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Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm contemplating an early modern panel....

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

N'oubliez pas! Date limité du Congrès Annuel est 15 Oct 2026

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Reminder!!! Deadline for Annual Conference CFP is 15 October 2026

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🚨PUBLICATION ALERT🗃️ Volume 25 of FCH, which features a special issue on the BUMIDOM and its legacies, as well as a document analysis of Spanish correspondence related to a French settlement on the Island of Antica (part of present-day Venezuela) in 1656. scholarlypublishingcollective.org/msup/fch

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨🗃️ CFP for FCHS Annual Conference 🗃️🚨 Contact, Créolité, and Commerce along the Waterways of French Empire (Deadline: 15 October 2026) drive.google.com/file/d/1mT8l...

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FCHS 2027 Lafayette CFP-Final-to-distribute.pdf

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚨🗃️ Appel:SHCF Congrès Annuel 🗃️🚨 Contacts, créolité et commerce le long des voies navigables de l'empire français (Date limité: 15 Oct 2026) drive.google.com/file/d/1mT8l...

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FCHS 2027 Lafayette CFP-Final-to-distribute.pdf

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

FCHS invites you to submit any updates or news to include in the Fall newsletter. These submissions could include your recent or forthcoming publications, upcoming conferences, book prizes, or calls for fellowships and grants. Please the info to media@frenchcolonial.org no later than 15 September.

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

SHCF vous invite à nous faire parvenir des nouvelles/annonces pour publication dans le bulletin de la SHCF. Ces annonces peuvent inclure des publications ou à paraître prochainement, des appels à contributions, des prix, etc. Partager à media@frenchcolonial.org au plus tard le 15 Sept.

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We award the Eccles Prize annually to the graduate student judged to have presented the best paper at the Annual Meeting. Chaque année, le prix Eccles s’est décerné à un.e doctorant.e jugé.e d’avoir présenté la meilleure intervention au congrès annuel de la Société de l’Histoire Coloniale Française.

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We also awarded an honorable mention to Clement Huang (York University, @clemhuang.bsky.social) for “David’s Black-and-White Bear: Global Networks of Sciences and Religions via the MNHN’s First Giant Pandas, 1869." frenchcolonial.org/awards-prizes/

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

We are pleased to award the 2026 Eccles Prize to Abdelhakim Belhacel (ATER--Université Paris Nanterre, @abdelhakimbelhacel.bsky.social ) for "Une histoire connectée de la traite et des impérialismes français et omanais sur la côte swahilie." frenchcolonial.org/awards-prizes/

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Please share any photos you took at the annual conference to media@frenchcolonial.org!! SVP partagez vos photos du congrès annuel à media@frenchcolonial.org!!

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

2026 Peabody Prize Winner Siba Barkataki, English and Foreign Languages University (Hyderabad, India), to present “Coolie History and Auto-theory: A Study of La mémoire délavée by Nathacha Appanah.”

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

2026 William Shorrock Travel Award Winners Emily Hardick (The Ohio State University), Clement Qiang Huang (York University), Marie Robin (Columbia University), Emma Bock (McGill University), and William Lesaicherre (Scuola Superiore Meridionale/Aix-Marseille Université).

2026 William Shorrock Travel Award Winners

Emily Hardick, The Ohio State University, ‘Ana Kamatwa/L’Attirance: Congolese Negotiations of Empire and Constructions of Mobility in Interwar Europe’

Clement Qiang Huang, York University, ‘David’s Black-and-White Bear: Global Networks of Sciences and Religions via the MNHN’s First Giant Pandas, 1869’

Marie Robin, Columbia University, ‘After the Brothels: The Disappearances and Afterlives of the French Military’s “Unremembered” Women’

Emma Bock, McGill University, ‘"His wife welcomed me most graciously": French Creole Women and Community-Building in the Spanish Illinois Country’

William Lesaicherre, Scuola Superiore Meridionale/Aix-Marseille Université, ‘Mettre en scène la transformation. La rhétorique de conversion dans le dispositif de stages d’information en Algérie pendant la guerre d’indépendance (1957-1961)’

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Prix pour services distingués: Ken Orosz, Buffalo State University

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Article Prize: Suzanne Kaufman, “Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, & the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisia.” Honorable Mention: Wallace Teska, "Arbitrating Abolition: Women's Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 1907."

Suzanne K. Kaufman, Loyola University, for “Incident at Sousse: West African Soldiers, Legionnaires, and the Racial Politics of Colonial Policing in 1930s French Tunisia.” French Historical Studies (August 2025)

Honorable Mention: Wallace Teska, "Arbitrating Abolition: Women's Resistance and the Worodugu Slave Exodus of 1907." Slavery & Abolition (2025)

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Heggoy Prize: Benjamin Claude Brower, The Colonization of Names: Symbolic Violence and France's Occupation of Algeria. Columbia University Press. Honorable Mention: Karine Sitcharn, Gouverner la jeunesse: De Gaulle et l’ambition impériale (Gallimard).

Benjamin Claude Brower, The Colonization of Names: Symbolic Violence and France's Occupation of Algeria. Columbia University Press.

Benjamin Claude Brower’s The Colonization of Names: Symbolic Violence and France’s Occupation of Algeria traces how the French state attempted to utilize one of the most quotidian of all things – what people are called – in its effort to manage Algeria and Algerians. Exploring the power and politics of naming, Brower shows how French imperial authorities twisted and transformed Algerian names into forms more easily known, categorized, and tracked by the colonial state. In doing so, he demonstrates how the French disrupted longstanding Algerian traditions and, most horrifically, severed ties between families.

Attending as well to how Algerians navigated and contested the new systems imposed upon them, Brower brilliantly reveals the lived consequences of what Pierre Bourdieu termed “symbolic violence.” Ambitious in scope and nuanced in conceptualization, The Colonization of Names represents a major intervention not only in the historiography of colonial Algeria, but also in our understanding of the relationship between statecraft, personal identity, and the family.

Honorable Mention: Karine Sitcharn, Gouverner la jeunesse : De Gaulle et l’ambition impériale (Gallimard).

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Boucher Prize: Mélanie Lamotte, By Flesh & Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire. Harvard University Press. Honorable Mention: Julia Gaffield, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (Yale University Press).

Mélanie Lamotte’s By Flesh & Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire is an ambitious and innovative book that examines how French colonies in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds were connected through legal regimes, racial policies, and the circulation of both people and ideas. Taking a trans-imperial approach, Lamotte identifies the imperial policies, especially those concerning sex and labor, that structured the early modern French Empire.

With its bold geographical scope and sustained consideration of New France, Lower Louisiana, Senegambia, Guyana, Guadeloupe, Madagascar, Isle Bourbon (Réunion), Isle de France (Mauritius), and the French outposts in India, Lamotte offers important new insights into the global dimensions of French colonization. The book is especially successful in pairing this expansive conceptual framework with richly textured archival evidence that centers the experiences of men and women across the colonial world. The committee commends both Professor Lamotte and Harvard University Press for this original and deeply researched first book, which makes a major contribution to the history of French colonialism and to broader histories of race, labor, and law.

Honorable Mention: Julia Gaffield, I Have Avenged America: Jean-Jacques Dessalines and Haiti’s Fight for Freedom (Yale University Press).

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

🚨Announcing the 2026 Annual Prize winners! 🚨 #FCHS26 🗃️

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Grad Students!! Apply for the J.W. Eccles Prize for Best Paper presented at the annual conference. Le prix Eccles s’est décerné à un.e doctorant.e jugé.e d’avoir présenté la meilleure intervention au congrès annuel de la Société de l’Histoire Coloniale Française. frenchcolonial.org/awards-prizes/

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Martha van Bakel @mvanbakel.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

It was great to be in Maynooth this weekend for @frenchcolonial.bsky.social 2026. Got to hear from so many 17/18/19th century experts and also find out more about 15th century Ireland at Maynooth Castle (and beat the London heatwave for a while 🥵)

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Dónal Hassett @donalh.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

And it's a wrap. Thanks to all who came to Maynooth for FCHS. So many brilliant people helped make this happen. It was great to see old friends and make new ones, all while learning lots about the wide range of exciting research happening in our field. @frenchcolonial.bsky.social

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

@frenchcolonial.bsky.social is always such a joy. Thank you, @donalh.bsky.social for a lovely gathering

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Tyson A. Luneau @tluneau.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Another great FCHS Conference in the books. Heading back to France tomorrow for more research.

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Christoph Kalter @christophkalter.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

🚀🚨🚀 We are hiring: 3-year postdoc in African history! 🚀🚨🚀! The University of Agder in Kristiansand, Norway is hiring a researcher with a PhD in History to conduct research on “European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (1950-1990). The job listing can be found here: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

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Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877) | University of Agder

Job title: Post-doctoral Research Fellow in European Languages in Post-Colonial Africa (303877), Employer: University of Agder, Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We hope everyone has a great conference and can’t wait to jump in tomorrow morning!

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Last, but most certainly not least: an extra super special shoutout and thanks to @donalh.bsky.social — who chaired both of these committees and diligently took the reins in guiding this massive undertaking to fruition!

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Second, to members of the program committee (@rpanchasi.bsky.social, @sjzimmerman.bsky.social, Grégory Pierrot, and Sara Legrandjacques)who took all of your wonderful submissions and constructed a fantastic schedule of events!

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

As we get underway here at #FCHS26, we want to take a moment to recognize and give thanks to the people have made this conference possible! First to members of the local arrangements committee, who ensured a warm welcome and smooth runnings—Marion Lyons, Sandrine Tromeur, and Patrick Crowley.

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Joe Borsato @theecoalchemyst.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

J’arrive à l’université de Maynooth pour le congrès de @frenchcolonial.bsky.social et j’ai hâte de présenter à demain sur mes recherches dans l’histoire des Kalinagos (personnes autochtones des Caraïbes) pendant le six-septième siècle. #FCHS2026

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I just read through the FCHS Program and, wow, it looks fantastic. So many great panels and papers. Well done @donalh.bsky.social et al. Sorry to miss it. Have fun all. Sláinte!

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

We can’t wait to see you all on Thursday for the start of our Annual Conference! Make sure to use #FCHS26 for all your posts so we can cultivate our digital community— especially for those who can’t be with us in Maynooth for the in-person festivities!

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Arrived in Dublin this morning in time to enjoy a thrilling @frenchcolonial.bsky.social supplementary Programme Committee meeting at Croke Park chaired by @donalh.bsky.social. Dublin 2-26 Donegal 2-22 🙌🏽✌🏽🥳🎉👏🏽🍾🎊 #FCHS26

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Anne E @anita5446.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Incredibly thoughtful CFP for a conference about slavery in the French Caribbean by @domdegav.bsky.social and @louisesalaun.bsky.social -- a historiographic essay in and of itself! Required reading 🗃️ networks.h-net.org/system/files...

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Frances Bell @franrbell.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This may be a long shot, but do I know anyone in Aix-en-Provence/ANOM right now? 🗃️

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

We're excited to see you in Ireland next week! The final version of the program for the annual conference in Maynooth has been shared via email. Please check your Junk folders if you did not receive it. It is also available to be viewed on the FCHS website: frenchcolonial.org/annual-meeti...

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

A huge congrats to our new leadership, and a thanks to those of you who participated in the elections! We look forward to continuing the important mission of FCHS! 🗃️

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Michitake Aso (University at Albany SUNY) has been elected vice president of the FCHS. Dr. Aso is an historian of Vietnamese and French agriculture, medicine, and health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is chair of the Southeast Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies.

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The FCHS has elected Kelly Duke Bryant (Rowan University) to be its next president, beginning July 2026. Dr. Duke Bryant is an historian of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Senegal, French colonial policy, and childhood and youth. She has served as FCHS vice president since 2024.

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Un immense "bravo" à Drs. Duke Bryant et Aso, et un grand merci à celles et ceux d'entre vous qui ont participé aux élections! Nous avons hâte de poursuivre l'importante mission du SHCF !

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Michitake Aso (University at Albany SUNY) a été élu vice-président de la FCHS. Dr. Aso est historien de l'agriculture, la médecine et la santé au Vietnam et en France aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Il préside le Conseil sur l'Asie du Sud-Est de l'Association for Asian Studies.

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

On a élu Kelly Duke Bryant (Rowan University) au poste de prochaine présidente, pour un mandat débutant en jul '26. Elle est historienne du Sénégal et de la politique coloniale française aux XIXe et XXe siècles. Elle occupait la fonction de vice-présidente de la SHCF depuis 2024.

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🚨 🗃️ Résultats des élections ! 🗃️ 🚨

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

FCHS/SHCF Elections: Date limite--ce lundi ! Deadline this Monday! Connectez-vous à votre compte membre FCHS pour accéder au bulletin de vote ! Log in to your FCHS member account to access the ballot! frenchcolonial.org/membership-l...

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Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her) @drsurekhadavies.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

France's Code Noir (the Black Code) - a legal instrument that invented categories of people to whom different laws applied - has yet to be formally abolished! Cross-party bill to annul it comes before the Assemblée nationale: 28 May. Essay by French lit prof Andrew S Curran. Gift link. 🗃

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Opinion | The Brutal History That France Prefers to Ignore Is Being Heard at Last

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Reminder: You can vote in FCHS elections until June 1st. Log in to your FCHS member account to access the ballot! frenchcolonial.org/membership-l...

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French Colonial Historical Society @frenchcolonial.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Rappel : vous pouvez voter aux élections de la FCHS jusqu'au 1er juin. Connectez-vous à votre compte membre FCHS pour accéder au bulletin de vote ! frenchcolonial.org/membership-l...

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Europe & the World at the IHR @ihreurope1500.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This coming Monday! Very excited to have teamed up with the French History seminar for a discussion of Mélanie Lamotte's By Flesh & Toil: How Sex, Race, & Labor Shaped the Early French Empire (@harvardpress.bsky.social) MON, 18 May, 17:30, zoom & in person @ihr.bsky.social #EarlyModern #Skystorians

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Panel discussion | By Flesh and Toil: How Sex, Race, and Labor Shaped the Early French Empire

Europe and the World, 1500-1800 Seminar

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