Scientific Events

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

Workshop: Of the travellers’ sociability in The National Archives’ collections – 19 & 20 March 2026, TNA (Kew). 19 & 20 MARCH 2026, THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES (KEW) - Keynote: Richard Ansell (Birkbeck Univ. of London) - Organisers: Marion Amblard (ILCEA4 & Pléiade, Univ. Grenoble Alpes), Jessica Nelson (TNA) & Sabrina Juillet Garzon (Pléiade & ILCEA4, Univ. Sorbonne Paris Nord).

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

"Des étoiles éclipsées ? Femmes de sciences et femmes artistes à la conquête des Lumières" by Mélanie Traversier (Univ. de Lille), Musée Cognacq-Jay, 22 January 2026.

Extended deadline 15/01/26 - CFP - '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 Western Brittany (Brest), Friday 13 March 2026.

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 at Université de Paris Cité, with 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.

"Les femmes artistes au siècle des Lumières et l’art du portrait" by Catherine Voiriot (Musée du Louvre), Musée Cognacq-Jay, 11 December 2025.

Deadline extended to December 10, 2025!