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:
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
