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CfP ASECS 2024 Tkaronto/Toronto!

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) is pleased to announce our Call for Papers for our 54th Annual Meeting, to be held April 4-6, 2024 at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto. 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.  Round 1, Guaranteed Affiliate/Regional Society and Caucus Sessions has closed. If you do not see your session, please contact the Executive Director Benita Blessing (director@asecs.org). Round 2, June 1-July 15: Open call for session… Read More »CfP ASECS 2024 Tkaronto/Toronto!

Teaching the 18th-Century

Help update the ASECS Teaching the 18th Century resource page! You can send syllabuses and other pedagogical resources to the ASECS Business Office (asecsoffice@gmail.org).

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 

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.

Program and App for #ASECS2023

Our 53rd Annual Meeting at the Hyatt Regency at the Arch in St. Louis, MO, is next week, March 9-11, 2023! Conference Agenda Like last year, ASECS will not be providing a printed program book. The most recent agenda is available via a downloadable PDF or the mobile app. o Go to the Annual Meeting webpage for the most recent version of the program. o To access the mobile app (meeting code 2023ASECS), follow these instructions: Already have the ASECS Annual Meeting app downloaded on your device? If you still have the ASECS mobile app… Read More »Program and App for #ASECS2023