With great pride, we congratulate Stephen Sawyer, the CCDS Director, on his new book: "Demos Rising: Democracy and the Popular Construction of Public Power in France, 1800–1850" (forthcoming in January, UChicagoPress) Preorder here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

So happy to see Mary Wilkins Freeman's Six Trees translated into French by a former student of mine, Pauline Tardieu-Collinet. It was fun translating and revising my preface into a postface! Thank you to the editions Finitude, and Hastings College Press for the English edition.

Exciting conversation yesterday on African American epistolarity in the age of enslavement at A19, U Paris Cité. With Bridget Bennett (Leeds) & Erin Forbes (Bristol), we talked about writing oneself into independence, separation, love and...a white hat! LARCA ValeSorbonneU

Free speech sur les campus américains et français? l’un des meilleurs spécialistes américains, Robert Post, ancien Dean et professeur à Yale Law School, sera à Paris le 17 mai après midi, pour en parler avec Olivier Beaud, Eleonora Bottini et Camille Fernandes. Inscrivez vous!

We're delighted to share the full programme and registration links for "The Indigenous Nineteenth Century" symposium being held at English at Kent and online on June 4th and 5th in partnership with the Victorian Diversities Research Network victoriandiversities.co.uk/the-indigenous…

Friends! Does someone have access to Jeremy Chow and Brandi Bushman. "Hydro-eroticism." English Language Notes, vol. 57 no. 1, 2019, p. 96-115? Thanks!

In the mood for some fiction? Greek Shadows, a novel on islands, refugees, risk, love and haunting memories. Pre-order to make the book appear in print! printimeditions.com/copy-of-greek-…

TOMORROW, at 14:00 CEST. Register here: tinyurl.com/RobertPostAUP

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Online event tomorrow! Join Center for Critical Democracy Studies and Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju as they present the first event of the series “ Critical Theory 101: Future Directions and New Challenges” with Professor Axel Honneth. Register now at loom.ly/cJIdqkk to receive the Zoom link

"Pain," a thematic issue of American Literature Journal edited by Sari Altschuler and Thomas Constantinesco, is online. The six essays in this issue build on a body of scholarship that identifies the insights of literary knowledge for the study of pain. View the TOC: ow.ly/eAqX50S9Si1

Rencontre littéraire autour de l'ouvrage Un temps au jardin de William S. Merwin, en présence des traducteurs, Cécile Roudeau, Thomas Dutoit et d'Alice Tardien, des éditions Fanlac. 28 Juin 2024, 18h à la Médiathèque de Souillac (Lot) Disponible ici: tinyurl.com/bdhhdbea

This week’s The TLS also featuring Aaron Peck on Flaubert and Stephen Sawyer on two new books about Paris

"Will the Paris of the Olympics prove to be the mythic, phantasmagorical navel of the world at the centre of so many imaginations, films and pictures?" Stephen Sawyer from AUP on new books by Simon Kuper and Justinien Tribillon in this week's The TLS the-tls.co.uk/world/travel/i…

Two days ago in the Lot, where poet W.S. Merwin lived, Thomas (Dutoit) and I talked at the Souillac public library. We discussed the poem "Foreign Accents" with the local population. Nobody's at home in their own country, everybody's a foreigner with an accent...and it is good.

Looking towards the rising generation during the antebellum period, Michaël Roy uncovers how young advocates confidently acted in concrete ways against slavery and made a meaningful contribution toward its demise

Join Elena Furlanetto, Cécile Roudeau (Cécile Roudeau), Emma Thiébaut, and Emily Coccia (Emily Coccia) as they take a deeper look at parrots, cats, dogs, squirrels, and monkeys in Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman's collection Understudies! soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s08…