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[This announcement comes from Stephen E. Soud of Maryville College, a  
non-subscriber. Please contact him as soon as possible if you are  
interested -- my email problems have pushed this announcement just past  
his deadline. -- RBE] 
 
I am seeking papers for the following two sessions at regional and 
national meetings of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 
(ASECS).  ASECS is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the 
advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period from the later 
seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.  Deadlines and addresses 
follow each announcement.  (Please forgive the late notice, but computer 
problems at work have delayed this posting by nearly a month.) 
 
ADAM SMITH IN HIS WORLD AND OURS 
Southeast American Society for 18th-c. Studies (SEASECS) Conference 
Knoxville, TN 
March 4-6, 1999 
 
15-20 minute papers on any aspect of Smith's work.  Topics might 
include  any of the following: contextual studies of the _Wealth of 
Nations_, approaches to teaching his work, the relations between Smith's 
moral theory and his economic thought, Smith's impact on recent economic 
or social thought.  Other approaches are also welcome. 
 
Please send proposals by September 15 to: 
 
Stephen E. Soud 
Maryville College 
Maryville, TN  37804 
 
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POUND FOR POUND: MONEY AND EXCHANGE IN 18TH-C. ENGLAND AND IRELAND 
ASECS Annual Convention 
Milwaukee, WI 
March 24-28, 1999 
 
15-20 minute papers offering new approaches to or revisions of recent 
work on money and exchange in England and/or Ireland during the "long" 
eighteenth century (1660-1821).  In the interdisciplinary spirit of ASECS, 
contributions from a variety of fields of inquiry--the history of economic 
thought, philosophy, literature, postcolonial studies, military history, 
etc.--are encouraged.  Topics might include (but are by no means limited 
to): the capitalization of money; the impact of the Paoer Pound of 
1797-1821; money and Irish nationalism; exchange rates and the problem of 
supplying England's overseas military campaigns. 
 
Please send proposals by September 15 to: 
 
Stephen E. Soud 
Maryville College 
Maryville, TN  37804 
 
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