47th Annual Meeting of seasecs
February 25-27, 2021
virtual conference

SEASECS will hold its 47th meeting online during February 25-27, 2021. Given the logistical hurdles and financial constraints facing faculty and graduate students in the coming year, we envision the 2021 conference as a low-cost, user-friendly venue that will allow faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars to present their scholarship during a year of limited opportunities.

The theme for the 2021 conference is “‘The World Turned Upside Down’: The Self/Interiority, (Social) Distancing, and Mobility in the Long Eighteenth Century.” For a draft of the conference program, select this link (note, this is a draft and subject to change).

ANNIBEL JENKINS PRIZE IN PERFORMANCE AND THEATER STUDIES: SEASECS awards this biennial prize of $500 for the best article in performance and theater studies published in a scholarly journal, annual, or collection. The Jenkins Prize will be awarded at the 2021 SEASECS conference. Eligible publications for this award must have been published between September 1, 2018 and August 31, 2020. Authors must be members of SEASECS at the time of submission. Articles may be submitted by the author or by another member.

The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2020. Please send submissions as PDF files and address any queries about the prize to the Committee Chair, Diane Kelley, at dkelley@pugetsound.edu . For more information, see Annibel Jenkins Prize.

MARTHA F. BOWDEN TEACHING PRIZE: A $300 first prize and a $200 second prize will be awarded to the best submissions on the subject of Teaching the Eighteenth Century. The prize seeks innovative pedagogies for teaching the time period to students at the undergraduate or graduate level. Submissions may include syllabi, specific assignment prompts, e-posters, or short pedagogical essays. The deadline for submissions is Jan. 29, 2021. Please send submissions as PDF files and address any queries about the prize to the Committee Chair, Michael Mulryan at michael.mulryan@cnu.edu . For more information, see Martha F. Bowden Teaching Prize.

GRADUATE STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE: SEASECS invites submissions for its annual Graduate Essay Prize competition. An award of $300 will be given for the best graduate student paper presented at the annual meeting of the society. The deadline for this year's awards is March 5, 2021 by 5:00 P.M. Please send submissions as PDF files and address any queries to the Committee Chair, Hilary Havens, at hhavens1@utk.edu . For more information, see Graduate Student Essay Prize.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: Registration takes place online, and payment is secure. Because circumstances facing conference attendance differ greatly this year, SEASECS is offering a variety of registration options for the 2021 conference.