🚨New special issue of Dix-Neuf 🚨 This special issue brings together a collection of articles on the cultural histories of medicine and health in the long nineteenth century. Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ydix20/2...

Happy to see this Special Issue out in the world - Cultural Histories of Medicine & Health in the Long 19th Century - edited by Larry Duffy & myself @uksdn.bsky.social Great contributions from Jacob Meister, Kaat Wils, Sun-Young Park, Kathryn Bryan & Aine Larkin with several chapters open access!

One of our fabulous executive committee members, Susan McCready, will be talking about her new book, Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War, at the next NCFS Unbound session on 20 March. Register here: southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Our wonderful NCFS colleagues are accepting proposals for their 52nd annual conference, which will be on the theme of ‘Voice and Silence’. Deadline for abstracts is 15 March and you can find more info here: cpe.vt.edu/ncfs2026.html

🚨 Last call for registrations 🚨

There’s one week left to register for our annual conference! Register now and get ready to talk all things health and happiness in 19th century French and Francophone studies 😁

🎉 Registration now opened 🎉 Coming to the 24th Society of Dix-Neuviémistes annual conference taking place in Cardiff from 8 to 10 April? Register before Monday 2 March via our website: uksdn.co.uk/health-and-h...

I wrote about The Irish Proust for @lithub.com.web.brid.gy @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @uksdn.bsky.social lithub.com/an-enduring-...

Wow, check out the number of dix-neuviémiste titles on this list!!! This is such a striking showcase of the exciting and important work going on in our field at the moment! Congratulations to all!

Merci à Marie Richeux et au au book club sur @franceculture.fr de m'avoir donné l'occasion de parler de ma thèse sur le mot qui tue dans Balzac! cc @classiquesgarnier.bsky.social @mariericheux.bsky.social classiques-garnier.com/le-mot-fatal...

Cette fois-ci, c'est vraiment fini! Demain, le 27 août paraitra le livre tiré de ma thèse aux éditions @classiquesgarnier.bsky.social « Le mot fatal. Langage, pouvoir et trait d'esprit dans "La Comédie humaine" de Balzac ».

🕯️ A MOST QUIET MURDER by Susannah Wilson examines the death of a five-year-old girl in late nineteenth-century France, unfolding the mystery through judicial investigations, psychiatric evaluations, and a dramatic trial for murder. #TrueCrime #History 🔗 Learn more here: https://ow.ly/lrUm50Xlzsz

Submissions for the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes Publication Prize 2026 close this Friday! This is our annual prize for the best journal article published by a postgraduate student, or an early-career researcher in the 2025 calendar year. More details below:

Thanks -- just to be clear in the framing, it's only the second photo that I found, the other was discovered and identified as Duval by someone else, as discussed in the article. Also, I'm not the first to try to validate the first one -- maybe the fourth or fifth!

If you are in need of an excellently researched, compelling read to get your week off to a good start, look no further than @mariascott.bsky.social’s piece on two newly identified photographs, or card portraits, of Baudelaire's long-term mistress, Jeanne Duval in @thetls.bsky.social (link below)

A fantastic looking line-up! Our members might be particularly interested in Dr Charlotte Berkery’s seminar on Middle-Class Metonymy and Monotony in July Monarchy Cultural Productions

Le 22/01/1858, il y a 168 ans aujourd’hui, mourait Cyrille Bisette, qui lutta pour l’égalité des libres de couleur et l’abolition de l’esclavage sous la Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet. (Re)découvrez sa vie et ses combats👇 memoire-esclavage.org/biographies/...

💫 Mentorship opportunity 💫 After great feedback from our 2025 cohort, we welcome expressions of interest for our 2026 Mentorship Scheme. The scheme seeks to establish a supportive network for PG & early career researchers by connecting them with mid- and late-career scholars.

Last call for our Impact workshop this Friday! Come along to think together about effective and exciting ways to share research with non-academic audiences, with our fantastic speakers, Professor Helen Abbott and Dr Hannah Scott. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/edn2025-im...

NCFS Unbound returns 1/23 with @srocher.bsky.social Susan Hiner in convo with @addressingart.bsky.social Justine De Young about her fab new book The Art of Parisian Chic 🔥 Register here! southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

In 1803 Napoleon sold off an enormous amount of land (mostly lived on by first peoples rather than by the French or Spanish), doubling the size of the USA. Counter-intuitively, this was partly because the French had just lost Haiti. Interesting podcast #FRhistory www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

A reminder that our ECR workshop will now take place on Friday 23rd Jan at 3pm! It is open to all SDN members. Join Professor Helen Abbott (Birmingham) and Dr Hannah Scott (Newcastle) to talk about working outside the ivory tower and reaching a much broader audience.

It is a prize for dix-neuvièmistes (scholars of the French 19th century) (for all of you who, like me, are challenged by acronyms first thing the _matin_ ☕️🥐🦉).

This beautiful delivery has just arrived, thanks to the SERD (Société des etudes romantiques et dix-neuviémistes). Season-themed, original articles by many well known 19C scholars. Comes free with membership, postage included, and SERD membership costs only £10 if you are a UK SDN member already.

Happy new year to all our members! A reminder that our SDN publication prize is open for entries until the end of January. Send us your submission and start 2026 on a high!

Our ECR workshop will now take place on Friday 23rd Jan at 3pm! It is open to all SDN members. Join Professor Helen Abbott (Birmingham) and Dr Hannah Scott (Newcastle) who will discuss their experience of working outside the ivory tower and reaching a much broader audience.

Calling all of our members interested in women in/and musical history! This promises to be a very exciting few days!

CfP: Women and Musical Histories, 1789–1914 Submit by 31 Jan 26 Royal Academy of Music, London; 3-4 Sept 2026 They welcome papers (20 mins) & lecture-recitals (30 mins) that address the broad theme of women in/and musical history across the period 1789–1914. www.ram.ac.uk/research/wom...

Congratulations to Michael Cronin and @maxmcguinness.bsky.social on the publication of this fab collection of essays on Proust’s influence on Irish literature!

💫SDN Publication Prize 2025 💫 The 2026 SDN Publication Prize is now open for entries. The Society awards an annual prize for the best journal article published by a PG student, or an early-career researcher who has not yet entered her or his first permanent full-time post.

💫SDN Publication Prize 2025 💫 The 2026 SDN Publication Prize is now open for entries. The Society awards an annual prize for the best journal article published by a PG student, or an early-career researcher who has not yet entered her or his first permanent full-time post.

Today is the deadline! Send us those last minute abstracts!

We would be particularly delighted to see Postgraduate and Early Career colleagues submitting abstracts for this conference - from training sessions to a specific reception and just good company, there is plenty for you at SDN!

Today is the deadline! It's not too late to get your proposal in for "Health and Happiness" (in a 19th-century French context) in Cardiff...

The SDN has written to Senior Management at the University of Leicester to urge them to reconsider their threatened closure of Modern Languages. #SaveLeicesterML. Please consider signing this petition shared by a member of our nineteenth C19 French studies community: www.change.org/p/save-moder...

Only a few days till the deadline! Still time to get your proposal in...

The SDN has written to Senior Management at the University of Nottingham to urge them to reconsider their threatened suspension of Modern Languages. #SaveNottinghamLanguages #WeAreUoN @uniofnottingham.bsky.social Please sign, comment on, and share, the linked petition: x.com/uk_sdn/statu...

🚨 One week until the deadline! 🚨

The deadline for proposals for #SDNCardiff2026 is 1 December! Hope to see many of you there!

🚨 Postponed 🚨 Unfortunately we have to postponed this afternoon’s ECR training session. A new date will be circulated in due course.

The deadline for proposals for #SDNCardiff2026 is 1 December! Hope to see many of you there!

Just a reminder that Friday’s session on impact is open to all of our members. If you are not a member, but would like to become one, you can sign up here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/

Sign up for our ECR training session on impact: www.eventbrite.com/e/edn2025-im.... This session will consider how to engage non-academic audiences by designing and implementing effective impact, and escaping the ivory tower.

We are delighted to share a link to a discounted price for Rachilde, La Sanglante Ironie, édition critique, by Helen Craske. The deadline for discounted subscription orders is 10 October. Helen was supported in this work by the 2024 Tim Unwin ECR grant. www.fabula.org/actualites/1...

Coming up this Friday!

It’s mid-September and we are fully feeling those “back-to-school” vibes here at SDN. Start the new academic year on a high by sending us your abstract for #SDNCardiff2026, on the theme of health and happiness. More details here: uksdn.co.uk/health-and-h...

Very excited for this semester's NCFS Unbound events (@ncfsassn.bsky.social). This is a great chance to hear from lots of fantastic 19th-century scholars who’ll be discussing their new books! Find out more here: ncfs-assn.byu.edu/ncfs-in-capt...

We are delighted to share the details of our upcoming Early Career training sessions. These are open to postgraduate and early career members of the Society, and will take the form of a roundtable with the panelists, followed by an opportunity for attendees to ask questions.

The deadline of 1 September is fast approaching - be sure to send your applications in!