Jennifer Yee
@jenwhy.bsky.social
Oxford prof. French and world cultures. Literature and visual arts & all things 19thC. Slow city cyclist. Don't ask me where I'm from, it takes too long to explain.
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Today is Linguistics Day! CLiE, LAGB, BAAL & CUP are launching the “Why Linguistics” video competition. UG, PG, and ECR linguists can submit a 1-minute video on what linguistics is and why it matters by 1 Feb 2026 for a chance to win cash prizes and a CUP book voucher.
November 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Today is Linguistics Day! CLiE, LAGB, BAAL & CUP are launching the “Why Linguistics” video competition. UG, PG, and ECR linguists can submit a 1-minute video on what linguistics is and why it matters by 1 Feb 2026 for a chance to win cash prizes and a CUP book voucher.
Sad to be missing the Louvre exhibition on Jacques-Louis David (died 1825). Here's a #frenchpodcast on him moving from avid Republican to Bonaparte-enthusiast, and painting all his figures naked even when he was going to put clothes on them later. #FRhistory shows.acast.com/storiavoce/e...
Qui était David, empereur des peintres ? avec David Chanteranne | Storiavoce
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November 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Sad to be missing the Louvre exhibition on Jacques-Louis David (died 1825). Here's a #frenchpodcast on him moving from avid Republican to Bonaparte-enthusiast, and painting all his figures naked even when he was going to put clothes on them later. #FRhistory shows.acast.com/storiavoce/e...
Are the Asterix and Obelix cartoons racist? Yes and no. Interesting discussion from @empirepoduk.bsky.social. I hadn't realised that Goscinny and Uderzo were first/second generation migrants, which adds a dimension to their patriotic myth-making.
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What's the colonial history of your favourite cartoons?
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🇫🇷Asterix and Obelix 🇫🇷 vs 🐘 Babar The Elephant🐘
What's the colonial history of your favourite cartoons?
In this episode...
🇫🇷Asterix and Obelix 🇫🇷 vs 🐘 Babar The Elephant🐘
November 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Are the Asterix and Obelix cartoons racist? Yes and no. Interesting discussion from @empirepoduk.bsky.social. I hadn't realised that Goscinny and Uderzo were first/second generation migrants, which adds a dimension to their patriotic myth-making.
George Orwell, a young man in what was then colonial Burma, was thoroughly depressed by his experience. The first in a brilliant mini-series on his life, political clairvoyance and dependence on his wives, from @empirepoduk.bsky.social Still my favourite podcast! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
302. Orwell: The Anti-Imperialist In India & Burma (Part 1)
Podcast Episode · Empire · 28/10/2025 · 40m
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November 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
George Orwell, a young man in what was then colonial Burma, was thoroughly depressed by his experience. The first in a brilliant mini-series on his life, political clairvoyance and dependence on his wives, from @empirepoduk.bsky.social Still my favourite podcast! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/3...
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David Bellos, renowned scholar of French fiction and ‘totally brilliant translator,’ dies at age 80
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David Bellos, renowned scholar of French fiction and ‘totally brilliant translator,’ dies at age 80
His work grappled with the tricky nature of interpreting between languages and embraced the potential of language itself to help us understand the human condition.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:40 AM
David Bellos, renowned scholar of French fiction and ‘totally brilliant translator,’ dies at age 80
www.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...
www.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...
The 100 years war presented as a '200 years' war, and a key period in the formation of the French nation, in this pod on the book by @michaellivingston.com. Not the 'boys' own adventure' approach to Agincourt. #FRhistory podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/2...
200 Years' War - Michael Livingston
Podcast Episode · Gone Medieval · 07/11/2025 · 51m
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November 15, 2025 at 10:07 AM
The 100 years war presented as a '200 years' war, and a key period in the formation of the French nation, in this pod on the book by @michaellivingston.com. Not the 'boys' own adventure' approach to Agincourt. #FRhistory podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/2...
François 1er thought he could take on the Emperor Charles V - it all went pear-shaped at the battle of Pavia and the King of France was a prisoner in Spain until he swapped places with his young sons (the future Henri II among them). All in this podcast. #FRHistory podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/k...
King vs. Emperor: The Battle of Pavia, 1525
Podcast Episode · Not Just the Tudors · 03/11/2025 · 55m
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November 12, 2025 at 8:09 PM
François 1er thought he could take on the Emperor Charles V - it all went pear-shaped at the battle of Pavia and the King of France was a prisoner in Spain until he swapped places with his young sons (the future Henri II among them). All in this podcast. #FRHistory podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/k...
In 1980 the famous French intellectual Louis Althusser murdered his wife. It was treated as a 'crime passionnel', or something she agreed to, or his subconsious attempt to kill himself or his mother. Chilling story of a feminicide and cover-up. #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Louis Althusser, féminicide à l’Ecole normale supérieure
Aujourd’hui dans Affaires sensibles, Louis Althusser, féminicide à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm.
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November 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In 1980 the famous French intellectual Louis Althusser murdered his wife. It was treated as a 'crime passionnel', or something she agreed to, or his subconsious attempt to kill himself or his mother. Chilling story of a feminicide and cover-up. #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
So why exactly did French women have to wait until 1945 to get the right to vote? Entrenched resistance on left and right. Might they become 'virilisées', or just obey their husbands or the local priest? a #frenchpodcast that starts with Athena. podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/p...
Pourquoi les Françaises ont-elles attendu 1945 pour voter ? (L'intégrale)
Podcast Episode · Le fil de l'histoire · 02/11/2025 · 54m
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November 8, 2025 at 12:14 PM
So why exactly did French women have to wait until 1945 to get the right to vote? Entrenched resistance on left and right. Might they become 'virilisées', or just obey their husbands or the local priest? a #frenchpodcast that starts with Athena. podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/p...
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Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.
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Music and modern languages courses suspended at University of Nottingham
In a statement the institution also says it is
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November 6, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Nottingham has one of the most vibrant and forward-looking departments of modern languages around. Music too. To cut them like this, leaving no chance for future rebuilding, is educational vandalism.
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
tinyurl.com/yr65mjkx
A dramatic revisiting of the trial of Verlaine for shooting at his lover Rimbaud: they were reconciled and fled together but no one thought to dispose of the weapon. Oops. Setting the bar high for dysfunctional couples in this #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Rimbaud, Verlaine : le procès de Bruxelles
Aujourd’hui Affaires sensibles remonte le temps : Rimbaud Verlaine, le procès de Bruxelles
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November 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A dramatic revisiting of the trial of Verlaine for shooting at his lover Rimbaud: they were reconciled and fled together but no one thought to dispose of the weapon. Oops. Setting the bar high for dysfunctional couples in this #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
A rather chilling #frenchpodcast on Renaud Camus's coining of the term 'le grand remplacement' podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/l...
Le
Podcast Episode · Affaires sensibles · 18/10/2025 · 49m
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November 2, 2025 at 5:06 PM
A rather chilling #frenchpodcast on Renaud Camus's coining of the term 'le grand remplacement' podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/l...
Just back from a short trip to Bristol, where it seems people behaved very badly in 1824.
October 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Just back from a short trip to Bristol, where it seems people behaved very badly in 1824.
The @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on the history of Gaza is up to the 1930s, with 'Bomber Harris' unleashing aerial bombing on civilian populations. I don't recommend listening to this while having dinner. But do listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...
299. Gaza: The Palestinian Revolt, The Black and Tans, & Bomber Harris (Part 9)
Podcast Episode · Empire · 15/10/2025 · 45m
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October 19, 2025 at 4:56 PM
The @empirepoduk.bsky.social series on the history of Gaza is up to the 1930s, with 'Bomber Harris' unleashing aerial bombing on civilian populations. I don't recommend listening to this while having dinner. But do listen. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/2...
This rather chilling podcast situates Enoch Powell's infamous speech in the context of the 1960s, and discusses his legacy. He decided that if he couldn't be Vice-Roy of India there was no point to the Empire, so became an anti-imperialist little-Englander. podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/e...
Enoch Powell: Rivers of Blood
Podcast Episode · The Rest Is History · 05/10/2025 · 1h 12m
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October 19, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This rather chilling podcast situates Enoch Powell's infamous speech in the context of the 1960s, and discusses his legacy. He decided that if he couldn't be Vice-Roy of India there was no point to the Empire, so became an anti-imperialist little-Englander. podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/e...
La poire est mûre! #NoKings histoirebnf.hypotheses.org/10163
October 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
La poire est mûre! #NoKings histoirebnf.hypotheses.org/10163
Alain Mabanckou's discussion of the profound importance of Mariama Bâ's _Une si longue lettre_ makes me want to go back to reread its (classical?) limpidity. #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Alain Mabanckou explore "Une si longue lettre" de Mariama Bâ, œuvre fondatrice du féminisme africain
Alain Mabanckou, présente le roman emblématique de l'autrice sénégalaise Mariama Bâ. "Une si longue lettre", publié en 1979, reste un texte de référence sur la condition féminine en Afrique et la lutt...
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October 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Alain Mabanckou's discussion of the profound importance of Mariama Bâ's _Une si longue lettre_ makes me want to go back to reread its (classical?) limpidity. #frenchpodcast www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
This #frenchpodcast filled in a lot that I didn't know about Saint-Simon, proto-socialist thinker of the post-revolutionary period, who believed in work and private entreprise and managed to make, and lose, a fortune. #FrHistory www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Pourquoi lire Saint-Simon aujourd'hui ? : épisode du podcast Saint-Simon (1760-1825), dans l'atelier d'un visionnaire
AUDIO • Saint-Simon (1760-1825), dans l'atelier d'un visionnaire, épisode : Pourquoi lire Saint-Simon aujourd'hui ? . Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Avec philosophie, et décou...
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October 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
This #frenchpodcast filled in a lot that I didn't know about Saint-Simon, proto-socialist thinker of the post-revolutionary period, who believed in work and private entreprise and managed to make, and lose, a fortune. #FrHistory www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Just published: a massive history of France, ed by @ericanceau.bsky.social. #frenchpodcast which in this episode only mentions France's ex-colonies in an interesting discussion of the term 'roman national' and how divisive debates on colonialism have been. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Histoire de France, un récit commun ? : épisode du podcast Écrire l'histoire de France, mode d'emploi
AUDIO • Écrire l'histoire de France, mode d'emploi, épisode : Histoire de France, un récit commun ?. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Le Cours de l'histoire, et découvrez nos po...
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October 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Just published: a massive history of France, ed by @ericanceau.bsky.social. #frenchpodcast which in this episode only mentions France's ex-colonies in an interesting discussion of the term 'roman national' and how divisive debates on colonialism have been. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Philosophical 'libertinage' in the 17thC seems to have been a sort of radical materialist doubt, along with interest in what passed for science at the time (including magic and alchemy). #Frenchpodcast, first in series of 3. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
D'où vient la pensée libertine ? : épisode du podcast Les courants libertins, un état d'esprit
AUDIO • Les courants libertins, un état d'esprit , épisode : D'où vient la pensée libertine ?. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Avec philosophie, et découvrez nos podcasts en li...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Philosophical 'libertinage' in the 17thC seems to have been a sort of radical materialist doubt, along with interest in what passed for science at the time (including magic and alchemy). #Frenchpodcast, first in series of 3. www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...
Le Puy du Fou, the French historical (re?)enactment entertainment park that is aiming to open a new branch near Oxford, has a somewhat divisive background in reactionary French politics. A very topical #frenchpodcast. #Frhistory www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Le Puy du Fou : visiter et revisiter l’Histoire
Aujourd’hui dans Affaires Sensibles, le Puy-du-Fou : visiter et revisiter l’Histoire
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October 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Le Puy du Fou, the French historical (re?)enactment entertainment park that is aiming to open a new branch near Oxford, has a somewhat divisive background in reactionary French politics. A very topical #frenchpodcast. #Frhistory www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/...
Japanese woodblock prints and literary cityscapes in my article - just out with @frenchstudies.bsky.social - 'Zola’s Une page d’amour: The Novelist as Japanese Artist'. French Studies, Vol. 79, No. 4, 565–584.
October 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Japanese woodblock prints and literary cityscapes in my article - just out with @frenchstudies.bsky.social - 'Zola’s Une page d’amour: The Novelist as Japanese Artist'. French Studies, Vol. 79, No. 4, 565–584.
Research on the wedding night in 19thC France took Aïcha Limbada to the Vatican archives to look at cases for divorce (other sources include publications by well-meaning doctors and... George Sand). #Frenchpodcast #Frhistory shows.acast.com/storiavoce/e...
La nuit de noces au XIXᵉ siècle, avec Aïcha Limbada | Storiavoce
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October 5, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Research on the wedding night in 19thC France took Aïcha Limbada to the Vatican archives to look at cases for divorce (other sources include publications by well-meaning doctors and... George Sand). #Frenchpodcast #Frhistory shows.acast.com/storiavoce/e...
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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!!! 🔥🔥🔥
September 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Dangerous steering? Spotted from my office window this afternoon.
October 1, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Dangerous steering? Spotted from my office window this afternoon.