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.

Au 18e siècle, les personnes sourdes et muettes étaient encore largement marginalisées dans les sociétés aussi bien rurales et qu’urbaines. Dépourvues d’ouïe, on pensait qu’elles ne pouvaient pas acquérir de savoir. Flora Amann, auteure de Sourds et muets. Entre savoir et fiction au tournant des Lumières, était l'invitée de l'émission Sciences chrono sur France Culture pour parler de ce sujet.
 

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.

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.

The Library of Trinity College Dublin is looking to hire a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow to conduct research into the Fagel collection for one year. The closing date for applications is 11 March.