CONFERENCE 'Languages and literatures of the Francophone world in libraries and archives’

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The French Studies Library Group (FLSG) is organising a study day on Francophone collections in archives and libraries on 21 November 2025 at the Maison française d’Oxford, in partnership with the French Embassy in the UK (Higher Education, Research and Innovation Department). This follows the successful 2023 Institut Français event on French collections in the United Kingdom and 2024 event on Collections in French at the British Library.

We will discuss the varieties of French language and literature produced outside of France, as well as the dialects, regional and minority languages spoken in France, and the oral and written collections of such material, in print and manuscript as well as electronic resources.

The talks will include work on French-related language material and collections available in a specific library or archive, especially in the United Kingdom and in the Francophone world. The focus will be the history, identification, description, constitution, and circulation, of such sources and corpora, the specific challenges they raise. We will also reflect on their preservation and promotion, including through recent or ongoing digital projects and research.