The next congress of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will be held in Regina, Saskatchewan, from October 15 to 18, 2025, under the theme "Trans/Formations: Crossing Boundaries, Blurring Borders." Deadline for submitting a paper proposal: March 31, 2025.

This international symposium celebrating the 300^th anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels will be held on 7-9 May 2026 under the auspices of the St. Bride Library in London, U.K. and in conjunction with a print workshop.

Glendon College in Toronto is looking for a research assistant from January 2025 to September 2025 to work on the York University Research Chair on Franco-Aboriginal Relations in the Americas.

Ce colloque souhaite engager une discussion autour d’une thématique singulière – le portrait – dans une perspective transhistorique, transdisciplinaire et transmédiale, ceci afin de réfléchir collectivement à sa définition et aux problématiques soulevées par son corpus aux origines séculaires. Il s’agira d’étudier les nombreuses théories et formes de la pratique portraitiste et d’en mesurer les enjeux épistémologiques, esthétiques, sociaux, politiques et médiatiques sur le temps long, sans contrainte temporelle ou géographique.

The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies set up a YouTube channel in 2022. In the wake of our new Online Speaker Series, we plan to add videos to this channel on a regular basis, to present research from our members, as well as discussions and debates that may be of interest for researchers and the public at large.

The next International Seminar for Early-Career Scholars, organized annually by the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), will take place in Lyon, France, from June 30 to July 4 2025. The theme of the Seminar will be "The Eighteenth Century and Possible Worlds".

Marie-Ange Croft, Dany Dumont et Maxime Gohier (dir.), Revue d'histoire de la Nouvelle-France, no. 5, «Le naufrage de l'expédition Walker», 2024.

On a fait nos recherches, balado de Fred Savard, épisode 1, 6 décembre 2024. Avec la participation de Sébastien Côté, Kim Gladu, Marie-Ange Croft, Maxime Gohier et Claude La Charité.

This biennal fellowship will support researchers undertaking editing projects focused on the eighteenth century.

Here is the program of the third edition of the workshop Databases on the Eighteenth-Century Francophone World: Cooperation and Exchange that will take place online on December 3rd 2024 from 16:00 to 18:00 CET.

The Robert and Moira Sansom Ideas Foundation was established in 2013 with the intention to create a Graduate Student Scholarship for Studies in the History of Ideas, granting $10,000 each year in support of the work of the recipient. The scholarship is open to graduate students, who are or will be studying at a university in Canada, whose work relates to the History of Ideas.

It is our great pleasure to annouce the winners of the awards for the best essays from issue 42 of our journal Lumen.

The editors of Hume Studies are planning to publish a special panel on “David Hume and the Enlightenment: New Perspectives.” We are especially interested in Hume’s relationship to neglected figures or to little-discussed Enlightenment themes, although all relevant topics are welcome.

The CSECS is pleased to the second session of its new Online Speakers Series. The focus of this series in 2024-25 will be to discuss equity, diversity, and inclusion, and explore how these ideas relate to eighteenth-century studies.

The CSECS is pleased to invite you to the first session of its new Online Speakers Series. The focus of this series in 2024-25 will be to discuss equity, diversity, and inclusion, and explore how these ideas relate to eighteenth-century studies.

The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is pleased to launch a new Online Speakers Series. This series aims to provide an opportunity to connect with the scholarly community working on the eighteenth century and extend our scholarly conversations beyond our traditional in-person conference.

Rachel K. Carnell (ed.), Servanne Woodward (general ed.), Le Monde français du dix-huitième siècle / Eighteenth Century French World, vol. 9, no 1, 2024 (ISSN 2371-722X)

Online workshop, September 5th and 23rd of 2024, organized by Damien Tricoire and Simon Dagenais (Universität Trier).

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its 55th Annual Meeting, to be held virtually over two weekends: March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025.

The SCEDHS is pleased to announce the launch of its very first survey on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This survey is open to all current or former members of the CSECS.

Oxford, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2024.

Colloque organisé par Kim Gladu (Université du Québec à Rimouski), Karine Hébert (Université du Québec à Rimouski) et Kimberly Glassman (Queen Mary University of London), Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade, 30 août 2024.

Nine positions for graduate and post-graduate students have recently been advertised for the establishment of the DFG Research Training Group "Politics of the Enlightenment" at the Interdisciplinary Center for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) at the University of Halle.

Pôle culturel du Monastère des Ursulines (Québec) et église de Neuville, 13 juin 2025. Date limite pour l'envoi d'une proposition: 1^er décembre 2024.

Professor Benoît Melançon, longtime member of CSECS, was recently awarded an honorary distinction from his institution.

Québec, Presses de l'Université Laval, coll. «L’archive littéraire au Québec» 2024.

[New printing] Book 1 Expanded: The Outdoor Natural Ice Era in Scotland, 1500-1900, Toronto, Ayrshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.

If you are currently member of CSECS or if you were a member previously, you can easily renew your membership online.

University of Delaware Press, 2024.

Altona (Manitoba), FriesenPress, 2024.

Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2023.

Berlin, Springer / J.B. Metzler, 2024.

Applications for the 2025-2026 fellowship cycle will be accepted beginning June 1, 2024, and the deadline for submitting applications is November 1, 2024. 

Philippe Portelance, PhD candidate at UQAM and Heidelberg University, is the recipient of the D.W. Smith fellowship for 2024.

It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent passing of Alison Scott-Prelorentzos, esteemed member of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Ce colloque rassemble des spécialistes de la correspondance de l’époque moderne afin d’étudier les éditions de lettres entre le XVIe et le XVIIIe siècle. D’Érasme à Voltaire, la période moderne est rythmée par des projets éditoriaux dédiés à l’impression de lettres de personnalités célèbres. Le colloque souhaite donc étudier cette pratique éditoriale tout en mettant en valeur les spécificités de chaque siècle et de chaque domaine d’activité : lettres savantes, lettres diplomatiques, lettres politiques, lettres personnelles, fictives, etc. 

Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2024.

Routledge, 2024.

The call for papers is now open for the next International Seminar for Early Career Scholars of the International Society for Eighteenth-Cenrury Studies (ISECS), "Diasporic Networks in the Long Eighteenth Century" (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 July 2024).

To mark Women’s History Month, users can enjoy free access to Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present. Search the Orlando textbase here: https://orlando.cambridge.org.

The Burney Society UK is inviting submissions for its 2024 conference ‘Exploring Burneys’ to be held in Queen Anne Building, Old Royal Naval College, University of Greenwich, Historic Greenwich, London, from Thursday 13 – Saturday 15 June 2024.
Deadline to submit a proposal: 31 March 2024

Have you just published a book? Are you looking to disseminate a call for papers or announce a conference? The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies invites its members to submit their news for dissemination on the website and in the newsletter

The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies invites interested members to volunteer and join a new ad hoc committee whose mandate is to assist with the preparation of an action plan on equity, diversity, and inclusion.

Your CSECS membership and the renewal of your membership can now be done through the new platform that we launched last spring. You can log in anytime to your profile to pay your annual dues, update your preference, choose the language for our communications, and register for the conference.

Déboulonnées, décapitées, vandalisées ou déplacées, les statues des Lumières sont devenues, ces dernières années, les cibles d’âpres débats mémoriels et politiques. Après avoir été elles-mêmes iconoclastes et militantes, après que ses philosophes se sont donné pour but de combattre les injustices, renverser les idoles et questionner l’ordre établi, voici que les Lumières incarnent aujourd’hui une autorité qu’on voudrait désacraliser et déconstruire. Ces journées préparatoires au dossier thématique no 57 de la revue Dix-huitième siècle rassembleront des interventions portant sur les débats interprétatifs provoqués ou ravivés par ces débats.

Date limite pour l'envoi d'une proposition: 1er juillet 2024.