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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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