The SEA and the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

The SEA at the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, 2000

Announcements

1.  SEA AT ASECS on Friday, April 14 SEA session, "Neoclassicism, American Style," 4:30-6:00 p.m. in the Shippen Room, Sheraton Society Hill.

CASH BAR, co-hosted by SEA and the McNeil Center, 6:15-7:15 p.m. in the garden at the historic City Tavern, across from the Sheraton at 138 S. 2nd Street (in case of inclement weather: their Cognac Room)

At the reception we will recognize the recipient of SEA's first annual Essay Prize (please see below).
 

2. SECAS ARCHIVE will be going onto the SEA homepage

3. ESSAY PRIZE

We have inherited this project from the Organization Formerly
Known as SECAS: a prize for the best paper delivered at the ASECS national meeting on an Americanist topic. Julia Stern chaired this first committee, which also included Dan Williams (English, University of Mississippi) and Karin Wulf (History, American University).

The 2000-2001 committee will be circulating a separate announcement inviting anyone who is presenting a paper on an Americanist topic at the Philadelphia ASECS to submit the paper for consideration. Next year's committee members are Eric Slauter (English, Stanford University), Sheila Skemp (History, University of Mississippi), and Laura Kennelly, chair. Dr. Kennelly made the original suggestion that has led to this prize.
 

4. LOOKING AHEAD to our SEA session at next year's ASECS.

Again this year, ASECS is circulating forms on which members
can propose sessions for the following year's meeting. Our liaison committee will choose one topic to submit as the SEA session (this year's topic: "Neoclassicism, American Style"), so suggestions should reach the liaison committee's chair, Dennis Moore, dmoore@english.fsu.edu, before the end of April.
 

5. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Christopher Looby, for exemplary service on this year's ASECS Program.comm and for arranging the cash bar; Julia Stern, for chairing first Essay Prize committee; and her colleagues Karin Wulf and Dan Wililams Members of the Committee of Correspondence, for
handling liaison with ASECS: Julia Stern, Thomas Krise, and Dennis Moore, Chair.