We look forward to seeing you in Portland, Oregon, April 1-3, 2027! In addition to our official IASECS session, and numerious sessions that our members have organized or will be presenting in, we hope you will join us for our annual meeting and dinner. More information TBA.
Pilar Sáenz Graduate Student Essay Award due Feb 15, 2026
Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Pilar Sáenz Graduate Student Essay Award submissions are due February 15, 2026. The winning paper carries a $500 prize and will be considered for publication in the journal Dieciocho: Hispanic Enlightenment. See here for more information about this and our other annual prizes.
IASECS at Virtual ASECS March
ASECS 2025 Virtual Meeting, March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025
IASECS-Involved sessions. Times listed are in the Eastern US time zone.
Please note official IASECS session and annual meeting on Saturday, March 29. The Zoom link for the Business Meeting was sent to current members via email from Betsy Lewis.
Friday, March 28
11:00am-12:00pm
Sea Changes I: Formations and Transformations Around Bodies of Water (sponsored by the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, ECASECS) [ID 91.1]. Elena Deanda-Camacho Brett Wilson Craig Carson Eunyoung Yang Danyan Xue Saar Shahar
RT: New Approaches to the Eighteenth-Century Novel [ID 131]. Sabrina Ferri Sayantani Mukherjee Clorinda Donato
3:30pm-4:30pm
RT: Advocating for Eighteenth-Century Studies [ID 113]. Melissa Schoenberger Scott Breuninger Denise Baxter Clorinda Donato
Saturday, March 29
12:30pm-1:30pm
Sea Changes II: Formations and Transformations Around Bodies of Water (sponsored by the East-Central American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, ECASECS) [ID 91.2]] Elena Deanda-Camacho Brett Wilson Unita Ahdifard Elizabeth Giardina Janet Sorensen Birgit Tautz
2:00pm-3:00pm
Representations of Eighteenth-Century Natural Disasters [ID 47]. Pamela Phillips Ori Ben-Shalom José Antonio Cancino Alfaro Linda Stagni Annette Hulbert
3:30-4:30pm
Official IASECS Session: “¡Basta ya! Citizen Protest in the Iberian Atlantic and Pacific Worlds (sponsored by the Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) [ID 77]. Hazel Gold Renee Gutiérrez Elena Deanda-Camacho Elizabeth Lewis Reva Wolf Karen Stolley.
5:00pm
IASECS 2025 Annual Meeting (virtual): Saturday March 29, 2025 (5pm):
Please find our meeting agenda here: Agenda.
This meeting is open to all IASECS membership, no conference registration required.
Friday, April 4
2:00-3:00pm
Creoles and Criollos: Visibility of Colonial Subjects and Cultures in Florida and Louisiana [ID 112]. Elizabeth Lewis, Karen Stolley, Ruth Hill, Gordon Sayre
Attention students: Submit your paper for the IASECS Essay Prize!!
For more information, see our IASECS Prizes and Grants page.
IASECS at ASECS Toronto April 4-6, 2024
Friday, April 5
Official IASECS session:
“86. Triangulation: Collaborations and conflicts among African, Indigenous and European Knowledge in the Americas [Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (IASECS)]
Friday 9:45-11:15, Wentworth
Chair: Mariselle MELÉNDEZ, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
Respondent: Margaret EWALT, Wake Forest University
Alexander M. CORS, Emory Center for Digital Scholarship, “Mapping Geographies of Knowledge in the Eighteenth-Century Mississippi River Valley”
Yolopattli I. HERNÁNDEZ-TORRES, Loyola University Maryland, “The Creation of Knowledge with Her Hands: Female Midwives in Late Colonial Mexico”
Ryan J. WHEELER, Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology, “Repatriation, Indigenous History, and the Eighteenth Century”
IASECS Business Meeting Lunch
Friday 1:15 PM, City Hall.
No actual lunch provided, so if you’d like to eat while we meet, bring your own.
Affiliate Reception
(sponsored by Elizabeth Mell in honor of Donald C. Mell, Jr.)
Friday 7:00pm-8:00 PM, Provincial Ballroom N
IASECS Annual Dinner Out
Friday 8PM. Baro Restaurant, 485 King St W, Toronto, ON M5V 1K4, Canada (1.5km or nearly a mile from Sheraton Hotel)
Steak dinner menu (although Baro has stated that they are happy to accommodate folks who don’t eat beef or meat)
$109 CAS https://cad.currencyrate.today/convert/amount-109-to-usd.html).
DUES
Please remember to pay your dues, just $20, payable with credit card via Paypal, or you can bring a check to the business meeting made out to Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
FELICIDADES!!
We would also like to extend congratulations to our IASECS member Elena Deanda who was recently elected 2nd Vice President of ASECS, and thanks to Karen Stolley who continues her role as ASECS Member at Large
CFP MLA New Orleans 2025
MLA 2025 /LLC 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY SPANISH AND IBERIAN CALLS FOR PAPERS.
PLEASE CONSIDER PARTICIPATING IN OUR FORUM-SPONSORED SESSIONS.
MASKING AND UNMASKING: 18TH-AND-19TH CENTURY SPANISH LITERATURE AND ART
WE INVITE PAPERS THAT EXPLORE MASKING/UNMASKING EITHER BY THE USE OF PSEUDONYMS THAT REVEAL UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS, OR DISGUISES AS MEANS OF SURVIVAL/BETRAYAL. PLEASE SEND A 250-WORD ABSTRACT AND 1-PAGE CV. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FRIDAY, 15 MARCH 2024.
CONTACT: YVONNE FUENTES, UNIVERSITY OF WEST GEORGIA (YFUENTES@WESTGA.EDU )
SPOOKY SPAIN: HAUNTING IN 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY IBERIAN LITERATURE AND ART
WE INVITE PAPERS THAT EXPLORE FORMS OF HAUNTING IN IBERIAN ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS, INCLUDING HAUNTED SPACES; DEATH; SACRED/PROFANE; GHOSTS AND MONSTERS; TRADITIONAL/SCIENTIFIC MODES OF THINKING; SOCIAL AND POLITICAL ANXIETIES, AMONG OTHERS. PLEASE SEND A 250-WORD ABSTRACT. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FRIDAY, 15 MARCH 2024
CONTACT: SARA MUNOZ-MURIANA, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (SARA.MUNOZ@DARTMOUTH.EDU )
CREOLES AND CRIOLLOS: VISIBILITY OF COLONIAL SUBJECTS AND CULTURES IN LOUISIANA AND BEYOND – SPECIAL SESSION
THE 18TH AND 19TH CENTURY SPANISH AND IBERIAN FORUM INVITE PAPERS THAT EXPLORE THE INTERSECTIONS OR DIVERGENCES OF CREOLE AND/OR CRIOLLO CULTURES AND SUBJECTS —VISIBLE OR HIDDEN–IN ART, LANGUAGE, OR SOCIAL PRACTICES. PLEASE SEND 250-WORD ABSTRACT.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FRIDAY, 15 MARCH 2024
CONTACT: ELIZABETH FRANKLIN LEWIS, UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON (ELEWIS@UMW.EDU )
IASECS at ASECS in Toronto, 2024 Dues, Calls for Papers
We are preparing for our meeting at the ASECS annual meeting in Toronto, April 4-6
- Meeting information, including registration and hotel, can be found on the Annual Meeting page. You can find the detailed program draft for the meeting on the Preliminary Schedule.
On Friday, April 5 we will hold our annual IASECS business meeting. Time and place TBA. We have also made dinner reservations for Friday night at 8pm at Baro. We will send out more information about both very soon.
Also, it is time to pay your 2024 IASECS dues. Dues are $20 and run with the calendar year. You can pay them via Paypal from our website https://iasecs.org, clicking the “Donate” button. Adding a bit extra will cover the Paypal processing fee. Thanks!
Lastly, two CFPs passed along by our members:
From Elena Deanda: CFP for ECASECS next fall in Lancaster, PA https://ecasecs2024conference.wordpress.com/
From Oscar Ruiz Hernández: a CFP for a special issue of the academic journal Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos under the executive direction of Dr. Luis González (Connecticut College), as I am editing this special issue.
Mi nombre es Óscar Ruiz Hernández, llevo trabajando en la Universidad de Massachusetts Lowell como Lector Visitante de Español durante los últimos tres años. Mi actividad académica y profesional está enfocada en el área de teatro español de los siglos XVIII y XIX y, como tal, estoy ejerciendo en este momento como miembro del comité ejecutivo del Foro sobre España e Iberia en los Siglos XVIII y XIX de la MLA (Modern Language Association), y como Miembro General del comité ejecutivo de la Sociedad Ibero-Americana para los Estudios del Siglo XVIII (IASECS).
Hace unos meses llegué a un acuerdo con Teatro: Revista de Estudios Escénicos bajo la dirección ejecutiva del Dr. Luis González (Connecticut College) para encargarme de la edición de un volumen especial de la revista (https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/teatro/about.html). Con este fin, he terminado recientemente de elaborar la siguiente convocatoria de estudios que formen parte de este número especial de la revista:
Más allá del canon: Teatro de la Península Ibérica e Hispanoamérica al margen de los estudios centrales académicos. Teatro periférico y de la periferia. Teatro fuera de las grandes capitales. La vida de actores y actrices invisibles. Dramaturgos poco valorados, olvidados o desconocidos. Autores y actores de etnias o comunidades culturales diversas. Obras censuradas por su temática o el momento histórico en el que surgieron. Obras que por su contenido, estructura o modo de representación no se consideren dentro del canon literario (teatro educativo en escuelas, teatro musical, teatro breve, microteatro, espectáculos callejeros, etc.).
Ahora mismo, no hay ninguna restricción geográfica o temporal en el periodo de la historia literaria (desde la Edad Media hasta la actualidad), siempre y cuando trate sobre teatro relacionado con la cultura hispana. Teniendo en cuenta los temas tratados para el volumen que edito y lo que ha publicado hasta el momento, no tengo ninguna duda de la credibilidad y calidad que su colaboración aportaría a la revista. Es por ello que me gustaría invitarle a que se una al proyecto escribiendo un ensayo que aborde uno de los temas propuestos más arriba.
Por el momento sirva como adelanto que estoy pensando en dos fechas importantes en el proceso de la elaboración del número especial de la revista:
1) Entrega de un párrafo corto (300 palabras) describiendo un borrador del contenido del artículo para el último día de abril.
2) Entrega del artículo completo (6000-10000 palabras, en español o inglés, formato MLA) para el último día de junio.
La publicación del número especial se llevará a cabo si es posible en el semestre de otoño de 2024.
Le agradecería mucho se comunique conmigo en los próximos días para confirmar su interés o no, o incluso para sugerir el nombre de otro/s investigador/es que pudieran escribir un artículo al respecto. Si tiene alguna pregunta, no dude en contactarme.
Cordialmente,
Dr. Óscar Ruiz Hernández (oscar_ruizhernandez@uml.edu)
CFP: Magical Eighteenth-Century Workshop
The Center for Eighteenth-Century-Studies has hosted a Spring Workshop every year (excepting 2020) since 2002. The typical format consists of intense discussion of pre-circulated papers and an occasional lecture, interspersed with ample opportunities for socializing and refreshment. We typically cover travel costs for all participants, who are selected by an interdisciplinary committee of scholars. It is a really great, interdisciplinary, collegial conference, and I would love to work on increasing the presence of hispanists!
CFP: “CreadorAS en la Educación Literaria e Intercultural” Alicante, 11-13 de julio, 2024
Estimadas/os colegas
Como continuación de las tres ediciones anteriores celebradas en la Universidad de Valencia con notable éxito, el Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudios de Género y el Departamento de Filología Española, Lingüística General y Teoría de la Literatura de la Universidad de Alicante se complacen en anunciar elIV Congreso Internacional “CreadorAS en la Educación Literaria e Intercultural” (CICELI), que tendrá lugar en la Sede Universitaria Ciudad de Alicante entre el 11 y el 13 de julio de 2024. Les invitamos a enviar sus propuestas de participación antes del 8 de marzo de 2024.
Adjuntamos a este correo la primera circular, con las líneas temáticas principales y las fechas relevantes. Podrán encontrar la información completa del evento en la página web: https://www.ciceli.es/
Les agradecemos que den la máxima difusión a este mensaje y confiamos en poder disfrutar de su participación.
Un saludo cordial,
El comité organizador
ASECS 2024 Toronto CfP
See below a message regarding the Call for Proposals for next year’s ASECS meeting
Dear ASECS members and friends,
Today’s the day! Round 2 submissions for chaired sessions for our 54th Annual Meeting (April 4-6, 2024, in Toronto) are due Monday, July 17, 2023 11:59pm ET. It’s easy to submit a session. You can find more information, including the submission form, here: Annual Meeting CfP.
The Program Committee will review sessions and we’ll send out acceptances soon thereafter.
Next up:
Round 3, Aug. 1- Sept. 15: Open call for individual abstracts to chairs’ sessions
Round 4, Oct. 1-15: Open call for individual papers to become part of sessions (“rehoming” abstracts that were not accepted, and inviting new individual papers)
Make sure to check passport and visa requirements. US citizens will typically only need a valid passport for Canadian travel (check the expiration date!). Holders of other passports should check with their home countries’ state departments and the Visit Canada website for possible visa requirements.