Conferences

Name: Society for French Studies
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The Society hosts the largest annual UK gathering of scholars working across the full disciplinary range of French studies.

We also organise a well-attended annual postgraduate conference.

Society for French Studies’ YouTube channel: plenary lectures 2022–24 now available!

2025 Annual Conference

30 June - 02 July 2025 | University of Bristol

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Postgraduate Conference

2025 Postgraduate Conference: 'Conditions'

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Conference Archives

The Society is developing an archive of its previous conference activities.

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Past Conferences

2025 Postgraduate Conference: 'Conditions'

30 May 2025 | King's College London

2024 Annual Conference

01 - 03 July 2024 | University of Stirling

2024 Postgraduate Conference: 'Deviations'

29 January - 01 March 2024 | King's College, London

2023 Annual Conference

26 - 28 June 2023 | Newcastle University

2023 Postgraduate Conference: 'Surroundings'

19 May 2023 | King's College, London

2022 Annual Conference

27 - 29 June 2022 | Queen's University Belfast

2022 Postgraduate Conference: 'After Work'

27 May 2022 | King's College, London

2021 Annual Conference

28 - 30 June 2021 | Online

2021 Postgraduate Conference: 'Vitality'

28 May 2021 | Online

2020 Postgraduate Conference: 'Passages'

29 July 2020 | Online

2020 Annual Conference

29 June - 01 July 2020 | [cancelled]

2019 Annual Conference

01 - 03 July 2019 | Royal Holloway, University of London

2019 Postgraduate Conference: 'The Return of the Author'

27 April 2019 | Durham University

2018 Annual Conference

02 - 04 July 2018 | University College Cork

2018 Postgraduate Conference: 'Repetition'

16 March 2018 | University College London

2017 Annual Conference

03 - 05 July 2017 | Durham University

2017 Postgraduate Conference: 'Making Sense(s)'

29 April 2017 | Institute of Modern Languages Research

2016 Annual Conference

27 July - 29 June 2016 | University of Glasgow

2016 Postgraduate Conference: 'Protest'

23 April 2016 | Institute of Modern Languages Research

2015 Annual Conference

29 June - 01 July 2015 | Cardiff University

2014 Annual Conference

30 June - 02 July 2014 | University of Aberdeen

2013 Annual Conference

01 - 03 July 2013 | University of Nottingham

2012 Annual Conference

02 - 04 July 2012 | University of Exeter

2010 Annual Conference

05 - 07 July 2010 | University of Swansea

2009 Annual Conference

29 - 01 June 2009 | St. Anne's College, Oxford

2008 Annual Conference

30 June - 02 August 2008 | University of Liverpool

2007 Annual Conference

02 - 04 July 2007 | University of Birmingham

2006 Annual Conference

03 - 05 July 2006 | University of St. Andrews

2005 Annual Conference

04 - 06 July 2005 | University of Leeds

2004 Annual Conference

05 - 07 July 2004 | Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge

2003 Annual Conference

30 June - 02 July 2003 | University of Sheffield

2002 Annual Conference

01 - 03 July 2002 | University of Bristol

2001 Annual Conference

02 - 03 July 2001 | University College, Dublin

1997 Annual Conference

05 - 07 September 1997 | Paris IV-Sorbonne

1995 Annual Conference

27 - 29 March 1995 | University of Hull

1994 Annual Conference

28 - 30 March 1994 | University of Liverpool

Conference Archives

22 March 1959 - 31 March 1993