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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
[log in to unmask] or to [log in to unmask] which will reach the present
organizing committee.
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