Jenny Davis Barnett

Looking for some Halloween costume inspo? Some first-rate ideas in this 18th-century demonology book: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/compendium-of-demonology-and-magic-ca-1775/ #halloween

Monsters are us Historian Surekha Davies examines how and why humanity makes monsters, and lays out the case for embracing your inner Muppet

From an interview I did on HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY, (now out from @ucpress.bsky.social) which appeared in The Ink in January:

"I have this vision of Zoomers reading the book, going outside to the hardware store, buying a pitchfork, and going after Count Dracula." 1/n

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Cover image for the Australian Journal of French Studies special issue. The red journal cover appears on the left with the title Australian Journal of French Studies, Volume LXII, Numbers 3/4, 2025. On the right, text reads: “SPECIAL ISSUE: Corporeality: Critical Concerns in French and Francophone Studies. Guest edited by Sonia Wilson, Nathalie Ségeral, and Victoria Souliman.” Liverpool University Press logo in white at the top right. Background features abstract red and dark wave-like folds.

🧵 New Special Issue of the Australian Journal of French Studies: “Corporeality: Critical Concerns in French & Francophone Studies” and a tribute to Professor Jarrod Hayes

Title page of pamphlet with woodcut showing devil mowing field in circular fashion

The earliest known depiction of a crop circle is in The Mowing-Devil (1678), a 5-page pamphlet which recounts a labor dispute ending with an unwitting deal with the devil, and a field mown in way “that no Mortal Man was able to do the like”: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t... #cropcircles

Study day: ‘La sculpture monumentale médiévale à l’épreuve du musée: enjeux, conceptions, réceptions’, Musée du Louvre (30 June-1 July 2025) and Université de Toulouse (2-3 October 2025) This study day, both at the Musée du Louvre and Université de Toulouse, focuses on how medieval sculpture is exhibited.

Study day: ‘La sculpture monumentale médiévale à l’épreuve du musée: enjeux, conceptions, réceptions’, Musée du Louvre (30 June-1 July 2025) and Université de Toulouse (2-3 October 2025) medievalartresearch.com/2025/06/23/s...

Explainer: from bloodthirsty beast to saccharine symbol - the history and origins of the unicorn Unicorns are a staple of social media. Today we might think of them as all magic and rainbows, but their past is one of ferocious beasts, religion, and mistranslation.

On this International Unicorn Day, check my Explainer essay on the history of the unicorn theconversation.com/explainer-fr...

Absolutely @lucyelm.bsky.social - get in touch to learn more :-)

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Humans: A Monstrous History with Surekha Davies Podcast Episode · History with Jackson · 03/30/2025 · 45m

I talked with Jackson van Uden about how monsters patrol boundaries; positive, negative, and neutral monsters; and monster-making in the age of European exploration.

💙📚 🧪🗃 #ancient #medieval #earlymodern #histsci #histmed #18thCentury #politics #HAMH #maps

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Marine Le Pen Found Guilty of Embezzlement by French Court The ruling immediately bars her from running for public office for five years, jeopardizing the far-right leader’s plans to run for president in 2027.

Breaking News: Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader, was convicted of embezzlement, jeopardizing her plan to run for president in 2027.

Yes it did - it was excellent!

Get well soon 🙂

Explainer: from bloodthirsty beast to saccharine symbol - the history and origins of the unicorn Unicorns are a staple of social media. Today we might think of them as all magic and rainbows, but their past is one of ferocious beasts, religion, and mistranslation.

Explainer: from bloodthirsty beast to saccharine symbol - the history and origins of the unicorn
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Primary Sources for PhD research

Thank you @medicifangirl.bsky.social for hosting the Monash MedRen Community @monashcmrs.bsky.social

Thank you @medicifangirl.bsky.social for hosting

@monashcmrs.bsky.social Delighted to share my current PhD research on the origins of the witches' sabbath from 1430s western Alps with Monash MedRen community today

A Pedagogy of Kindness: Cate Denial, PhD YouTube video by Fancy Comma

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Cardiff’s closure of modern languages will tongue-tie its humanities The global examination of culture is not possible without languages at degree level, say Wendy Ayres-Bennett, Charles Burdett and Emma Cayley

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Save MLANG at Cardiff University! Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

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CFP: ‘Sanguis Christi: Visual Culture / Visionary Culture (13th–18th centuries)’ (December 2025), deadline 1 April 2025 Papers are invited for this conference on the subject of the blood relic of Christ. Deadline for applications is 1 April 2025.

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Delighted to receive this Certificate of Appreciation from Cerae Journal -

Looking forward to reading it

Big news here-the 2nd edition of The Professor Is In book is underway, due out 2026! I’d love your suggestions on what to add, change. Updates focusing on: PhD mental health crisis, right wing attacks on DEI/tenure, BIPOC& trans scholar support, mass tenured faculty quitting. Others? #academicsky

Lucia Carrying Dante in his Sleep (from Dante's "Divine Comedy") | Harvard Art Museums Drawings

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2025 Ceræ Call For Papers – Conference & Journal We are pleased to announce that the theme for our second annual online Conference next year as well as for Volume 12 of the journal is Dreams, Visions, and Utopias, and we invite submissions to bot…

CALL FOR PAPERS:

CERÆ Journal and the second incarnation of the CERÆ Conference are both accepting submissions for their 2025 iterations! The theme for both is "Dreams, Visions, and Utopias."

#medievalsky #historysky

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Happy New Year's Eve! Europe has been marking the change of year with pyrotechnics since at least the 16th century. Simon Werrett looks at how artists have represented fireworks displays through the centuries: publicdomainreview.org/essay/pictur... #Fireworks #NewYearsEve

Born #onthisday in 1827, the French astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot. See a collection of his stunning astronomical art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t.... #otd

(And prints to buy here: publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-ar...)

Nature in early modern France cfp

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#histsci #planthumanities #naturalhistory #gardenhistory

A Pedagogy of Kindness - University of Oklahoma Press Academia is not, by and large, a kind place. Individualism and competition are what count. But without kindness at its core, Catherine Denial suggests, highe...

"A Pedagogy of Kindness" @cjdenial.bsky.social
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