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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

News Circular, Webinar Reminder

The following email was sent to ASECS members on May 15, 2025. Dear ASECS Members and Friends, The ASECS Spring/Summer News Circular is here! Check out news and updates on upcoming events, the Call for Session Proposals for the 56th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, advocacy work in the humanities, and more! Please also remember to attend the new Webinar series! Friday, May 16, noon-1pm EDT: Webinar. You’re invited to the new webinar series, organized by ASECS President Paola Bertucci and Executive Board Members Brian Cowan and Meghan Roberts, highlighting the importance of the 18th century today! Registration required: Webinar… Read More »News Circular, Webinar Reminder

Launch of the Beta version of the new English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)

The ESTC team is delighted to launch the Beta version of the new English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), the most comprehensive resource available for the output of the printing press in the English-speaking world before 1801. ESTC is now part of the Consortium of European Research Libraries’ (CERL) ecosystem and accessible for free at https://datb.cerl.org/estc/. ESTC is a bibliography that aims to record every distinct letterpress item produced during the hand-press era in the English-speaking world. It is also a union catalogue that lists copies of those items held by libraries and other owners around the world… Read More »Launch of the Beta version of the new English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)

Crystal B. Lake wins prestigious ACLS award

ASECS Member Crystal B. Lake has been awarded an ACLS Project Development Grant. Her project, “Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century,” recovers the surprising range of crafts, customized commodities, and designed environments that early readers created between 1650 and 1850 that directly reference published poems, plays, novels, and works of nonfiction. These “literary objects” include needlepoint samplers stitched with lines from popular poems, board games inspired by bestsellers, waxwork renditions of fictional characters, magic lantern show based on trending plots, pinprick portraits of favorite authors, and much more. “Reading/Making” documents these objects systematically… Read More »Crystal B. Lake wins prestigious ACLS award

New ASECS Webinar Series, “The 18th Century in the Present”

Friday, May 16, noon-1pm EDT: Webinar. You’re invited to the new webinar series, organized by ASECS President Paola Bertucci and Executive Board Members Brian Cowan and Meghan Roberts, highlighting the importance of the 18th century today! Registration required: Webinar 18th Century Today   “Citizenship, Political Dissent, and Presidential Power in the Early Republic.” Speakers:

The draft of the 2026 Annual Meeting Schedule is here!

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