EXTENDED DEADLINE! We are now accepting proposals for our 2025 conference until 17th January 2025. We can also confirm that our keynote speaker will be Prof. Katherine Ibbett (Trinity College Oxford). Details below!

#CfP Call for Papers for the @SEMFSUK Annual Conference: ‘Nature’ / ‘La Nature’ (7-9 July 2025, University of Manchester). Please submit proposals by 29 November 2024 to eh58@st-andrews.ac.uk, and remember to join SEMFS first!:

We are delighted to announce our first annual Translation Prize! Details below; see to copy-paste the text. Deadline 15th November for the £300 prize!

And that's the end of our @SEMFSUK conference, which included last night's sumptuous conference dinner. Many thanks to all for attending, and here's to next year!

We were honoured to hear Prof. Dominique Brancher present on Villey's editorial practices for Montaigne's Essais as our keynote paper yesterday.

Our inspiring roundtable on archives and editing.

We're grappling with the big questions this morning @semfs

We're kicking things off with mineralised minds, fiction spinning and Toile de Jouy at the @SEMFSUK 2024 Exeter conference!

A new collection of essays on the plays of Jean Racine, including contributions by several @SEMFSUK members - order now!

Registration is now open for our @SEMFSUK 2024 conference on ‘Ways of Knowing’ / Modes de savoir’ (24-26 June 2024, University of Exeter). Register to enjoy this exciting programme by 25 April at:

#Jobklaxon ! A 3-year 17th-century French post has been advertised at Cambridge University. Share widely!

Melissa Percival, 'Dare to Wear: performing the prohibition of indiennes on the streets of Paris':

Zak Eastop @Zeastop, 'Undead Dindenault: economics, theatre, and economic theatre in Rabelais’s Quart Livre and beyond':

Take a look at this programme for 'Une renaissance dissidente?' (14-15 March), involving a number of @SEMFSUK

RT @apuddleofmuddle: Was so excited to see my article on the Mazarin salon out that I tagged a random account - but def meant it was out wi…

We are delighted to announce that the keynote speaker for our SEMFS 2024 conference (Exeter) will be Professor Dominique Brancher of Yale University. There's still time to submit a paper proposal by 1 December - see below to avoid missing out!

#CfP #CallForPapers To mark the 350th anniversary of Racine’s Iphigénie, two online study days will be held to reappraise Racine’s last two secular tragedies, on 19 and 20 September 2024. Proposals are invited by 31 January 2024 to the emails mentioned in further details below.

#CfP Call for Papers for the @SEMFSUK Annual Conference: ‘Ways of Knowing’ / ‘Modes de savoir’ (24-26 June 2024, University of Exeter). Please submit proposals by 1 December 2023 to eh58@st-andrews.ac.uk, and remember to join SEMFS first!:

RT @earlymodernjohn: So, so lucky to have been asked to give this lecture at the @SEMFSUK conference on 'Mot et Monde/Word and World'. It's…