----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Please find the announcement for two seminars below. [I] Seminar on Classical Political Economy and Poor Laws Sunday, 28 October, 2001 13:00-17:30 at Tokyo Metropolitan University, General Education Building, room 107 paper 1: 'The Sudden Mutation of Economic Thought, 1798-1815' by Professor A.M.C. Waterman (St John's College & University of Manitoba, Canada) Discussant: Professor Daisuke Arie (Yokohama National University) Chair: Professor Katsuyoshi Watarai (Waseda University) paper 2: 'Joseph Townsend and Jeremy Bentham on Wealth, Population and Pauperism' by Professor Yasunori Fukagai (Tokyo Metropolitan University) Discussant: Professor A.M.C. Waterman (St John's College & University of Manitoba, Canada) Chair: Professor Takuo Dome (Osaka University) [II] Professor Waterman's Seminar Thursday, 1 November, 2001 14:30-17:00 Waseda University 3rd building, 2nd floor, business meeting room number 2. paper: 'Christian Political Economy and the Poor Laws' by Professor A.M.C. Waterman (St John's College & University of Manitoba, Canada) Discussant: Professor Katsuyoshi Watarai (Waseda University) Chair: Professor Yasunori Fukagai (Tokyo Metropolitan University) * These two seminars are coordinated by the research group of the grant-in-aid for Scientific Research (C) entitled 'the poor laws controversy in the first half of nineteenth century Britain and the pauper reform project of Jeremy Bentham' funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (grant number 13893001: head: Professor Katsuyoshi, Waseda University). Both the seminars are also arranged with the committee of planning and international communication of the JAPANESE SOCIETY for the HISTORY of ECONOMIC THOUGHT (Head of the committee: Professor Masaharu Hattori, Rikkyo University). For further information of the seminars, please contact below. Contact: Yasunori Fukagai Tokyo Metropolitan University Faculty of Economics 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397 Japan Tel: +81 426 77 1111 ext. 1833 [log in to unmask] ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]