Manon Raffard

Thank you Katie 💜

Thank you Lisa :))

Thank youu :)

Visa delivered, contracts signed, plane booked: I'm starting as a Hallsworth Research Fellow (2025-2028) at @manchester.ac.uk next week! I'll be looking into smell and socio-environmental inequality in 19th c. Paris.
Loads of exciting stuff upcoming :))
#envhum #envhist #hstm #frenchstudies

There are not enough jobs in Europe for the scholars here.

PhD position in History (100%, 4 years) - Vacancies - University of Lucerne Assistant or doctoral positions, employment or internship: Looking for a job at the University of Lucerne? Find our listed open positions and apprenticeships here.

Want to work on the history of hair? I am looking for a doc and postdoc to join my project team researching #earlymodern hair, race, trade and multispecies history at the University of Lucerne.

Do apply and spread the word!

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Are you a researcher in the field of history of science, technology and medicine? The #NotesAndRecords essay award is now open for entries until 28 February 2026. Visit our website find out more: buff.ly/dedMm93 #HistSci #HistSTM

🌷New exhibition open - this was such a great experience to co-curate with @shabnambalouch.bsky.social and learn more about Persia. We have chosen to highlight the non-botanical, the cultural and social histories often tucked away in botanists' papers. 🌷

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Currently doing some work on Renée Gailhoustet and her pioneer work on French social housing. I put her in the same category of genius as Charlotte Perriand.

Any other names that should be included in that group in your opinion?

@historywill.bsky.social might know!

Joint BME Small Grants The Social History Society administers a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities undertaken by BME historians or focused on the histories of BME people The scheme was launched …

📢 Applications are now open for the Joint BME Small Grants scheme, supporting research, events & activities by BME historians or on BME histories.

💸 Grants up to £1000.
⏰Deadline: 27 Nov 2025.

#history #apply #funding #opportunity

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#workshop: "Textiles de résistances. Approches contemporaines du textile comme art du sensible et geste critique" (France, 24/04/2026), org. Valérie Dupont & Servin Bergeret

Deadline: 28/11/2025

Info: champ.ly/QQ9FJ8y8

#cfp #smellstudies #olfactorystudies #sensorystudies #arthistory #art

Souscription pour la Collection Romans fin-de-siècle / Romans d’avant-garde des éd. du Lérot : Rachilde et G. Kahn La collection « Romans fin-de-siècle / Romans d’avant-garde », portée par Du Lérot, éditeur et la Société des Amis d’Alfred Jarry et dirigée par Yosuké Goda et Julien Schuh, invite à redécouvrir des œ...

We are delighted to share a link to a discounted price for Rachilde, La Sanglante Ironie, édition critique, by Helen Craske. The deadline for discounted subscription orders is 10 October. Helen was supported in this work by the 2024 Tim Unwin ECR grant.

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Global inequality in historical perspective: Part 2 Thomas Piketty asks: what investment in education, health & infrastructure could move us to more equal global economy by 2100? What are the political obstacles?

“Why don't we have more of a political response to rising inequality in recent decades? Why are the redistributive policies that we could expect not being implemented?”

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social answers these questions in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

36 mo postdoc / research fellow position in Philosophy, History, and/or Social Studies of the Life Sciences in the STS dept. at Technical Universtiy of Munich, apps due Oct 31: #histphil #histsci #histSTM

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Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History The American Society for Environmental History and the Forest History Society seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a five-year t...

Applicants Sought for Editor of Environmental History
- @envirohistory.bsky.social

@aseh.bsky.social & @foresthistory.bsky.social seek applicants to serve as Editor(s) and a new institutional home for the journal Environmental History for a 5-year term.

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#envhist

Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.

Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."

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#envhist #archives

Conference Theme & Call for Proposals | Submit Your Proposals Now — Decolonial Conference Explore the Decolonial Conference theme and submission guidelines. Engage in discussions on liberation amid global challenges.

If you are politically committed to anticolonial, decolonial, antifascist, and antizionist work, consider submitting a proposal (400-600 words). The deadline is October 3.
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Were You Assigned Full Books to Read in High School English? Tell Us.

Were you or your kids assigned full books to read in high school English — novels, nonfiction or plays from beginning to end — or mostly shorter excerpts? We are digging into this very controversial maybe-trend and need your help:

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

This is another routine reminder that our journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social is actively seeking proposals for themed issues. Do get in touch with me directly if you are interested in submitting a proposal.

Journal details 👇
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Small Grants The Social History Society maintains a Small Grants Fund to support research, events and activities by members of the Society. We give priority to activities and research that would otherwise remai…

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the Social History Society Small Grants is coming up soon!

💷 Up to £1000 available to support research, events & activities in social & cultural history

🗓️ Apply by 1 October for events Dec–Apr
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✨Apply today!

Fascists looking to start culture war with autistics have no idea what they’re in for Group of activists with fists raised

In a statement released today, the autistic population explained: “Lol have you ever got a single fact wrong around one of us?”

We will keep fighting - and so should you: www.patreon.com/posts/116939...

Olfactory Research Notes: Terapixel Panorama and Olfactory Art (online) Lausanne-based researcher Tonia Ramogida from the EPFL Laboratory for Experimental Museology’s (eM+) Terapixel Panorama team joins the IAO for a talk about her work, in the latest lecture in …

Upcoming #onlinelecture by SSG member Tonia Ramogida: "Olfactory Research Notes: Terapixel Panorama and Olfactory Art" at the Institute for Art and Olfaction (Oct. 17th, 10 AM PT).

Info: champ.ly/NS0eIzis

#smellstudies #olfaction #sensorystudies #chemicalsenses #academia #research #art

PhD is not enough to enter academia. How letters of recommendation become a barrier for marginalised students University job notifications declare that “candidates from marginalised communities are strongly encouraged to apply”. If the university system believes in it, they should discard the discriminatory…

THIS. So much this.

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🪜 🎓 📜 🍎 ♀️ 👩🏾🔬 #PhDSky #Blackademia #AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #MeToo #HigherEd #PhDChat #AddToBlackEduSky #FeministSky

Honteux : Valérie Pécresse et sa majorité suppriment discrètement les subventions aux MDPH d'Île-de-France - L'Humanité Valérie Pécresse et sa majorité suppriment les subventions allouées aux Maisons départementales des personnes handicapées (MDPH) d’Île-de-France, en toute discrétion. Une décisio...

L'Île-de-France supprime des subventions allouées aux MDPH en IdF qui financent l’acquisition de matériels, l’aménagement de véhicules adaptés, l’accompagnement pour la vie quotidienne des personnes en situation de handicap. Près de 2 000 Franciliens en bénéficient.
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Cover of Dr Bonnie Evans' book The Metamorphosis of Autism: A History of Child Development in Britain (Manchester University Press, 2017)

Autism is back on the front pages. Why not read the book that my excellent @manchester.ac.uk @manchstm.bsky.social colleague Dr Bonnie Evans has published on the history of autism? It's open access and you can read it online for free.

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‘Confusing’ UK visa system ‘draining institutions’ resources’

The UK government has been urged to remove barriers in the visa process for researchers to capitalise on new US restrictions imposed by the Trump administration. @patrickjack.bsky.social reports:

Does look lit though ;)

Gilles Postel-Vinay et Jean-Laurent Rosenthal - A Capital’s Capital

Two Hundred Years of Wealth and Inequality in Paris

À paraître en février aux Princeton UP

French academia,in general, does not engage with processes of racialisation because it would imply confronting its own whiteness. I’ve reached a point where I’m withholding labour so as not to promote its whiteness. White mediocrity gets rewarded, we know it. If you ask me a question, pls do not 1/3