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Members received this email on July 12, 2023. Dear ASECS members and friends, It was a delight seeing so many of you in Rome at the ISECS Annual Meeting! Here are a couple related reminders about our conference, and getting your conference papers from podium to publication: ASECS is on Facebook, Twitter, and now Instagram and Threads! Follow us so we can follow you! (Tip: You can follow Thread posts on your desktop at https://www.threads.net/@asecsoffice.) Questions? Comments? Just want to chat? Drop me a line. Benita Blessing, PhDExecutive Directordirector@asecs.org 

Deadline July 15, 2023, Round 2 #ASECS2024

Round 2 is the submission of sessions by chairs. (Round 3 will be for applying to those sessions, and Round 4 will be for individual abstracts that we’ll try and find panels or roundtables for! More in on the Annual Meeting page, and check out this info video, too!

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ASECS is on Facebook, Twitter, and now Instagram and Threads! Follow us so we can follow you! (Tip: If you’re on a desktop, you can follow our Thread posts at https://www.threads.net/@asecsoffice.)

HECAA@30 Registration Info

The Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture are delighted to announce that registration for “HECAA@30: Environments, Materials, and Futures in the Eighteenth Century” is now available. Please visit the conference website: https://sites.google.com/umb.edu/hecaa30 for information about the schedule, travel and transportation, and registration. Registration is open until September 15, 2023. This in-person conference will take place in Boston, Cambridge, and Providence from October 12-14, 2023, with morning plenary sessions followed by gallery sessions, tours, and architectural site visits each afternoon. On the land of the Massachusett and neighboring Wampanoag and Nipmuc peoples, Boston developed in the eighteenth century as a major… Read More »HECAA@30 Registration Info

Deadline Extended! 2023 ASECS Race and Empire Caucus Graduate Student Essay Prize

DEADLINE EXTENDED: JULY 21, 2023 The Race and Empire Caucus invites submissions for the 2023 ASECS Race and Empire Caucus Graduate Student Essay Prize. The Caucus welcomes essays that are revised versions of papers read at the regional and national conferences of ASECS and its affiliates (including the Society of Early Americanists, Early Caribbean Society, SHARP, NABMSA, etc.) between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023.

Virtual Q&A #ASECS 2024 CfP for Toronto

Do you have questions about submitting a proposal for the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 4-6, 2024, in Toronto? Join the Program Committee in a virtual info session on Monday, June 19, 2023, 9am Pacific Time/noon Eastern Time. Registration required.

Race and Empire Caucus – Graduate Student Paper Prize – Deadline – 1 July 2023

The Race and Empire Caucus invites submissions for the 2023 ASECS Race and Empire Caucus Graduate Student Essay Prize. The Caucus welcomes essays that are revised versions of papers read at the regional and national conferences of ASECS and its affiliates (including the Society of Early Americanists, Early Caribbean Society, SHARP, NABMSA, etc.) between July 1, 2022 and June 30, 2023. The prize-winning essay will be considered for publication in the 2023-2024 volume of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and the prize will be awarded at the 2024 ASECS meeting. The competition is open to papers on… Read More »Race and Empire Caucus – Graduate Student Paper Prize – Deadline – 1 July 2023

CfP: Performing Theatricality & Imaging Religious Ceremonies in Early Modern Western Europe

May 15-17, 2024 (Ghent University) Ghent University’s research groups, Studies in Performing Arts and Media (S:PAM) and Thaliakindly invite scholars from a wide variety of research areas that may include (but are not limitedto) the following: religious studies, theology, cultural studies, literature, performance studies,history, art history, history of the book, history of science, anthropology, ethnography, or any other relevant field. Contributions should be in the format of approximately 25-minutepresentations. Proposals might consider, but are not limited to: To submit a proposal, send an abstract (250 words) and a brief biography to drs. Steff Nellis.All enquiries… Read More »CfP: Performing Theatricality & Imaging Religious Ceremonies in Early Modern Western Europe