Each year, BSECS organises a major international congress – the Annual Conference – usually held in Oxford. For more information use the links on the left of this page. BSECS also supports a number of smaller specialist or regional conferences throughout the year, including a conference especially designed for postgraduate students.

The list below provides details of other events and conferences related to the eighteenth century. If you would like to suggest an event for inclusion here, please e-mail Daniel Cook.

Jacobites and Tories, Whigs and True Whigs: Political Gardening in Britain, c. 1700- c. 1760

6-8 August 2010 at Wentworth Castle.

‘Teutonic Philosophy’: Jacob Boehme in context, his life and the reception of his writings

16-18 September 2010, Goldsmiths, University of London

Confirmed speakers include: Vittoria Feola, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, Ariel Hessayon, Glenn Magee, George Pattison, Marsha Keith Schuchard, Jane Shaw, Nigel Smith, Arthur Versluis, and Andrew Weeks.

Proposals for papers (maximum 300 words) are invited, and should be sent by 15 January 2010. Further information, including how to register, will be available on the conference website in due course.

Contact: Sarah Apetrei

Charting the 18th Century: Encircling Land & Sea (36th Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for 18th-Century Studies)

4-16 October 2010 St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada

Call for Papers: Please submit your 1-page proposal for a 20-minute paper and brief bio before 31 January 2010 to: Don Nichol

Further info

The Visual and the Verbal in the Eighteenth Century

5 November 2010: University of Kent

A day conference at the University of Kent supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art.

Full details of the conference programme will be posted on the Centre's website in the coming weeks.

Sensibilité: The Knowing Body in the Enlightenment

3-5 December 2010: The University of Queensland, Brisbane

Further details (PDF)

Imagining Europe: Perspectives, Perceptions and Representations from Antiquity to the Present

27 & 28 January 2011: Leiden University Institute for Cultural Disciplines

Further details (PDF)

Readings and Representations of the Seventeenth Century

28 & 29 January 2011, Chetham's Library, Manchester

Further details (PDF)

Writ from the Heart? Women’s Life Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century

29 January 2011, The John Rylands University Library, The University of Manchester

Further details (PDF)

Romantic Adaptations: A Strawberry Hill Symposium

25-26 March 2011: Twickenham,London

Further details (PDF)

The Culture of Grub Street: The Second Biennial Meeting of the Defoe Society

14-16 July 2011: University of Worcester

Further details (PDF) (updated)

13th International Congress for Eighteenth Century Studies

25-29 July 2011: University of Graz (Austria)

Further details

Third Anglo-Italian Conference on Eighteenth Century Studies

12-14 September 2011 at the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York.

Call for Papers: 31 December 2010.  Further details (PDF)