Kelsey Madsen
@quellekelsey.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor of French. 20th/21st-C Literature and Memory Studies. War, migration, monuments, national identity, religion & laïcité. Confessional Lutheran.
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Kelsey Madsen
@quellekelsey.bsky.social
· Nov 10
Excerpt from Charles Péguy's "On the Porch of the Mystery of the Second Virtue" (1918). My translation.
My History colleagues are looking for a Europeanist who can also teach in a non-Western area. I'd personally be enthusiastic about another French speaker joining the college. We have a lovely Francophone community of faculty and students, and there are French lunches on campus twice a month!
Job Announcement: Professor Modern European History (1750-Present), open rank, beginning in Fall 2026 at Grove City College, a small Christian liberal arts college an hour north of Pittsburgh. Preference for someone who can also teach courses in a non-Western field. www.gcc.edu/Utility/Port...
September 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
My History colleagues are looking for a Europeanist who can also teach in a non-Western area. I'd personally be enthusiastic about another French speaker joining the college. We have a lovely Francophone community of faculty and students, and there are French lunches on campus twice a month!
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From @emilyherring.bsky.social Emily Herring’s book Herald of a Restless World, it seems to me that Henri Bergson’s words offer the strongest argument for why we still need the humanities in an increasingly technological world.
September 1, 2025 at 12:57 PM
From @emilyherring.bsky.social Emily Herring’s book Herald of a Restless World, it seems to me that Henri Bergson’s words offer the strongest argument for why we still need the humanities in an increasingly technological world.
Job Announcement: Professor Modern European History (1750-Present), open rank, beginning in Fall 2026 at Grove City College, a small Christian liberal arts college an hour north of Pittsburgh. Preference for someone who can also teach courses in a non-Western field. www.gcc.edu/Utility/Port...
July 21, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Job Announcement: Professor Modern European History (1750-Present), open rank, beginning in Fall 2026 at Grove City College, a small Christian liberal arts college an hour north of Pittsburgh. Preference for someone who can also teach courses in a non-Western field. www.gcc.edu/Utility/Port...
On this D-Day anniversary, here are some pictures from my recent trip to Normandy. The visit to the American cemetery and the beaches was a profoundly moving reminder of the sacrifices of so many in the name of freedom.
June 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
On this D-Day anniversary, here are some pictures from my recent trip to Normandy. The visit to the American cemetery and the beaches was a profoundly moving reminder of the sacrifices of so many in the name of freedom.
A belated thank you to @plough.bsky.social for sending me a t-shirt in December! I'm revisiting the Winter issue this week during my spring break as I think about ways to improve my classes during the second half of the semester.
March 5, 2025 at 4:42 PM
A belated thank you to @plough.bsky.social for sending me a t-shirt in December! I'm revisiting the Winter issue this week during my spring break as I think about ways to improve my classes during the second half of the semester.
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If you are writing your PhD within the expansive realm of memory studies, this might be a call for you: www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...
Call for Papers Mnemonics 2025: Memory and Responsibility | Mnemonics
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January 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
If you are writing your PhD within the expansive realm of memory studies, this might be a call for you: www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...
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"The simplest framing of what is wrong with MAiD is that it leads to the government operating two competing suicide hotlines, and being, at best, indifferent about which one you call."
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An Idol of Autonomy
How the push for medical aid in dying distorts our understanding of life.
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January 17, 2025 at 11:47 PM
"The simplest framing of what is wrong with MAiD is that it leads to the government operating two competing suicide hotlines, and being, at best, indifferent about which one you call."
thedispatch.com/article/an-i...
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Went to this last night with a friend. Wilson's public performance was wonderful (including recitations in ancient Greek!). Unexpected bonus: there was a book signing afterward.
Emily Wilson will be giving a public reading from her translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey on Friday in Pittsburgh! Tickets are free for students and teachers of literature. I'm so looking forward to this. www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...
International Poetry Forum Presents: Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson, acclaimed translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey, will be visiting Pittsburgh on December 13 to read a selection of her work.
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December 14, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Went to this last night with a friend. Wilson's public performance was wonderful (including recitations in ancient Greek!). Unexpected bonus: there was a book signing afterward.
View from my office today.
December 11, 2024 at 7:31 PM
View from my office today.
Emily Wilson will be giving a public reading from her translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey on Friday in Pittsburgh! Tickets are free for students and teachers of literature. I'm so looking forward to this. www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...
International Poetry Forum Presents: Emily Wilson
Emily Wilson, acclaimed translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey, will be visiting Pittsburgh on December 13 to read a selection of her work.
www.eventbrite.com
December 10, 2024 at 7:49 PM
Emily Wilson will be giving a public reading from her translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey on Friday in Pittsburgh! Tickets are free for students and teachers of literature. I'm so looking forward to this. www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...
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And the government falls...
🔴 EN DIRECT : Le gouvernement de Michel Barnier est tombé, la motion de censure est acceptée à 331 voix
DIRECT. Motion de censure : « Je n’ai pas peur », lance Michel Barnier aux députés
Le gouvernement de Michel Barnier va-t-il être renversé ? L’Assemblée nationale va débattre ce mercredi après-midi de deux motions de censure. Le risque est grand pour le Premier ministre qui s’est dé...
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December 4, 2024 at 7:29 PM
And the government falls...
Pour mon cours sur la France contemporaine aujourd'hui!
December 3, 2024 at 2:20 PM
Pour mon cours sur la France contemporaine aujourd'hui!
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It’s been a true joy to me that this piece I wrote some years ago continues to be relevant in the present. It’s on one of my very favourite themes in the whole liturgical year: the light of Christ dawning into the world’s shadows.
Divine Light in the O Antiphons
Resplendent Advent music that casts away the gathered dark.
@joelclarkson.bsky.social
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Resplendent Advent music that casts away the gathered dark.
@joelclarkson.bsky.social
www.plough.com/en/topics/cu...
Divine Light in the O Antiphons
Joel Clarkson introduces the O Antiphons, which have a rich history that dates back to the dawn of Christian worship, and, related to their nature as Vespers antiphons, draws from the greater ethos pr...
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November 30, 2024 at 7:47 PM
It’s been a true joy to me that this piece I wrote some years ago continues to be relevant in the present. It’s on one of my very favourite themes in the whole liturgical year: the light of Christ dawning into the world’s shadows.
Currently reading, as I revise a course on Algerian history for the spring semester. She was a Kabyle Christian convert, a poet, and a mother of authors Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.
November 30, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Currently reading, as I revise a course on Algerian history for the spring semester. She was a Kabyle Christian convert, a poet, and a mother of authors Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.
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Et pour clore ce petit parcours dans les galanteries XVIIIe siècle, ceci !
En vrai cela parle de tout et de rien, en vers ou en prose, on ne sçait pas bien…
Mais la page de titre est fabuleuse !
En vrai cela parle de tout et de rien, en vers ou en prose, on ne sçait pas bien…
Mais la page de titre est fabuleuse !
November 23, 2024 at 1:26 PM
Et pour clore ce petit parcours dans les galanteries XVIIIe siècle, ceci !
En vrai cela parle de tout et de rien, en vers ou en prose, on ne sçait pas bien…
Mais la page de titre est fabuleuse !
En vrai cela parle de tout et de rien, en vers ou en prose, on ne sçait pas bien…
Mais la page de titre est fabuleuse !
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Ça c’est de la dédicace !
November 21, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Ça c’est de la dédicace !
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Tomorrow! Still plenty of time to register!
November 19, 2024 at 7:12 PM
Tomorrow! Still plenty of time to register!
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H-France Forum is pleased to announce the publication of vol. 19:7, edited by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
This issue is devoted to Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain. Cambridge, MA, & London: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0-674-24889-2 (hb).
This issue is devoted to Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain. Cambridge, MA, & London: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0-674-24889-2 (hb).
November 15, 2024 at 2:17 AM
H-France Forum is pleased to announce the publication of vol. 19:7, edited by Venita Datta, Wellesley College.
This issue is devoted to Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain. Cambridge, MA, & London: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0-674-24889-2 (hb).
This issue is devoted to Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain. Cambridge, MA, & London: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0-674-24889-2 (hb).
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November 13, 2024 at 2:10 PM
Un peu d'art nouveau pour vous ce matin.
Source: La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales : sous la direction de M. Eugène Grasset. 1896. Bibliothèque nationale de France. gallica.bnf.fr
Source: La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales : sous la direction de M. Eugène Grasset. 1896. Bibliothèque nationale de France. gallica.bnf.fr
November 12, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Un peu d'art nouveau pour vous ce matin.
Source: La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales : sous la direction de M. Eugène Grasset. 1896. Bibliothèque nationale de France. gallica.bnf.fr
Source: La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales : sous la direction de M. Eugène Grasset. 1896. Bibliothèque nationale de France. gallica.bnf.fr
Trying this out, but honestly debating just getting off of social media all together. However, I appreciate the book recs and research updates within the scholarly community, which is what I valued when I joined Twitter years ago.
November 10, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Trying this out, but honestly debating just getting off of social media all together. However, I appreciate the book recs and research updates within the scholarly community, which is what I valued when I joined Twitter years ago.
Excerpt from Charles Péguy's "On the Porch of the Mystery of the Second Virtue" (1918). My translation.
November 10, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Excerpt from Charles Péguy's "On the Porch of the Mystery of the Second Virtue" (1918). My translation.