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Call for papers  -  Deadline: March 10, 2002 
 
Session to be proposed for the 2002 Annual Meeting of the Northeast 
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (to be held in New York 
City from October 17 through October 19, 2002).  The theme of the 
conference is The Enlightenment and the Idea of Modernity. 
 
I would like to invite proposals for papers for a panel on Adam Smith's 
Wealth of Nations and the idea and practice of modernity. 
 
Possible topics include: 
 
The importance of modern economics in the shaping of modernity and the role 
played by Adam Smith in that development 
 
The connection between morality and economics in the works of Smith and in 
modern societies since the late eighteenth century 
 
Smith and the physiocrats, or anglophone vs. francophone ideas of modernity 
 
The eighteenth-century division of labor between aesthetic 
disinterestedness and economic interest and its consequences 
 
Land and labor as primary sources of wealth (eighteenth-century views and 
their impact on later debates and practices) 
 
To what extent did The Wealth of Nations reflect both traditional and 
radical preoccupations?  Why 1776? 
 
How central has eighteenth-century economics been to the Enlightenment 
project as it presumably continues to unfold? 
 
How crucial are rationality and modernity to our understanding of Smith's 
economics and to contemporary definitions of economics and/or of the 
Enlightenment? 
 
The Wealth of Nations and globalisation (understood as a political and 
cultural as well as an economic phenomenon) 
 
The renewed interest in the works of Adam Smith on the part of scholars 
working in the fields of literary and cultural studies 
 
 
150-300 words paper proposals should be sent via e-mail (no attachments, 
please!) by Sunday, March 10, 2002 to [log in to unmask] 
 
Please include your name, title, institutional affiliation, a paper title, 
mailing address, e-mail address, phone number and mention any audio-visual 
needs you may have. 
 
Catherine Labio 
Assistant Professor 
Comparative Literature and French 
 
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