"Bubbles, Crashes, and Other Financial Crises in Art and Literature" A session of the 2008 Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Portland, OR, March 27-30, 2008). I invite paper proposals dealing with the visual and/or verbal treatments of the financial crises and innovations that shaped economic and cultural history in the long eighteenth century. Papers that focus on under-studied geographical areas, as well as papers written from an interdisciplinary and/or comparative perspective are particularly welcome. Please send one-page paper proposals to Catherine Labio, Depts of Comparative Literature and French, Yale University, P. O. Box 208251, New Haven CT 06520-8251, USA; fax: (203) 432-7975; e-mail: catherine.labio[AT]yale.edu Proposals must be received no later than September 15, 2007. Please include your telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address and mention any audio-visual needs and special scheduling requests. For more information on the conference, see: http://asecs.press.jhu.edu/2008annualmtg.htm Catherine Labio