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ASECS 2026 Prize Winners

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Congratulations to all the 2026 prize winners! Pages within the website will be updated to reflect the new group of winners, but this consolidated list allows you to browse in one page. ASECS Gottschalk Prize: Chair, Amelia Rauser, with Logan Connors and Rachel Carnell. This year the prize is split between two very different, yet equally impressive and important books: Mei Mei Rado, The Empire’s New Cloth: Cross-Cultural Textiles at the Qing Court (Yale, 2025) and Dan Edelstein, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin (Princeton, 2025). Together, these… Read More »ASECS 2026 Prize Winners

Downloading the 2026 Conference Program

The 2026 program is now available in three different formats. You can download a pdf, use the conference app eConference.io, or view it through the website link. The pdf and the app are being updated up to the minute, so check back to make sure you have the most current copy.

Beyond the Lecture: Engaging the Future of Doctoral Education with ACLS

The ACLS Doctoral Futures Initiative welcomes ASECS members to a set of open, discussion-based conversations about some of the most pressing questions facing doctoral education today. Each townhall is designed not as a lecture or panel, but to facilitate a genuine exchange of ideas. Graduate students, faculty, administrators, and academic professionals are all welcome and encouraged to attend. Townhall 1: Smaller Cohorts and Graduate Curricula – Tuesday, April 7, 2pm EDT As programs move toward admitting smaller cohorts, what needs to change? We’ll examine what reduced cohort sizes mean for recruitment, disciplinarity, curricula, mentorship, and advising.  Registration: https://acls-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IdO6FXUjRJO43Jt7JKgWQQ   Townhall… Read More »Beyond the Lecture: Engaging the Future of Doctoral Education with ACLS

ISECS Conference

The upcoming ISECS Conference on “Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today”, will take place in Paris on June 10-12 2026. Interested people are welcome to attend the conference even if they are not giving a presentation, preferably by registering with Daniel Fulda (daniel.fulda@germanistik.uni-halle.de). Please note it will be possible to follow the conference online on July 10 and July 12, using the links provided in the programme.

Search for ASECS Secretary

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) is searching for a Secretary to begin a three-year term on 1 July 2026.   The Secretary is an Appointed Member of the Board of Directors who has Board voting privileges.  The successful candidate will report directly to the Executive Board of the Society and will take the minutes of meetings of the ASECS Board of Directors and the ASECS Executive Committee.  Other duties include: These duties may be combined with another compatible office, as the need arises. For more information about the responsibilities of the Society’s Secretary,… Read More »Search for ASECS Secretary

2026 ECASECS CONFERENCE

EAST CENTRAL AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES2026 ECASECS CONFERENCEVirginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia5–7 November 2026CALL FOR PAPERS Beginnings: Restarts, Revisions, and Reinventions in the Eighteenth Century Panel proposals are due by 30 April 2026. Paper proposals are due by 1 June 2026. The deadlinefor finalized panels is 15 June 2026. Email proposals or queries to ecasecs2026@gmail.com.For complete details, see the ECASECS Conference website: https://ecasecs2026.wordpress.com.

Webinar Participant Overview: “Enlightenment for All: Teaching the Eighteenth Century Beyond(?) the Academy”

Participant Overview: “Enlightenment for All: Teaching the Eighteenth Century Beyond(?) the Academy”ASECS Early Spring 2026 WebinarDate: Friday, February 6, 2026Time: 12:00 p.m. (Central)Registration: Zoom Link Purpose of the Event This ASECS-sponsored webinar celebrates the breadth of eighteenth-century studies and the many places where it thrives: community colleges, high schools, museums, and public humanities spaces. It recognizes that innovative, impactful scholarship and teaching are happening well beyond the walls of research universities. We hope to continue this conversation as (hopefully!) part of the “Diverse Pathways Caucus” for future programming. We will also discuss meeting for an informal but exciting happy… Read More »Webinar Participant Overview: “Enlightenment for All: Teaching the Eighteenth Century Beyond(?) the Academy”

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Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Art History at SUNY New Paltz

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Applications are now being accepted for the position of Assistant Professor of Art History with a focus on global early modern art (1400–1800) at the State University of New York at New Paltz. Priority will be given to applications received by January 12, 2026. Applications will be accepted until the role is filled. Information about the position and instructions on how to apply can be found at: https://www.newpaltz.edu/hr/displayjobdetails.php?id=3058

CfP: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism & North American Victorian Studies Association Joint 2026 Conference

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The joint NAVSA-NASSR 2026 conference to take place in Pasadena, California November 11-16 is now open for submissions! This is a fully in-person conference; for those who wish to participate online, there will be a Zoom pre-conference on November 6. We welcome papers on any aspect of nineteenth-century studies related to the conference theme “Traffic.” You can find the call for papers here; submissions for individual papers and panels are due by February 15, 2026 through the Oxford Abstracts portal.  Our fantastic keynote speakers are Arun Sood, Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter, and Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior… Read More »CfP: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism & North American Victorian Studies Association Joint 2026 Conference

CfP: Slavery North Initiative

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Slavery North is pleased to invite participation in an academic conference, Rebellion, Resistance, and Refuge: Slavery and Border-Crossing during the American Revolution. The conference will take place in person from Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. On the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Slavery North invites proposals for papers that rethink the cultures, events, and experiences of the Revolutionary War. This call encourages new scholarship that reexamines the Revolutionary War through the experiences of enslaved people in British North America, exploring… Read More »CfP: Slavery North Initiative

The draft of the 2026 Annual Meeting Schedule is here!

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