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 submit an event here.

English Touring Opera: Così fan tutte

2nd March 2013 - 30th May 2013
Hackney Empire, Mare St, London, then touring E81EJ

Call for Papers - Gall and Guts in the 18th Century

27th March 2013 - 31st May 2013
Paris-Diderot

Protean Patriots? New Research on the Patriot Opposition to Sir Robert Walpole - Registration Details

7th June 2013
Hampton Court Palace, UK.

Protean Patriots? New Research on the Patriot Opposition to Sir Robert Walpole.

7th June 2013
Hampton Court Palace, UK.

Eighteenth Century Ireland Society Annual Conference

7th June 2013 - 9th June 2013
National University of Ireland Maynooth

Pride and Prejudice: Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's best-loved novel

21st June 2013 - 23rd June 2013
Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge CB3 0BU

The 9th Biennial Symbiosis 2013 Conference: Transatlantic Literary & Cultural Relations

27th June 2013 - 30th June 2013
Brunel University, London, UK UB8 3PH

Encounters, Affinities, Legacies: The Eighteenth Century in the Present Day

28th June 2013 - 29th June 2013
University of York

Hippolyte et Aricie

29th June 2013 - 18th August 2013
Glyndebourne Opera House BN8 5UU

39th International Byron Conference

1st July 2013 - 6th July 2013
King's College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS

Roots, Routes and Routs: American and British literature in the Long Eighteenth Century

1st July 2013 - 2nd July 2013
Plymouth University PL4 8AA

Handel: Tamerlano

3rd July 2013 - 14th July 2013
The Warden's Garden, New College OX1 3BN

VariAbilit(ies) - The History of Disability

4th July 2013 - 7th July 2013
Emory University, Atlanta, GA. USA.

Pride and Prejudices: Women's Writing of the Long Eighteenth Century

4th July 2013 - 6th July 2013
Chawton House Library, Chawton, Hampshire GU34 1SJ

The curator’s tea at Kew

9th July 2013
Kew Palace TW9 3AB

The Locations of Austen

11th July 2013 - 13th July 2013
The University of Hertfordshire AL10 9AB

Gendering the Book in the Long Eighteenth Century

13th July 2013
University of Leeds LS2 9JT

Burney Society of Great Britain: 5th International Conference 21 – 24 July 2013 “Education in the Life and Works of Frances Burney and her Family”

21st July 2013 - 24th July 2013
Gonville and Caius College Cambridge

BARS 2013 Conference

25th July 2013 - 28th July 2013
University of Southampton SO17 1BJ

Wordsworth Summer Conference

5th August 2013 - 15th August 2013
Rydal Hall

The Eighteenth-Century Gothick Symposium

7th August 2013
University of Oxford

CFP - Politeness and Prurience: Situating Transgressive Sexualities in the Long Eighteenth Century

2nd September 2013 - 3rd September 2013
History of Art Department, University of Edinburgh

FOURTH ANGLO-ITALIAN CONFERENCE ON EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES

5th September 2013 - 7th September 2013
Dipartimento DISTU Istituzioni Linguistico-letterarie, comunicazionali, storico-giuridiche dell'Europa, University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) 01100

Annual Conference of the German Society for 18th-Century Studies: Presence and Evidence of Unfamiliar Things in 18th-Century Europe

9th September 2013 - 11th September 2013
Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, Germany

A Miscellany of Miscellanies: popular poetic collections and the eighteenth century canon

17th September 2013
St Peter's College, University of Oxford OX1 2DL

Bill Overton Memorial Conference on Eighteenth-Century Poetry

18th September 2013 - 19th September 2013
University of Loughborough

England and North-Eastern France, a Two-Way Perspective: The Grand Tour

27th September 2013 - 28th September 2013
Metz University 57012

Call for Papers - Women's Studies Group 1558-1837

28th September 2013 - 25th January 2014
Senate House, Malet Street, University of London WC1E 7HU

Four Nations Fiction: Women and the Novel, 1780-1830

28th September 2013
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth SY23 3BU

Chawton House Library Visiting Fellowships 2013-14

1st October 2013 - 29th August 2014
Chawton House Library, Chawton, Hampshire GU34 1SJ

Conference "Measure and Excess in 17th and 18th Century England and America"

17th January 2014 - 18th January 2014
Maison de la recherche de Paris 4 28, rue Serpente 75006 PARIS

The dancer in celebrity culture in the long 18th-century: reputations, images, portraits

15th April 2014 - 16th April 2014
Wolfson College, Oxford OX2 6UD

“QUARREL SCENES – 16TH-18TH CENTURIES” : CONFERENCE - FESTIVAL

5th June 2014 - 7th June 2014
Université Paris-Diderot

Between Apes and Angels: Human and Animal in the Early Modern World

4th December 2014 - 5th December 2014
University of Edinburgh