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!

🚨 Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant 🚨 Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to SDN members to assist with a research project related to 19th-century French studies. Send us your application by 1 September! More info here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-grant/

Happy 24th birthday to the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, formed on this day in 2001 in Dublin, and thriving almost a quarter of a century later. En avant! @uksdn.bsky.social

This might interest some of our members!

📚️ L’historienne Isabelle Matamoros dévoile dans son dernier essai “le pouvoir des lectrices”. Elle montre comment leur expérience raconte à la fois les normes sociales et un vrai désir d’émancipation ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/QvR ⁠

A really exciting find!

And if #SDNCardiff2026 wasn’t already tempting enough, we are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be Seth Whidden (The Queen’s College, Oxford) and Manon Mathias (University of Glasgow)!

We are delighted to announce that our call for papers for the next annual SDN conference, on the theme of 'Health and happiness/La santé et le bonheur', to take place in Cardiff 8-10 April, is now online, and our new abstract submission form is open for business!

Very excited for tomorrow’s SERD-organised seminar "Le XIXe siècle autour du monde", featuring Angela di Benedetto (Université de Foggia) and SDN member Susan Hiner (Vassar College). The theme is :« Séduire et éblouir : des stratagèmes amoureux aux travailleuses de la mode ».

Congratulations to the winner of our 2025 Postgraduate Prize, Abigail Fields, for her paper, ‘Vous, les agriculteurs, hommes de progrès et de moralité!’; or, Flaubert and the Politics of the Comices Agricoles’ 🥳

New journal issue on 'Le merveilleux scientifique en spectacle', hot off the press... journals.openedition.org/itineraires/...

Join our colleague Prof Bradley Stephens for "Victor Hugo: Astonishing Drawings" at the French Institute in London on the 12th of May Details and tickets: www.institut-francais.org.uk/events-agend...

I will be speaking on Zoom this Friday, May 2nd with Colin Foss at 14:30 EST/19:30 UK about my book Hustlers in the Ivory Tower as part of the Nineteenth-Century French Studies Unbound series. All welcome! Register here: southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @ncfs.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

Boston area folks, I will be speaking on Thurs 4/24 on what I call “trans orientalisms” at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center mahindrahumanities.harvard.edu/event/trans-...

The Paris Commune, considered a golden moment of hope by the left, and a black hour of power inversions by the right, the Commune occupies a critical position in understanding modern history and politics 📚 ow.ly/Ss5R50VnWQC @rutgersupress.bsky.social @eichnercarolyn.bsky.social @uksdn.bsky.social

Examines one of the most revered art historical narratives of Western art: the famous turning point for painting and sculpture usually emblematized by the works of Édouard Manet and then the Impressionists. 📚 buff.ly/CVgu5R1 @uoftpress.bsky.social @uksdn.bsky.social

Providing keen insight into how local narratives about absinthe shaped what quickly became a global reputation, Studer provides a panoptic view of the French Empire’s influence on absinthe’s fall from grace 📚 buff.ly/v73pbBr @drninastuder.bsky.social @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social @uksdn.bsky.social

Even more reason to celebrate… congratulations to the winner of this year’s SDN publication prize, Charles Bégué Fawell for the article ‘Effervescent Seas: Racialized Labor and Mobile Militancy on the Steamship Highways of the French Indo-Pacific’, French Historical Studies, 47.3 (2024), 399-427

We are delighted to announce that the winner of the 2024 Dix-Neuf Prize is Raisa Rexer, for her article ‘The Other Feminism: Literature, Sex and the Novels of René Maizeroy in Fin-de-siècle France’, 28.2 (2024), 122-42. Congratulations Raisa!

Happening in just under 2 hours...sign up if you can to hear why the French Revolution never happened.

Just testing you... this talk is actually *tomorrow* evening, Friday 4 April, 5pm UK time -- for the speaker it will be early morning on Friday, for others possibly Saturday morning... please come along in whatever time zone you are!

If you are struggling with the post-conference blues, we’ve got just the solution! Come along (virtually) to hear Catherine Malabou this evening.

Last day of SDNDurham 2025 today @uksdn.bsky.social Looking foward to the usual wide range of fascinating papers.

Cloudless blue skies over Durham for day 2 of #SDNDurham2025 - starting the day with Nationalismes et imaginaires raciaux.

Kicking off a session on dominant gender norms is the always engaging David Evans on Jules Laforgue: refusing to be a man #SDNDurham2025

Pratima Prasad’s wonderful keynote in a beautiful setting #sdndurham2025