Applications Open December 2, 2025 - 2pm March 3, 2026

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.

Joanna Stalnaker, The Rest Is Silence. Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death, Yale University Press, 2025.

At the most recent annual general meeting of CSECS, the following collagues were appointed as new members of the Society’s Executive Committee: Fraser Easton (President), Nicholas Dion (Treasurer), Philippe Sarrasin-Robichaud (Secretary), and Alicia L. Kerfoot (ASECS Delegate) .

The Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies announces the appointment of Peter Sabor as an Honorary Member of the Society. This appointment coincides with the creation of the Peter Sabor Fellowship, designed to encourage and support editorial projects related to the eighteenth century.

It is our great pleasure to annouce the winners of the awards for the best essays from volume 43 of our journal Lumen.

Colloque international et interdisciplinaire, 15-17 octobre 2025, Université d’Ottawa.

International Review of Eighteenth-Century Studies (IRECS) / Revue internationale d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (RIEDS), vol. 6 («La science du goût / The Science of Taste», ed. Guilhem Armand et Emmanuelle Sempère), online, 2025.

Dix-huitième Siècle, no. 57, 2025 (dossier « Déboulonner les Lumières ? », sous la direction de Flora Amann, Joël Castonguay-Bélanger, Anne-Claire Marpeau et Stéphanie Roza).

Monika Malinowska, « Peut-on défendre l’égalité des femmes en parodiant d’autres textes ? Les réécritures de Poulain de la Barre dans son traité De l’excellence des hommes contre l’égalité des sexes (1675) », Le Monde Français du Dix-huitième siècle/Eighteenth-Century French World, vol. 10 n°1, 2025, p. 1-9.

Monika Malinowska, « La représentation de la femme sorcière dans Czarownica powołana », dans Greta Komur-Thilloy (dir.), Sorcières : des femmes libres dans l’histoire de l’humanité, Paris, L’improviste, 2025, p. 135-144.

Ce panel [ID 11] dans le cadre du colloque annuel d'ASECS est parrainé par the Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies (SECFS)/Société d’études françaises du XVIIIe siècle. Cette session en langue française, dans le cadre d’une réflexion interdisciplinaire, invite à des communications orientées vers la thématique de la construction, la contestation ou la reconfiguration des normes de genre au cours du long XVIIIe siècle.

Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS), Paris, 10–12 June, Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris, Collège de France, Maison de la recherche de la Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université.

The Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies (SECFS) is proud to host its first Online Conversation of the academic year on Friday, October 3rd, at 12:00pm ET.

The website for the 2025 CSECS Conference in Regina, Saskatchewan (October 15–18, 2025), is now live! You can register for the conference and book your hotel accommodations online.

Journée d’étude organisée dans le cadre des travaux de la Chaire de recherche sur les rapports franco-autochtones dans les Amériques de l’Université York, Montréal, vendredi 22 mai 2026.

Eugenia Zuroski, A Funny Thing. Eighteenth-Century Literature Undisciplined, Cambridge University Press, 2025.

The podcast for the Women’s Print History Project, the WPHP Monthly Mercury, present' a conversation with Isobel Grundy, Leslie Howsam, and Maureen Bell, “Finding, Building, Sustaining, Supporting.”

It is with profound sadness that we learned of the passing of Robert James Merrett, honorary member of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Applications are invited for 2026-2027 Lewis Walpole Library Visiting Fellowships (four weeks) and Travel Grants (two weeks). The Lewis Walpole Library is a department of Yale University Library with collections that focus on all aspects of British life in the long eighteenth century.

Pierre Marty, PhD in Art History and postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Art History at the University of Toronto, is the recipient of the D.W. Smith fellowship for 2025.

CSECS is currently seeking new members to join its Executive Committee. This is a great opportunity to contribute to the Society’s many initiatives and to actively promote Canadian eighteenth-century studies. Members who wish to nominate themselves or a colleague are invited to do so by September 15, 2025.

We are seeking contributions for an upcoming volume on Mary Wollstonecraft.

Dealine for submissions: January 15, 2026.

The upcoming 2025 International Seminar for Early-Career Scholars on «The 18th Century and Possible Worlds» (Lyon, France, June 30-July 4), organized by the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, will bring together 21 early career researchers representing 11 countries, including Canada.

Trois-Rivières, QC (Canada), August 27-29 2025

Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (0405-DHQ)

"Reforming Religion, Morality and Society in Afro-Eurasia: Intellectual and Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global Eighteenth Century", Universität Trier, Germany, 17-20 June 2026.

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) is pleased to announce the Call for Proposals for  its 56th Annual Meeting, to be held April 9 – 11, 2026 in Philadelphia.

Appel à communications pour le panel du caucus français à l’ASECS 2026

American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Philadelphie, du 9 au 11 avril 2026)

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Société canadienne d’études du dix-huitième siècle

2025 Conference: Trans/Formations: Crossing Borders, Blurring Boundaries
Atlas Hotel, Regina/Oskana, Saskatchewan
15-18 October, 2025

Deadline for Submissions: 31 May 2025

Please send submissions to the Organising Committee: CSECS2025@uregina.ca

15-16 mai 2025, Maison de la recherche de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, salle Athéna (4, rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris); il est également possible de participer en ligne.

May 12, 2025, 15:00-17:00 (CDT) / 9:00-11:00 (EDT), on Zoom. Workshop organized by Simon Dagenais (Pamphlets and Patrons research project, University of Trier).

The third episode of our Online Speaker Series on "The Natural and the Social. Thinking about Diversity and Norms with the Enlightenment" is now available on our YouTube channel.

Charlène Deharbe and Hervé Guay (eds.), Faire théâtre contemporain des textes littéraires (XVIe-XIXe siècles). Regards croisés sur les pratiques au Québec et en Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2025.

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." Extended deadline for submitting a paper proposal: April 15, 2025.

The South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is pleased to invite you all to its 2026 meeting on February 20-21 2026 in Pinehurst, NC.

It is with profound sadness that we learned of the passing of Roger Lee Emerson, esteemed member of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

Lumen, vol. 42, 2023 (Experiencing Modernity; Modernity of Experimentation / Expérience de la modernité ; modernité de l’expérimentation, guest eds. Mitia Rioux-Beaulne and Frans De Bruyn).

Trois-Rivières, QC (Canada), August 27–29, 2025

Deadline: May 1st, 2025

Guest speakers:

Paul Rateau (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto)

La revue Orages. Littérature et culture, 1760-1830, sollicite des contributions pour son numéro 25, sous le thème «De l’amitié : une appréhension de l’autre à soi», sous la direction d’Isabelle Tremblay (Collège militaire royal du Canada) et Isabelle Pichet (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières).

Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson (ed.), Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century, Delaware, University of Delaware Press, 2025.

The Burlington Magazine’s 2025 scholarship for the study of French 18th-century fine and decorative art is now open for applications.

Here is the program of the fourth edition of the workshop Databases on the Eighteenth-Century Francophone World : Cooperation and Exchange that will take place online on February 3rd 2025 from 9:00 to 11:30 CET.

It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent passing of Mark Salber Phillips, esteemed member of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.

The CSECS is pleased to invite you to the third 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.

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".