Here's one followup to the #ASECS panel I participated in yesterday: Rachel Tils, Hilary Havens, Clovis Gladstone and I discussed what it's like to construct a dataset coming at these things as a humanist.

Finished my #ASECS panel this afternoon & pleased & relieved to have had a great discussion & no mishaps

#ASECS member friends, please don't forget to vote in the executive board elections! You should have gotten a reminder from Benita this morning.

Too much ASECS to report on, but a highlight for me was that Jen Camden and JoEllen DeLucia snuck in an entire theory of the gothic (short version: self-conscious play, not "derivative") in their paper at my Editing Out-of-Circulation Novels roundtable.

#ASECS2024 #ASECS #ASECS24 @asecs

@ASECS@chirp.social I just received an email that chirp.social, which hosts the ASECS (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) group, is shutting down. I am creating a replacement group at @asecs@a.gup.pe . If you follow @asecs@a.gup.pe, it should provide the same functionality: When you tag the group, everyone in the group should see the post

@asecs@a.gup.pe #ASECS #ASECS2024 #ASECS24 #C18 #C18th #18thC #18thCentury #EighteenthCentury #C18studies #18thCenturyStudies

Annotated images: art, information, both, or neither? Seeking papers for an interdisciplinary ASECS panel, “Annotation across Media,” organized by Julie Park & Jeanne Britton (me). Cfp at number 7 here: tinyurl.com/3bz64cbj Proposals due to ASECS portal 9/15. #cfp #asecs #18C

Some new people, so I'll mention it is helpful if you follow/tag the @ASECS group for c18/ #ASECS posts of general interest, especially cfp & jobs etc. Because of the way Mastodon works, "followers from other servers are not displayed" so there are people not on c18.masto.host following @ASECS who you can reach by tagging it (& vice-versa if you are on another server) I've been reposting some things to the @ASECS group, but the quote function on my app is kind of buggy.

I’m on my way to #ASECS2023 , which will be my first time at #ASECS rather than CSECS — I’d love to meet folks whom I haven’t had a chance to cross paths with before! (I mostly do DH and women’s writing, but I’m presenting on a new project looking at subscription publications, specifically Sancho’s Letters)

Next week marks the 5th anniversary of 18th Century #dnd, my 1st ever DM experience, running a homebrew Strawberry Hill adventure for 17 players at #ASECS. Since the pandemic we’ve moved to biweekly sessions.

Tonight, after 15 months, they finished their 1st published adventure.

Okay, I hope I did this right. @carrideen and I asked our #ASECS director if we could create a Mastodon group before #ASECS23, so if you follow @ASECS and then tag it in posts, it should automatically boost your post to all group followers. Try it/share.

#ASECS2023 #ASECSonMastodon @shandyist @h_d_hudson @nushpowell @biblioscholar @mazdam @drreznicek @AngelaH @LVTroost @jengolight @Jen @RebeccaShapiro @SethRudy @quixotical @david_diamond @JackLynch00 @ODSECS @LisaMaruca @twasmegan

I know at least some of the #ASECSonMastodon folks follow me here: let me do a brief thread about the state of our conferences:

I just came back from a fine SCSECS conference in College Station, and what I'm seeing is a markedly smaller group, with some grad students, fewer faculty members and very few early career people.

Anecdotally, I'm hearing about a similar demographic split in attendance at #ASECS. Are others seeing this? And is it time to start rethinking 18c conferences?

@mazdam @danhon Well, go tell people on Twitter to come here and follow #ASECS #ASECS23 and #ASECS2023 (I will do it too but I have few Twitter followers).

Has there been any discussion about the "encouraged to wear masks" guidelines at ASECS? My institution "encourages" mask wearing and nobody wears them 😦

https://www.asecs.org/health-and-safety-statement

#ASECS #ASECS23 #ASECS2023 #COVID #MaskUp

After years of one-shots (1st annually at #ASECS & then biweekly online) #18CDnD gamely took on a full campaign in 2021. Next time, they’ll reach the end of that adventure.

Not sure what comes next for these fictional & nonfictional 18th century PCs, but I’m glad to be their DM.

See you at #ASECS, lads.

@sifutweety @carrideen quizzing glasses! Then at #ASECS we can spend our time quizzing each other and gossiping (not a major departure tbh)

#C18Studies folks, I'm getting a 502 error trying to check my #ASECS membership, but I'm not connected to a VPN or anything. Is something going on?

WSECS 2023 is extending its deadline until Dec. 9! Cal State-Northridge, Feb. 17-18, 2023. Theme of Material/Immaterial with keynote speaker Helen Deutsch. Virtual and in-person options available! #18thcentury #litstudies #wsecs23 #asecs #arthistory #histodons https://wsecs2023.wordpress.com/cfp/