iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Something that has troubled me over and over in these AI years is how we seem to need to redraw every line to accommodate AI. It is possible for writing to have value for thinking and for oral exams and discussions to have value. We don't need to remake the world to eliminate writing/5

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Mélodie Simard-Houde @mshoude.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pour le plaisir, et pour rendre quelques «histoires vraies» sentimentales plus accessibles aujourd'hui, j'ai édité, avec trois étudiant.es de l'UQTR, une petite anthologie du genre, maintenant disponible en libre accès sur Médias 19 ! www.medias19.org/textes-du-19...

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

🚨 Our double issue of Dix-Neuf is now up!! TO THE PASSERSBY: BEFORE & AFTER BAUDELAIRE has 8 stunning articles that center the passante herself through cultural, visual, and literary history, ecocritical, feminist, and queer perspectives

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Céline Bessière @celinebessiere.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

J'espère que ce texte donnera envie de lire ces deux merveilleux livres de @clairelisegaillard.bsky.social et A. Limbada et aussi de plonger dans la thèse de @paulinemortas.bsky.sl, notamment celleux qui s'intéressent au féminisme, sexualité, conjugalité (et pas que en histoire)

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Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

This project was a real struggle to bring over the finish line (we began it before Covid), but thanks to my amazing contributors, most of whom aren't on here but @hannahfrydman.bsky.social @nmw1.bsky.social are!

Table of contents of A Cultural History of Prostitution in the Age of Empire:

Introduction by Andrew Israel Ross
1. Prostitution and the State by Philip Howell
2. Prostitution and Identity by Sandy F. Chang
3 Prostitution and the Market by Hannah Frydman
4 Prostitution Religion and Morality by Sara E. Lampert and Andrew Israel Ross
5 Prostitution, Medicine, Health and the Body by Nancy Wingfield
6 Prostitution and the Visual and Performing Arts by Sara E. Lampert
7 Prostitution and Literature by Jacob Meister

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Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Coming soon! 🗃️

Cover page of "A Cultural History of Prostitution in the Age of Empire."

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

That's true! I hope you find something that works better!

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

You can zoom in on pdfs on the ReMarkable!

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Check what's between the sheets at the @cornellupress.bsky.social book page - praise for her bright, beautiful, and important book, interviews with @hannahfrydman.bsky.social about book-building, and details on ordering your *medal-winning* copy: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... (2/2)

A bright magenta book cover, with newspaper clipping at center with a black text box shaped as a sideways heart with subtitle in yellow text. At top is the book title "Between the Sheets" in yellow text, and at bottom is the author name "Hannah Frydman" in yellow text.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Great news, #SkyStorians! The IPPY Awards have given @hannahfrydman.bsky.social a Bronze medal for "Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France"! See the full cool list of cool medalists here: ippyawards.com/blog/2026-me... (1/2) Then...

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2026 Medalists - General Categories | IPPY Book Awards

Congratulations and sincere thanks to the independent authors and publishers who participated in our 2026 Independent Publisher Book Awards contest. Here are the medalists in each of our categories.

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

She did a great job ❤️ it's more evocative this way

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Can't wait to read it! Maybe in some nice pajamas like those, too!

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Hilary Buxton @hbuxton.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Shamelessly getting back on the social media to say that my imperial history of military medicine is imminently about to be published: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Disabled Empire

Explores the minute interactions between military servicemen and medical caregivers during World War I to tell a broader story about race, colonialism, labor, and global health. Disabled Empire exami...

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University of Toronto Press @uoftpress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Discover how queer studies, book history, and visual culture intersect in this fascinating essay collection, and how a variety of media have helped shape queer community – from zines, to romance novels, to social media. Order your copy today: bit.ly/4kvJE00 University of Pennsylvania #BookHistory

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differences @differences.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: events.brown.edu/pembroke/eve...

This image is a poster for a colloquium titled "Limits of Legibility: History under Siege." White and yellow text on black background. The description reads: "How does critical history address the impasse between conventional history, on the one hand, and aggressive authoritarian rewriting of history, on the other? Given critical history’s theoretical critique of the positivist understanding of facts, what is its response to the assertion of 'alternative facts'? And what impact, if any, can it have on current battles as to what counts as history?" Below this description is a list of participants: Joan W. Scott (Insitute for Advanced Study), Omnia El Shakry (Yale University), Gary Wilder (CUNY Grad Center), and Korey Williams (University of Chicago). The event will take place on March 6th from 2pm to 6pm at Brown University in Pembroke Hall 305.

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

THE MUNBY FELLOWSHIP IS NOW 12 MONTHS!!!! If you're thinking about applying, do it. As well as the blissful research time and independence to explore unparalleled collections across Cambridge, you get supportive mentorship, great colleagues and a college environment to boot. I loved it.

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Andrew Israel Ross @aiross.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas! My state of the field essay on the history of sexuality in Modern France was published in open access yesterday by @frenchhistory.bsky.social. Check it out at academic.oup.com/fh/advance-a...

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Review article: the history of sexuality in modern France

Sometimes, when I explain that my research expertise lies in the history of sexuality in modern France, the follow-up is some version of a question: ‘so I

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Thanks, Andrew! Can't wait to read!

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

It was very fun to grapple with a source that I've found challenging to interpret (Thanks for all your help with this, @rpanchasi.bsky.social)!

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Tim Hitchcock @timhitchcock.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Really pleased to announce the launch of the all-new, all-dancing, London Lives website - www.londonlives.org It has been thoroughly re-engineered to facilitate more types of search, and redesigned for phones and tablets. The team very much hopes peope like it. 1/

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London Lives

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J.D. Sargan @jdsargan.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Your challenge for this weekend is to put in an abstract for Queer Bibliography 2026. It's what all the cool kids are doing. The theme is Space, Place, Community (widely understood, certainly not limited to the South). CFP: shorturl.at/XAVJ0; Submit: forms.gle/XD7FgrrStp3j... Athens GA and online

Poster reads: March 12–14, 2026; Queer Bibliography in the South: Space, Place, Community; University of Georgia, Athens, GA.

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Ben Bernard @drbernard.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

🚨 New article! I'm excited to share “The sodomy consultant of Paris, 1688–1737,” published this week in French Historical Studies: read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo... . A 🧵:

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The Sodomy Consultant of Paris | French Historical Studies | Duke University Press

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Rachel Mesch @rmesch.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Please join us on Friday to hear @hannahfrydman.bsky.social speak with Raisa Rexer about her brilliant new book, Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising, and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France!!! 🔥🔥🔥

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

If you’re in the Boston area this Wednesday I’d love for you to come on out! This talk is free and open to the public. as.tufts.edu/art-architec...

A poster for the talk, “The AI heist: how the tech industry exploits the history of art and what we can do to stop it.” Details of the time and location are in the link in the post. The abstract is as follows:

Over the last several years, universities and museums have partnered with commercial technology firms like Google, Microsoft, and Meta, who have promised that their AI products will enhance both historical research and accessibility to historical collections. These promises are not supported by the reality of what computer vision-the branch of AI most relevant to the history of art-can achieve. So why have major institutions in education and the arts been so quick to take up these firms' offers?
This talk responds to this question by providing an introduction to computer vision's origins in military surveillance, an overview of its development under late capitalist regimes of exploitative micro-labor, and an orientation to how computer vision works. However, the main focus of this talk is not what computer vision does. Rather, I consider the culture of the AI industry, its main objectives, and the dangerous vision for the future that it promises-and whether those promises are credible or even in good faith. This vision for the future has relied on an exploitation of history, and art history in particular, and I argue that it is our responsibility as art historians to be knowledgeable about the forms this exploitation takes. I conclude with suggestions about what we can do to protect the subjects and practitioners of our discipline, as well as education in the humanities more broadly, against this incursion. I do not intend an intransigent rejection of a given technology; rather this talk articulates a challenge that is grounded in knowledge of the historical origins and corporate practices of the AI industry today.

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

The full LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography is here 🏳️‍🌈!!! 650+ items of LGBTQIA+ #BookHistory!! Check out the intro to see how we made it, the primary bibliography, the article appendix, and the absolutely magnificent zine!!! From monographs to zines, you'll find it here! sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

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LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography – SHARP NEWS

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

How have I not seen this? It sounds amazing!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

teachers! excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone. take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"They certainly didn’t a century ago, when fears about falling birth rates and national decline fueled the expulsion of sexual non-normativity from the pages of a press that sex workers had helped to build— much as sex workers built the internet."

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

"As sex worker, queer, and, more recently, abortion activists continue to remind us, the rights infringements oppressed communities are experiencing [on the internet] will not stop on the margins." www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-sex-fr...

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Media, Sex, and Freedom: A Fraught History

Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"'Between the Sheets' reveals a space, hidden in plain sight in Third Republican Paris, where deviant sexualities and lives could be experimented with and financed... That space was the newspaper..." - @hannahfrydman.bsky.social www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/media-histor...

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Media and the History of Sexual Advertising in Between the Sheets

Hannah Frydman, author of Between the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in France, discusses the history of sexual advertising.

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

It's pub day for Between the Sheets! So excited for this book to be officially out in the world. Looking forward to getting the chance to talk about it over the coming months! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Copy of the book Between the Sheets sitting on a cafe table in Paris

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Caroline Sequin @carolinesequin.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

My book, among many others, is currently at 50% off on @cornellupress.bsky.social website with the code 095000. Don’t miss out!

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Laprofmme @laprofmme.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Looks like my book is in this @cornellupress.bsky.social sale! Want to know how a wildly unpopular king trumped up an attack on a Muslim country to justify suspending the rule of law at home? But then ended up getting overthrown himself? This is the book for you 🗃️

A pale yellow book cover with a caricature of a dumpy white man in a black frock coat and white trousers holding a top hat with an umbrella over his shoulder facing a dark-skinned man in a long dark blue haik and white trousers with a turban on his head and a curved sword over his shoulder. The title reads: By Sword and Plow: France and the Conquest of Algeria, Jennifer E. Sessions

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American Historical Association @historians.org · 23/06/2025

@hannahfrydman.bsky.social looks at the “infinite archive” and its search capability in “In Defense of the Search Bar,” and demonstrates how the “anarchy of the mass digitization and its search bar” can push researchers to “think outside of long-established classifications.” #AHR 🗃️

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In Defense of the Search Bar

Mass digitized archival databases are anarchic, rhizomatic places. The search bar makes them this way. This is not to say that large-scale digital librarie

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Really excited that my "In Defense of the Search Bar," which argues that keyword search allows us to queer the archive and how we see the past, is out now in the #AHR! doi.org/10.1093/ahr/...

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In Defense of the Search Bar

Mass digitized archival databases are anarchic, rhizomatic places. The search bar makes them this way. This is not to say that large-scale digital librarie

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roxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I wrote for @ca.theconversation.com re: the 30th anniversary (this Fri) of President Jacques Chirac's June 13th, 1995 announcement that France would be resuming nuclear testing in the Pacific. 210 detonations in Algeria & Mā'ohi Nui (French Polynesia) from 1960-1996. Thousands of victims.

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France’s final nuclear tests in the South Pacific, 30 years on

Three decades after France’s last nuclear tests, those living near the test sites still await compensation for the harms caused.

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Anne O’Neil-Henry @anneoneilhenry.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc

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Current Table of Contents | ncfs

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Hannah Frydman @hannahfrydman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Good mail day! (Too camera shy for an unboxing video, so just imagine me opening this much-needed infusion of pink joy with delight)

A stack of copies of Between the Sheets, a hot pink book by Hannah Frydman

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Bethany Wasik @bethanywasik.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Team #BlueSkyStorians & @sfhs.bsky.social, I have awesome news... @hannahfrydman.bsky.social's cleverly titled "Between the Sheets" is shipping! Intrigued? Find your copy at @cornellupress.bsky.social's page, add to your cart, and anxiously await arrival: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

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