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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Update! No reply from the Paris Archives in the 60 day window, which the website says = rejection. I emailed to check in, since I hadn't received even an initial acknowledgement of my submission. They wrote back with an approval. :) @rebeccapscales.bsky.social @valeriedeacon.bsky.social

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Q for Historians: there's a document about the creation of a memorial that is housed in the archives of the Ville de Paris that I'd like to access. It is from ~10 years ago, and the "conditions d'accès" = "50 ans (vie privée)." Is it remotely reasonable to request a dérogation?

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Un tas de nouveaux livres! (Less happy about the shipping rates from France, though, after the discounted book rate went away last year...)

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 06/01/2026

Digital technologies can be obviously dreadfully destructive, but also really wondrous tools for good. Their sheer generality is both strength and weakness. How do we bend them toward humanism and away from the soul-deadening traps they often become? v5.chriskrycho.com/essays/comp...

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Computing, Convivially — Sympolymathesy, by Chris Krycho

Digital technologies can be terribly destructive, but they can also be gloriously empowering. How do we tools for conviviality rather than means of domination?

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

My History colleagues are looking for a Europeanist who can also teach in a non-Western area. I'd personally be enthusiastic about another French speaker joining the college. We have a lovely Francophone community of faculty and students, and there are French lunches on campus twice a month!

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Elly Vintiadis @ellyvintiadis.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

From @emilyherring.bsky.social Emily Herring’s book Herald of a Restless World, it seems to me that Henri Bergson’s words offer the strongest argument for why we still need the humanities in an increasingly technological world.

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Job Announcement: Professor Modern European History (1750-Present), open rank, beginning in Fall 2026 at Grove City College, a small Christian liberal arts college an hour north of Pittsburgh. Preference for someone who can also teach courses in a non-Western field. www.gcc.edu/Utility/Port...

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

On this D-Day anniversary, here are some pictures from my recent trip to Normandy. The visit to the American cemetery and the beaches was a profoundly moving reminder of the sacrifices of so many in the name of freedom.

View down the cliffside of Pointe du Hoc that was scaled by Rangers.

Omaha Beach. Image of sand and sky. Flat, vulnerable landing zone.

American Cemetery at Omaha Beach. Image of reflecting pool with waterlilies. Crosses in the background.

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

A belated thank you to @plough.bsky.social for sending me a t-shirt in December! I'm revisiting the Winter issue this week during my spring break as I think about ways to improve my classes during the second half of the semester.

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

If you are writing your PhD within the expansive realm of memory studies, this might be a call for you: www.mnemonics.ugent.be/news/call-fo...

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Call for Papers Mnemonics 2025: Memory and Responsibility | Mnemonics

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Matthew Loftus 🧻 @matthewloftus.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

"The simplest framing of what is wrong with MAiD is that it leads to the government operating two competing suicide hotlines, and being, at best, indifferent about which one you call." thedispatch.com/article/an-i...

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An Idol of Autonomy

How the push for medical aid in dying distorts our understanding of life.

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Went to this last night with a friend. Wilson's public performance was wonderful (including recitations in ancient Greek!). Unexpected bonus: there was a book signing afterward.

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Emily Wilson will be giving a public reading from her translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey on Friday in Pittsburgh! Tickets are free for students and teachers of literature. I'm so looking forward to this. www.eventbrite.com/e/internatio...

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International Poetry Forum Presents: Emily Wilson

Emily Wilson, acclaimed translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey, will be visiting Pittsburgh on December 13 to read a selection of her work.

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Andrew WM Smith @smidbob.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

And the government falls...

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Pour mon cours sur la France contemporaine aujourd'hui!

DVD cover for the documentary Les Bleus, une autre historie de France, 1996-2016

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Joel Clarkson @joelclarkson.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

It’s been a true joy to me that this piece I wrote some years ago continues to be relevant in the present. It’s on one of my very favourite themes in the whole liturgical year: the light of Christ dawning into the world’s shadows.

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Currently reading, as I revise a course on Algerian history for the spring semester. She was a Kabyle Christian convert, a poet, and a mother of authors Jean Amrouche and Taos Amrouche.

Book cover of Fadhma Aïth Mansour Amrouche's Histoire de ma vie, featuring her portrait

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Frédéric Manfrin @fredmanfrin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Et pour clore ce petit parcours dans les galanteries XVIIIe siècle, ceci ! En vrai cela parle de tout et de rien, en vers ou en prose, on ne sçait pas bien… Mais la page de titre est fabuleuse !

Page de titre : je ne sçais quoi par je ne sçais qui, prix : je se sçais combien, imprimé je ne sçais quand. Se vend je ne sçais où chez je ne sais qui est-ce. M.DCC.LXXX (1790)

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Frédéric Manfrin @fredmanfrin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Ça c’est de la dédicace !

Page de dédicace d’un livre du XVIIIe siècle

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Tomorrow! Still plenty of time to register!

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H-France @hfrancewebsite.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

H-France Forum is pleased to announce the publication of vol. 19:7, edited by Venita Datta, Wellesley College. This issue is devoted to Julian Jackson, France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain. Cambridge, MA, & London: Belknap Press of Harvard Univ. Press, 2023. ISBN 978-0-674-24889-2 (hb).

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Sara Dybris McQuaid @saradm.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

go.bsky.app/AyUppoV

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Un peu d'art nouveau pour vous ce matin. Source: La Plante et ses Applications Ornementales : sous la direction de M. Eugène Grasset. 1896. Bibliothèque nationale de France. gallica.bnf.fr

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Trying this out, but honestly debating just getting off of social media all together. However, I appreciate the book recs and research updates within the scholarly community, which is what I valued when I joined Twitter years ago.

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Kelsey Madsen @quellekelsey.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Excerpt from Charles Péguy's "On the Porch of the Mystery of the Second Virtue" (1918). My translation.

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