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...

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...

📣📣📣 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...

#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/

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...

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

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...

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

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