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June 2025

End of Year Letter, ASECS President

The following email was sent to members June 26, 2025. Dear ASECS members, It has been a wonderful honor to serve as your President this year. As I prepare to welcome the incoming President and the new Board in just a few days, I have been reflecting with great joy on all that we have accomplished together in just under twelve months. We have new bylaws ready to take effect on July 1. We also launched a brand-new webinar series on “the 18th Century in the Present”, which had a very successful start this past May.… Read More »End of Year Letter, ASECS President

Call for Manuscripts: The Goethe Yearbook

Members may find this call from our affiliate society, the Goethe Society, of interest. Coeditors Eleanor ter Horst (University of South Alabama) and Sarah Vandegrift Eldridge(University of Tennessee, Knoxville) invite submissions for the Goethe Yearbook. We welcomemanuscripts on any and all aspects of Goethe, his contemporaries (both canonical and lesser-known), and the 18th century broadly conceived, including the century’s legacy in later epochs. Wewelcome scholarship with a comparative and/or interdisciplinary approach. We are also interested inbroadening the discussion, in organizing special sections, and experimenting with new forms andgenres of scholarly writing. We particularly encourage women,… Read More »Call for Manuscripts: The Goethe Yearbook

Updates: conference and membership

The following email was sent to ASECS members on June 18, 2025. June 18, 2025 Dear ASECS Members and Friends, Happy Summer! I’m excited to share conference and membership updates with you. 1. CfP, Round 2, ASECS 56th Annual Meeting: Submit your session proposal for the 2026 Annual Meeting, to be held April 9-11, 2026, in Philadelphia! Deadline is July 28, 2025; Round 3 (abstract submissions for presenters) opens August 4, 2025. You can find more information on how to submit to the abstract platform X-CD, including screenshots, on the 2026 Submission Page. It’s a very intuitive… Read More »Updates: conference and membership

AHA/Congressional Briefing on tariffs

The American Historical Association (AHA) will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on tariffs. The briefing will take place on Wednesday, June 11, at 9:00 a.m. ET in Rayburn House Office Building Room 2075. Panelists Douglas A. Irwin (Dartmouth Coll.), Sharon Ann Murphy (Providence Coll.), and Eric Rauchway (Univ. of California, Davis) will discuss how the government has implemented tariffs in the past, and how they have impacted the domestic and global economy. The briefing is open to the public. If you’re based in DC and would like to attend, we encourage you to do so. The briefing will be recorded.  https://www.historians.org/events/congressional-briefings

ACLS Digital Justice Grants CfP

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 ACLS Digital Justice Grants. This program is made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation. The ACLS Digital Justice Grants Program funds digital projects across the humanities and social sciences that critically engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities through the ethical use of digital tools and methods. With an increased focus on capacity building, the program also prioritizes projects that bolster the local ecosystem of digital humanities at their academic, community,… Read More »ACLS Digital Justice Grants CfP