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New History Book Series Call for Proposals: Routledge Studies in Eighteenth- Century Cultures and Societies - BSECS Series Editors: Elaine Chalus, University of Liverpool, UK and Deborah Simonton, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Routledge Editor: Max Novick The long eighteenth century sits as a pivotal poin...

***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...

It's the #BSECS2025 #PGR/#ECR conference THIS WEEK! We're really excited to see you all there!
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Vacancies - BSECS Vacancies on the Council This page gives details of any current vacancies on the BSECS Council. Vacancies are normally advertised in the autumn of the year and appointments are made or elections held ...

***Engagement Officer Vacancy***
We're looking for an engagement officer to act as primary point of contact for #18thC centres across the UK, and to oversee our outreach and engagement. It's a voluntary role, but associated travel & accommodation expenses are paid...
www.bsecs.org.uk/the-society/...

***DEADLINE TODAY***
This is your last chance to sign up for online access to the PGR/ECR #BSECS2025 conference taking place next week 30-31 July!
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***ONLINE OFFER FOR THE PGR/ECR #BSECSPGR2025
conference 30th-31st July***
For just £10 you can join all paper panels + the keynote across the two days live via Zoom. To sign up register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Registration still open to all to attend the @bsecs.bsky.social PGR/ECR conference panels and keynote online across two days for just £10! Details and link below ⬇️

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***ONLINE OFFER FOR THE PGR/ECR #BSECSPGR2025
conference 30th-31st July***
For just £10 you can join all paper panels + the keynote across the two days live via Zoom. To sign up register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

'Sancho and his World', a British Academy/Northeastern University Conference in March 2026.

CFP deadline, 14th July 2025.

#18thC #18thCentury #18C #CFP @bsecs.bsky.social

BSECS PG/ECR Conference 2025 Online Registration We look forward to welcoming you online in July! The online conference registration fee is £10, which can be paid below via PayPal. The deadline for registrations is 23rd July 2025. Please note, this ...

We are offering an online offer for the PGR/ECR @bsecs.bsky.social conference 30th-31st July to anyone who wants to join us! For just £10 you can join all paper panels + the keynote across the two days live via Zoom. To sign up register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

BSECS Annual Conference BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

IMPORTANT #BSECS2026 NEWS!
Registration for #BSECS2026 opens on Sunday 1 June!
Submit your CFP on the theme of 'Big & Small' and join us for our 55th annual conference 7-9 Jan 2026 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social
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Click on the link for the full CFP

www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

Still time to submit an academic or creative abstract to the Canadian Society for 18thc Studies! @csecsscedhs.bsky.social @bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social @isecs-sieds.bsky.social

Historical Research and Policy Making

#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social‬ team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵

Family & Community History Black Family and Community in Eighteenth-Century Britain and North America. Guest Editor: Karen Lipsedge. Volume 28, Issue 1 of Family & Community History

"History is a process, not a locked box with a collection of facts inside."

Black Family & Community in 18th-Century Britain & North America, edited by Karen Lipsedge, currently open access:

www.tandfonline.com/toc/yfch20/c...

#18C #18thC #18thCentury #BlackHistory @bsecs.bsky.social

To what extent did similar developments in thought and culture arise in different regions of #18thC Afro-Eurasia? Do we see equivalent trends in political or moral
reformism, or similar notions of the comparability of cultures and religions? Is it fruitful to speak of Eurasian Enlightenments? 10/10

What role did the similarities between religious-ethical systems or shared pre-modern traditions play in circulations? What transfers can we identify both across
space and time? What ideas, cultural artifacts and symbols did not circulate and why? 9/10

What were the conditions for the creative appropriation of foreign religious-ethical thoughts/symbols across Afro-Eurasia? What circulations brought these appropriations into being? What conceptual tools (comparisons, analogies, translations) mediated between
traditions? 8/10

We would therefore like to ask the following questions:
How did in-depth engagement with foreign universalist religious-ethical thought & symbolic languages arise in this period? And how did it shape cultural and intellectual developments in various parts of #18thC Afro-Eurasia? 7/10

Adopting a broad view on religious and ethical change across Afro-Eurasia may help to provincialize Europe by putting ideas popular from Portugal to Russia into a wider geographical and chronological context. 6/10

Emphasis has been placed on the circulation of millenarianism in early modern Eurasia, yet addressing circulations is relevant for many kinds of religious & ethical reform movements (moral rigorism, mysticism, the quest for rational religion/society based on natural principles. 5/10

The centuries-long dominance of universalist ethical systems from Japan to Portugal and West Africa suggests an intensive dialogue along the many roads linking world regions in the pre-modern era. 4/10

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The seminar will focus on interactions between what we are calling “transcendentalist worldviews,” namely the universalist religious and/or ethical systems
that prevailed in large parts of Afro-Eurasia since antiquity 3/10

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@isecs-sieds.bsky.social Early Career Seminar #CFP on: Reforming Religion, Morality, & Society in Afro-Eurasia: intellectual & cultural traditions in motion in the global #18thC
Send 1pg proposal + CV to the following address by 1st July 2025: tricoire@uni-trier.de
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Austen & Turner: A Country House Encounter at Harewood House...
This looks like a fascinating exhibition at Harewood. Open May to October this year.
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Places are booking up for our conference Gilbert White and His Contexts (3-5th June)!

gilbertwhite.org.uk
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The forthcoming edition of his letters will be the first scholarly edition of any of Campbell’s writings and demonstrate his importance as a key poet and public figure of the long-eighteenth century. 5/5 #BSECS @livunipress.bsky.social #skystorians 🗃️

He was at the centre of a large social network, writing and interacting with leading political, scientific, artistic, literary and cultural figures of the long eighteenth-century, including Henry Brougham, James Thomson, Richard Kerr Porter, Walter Scott, Maria Callcott, and Lord and Lady Byron. 4/5