41st Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, 6–9 July 2027, Sorbonne Université, Paris, Hosted by the Centre Roland Mousnier – UMR 8596 CNRS.
ECSSS returns to Paris and the Sorbonne for its 2027 conference. The organisers are Jean-François Dunyach and Benjamine Toussaint (Sorbonne University) and the host institution is the Centre Roland Mousnier-CNRS.
The 2027 theme is Women in Long Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Beyond. The conference will explore the varied roles, agency, representations, constraints, and historical memory of women in Scottish society, culture, politics, religion, and everyday life from c. 1660 to c. 1830. It will also encourage comparative and transnational approaches, including Scottish women abroad.
As with all ECSSS conferences, proposals for papers and panels on any other aspects of eighteenth-century Scottish culture and history are warmly invited.
The conference will open on Tuesday 6 July 2027 with an opening plenary lecture by Pam Perkins of the University of Manitoba. This will be followed by three days of parallel panels and plenary lectures (TBA). Other events, including a concert, visits to the historic Scots and Irish Colleges, a reception, and a conference dinner, are also scheduled.
With support from the Sorbonne, all these events will be included in the registration fee of € 240 (€ 120 for graduate students, retirees, and guests).
A link to further details will be available by late October on the Centre Roland Mousnier website : https://centrerolandmousnier.cnrs.fr and the ECSSS website: www.ecsss.org
Please e-mail a title and one-page description of your proposed 3- or 4-paper panel, or 20-minute paper, along with a one-page CV, to the program organiser, Jean-François Dunyach (jean-francois.dunyach@sorbonne-universite.fr) by 15 December 2026. Please ensure that any proposal includes ‘Paris 2027 conference proposal’ in the email subject line.
