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CFP - Young Researchers Study Day: 'Sociability and the Travelling Letter: Message, Medium, Mobility in Europe and the Colonies in the Long Eighteenth Century (1650-1850)' Study Day for PhD Students and Early-Career Researchers, University of Brest, Friday 13 March

Appel à communications /call for papers: L’édition et ses pratiques: passé et présent (Edition and editorial practices, past and present) Colloque international conjoint de la Société française Shakespeare (SFS) et la Société d’études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (SEAA1718) Avec le soutien d’ECHELLES (UMR 8264 du CNRS – Université Paris Cité) et de la Hakluyt Society Dates : 22-23 octobre 2026 Lieux: Institut d’Etudes Avancées / Université Paris Cité

GIS Sociabilités MA Research Fellowship 2025 To promote research related to sociability studies in the long eighteenth century, the GIS Sociabilités is offering a Master’s Degree Research Fellowship that will enable a Master’s Degree student from any GIS partner institution to visit a library, a museum, an academic institution, etc., to carry out his/her research work abroad.

GIS Sociabilités seminar 'The Politics of the ‘Sociable Self: Theories and Practices (1650-1850)' - Seventh thematic session on 'Gossip, Scandal and Sociabilities', 7 November 2025 (17:00 - 19:00) at Université de Paris Cité (room 830) - Invited speakers: Rebecca Anne Barr (University of Cambridge) & Matthew Kinservik (University of Delaware)

Call for papers - Of the travellers’ sociability in The National Archives’ collections – 20 March 2026, TNA (Kew). The aim of this seminar is to study the sociability practices of travellers during the long eighteenth century and their perceptions of these practices in a foreign context by drawing on any types of written testimonies or material culture relating to travel.

"L’art de faire réseau, le salon comme espace de savoir et de reconnaissance pour les académiciennes" by Perrine Vigroux ((Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), Musée Cognacq-Jay, 15 October 2025.

This new collective volume is the outcome of several collaborative events organised by our GIS Sociabilités at the BNF (Nov. 2019) and at UBO Brest (Dec. 2020), as part of our 'DIGITENS' EU-funded project (2019-22).

GIS Sociabilités seminar 'The Politics of the ‘Sociable Self: Theories and Practices (1650-1850)' - Sixth thematic session on 'Sociability & Religion', 26 September 2025 (17:00 - 19:00) at Université de Paris Cité (room 830) - Invited speakers: Danielle Clarke (University College Dublin) & Joel Halcomb (University of East Anglia)