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February 2025

CfP Science & Society in the Age of Revolutions – Due March 3, 2025

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As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States, this conference, co-hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APS’s 2025 exhibition, Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and “America’s Scientific Revolutionaries,” a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Applicants should… Read More »CfP Science & Society in the Age of Revolutions – Due March 3, 2025

Peter Sabor Fellowship

Fundraising: The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Burney Society of North America have partnered to establish a new fellowship named after distinguished scholar, Burney editor, long-time member, and past President of CSECS, Peter Sabor.  The funds raised through this campaign will be used to establish a biennial research fellowship designed to promote editing projects focused on the eighteenth century.  As Canada Research Chair and Director of the Burney Centre at McGill University (2003–24), Peter Sabor has published an impressive body of work, primarily scholarly editions of the writings and correspondence of notable authors,… Read More »Peter Sabor Fellowship