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ASECS Call for Executive Board Nominations

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An announcement from ASECS:

Dear ASECS Members

The ASECS Nominating Committee solicits nominations for the positions of Second Vice-President and Member-at-Large of the ASECS Executive Board. ASECS exists entirely for and through its members, so we call on you to suggest names of ASECS members of diverse career paths who would be good leaders and responsible stewards of the Society. In considering candidates for the Board, the Nominating Committee seeks diversity, gender balance, and the inclusion of constituencies that are currently underrepresented both within and outside ASECS.

The Second Vice President is a member of the Executive Board and the Steering Committee of the Society and may take on other duties for the Executive Board, such as chairing or serving on ad hoc committees. The Second Vice-President will remain on the Board for four years, as Second Vice-President, First Vice-President, President, and Past President successively. As First Vice-President, she or he will serve on the Executive Board, the Steering Committee and the Finance Committee, and may take on other duties such as chairing ad hoc committees. As President, she or he presides at meetings of the Executive Board, convenes the Steering Committee, presides at the Society’s Annual Business Meeting, formulates policies and projects for presentation to the Executive Board, and normally serves as one of the society’s delegates to the ISECS Executive Committee.

Two Members-at-Large are elected each year to serve three-year terms on the Executive Board. They are expected to attend meetings of the Executive Board (held just prior to the annual meeting) and may be asked to serve on the Steering Committee, the Program Committee for the Annual Meeting, the Media and Publications Advisory Committee, the Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, and Accessibility, or an ad hoc committee.

Between scheduled meetings, the business of the Executive Board and the Steering Committee is conducted as necessary via email or conference call. Reasonable travel expenses to the Steering Committee and Executive Board meetings are covered by ASECS.

If you wish to nominate any ASECS members for these important positions, please forward a nominating statement to the committee chair, Sue Lanser (lanser@brandeis.edu). Please include the candidate’s name, institutional affiliation, discipline, previous contributions to the Society, and a brief description of the strengths you believe the nominee could bring to the Executive Board. Self nominations are welcome. All nominations must be received by Tuesday, September 10, 2019. If you have any questions, please be in touch.

Yours,
Sue Lanser, Chair
2019-20 Nominating Committee

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ASECS Annual Meeting Draft Program and Paper Registration Now Available

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(From the ASECS Business Office)

Dear ASECS Member:

The draft program for the ASECS 2019 Annual meeting in Denver, CO is now available. You may access the draft program, as well as a copy of the paper registration form here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ku3_8202GqrEoMVgshuqfWBtUM7zpBzs?usp=sharing

Hotel reservations at the Grand Hyatt Denver may be made directly with the hotel by visiting https://denver.grand.hyatt.com, which will take you to the Grand Hyatt – Denver’s splash page. Next, enter dates that you wish to stay. Then select “Special Rates” and click on “Corporate or Group Code” Enter Group Code: G-ASCS and then check availability.

Online registration opens on Monday, December 3, 2018. An email with the online registration information will be sent to you once it is available. Please note: For your protection and security, we no longer process credit card payments through the ASECS Business Office. If you wish to pay by check, print out the registration form (https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ku3_8202GqrEoMVgshuqfWBtUM7zpBzs?usp=sharing) and mail it to the ASECS Business Office along with your payment.

Remember: to appear in the Annual Meeting program, you must be a current member of ASECS or an ISECS-affiliate society as of December 1. You may join ASECS or renew your membership by visiting: https://asecs.press.jhu.edu/membership/join. The ASECS Business Office does not process membership payments, but if you have questions about your membership status, please do not hesitate to contact us.

The ASECS Business Office will be closed for winter break from Thursday, December 20, 2019 until Wednesday, January 2, 2019. We will respond to voice mail messages in January. We will, however, check email occasionally, so as to assist you with questions about registration.

We hope you are enjoying the end of the semester! Have a very happy new year, and we look forward to seeing you in Denver.

Call for Papers, Eighteenth-Century Studies Special Issue

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Special Issue on the South Sea Bubble, Mississippi Bubble, and Financial Revolution

2020 marks the 300th anniversary of the crashing of the South Sea and Mississippi Bubbles, investment schemes – based on slavery, colonialism, and the need to fund standing militaries accompanying them through large-scale public borrowing – that caused a general international liquidity crisis, deflation, and depression. This special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies seeks submissions exploring not only the consequences to Europe of this financial crisis, but also its global effects, particularly as they relate to empires of trade and administration. We are soliciting interdisciplinary papers that ask questions such as: How are empire and militarism connected to finance? In what ways were people as well as things financialized during this crisis? Was the mode of capitalism put into motion by the Financial Revolution of the early eighteenth century fundamentally racist and/or colonialist? How should our understanding of these bubbles be shaped not only by the politics that went into making them, but also the politics of the bailouts that followed? What role did publicity and propaganda in the print media play in these events, and how might literature, art, and other forms of humanistic expression be connected with it? As these questions demonstrate, we are seeking submissions that are both interdisciplinary in nature and international in scope, moving beyond considering the bubbles’ effects only in Britain and France and towards how those effects rippled throughout Europe, the Atlantic, and the globe.

Our goal is to publish this issue in 2020 to mark the anniversaries of the bursting of these bubbles. We therefore require submissions by June 1, 2019, to ensure that the review process of the manuscripts is complete by that time. Please submit to ec.studies@unh.edu , and feel free to contact the Editor, Sean Moore ( sean.moore@unh.edu ), about your ideas for this issue. Manuscripts should generally be between 7,500 and 9,000 words. A detailed list of submission guidelines can be found on the journal’s website: https://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century-studies/author-guidelines

(This information has been shared with permission, from https://asecsoffice.wixsite.com/asecsoffice/blog-1/call-for-papers-eighteenth-century-studies)

ASECS Annual Meeting Travel Funding For Non-Tenure Track Faculty

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An announcement for those interested in or attending the ASECS 50th Annual Meeting:

Dear ASECS Member:

ASECS is proud to announce the establishment of the Non-Tenure Track Faculty (NTTF) Fund, an endowment that will provide travel assistance to non-tenure track faculty presenting their research at the Annual Meeting. At the 50th Annual Meeting in Denver, 21-23 March 2019, up to four inaugural NTTF grants of $500 each will be awarded, along with waiver of registration fees.

In order to be eligible for the NTTF Award, the applicant must be a current member of ASECS who teaches part-time or who teaches full time but not in a tenure-track line. Those paying Graduate Student or Emeriti/ae Faculty Membership Rates are not eligible. In order to apply for the NTTF award, send the name of the Annual Meeting panel(s) on which you will be speaking and your abstract(s) to the Business Office (asecsoffice@gmail.com) by 1 November 2018. 

Please include “NTTF Fund Application” in the subject line of your email.

If you have any questions, please contact the ASECS Business Office.

Aimee M. Levesque, MA, MLS

ASECS Project and Office Manager

SUNY Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Ketchum Hall 213
Buffalo, NY 14222
(716) 878-3405

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ASECS 50th annual meeting: postgraduate funding

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This may interest postgraduate members.

Dear ASECS Member:

We are writing to encourage graduate students and graduate student mentors to apply for support to attend the 50th annual meeting of ASECS in March 2019.

The Traveling Jam Pot provides a waiver of the registration fee for the ASECS Annual Meeting and an award of $300 toward the cost of attending. Applicants should send the following information in .pdf format to the Business Office (asecsoffice@gmail.com) with the subject line “ASECS Travelling Jam Pot Application,” no later than 1 November 2018:

1) statement of need;2) description of other sources of funding sought;

3) budget;

4) letter of endorsement from a faculty member;

5) number of professional conferences attended in the past year; and

6) anticipated graduation date.

The Traveling Jam Pot is supported by annual contributions from ASECS members, which are matched by ASECS; the size of the Jam Pot determines the number of awards available each year. In order to be eligible for  the Traveling Jam Pot, applicants must be ABD or within one year of receipt of the doctoral degree, and must be current members of ASECS. Runners-up for Jam Pot awards will be considered for a Sponsored 2019-2020 ASECS Membership; no separate application is required. The Sponsor a Student program is supported the generous donations of ASECS members.

Aimee M. Levesque, MA, MLS

ASECS Project and Office Manager

SUNY Buffalo State College
1300 Elmwood Avenue
Ketchum Hall 213
Buffalo, NY 14222
(716) 878-3405

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ASECS Annual Meeting Proposals – Deadline Approaching – 15 May 2018

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The 50th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies is less than a year away! ASECS will meet in Denver, CO, 21-23 March 2019. We hope to see you there.

Proposals for panels, roundtables and other sessions at the 2019 Meeting are now invited. The deadline for submission is 15 May 2018. The online form for proposing sessions may be accessed here: https://goo.gl/forms/mCnENS7oFtEYJslo2. Only current ASECS members, caucuses or affiliate societies can propose sessions. Renew your ASECS membership or join the society by visiting: https://asecs.press.jhu.edu/membership/join.

Affiliates and caucuses PLEASE NOTE: your panel proposals must be submitted by the 15 May 2018 deadline using the online form.

In addition to welcoming session proposals on all aspects of eighteenth-century studies, the Executive Board encourages members to propose panels connected to the 50th Anniversary of the Society—for example, reflecting on the history of the organization, debating its future, or examining the state of eighteenth-century studies within academia or in specific disciplines.

If you have any questions, please contact the ASECS Business Office at asecsoffice@gmail.com.

Best,
Aimee M. Levesque, MA, MLS
ASECS Project and Office Manager