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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

British Academy Fellowship Honour for SEMFS member: We are delighted to share that Professor Anne Duprat (Université de Picardie Jules Verne, Centre de recherche CERCLL). Congratulations, Anne! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/fellows/prof...

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Anne Duprat FBA

Anne Duprat's research interests are comparative literature; early modern cultural studies; the history of knowledge and epistemology; theory and philosophy of fiction and fictionality in literature, ...

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IMEMS Durham @imems.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Exciting news: IMEMS' John O’Brien & Marc Schachter have been awarded an Amy Wygant Bursary by @semfsuk.bsky.social to support the publication, by @durham.ac.uk IMEMS Press, of 'The Right to Resist: La Boétie’s "Of Voluntary Servitude" and Three Monarchomach Treatises'! @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Time is running out to register for the SEMFS 2026 annual conference on 'Freedom / La Liberté before 29th May - details below!

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Registration is now open for our @semfsuk.bsky.social 2026 conference on ‘Freedom/ La Liberté' (6-8 July 2026, University of Glasgow). Register to enjoy this exciting programme by 29 May 2026 at: www.semfs.org.uk/conference-b...

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The fourth in a series of books of essays on Racine's Theatre, edited by @semfsuk.bsky.social members Nicholas Hammond, Paul Hammond, and Joseph Harris, with essays by many members of the Society, can now be read online via most University library portals: brill.com/display/titl...

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Congratulations to @semfsuk.bsky.social member @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social for her TWO recent publications on Hortense Mancini: a critical edition of her correspondence and a study of her salon! iterpress.org/978164959131... www.bloomsbury.com/uk/saloninex...

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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 24/10/2025

📣📣📣 Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 📣📣📣 We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...

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Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation

We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications. The Voltaire Foundation, originally established thanks to the…

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

#CfP Call for Papers for the @semfsuk.bsky.social Annual Conference: ‘Freedom’ / ‘La Liberté’ (6-8 July 2026, University of Glasgow). Please submit proposals by 28 November 2025 to eh58@st-andrews.ac.uk, and remember to join SEMFS first!: semfs.org.uk/join/

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Congratulations to SEMFS member Marina Perkins, whose new monograph 'Communication, Relevance, and Power in Montaigne’s Essais' is out now! www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Take a look at SEMFS member Emma Gilby's latest book, 'Descartes and the Non-Human', at www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Have you listened to this episode of BBC Radio 4's 'In Our Time' on Molière yet? Featuring Melvyn Bragg alongside three SEMFS members: Professors Jan Clarke, Joe Harris, and Noel Peacock. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Molière

The great French playwright and comic actor who flourished at the court of Louis XIV.

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

From 'Nature on Stage', to 'Ethics in La Fontaine', to a lively conference dinner in sunny Manchester - some snaps of our 2025 annual conference.

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SEMFS (Society for Early Modern French Studies) @semfsuk.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

The schedule from our annual conference earlier in July 2025, on the theme of 'Nature.'

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