Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines (SEAC)

The Society for Contemporary English Studies (Société d’Études Anglaises Contemporaines / SEAC) has been active for more than thirty years. It brings together some 90 scholars from France and abroad whose research focuses on British literature of the 20th and 21st centuries as well as modern and contemporary British visual culture. Its broad remit allows it to address research interests in all literary and aesthetic genres and to combine a wide range of critical perspectives, whether they be formalist, ethical, new materialist or historical.

The society organizes a yearly conference in October, a workshop at the June annual conference of the Société des Anglicistes de l’Enseignement Supérieur. It contributes to doctoral research by granting travel research grants to young scholars working on topics of interest to the society.

The society publishes an online peer-reviewed journal, Études britanniques contemporaines (director of publication: Dr Jean-Michel GANTEAU, Paul Valéry University — Montpellier 3).

Ebc publishes thematic issues, as well as unsollicited articles in English and in French. It is ranked ERIH+ by The European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences.

ASAP: The Association f the Study of the Arts of the Present

ASAP celebrates the work of scholars and creative artists who speak to our moment. We investigate how the contemporary arts relate to past movements, and what legacy the contemporary arts will leave to the future. We believe in the power of the arts. We refuse the corporate division of the arts into disciplinary slivers: we create interdisciplinary dialogue. We reject the alienation of creative artists from the world of scholar-critics. We insist on poetic relation.

As part of its annual activities, ASAP hosts conferences and symposia that bring internationally recognized scholars and creative artists together to discuss and debate the latest developments in the literary, visual, and performing arts. We run an annual book prize and a prize for the outstanding graduate student scholarship. Our scholarly journal–ASAP/Journal–is hosted by the Johns Hopkins University Press and presents the best new writing on the international, post-1960s arts.

The association also

• sponsors exhibitions and other creative venues;
• supports the publication of journals and books devoted to the study of the contemporary arts;
• create or sponsor information or organizational hubs whereby associations studying different aspects of the contemporary arts may come together to share scholarship;
• encourages the formation of local ASAP-affiliated chapters with similar goals to that of the international association;
• supports the creation and maintenance of archives of primary or secondary materials about the contemporary arts; and
• engages in one-time affiliation with other societies, consortia, or journals to sponsor public events related to the association’s mission.