TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL CONFERENCE
Society of Dix-Neuviémistes

Secrecy and Unveiling / Le Secret et le dévoilement

Senate House, London, 10-12 April 2024

Plenary speakers: Ann Jefferson (University of Oxford) and Sarga Moussa (CNRS)

See here for the draft programme for the 2024 conference:

Please note that registration for the London conference is now closed.

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Are you an early-career researcher? *YesNo

Early-career researchers (ECRs) will normally be understood to mean postgraduates and post-doctoral researchers within 3 years of their PhD/DPhil viva, or within 7 years if they have not yet been appointed to a permanent full-time academic post.

Have you already taken out SDN membership for 2024? *YesNo

Please note that all conference speakers and attendees must be members of the Society. Membership is not included in the conference rate and can be added below. For further information, please see: https://uksdn.co.uk/membership.

Please tick the applicable boxes. Delegates who select the full registration package do not need to tick 'Day 1', 'Day 2' and 'Day 3' separately. *

• Full conference package – £170/£130 ECR
• Day 1 (10 April) – £50
• Day 2 (11 April) – £100
• Day 3 (12 April) – £50
• SDN membership, if not already a member – £40/£25 ECR
• Optional annual membership supplement to take out membership of our French sister society, the Société des Études Romantiques et Dix-Neuviémistes (SERD) – £10

Please note that the full conference package does not include membership or accommodation. No reduced rate is applicable to the single-day charges.

If you'd like to sign up for dinner on Wednesday 10th April (optional, at delegates' own expense), please indicate your preferred local restaurant. *

• Albertini Restaurant (https://www.albertini.co.uk/)
• Busaba Bloomsbury (https://www.busaba.com/locations/busaba-bloomsbury)
• Pizza Express Coptic Street (https://www.pizzaexpress.com/london-coptic-street)
• I will make my own arrangements

In keeping with the conference theme, the identity of your dinner companions will be unveiled at the reception on Wednesday evening.

Do you intend to attend the conference dinner on Thursday 11th April? *YesNo

Please note that not attending the conference dinner will not change the registration fee.

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(La version française suit)

200-word proposals (for 20-minute individual papers) and for panels on the topic (see suggestions below) should be sent to sdn.proposals@yahoo.co.uk by 11 December 2023. Please include your institutional affiliation and career stage (e.g. PhD student, early-career researcher, professor, etc.).

For specific queries, please contact the conference organiser, Dr Claire Moran (c.moran@qub.ac.uk).

In addition to papers with links to the conference theme, we invite submissions for individual papers or panels on research methodology and/or theory or pedagogy roundtables (e.g. five 10-minute papers and discussion). Work-in-progress papers are warmly welcomed.

Contributions may engage with, but are no means limited to, the following topics:

Concealment and revelation
Confessions and disavowals
The unconscious mind
Esotericism, occultism
Orientalist mysteries
Hieroglyphs and Egyptomania
Excavations
Salomé and the dance of the seven veils
The cult of Isis
Visionaries
Science as unveiling
The limits of positivism
The end of the Age of Exploration
Symbolism and désymbolisation
State secrets
Spies
Plots, conspiracies, conspiracy theories
L’Origine du monde: art as exposure
The myth of Psyche
Modesty and immodesty
Coming out
The unsaid and the unsayable
Adultery and exposure
Mystifications and supercheries
Encryption and decryption
The visible and the invisible
Disguise and dissimulation
Misdirection, red herrings
Scopophilia and epistemophilia
Seduction
The roman à clef
Plot twists: narrative secrets and revelations

Version française:

Les propositions (200 mots environ) pour des interventions individuelles (20 minutes) ou des séances entières traitant du thème du colloque par rapport à la culture française ou francophone, l’histoire et l’histoire de l’art, la littérature et la musique de 1789 à 1914 sont à adresser par courriel, en anglais ou en français, avant le 11 décembre 2023 à l’adresse suivante : sdn.proposals@yahoo.co.uk.

Des propositions pour des interventions individuelles de 10 minutes, ainsi que des panels sur la méthodologie, sur la théorie, ou bien sur la pédagogie (par exemple cinq interventions avec questions/discussion), sont également les bienvenues. Veuillez indiquer votre statut universitaire (doctorant, maître de conférences, professeur…).

Vous trouverez ci-dessous une liste non-exhaustive de sujets possibles : 

La dissimulation et la révélation
Les confessions et les désaveux
L’inconscient
L’ésotérisme, l’occultisme
Les mystères orientalistes
Les hiéroglyphes et l’Égyptomanie
Les excavations
Salomé et la danse des sept voiles
Le culte d’Isis
Les visionnaires
La science, un dévoilement ?
Les limites du positivisme
La fin de l’âge d’exploration
Symbolisme et désymbolisation
Les secrets d’État
Les espions
Complots, théories de la conspiration
L’Origine du monde : l’art du dévoilement
Le mythe de Psyché
Pudeur et impudeur
Coming out
Le non-dit et l’indicible
L’adultère et le flagrant délit
Les mystifications et les supercheries
Le cryptage et le décryptage
Le visible et l’invisible
Le déguisement et la dissimulation
Les fausses pistes, les leurres
La scopophilie et l’épistémophilie
La séduction
Le roman à clef
Les rebondissements narratifs