The 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will be held March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025, online.

Session chairs have received emails with session information and a tentative schedule to verify session details with their presenters. Please check with your chair if you have questions, or email Executive Director Benita Blessing (director@asecs.org).

We’ll post the public tentative schedule here soon! Stay tuned!

News: ASECS is pleased to announce that Professor Marisa Fuentes (Rutgers University) will be the 2025 Clifford Lecturer at this year’s Annual Meeting!

We are transitioning to a new submissions system with our partners at Stova for the Virtual Annual Meeting that will integrate with the 2025 Virtual Meeting Platform.

View a demonstration video about submitting your abstract (7 min.)!

Click on the gear icon on the bottom of the video screen to see the subtitles.

• Round 1 (due June 10, 2025): Call for Session Proposals, Affiliate Societies and Caucuses (Guaranteed) – collected via Google Form. Late guaranteed sessions may be submitted via Round 2.
• Round 2 (OPEN JUNE 17-JULY 26): Call for Session Proposals, General, collected via Stova submissions form.
• Round 3 (Aug. 19-Sept. 20): Call for Abstracts to Sessions, collected via Stova submissions form
• Round 4 (Week of Sept. 23): Rehoming and Individual Paper, organized via Stova submissions form

We are committed to fostering an inclusive and welcoming conference environment in which all members participate fully in the exchange of knowledge and ideas. We welcome scholars pursuing all aspects of eighteenth-century studies and in all careers and career stages.

Please join us whether you are a long-time member, or new to ASECS!

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Here is the video for how to submit a session (for chairs); that round has passed.

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