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[The announcement is forwarded from H-ANNOUNCE, an H-Net list. 
 
 After the announcement are excerpts from the 1997 Conference Program, 
 which I selected by searching for "Smith" at 
 <http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ecs/information/asecs_28th.html>. 
 
 The Society website is at <http://muse.jhu.edu/associations/asecs>. 
                                                                --PW ] 
 
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The thirtieth annual meeting of the American Society for 
Eighteenth-Century Studies will take place in Milwaukee WI, 24-28 March 
1999.  The program committee welcomes proposals for interdisciplinary 
sessions and sessions in all disciplines, especially traditionally 
underrepresented disciplines (everything except English literature).   
 
The deadline for SESSION proposals is 1 May 1998.  The list of approved 
session topics will be published in the ASECS newsletter and posted on the 
ASECS web page.  Individuals will submit proposals for papers to the 
session organizers.  The deadline for PAPER proposals is 1 September 1998.  
To request a proposal form or additional information, contact Jeffrey 
Merrick, History, UW-Milwaukee, PO Box 413, Milwaukee WI 53201 
([log in to unmask] or 414-229-4924). 
 
James N. Green 
 
Department of History 
California State University, Long Beach 
1250 Bellflower Blvd. 
Long Beach, CA 90840-1601 
(562) 985-4410 
FAX: (562) 985-5431 
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Illustration: Where the 1997 Conference Program mentions [Adam] Smith  
--selected by PW at 
<http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ecs/information/asecs_28th.html> 
 
 
6. Who Owns Adam Smith?: Competition Among Disciplines          
  
   Chair: Wendy MOTOOKA, Harvard University 
                
   1. Robert URQUHART, University of Denver, "Who Wants to Own Adam 
   Smith, Anyway?" 
    
   2. James R. OTTESON, University of Chicago, "The Recurring 'Adam Smith 
   Problem'"                                                     
    
   3. Maureen HARKIN, Stanford University, "Adam Smith, Literary 
   Community, and Disciplinary Limits" 
  
   Respondent: David M. LEVY, George Mason University 
 
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   3. Michael MERANZE, University of California, San Diego, "Adam Smith's 
   Scaffolds: Sympathy, Stoicism, and the Display of Suffering" 
    
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28. Fictions of Sympathy: Eighteenth-Century Models and Their      
   Implications--Hume and Beyond                                     
  
   Chair: John BENDER, Stanford University                       
    
   1. Scott DYKSTRA, University of California, Berkeley, "Sympathy and 
   Fictive Belief in Hume's Treatise" 
  
   2. Karen O'BRIEN, University of Wales, "Fictions of Sympathy in Hume's 
   History of England" 
    
   3. Beth MCGROARTY, Stanford University, "Real and Fictive 'Persons' in 
   Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments"              
  
   4. David A. BREWER, University of California, Berkeley, "Sympathy, 
   Textuality, and Imaginative Expansion"    
           
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