The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, established in 1969, is the foremost learned society in the United States for the study of all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.
May 8, 2025 12:00 PM PDT A discussion of Emily Hodgson Anderson’s new book, Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life (Columbia University Press, 2025). The author will be joined in co…
ASECS is a member of the National Humanities Alliance. The NHA has provided this Memo to Members for distribution, dated April 3, 2025. From: National Humanities AllianceApril 3, 2025URGENT UPDA…
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The Center for Eighteenth-Century-Studies has hosted a Spring Workshop every year (excepting 2020) since 2002. The typical format consists of intense discussion of pre-circulated papers and an occasional lecture, interspersed with ample opportunities for socializing and refreshment. We typically cover travel costs for all participants, who are selected by an interdisciplinary committee of scholars.
In most years the theme for the Spring Workshop is announced in autumn of the previous year. Proposals for papers and contributions are due in January. Please do visit our online open-access journal, The Workshop, for a selection of abstracts and comments from previous Spring Workshops.
This year’s Workshop, on the theme “Eighteenth-Century Afterlives,” will take place on May 15-17.
Quapaw Culture (Arkansas/Midsouth), Spouted Vessel with Painted Motifs, ca.1500–1700 (maybe 1600). Saint Louis Art Museum
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