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The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes (SDN) offers a lively forum for the dissemination of research on French and Francophone studies in the long 19th century.
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...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:17 PM
🚨 One week until the deadline! 🚨
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!
November 24, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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The deadline for proposals for #SDNCardiff2026 is 1 December! Hope to see many of you there!
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!
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
🚨 Postponed 🚨

Unfortunately we have to postponed this afternoon’s ECR training session. A new date will be circulated in due course.
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.
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The deadline for proposals for #SDNCardiff2026 is 1 December! Hope to see many of you there!
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!
November 12, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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/
November 12, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
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November 9, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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.
November 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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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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...
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September 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Coming up this Friday!
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...
September 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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...
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 …
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September 13, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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...
NCFS Unbound - Nineteenth-Century French Studies Association
A series of virtual book dialogues Fall 2025 Friday, October 3, 2PM EasternBetween the Sheets: Sexuality, Classified Advertising and the Moral Threat to Press Freedom in FranceHannah Frydman in conver...
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September 9, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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.
September 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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/
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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…
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August 27, 2025 at 12:21 PM
🚨 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/
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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…
uksdn.co.uk
August 17, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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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
July 4, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This might interest some of our members!
The Goya Network (goyanetwork.com) is a new interactive database that maps the social and professional relationships surrounding the Spanish artist Francisco de Goya, focusing on his connections with artists, critics, and collectors in 19th-century Spain and France.
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The Goya Network
Explore the social and artistic network around Francisco de Goya in 19th-century France and Spain.
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June 17, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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📚️ 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
June 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
A really exciting find!
So, this seems totally legitimate -- what an amazing, incredible find by writer and investigative journalist Summer Brennan @summerbrennan.bsky.social, who found it in a box of photo archives in the Richelieu library. For a sense of why this is so important, see Therese Dolan's 1/5
Does anyone recognise this photo? Saw it for the first time yesterday, in the Wikipedia entry for Jeanne Duval, uploaded in late April. If it's really her, I can't believe it isn't better known. Date (1862) rings true.
June 1, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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!
May 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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!
May 28, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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 ».
May 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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’ 🥳
May 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
New journal issue on 'Le merveilleux scientifique en spectacle', hot off the press... journals.openedition.org/itineraires/...
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 ...
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May 9, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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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...
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 ...
www.institut-francais.org.uk
May 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM