Benita Blessing
ASECS 2025: 55th Annual Meeting
Register now for the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies!
La culture visuelle de la gastronomie, XVIe-XX3 siècles, CfP
Appel à communication / Call For Papers La culture visuelle de la gastronomie, XVIe-XXe siècles / Visual Culture of Gastronomy, 16th-20th century Paris, galerie Colbert, 18-19 décembre 2025Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / OCAD University, Toronto) / Bibliothèque des Arts DécoratifsFrédérique Desbuissons (université de Reims) & Ryan Whyte (OCAD University, Toronto)
Decorative Arts Trust’s Publishing Grants: deadline March 31, 2025
Visit https://decorativeartstrust.org/publishing/ for more details. Please note these other upcoming deadlines:
CfP Science & Society in the Age of Revolutions – Due March 3, 2025
As the upcoming 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence drives increased interest in the founding of the United States, this conference, co-hosted by the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum and the Science History Institute aims to widen the scope of such conversations. Inspired in part by the APS’s 2025 exhibition, Philadelphia: The Revolutionary City and “America’s Scientific Revolutionaries,” a multiyear project funded by the Lounsbery Foundation we invite proposals from scholars from all disciplines whose research illuminates the intersections of science and society in the Atlantic World between 1764 and 1804. Applicants should… Read More »CfP Science & Society in the Age of Revolutions – Due March 3, 2025
Peter Sabor Fellowship
Fundraising: The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Burney Society of North America have partnered to establish a new fellowship named after distinguished scholar, Burney editor, long-time member, and past President of CSECS, Peter Sabor. The funds raised through this campaign will be used to establish a biennial research fellowship designed to promote editing projects focused on the eighteenth century. As Canada Research Chair and Director of the Burney Centre at McGill University (2003–24), Peter Sabor has published an impressive body of work, primarily scholarly editions of the writings and correspondence of notable authors,… Read More »Peter Sabor Fellowship
AHA affiliate society proposals
The deadline for AHA affiliates to submit proposals for joint sessions to the AHA Program Committee is February 15. If accepted, sessions will be listed as joint with the AHA. The AHA will cover all costs for joint sessions. Historians from the United States on sessions accepted by the AHA Program Committee are required to be AHA members. As usual, affiliates will have the opportunity to submit additional sessions by May 31. Questions? See our affiliate annual meeting page or email annualmeeting@historians.org. If you’re interested in submitting an AHA proposal via the ASECS affiliate society process, please contact Executive Director Benita… Read More »AHA affiliate society proposals
2025 Annual Meeting Schedule
Access the preliminary schedule here; please send any requests for corrections to Executive Director Benita Blessing (director@asecs.org). A PDF of the schedule will be available in February.
In memoriam, Mark Salber Phillips
ASECS member Mark Salber Phillips passed away recently. https://benjaminsparkmemorialchapel.ca/ServiceDetails?snum=140803&fg=0