Actualités

CFP - GIS Sociabilités International Conference 2026: 'Sociability, Progress and Innovation (1650-1850)', Université Rennes 2, Thursday 10 & Friday 11 December 2026.

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.

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 Early-Career Researchers, University of Brest, Friday 13 March (room B001)

6th edition of the GIS Sociabilités MA Thesis Prize - Deadline for submission: 15 February 2026

New publication: Marion Amblard, Gilles Montègre (dir.), S’affranchir du Grand Tour : Les voyageurs européens à la découverte de l’Europe (fin XVIème-milieu XIXème siècle) (Le Manuscrit, coll. "Voyages et migrations", 2026)

Caroline Bertonèche & Alexis Tadié (eds.), Sports and Sociability in Britain in the Long Eighteenth Century (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool: LUP, 2025).

GIS Sociabilités seminar 'The Politics of the ‘Sociable Self: Theories and Practices (1650-1850)' - Eight thematic session on 'Disturbed and Deviant Sociability', 9 January 2025 (17:00 - 19:00) at Université de Paris Cité (room 830) - Invited speakers: Helen Berry (Univ. of Exeter) & Charline Granger (Univ. de Montpellier Paul-Valéry).

GIS Sociabilités BOOK LAUNCH 2025, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal (Paris), Friday 12 December.