Upcoming Conference

The next annual meeting of the Northeast Conference on British Studies will take place on September 27th - 29th, 2024 at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.

This conference is hosted by our new President, Prof. Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, and will feature a keynote address from Prof. Elizabeth Elbourne (McGill University) as well as a plenary keynote featuring Profs. Lucy Curzon (University of Alabama), Brendan Kane (University of Connecticut), and Asheesh Kapur Siddique (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

An updated (9/25/24) draft program can be found at this link.

You can register for the 2024 conference at this link.

You can find our local arrangements guide for Hartford at this link.

Past Conferences

In recent years, the Northeast Conference on British Studies (NECBS) has held its annual meeting at the following locations. The links below will take you to the conference program for each of these meetings:

2023: Halifax, NS (multiple hosts), October 13th - 15th

2022: Bates College, Lewiston Maine, October 21st - 22nd

2021: Virtual Conference, October 22nd - 23rd

2020: Virtual Graduate and Early Career Workshop, October 10th

2019: McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada, October 4th - 5th

2018: Joint meeting with the NACBS, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, October 25th - 28th

2017: Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 13th - 14th

2016: St. Michael’s College, October 15th - 16th

2015: The University of Ottawa, October 16th - 17th

2014: Bates College, Lewiston, Maine (hosted by a group of Maine colleges and universities), October 17th - 18th

2013: University of Connecticut

2012: Joint meeting with the NACBS, Montréal, Quebec