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Offical Twitter account of the Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France (ASMCF),

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We are delighted to share the CFP for our annual conference "Crisis or Catastrophe?", which will take place at the ILCS on 2-3 September.

[Modern & Contemporary France @FranceModern]

Our 34.2 Spring issue is now available online !
@asmcf @tandfhss
https://t.co/Zne5lZ6xEK

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The panel is also delighted to announce a commendation for Sarah Waters in respect of her article, 'The French care economy: between gendered inequality and feminist idealism'.
https://t.co/vUtInzklQt
@UniversityLeeds

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Ana Niamh Torres receives the Best Article Price, for her article 'Peyi an nou: elevating voices of the BUMIDOM through postmemory and counter-memory’. https://t.co/uSyyiwg7KH

Ana will receive a cash prize of £1000, generously sponsored by our publisher @tandfhss
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[Modern & Contemporary France @FranceModern]

The Editors and Editorial Board of Modern & Contemporary France are delighted to announce that the winners of our 2025 Article Prizes
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The Call for Papers will close on Monday, 20th April - so don't miss out; send us your proposals via our website: https://t.co/7S3fO6N2gf

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It's the last chance to submit your proposals for Crisis or Catastrophe, our Annual Conference, in the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS), Senate House, London on 2 – 3 September 2026.

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We are also very excited about our keynote, Prof. Sophie Fuggle, and the education-focussed roundtable with Prof. Fiona Barclay (and others). It promises to be an exciting conference indeed!

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To read the full Call for Papers, and to submit your proposal, visit our website: https://t.co/7S3fO6N2gf

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We have extended the Call for Papers for our conference 𝘾𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙨 𝙤𝙧 𝘾𝙖𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙝𝙚 to 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 20𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹, giving some extra time for submissions after the Easter break.

We welcome submissions from colleagues at every career stage, and especially PGs.

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We will also have a roundtable session on developments in the subject area (including input from the Language Trends report and Prof. Fiona Barclay on her AHRC grant investigating successful cultures of language-learning in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Ireland).

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We welcome submissions from scholars at all stages working on French and Francophone contexts from 1789-present.

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Two weeks to go until the Call for Papers for 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘦?, our 2026 Annual Conference, closes.

Submit your abstract via our website by 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟯 𝗔𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲
https://t.co/7S3fO6N2gf

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Who names crises & catastrophes, who benefits, & what futures do they enable or foreclose? When does crisis become catastrophe? How do crisis/catastrophe generate new aesthetics, genres or political possibilities? What forms of resistance, care or solidarity emerge?

[Modern & Contemporary France @FranceModern]

📣 new M&CF podcast! @emile_chabal tells @j_ervine about what may be in store for French politics in 2026 and beyond: they discuss the Macron presidency, the far right, and the countdown to the 2027 Presidential Elections. @asmcf
https://t.co/Oe0pwU85yD

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ASMCF is also on LinkedIn - do join us over there to keep up-to-date with the Association: https://t.co/IbHsTuUat7

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At the @ifru_london for the annual @ASMCF @FrenchHistoryUK Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture to be given by Pr Renaud Morieux: https://t.co/KYtoU1844m

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Professor Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge) will give a lecture entitled Dislocated Families: Women, War, and Migrations in French India during the Age of Revolutions.

For more information and to register for the event, please visit our website:
https://t.co/0xHEvfyJzY

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We are delighted to share details of the 16th Douglas Johnson Memorial Lecture, organised by @FrenchHistoryUK & @asmcf to be held on Monday 12th January 2026, at the Institut Français, London.