold (published in the French magazine “La Vie Parisienne”) is from 1912. I've been looking in my dozens of folders for earlier examples of artists working with a similar technique. Can you think of any examples from 1912 and possibly a little earlier? 🙋🏻‍♀️
Centerfold drawing (in black and white) by the artist Markous. Published in La Vie Parisienne in 1012. The title is: Promenades en aéroplanes: Monmartre. It shows three rows of panels. Each row has but one extensive rectangular panel, showing different actions and buildings in the Montmartre area in Paris, viewed from above.
July 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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what after all canst thou do, but tell the poor, pitiful point, where thou thyself happenest to be on this wide planet
June 29, 2025 at 8:47 PM