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CFP:  American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, April 12-16, 2000, 
Philadelphia 
 
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) is announcing 
early its annual meeting to be held in Philadelphia on April 12-16, 2000. 
The theme for the conference is "The Eighteenth Century Seen Around the 
World," and the Society intends to use this conference to invite and 
encourage participation in ASECS by scholars with research specialties 
across the globe. Philadelphia was the second largest city in the 
eighteenth-century British empire, and to this day its libraries are among 
the finest in the country for the study of the period. The Library Company 
is among the most famous and it will be one of our hosts. In celebration of the 
new century, exhibitions will be held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (on 
Rome in the 18th century), Van Pelt Library, and the American Philosophical 
Society, etc.   
 
By tradition, ASECS has served an important role in fostering 
interdisciplinary communication and scholarship among specialists in 
literary criticism, history, philosophy, art history, and music whose work 
falls within the long, Euro-American eighteenth century.  With the 
Philadelphia meeting, the Society wishes to expand further its integrative 
tradition by encouraging the submission of papers and panels from scholars 
working in Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and American traditions during 
the long eighteenth century (late seventeenth to early nineteenth 
centuries).  The Society especially wishes to encourage the submission of 
panels that include papers representing diverse cultures and geographic 
regions, and also, but not necessarily, papers and panels focusing upon 
interaction between the Euro-American world and other parts of the world. 
 
Formal details on the submission on panels and papers will be announced in 
the spring of 1999. At present we would welcome preliminary submissions so 
that the program committee may better gauge the strength of interest within 
various regions and fields.  For further information on ASECS, please see 
our website at: http://calliope.jhu.edu/associations/asecs/. Submit ideas to 
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organizing committee. 
 
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