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
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.
(The following email was sent June 12, 2024 to current and last year’s members) Dear ASECS Members and Friends, The Executive Board is pleased to announce the following appointments: Treasurer: Michael R. Lynn is Professor of History at Purdue University Northwest. Professor Lynn has been a member of ASECS for over twenty-five years, and has served on a variety of committees, including most recently the Development Committee. He brings extensive experience in fundraising and budgeting to the three-year position, which he will begin officially on July 1, 2025. For the 2024-2025 membership year, he will… Read More »New Treasurer and SECC Editor
Renew your ASECS membership by June 30, 2024 at 2023-2024 rates for the 2024-2025 year! Graduate student rates aren’t increasing at all, and other rates aren’t increasing much, but save a few dollars now and start enjoying membership benefits all year round! Note that the Lifetime Membership category will be increasing significantly. If you have been considering making that move, now’s the time!
Restoration: Studies in Literature and Culture is looking for a book review editor. We publish two issuesper year, and are hoping to include 3-4 book reviews and/or review essays per issue. Book reviews arecrucial to the continuing vitality of the discipline. We invite letters of interest from scholars at any career stage. Please send a message of inquiry and a CV to the editors, Laura Rosenthal lrosent1@umd.edu and Erin Keating Erin.Keating@umanitoba.ca. For best consideration, please contact us no later than July 22, 2024.
Updates on the Annual Meeting, Board Elections, and more! Spring News Circular 2024!
Minor updates may still occur in the run-up to the program. Cell appWeb appPasscode: Toronto!
