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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.