Teaching the 18th-Century
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Announcements
Confrontando barreras de género en el siglo XIX español: literatas, filántropas, solteronas
El miércoles 31 de mayo, tendrá lugar el segundo Coloquio del Hispanismo: “Confrontando barreras de género en el siglo XIX español: literatas, filántropas, solteronas”. Intervendrán nuestras colegas Catherine Jaffe (Texas State University), Gabrielle Miller (Baylor University) y Ana Rueda (University of Kentucky). El coloquio empieza a las 20 horas (horario de Europa Central). Pueden acceder a él mediante el siguiente enlace: Join Zoom Meeting https://huji.zoom.us/j/82533171684?pwd=YTgrZEc5Y1FSSGxNUStMR1ArOUQ2dz09Meeting ID: 825 3317 1684Passcode: 421831
ASECS2024 Zoom Session: Annual Meeting Submissions Info
Register for the first informational session on Friday May 26, 2023 at 8amPT/11amET on submitting proposals to the Annual Meeting in Toronto (April 4-6, 2024). The session will be recorded. Registration is required: Registration Link
Elections Results
Thank you to everyone who voted! The results are: · President: Lisa A. Freeman (2023-2024) · First Vice President: Paola Bertucci (2023-2024) · Second Vice President: Misty Anderson (2023-2024) · At Large Seat 1: Barbara Abrams (2023-2026) · At Large Seat 2: Karen Stolley (2023-2026) Please see the Elections page for more information.
ASECS 2023 Election Reminder
ASECS 2023 Election Reminder: The deadline to vote for Executive Board members is Tuesday, May 23, 11:59pm ET. Thank you so much to everyone who has already voted! If you haven’t yet voted, you can find information about the elections, including candidate statements and the voting link, on our (new!) website: ASECS Election Information.
ASECS 2023 Elections May 9-23
Voting for the delayed Executive Board elections will be held May 9-23, 2023. Use this link to log in, using your member credentials: 2023 ASECS Elections. You can retrieve your log in information or reset your password by logging in to your profile here: ASECS Membership. Note that only members in good standing (i.e. membership dues are up to date) may vote.
ECCO to re-OCR 1M pages
Gale-Cengage will re-OCR around a million pages of ECCO to improve pages that are either: particularly poor; particularly commonly used; works by women or minority authors. This should significantly improve the experience for any researcher that uses ECCO. See this blog for more information: Optical Character Recognition Improvement. Other inquiries can be sent to galeprimarysources@cengage.com.
SAM Detroit 2024 Call for Papers
The Society for American Music invites proposals for (a) individual papers, (b) organized panels of 2–4 papers, (c) lecture-recitals, (d) alternative-format sessions, (e) scholarly posters, and (f) interest groups for its 50th Annual Conference in Detroit, Michigan to be held March 20-24, 2024. Proposals due 11:59 pm PDT on June 1, 2023. More information here.
CfP: The 50th Annual Meeting of SEASECS
SEASECS will hold its annual meeting on the campus of Furman University in Greenville, SC, with hotel accommodations at the Hampton Inn in Traveler’s Rest. The theme for the meeting is “Ties that Bind: Reflections on the Past and Future of Eighteenth-Century Studies.” Plenary speakers will be Carolyn Day, Associate Professor of History at Furman University and author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease (2017) and LeAnne Howe, Eidson Distinguished Professor at the University of Georgia and member of the Choctaw Nation. Special events include: Please send paragraph-length proposals for panel… Read More »CfP: The 50th Annual Meeting of SEASECS