A reminder that the deadline for submissions for next year's SFS conference in Leicester is next Friday 19 September 👇🔔

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A reminder that the deadline for submissions for next year's SFS conference in Leicester is next Friday 19 September 👇🔔

🎉 We’re proud to have launched LUP Open Languages A #SubscribetoOpen initiative aiming to make research in languages, literatures & cultures #OpenAccess. Thanks to partners & editors for their support. Find out more ⬇️ #S2O @frenchstudies.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social

📣 Most read in the latest issue of French Studies Bulletin ‘Walking through the Land of Old Age with Marianne Ahrne and Pépo Angel’ by Sophia Millman. Available to read online at: bit.ly/landofoldage @frenchstudies.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social #FrenchStudies

Submissions for the 2025 R. Gapper book prize are now open. The closing date is 29 August 2025. For more information about the prize and how publishers can submit an entry, please see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...

The goal of the proposed prize is to support and celebrate student engagement with French studies while also helping teachers prepare students for their Independent Research Project (IRP) or equivalent coursework or research project.

If you know anyone currently working in secondary education in the UK or the Republic of Ireland, we would also be grateful if you could forward them the link to the survey: forms.office.com/pages/respon...

If you're working in secondary education in the UK or the Republic of Ireland please consider taking 5 minutes to fill in our survey which will help us develop a new French studies prize for Year 12 students or equivalent. 🇫🇷📝 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

If you're working in secondary education in the UK or the Republic of Ireland please consider taking 5 minutes to fill in our survey which will help us develop a new French studies prize for Year 12 students or equivalent. 🇫🇷📝 forms.office.com/pages/respon...

A reminder that the deadline for this year's R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize is 18 July 2025. Details below: 👇

We are pleased to announce the CFP for next year's annual conference which will take place at the University of Leicester. The deadline for submissions is 19 September 2025. For more information see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

NEW | Volume 79.3 examines the contested authorship of Labé’s sonnets, Racine’s Phèdre through Sappho, and Paris’s transformation under Haussmann, alongside fresh studies in literary history, language & African urbanism. Explore the issue: bit.ly/FS-79-3 @frenchstudies.bsky.social #FrenchStudies

Looking forward to receiving and reading your books!

Looking forward to receiving and reading your books. Please send them to this email: [email protected]

Submissions for the 2025 R. Gapper book prize are now open. The closing date is 29 August 2025. For more information about the prize and how publishers can submit an entry, please see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...

A huge thanks to all those who participated in this year's conference in Bristol, an event reflecting the vibrancy and cutting edge of the field. If you're interested in taking part in next year's conference at the University of Leicester, look out for our CFP which will be released very soon!

A huge thanks to all those who participated in this year's conference in Bristol, an event reflecting the vibrancy and cutting edge of the field. If you're interested in taking part in next year's conference at the University of Leicester, look out for our CFP which will be released very soon!

Jane Gilbert delivers the Simon Gaunt Memorial Lecture on ‘blindness as form’ in medieval French literature, closing our annual conference in Bristol and three fantastic days of intellectual exchange #SFSBristol

Jane Gilbert delivers the Simon Gaunt Memorial Lecture on ‘blindness as form’ in medieval French literature, closing our annual conference in Bristol and three fantastic days of intellectual exchange #SFSBristol

Day two of our annual conference begins with another plenary lecture by Maurice Samuels on the coup of 1851, Louis-Napoléon and literature in the age of tyranny #SFSBristol

A full Great Hall in Bristol’s Wills Memorial Building for our second plenary which is delivered by Mame-Fatou Niang with a lecture on global French studies in our times #SFSBristol

Our annual conference begins with a welcome from Society President Nicholas Harrison and the first plenary lecture by Nikolaj Lübecker on the idea of the ‘world brain’ in 20th-century French film and theory #SFSBristol

A reminder that the deadline for this year's R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize is 18 July 2025. Details below: 👇

📖 Most read in French Studies Bulletin ‘Plan Coup-de-Poing and Plan Paso-Doble: The OAS Dream of a Coup d’état in France’, by Cian Cooney. This article is available to read #OpenAccess at: bit.ly/FSB-C-Cooney @frenchstudies.bsky.social @sfps.bsky.social @ilcs.bsky.social

The Society is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2024 R. Gapper Book Prize is Edward Welch for his book, Making Space in Post-War France: The Dreams, Realities and Aftermath of State Planning (Legenda).

We are pleased to announce that the winner of this year’s Malcolm Bowie Prize is Danielle Beaujon for her article 'The Algerian Enemy Within: Policing the Black Market in Marseille and Algiers, 1939–1950', French Historical Studies 47:2 (May 2024) read.dukeupress.edu/french-histo...

📖 Most read in French Studies this week Marking Whiteness, Unmarking Blackness: Listening and Looking in Alice Diop’s Vers la tendresse and Amandine Gay’s Ouvrir la voix, by Abigail E Celis. Available to read online at: bit.ly/FS-A-E-Celis @frenchstudies.bsky.social @eparpillee.bsky.social

Registration is now open for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference 'Conditions', which will take place on Friday 30th May at King's College London. The conference programme and registration form are available via the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

We are pleased to announce that the 2025-26 Visiting International Fellowship has been awarded to Dr Fanny Chabrol (Université Paris Cité), and Dr Benjamin Dalton (Lancaster University), the host applicant. Many congratulations to them and thanks to all those who submitted an application!

Registration is now open for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference 'Conditions', which will take place on Friday 30th May at King's College London. The conference programme and registration form are available via the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

Submissions for this year's R. Gapper Undergraduate Essay Prize, for the best essay submitted by an UG student at a university based in the UK or Ireland, are now open. For more information about eligibility and how to submit an entry, see the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...

Volume 79.2 features contributions on poetic form in the works of the troubadour Raimbaut d’Aurenga, authorial subjectivity in Gérard de Nerval’s 1850 serial 'Les Faux Saulniers', the sonic realm of Rimbaud’s final collections, plus much more. Online: bit.ly/FS-Vol-79-2 @frenchstudies.bsky.social

The Society is delighted to announce that the joint winners of the 2024 R. Gapper Postgraduate Essay Prize are Sophie Ellis (Newcastle) and Katie-Rose Nandhra (KCL). We would like to congratulate them and thank all institutions that sent entries. www.sfs.ac.uk/prizes/r-gap...

NEW ISSUE | This special issue explores the affinity between poetry & surroundings. With contributions on air & space in the performance poems of Christophe Tarkos, haunting in the works of Benjamin Fondane & Camille de Toledo, and much more. Online at: bit.ly/FSB-Vol-46-2 @frenchstudies.bsky.social

Final reminder that registration for this year's conference closes tomorrow! 👇⏰

A reminder that the final deadline to register for the SFS Annual Conference in Bristol is Friday 21 March 2025. The registration platform, as well as the provisional programme and details regarding available funding, can be found via the link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

The deadline for proposals for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference at KCL has been extended to 17 March 2025. If you're a PG student and want to present your research and meet other scholars in the field consider submitting an abstract! See link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

The deadline for proposals for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference at KCL has been extended to 17 March 2025. If you're a PG student and want to present your research and meet other scholars in the field consider submitting an abstract! See link below: www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...

A reminder that applications for our Visiting International Fellowship scheme close on 31 March 2025 🌍🎓👇

A reminder that there's a month left before applications for this year's Simon Gaunt Postgraduate Travel Grant close: 🔔👇

A reminder that the deadline to register for this year's SFS Annual Conference with an ‘early bird’ discount is Friday 28 February 2025! 🦉🦜👇

A reminder to postgraduate students wishing to take part in our Annual Postgraduate Poster Competition that we are accepting expressions of interest until next Monday 3 March 2025. 📝👇

The call for papers for this year's SFS Postgraduate Conference 'CONDITIONS' closes on Monday 3 March 2025. Send in your entries before the deadline next week! 📨👇

📢 New in 'French Studies' Marc Hersant examines Gérard Genette's theory of the "scene" in history, exploring the tension between vivid storytelling and intellectual distance, and the debate over history's connection to fiction. Online at: bit.ly/FS-Vol-79-1 @frenchstudies.bsky.social

A reminder that the deadline to register for this year's SFS Annual Conference with an ‘early bird’ discount is Friday 28 February 2025! 🦉🦜👇

The winner will receive a cash prize of £1000 and will be invited to next year's SFS conference in Bristol with fees and accommodation costs covered by the Society. 💷 🏨

The Society welcomes nominations from editors of learned journals, editors or publishers of collected volumes, and heads of university departments. Articles may be published anywhere in the world, but must be written in French or English. 🌍👩‍💻

A reminder that the deadline for receipt of nominations for the 2024 Malcom Bowie Prize is in just 10 days! 📨👇

We are delighted to announce that registration is now open for this year's Annual Conference in Bristol. A provisional programme and information about available funding can be found on our website. Register before Friday 28 February for a discounted early bird rate! 🐣 www.sfs.ac.uk/conferences/...