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