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*Conference Alert*
Aphra Behn International Conference taking place in Palma next week, co-organised by WSG member Francesca Saggini.
Congratulations to everyone involved for securing such an impressive list of speakers (see attached poster for full programme).
www.teatrodue.org/aphra-behn-t...
March 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Check out the newly released 2024–2025 schedule of seminars from the Women's Studies Group: 1558–1837. womensstudiesgroup.org/seminars/
Seminars
2024 – 2025 programme The group has two kinds of meeting for seminars. In-person seminar meetings. These take place at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ, UK, on Saturday afternoons. ...
womensstudiesgroup.org
September 2, 2024 at 2:25 AM
A friend just sent me the Chronicle of Higher Ed 21 August 2024 article on AI and peer review. bit.ly/3Z1THBfI I cannot decide which is more disturbing: the violation of privacy for manuscript authors or the stubborn resistance to paying editors and peer reviewers even a small wage for their labor.
AI Scientists Have a Problem: AI Bots Are Reviewing Their Work
ChatGPT is wreaking chaos in the field that birthed it.
www.chronicle.com
September 1, 2024 at 4:53 AM
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from my new book

"Letter to a Young White Feminist"
August 31, 2024 at 12:28 PM
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Such a great back-to-school treat to hear that S.E.L. has resumed publishing:
Now, novel people, I can tell you that Alex Creighton's essay on Tristram Shandy absolutely ROCKS. Give yourself a treat and read it a.s.a.p.
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SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our latest issue, 62,3! Keep an eye out as we highlight contributors over the coming weeks. 🎉 Access the entire issue on the Restoration and Eighteenth Century on Project Muse https://buff.ly/3X0LHxI
August 30, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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Excellent criticism here. Thanks @joshuajfriedman.com for sharing so many examples, I am still chuckling
If you think you have no interest in perfume reviews, you are missing out on an astute, catty, joyful work of criticism in Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez's "Perfumes: The A–Z Guide." Open to any page and you'll find items like this:
May 16, 2024 at 3:19 PM
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Very happy to have my review of Laura Runge's "Quantitative Literary Analysis of the Works of Aphra Behn: Words of Passion" in such wonderful company (scroll down a whole bunch!)
I sent the ECF October 2024 issue to the publisher: you know what that means!
Free to read new book reviews on the ECF journal website at McMaster University:
ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/ecf-36-4-oct...
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Thanks for reading ECF journal!
August 27, 2024 at 6:33 PM
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Call for abstracts for the 2025 online American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference: Burneys and Dis/ability (spons. by Burney Society North America) [ID 16] Chairs: Linda Zionkowski, Ohio Univ., zionkows@ohio.edu; Misty Krueger, Univ. of Maine at Farmington, misty.krueger@maine.edu
August 27, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference's list of sessions is live. Check out panel 16 (I'm co-chairing) on the Burneys and Dis/ability. Please share!

asecs.org/sessions2025/
List of Sessions 2025 – ASECS
asecs.org
August 27, 2024 at 5:11 PM
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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...
August 23, 2024 at 6:12 PM
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As of 21 August 2024, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is a fully open-access journal! #skystorians will be able to reach a much wider audience and there are no charges to individual authors for publishing OA. Come and publish with the RHS!
Society’s journal ‘Transactions’ now fully Open Access | RHS
royalhistsoc.org
August 22, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Call for papers! Submit your proposal for a special issue of Women’s Writing: Women Writers and Translation. The deadline for abstracts is 15 September 2024. For more details: bit.ly/4cxgmIR
August 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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Today on the blog, in a meticulously argued post, Joe Black discusses two books almost certainly owned by Aphra Behn, the second of which has hardly ever been noted in scholarship buff.ly/4dp08CK #HerBook
Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (1664); Philip Massinger and Nathan Field, The Fatall Dowry: A Tragedy (1632)
Only one surviving book has so far been identified as belonging to the poet, playwright, proto-novelist, translator, and spy Aphra Behn (1640-89), a copy of Thomas Killigrew’s Comedies and Tragedies (...
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August 15, 2024 at 7:44 PM