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The 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society 
and 
The International Adam Smith Society 
 
Joint Conference 
POLITICAL ECONOMY AND 
18TH-CENTURY SCOTTISH CULTURE 
10 - 12 June 2001 
CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
Hosted by The James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy, 
George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia 
 
This will be the first major conference to focus on connections between 
political economy in the age of Adam Smith and Scottish culture in the widest 
sense of that term, including the Enlightenment, social and economic 
improvement, politics and patronage, religious belief and ecclesiastical 
affairs, emigration and migration, Jacobitism, the book trade, national 
identity, clubs and societies, universities, political and social theory, 
philosophy, science, and novels and poetry.  Papers will be 20-25 minutes long. 
 
The plenary speakers will be Jane Rendall, Co-Director, Centre for 18th-Century 
Studies, University of York: "Adapting the Legacy: Gender, History, and 
Political Economy in the Work of John Millar and Dugald Stewart"; Clifford 
Siskin, Bradley Professor of English, University of Glasgow: "Political Economy 
and the Genre of System"; and Andrew Skinner, Adam Smith Professor of Political 
Economy Emeritus, University of Glasgow: "Scottish Political Economy in the 
Enlightenment."  
 
Send or fax a one-page abstract (with title) and a brief c.v. by 15 November 
2000 to: 
 
Richard B. Sher 
Executive Secretary, 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society 
New Jersey Institute of Technology 
University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982 USA 
e-mail: [log in to unmask] 
tel.: 973-596-3377; fax: 973-762-3039 
 
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