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.

Littérales, vol. 52, 2025 : L’espion turc et autres fictions du témoin étranger (1684-1829), sous la direction d'Hélène Boons et Colas Duflo.

ABO : Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 15, no. 1 (summer 2025), Pedagogy special issue.

This international symposium celebrating the 300th anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels will be held on 23-25 September 2026 under the auspices of the St. Bride Library in London, U.K. and in conjunction with a print workshop.

McGill University - Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Second Cycle (2025-2026).

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.