NATIONAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES - CANADA

Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS)

Founded in 1971, the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is a bilingual organisation (English/French) with a pluridisciplinary, national and regional vocation: it gathers over 250 scholars and students from various fields, including History, Art History, Philosophy, English Studies, and French Studies. Parallel to its academic journal Lumen (formerly known as Man and Nature / L'homme et la nature) and its yearly conference that alternates from region to region, the CSECS supports students by offering the annual D.W. Smith Research Fellowship and awarding the Mark Madoff prize to the best graduate paper read at the conference. The current president is Marc André Bernier, professor at the Département de lettres et communications sociale of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (marc-andre.bernier@uqtr.ca).

Further information can be found on the CSECS website: http://www.csecs.ca/.