#les mis con

[barricadescon]

The full programming lineup is HERE! We’re excited to bring you a range of academic and fan panels, as well as meetups and our wonderful Guest of Honor, Bonnie Gleicher! 

Click here to see the con schedule on our website, and here for tickets!

If the cost of a ticket would pose a hardship, just drop us an email at [email protected] to request a scholarship! No need to disclose your circumstances; all you have to do is ask for one! We currently have multiple unclaimed scholarships readily available, so don’t hesitate to reach out.

The full text of the programming lineup is under the read more:

Friday:

Show and Tell / Meet and Greet (Concom)

Make Your Own Tricolor Cockade (Melannen)

Welcome Session (Concom)

Canon Era Queerness (Siggi)

Eine Welt Ohne Raum und Zeit (Ruth Kenyon)

Theaters of Crime in LM (Anna)

To Love Another Person Is to See the Face of God (MKat)

Hugolatres and Haters (Pslam)

Characterizing the Amis (Barri Cade, Eli, PiecesofCait)

Musical Fans Meetup

Saturday:

Researching Canon Era Fanfic (Lyra, Siggi, Jehane)

Fandom as Mutual Aid (megab)

Barricades in LM Adaptations (Percy)

Original Characters in LM Adaptations (PureAnon)

Fanfic Writers’ Meetup

Cholera in the Time of LM (Karen Davidge)

Social Hour

Academics Meetup

Staging LM in Amateur Theatre (PiecesOfCait)

Under the Eyes of the Revolution (Madeleine)

The Limits of the Inexorable (Maya Chhabra, Katherine Nehring)

The Secret Name of All the Virtues (Raven)

Preliminary Gaieties (Rare, Perseus, Barri Cade)

History Geek Meetup

Sunday 

The (Un)Making of A Human (Katrina Gomez-Chua)

From Bread Rioter to Communard (Elliot A. Davis)

The Canonical Racialised Language of LM (Nemo Martin)

The Convent Was Bad, Actually (Ellen Fremedon, PilferingApples)

Video screening / Closing Session (Concom)

Dead dog (Concom)

#les miserables #les mis #les mis con #barricades #barricades con #convention #barricadescon #barricades: a les mis convention

[pilferingapples]

ID : a tweet from the Siecle history podcast that reads "Some of the most detailed historical research being done today about 19th Century France is done by a small community of fans trying to make their fanfiction historically accurate."

#THAT'S US #GO LES MIS SQUAD GO #Barricades Con

[secretmellowblog]

Les Mis Hidden Name Meanings: “Fantine” (posting here because it got popular on TikTok)

Every character in Les Mis has a name with a deeper symbolic meaning— here’s a video I made for the official @barricadescon TikTok about the meaning behind “Fantine!”

Transcript and Digressions I left out of the video, under the cut:

Every charcater’s name in Les Mis is either a pun, a reference to a historical/mythological figure, or had some deep symbolic meaning — and sometimes it’s all of them at on.

The name “Fantine” comes from the french word “enfantine” or “childike, infant-like.” Her name basically means “Baby.” And obviously this speaks to her innocence and niavetee. But also “baby” is kind of,.,, well it sounds more like an informal term of endearment than an actual legal name?

And that’s because– Plot twist– Fantine isn’t her legal name! What is her legal name? She doesn’t have one.

And the reason she doesn’t have one is directly tied to political turmoil of the era she was born into.

Fantine grew up an orphan living on the streets, without a family without parents. Hugo tells us the origin of her name:

“she bore on her brow the sign of the anonymous and the unknown. (...)She was called Fantine. Why Fantine? She had never borne any other name. At the epoch of her birth the Directory still existed. She had no family name; she had no family; no baptismal name; the Church no longer existed. She bore the name which pleased the first random passer-by, who had encountered her, when a very small child, running bare-legged in the street. She received the name as she received the water from the clouds upon her brow when it rained.”

This moment is adapted beautifully in the Manga adaptation by Takahiro Arai, which I recommend to anyone who loves Les mis, manga, or any combination of those things.

But now let’s talk about the Directory.

To wildly oversimplifly a lot of complex history: Before the French Revolution, the Catholic Church’s records of baptismal ceremonies were often used as a registry of people’s legal names. During the French Revolution, the Revolutionary government– including the Directory– put in place a series of policies we now call “dechristianization,” where they attempted to dismantle the power of Catholic church.

Fantine was born during the age of these dechristianization policies. So she was never baptised, her baptismal name was never recorded, so she has no recorded legal or family name. She’s slipped through the cracks of the legal system, and ended up completely anonymous.

It sets Fantine up as this anonymous child of the Revolution– a stand in for everyone who was left behind when the Revolution was left behind, and kings were restored to the throne.

Fantine’s namelessness is meant to show atomized . How she has NO support system. She has nothing to connect her to other people, nothing to connect her to a support system.

Finally, the way Fantine tends to “slip through the cracks” is something that follows her throughout her life. When she’s fired from her job at a factory, Maroy Madeleine never learns of it– Fantine has this tendency to overlooked and forgotten. She is born anonymous and she dies anonymous. At the end of the story, she is buried in an unmarked grave, with not even the name “Fantine” on her headstone.

It ties into novel’s questions about which people we consider worth remembering, whose lives are worth being records.

And obviously Fantine is not the only character in Les Mis whose name has a deeper symbolic meaning. If you have any other Les Mis character names you’d like to explain, leave their name in the comments below.

Thank you for watching!

From the description of the original tiktok, here are some things that were left out of the video for time:

How this all relates to Cosette’s name(s)

Fantine’s nickname “The Blonde,” and how this relates to the way she’s dehumanized by Tholomyes

How the 2018 Bbc series fundamentally misunderstands Fantine’s character, and how one sign of this is that they give her a full legal first and last name

How Fantine’s name shows up/is revealed is significant parts of the story (like when Valjean reveals her signature on a letter to Thenardier, allowing him to take Cosette away)

How Fantine’s inability to write ties into the way it’s difficult for her to record her own story

How some of Valjean’s last words are revealing Fantine’s name to Cosette

Thanks again for reading!

#les mis #les miserables #Fantine #:3 #tiktok #barricades con

[weisbrot]

The promised 3/4 Grantaire 😤

or should i say LucifeR 😏

#les mis #les miserables #grantaire #my blergh #lm my blergh #it was originally a watercolour but the blue was too dark to do pencil outlines on top so digital on top yaay #sorry for the radio silence since the con but my life has been a mess 😞 two more weeks til things calm i hope #for now enjoy my boi and mores to come 😌✌🏻 #portfolio

[pgfone]

Tutto fumo e niente arrosto.

#bianco e nero per non far vedere il mio colorito verdastro che mi contraddistingue #finirò per farmi le foto al cesso con la bocca a culo di gallina #me lo sento #sopportatemi #ve vojo bene

[berry-s0da]

9 de Diciembre

#lo hice a principio de año para el zine pero como estuvo tan dura la cosa con la facultad no le pude dedicar mucho tiempo al proyecto #quizás un día lo haga. por ahí podría hacer un cómic de mi experiencia con el fútbol #de como me empezó a interesar. no sé 😣 la verdad que si quería hacer este zine…bueno #ya veremos qué pasa #argieblr #dibu martinez #lionel messi #emiliano martinez #art #my art

[notninani]

stupid ugly doodle

sorry guys, my english sucks, so here is a bad attempt at translation:

image 1:

Rin: Kuro, I'm home...

image 2:

Satan: Hey!

image 3:

Rin: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING IN MY HOUSE?!

image 4:

Satan: Calm down, I'll explain it to you

image 5:

Satan: Look, I appreciate the new body. But I'm not going to make a war 2.0

Satan: (That didn't go well last time, no offense...)

Lucifer: LEAVE NOW!

image 6:

Satan: Soo, he kicked me off the ship in Japan, so I decided to come here

image 7:

Satan: You promised you would help me, remember?

image 8:

Rin: Fuck...

#roommate from hell #satan blue exorcist #rinka blue exorcist #rin okumura #lucifer blue exorcist #ao no exorcist #blue exorcist #aoex #no sé que pasaba por mi cabeza cuando dibujé esto pero no me arrepiento #como dijo shadow satan no fue con yukio porque yuki chan le iba a romper el cuello #o cagar a tiros #lo que pasara primero

[hedgehog-moss]

Traté de hacer pan de muerto casero por primera vez y resultó un fracaso total 😭 espero que mi difunta abuela no venga de visita pa ver los delitos culinarios que cometo con sus recetas. Bueno el pan sabe bastante rico pero mi primer pensamiento al sacarlo del horno fue que parecía preocupantemente pesado por su tamaño 😶 se veía bien por unos minutos y entonces se dejó morir poco a poco hasta parecerse a un caracol atropellado por un coche. No sé qué ocurrió, salvo que la levadura fresca siempre me traiciona. Terminé googleando imágenes de pasteles feos y mal hechos para hacerme sentir mejor

Aun así, que pasen un buen día de muertos y que los que tienen una panadería aprovechen su privilegio :) 💜🧡

#el año pasado mi prima hizo unos panecitos de muerto negros con ceniza de totomoxtle y le salieron perfectos... me hizo creer que era fácil #(ni siquiera era para comérselos sólo le gustaba el aesthetic) #anyway me voy a consolar con una taza de chocolate caliente con canela

[hylianane]

Mexican-Brazilian Luffy my beloved, Zoro’s working out on deck building up a real stink and sweat, Luffy plasters himself to his back and calls him ‘Zorillo’. Zoro corrects him, “It’s Zoro” and he says “I know what I said”. They’re at a victory party and Zoro’s drunk and practically disrobed, trying to goad handsome pirates into a fight, and Luffy calls him ‘Zorra’. “It’s Zoro.” “I know what I said!”

#mi gente latino #le debo a iñaki godoy mi vida por validar mi HC de Luffy hispano #porq aunque ya estaba feliz con Luffy latino gracias a Oda no puedo fingir hablar portugués para mis shitty posts #one piece #roronoa zoro #monkey d. luffy #zolu #could be opla #my post

[amaijm]

idk

#trigun stampede #vash the stampede #nicholas d wolfwood #doodle #en mi cabeza esto es algo que ww le diria a vash con regularidad #sketch #vashwood (?

[barricadescon]

Are you a Les Mis enthusiast, whose research has taken a deep dive into academia? A scholar who incorporates Les Mis adjacent topics into your studies? Do you wish to share the discoveries of your sleepless nights with an enthusiastic community?

Barricades invites fans and scholars to submit proposals for the convention’s academic track, which will form the programming of the con. Submissions could address any aspect of Les Mis and its adaptations, and take a variety of forms, including but not limited to presentations, workshops or open discussions. All programming takes place online.

Deadline for submissions: 15 March 2024

Programming submission form available here.

Find out more from our website:

Academic Track Submissions

Fan Track or Academic Track?

Here are some examples from last year of academic track submissions:

Theatres of crime in Les Misérables: Analysing the Patron-Minette by Anna

Cholera in the Time of Les Miserables by Karen Davidge

Hugolâtres and Haters: Reactions to Les Misérables from Victor Hugo’s Contemporaries by Psalm

The Canonical Racialised Language of Les Misérables by Nemo Martin

This is not by any means an exhaustive list; we welcome and encourage submissions that address topics beyond those listed here. If you have a panel that doesn't quite fit in either Fan or Academic Track, feel free to submit as a Crossover panel!

#les mis #les miserables #barricades con #barricadescon #barricades #les mis con #victor hugo

[mrmederick]

Just me and my hyperfixation 🥴

#hollow knight #the hollow knight #fanart #grimmhollow #grollow #pure vessel #troupe master grimm #al rato les hago una playlist con las canciones de Mitski lol #mis tilines 🛐 #i'm cringe but i'm free

[secretmellowblog]

A tiktok video based on @psalm22-6’s bold research into deranged 19th century reviews of Les Mis! Made for the tiktok account of @barricadescon, the online Les Mis convention.

It’s fascinating how conservatives were trying so hard to Own Victor Hugo’s progressive politics with Facts and Logic. You just know that if these people were alive today they’d be YouTubers making 4-hour videos about the how new Ghostbusters movie is bad because it has women in it. The only one in this video who has a point in the San Francisco reviewer, because they’re both not a weird conservative (afaict) and they’re also very right that the Wraxall translation is of deeply questionable quality.

#les mis #les miserables #barricades con #I think this video is quality content #and not jus t because I made it #feel free to watch on tiktok to boost the Barricades account in the algorithm!

[pgfone]

Mò il problema è ricordarsi di scrivere 2024 nei documenti.

#io mi sbagliavo ancora con 2022 #ho un serio problema con le date #buon anno amici miei bellissimi #ve vojo bene

[idettaglihere]

💖 you should kiss every inch 💖

#con quale coraggio le metto non lo so ma mi vedevo carina #magari dureranno 5 minuti #me

[arrozconlecheeee]

Quidditch doodles

#hpma #harry potter magic awakened #hp magic awakened #hpma mc #hpma oc #harry potter #le da miedo los heights wey #pero eso no lo para de ir al quidditch tent y tomar fotos con el uniforme wwwww #he saw Robyn and was like wth the uniforms are cute?!?? brb #📸📸📸📸📸 #mi hijo es vanidoso jajajajaa #my art tag