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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.