2023 WSECS Conference
Conference Theme: Material / Immaterial
Date: Friday, February 17 to Saturday, February 18
Location: California State University, Northridge
Organizers: Danielle Spratt and Kate Ozment
Panel Proposal Deadline: December 9, 2022
Paper Proposal Deadline: December 9, 2022
Call For Proposals: WSECS 2023 CFP
2019 WSECS Conference
Conference Theme: The Global Eighteenth Century
Date: Friday, February 15 to Saturday, February 16
Location: Arizona State University
Organizers: Sören Hammerschmidt, Young Kyun Oh, Victoria Thompson, and George Justice
Call for Proposals: WSECS 2019 CFP
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2024 WSECS Conference
Conference Theme: Eighteenth-Century Futures
Date: Friday, February 16 to Saturday, February 17
Location: University of San Francisco
Organizer: Omar Miranda
Panel Proposal Deadline: December 9, 2023
Paper Proposal Deadline: December 9, 2023
Call For Proposals: WSECS 2024 cfp.pdf
Conference Program: WSECS 2024 Conference Program
2025 WSECS Conference
Conference Theme: The Unwritten Word: Alternative Texts, Epistemologies & Ontologies
Date: Friday, February 14 to Saturday, February 15
Location: University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Organizer: 'Ilaheva Tua'one
Panel Proposal Deadline: December 1, 2024
Paper Proposal Deadline: December 1, 2024
Call For Proposals: WSECS 2025 CFP
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2018 WSECS Conference
Conference Theme: "Conversing Among the Ruins:
The Persistence of the Baroque"
Date: Friday, February 16 to Saturday, February 17
Location: University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Organizers: Tim Erwin, Gregory Brown, Jennifer Bent and Jonathan Lee
Call for Proposals: WSECS 2018 CFP.pdf
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2020 WSECS Conference
Conference Theme: The Eighteenth-Century Anthropocene and Biodiversity
Date: Friday, February 14 to Saturday, February 15
Location: Colorado State University
Organizers: Aparna Gollapudi and Andreas Mueller
Panel Proposal Deadline: September 1, 2019
Paper Proposal Deadline: October 30, 2019
Call For Proposals: WSECS 2020 CFP
2017 WSECS Conference
Conference Theme: "Eighteenth-Century Science(s)"
Date: Friday, February 17 to Saturday, February 18
Location: University of California, Santa Barbara
Organizers: Rachael King and Renan Larue
Call for Proposals: WSECS 2017 CFP.pdf
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2016 WSECS Conference
Conference Theme: “Encounter(s)”
Date: Friday, February 12 to Saturday, February 13
Location: University of California, Riverside
Organizers: Linda Tomko and Aurora Wolfgang
Call for Proposals: WSECS 2016 CFP.pdf
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2014 WSECS Conference
Conference theme: “Love and Affect in the Long Eighteenth Century”
Date: Friday, February 14 to Saturday, February 15
Location: University of California, Davis
Organizers: Alessa Johns and Julia Simon
Call for Proposals: WSECS 2014 CFP.pdf
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2015 WSECS Conference
Conference theme: “Race, Gender, and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century”
Date: Friday, February 13 to Saturday, February 14
Location: Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Organizers: Regulus Allen and Kathleen Murphy
Call for Proposals: WSECS 2015 CFP.pdf
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