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Atlantic Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies | Société atlantique d'étude du dix-huitième siècle

President: Jane Curran, German, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 3J5, Canada

Comité français d'histoire de la franc-maçonnerie

President: A. L. Guy Tamain, Service Interassociatif, Le Donjon, Esplanade de la République, 91940 Les Ulis, France

Promotes the study of freemasonry, mainly in France, with particular emphasis on the eighteenth century.

Société des amis de Robert Challe

Bibliothèque André Malraux, 2 rue au Lin, 28000 Chartres, France

Président: Frédéric Deloffre, 5 ter rue P. Legouté, 92160 Antony, France
Secrétaire général: Jacques Cormier, 27 rue saint Norbert, 1090 Bruxelles; email jacques.cormier@brunette.brucity.be

Société des amis des poètes Roucher et Chénier

20 rue Mademoiselle, 78000 Versailles, France

Société d'étude Guillaume-Thomas Raynal

Président: Gilles Bancarel, 10 rue des Cordeliers, 12100 Millau, France

La société, fondée en 1994, a pour but de promouvoir l'étude et la connaissance de l'oeuvre et de la personnalité du philosophe rouergat Guillaume-Thomas Raynal (1713-1796).

Société d'histoire et d'épistémologie des sciences du langage (S.H.E.S.L.)

Président: J.-Cl. Chevalier, E.N.S., Section d'espagnol, Grille d'honneur du Parc, 92211 Saint-Cloud, France

Société Diderot

Président: Roland Mortier, Adresse pour correspondance: 7 route de la Reine, 92100 Boulogne-Billancourt, France

La Société Diderot, fondée en 1985, se propose de donner à la mémoire de Diderot sa dimension langroise et champenoise en même temps que nationale et internationale, de favoriser la connaissance de son oeuvre par des rencontres périodiques, de permettre la publication bisannuelle des travaux les plus récents. Elle publie une revue semestrielle, Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie (Responsable: Anne-Marie Chouillet, email encyc@club-internet.fr).

Internet: lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/filmod/testi/diderot.htm

Société Herder

Président: Pierre Pénisson, Etudes germaniques, Paris VIII, 2 rue de la Liberté, 93526 Saint-Denis Cédex 02, France

Fondée en 1994, la Société Herder, en association avec la International Herder Society, se propose de favoriser la connaissance de l'oeuvre de Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), de la philosophie et de la littérature allemande de la fin du XVIIIe siècle.

Société Saint-Simon

Président: Philippe Hourcade, 3 rue Saint-Charles, 75015 Paris, France

La société a pour objet de développer les études concernant la personne, l'oeuvre et la pensée du duc Louis de Saint-Simon (1675-1755), auteur des Mémoires.

Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz-Gesellschaft

Niedersächsische Landesbibliothek, Waterloostrasse 8, 30169 Hannover, Deutschland

The Society organises lectures, symposia and congresses, and publishes a journal, Studia leibnitiana.

Johann Beckmann-Gesellschaft e.V.

President: Helmut Lindner, Technische Sammlungen, Junghansstr. 1-3, 01277 Dresden, Deutschland

The society's objective is to promote the study of the intellectual, scientific and cultural heritage of the political economist Johann Beckmann, particularly in the fields of technology, agronomy, commodity science and in the sociologically oriented history of technology.

Genootschap Belle de Zuylen / Association Isabelle de Charrière

Executive secretary: L. L. van Maris, Gerecht 9, 2311 TC Leiden, Nederland

Internet: www.etcl.nl/charriere

Association Benjamin Constant

Secrétaire: Cécile Cordey, Institut Benjamin Constant, U. de Lausanne, Bâtiment central, 1015 Lausanne-Dorigny, Suisse

Reconstituée en 1979, l'Association Benjamin Constant a pour but de faire connaître la vie, l'oeuvre et la pensée de Benjamin Constant; d'organiser toutes manifestations et de susciter toutes publications susceptibles de promouvoir ces objectifs. Elle a pour organe les Annales Benjamin Constant, paraissant chaque année, et pour siège l'Institut Benjamin Constant.

Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Président: Alain Grosrichard; Secrétaire: Charles Wirz; 26 rue Voltaire, 1201 Genève, Suisse

La Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau a été fondée en 1904. Elle publie les Annales de la Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau et patronne l'édition des Oeuvres complètes de Jean-Jacques Rousseau dans la Bibliothèque de la Pléiade.

Daniel Defoe Society

Secretary: Peter Ashworth, 154 Hayes Lane, Hayes, Bromley BR2 9EL, Kent, U.K.

The Society aims to give prominence to the life and work of Daniel Defoe. It organises conferences and publishes a newsletter.

Aphra Behn Society

Executive Secretary and Treasurer: Laura L. Runge, University of South Florida, DAV 258, St Petersburg, FL 33705, U.S.A. (runge@chuma.cas.usf.edu)

Association nord-américaine des études Jean-Jacques Rousseau | North American Association for the Study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Secretary-treasurer: Grace Roosevelt, 404 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10025, U.S.A.

East Central ASECS

Executive secretary: Linda E. Merians, La Salle University, Dept. of English (Box 174), 1900 West Olney Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19141-1199, U.S.A. (merians@lasalle.edu)

Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society

Executive secretary: Richard B. Sher, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, U.S.A. (sher@admin.njit.edu)

Goethe Society of North America

Executive secretary: Meredith Lee, German, University of California Irvine, CA 92697-3150, U.S.A. (malee@uci.edu)

The Goethe Society of North America was founded in 1979 as a non-profit organisation dedicated to the encouragement of research on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and his age. The organisation seeks to stimulate a reappraisal of the pertinence of Goethe's thought in modern times; foster scholarly lectures and symposia about Goethe and his age; develop extensive research facilities for the study of eighteenth-century literature and culture; and re-emphasise Goethe's concept of world literature and its continuing importance throughout the civilised world. The Society publishes the Goethe yearbook and Goethe news and notes which gives news of activities, conferences and publications.

Ibero-American SECS

Executive Secretary/Treasurer: Enid Valle, Dept of Romance Languages and Lits, Kalamazoo College, 1200 Academy St., Kalamazoo, MI 49006, U.S.A. (valle@kzoo.edu)

International Herder Society | Internationale Herder Gesellschaft

Secretary-Treasurer: Hansjakob Werlen, Modern Languages and Literatures, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA, U.S.A. (werlen1@swarthmore.edu)

The Society was founded in 1985 to promote the interdisciplinary study of all aspects of the work, life, and era of Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). The Society sponsors bi-annual international conferences the proceedings of which are published. In addition, the Society publishes a semi-annual Newsletter and the Herder yearbook  / Herder Jahrbuch which is distributed free of charge to all members.

Johnson Society of the Central Region

Secretary-treasurer: Thomas Kaminski, Department of English, Loyola U., 6525 North Sheridan Rd, Chicago, IL 60626, U.S.A. (TKAMINS@wpo.it.luc.edu)

The Society meets annually and its conferences include a wide range of papers regarding eighteenth-century British literature.

Johnson Society of Southern California

Secretary: Robert Allen, 1555 Homewood Drive, Altadina, CA 91001, U.S.A. (rbtallen@ix.netcom.com)

Lessing Society

Secretary-Treasurer: Richard E. Schade, Department of Germanic Languages and Literature, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 54221-0372, U.S.A. (schadere@email.uc.edu)

The Lessing Society was founded in 1966 to encourage research in the life, works and times of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781). The Society regularly sponsors scholarly meetings and international symposia. A semi-annual newsletter, Notes and notices, and the Lessing yearbook (editor: Richard E. Schade) are published by the Society. The Society currently has about 450 members (representing 19 countries). Membership is open to any persons interested in Lessing and the Enlightenment.

McMaster Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Chairman: Jim Alsop, Department of History, McMaster University, CNH 621, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L9, Canada.

Mid-Western ASECS

Secretary-treasurer: Brian A. Connery, Department of English, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309-4401, USA; tel. +1 248 370 2250; fax +1 248 370 4429; email connery@oakland.edu

Mozart Society

President: Isabelle Emerson, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Box 455025, Las Vegas, NV 89154-5025, U.S.A. (emerson@cfpa.nevada.edu)

North American Kant Society

President and Executive Secretary: Richard Aquila, Philosophy, University of Tennessee, U.S.A.

Northeast ASECS

Secretary-treasurer: Roger Lund, English, LeMoyne College, Syracuse, NY 13214, U.S.A.

NEASECS issues an occasional newsletter and sponsors an annual meeting with sessions dedicated to a broad spectrum of eighteenth-century topics.

North-West Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Transactions editors: Kenneth J. Ericksen and Stephen Wolfe, Department of English, Linfield C., McMinnville, Oregon 97128, U.S.A.

Samuel Johnson Society of Southern California

Chairman: Loren R. Rothschild, 12233 W. Olympic Blvd, Suite 380, Los Angeles, CA 90064, U.S.A.

Rousseau Association

Secretary-treasurer: John T. Scott, Political Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, U.S.A. (jtscott@uh.edu)

Society for Eighteenth-Century French Studies

Secretary: Philip Stewart, Department of Romance Studies, Duke U., Durham, NC 27708-0257; email pstewart@duke.edu

The society is an affiliated society within ASECS, devoted to questions of French history, art and language. It meets in conjunction with annual meetings of ASECS, and disseminates information to its members by email.

Society of Early Americanists

Secretary-treasurer: Thomas Krise, English, 2354 Fairchild Drive, Suite 6D45, U.S. Air Force Academy, CO 80840, U.S.A. (krisetw.dfeng@usafa.af.mil)

South Central ASECS

Secretary-treasurer: Laura Crouch, Dept of English, Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, OK 74801, U.S.A.

Southeastern ASECS

Secretary-treasurer: J. Patrick Lee, Box VPAA, Barry University, 11300 NE Second Avenue, Miami, FL 33161-6628, U.S.A. (jplee@jeanne.barry.edu)

Voltaire Society of America

Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Secretary: Madeleine Marshall, 2053 Woodland Heights Glen, Escondido, CA 92026, U.S.A. (marshall@pwa.acusd.edu)

The Society holds one annual meeting in February.