Dix-Neuf at a Distance: Starting 8 January 2021

The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes and the journal Dix-Neuf are delighted to announce a new seminar series featuring new research by early-career scholars. Each seminar focuses on a specific theme, with two early-career researchers presenting an aspect of their work, followed by general discussion with a moderator.

The seminar will meet once a month on Fridays 17h UK time/ 12h EST / 18h French time. Zoom links will be circulated ahead of each seminar

Friday 8 January: 17h (UK), 12h EST, 18h (France)

The Doctor-Patient Encounter / The Primal Scene of Medical Humanities
Speakers:
Beatrice Fagan, University of Kent
Sarah Jones, University of Oxford

Moderator: Steven Wilson, Queen’s University Belfast

2021 SERD & SDN Membership

The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes is delighted to announce a reciprocal arrangement with our French société-soeur, the Société des Études Romantiques et Dix-Neuviémistes (SERD).

Beginning in 2021, members of SDN can opt to pay an annual supplement of £10, which will give them full membership of SERD: they will receive the SERD’s annual publication, Le Magazine du XIXe siècle, as well as the Société’s electronic newsletter. Members under the reciprocal arrangement will also have voting rights at the SERD Annual General Meeting.

SDN is now accepting new members for the calendar year 2021. The membership fee for the calendar year is £40, with a concession rate of £25. The concession rate is available for postgraduates, retired members, members not in full-time employment and members of low income countries and newly emerging economies. Membership gives free personal online access to the Society’s journal Dix-Neuf, together with regular Members’ Newsletters, voting rights in the Society’s Annual General Meeting, preferential conference rates and access to sound recordings of the plenary sessions in the secure Members’ Area of the website. Submissions by members may be considered for the SDN Publication Prize.

Please click here to access membership information, including a membership form, or contact the Membership Secretary, Áine Larkin (a.larkin@abdn.ac.uk) for more details. Current members wishing to take out the supplementary SERD membership should also contact Áine.

2020 SDN Prize Winners

2020 Winner: Shaena B. Weitz

We are delighted to congratulate Shaena B. Weitz on winning the 2020 SDN Publication prize, for her article, entitled ‘Propaganda and Reception in Nineteenth-Century Music Criticism: Maurice Schlesinger, Henri Herz, and the Gazette musicale, which appeared in Nineteenth Century Music, 43.1 (2019), 38-60.

Congratulations also go to Liesl Yamaguchi who is highly commended for her article ‘Sensuous Linguistics: On Saussure’s Synaesthesia’ in New Literary History, 50.1 (2019), 23-42.

Féliciations!