Dr Antonia Wimbush

🎉 We invite you to our end-of-year online research showcase & celebration!
🗓️ Friday 28 Nov | ⏰ 3–6 PM AEST
💬 Share a 10-min informal talk on your 2025 research highlights—or just come listen & connect!
📩 EOI by 31 Oct: wifaustralia@gmail.com
#WiFOZ #ResearchShowcase

🎓 Join us for the next WiF Oz Work-in-Progress Seminar
"Shumona Sinha, exemple paradigmatique des xénographies féminines dans l’Europe d’aujourd’hui"!
📅 Thurs 23 Oct
🕚 11am (London) | 12pm (Madrid) | 9pm (Sydney)
📍 On Teams
🔗 Programme & link: womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/work-in-prog...

Great to be in conversation with Jennifer Boum Make about our special issue of @francemodern.bsky.social on the BUMIDOM, co-edited with Malika Danican!

[CONFÉRENCE] 16 octobre 2025

Les Archives départementales et la Société d'histoire de la Guadeloupe sont ravies d'accueillir le Dr @awimbush.bsky.social pour une conférence intitulée :
Le BUMIDOM dans la création artistique : mémoires et imaginaires d’une migration d'État.

#Bumidom #Guadeloupe

Michel-Rolph Trouillot : « Faire taire le passé », une autre approche de l’Histoire Trente ans après sa parution en anglais, Silencing the Past de Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1949-2012) paraît enfin en français sous le titre Faire taire le passé – Pouvoir et production historique (Lux Éd...

🚨🚨30 years after coming out in English,

Michel-Rolph Trouillot's SILENCING THE PAST

est paru *enfin* en français!!!

Veuillez partager ces bonnes nouvelles avec vos meilleurs amis et collègues francophones! 🗃️🇭🇹

www.amitiefm.ht/post/michel-...

Fantastic to see so much interdisciplinary research on the BUMIDOM- congratulations to all contributors!

The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire This introduction to the special issue of ‘The BUMIDOM and its Legacy: An Interdisciplinary Approach/Le BUMIDOM et son héritage: une approche interdisciplinaire’ provides historical context to the ...

Pleased to see the introduction to our special issue of
@francemodern.bsky.social
'The BUMIDOM and its legacy: an interdisciplinary approach', written with Malika Danican! Can't wait to see the rest of the issue & congratulations to all contributors! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Picture shows a book cover for Dangers of Youth

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...

We are thrilled to invite you to the roundtable "La délicatesse comme ruse pour habiter le monde et la planète en écosensibilité?"
🗓️ 25 Sept | ⏰ 9–11am GMT | 📍 Zoom

Cover image for the Australian Journal of French Studies special issue. The red journal cover appears on the left with the title Australian Journal of French Studies, Volume LXII, Numbers 3/4, 2025. On the right, text reads: “SPECIAL ISSUE: Corporeality: Critical Concerns in French and Francophone Studies. Guest edited by Sonia Wilson, Nathalie Ségeral, and Victoria Souliman.” Liverpool University Press logo in white at the top right. Background features abstract red and dark wave-like folds.

🧵 New Special Issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies: “Corporeality: Critical Concerns in French & Francophone Studies” and a tribute to Professor Jarrod Hayes

Tune in for a thoughtful discussion on navigating academia, building international connections, and finding your voice in the early stages of your career. Many thanks to @awimbush.bsky.social @josiegoldman.bsky.social @besskearney.bsky.social and Pooja Booluck-Miller for a great conversation!

A red journal cover with white and black short lines of different lengths with the journal title, 'Australian Journal of French Studies' written in white serif text on a purple and red metallic striped background, with the journal synopsis, 'Devoted to French and Francophone literature, culture and society' written in white serif text to the right.

We are pleased to announce that the Australian Society for French Studies are now accepting submissions for the Jarrod Hayes AJFS Prize for 2025. 🏆 Find out more: bit.ly/JH-AJFS-Prize @sfhs.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @profnatedwards.bsky.social

“Ma France, ma Joséphine”: The Pantheonization of Josephine Baker - Yale University Press Hanna Diamond— Panthéonisation is the tradition of burial or reburial in the Pantheon in central Paris. This imposing mausoleum is a secular national site, and burial there represents the highest... READ MORE

How did Josephine Baker—an American-born performer—come to be re-buried in the Pantheon? Author Hanna Diamond explains how in a new original piece from Yale University Press.

France proposes statehood for New Caledonia: will it work? – Australian Academy of the Humanities France has proposed New Caledonia become a state. Will the proposal be accepted by residents who show increasing support for independence?

An unprecedented agreement between France and New Caledonia would see the Pacific territory become a “state” in 2026 following a referendum.

Prof Robert Aldrich FAHA considers the opportunities & challenges of both independence and a ‘negotiated dependency’ for New Caledonia. bit.ly/3H3waZY

Congratulations Nicki!

Melbourne French Studies Seminar Series (July): Book Launch – BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives: Literature, Memory and Migration Dr Antonia Wimbush (University of Melbourne) 🗓️When: Friday 25 July, 2:00-3:00pm 📍Where: 407 Babel Building, The Univer…

Looking forward to the Melbourne launch of my book! Friday 25th July, 2-3pm, all in Melbourne welcome!
australiansocietyforfrenchstudies.com/2025/07/09/m...

Positionalities Podcast Positionalities: The Women in French International Podcast is a space for open conversations about the intersection of our lives with our work in feminist criticism, gender studies, and studies of …

Great to speak on the @wifaustralia.bsky.social Positionalities podcast about navigating the ECR stage & cultivating community. Thanks to the wonderful hosts Pooja Booluck-Miller, @josiegoldman.bsky.social & @besskearney.bsky.social
womeninfrenchaustralia.wordpress.com/wif-australi...

Australia can't withstand further humanities cuts The Australian Academy of Humanities views with great concern the impact on staff, students and the wider community of the ANU’s plan for the humanities and social sciences. Now is not the time to red...

Australia can’t withstand further cuts to the humanities. Civil society depends on it.

humanities.org.au/news/austral...

Campaigner calls for judge-led public inquiry into Windrush scandal Victims of other injustices are treated better, says founder of ‘bittersweet’ Windrush Day A founder of Windrush Day has called for a public inquiry into the scandal amid this year’s “bittersweet” celebrations of Black Britons and their contribution to national life. Patrick Vernon, who campaigned for the national day for nearly a decade before the government adopted it, said the mistreatment, detention and removal of Black Britons wrongly accused of being in the UK illegally had not been treated seriously enough. Continue reading...

Campaigner calls for judge-led public inquiry into Windrush scandal

Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance Graphic novels are well-placed to bring forgotten history to life.

Three graphic novels that address the history of slavery – and commemorate resistance
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Wonderful discussion on 'French Women Writing Environment in the Long 19th century' led by @christiesmbc.bsky.social and Dan Finch-Race as part of our WiP seminar series! Thank you very much to our speakers and attendees 😊

A great start to the @wifaustralia.bsky.social work-in-progress seminar on 'French Women Writing Environment in the Long 19th century', led by @christiesmbc.bsky.social & Daniel Finch-Race!

That's brilliant, Josie, huge congratulations!!

Remembering the BUMIDOM A new book by a University of Melbourne expert explores BUMIDOM, the controversial mass migration program from the Caribbean to France from 1963-1982

Looking forward to the online launch of BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives! Read about the book here! pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/rem...

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Interested in Caribbean migration? Come to the book launch of my @edinburghup.bsky.social new book, BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives! Thursday 5th June 5pm GMT. Sign up here: unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

This looks amazing, congratulations Khalid!

Come to the online launch of BUMIDOM (1963-1982) and its Afterlives edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-bumidom... @edinburghup.bsky.social Thursday 5th June BST, chaired by @cforsdick.bsky.social & presentations by Adlai Murdoch & Audrey Célestine. unimelb.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Venez nombreux/-euses! Please do join us for this online roundtable discussion.