​​​​​​​​​​​​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

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​​​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 Program

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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​​​​​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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​​​​​​​​​​​​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

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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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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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