Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 24/02/2026We went to the circus??? It was so good?? Absolute dream hangout with @rpanchasi.bsky.social 040
Reposted by Sarah K. Milesroxanne panchasi @rpanchasi.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Jazzed to be part of Samia Henni's expo "Toxicité coloniale" (Colonial Toxicity) as it travels. Started out in Amsterdam & I caught part of it in London. Can't wait to visit this install at the Centre de Design @uqam.ca this month. Check the link for more info. centrededesign.com/toxicite-col...centrededesign.comToxicité coloniale - Centre de design de l'UQAMArchitecture et paysage radioactifs français dans le Sahara Cette exposition de Samia Henni met en lumière les violences environnementales et humaines liées aux essais nucléaires et chimiques menés en... 273
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 10/11/2025It was such a pleasure to have you - and what a rewarding and engaging weekend! 040
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 06/11/2025"Death and Militancy" begins tomorrow! We open with a conversation with Félix Rose and mathilde capone Friday, November 7 at 5 p.m. at #UQAM (D-R200). Saturday, November 8 we continue with a workday beginning at 9 a.m. (free and open to the public!). Details at mortetmilitantisme.wordpress.com. 000
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 06/11/2025"Mort et Militantisme" commence demain! Nous ouvrons avec une conversation avec Félix Rose et mathilde capone, vendredi 7 novembre a 17h au D-R200 (UQAM). Samedi 8 novembre, nous continuerons avec une journee de travail dès 9h également au D-R200. Détails: mortetmilitantisme.wordpress.com. 000
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesThe University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 27/10/2025@djshistorian.bsky.social discusses his new book, SENSATIONS, with @skmiles.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social!buff.lyDaniel J. Sherman, "Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940" (U Chicago Press, 2025) - New Books NetworkSupport H-Net | Buy Books Here | Join the NBN and NBN en Español on Patreon | Visit New Books Network en Español! 022
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesAda Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 07/09/2025Attention #AcademicSky Everyone is talking about books, but thousands of academic journals were also pirated and are entitled to up to $3,000 *per pirated volume!!!* if editors submit titles to join the suit. Incredible opportunity for underfunded journals to get some $$! #SkyStorians #MedievalSky 6190134
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 22/07/2025Why don't French books believe in indexes? Don't they know how much easier life would be? 230
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 21/07/2025How lucky am I to share with wonderful colleagues AND to go home with flowers? I'm very thankful to have participated in the #GCFHSResist Colloquium, to have heard so many wonderful papers and gotten great feedback from colleagues! I'm now ready to get back home to my pup and get some rest. 170
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesCaroline Sequin @carolinesequin.bsky.social · 24/06/2025My book, Desiring Whiteness, was awarded the 2025 Alf Andrew Heggoy prize for best book in French colonial history (1815-present)! In a world that is falling apart, I cherish this bit of happy news and hope for brighter days ahead for all. You can get your own copy at 50% off with the code 095000 4202
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 28/06/2025I've made it to Paris for some summer research and conferencing (in July)! If others are around and want to meet up for a coffee at the BNF or an after-archives drink, send me a message! 041
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesEmma Elinor Lundin @emmaelinor.bsky.social · 19/06/2025Is there a better time to read and review books than summer? I don't think so - and I'm looking for reviewers for lots of titles for the Journal of Contemporary History. We now do review articles of up to 4,000 words, covering three books. These and many more are up for grabs: 11415
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesChaire de recherche en histoire contemporaine du Québec @chaire-chcq.bsky.social · 18/06/2025[Événement] C’est avec fierté que nous vous invitons à notre colloque, « Où en est le Québec d’hier ? Faire et refaire l’histoire du Québec contemporain », qui aura lieu les 26 et 27 septembre prochains au MEM - Centre des mémoires montréalaises ! 155
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 10/06/2025My episode of the #NewBooksNetworkFrenchStudies is now out! The interview with @elisefranklin.bsky.social about her book Distintegrating Empire (Nebraska 2024) is available on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social now! newbooksnetwork.com/disintegrati...newbooksnetwork.comElise Franklin "Disintegrating Empire: Algerian Family Migration and the Limits of the Welfare State in France" (University of Nebraska Press, 2024) - New Books Network 173
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesChaire de recherche en histoire contemporaine du Québec @chaire-chcq.bsky.social · 02/06/2025[Activité de nos cochercheur.euses] Aujourd’hui s’ouvre la réunion annuelle de la Société historique du Canada au Collège George Brown à Toronto. Trois de nos membres y interviendront : notre cochercheuse Magda Fahrni, notre nouvelle coordonnatrice Sarah Miles et notre cotitulaire Harold Bérubé. 111
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesChaire de recherche en histoire contemporaine du Québec @chaire-chcq.bsky.social · 03/06/2025[Présentation de l’équipe] Notre équipe bouge ! Nous sommes ravis de vous annoncer que Sarah K. Miles, chercheuse postdoctorale propulsée par les fonds du CRSH, est notre nouvelle coordinatrice. Félicitations Sarah ! 061
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesDaniel Poitras @danielpoitras.bsky.social · 24/05/2025Heureux de recevoir mon exemplaire de la Rhaf. J'y parle des étudiants étrangers et de la diplomatie culturelle de l'UdeM. J'y suis en belle compagnie, avec les articles de @camille-robert.info sur la "contre-révolution tranquille" et de S. Labelle sur la Voix des femmes dans le jeu international. 082
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Great new article out by the inestimable Teddy Paikin - just when you thought 19th century French political economy couldn't get more interesting! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comFrench capitalism and the developmental state in the political economy of Michel ChevalierThis paper advances a novel reading of the Saint-Simonian political economy of Michel Chevalier through the lens of the “developmental state”. It argues that Chevalier’s commitment to economic orga... 020
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 01/05/2025Looking through archive photos today for a new piece on militant editorial practice in Québec. One internal comment about an MS submission is truly the stuff of authorial nightmares: "Faults: everything. The author... doesn't manage to write a single natural sentence. Summary: not worth sh*t." 👀 030
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 25/03/2025US academic groups sue White House over planned deportations of pro-Gaza studentstheguardian.comUS academic groups sue White House over planned deportations of pro-Gaza studentsTrump administration is accused of inciting ‘climate of repression’ and stifling free speech on campuses, including Columbia University US academic groups have sued the Trump administration in an effort to block the deportation of foreign students and scholars who have been targeted for voicing pro-Palestinian views and criticism of Israel. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) and the Middle East Studies Association (Mesa) filed a lawsuit at a US federal court in Boston on Tuesday accusing the administration of fomenting “a climate of repression” on campuses and stifling constitutionally guaranteed free speech rights. Continue reading... 724964
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Journée de travail pour l'histoire du Québec! #chcq #histoirequebec 040
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesRob Taber @robtaber.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Some really great replies here. (Others are less applicable.) 032
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesYan Matusevich @ymatusik.bsky.social · 07/03/2025Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States 20462213212
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Thrilled that my article is now avaiable from French Politics, Culture and Society! You can read about militant advertising and sales techniques in French left-wing periodicals in the 1970s here (doi.org/10.3167/fpcs...) or DM me for access! Many many thanks to Liz Fink for her support for this. 🗃️doi.orgSelling RevolutionAbstract For left-wing revolutionary groups in 1970s France, to have a publication was to exist. In the face of a dramatic increase in the number of newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets, however, mili... 2213
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Reposting this in case folks haven't seen it! 1 month left to apply to this #cfp #historians 🗃️ 010
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesDr. Sara L Halpern @saralhalpern.bsky.social · 20/02/2025So I need a job…. My current contract ends this academic year. 😕 I would love to be able to continue researching and teaching history of the Holocaust, Jews. Europe, and refugees/migration. Any leads would be appreciated! 184
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesJohn C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 18/02/2025I'm a terrible self-publicist but this is on *Friday* so please come/watch only as I tell my three jokes about Indirect Rule 2193
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesJess @oncewilting.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Still looking for contributors for this series! Reach out if you (or anyone you know) might want to write on the heritage, histories, and/or archives of queer Atlantic Canada 158
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 17/02/2025This Wednesday at 9 a.m. EST! Come learn about women in the history of left-wing print media and blow off some steam by learning about some folks who were (also) fed up with their comrades. 🗃️#Frenchhistory 031
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesMichael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 14/02/2025The SUV one is sending me www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 821856405
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesRyan Cordell @ryancordell.org · 12/02/2025a long shot, but do any book historians here know of scholarship quantifying the labor impacts of the Linotype in the late 19th century? I know the compositors unions protested & then passed rules about who could maintain Linotype machines—but I’m curious just how many compositors actually lost jobs 43025
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 11/02/2025At no point in these photos do I seem to have put down my hands while talking. Whoops. Merci aussi, @cerium-udem.bsky.social, pour la conférence passionnante et stimulante! Et merci aussi pour les photos! 🗃️ 050
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 07/02/2025(Warning: this topic may be trauamtic for women who study intellectual history) I'm presenting "The Men are Too Busy Discoursing..." at the Women in Intellectual History seminar (on Zoom) later this month! Check on the program here for details and info on how to join: is-ih.com/news/isih-20.... 🗃️is-ih.comISIH 2024/2025 Seminar Program: Women in Intellectual History - ISIHAll seminars take place 2-4pm BST/GMT, online via Microsoft Teams Contact: Emily A. Steinhauer | emily.steinhauer@rhul.ac.uk Sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/c1vecwHxjS 02 October 2024 Isidora... 141
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 07/02/2025My review of Cynthia Becker's "Blackness in Morocco" is now available through the Journal of North African History! Check it out here (and let me know if you want a copy): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comBlackness in Morocco: Gnawa identity through music and visual culturePublished in The Journal of North African Studies (Vol. 30, No. 2, 2025) 000
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesTerrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 25/01/2025Hey French History folks 🗃: @jesspearson.bsky.social is on Bluesky!! 183
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 23/01/2025One more week before this event! Feel free to join in person or on Zoom by signing up using the link below! 020
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Tu travailles sur la mort et le militantisme dans le monde francophone? Ça pourrait t'intéresser de venir à Montréal en novembre? La conférence interdisciplinaire "Mort et militantisme" pourrait être pour vous! Tous les détails sont sur notre site. #🗃️ 089
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Do you work on the topic of death and militancy in the francophone world in the late twentieth century (in any discipline)? Do you want to join us in Montreal to talk about it? You're in luck! See the website for the CFP and more details! #🗃️ mortetmilitantisme.wordpress.commortetmilitantisme.wordpress.comMort et Militanisme - Death and MilitancyConference 2025 022
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Just gave my website a much-needed facelift! I'll be working on the other pages soon, but if any historians 🗃️ want homepage inspiration in the meantime, I'll just leave this here: sarahkmiles.wordpress.com.sarahkmiles.wordpress.com(no title)Historian, Teacher, Researcher 0173
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Very excited that this project I had the honor of producing with Leslie and Naomi (not to mention all the other folks who contributed!) is out in the world! 2147
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Buddy hopes everyone is enjoying tasty treats this winter! 080
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesÉditions La Découverte @edladecouverte.bsky.social · 14/12/2024à la librairie de Paris 😍 0217
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesJournal of the Western Society for French History (JWSFH) @jwsfh.bsky.social · 10/12/20242024's SPECIAL FEATURE is the JWSFH MIXTAPE, a look back on the journal's/society's 50 yrs, with article picks & reflections from @sfhs.bsky.social Executive Director Tabetha Ewing & WSFH members @skmiles.bsky.social & Robin Walz. Don't miss the AMAZING artwork by @tgpeterson.bsky.social in the PDF! 183
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 10/12/2024Congrats to the @thewsfh.bsky.social for 50 years in the game! Check out the latest journal for the "WSFH Mixtape", providing a look back on five decades of French Historical Studies. Thanks @rpanchasi.bsky.social for making it possible! 🗃️https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/wsfh/article/id/7117/.journals.publishing.umich.eduJWSFH Mixtape: 50th Anniversary Edition 1125
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Allez-vous être à Montréal en janvier? Envie de m'entendre parler des gauchistes français-québécois et de l'histoire intellectuelle de la presse écrite? Rejoignez-moi au CRIDAQ @uqam.ca le mercredi 29 janvier à 12h30! Plus d'infos et inscription ici : cridaq.uqam.ca/activite/smi...cridaq.uqam.caSe voir à la lumière des autres: la presse quotidienne, la gauche indépendantistes québécoise, et la nouvelle gauche française (1964-1972) - CRIDAQ - UQAMInscrivez-vous (sans frais) pour réserver votre place! 031
Sarah K. Miles @skmiles.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Are you going to be in Montreal in January? Want to hear me talk about French-Québécois leftists and the intellectual history of print media? Join me at the CRIDAQ @uqam.ca on Wednesday, Jan. 29 at 12:30! More info & registration here: cridaq.uqam.ca/activite/smi...cridaq.uqam.caSe voir à la lumière des autres: la presse quotidienne, la gauche indépendantistes québécoise, et la nouvelle gauche française (1964-1972) - CRIDAQ - UQAMInscrivez-vous (sans frais) pour réserver votre place! 030
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesMichel-Félix Tremblay @mftremblay.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Avec la fermeture des classes de francisation dans le Bas-Saint-Laurent, les ateliers de socialisation étaient l’une des dernières activités offertes aux nouveaux arrivants de la région pour apprendre le français et sortir de l’isolement. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/212...?ici.radio-canada.caFin des ateliers de socialisation en français dans La MitisLes ateliers de socialisation étaient l'une des dernières activités pour les nouveaux arrivants, en raison de la fin progressive des cours de francisation. 194
Reposted by Sarah K. MilesCamille Robert @camille-robert.info · 16/11/2024Voici quelques comptes d'historiennes et d'historiens à suivre! 👀 Si vous connaissez d'autres personnes ou organismes travaillant dans les domaines de la recherche historique et de l'histoire publique au Québec, n'hésitez pas à partager leur identifiant pour que je les ajoute! go.bsky.app/Ecm3FGW 148122