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Clorinda Donato and Team win American Association of Italian Studies Translation Prize

Congratulations to Clorinda Donato and her team for winning the American Association for Italian Studies for an English Translation of an Italian Book-Length Scholarly Work! The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle: The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. Transl. Clorinda Donato, Manuel Romero, Alessandra Balzani, Jaclyn Taylor. Routledge Studies in Cultural History, 2024. For their impressive work in translating Francesco Paolo de Ceglia’s The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle: The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood, the AAIS awards the 2024 English Translation of an Italian Book-Length Scholarly Work to the team based at the Clorinda… Read More »Clorinda Donato and Team win American Association of Italian Studies Translation Prize

Paola Bertucci wins Paul Bunge Prize

ASECS President Paola Bertucci, Yale University, has won the prestigious Paul Bunge Prize for her 2023 book, In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour. Congratulations! You can read more here: “Paola Bertucci wins 2025 Paul Bunge Prize for Latest Book”

New Publication: “Even Now” by Patty Hamilton

Even Now – Poems by Patricia L. Hamilton Southern California native and SEASECS Immediate Past President Patricia L. Hamilton earned her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. Newly retired as a professor of English, she served in higher education for forty years. She won the 2015 and 2017 Rash Award in Poetry and has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry has been published in Broad River Review, Ibbetson Street, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and Plainsongs, among other journals. She resides in Jackson, Tennessee, with her husband and enjoys travel, jazz, mystery novels, and a good cappuccino.

CfA: Eighteenth-Century Studies Book Review Editor

Call for Applications: Eighteenth-Century Studies Book Review Editor

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies seeks nominations and applications for a three-year (renewable) appointment as Book Review Editor for Eighteenth-Century Studies, beginning July 1, 2025. This is an exciting opportunity for a scholar interested in cutting-edge
scholarship in the field of the long eighteenth-century who understands reviews as a key component of launching and supporting research in the field.

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)

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

The deadline to submit abstracts to a session for the 56th Annual Meeting is Sept. 22nd, 2025!
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