Benita Blessing

Your scholarly societies are working hard to understand & help improve working conditions. See AHA’s survey below. And I’m thrilled to be working alongside @janineutell.bsky.social on @modernlanguage.bsky.social‘s Ad Hoc Committee on the Academic Workforce in Lang & Lit www.mla.org/About-Us/Gov...

We are very excited to announce the #cfp for our #PGR #ECR conference on 'Facades' - 30/31 July at Bath Spa University

Please send 250 word abstract + short bio to postgrad@bsecs.org.uk by the 21 March 2025

Full details for screen readers in the thread below 1/5
#BSECS2025 #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

Eighteenth-Century Studies is looking for a new Reviews Editor. I'm finishing up my term and happy to answer questions about it!
asecs.org/publications...

We’re over 50% voter turnout. Wow! Add your vote while there’s time to break more records!

It’s so easy to vote in the @asecsoffice.bsky.social elections for the Executive Board! Let’s break some voter turnout records!

One of the most important ways to support professional societies is to help them accomplish their mission - even amidst uncertainty. Donate a small amount to a nonprofit you care about. Mine is @asecsoffice.bsky.social. Join me?

We're 30% towards our goal for the @asecsoffice.bsky.social Grad Student Conference Fund Challenge! The Executive Board will match all donations made by Mon Feb. 3, up to $1,000! $10 or $100 - it all makes a difference.
asecs.org/graduate-stu...

Seriously friends - donate to a cause, any cause. It makes you feel great! I just donated to the @asecsoffice.bsky.social Exec Board challenge for grad student conference support. If that’s not your thing, just donate. $10 or $1,000 - it all matters!

This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQ

Bar graph of ASECS Giving Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024, indicating number of donations as of 2pmET: 1 to Traveling Jam Pot, 9 to Sustainability Fund, 1 to Non-Tenure Track Fund and 1 to the Theatre and Performance Studies Fund. Almost halfway to our goal!

Almost halfway to our goal this year! Donate $18 for the 18th Century today! Your donation makes a difference now more than ever. asecs.org/giving-tuesd...

$18 a month - just this month, or every month! Now, more than ever, your donations matter.

Can I get 18 members to join me? Details to follow! #GivingTuesday is coming up!

Oregon also has a bit of an “After you!” “No, after you!” culture. 4-way stops can be a bunch of friendly people waving at each other for a while until one of us gets brave.

As long as the 20th C gets to remain short, I’m happy.

What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here:
go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.

Wait til they hear about raccoon (wash bear)

Soooo many sessions to choose from - which one will you apply to? Deadline Friday Sept. 20! asecs.org/meetings/ase...

Deadlines: Nominations to the Executive Board Sept. 16, CfP for #ASECS2025 Sept. 20!
asecs.org/2024/09/16/d...

📅Upcoming @asecsoffice.bsky.social deadlines:

💡Board Nominations (Sept. 16)
🪩CfP (Sept. 20)
🗳️Bylaws Referendum Oct. 10

Details here!

asecs.org/2024/09/06/b...

Apply now to the @asecsoffice.bsky.social 55th Annual Meeting, to be held virtually March 28-29 and April 4-5, 2025! asecs.org/meetings/ase...

Announcement from @ASECSWomen: The Catharine Macaulay Prize (Graduate Student Prize) submission deadline is September 15. Description can be found here: www.asecswomenscaucus.com/catherine-ma...

#c18 Friends, if you want to see what's going on with the ASECS Bylaws referendum, take a look at the fabulous webpage our ED has made for us. Friends, we're almost at 50%!!!! KEEP GOING! VOTE! RENEW! JOIN AND VOTE! asecs.org/about/bylaws...

We have never had member engagement this high - at least not in recent history! So grateful to all @asecsoffice.bsky.social members!!!

Renew by June 30, 2024 and get your @asecsoffice 2024-2025 membership at 2023-2024 rates! asecs.org/membership/j...

Conference Travel Grants - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce conference travel grants for scholars to attend a profess...

📢 Conference Travel Grants:

The Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum offers travel grants for scholars to attend a professional conference to present original research on the Holocaust

⏰ Deadline: July 1, 2024

👉 www.ushmm.org/conference-travel-grants

Benita in front of the Prater Ferris wheel in daytime

Benita in front of the Prater Ferris wheel at night

I also have the staged photo they take of you in the car 😜 I was very serious about getting to know the city !!!

And although leaving town to go to a Heuriger (wine bar-ish Austrian style), there are many in the city: www.zwoelf-apostelkeller.at

If you want schnitzel, Figlmüller is The Place as they’ll tell you www.figlmueller.at/en/#:~:text=....

Lots to do on the Danube incl just lazing around, or food/drink, or walking www.wien.info/en/livable-v...

And Prater is silly fun - from the Ferris wheel you have great views of the city www.praterwien.com/startseite and then go explore the area