Building on the work of the Ad Hoc Committee on Decolonization (2018–2022), the mandate of the Ad Hoc Committee on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), created in Fall 2023, was to coordinate a consultation process aimed at identifying the CSECS’s EDI priorities.

The committee formulated three proposals, that were adopted at the last CSECS General Assembly to guide future work towards EDI.

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.

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.

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.

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.