Annual General Meeting (1992)

18 October 1992

Present: R. Bonnel, R. Davison, P. Debly, D. Denisoff, C. Fell, K. James-Cavan, D. John, W. Kinsley, A. London, P. Loptson, J. MacLean, J. Macpherson, R. Marshall, B. Melançon, R. Merrett (Chair), Muriel Usandivaras-Mili, D. Nichol, D. Oakleaf, J. Rempel, P. Rice, A. Scott-Prelorentzos, B. Schellenberg, N. Senior, A. Sokalski (co-chair), H.-G. Schwarz, L. Slater, M. Smith, E. Ty, R. Worvill, E. Zawisza, R. Zuk.

1. Conference President's Report

Don Nichol reported that the programme named 180 delegates, including 36 graduate students, with 45 sessions. 160 had signed in.

2./3. President's Report/Secretary-Treasurer's Report 1992

As of 9 Oct. 1992, we have 202 members (by categories: A, 138; B, 30; C, 34), slightly down from 1991's 221 members (B & C, 28).

Provisional Financial Statement 1992:
 

Income
Transfer from Calgary	2000.00
SSHRCC grant	5251.00
Memberships	6017.17
Interest	11.93
TOTAL	13280.10

Debits
Transfer to St. John's	4625.50
Bank Charges	22.00
Postage/xeroxing	31.07
Supplies	52.95
TOTAL	4731.52

Balance

8548.58

Outstanding: Operating expenses Lumen & Bulletin ($1000.00), CFH dues.

Motion: that our fiscal year be 1 April to 31 March.

 Carried

We are losing members, and Québec membership especially low. Each Executive member is challenged to recruit five new members this year; other members are urged to bring CSECS/SCEDHS to the attention of appropriate colleagues. Only paid-up members may present papers at conferences.

Since costs of conference participation are increasing, members discussed ways of claiming professional costs as business expenses: some now do this, and those interested should consult accountants. SSHRC explicitly discourages us from favouring travel costs of Executive members, our past policy. Some of us want to support the Executive for doing the dirty jobs we escape, but we also want to favour the ill-favoured, so to speak; i.e., students, sessionals, and others with few alternatives to our support.

Should we structure conferences to mix disciplines and languages that now compete for time? Would we like bilingual sessions on a common genre, say, or interdisiplinary sessions on a common problem? Pass suggestions to the Bulletin editor.

4. Executive Editor's Report

Vol. X (Montréal) is in press, vol. XI (Queen's) ready, vol. XII (Calgary) imminent. But we are still not publishing 18 months after the conference (our goal) and must improve. The meeting decided to select a new title immediately, and a member had suggested that a Latin title would avoid the need to have French and English versions.

Motion (Scott-Prelorentzos, ?): that we rename our journal Lumen.

 Carried (18 pour, 4 contre).

Motion (Kinsley, Scott-Prelorentzos): that the subtitles be Selected Proceedings from the Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies/Travaux choisis de la Société canadienne d'étude du dix-huitième siècle. Some members urged "Choix de communications de," but the motion carried nem. con..

5. Bulletin Editor's Report

The editor wanted more matter, especially News of Members. It was suggested that a form or blank space in the Bulletin might encourage more participation. Replying to a suggestion, the editor agreed to consider reports on texts and so on, to be submitted and published when space permits. If you have reports on new texts, editions, and so on, please send them to the editor.

6. Future Meetings

Arndt Bohm is our next Conference President, the 1993 meeting to take place at Carleton with the theme Reason and Unreason/Raison et déraison. The Society will explore the possiblity of holding subsequent meetings at Victoria and York.

7. New Executive

New members/roles: Arnd Bohm, Conference President; DavidSmith, ISECS rep.; Eleanor Ty, regional rep., Ontario; Santé Viselli, CFH rep.

8. Madoff Prize

See announcement in this Bulletin.

9. Any Other Business

We discussed the desirability of making abstracts of papers available before the conference starts. A standardized abstract form could letters of acceptance; photoreduction would reduce costs, and interested members could pay for abstracts. Please send comments to the Bulletin or the President.

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