Postgraduate Poster Competition
Each year, the Society welcomes postgraduates (at Master's and PhD level) to participate in a poster competition, producing a poster that showcases their research project. The competition judging takes place during the Annual Conference, which this year will be held between 30th June and 2nd July at the University of Bristol.
We are seeking the following:
- Posters to be presented in person at the Annual Conference in Bristol; and / or
- Posters to be displayed online on the Society for French Studies website
Prizes will be awarded for the best poster (£150) and the runner-up (£50). For more information, see the 'Call for Posters' document below.
2025 Entries
Entries for 2025 are open now. The closing date is 31 May 2025.
The 2025 Poster Competition is now open. To express your interest, please send a short email that outlines the general topic or argument of your proposed poster by 3 March 2025 to Tobias Barnett (Postgraduate Officer) and Rebecca Boyd (Conference Assistant) at the following address: sfspg2025@gmail.com. After this date, we will contact participants with more information. The final poster should be submitted by 31 May 2025.
Previous recipients
2024
The judges of the competition, Profs Catriona Seth and Lydie Moudileno, were very impressed by the high standard of submissions, and commended the care, consideration, and creative flair that had been put into making each poster. A full gallery of all 16 entries can be viewed here; the competition this year was organised by Elly Walters and Tobias Barnett.
Winner: Katharine Kent
| Project | Intertextuality, Intermediality and Radio Afterlives: Duras's 'Les Papiers d'Aspern 1961' |
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| Institution | University of Cambridge |
Runner up: Clementine Pursey
| Project | 'Le corps de vous vault mieulx que dix royaulmes': The Reception of Deviant Bodies in Jean d'Arras's 'Mélusine' |
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| Institution | University of St. Andrews |
Runner up: Tamzin Elliott
| Project | Drawing (On) the Past: Representing Abortion in Graphic Narrative |
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| Institution | Durham University |
2023
We are extremely grateful to two keynote speakers, Professors Helen Swift and Alexandre Gefen, for taking the time to judge the competition. Both were impressed by the high standard of this year’s submissions, and commended the care, consideration, and creative flair that had been put into making each poster. A full gallery of all 16 entries can be viewed here; the competition this year was organised by David Ewing and Elly Walters.
Winner: Sophie Ellis
| Project | The Spatiality of French Hospitality |
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| Institution | Newcastle University |
Runner up: Gareth Hughes
| Project | Sounds from outsite: spatial transformations in contemporary French and multilingual poetry |
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| Institution | Royal Holloway, University of London |
Runner up: Elizabeth Purdy
| Project | An introduction to end-time structures |
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| Institution | University of Leeds |
2022
We are extremely grateful to two keynote speakers, Professors Jane Hiddleston and Edward Hughes, for taking the time to judge this year's cohort. Both were impressed by the high standard of this year’s submissions, and commended the deep care and consideration that had been put into making each poster. A full gallery of all 18 entries can be viewed here; the competition this year was organised by David Ewing and Elly Walters.
Winner: Louisa Esther Mugabo
| Project | Towards a conceptualisation of exile journalism: A study of East African and Latin American journalists' norms and practices in exile |
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| Institution | University College Cork |
Runner up: Ry Montgomery
| Project | "Parce que c'est la dernière": Constellations of HIV/AIDS activism in Lionael Soukaz's 'Journal Annales' |
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| Institution | University of London Institute in Paris |
Runner up: Leon Hughes
| Project | Affective 'Arbres de la liberté' : Emotional Experience and Non-Human Agenc(ies) in the French Revolution, 1789-1799 |
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| Institution | Trinity College Dublin |
Tobias Barnett and Rebecca Boyd
Entries for 2025 are open now. The closing date is 31 May 2025.