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Silvia Sebastiani is Director of Studies at Ehess. A specialist in the Enlightenment, she is interested in questions of race, gender, animality and the writing of history.
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Thinking with the Animal Question (Introduction)
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2025/1-2 80e année)
The Enlightenment Orangutan
In Search of the Missing Link
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2025/1-2 80e année)
Editorial: Animals and gender
- By Silvia Sebastiani,
- Translated by Siân Reynolds
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2022/1 No 55)
A historiographical debate. Gender, animals and animality in the Enlightenment
- By Jens Amborg,
- Tomohiro Kaibara,
- Silvia Sebastiani,
- et al.
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2022/1 No 55)
Enlightenment America and the Hierarchy of Races
Disputes Over the Writing of History in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-1788)
- By Silvia Sebastiani,
- Translated from the French by Denis Griesmar
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2012/2 67th Year)
Clare Haru Crowston, Crédit, Fashion, Sex. Economies of Regard in Old Regime France
Duke University Press, Duke, Durham & London, 2013, 424 pages
In Travail, genre et sociétés (2017/2 No 38)
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The Enlightenment Orangutan
In Search of the Missing Link
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2025/1-2 80e année)
Thinking with the Animal Question (Introduction)
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2025/1-2 80e année)
Editorial: Animals and gender
- By Silvia Sebastiani,
- Translated by Siân Reynolds
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2022/1 No 55)
A historiographical debate. Gender, animals and animality in the Enlightenment
- By Jens Amborg,
- Tomohiro Kaibara,
- Silvia Sebastiani,
- et al.
In Clio. Women, Gender, History (2022/1 No 55)
Clare Haru Crowston, Crédit, Fashion, Sex. Economies of Regard in Old Regime France
Duke University Press, Duke, Durham & London, 2013, 424 pages
In Travail, genre et sociétés (2017/2 No 38)
Enlightenment America and the Hierarchy of Races
Disputes Over the Writing of History in the Encyclopaedia Britannica (1768-1788)
- By Silvia Sebastiani,
- Translated from the French by Denis Griesmar
In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales (2012/2 67th Year)