welp, #asecs2025 is done & dusted, & whatever worries I had about the format are gone; I learned a ton from the DH panels & the #18cAfrica folks, with plenty to think about in the coming months; Many thanks to @bcblessing.bsky.social & @asecsoffice.bsky.social for all their work putting this on
Many thanks to the program committee and organizers, and to the @asecsoffice.bsky.social executive for a fantastic #ASECS2025!
#c18th #18thCentury #ASECS25
Excited for today's panel on Disability and Burney panel for #ASECS2025
Daylight saving has ended here in NZ so it is EVEN earlier than the other days of #ASECS2025, but looking forward to today's "Law and Language" roundtable
Ended up wandering into the Philadelphia #HandsOff protest between #ASECS2025 panels. Saw a "Hands Off Universities" sign and my heart lifted.
My batteries are 💀 so I'm missing #ASECS2025 this year. Me & my dogge are convalescing in the sunne—which is finally shining. I salute everyone keeping going in these dark times. Consider using yr discount on me & Bonnie Latimer's ed collection 'Revisiting Richardson' @bucknellupress.bsky.social
Virtual attendees—don't forget your Broadview discount code for #ASECS2025!
Use BVCONFERENCE at checkout for 20% off all our books 📚
Check out our virtual #ASECS exhibit and take 40% off select titles in Eighteenth-Century Studies using promo code <10ASECS25>
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@asecsoffice.bsky.social #asecs2025
#psa: when you have a presentation and it has a time limit because part of a panel, please practice so that you actually stay inside said time limit.
No one will mind if you run short. They will definitely mind if you run long. Keep your audience's goodwill! #asecs2025 #scholaring
Looking forward to panel 159, "Navigating Oceania in the 18C" at #asecs2025
SHARP Roundtable
And if you miss ABO managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social at #ASECS2025 today, you can catch her tomorrow at the @sharpweb.org roundtable where she'll examine the Gentleman's Magazine from a postcolonial and feminist perspective. See you at 2:00! Details👇
#18thCentury #18thC #C18th
Haywood Studies
ABO readers at #ASECS2025 won't want to miss today's Haywood Studies at a Quarter Century roundtable! Participants include ABO founding board member @kirstensaxton.bsky.social and managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social
See you at 3:30! Details👇
#elizahaywood #18thCentury #18thC #C18th
Delighted to be at days 3 and 4 of #ASECS2025! Looking forward to papers on #ThomasGray, the 'low-brow' 18th c., #DigitalScholarship we should be using, the global 18th c., and #DigitalTools for the exchange of ideas.
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#c18th #poetry #DH
@asecsoffice.bsky.social
Excited to attend the second half of the @asecsoffice.bsky.social 2025 annual meeting this week! Always happy to discuss ideas for digital scholarship—feel free to start a conversation.
Conference website:
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#c18th #ASECS2025 #DigitalHumanities #DH
Virtual Defoe panel info
Attention #ASECS2025 attendees! Can't wait to see you all this Saturday at 2:00 for "Virtual Defoe," our Society-sponsored panel. Details 👇
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
South-South Connections in the 18c
Attention #ASECS2025 attendees: Don't miss out on the roundtable Mona Narain, ABO Scholarship Editor, and Jeremy Chow put together and are serving as respondents for. Steven Thomas will speak on Ethiopia and Africa. Katarina O'Briain will speak on the Transpacific and Philippines. Details 👇
#C18th
Here it is. Still thinking about it #asecs2025:
Still thinking of yesterday’s Paradox panel & how agonizing it is to live through paradoxes that are bigger than you are & entrenched a thousand ways #asecs2025
Thank you for a successful first weekend folks!! :) #asecs2025
No #asecs2025 today (on the road) but more than ever I’m glad to be counted among scholars of the 18th century, especially those who do the work of recovery & reassessment, who’ve modeled for me ethics of care & scholarly community for over half my life.
I hope I’ve done a small part to pass it on.
I’m making a rare academic appearance at #asecs2025 in mere minutes on panel 146. Hope to see some of my lovely ASECS friends 💕
Dammit #asecs2025 #18c
Kavanagh: Given the centrality of Horace Walpole to your interests, would you like to conclude our interview with a quote from his work or an anecdote that illustrates your continuing interest in his work and life? Thank you for taking the time to respond to my questions. Haggerty: If it is not too long, I would like to include Horace's elegiac letter to Horace Mann at the death of their mutual friend John Chute: This fatal year puts to the proof the nerves of my friendship! I was disappointed of seeing you when I had set my heart on it—and now I have lost Mr. Chute! It is a heavy blow; but such strokes reconcile one's self to parting with this pretty vision, life! What is it, when one has no longer those to whom one speaks as confidentially as to one's own soul? Old friends are the great blessing of one's latter years—half a word conveys one's meaning. They have memory of the same events, and have the same mode of thinking. Mr. Chute and I agreed invariably in our principles; he was my counsel in my affairs, was my oracle in taste, the standard to whom I submitted my trifles, and the genius that presided over poor Strawberry! His sense decided me in everything, his wit and quickness illuminated everything—I saw him oftener than any man; to him in every difficulty I had recourse, and him I loved to have here, as our friendship was so entire, and we knew one another so entirely, that he alone never was the least constraint to me. We passed many hours together without saying a syllable to each other, for we / were both above ceremony. I left him without excusing myself, read or wrote before him, as if he were not present— Alas! Alas! —and how self presides even in our grief! I am lamenting myself, not him! —no, I am lamenting my other self. Half is gone; the other remains solitary. Age and sense will make me bear my affliction with submission and composure-but forever—that little forever that remains, I shall miss him. My first thought will always be, I will go talk t…
At the end of the interview, George quotes from one of Horace Walpole’s letters to Horace Mann upon the death of John Chute. The line: ‘but forever—that little forever that remains, I shall miss him’ stands out to me #ASECS2025
I was reminded of the interview that I was fortunate to conduct with George Haggerty. You can access it here: kar.kent.ac.uk/78916/1/Hagg... #ASECS2025
Gathering my thoughts after a moving Queer & Trans caucus #ASECS2025 organised by Katherine Binhammer. The panel addressed the loss of our written archive with the move to digital records. What was in evidence though was the archive of feeling that is co-shared between caucus members present & past.
If you are attending #asecs2025, here's an exciting panel!
Drop by and listen to us talk about some frustrating yet generative aspects of the 18th c. and how paradoxes in their various forms inform our methodological approaches to the period
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