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, with 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, with 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, with 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 at Université Rennes 2, with Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS) & Jane Spencer (Univ. 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