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Dr Anne-Florence Quaireau
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Senior Lecturer in British literature and translation. Travel writing / women’s writing / 18th and 19th centuries / environmental literature / history of motherhood and childhood
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The intro to our Itinerario special issue on the entwined histories of tourism and imperialism has just passed 1,000 views! 🥳 Many thanks to all readers, keep spreading the word and remember to check out the great contributions that make up the issue, too. doi.org/10.1017/S016...
Cover of the issue 48:3 of the journal Itinerario, showing a black-and-white photo of a European tourist being pushed/pulled up the side of a pyramid by a group of Egyptian guides.
October 20, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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brionyneilson.bsky.social
Coming up this Monday 6 Oct at 1pm (Sydney time) I'll be talking with Peter McPhee about my book which explores the history of children, youth, welfare, criminality, punishment, incarceration etc in France at the turn of the 19th/20th century. All welcome. Register at the link in the original post.
brionyneilson.bsky.social Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · Sep 15
I'm honoured to be speaking to @petermcphee.bsky.social on Mon 6 Oct at 1pm AEDT about my book Dangers of Youth: Age, Criminality, and Juvenile Justice Reform in Third Republic France at an online event hosted by the George Rudé Society. Please register here: uni-sydney.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Picture shows a book cover for Dangers of Youth
October 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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monniauxd.bsky.social
Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche :
participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...

#esr #TeamESR #HelpESR
Les marchés publics de voyagistes - Contributions - 2025 - Aidez-nous à enrichir notre programme de travail - Plateforme de participation de la Cour des Comptes
Corps de la contributionLes administrations et opérateurs publics, notamment ceux de l'enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, font appel à des agences de voyage (FCM, TravelPlanet…) pour l'hôtelle...
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September 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
afquaireau.bsky.social
I'm so excited for the conference "Children on the Move" which will take place at the University of Angers on March 26-27 ! If you haven't already sent us your proposal, there is still time (deadline: September 12).
Full call for papers available here: www.crlv.org/actualites/a...
September 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026,
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
April 22, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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matthewleggatt.bsky.social
Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.
August 6, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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annakornbluh.bsky.social
syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.
Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings. Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester. If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two. Do they share themes? Forms? Tone? Historical context? Do you find them equally interesting? Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work. Quote specific lines, phrases, or images. Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important. Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices. Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself. How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere? Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes. Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading. Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning. Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.
July 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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asls.org.uk
Call for papers:
(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026

This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work
#C19th #litstudies
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
CFP_UnNatural_Stevenson_Venice_2026
Call for papers: (Un)natural Stevenson Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science and gender Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 11-12 May 2026 Aula Baratto Organizers: Lucio De Capitani...
docs.google.com
July 28, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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bsecs.bsky.social
***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...
New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS
Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...
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July 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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CFP for Sex in the #19thC (deets in alt)

Abstracts (300 words), biographies (100 words), and should be submitted on Monday 22d September 2025 to rrr @ soton.ac.uk. Please
indicate if you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, and include your full name, discipline & institution.
CFP with caricature of a throuple on a sofa: a man in the middle between two women with breasts more or less exposed Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century 15th January 2026 University of Stirling, Scotland Keynote speaker: Dr. Michael Shaw In The History of Sexuality (1976), Foucault outlines the 'discursive explosion' that occurred around sex during the long nineteenth century. Sexuality became a distinct personal identity for the first time, as shown in literature and art, and sexual discourses often reflected the period's political and social anxieties around gender and power. Modern queer theorists first situated their work within nineteenth-century studies (Eve Kofosky Sedgewick, Between Men, 1985), and recent work in the field historicises marginalised groups (Jen Manion, Female Husbands: A Trans History, 2020). Sex encourages us to consider the broader cultural and societal dynamics of the long nineteenth century, and the lasting influence of these structures today. We invite papers of 15 minutes on the topic of sex in the long nineteenth century (1789-1914) in all its forms and in a global context for our in-person conference. We encourage broad interpretations of the topic and invite submissions that explore its fluid and multifaceted nature. The journal encourages multi- and interdisciplinary papers from across the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities and invites contributions from those at any career stage, including PGRs and ECRs. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: • Sexuality and queer studies • Women's writing • Gender, feminism, and masculinities • Sexual health, contraception, and the medical • Trans studies humanities • Pregnancy, childbirth, and childcare • Sex work • Sex scandals in court and politics • Print culture; pornography and Victorian erotica • Gothic literature • Postcolonial and ecocritical perspectives on • Decadence; hedonism gender and sex
July 21, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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bavs-uk.bsky.social
One week to go until the BAVS 2025 Annual Conference @engfac.bsky.social

If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...
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July 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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drreznicek.bsky.social
On the Intimate Connections between Romanticism and Slavery www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...
The Meaning Hidden in Wordsworth’s Teacup and Mary Shelley’s Hair
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July 21, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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afea.bsky.social
🚨Poste d'Ater
Le Département d'études anglophones de l'Université de Poitiers recrute un ATER en littérature. Prise des fonctions le 1.10. Dépôt des dossiers jusqu'au 23 juillet informations administratives et la fiche du poste en ligne : www.univ-poitiers.fr/documents/re...
Recrutement de 4 Attachés Temporaires d’Enseignement et de Recherche sur profil (sections CNU 11, 14, 16 et 63)
Fondée en 1431, l'Université de Poitiers regroupe toutes les disciplines dans ses 14 facultés, instituts et écoles.
www.univ-poitiers.fr
July 18, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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aktange.bsky.social
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]
July 16, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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kabcommons.bsky.social
Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
Migration and Mobility History
The IHR Migration and Mobility seminar provides a space for historians and scholars from other disciplines to come together to discuss migration and mobility in history.
www.history.ac.uk
July 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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oxunienl.bsky.social
The Eighteenth-Century Studies Collection offers over 700 volumes from two perpetual access digital collections and includes a complete archive of all content published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series between 1955–2021.

Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...
June 19, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Campagne du #PrixMnémosyne2025...
C'est parti ! 🥳

Retrouvez toutes les informations sur notre site ⤵️
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Affiche de promotion du Prix Mnémosyne 2025.
July 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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johnerik-h.bsky.social
Calling #Skystorians :
I will be teaching an intensive seminar on academic writing in English for MA history students in France. Do you have any recommendations for particularly well written articles that you have read recently?
July 7, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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beckyguest.bsky.social
📢Call for co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts📢 a great opportunity to work alongside Prof Alexandra K. Wettlaufer & a wonderful & active editorial team on this interdisciplinary journal. Apply by 18 July or get in touch with questions 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
Co-Editor needed for Nineteenth-Century Contexts
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May 23, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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lis4g33.bsky.social
Anyone with an interest in #18thC literature, politics, life-writing, women’s lives, networks up for reviewing this? bit.ly/HayleyGeeCrosby Lemme know if so!
And I’m grateful for all RPs. Thank you!

#18thcentury #18thCenturyStudies #C18th #lifewriting #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory #biography
Jacket image of William Hayley: A Biographer’s Influence on Life Writing & Romantic Networks in the Long 18th Century + a QR code & link (also in post) to the book page on the Palgrave Macmillan website.
June 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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uio-oceh.bsky.social
🌍 Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for environmental humanities — and ready to build something collaborative and interdisciplinary? We have an open call that might interest you.
June 13, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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lucydelap.bsky.social
If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books publi…
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June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
afquaireau.bsky.social
C’est parti pour l’atelier SELVA du congrès #SAES2025 à Toulouse ! Ravie de retrouver les collègues pour échanger sur les récits de voyages anglophones, de Mary Wollstonecraft à l’épistémologie du champ, en passant par la romance impériale et Dawn d’Octavia E. Butler !
@saes-2025.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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mtoiv.bsky.social
100% human-authored! (and boy, can you tell)
mtoiv.bsky.social Mikko Toivanen @mtoiv.bsky.social · Jun 3
Posting about my book yesterday appears to have functioned as some sort of invocation, as I've now got the proofs in my inbox! 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge' coming on 17 September!
Proofs of the title page of the book 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka', by myself, published by Leiden University Press.
June 3, 2025 at 8:09 AM