Announcements

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Friday, November 22 The African Studies Association (ASA) and American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) are thrilled to announce the joint 2025 18th Century Africa Publication Fellowships. Thanks to generous funding from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), ASECS and ASA have jointly designed a one-year fellowship to engage early career scholars from groups who have been systematically excluded, marginalized, or otherwise neglected in their fields or disciplines. In 2025, the two Associations will be offering joint conference and publication opportunities to which students and recent graduates (within 5-years of graduation) can… Read More »DEADLINE EXTENDED: 2025 Eighteenth-Century Africa Publication Fellowships

The African Studies Association (ASA) and American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) are thrilled to announce the joint 2025 18th Century Africa Publication Fellowships. Thanks to generous funding from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), ASECS and ASA have jointly designed a one-year fellowship to engage early career scholars from groups who have been systematically excluded, marginalized, or otherwise neglected in their fields or disciplines. In 2025, the two Associations will be offering joint conference and publication opportunities to which students and recent graduates (within 5-years of graduation) can submit paper proposals. Applicants are… Read More »Announcing the 2025 Eighteenth-Century Africa Publication Fellowships

The following email was sent to current and last year’s members on Sept. 25, 2024: Dear ASECS Members and Friends, Several sessions for the ASECS 55th Annual Meeting still have slots open for submissions. The Extended Deadline for filling those panels, roundtables, and poster sessions is Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. Support your colleagues by helping fill those sessions! Don’t see a session that is the perfect fit? Submit an Individual Abstract to the General Pool (deadline for submission Friday, Oct. 11, 2024). Thank you for helping make the Virtual Annual Meeting a success! Reach out… Read More »Extended Deadline and Individual Abstracts CfP

The following email was sent on Sept. 5, 2024 to current and last year’s ASECS members. Sept. 4, 2024Dear ASECS Members and Friends, Happy September! Our Nominating Committee, Annual Meeting Program Committee, and Bylaws Task Force have been busy this summer, and would like to share the following updates with you.

Lost and Found in the Long Eighteenth Century The South-Central Society for Eighteenth Century Studies and the James Smith Noel Collection invite you to present papers and organize conference panels on being lost and found in the long eighteenth century.  Whether one is lost at sea or lost in thought, finding one’s bearings can bring about new insights and inspirations.  Discovering the answers to the mysteries of existence has led to whole new understandings of the world around and within us — and whole new speculations about the unseen and unknown.  We look forward to… Read More »SCSECS 2025

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) is pleased to announce our Call for Papers for the 55th Annual Meeting, to be held virtually over two weekends: March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025. The Society, 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. 

Estimados socios,Es un placer invitarles a la tercera sesión de Coloquios del Hispanismo 2024-25. En esta sesión,cuatro socios nos hablarán de sus libros recientes:Álvaro Vargas Díaz de Toldeo, Cervantes y su entorno portugués (Madrid, Guillermo EscolarEditor, 2024).Catherine M. Jaffe y Karen Stolley (eds.), The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire inthe Eighteenth Century. Constructing National Identities (Oxford University Studies in theEnlightenment/Liverpool University Press, 2024).Antonella Gallo (traducción y notas), La Rampa / Il piano inclinato de Carmen deBurgos,‘Colombine’ (Florencia, ‘Le Lettere’, 2024).Viernes, 26 de julio de 202418:00 horas (hora de Madrid)Para determinar la hora… Read More »Coloquios del Hispanismo 2024-2025

Highlights include information about voting on the proposed new Bylaws, photos from the 2024 Annual Meeting in Toronto, the CfP for the Virtual Annual Meeting, and much more! Summer News Circular

The general call for session proposals (Round 2) is now open! See the 2025 Annual Meeting Page for more more information! Submissions are due JULY 26, 2024.