===================== HES POSTING ===================== [This announcement comes from Stephen E. Soud of Maryville College, a non-subscriber. Please contact him as soon as possible if you are interested -- my email problems have pushed this announcement just past his deadline. -- RBE] I am seeking papers for the following two sessions at regional and national meetings of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS). ASECS is an interdisciplinary organization dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century. Deadlines and addresses follow each announcement. (Please forgive the late notice, but computer problems at work have delayed this posting by nearly a month.) ADAM SMITH IN HIS WORLD AND OURS Southeast American Society for 18th-c. Studies (SEASECS) Conference Knoxville, TN March 4-6, 1999 15-20 minute papers on any aspect of Smith's work. Topics might include any of the following: contextual studies of the _Wealth of Nations_, approaches to teaching his work, the relations between Smith's moral theory and his economic thought, Smith's impact on recent economic or social thought. Other approaches are also welcome. Please send proposals by September 15 to: Stephen E. Soud Maryville College Maryville, TN 37804 e-mail: [log in to unmask] OR [log in to unmask] POUND FOR POUND: MONEY AND EXCHANGE IN 18TH-C. ENGLAND AND IRELAND ASECS Annual Convention Milwaukee, WI March 24-28, 1999 15-20 minute papers offering new approaches to or revisions of recent work on money and exchange in England and/or Ireland during the "long" eighteenth century (1660-1821). In the interdisciplinary spirit of ASECS, contributions from a variety of fields of inquiry--the history of economic thought, philosophy, literature, postcolonial studies, military history, etc.--are encouraged. Topics might include (but are by no means limited to): the capitalization of money; the impact of the Paoer Pound of 1797-1821; money and Irish nationalism; exchange rates and the problem of supplying England's overseas military campaigns. Please send proposals by September 15 to: Stephen E. Soud Maryville College Maryville, TN 37804 e-mail: [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]