Julien Nègre

YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social

www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30...
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Check out this CFP for the next Borders and Crossings conference, Aix-Marseille Université, September 2026: www.crlv.org/actualites/a...

YouTube video by SAES Webinaire sur la procédure de qualification au CNU 11e section

Un nouveau webinaire sur la procédure de qualification au CNU, qui j'espère sera utile aux jeunes chercheur·ses, que j'ai co-organisé avec la commission recherche et le collège des doctorant·es de la @saesfrance.org et le bureau de la section 11 du CNU!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq1L...

official logo of the academic symposium "“Monarch of all I survey”: Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies", to be held at the ENS de Lyon in Lyon, France, on Nov. 20-21, 2025. It features a crude crown motif on a purple background. The crown is filled with the image of an ancient world map representing Robinson Crusoe's journey.

🌎🔔 Come to Lyon in November!

📍https://monarch2025.sciencesconf.org/

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer) With all the wonderful forest colors in autumn, we shouldn’t miss other dramatic events. Last night, I walked around the urban park across the street from my home. It was quiet enough, with urban traf...

Last night, over a billion birds passed over our heads as they migrated south. This is one of the most dramatic events in the natural world, but most of us are asleep while it happens. Radar tells the tale.

Abstract of the article; @melville-society.bsky.social

Very happy to share that my article in the new issue of #Leviathan is out! It discusses Melville's Clarel, and the possibility of reading a philosophy of secularization at work in the poem. Many thanks to Melville scholars far and near for their friendship and support!🐋
👉 muse.jhu.edu/article/970196

📣 Registration is now open for the “Critical Health” conference (17-18 October 2025). Register for in-person or online attendance by clicking on the link below:
🔗 criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/registration/

Art Exhibit Mirror, mirror by Auriane Kolodziej Auriane Kolodziej’s artwork will be on display at Le Club de la Sorbonne (galerie Gerson) on Friday 17 October, from 5:30 til 7:00 pm Auriane Kolodziej (bo…

Paris-based artist Auriane Kolodziej will showcase her work during the “Critical Health” conference I’m coorganizing. Find out more about her sculptures and beautiful poetry here: criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/art-exhibit/
(desktop version recommended)

Stenciled black paint on white that reads All Harpooners Are Bastards. Beside "All" and "Are" are stencils of stylized sperm whales, facing opposite directions.

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.

As a French instructor teaching this course this term, I agree it's a wild pairing. It also leads to interesting questions about the 2 works though. Would love to hear your talk 👍

surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights

September is officially here!

American Studies scholars, what are your plans for the term? 💬

Organizing an exciting symposium on the "Monarch of all I survey" trope in literature! With Julia Kühn and Nick Spengler as keynote speakers.
Nov. 20-21 in Lyon, France.

Avec un chapitre de Marine Soubeille, nouvelle membre d'ECHELLES, sur Moonrise Kingdom de Wes Anderson !

Agrégation anglais 2026 - Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn et le film de Wes Anderson, Moonrise Kingdom.

#AgregAnglais2026 Publication
Ellipses Huck Finn et Moonrise Kingdom
Coordonation Frédéric Lefrançois et Rédouane Abouddahab Rédouane.
Merci aux collègues, dont @juliennegre.bsky.social
🙏
www.editions-ellipses.fr/accueil/1595...

screenshot of an email with the following sentence highlighted: "We are writing to inquire with you whether you have interest on the topic Sperm quality in farmed animals which is scheduled to be published in AIMS Animal Science. With your high reputation and significant contributions in this field and the aim to publish high-quality articles in the first issue, we sincerely invite you to present your excellent research outcome"

unexpected research trajectories continue to emerge from this sperm whale madness

Signs and wonders, eh?

underground stacks at university library with an open drawer containing large topographic maps

Yellow folder titled "Geology, Structure, and Uranium Deposits of the Shiprock Quadrangle, New Mexico and Arizona" from the US Department of Interior, containing a 1963 geologic map of the area

detail of the title of the geologic map

detail of the map showing black and white topographic relief and red lines indicating geologic structures and uranium deposits

today: old yellow folders and X-files vibes ☢️

Frontispiece of 1633 French edition of Mercator's atlas by Hondius, with colored engravings

1606 map of Virginia and Florida with colored engravings and Latin text

Detail of 1606 map of Virginia showing "Apaltcy Montes" (one of the earliest references to Appalachian Mountains on a European map) and Latin text indicating the presence of gold and silver.

Detail of Virginia coastline on 1606 map. Rivers have French names like Charente, Garonne, Loire, etc.

🗺️In special collections @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social for new project: massive 1633 French ed of Mercator's atlas by Hondius. Includes stunning 1606 map of Virginia, predating Smith’s, with hints of 1550s French exploration in Florida. Renaissance Latin makes feel more fluent than I really am!

1861 oceanic chart by M. F. Maury representing ocean currents and whale feeding ground (French edition)

Title page of M. F. Maury's Géographie Physique de la Mer (1861 French edition)

detail of Maury's ocean current chart showing the Pacific, 1861, in French

detail of Maury's ocean current chart showing the Atlantic, 1861, in French

It took M. F. Maury nearly 10 years to reach this representation of "sea drift and whales" in 1855. Melville's *Moby-Dick* (published before this map) registers this changing perception of the oceans. First time I come across a French version @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social, this one published in 1861.

Cover of Michel Chevalier, Lettres sur l'Amérique du Nord, 1837

This book must be returned before February 14, 1965.

Old theatre ticket from the 1960s used as bookmark.

Folded map of the US in 1836 at the end of Chevalier's book

Unnamed reader from 60y ago left their Théâtre des Célestins ticket as a bookmark in this volume @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social. Not sure anyone has opened this book since then. Chevalier's account of his travels in the US in early 1830s is very interesting and has a nice map focused on transportation.

Centerfold drawing (in black and white) by the artist Markous. Published in La Vie Parisienne in 1012. The title is: Promenades en aéroplanes: Monmartre. It shows three rows of panels. Each row has but one extensive rectangular panel, showing different actions and buildings in the Montmartre area in Paris, viewed from above.

#Comics scholars |fans: Help. This centerfold (published in the French magazine “La Vie Parisienne”) is from 1912. I've been looking in my dozens of folders for earlier examples of artists working with a similar technique. Can you think of any examples from 1912 and possibly a little earlier? 🙋🏻‍♀️

what after all canst thou do, but tell the poor, pitiful point, where thou thyself happenest to be on this wide planet

"[Sandweiss's] deeply researched book take its title from an arresting black-and-white photograph of the peace commissioners gathered at Fort Laramie in 1868....Sandweiss is an elegant writer who knows how to craft a satisfying story." - Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street Journal

A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West.

The Girl in the Middle is out now. Read a free sample of this compelling book and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

💬 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲̀𝘀 « 𝗗𝗶𝘀/𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 : 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝘄𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 »
@sorbonne-universite.fr @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social 

📅 1er - 4 juillet

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A detail of Thomas Jefferson's 1785 map of Virginia published with his *Notes on the State of Virginia*. Gallica, BnF.

📍🌎📚 Interested in the intersections of American literature and cartography? Our 2026 conference in Lyon, France, invites papers on map-text interactions. Deadline flexible upon request — don’t hesitate to reach out!
Full CFP ➡️ maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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A detail of Thomas Jefferson's 1785 map of Virginia published with his *Notes on the State of Virginia*. Gallica, BnF.

📍🌎📚 Interested in the intersections of American literature and cartography? Our 2026 conference in Lyon, France, invites papers on map-text interactions. Deadline flexible upon request — don’t hesitate to reach out!
Full CFP ➡️ maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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🗺️🌎🔔CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century

International Symposium | April 1–3, 2026 | ENS de Lyon, France

Deadline: June 15, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Martin Brückner (U Delaware)
Full CFP: maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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A photo of page 178 in the 4th Norton Critical Edition of Mark Twain's *Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*. The word "stone" is circled in black, indicating a probable typo.

Hey @nortoncriticals.bsky.social is that a typo in *Huck Finn*'s 4th critical edition? The 3rd edition had "store", which clearly makes much more sense. Thanks!

🗺️🌎🔔CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century

International Symposium | April 1–3, 2026 | ENS de Lyon, France

Deadline: June 15, 2025
Keynote Speaker: Martin Brückner (U Delaware)
Full CFP: maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

@modernlanguage.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social