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Souscription pour la Collection Romans fin-de-siècle / Romans d’avant-garde des éd. du Lérot : Rachilde et G. Kahn La collection « Romans fin-de-siècle / Romans d’avant-garde », portée par Du Lérot, éditeur et la Société des Amis d’Alfred Jarry et dirigée par Yosuké Goda et Julien Schuh, invite à redécouvrir des œ...

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.

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Coming up this Friday!

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 …

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 hope to see many of you there as we discuss these important issues! For more information, or if you have any queries, please get in touch with our brilliant ECR officer, Dr Helen McKelvey @drhelenmckelvey.bsky.social

The second session on Impact will take place on 14th November, 4pm GMT. It will be hosted by Professor Helen Abbott (Birmingham) and Dr Hannah Scott (Newcastle).

Sign ups will open in October for this event.

The first session will be on Alt-Ac Careers on 26th September at 4pm BST, delivered by Dr James Illingworth (IFSA) and Dr Stacie Allan (Translator and Consultant)

To sign up for this session, please register with eventbrite here: www.eventbrite.com/e/edn-2025-a...

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!

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…

And if you are an ECR who is not a member of SDN, you can sort that out here: uksdn.co.uk/membership/

SDN Tim Unwin Early Career Researcher Grant SDN ECR Grant_Application form with notesDownload Early career researcher grants of up to £500 are available to members of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes to…

🚨 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
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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)!

Health and happiness / La santé et le bonheur (Cardiff, 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, 8–10 April 2026 Keynote spe…

More information and the link to sign up can be found here:

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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 ».

The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) Postgraduate Prize is awarded for the best postgraduate conference paper submitted for the Society’s Annual Conference.

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’ 🥳

2023-3 | 2025 Le merveilleux scientifique en spectacle Ce dossier examine le foisonnement de nouvelles formes de spectacles qui, des années 1850 à la Grande Guerre, font de la tension constitutive entre science et merveilleux une source de créativité ...

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

Victor Hugo: Astonishing Drawings - Institut Français · Royaume-Uni Victor Hugo was one of France’s greatest writers and human rights advocates. In private, his refuge was drawing. Hugo’s ink and wash visions of imaginary castles, monsters and seascapes are as poetic ...

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:
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5: Episode 5 (rescheduled) Max McGuinness with Colin Foss. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5: Episode 5 (rescheduled) Max McGuinness with Colin Foss. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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:
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Boston area folks, I will be speaking on Thurs 4/24 on what I call “trans orientalisms” at Harvard’s Mahindra Humanities Center

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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5: Episode 5 (rescheduled) Max McGuinness with Colin Foss. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: NCFS Unbound 5: Episode 5 (rescheduled) Max McGuinness with Colin Foss. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Max’s talk has now been rescheduled for Friday 2 May. Register here: southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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

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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.

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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

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And well done to our highly commended entrants, Isabel Maloney and Ellamae Lepper!