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emf2.jpg3,229 – this is the impressive total number of announcements, conference programs, surveys, and other types of content published since the launch of the SE17 website in 2006. Originally an SE17 administrative platform for conferences and membership hosted by Bowdoin College, the site quickly developed a public presence under the care of Charlotte Trinquet du Lys, and happily invited NASSCFL to join its venture in 2012, to become a central resource for French seventeenth-century studies, thanks to Jennifer Tamas and the whole editorial team. Today, the number of weekly requests received to announce calls for paper, grants, publications, and news illustrates how dynamic and active our field is. After many years of outstanding service to the seventeenth-century studies community, the website deserved a grand redesign, in order to better meet user requests and usage. Following the December 2018 SE17 conference in Fribourg, the process began in early 2019 with a substantial server upgrade, and went on to tackle the complete redesign of the website though many meetings with...

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On This Day -- 11 Mar 1661

Arrivé à Valenciennes, Retz apprend qu'une ordonnance royale, datée du 3 mars, ordonne de l'arrêter dès qu'il paraîtra en France. Il retourne à Bruxelles.

Announcements >

Calls for Papers and Contributions

Early Modern Ecologies (MLA LLC 17th-Century French Forum)
Posted: Friday, February 27, 2026 - 03:26

Grants

Prix XVIIe siècle : appel à candidatures (ouvrages parus en 2024)

Jobs

Departmental Lecturer at the University of Oxford

Scholarships Available

XVIIe siècle - Aide au financement d'événements scientifiques

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Conferences and Colloquia

Colloque : Jeter les textes ? Textes périmés, textes éphémères sous l’Ancien Régime

Date et lieu du colloque : 15 et 16 janvier 2027, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Campus de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 47 boulevard Vauban, 78280 Guyancourt. Format hybride (zoom) possible.

Organisé par : Mathilde Bouilland (CELLF, Sorbonne Université), Lucile Martin (DYPAC, UVSQ), Samuel Poulain (ALITHILA, Université de Lille)

 

Argument :

Que devient le texte lorsque sa valeur n’est plus indexée à la durée, à la conservation ou à la canonisation, mais à des usages situés, éphémères ou de nature à le rendre périssable ? En proposant le néologisme de jetabilité sous l’Ancien Régime, ce colloque se propose d’analyser les conditions sociales, matérielles et symboliques selon lesquelles les écrits sont conservés,...

New Publications

Richard Goodkin – The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Béjart

Member News Briefs

Mellon Fellowship at Stanford University for Ainan Liu
Ph.D. Candidate at Princeton University

Mellon Fellowship at Stanford University for Ainan Liu

Ainan Liu is elected to the Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities at Stanford University (Stanford Humanities Center) from 2026 to 2028 for his project entitled Barbaric Acts in French Classical Theater.

Congratulations, Ainan!

Post date: 4 weeks 1 day ago