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Sara Black

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I am a historian of medicine in modern France. My research focuses on the normalization of drugs like opium, cocaine, and hashish in French medical practice. https://www.saraeblack.com/

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Grinnell College is hiring a TT-Asst Prof (ABD welcome) in Francophone Caribbean! Esp interested in ecocriticism, film/media studies, gender/sex, or theatre and performance studies

Exp work in Creole is a +++

Applications due Oct 15th!! apply.interfolio.com/148246

24.06.2024 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Profs & Pints Richmond: Pain Relief's Reckless Pioneers Profs and Pints Richmond presents: โ€œPain Reliefโ€™s Reckless Pioneers,โ€ a look at how self-medicating 19th century physicians changed attitudes toward suffering and laid the foundations for today's gloโ€ฆ

Virginia friends: I will be giving a lecture on my book, Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century at a brewery in Richmond tonight. If you like beer and are interested in the history of drugs and medicine, come check it out! profsandpints.ticketleap.com/opioids/

26.06.2024 12:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Profs & Pints Richmond: Pain Relief's Reckless Pioneers Profs and Pints Richmond presents: โ€œPain Reliefโ€™s Reckless Pioneers,โ€ a look at how self-medicating 19th century physicians changed attitudes toward suffering and laid the foundations for today's gloโ€ฆ

Virginia friends! I will be giving a lecture on my book, Drugging France: Mind-Altering Medicine in the Long Nineteenth Century at a brewery in Richmond on June 26. If you like beer and are interested in the history of drugs and medicine, come check it out! profsandpints.ticketleap.com/opioids/

06.06.2024 15:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This looks great! I look forward to reading it!

06.06.2024 14:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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New Article: Josephine Butler in Paris Iโ€™ve been working on an article examining Josephine Butlerโ€™s campaign against morals policing in Paris for quite a while now and itโ€™s finally out. This article, the first publisheโ€ฆ

New Article: Josephine Butler in Paris
www.andrewisraelross.com/blog/2024/06... #history #publication

06.06.2024 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Announcements โ€“ journal of womenโ€™s history

๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธDeadline extended for the JWH Best Doctoral Student Research Paper in the history of women, gender, and sexualities!!! Submit papers electronically by Friday, June 28, 2024, to Jennifer Nelson, chair: jennifer_nelson@redlands.edu. See jwomenshistory.org/announcements/ for eligibility.

23.05.2024 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Drugging France - With Good Reason Addiction isn't a one-size-fits-all disease. Women experience it differently than men.

Gave a short radio interview about my book Drugging France, last week on With Good Reason! You can check it out here: www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/drug...

25.05.2024 00:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sarah Horowitz,

My New Books in French Studies interview with @sarahehorowitz.bsky.social
re: THE RED WIDOW is online, enfin.

Huge thanks to Sarah for this conversation - a pure delight! Listenโ€ฆ

newbooksnetwork.com/the-red-widow

06.04.2024 14:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Call for Papers: Dirty Data and New Quantitative Histories Historical research has changed in the age of big data. Thanks to the labour of archivists, librarians, and other researchers to catalogue, digitize and analyse

'French History' is inviting contributions to a special issue on 'Dirty Data and New Quantitative Histories'.
Initial proposals due July 2024.

'French History' invite des contributions pour un dossier spรฉcial: propositions initiales, Juillet 2024.

academic.oup.com/fh/pages/cal...

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22.03.2024 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19    ๐Ÿ” 16    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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Join us on May 5 @ 3pm!

12.04.2024 12:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! I had a lot of fun.

10.11.2023 18:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for coming!

06.11.2023 00:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธThe JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!

01.11.2023 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 547    ๐Ÿ” 499    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

I am going to be discussing my book, Drugging France, this Sunday with the wonderful Hannah Frydman. If you are interested in drug history, please join us! @hannahfrydman.bsky.social @sfhs.bsky.social

01.11.2023 14:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Congratulations Hannah!

25.10.2023 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Thanks, Darcie!

31.10.2023 00:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!

26.10.2023 10:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh wow, I feel so honored! Thank you!

26.10.2023 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks so much, Jessie! Hope you're doing well!

26.10.2023 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks, Cindy!

26.10.2023 10:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks, Roxanne!

24.10.2023 23:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I am delighted to announce that Drugging France
won the J. Russell Major Prize from the AHA! Thank you so much to Bonnie Smith and to all of my friends and colleagues who provided feedback and advice over the years. I am so grateful for your support! @ahahistorians.bsky.social

24.10.2023 23:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 28    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Thank you so much, Alyssa!

24.10.2023 23:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Transfers of socialism between France and Great Britain, and its popular reception, in the long nine... A one-day conference on โ€˜Transfers of socialism between France and Great Britain, and its popular reception, in the long nineteenth centuryโ€™ will take place at the University of Tours, France, 8-9...

Call for papers: please share sslh.org.uk/2023/10/05/t...

08.10.2023 10:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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AHA24 Program Presenting opportunities for connecting, a hub of scholarship, resources for educators, career development, and local history

The program for #AHA24 is available to browse! This yearโ€™s annual meeting will feature more than 450 sessions and over 60 posters. ๐Ÿ—ƒ๏ธ

05.10.2023 15:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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This fantastic collection of bibliographic essays is not just a narrative guide to scholarship about past epidemics but a collective reckoning with the limitations of #histmed #histsci in the face of a pandemic.

All #openaccess and highly recommended.

www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/202...

02.10.2023 09:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 134    ๐Ÿ” 68    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Excited to be in the other place! Thanks for the invite @rebeccapscales.bsky.social !

06.10.2023 01:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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