Scientific Events

"The Politics of the 'Sociable Self': Theories and Practices (1650-1850)" - Fourth thematic session on 'Policing (Radical) Sociabilities', 21 May 2025 at Université Paris Cité (room 830) - Invited speakers: Charles Walton (Warwick University) and Katrina Navickas (University of Hertfordshire)

"The Politics of the 'Sociable Self': Theories and Practices (1650-1850)" - Third thematic session on 'The Language of the Sociable Self', 21 March 2025 at the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Faculté Ségalen (room C204) - Invited speakers: - Ross Caroll (Dublin City University) and Mary Fairclough (University of York)

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

5th edition of the GIS Sociabilités MA Thesis Prize - Deadline for submission: 31 January 2025

"The Politics of the 'Sociable Self': Theories and Practices (1650-1850)" - Second thematic session on 'Educating the Sociable Self', 29 January 2025 at The National Archives - Invited speakers: - Géraldine Lepan (Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3) & Matthew Grenby (Newcastle University)

GIS Sociabilités seminar "The Politics of the Sociable Self" First thematic session on 'Sociability & Animality', 8 November 2024 from 17:00 to 19:00, Université Rennes 2.

"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