Sharing for all our members who are interested in Zola:
On 23 and 24 October, the Emile Zola Society will host the ‘Sensation !’ Symposium in London. If interested, please send your abstracts to Susan Harrow and Ye Xu by 27 April.
Félicitations ! 💫💫
We would also like to say thank you to Taylor and Francis @tandfresearch.bsky.social,
who fund the Dix-Neuf Prize, for their wonderful support!
The prize jury praised the work’s “great rigour and clarity” and observed that the article’s excellent use of Hugo’s writing to shed light on how the period grapples with the trauma of revolution/The Revolution would be of interest to a wide readership.
“Decapitating God: Revolution in Victor Hugo’s Le Livre des Tables and Dieu” by Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe of Oxford University, which appeared in volume 29, issue 2: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We are pleased to announce the winner of the second annual Dix-Neuf Prize, which recognises an outstanding article published in each year’s volume of the journal (drumroll please…):
Congratulations to all! The competition was stiff.
We have two SDN Publication Prize winners this year! Claire Dupin de Beyssat, Musée d'Orsay, and Rachel Coombes, Downing College, Cambridge. We also awarded a Highly Commended to Zofia Litwinowicz-Krutnik. See uksdn.co.uk/sdn-publicatio… for article titles and references.
Delighted to announce the winners of the SDN Publication Prize, as announced at the SDN conference dinner last Thursday! This prize is for the best journal article published by an early-career member of the society in the previous calendar year...
And a shout out to our brilliant conference officer Sarah Gubbins, who worked tirelessly to bring everything together to create a fascinating few days in Cardiff!
A special thanks to our two plenary speakers:
Seth Widden on “La jouissance du poëme”
and
Manon Mathias on the medical and cultural history of caesarean births
As #SDNCardiff2026 comes to an end, we’d like to say thank you to everyone who presented, chaired, and attended! There were lots of brilliant papers and discussions; it’s so energising to see the array of brilliant work going on in 19th century French and Francophone studies!
A vos agendas !
Affiche beige et orangée titrée « Saint-Simon & les femmes ». À gauche, grand lettrage rouge avec une esperluette. À droite, portrait d’une femme en robe bleue, devant deux silhouettes féminines estompées. Texte : « Journée d’études, samedi 11 avril 2026, Auditorium du château de Versailles ». En bas : logos Société Saint-Simon, Château de Versailles – Centre de recherche, et SIEFAR.
📣 Rappel | Journée d’études « Saint-Simon et les femmes »
🗓️ 11 avril 2026 | 09h15–17h30
📍 Auditorium du château de Versailles
✅ Inscription gratuite obligatoire : chateauversailles-recherche.fr/article1592....
#versaillesrecherche
A Most Quiet Murder provides a new view of nineteenth-century France, where the law and public authorities intervened in the lives of the working classes and their children during moments of crisis.
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It’s the first day of our annual conference, #SDNCardiff2026! Who’s excited? 🙋♀️
🚨New special issue of Dix-Neuf 🚨
This special issue brings together a collection of articles on the cultural histories of medicine and health in the long nineteenth century.
Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/ydix20/2...
Special issue: Cultural Histories of Medicine & Health in the Long 19th Century - issue 29:4, Winter 2025. Edited by Larry Duffy and Hannah Scott. Jacob Meister, Vidangeant la ville insalubre: Literary Recycling in Sketches of Montfaucon Kaat Wils, Catholic Engagement with Animal Magnetism, Spiritism and Therapeutic Hypnotism in Nineteenth-Century Belgium Sun-Young Park, Forming the Deaf Citizen in Third Republic France: Health and Education at the Institut d’Asnières Kathryn Bryan, ‘Les Avorteuses de Paris’: Abortion in the fin-de-siècle Press Aine Larkin, Contested Medical Authority in Proust's À la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Happy to see this Special Issue out in the world - Cultural Histories of Medicine & Health in the Long 19th Century - edited by Larry Duffy & myself @uksdn.bsky.social
Great contributions from Jacob Meister, Kaat Wils, Sun-Young Park, Kathryn Bryan & Aine Larkin with several chapters open access!
One of our fabulous executive committee members, Susan McCready, will be talking about her new book, Commemorative Acts: French Theatre and the Memory of the Great War, at the next NCFS Unbound session on 20 March. Register here: southalabama.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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!