2019 Annual Conference
The Society for French Studies looks forward to welcoming you to our 2019 annual conference, to be held at Royal Holloway University of London, on 1-3 July.
We are very excited to be welcoming the following keynote speakers to this year's conference: Kate Conley (Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, William and Mary); David McCallam (Reader in French Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Sheffield); Pap Ndiaye (Professeur des universités à l'Institut d'études politiques de Paris, Histoire nord-américaine, Sciences-Po); Mairéad Hanrahan (Professor of French, University College London).
We warmly invite postgraduate students to participate in the conference and offer travel grants to support PG attendance: more information is available here.
Papers for the Society's AGM, to take place during the conference, have been circulated to members and are also available here.
The conference programme and joining instructions for delegates are both available below.
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As it happened
Kate Conley plenary lecture
Professor Kate Conley (Dean of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Professor of French and Francophone Studies, William and Mary) delivers the opening plenary lecture, 'Collection as a Surrealist State of Mind'
Judith Still plenary lecture
Professor Judith Still (University of Nottingham, and President of the Society for French Studies) delivers her plenary lecture, replacing Pap Ndiaye who was unable to attend the conference.
David McCallam plenary lecture
David McCallam (Reader in French Eighteenth-Century Studies, University of Sheffield) delivers his plenary, 'From the Lisbon Disaster to the Terror: Geopoetic revolutions in late eighteenth-century France'
Mairéad Hanharan plenary lecture
Mairéad Hanrahan (Professor of French, University College London) delivers her plenary on 'Genet's Genres of Politics'
Thanks to all who attended this year's conference at RHUL. For those who missed out on the legendary French disco, here's a link to the playlist on Spotify: