Editors' Introduction
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We are happy to announce that with David Shields's Clifford Lecture. … Dena Goodman's Presidential Address, and its combination of panels, forums (roundtables), and individual essays, SECC has finally attained the new format that we envisioned. SECC's previous editor, Michelle Burnham, had noticed that the journal unaccountably had ceased to publish the Presidential Address and Clifford Lecture, and she took the first steps to restore them. Our aim in reintroducing these lectures, and in including a selection of panels and forums, has been to fulfill the journal's mission of reflecting the work done at the ASECS's annual conference by more closely approximating the intellectual experience of the meeting and capturing some of its highlights, as well as by continuing to make some of our members' most thought-provoking individual interventions widely accessible to the ASECS's community and beyond.
Nevertheless, all of our goals have not yet been met. We have, during the past three or four years, published a broad variety of fields—Literature, Art History, National and Transnational History, the History of Science, Music, Philosophy, Sociology, Political Economy, and more. We have also published on a broad variety of cultures—English, French, Scottish, Italian, Portuguese, Irish, Spanish, American, Austro-Hungarian, South American, African, and Caribbean—and on relations between them. Organizing the journal into a few topic units has given coherence to this variety and made it possible to compare almost simultaneous treatment of the same or similar issues in different cultural and disciplinary environments, which we have found very intellectually exciting. We are grateful to everyone who has contributed. So far, however, we have failed to achieve our goal of persuading ASECS's regional and affiliate societies to take SECC seriously as an outlet for their [End Page ix] own revised conference materials: most of the submissions to SECC still come from ASECS's annual meeting.
Let us therefore take this opportunity to call on members of regional and affiliate societies to help us in celebrating 50 years of ASECS in 2020 by joining the conversation in the 50th edition of SECC, which will appear that year. Submissions for this anniversary edition are due to us no later than 1 August 2019. The list of eligible societies is printed before the Editors' Introduction. [End Page x]
