Université Bordeaux Montaigne and Universität Duisburg-Essen are pleased to announce the 4th annual LAPASEC (Landau-Paris Symposia on the Eighteenth Century) early-career conference. This conference gives early career researchers a chance to network and present, and to get to know a few well-established figures in the field. It is open to students/academics of many disciplines, including history, literature, British studies, American studies, German studies, Romance studies, visual arts, musicology, history of law.
The three-day conference looks at the reverberations of the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution, in the British Isles, France and Germany in the late eighteenth century and the greater part of the nineteenth century, up to and including the centenary celebrations of the event. The ways in which 1776 resonated with the French Revolutions of 1789, 1830, 1848 and other revolutions in Europe, including fear of revolution, are also of special relevance.
It is fitting for Bordeaux, France’s major Atlantic seaport in the eighteenth century, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Bordeaux had strong commercial ties with Northern America, and played a role in the American Revolution, for instance welcoming John Adams’s ambassadorial visit in 1778.
For those in the early stages of their academic careers, we are seeking to fund travel, accommodation and related conference costs.
Submission deadline: 15 September 2025
Notification of acceptance: 30 October 2025
A 500-word proposal and a short bio-bibliographical presentation should be sent to the members of the organising committee: lapasec2026@gmail.com
The conference will use the French, German and English languages. Proposals in any of the three languages are welcome.
For more info: https://tinyurl.com/lapasec2026