Upcoming Conference

The next annual meeting of the Northeast Conference on British Studies will take place at the College of the Holy Cross and the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, MA on October 2nd-4th, 2026. We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Professor Zara Anishanslin of the University of Delaware, a scholar of transatlantic visual and material culture.

You can find the Call for Papers for the 2026 Annual Meeting here.

The final draft of the conference program is available to view here (updated September 28th, 2026).

You can register for the conference here.

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:

2025: Joint meeting with the NACBS in Montreal, QC, November 13th-16th

2024: Trinity College, Hartford, CT, Sept 27th - 29th

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