ASECS 2025 Women's Caucus Sessions
The 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies will take place online, held on March 28-29 and April 4-5.
The Women’s Caucus sponsors two panels at each annual meeting: one focused on the profession and another on scholarship.
The Professional Panel is titled: Celebration as Resistance: A Roundtable Discussion on Connection and Care.
Panel Abstract: What is the work of thinking and living together in the moment? Moving beyond a traditional “mentoring is important” panel, this panel considers the ways that we can employ intersectional feminist praxis to address the holistic needs of academics as humans in the world with lives and needs and goals that extend beyond institutional boundaries. How can we build support networks that feed and celebrate in ways that fill our cups rather than depleting them? This panel encourages submissions that draw from theoretical perspectives but that focus particularly on practice and application. The goal of the conversation is for panelists to engage with audience members to develop a shared resource that documents methods folks can apply in their own contexts and perhaps build new, and strengthen existing, networks.
The Scholarship Panel is titled: Data Feminism/Feminist Data
This panel will examine the ways in which data is feminist and feminism can help us in our readings of the eighteenth century. Conversations might focus on: categorization, identities, absences, affect, fabulations, and infrastructure. More information about this panel is forthcoming.
The Women’s Caucus sponsors two panels at each annual meeting: one focused on the profession and another on scholarship.
The Professional Panel is titled: Celebration as Resistance: A Roundtable Discussion on Connection and Care.
Panel Abstract: What is the work of thinking and living together in the moment? Moving beyond a traditional “mentoring is important” panel, this panel considers the ways that we can employ intersectional feminist praxis to address the holistic needs of academics as humans in the world with lives and needs and goals that extend beyond institutional boundaries. How can we build support networks that feed and celebrate in ways that fill our cups rather than depleting them? This panel encourages submissions that draw from theoretical perspectives but that focus particularly on practice and application. The goal of the conversation is for panelists to engage with audience members to develop a shared resource that documents methods folks can apply in their own contexts and perhaps build new, and strengthen existing, networks.
The Scholarship Panel is titled: Data Feminism/Feminist Data
This panel will examine the ways in which data is feminist and feminism can help us in our readings of the eighteenth century. Conversations might focus on: categorization, identities, absences, affect, fabulations, and infrastructure. More information about this panel is forthcoming.