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Mathias Valverde
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PhD student @Unistra & @EHESS | Early modern history | researching gender: esp. science and masculinities in 18c. France | IEG Mainz Fellow 2023 | Music enthusiast
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I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🚨 The ERC WE-COOP project is hiring 2 social science postdocs (2 years, extendable 1 year):

"Gender & Cooperative Labour"
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/382768
"Cooperative Labour & Intersectionality"
👉 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/382766

DL: 15 dec

Come join us — feel free to share or reach out! ✨
November 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The “Feminist Utopias at Work. Reorganise, Redefine, Abolish” conference is coming up soon!
Join us in #Strasbourg (& online) on 6–7 November.
👉 Full programme available here: we-coop.eu/en/2025-symp...
We look forward to welcoming everyone!
#sociology #work #gendersky #feminism #utopia @unistra.fr
October 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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We’re delighted and honoured to host Prof. Jessica Gordon Nembhard (CUNY) as keynote speaker.
She’ll give a talk on “Building Co-op Utopias: Black American Women Cooperators’ Journeys.”
Join us in #Strasbourg (& online) on 6 Nov, 5–6 p.m.
👉 More info: we-coop.eu/en/2025-symp...
@cuny.edu @unistra.fr
October 16, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.
October 10, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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La pétition contre la loi Duplomb est en train d’exploser depuis hier ! On est déjà proche du seuil au-delà duquel elle sera mise en avant sur le site de l’Assemblée. Toutes les signatures ne se valent pas, celle-ci peut compter.
Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Non à la Loi Duplomb — Pour la santé, la sécurité, l’intelligence collective. - Plateforme des pétitions de l’Assemblée ...
Je m'appelle Eléonore PATTERY, j’ai 23 ans, et je suis actuellement en Master QSE et RSE (Qualité, Sécurité, Environnement / Responsabilité Sociétale des Entreprises). En tant que future professionne...
petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr
July 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Last call for the international conf on Feminist Utopias at Work as part of my ERC StG www.we-coop.eu
Looking forward to your submissions & to welcoming you at @unistra.fr !
DL: 1 June #Gendersky #Academicsky #SocialSciences
May 31, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Queering Foucault
May 31, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Just a few more weeks left to submit an abstract.
We look forward to learning more about your research!
DL: 1 June
More info: we-coop.eu/en/2025-symp...
#Gendersky #Academicsky #SocialSciences
May 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
The music that kept me going today is Weyes Blood - The Worst is done

Feel free to share yours under my post! I love to discover new things!

#NTS

open.spotify.com/track/2P2b0z...
The Worst Is Done
Weyes Blood · And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow · Song · 2022
open.spotify.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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FINAL PROJECT CONFERENCE! Register to attend Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World, bringing together longstanding project collaborators and exciting, new interlocutors. Spaces are *extremely* limited, so do sign up... see the programme at www.mmor.co.uk/events/confe...

#EarlyModern 🗃️
Select tickets – MMoR Conference: Medicine, Slavery, and Race in the Atlantic World – The Council Room, King's College London
After four full years, the initial funded stage of Medicine and the Making of Race comes to a close in September 2025. To mark ...
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April 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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When I've finally drafted that conference abstract #AcademicWriting #AcademicChatter
April 23, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Delighted to see this excellent new book from Ben Jackson out this week from the Gender in History series at @manchesterup.bsky.social. Historians of the 18thc, Britain, or masclinity or material culture, here's one for you!
April 7, 2025 at 1:13 PM
There’s no shortage of tyrants and no shortage of fools 🎶
March 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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(New Issue) Global Histories of Menstruation and Menopause histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/03/hist... #histmed #histbody
March 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Why is it always a dickhead in a tesla?????
March 18, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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We are pleased to announce that the 2025 David H. Pinkney Prize has been awarded to Jennifer N. Heuer for her book The Soldier’s Reward: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2024! Congratulations! press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
March 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Thrilled to see the news on @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social that the '25 @sfhs.bsky.social Pinkney Prize for Best Book in French History went to...

my 🗃️ bestie @jenniferheuer.bsky.social's
THE SOLDIER'S REWARD: Love and War in the Age of the French Revolution and Napoleon! 🥳 So proud of my friend!! 💙
March 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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There’s been a great many capitalist dystopian books and art, but most failed to imagine something as grim and pathetic as the President of the United States hawking his oligarchical puppet master’s shitty cars on the White House lawn.
"They have one for $35,000, which is pretty low" -- Trump during his Tesla promotional event with Elon Musk at the White House says he bought a cybertruck for his granddaughter Kai
March 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
My alcohol consumption after reading the news these days #Archive 🗃️
March 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Entre 1796 et 1800, la quasi-guerre envenime les relations entre les deux jeunes républiques. Corsaires, scandale diplomatique et guerre maritime... Un épisode méconnu de l’histoire !
➡️ l.franceculture.fr/8cP
March 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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La grande historienne des femmes,Yvonne Knibiehler nous a quitté
Elle avait créé le Centre d’Etudes Féminines de l’Université de Provence, premier groupe féministe universitaire de France. Ses travaux sur la maternité, sur les infirmières ont fait date
au revoir madame
February 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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🔴 Communiqué du père de Rémi Fraisse suite à la reconnaissance de la responsabilité de la France dans la mort de Rémi, tué par une grenade offensive lancée par un gendarme, le 26 octobre 2014 sur la zone de Sivens ⬇️
February 27, 2025 at 10:08 AM