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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 😁

Health and happiness / La santé et le bonheur (Cardiff University, 2026) Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Déjeuner des canotiers, 1881. TWENTY-FOURTH ANNUAL CONFERENCESociety of Dix-Neuviémistes Health and happiness / La santé et le bonheur Cardiff University, 8–10 April 2026 …

🎉 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...

An Enduring Source of Inspiration: In Search of Proust’s Legacy in Ireland Ireland remained neutral during the Second World War and drew up plans to resist possible attack by Nazi Germany or Britain. The authorities were also preoccupied by a different kind of foreign inv…

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!

Le Mot fatal. Langage, pouvoir et trait d’esprit dans La Comédie humaine de Balzac Il y a des mots qui tuent dans l’univers balzacien. Décoché comme une flèche, le trait d’esprit se doit d’atteindre une cible, de ravir un public qui va valider ou non son effet. Performance négociée ...

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 | Hardcover | Cornell University Press A Most Quiet Murder examines the death of a five-year-old girl in late nineteenth-century France, unfolding the mystery through judicial investigations, psychiatric medical evaluations, and ultimately,...

🕯️ 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/...

MEMBERSHIP SDN Membership Advantages Amongst the benefits of membership of SDN are free access to the Dix-Neuf journal and voting rights at the Society’s AGM. Membership entitles ECR members to submit publish…

Participation in the Mentorship Scheme is contingent on membership of SDN. Become a member here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/

Mentorship Scheme The SDN Mentorship Scheme seeks to establish a supportive research network for postgraduate and early career researchers (up to 7 years post-PhD) by connecting them with mid- and late-career schola…

More details can be found here: uksdn.co.uk/ecr-mentorin...

💫 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...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 6_4 Justine De Young with Susan Hiner. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Justine De Young talks about her new book "The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris" with Susan Hiner (Bloomsbury, 2025)

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...

Short History Of... - The Louisiana Purchase - BBC Sounds In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased 820,000 square miles of land from Napoleon.

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!

Please register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/edn2025-im....

Regardless of career stage, this event will provide valuable insights and tips on getting your research out there and working with a variety of stakeholders. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to explore new possibilities for where your research can take you.

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!

Women and Musical Histories, 1789–1914 | Royal Academy of Music Find out more about the Academy's upcoming research conference: Women and Musical Histories, 1789-1914.

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!