Neal Cassady’s 100th birthday. I don’t know what to do with this information, except to note that he could still be alive. Except, of course, Neal Cassady.

When "Menimontan" was that distant church near the hills 🔭 Willem Blaeu, Le Théâtre du monde, 1644. @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social

When California was thought to be an island (Atlas de la mer, 1667). Spanish settlements were only established in the 1770s I think but they are already named on this chart 👓 @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social

View of New Amsterdam (Manhattan) in 1667 *Atlas de la Mer ou Monde Aquatique*. Seen today @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social

It was such a great conference!! Thank you for the organization ! 😊

19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec? I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13 They would love to see some of you there! @c19americanists.bsky.social branca-2025.weebly.com

🔈Join us for "21st-Century US: A Historical Assessment" U Paris Cité, Nov 20&21! Organized by @tamaraboussac.bsky.social @hbouvard.bsky.social & Anne Légier, supported by @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social @chcscuvsq.bsky.social @institutdesameriques.fr @mondesamericains.ehess.fr @parissaclay.bsky.social

📢 International Conference “‘Monarch of all I survey’: Literary Posterity and Cultural Legacies” 📍 ENS de Lyon, France | 🗓️ Nov 20–21, 2025 Keynotes: Julia Kühn (U. Groningen) & Nick Spengler (U. Barcelona). Castaways! Butterflies! Abolitionists! Imperialism! monarch2025.sciencesconf.org

💼 𝗔̀ 𝗹𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝗝𝗼𝘆 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗷𝗼  📍 @ubmontaigne.bsky.social 📅 Le 24 novembre 2025 👉 Pour plus d’informations : https://www.institutdesameriques.fr/agenda/la-rencontre-de-joy-harjo

YOUNG ABOLITIONISTS is now available in open access through JSTOR and Open Square @nyupress.bsky.social www.jstor.org/stable/jj.30... opensquare.nyupress.org/books/978147...

Check out this CFP for the next Borders and Crossings conference, Aix-Marseille Université, September 2026: www.crlv.org/actualites/a...

Un nouveau webinaire sur la procédure de qualification au CNU, qui j'espère sera utile aux jeunes chercheur·ses, que j'ai co-organisé avec la commission recherche et le collège des doctorant·es de la @saesfrance.org et le bureau de la section 11 du CNU! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq1L...

🌎🔔 Come to Lyon in November! 📍https://monarch2025.sciencesconf.org/

Last night, over a billion birds passed over our heads as they migrated south. This is one of the most dramatic events in the natural world, but most of us are asleep while it happens. Radar tells the tale.

Very happy to share that my article in the new issue of #Leviathan is out! It discusses Melville's Clarel, and the possibility of reading a philosophy of secularization at work in the poem. Many thanks to Melville scholars far and near for their friendship and support!🐋 👉 muse.jhu.edu/article/970196

📣 Registration is now open for the “Critical Health” conference (17-18 October 2025). Register for in-person or online attendance by clicking on the link below: 🔗 criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/registration/

Paris-based artist Auriane Kolodziej will showcase her work during the “Critical Health” conference I’m coorganizing. Find out more about her sculptures and beautiful poetry here: criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/art-exhibit/ (desktop version recommended)

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.

September is officially here! American Studies scholars, what are your plans for the term? 💬

Avec un chapitre de Marine Soubeille, nouvelle membre d'ECHELLES, sur Moonrise Kingdom de Wes Anderson !

#AgregAnglais2026 Publication Ellipses Huck Finn et Moonrise Kingdom Coordonation Frédéric Lefrançois et Rédouane Abouddahab Rédouane. Merci aux collègues, dont @juliennegre.bsky.social 🙏 www.editions-ellipses.fr/accueil/1595...

unexpected research trajectories continue to emerge from this sperm whale madness

today: old yellow folders and X-files vibes ☢️

🗺️In special collections @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social for new project: massive 1633 French ed of Mercator's atlas by Hondius. Includes stunning 1606 map of Virginia, predating Smith’s, with hints of 1550s French exploration in Florida. Renaissance Latin makes feel more fluent than I really am!

It took M. F. Maury nearly 10 years to reach this representation of "sea drift and whales" in 1855. Melville's *Moby-Dick* (published before this map) registers this changing perception of the oceans. First time I come across a French version @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social, this one published in 1861.

Unnamed reader from 60y ago left their Théâtre des Célestins ticket as a bookmark in this volume @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social. Not sure anyone has opened this book since then. Chevalier's account of his travels in the US in early 1830s is very interesting and has a nice map focused on transportation.

#Comics scholars |fans: Help. This centerfold (published in the French magazine “La Vie Parisienne”) is from 1912. I've been looking in my dozens of folders for earlier examples of artists working with a similar technique. Can you think of any examples from 1912 and possibly a little earlier? 🙋🏻‍♀️

A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West. The Girl in the Middle is out now. Read a free sample of this compelling book and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

💬 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲̀𝘀 « 𝗗𝗶𝘀/𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 : 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝘄𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 » @sorbonne-universite.fr @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social  📅 1er - 4 juillet 👉 Plus d’informations : https://f.mtr.cool/mfykctbpjb

📍🌎📚 Interested in the intersections of American literature and cartography? Our 2026 conference in Lyon, France, invites papers on map-text interactions. Deadline flexible upon request — don’t hesitate to reach out! Full CFP ➡️ maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... Please share and repost!

📍🌎📚 Interested in the intersections of American literature and cartography? Our 2026 conference in Lyon, France, invites papers on map-text interactions. Deadline flexible upon request — don’t hesitate to reach out! Full CFP ➡️ maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... Please share and repost!

🗺️🌎🔔CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century International Symposium | April 1–3, 2026 | ENS de Lyon, France Deadline: June 15, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Martin Brückner (U Delaware) Full CFP: maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... @modernlanguage.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social

Hey @nortoncriticals.bsky.social is that a typo in *Huck Finn*'s 4th critical edition? The 3rd edition had "store", which clearly makes much more sense. Thanks!

🗺️🌎🔔CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century International Symposium | April 1–3, 2026 | ENS de Lyon, France Deadline: June 15, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Martin Brückner (U Delaware) Full CFP: maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... @modernlanguage.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social

#CongrèsInternational I Congrès commun de la Nathaniel Hawthorne Society et de la Poe Studies Association. Thème retenu : « Dis/embodiment ». 📅 Du 1 au 4 juillet 2025 📍 Maison de la Recherche de l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle 🔗 Plus d'informations : swll.to/B5JlSY #ESR #helloESR

[COLL] 12-13.06.25 / MdR Generations and Generational Time in the US in the Long 19th Century Keynotes @brigfield.bsky.social & @danaluci.bsky.social Org. Hélène Cottet, @hquanquin.bsky.social (IUF), Matthew Redmond Poke @saesfrance.org @institutdesameriques.fr @afea.bsky.social Bsky speakers ⬇️

🔴 l’école Alix #Lyon 2e est occupée à partir de ce soir mardi 13 mai pour mettre à l’abri une famille de 2 enfants 🆘 Sur les 410 enfants sans toit de l’agglomération lyonnaise, 101 sont hébergés dans 26 établissements scolaires !

[ #VeilleESR #Parcoursup ] Adapter notre appareil de formation aux besoins de l'économie. Communication du Conseil des ministres du 28/04/2025 Je vous offre une lecture premier degré de cette passionnante communication.

CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social) Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)

Deadline tomorrow!

Je suis thrilled et ravi d’annoncer que mon prochain livre, « L’Alternance codique : structurer le sens en conversation bilingue », paraîtra en novembre aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes !

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the "Monarch of All I Survey" CFP is April 15! Help spread the word—share and repost!

Sur la réécriture de l'histoire, ce tout nouvel "ordre exécutif", est emblématique... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Also new in #corpus building tools, I have just put online Project Gutenberg Corpus Builder, a web app which allows you to search for ebooks in the Gutenberg Project database and download the results as pre-formatted files for use in corpus software: gutencorpus.prendrelangue.fr #linguistics

babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months