SCSECS has always distinguished itself for its innovations and advances in conference direction, academic undertakings, and collegial generosity. By way of advancing all three of these goals, SCSECS, beginning with the 2002 annual meeting, will institute a new annual conference award, the coveted "SCSECS Presidential Prize," to be awarded to the author of the best conference paper in any and all categories, whether by wizened professors, ambitious graduate students, mendicant friars, upscaling hobos, hard-driving executives, or wandering sages!

The winner of this prize will receive something better than mere money: publication of an enhanced version of the winning paper in the next available volume of 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era, the award-winning annual journal edited by current SCSECS president Kevin L. Cope and now heading into its seventh volume.

Unlike a few coins in the pocket, the SCSECS Presidential Prize is a treasure for life, in that it persists in the curriculum vitae and influences the development of a professional life from the intellectual cradle to the intellectual grave. Be sure to submit your paper immediately after the annual meeting!

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