September 2023 Newsletter
SEASECS 2024 submission deadline, new volume of NPEC, and more
Welcome back! We hope you all had a refreshing summer break and are looking forward to the new academic year. This is ramping up to be another exciting year for SEASECS, and we’re glad to have you with us.
SEASECS 2024 Deadline Approaching
This year’s conference, hosted by Furman University, will be our fiftieth annual meeting. Conference organizer Nathan Brown has planned an excellent calendar of events for us, including the “Seeking Abraham Tour” of Furman’s campus; an organized ride on the Swamp Rabbit Trail; plenary addresses by Carolyn Day and LeAnne Howe; and a visit to special collections to see eighteenth-century conduct books, African-American life writing, and works by Madame d’Aulnoy and Voltaire, among others.
We are hoping for a great turnout! If you haven’t already done so, please consider submitting a proposal to one of the eleven accepted panels, or, if you don’t have a project related to those topics, submit an individual paper proposal. The following panels are currently in need of submissions:
Pedagogy Panels & Roundtables
Teaching Symposium 2024
AI in the Classroom
Adapting Pedagogy and Scholarship to the Slow Decline of the Liberal Arts and the Fast Erosion of Academic Freedom
Strategies for Integrating Indigenous Perspectives into the Undergraduate Classroom
The Academic Profession and Beyond
Ties that Bind: 18th Century Studies and Academic Leadership
SEASECS’s Futures
Exploring Alt-Ac Paths
Approaches to Eighteenth-Century Studies
Threads of Community: Material Literacy in the Age of Makers
New Discoveries, New Readings
Echoes of France in the New World
Exploring Christian Ambiance of Eighteenth-Century Authors
Full descriptions, proposal details, and contact information for these panels is available on the conference website. Submission information for individual papers and fully formed panels is also available there. All proposals must be submitted by September 15!
New Volume of NPEC Out Now
The latest volume of our journal, XVIII: New Perspectives on the Eighteenth Century, began shipping last week. The volume features new scholarship, pedagogy essays, and book reviews. Please check out the submission guidelines and consider submitting to Volume 21!
Prize Committee Members Needed
We need two more members to serve on the 2024 Percy G. Adams Prize committee. If you’re interested, please contact our president, Patty Hamilton (phamilto@uu.edu), with your name, institutional affiliation, and scholarly discipline. More information on the Percy G. Adams Prize “for the best article on an eighteenth-century subject published in a scholarly journal, annual, or collection” can be found on our site.
Call for Member News/”How I Spent My Summer Vacation” Stories
As always, we’d love to hear from you! If you have personal or professional news you’d like to share, please visit our Google Form.
We’d also love to hear how you spent your summer break. Did you travel anywhere fun? Read any good books? Visit any archives? Get really good at pickleball? Please email your summer story to seasecs.gazette@gmail.com. We’d love to share it (and any photos you’d like to include) in our October issue.