Scientific Events

Study Day: “Eating or not Eating Animals. Sociability and Ethics around the Table” - 13 March 2025, Université Rennes 2. Deadline for proposals: 15 December 2024.

"The Politics of the 'Sociable Self': Theories and Practices (1650-1850)" - First thematic session on 'Sociability & Animality', 8 November 2024 (5-7 PM) at Université Rennes 2 - Invited speakers: Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS Paris) & Jane Spencer (University of Exeter).

"The Politics of the Sociable Self: Theories and Practices (1650-1850)" - Session 2 devoted to primary sources - September 27 (5-7 PM) at Université Paris Cité (LARCA).

GIS Talk - "Objects of ‘virtue’? Eighteenth-century women and their precious snuffboxes" by Angela McShane (University of Warwick), Musée Cognacq-Jay, Thursday 26 September 2024

"Le monde à portée de main au siècle des Lumières : tabatières et petits objets d’ici et d’ailleurs", by Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding (Université de Lille), Musée Cognacq-Jay, 27 June 2024

SARAH BENNOUR (UBO Brest) for her MA thesis: "Corruption et régénération dans Julia (1790) de Helen Maria Williams et Desmond (1792) de Charlotte Smith : redéfinir la sociabilité après la Révolution française".

Event organised by Sabrina Juillet-Garzon & Édouard Guionnet (USPN), Marion Amblard & Gilles Montègre (UGA) on June 14, 2024, at the BNF in Paris, site Richelieu.

"The Politics of the Sociable Self: Theories and Practices (1650-1850)" - Launching session of the GIS interdisciplinary seminar on June 7 (5-7 PM) at Université Paris Cité (LARCA).

"Les objets de luxe au XVIIIe siècle : diffusion d’une culture de consommation", by Natacha Coquery (Université Lumière Lyon 2), Musée Cognacq-Jay, 23 May 2024