Gemma Betros

Historian of Paris/French Revolution/Napoleon/nuns. Honorary @historyANU, co-founder @ISHWR_A

[Paul Sugy @PaulSugy]

L'histoire punk du jour : trois vieilles religieuses autrichiennes envoyées contre leur gré en maison de retraite se sont enfuies, ont forcé la serrure de leur ancien couvent laissé depuis à l'abandon, et s'y sont réinstallées !

https://t.co/WgQ2ImxzuJ

[CemsANU @AnuCems]

Read the CEMS Newsletter for June 2025 - https://t.co/oWpXQZhAs8

[Canonesses' Collections @SepsCollections]

Nice to see my piece on the Canonesses and their 'Enlightened attitudes' towards female education published in this week's edition of @The_Tablet!

[Gemma Betros @gemmabetros]

@realDonaldTrump
'She' has a name. Please use it. #KamalaHarris #Debate2024

[Gemma Betros @gemmabetros]

@thomaslalevee @StanfordLibs @StanfordGlobal @StanfordSpec Wonderful news Thomas, congratulations!

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Major academic publishers' revenue and what they pay authors and reviewers:

Revenue:
Elsevier: $3.9 billion
Springer Nature: $2 billion
Taylor & Francis: $800M
Wiley: $1.8 billion

They pay:
Academic authors: $0
Peer reviewers: $0

[7NEWS Queensland @7NewsBrisbane]

More than 300 gravesites, headstones and monuments are believed to have been damaged or destroyed in a single night by vandals at the heritage listed Drayton Cemetery. Some of the sites destroyed were more than 100 years old. https://t.co/VZ3A1cHvFd #7NEWS

[Gemma Betros @gemmabetros]

@m_s_giraud Looking forward to reading this!

[Paris Match @ParisMatch]

Le porteur de flamme mystérieux aura marqué la #ceremoniedouverture de #Paris2024

Plusieurs artistes se cachaient derrière le masque, dont Simon Nogueira, acrobate des toits que nous avions suivi dans ses péripéties en 2021... #openingceremony

[Dr Ruth Alison Clemens @RuthieClems]

I spoke to @thebookseller about finding out that access to our @routledgebooks publications has been shadily sold to Microsoft to train their generative AIs https://t.co/TCkvrOQheR

[ISHWRA @ISHWR_A]

A big thanks to all participants who made our workshop 'Cultures of Engagement' such an enjoyable and productive few days.

[The Mother Tongue @TheMotherTongu2]

What's better than an intensive summer seminar on the global history of women religious? So grateful for the invitation to be a part of @ISHWR_A Workshop at @durham_uni. Together we've been exploring new ways for the study of women religious. Stay tuned for shared endeavours!

[Gemma Betros @gemmabetros]

And we’re off! @ISHWR_A’s 2024 workshop ‘Cultures of engagement: female religious communities in the 18th and 19th centuries’ now underway…

[Nini_MacBright @Nini_MacBright]

🔴 ALERTE INFOS 🔴
Emmanuel et Brigitte Macron accompagnés de Gabriel Attal ont été aperçus vers 18h dans une calèche du côté de Varennes, plus d’infos dans notre prochaine édition

[Gemma Betros @gemmabetros]

Great to see this initiative in #toowoomba https://t.co/Pa9DEpl0cx

[Cushwa Center @CushwaCenter]

One year from today! The 13th triennial Conference on the History of Women Religious will convene at Notre Dame.

Spread the word and join #CHWR2025! Paper proposals are due August 15, 2024: https://t.co/u3439KJkSE

@ISHWR_A #ACWR @LCWR_US @WomenReligious @soarusa @sistersreport

[Gemma Betros @gemmabetros]

New review out in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion @OUPReligion https://t.co/ZLrl4jlSNa

[ISHWRA @ISHWR_A]

Join us next Wednesday, 5 June for the final session of this academic year, when Annalaura Turiano will discuss 'Italian missionaries in Egypt and Syria (1890-1940): Gender, education and the making of an informal Empire'.

https://t.co/W7DdPa3fWR

[Jean-Pascal Gay @histcatholiques]

Un livre important sur les évolutions des rapports de genre en Catholicisme entre XIXe et XXe siècles.