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We are excited to release the final program for our 2024 conference next week at Weseda University, Tokyo. The program may be found here.

We would also remind you that the conference hotel is the Rihga Hotel located at 1-104-19 Totsuka-machi, Shinjuku-ku

Telephone +81 (0)3 5285 1121

You can also find the updated transport information at the following link: https://smithsociety.org/transportation-information/

How to Get to Rihga Hotel

Option 1: Train

From Narita Airport

1) Take the Keisei sky access line (directly linked to the Toei Asakusa line) to Nihonbashi station, and then take the Toei Tozai line to Waseda station. Exit at 3a and the hotel is about a 7 minute walk.

2) Take the Narita express to Shinjuku Station. At Shinjuku Station change to the JR Yamanote Line (bound for Ikebukuro, Ueno) and get out at Takadanobaba Station. At Takadanobaba Station, there is a free hotel bus by the Waseda exit (JR) across the rotary), or Exit 5 (Toei Tozai line), every 30 minutes at 10 and 40 past the hour. The bus departs from the rotary in front of the building F1.

https://www.rihga.com/tokyo/location#sect2-from-nearby-station

As an alternative, at Takadanobaba Station, you can switch to the Metro Tozai Line (Nishi-Funabashi bound). Get off at the Waseda Station. Exit at 3a and the hotel is about a 7 minute walk. The Metro Tozai Line is color coded in light blue in the official signs.

Narita express is 5000yen roundtrip (or 3250yen one way)

https://www.jreast.co.jp/multi/en/nex

From Haneda Airport

1) Take the Tokyo Monorail to Hamamatsucho station, the last stop.

2) At Hamamatsucho, take Yamanote line, outer loop(JR) to Takadanobaba station (via Shibuya and Shinjuku).

3) At Takadanobaba Station,

At Takadanobaba Station, there is a free hotel bus by the Waseda exit (JR) across the rotary), or Exit 5 (Toei Tozai line), every 30 minutes at 10 and 40 past the hour. The bus departs from the rotary in front of the building F1.

https://www.rihga.com/tokyo/location#sect2-from-nearby-station

As an alternative, you can switch to the Metro Tozai Line (Nishi-Funabashi bound). Get off at the Waseda Station. Exit at 3a and the hotel is about a 7 minute walk. The Metro Tozai Line is color coded in light blue in the official signs.

From Haneda the Tokyo Monorail is 500yen

https://www.tokyo-monorail.co.jp/english/index.asp

The information on how to buy subway tickets (JR line including Yamanote Line) is below.

https://www.jreast.co.jp/multi/en/ticket/purchase.html

Option 2: Bus

There is a Limousine Bus Service from both Haneda and Narita airpot to Shinjuku Station.

1) At Shinjuku Station take Ikebukuro-bound JR Yamanote Line (Yamanote Line is color coded in light green in official signs). Get off at Takadanobaba Station.

2) At Takadanobaba Station, there is a free hotel bus by the Waseda exit (JR) across the rotary), or Exit 5 (Toei Tozai line), every 30 minutes at 10 and 40 past the hour. The bus departs from the rotary in front of the building F1.

https://www.rihga.com/tokyo/location#sect2-from-nearby-station

As an alternative, at Takadanobaba Station, you can switch to the Metro Tozai Line (Nishi-Funabashi bound). Get off at the Waseda Station.  Exit at 3a and the hotel is about a 7 minute walk. The Metro Tozai Line is color coded in light blue in the official signs.

The cost of Limousine Bus Service varies from 4000yen to 7500yen from Narita and from 1800yen to 3500yen from Haneda.

https://www.limousinebus.co.jp/guide/en/ticket/subwaypass

https://www.limousinebus.co.jp/guide/en/timetable

https://www.limousinebus.co.jp/guide/en

Option 3: Taxi

To get to Rihga Hotel by taxi:

From Narita airport costs around 23000-25000 yen.

From Haneda airport costs around 6800-7500 yen.

There may be additional late-night charges

How to Get to Waseda University

How to get here:

Waseda University: https://www.waseda.jp/top/en/access/waseda-campus including Campus Map and Gourmet Map.

Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo: https://www.rihga.com/tokyo/map_directions

The venue of the IASS will be the School of Political Science and Economics (Building 3 in the Campus Map)

The two venues are next to each other within a minute’s walk.

The History of Economics Society will hold its 51^st meeting (and 50^th anniversary of the founding of the Society) from July 14 to 18, 2024 at the Universidad del Desarrollo, in Santiago, Chile.

We invite joint sessions IASS/HES.

Individual paper and session submissions should be emailed to Maria Pia Paganelli at mpaganel@trinity.edu. The deadline for submissions has been extended to March 15, 2024

For more information about the conference, please go to

https://historyofeconomics.org/2024-santiago

This will be the first time the History of Economics Society hosts its annual meeting in Latin America! We are excited about it. Santiago is easily connected to most European and American cities. Please remember it will be winter in the Southern Hemisphere, but temperatures usually range between 5-10C (40-50F). Chile is home to the Atacama Desert, Torre del Paine in Patagonia, and Easter Island, as well as many other natural and cultural attractions. See https://www.chile.travel/en/ or https://serviciosturisticos.sernatur.cl/ for detailed tourist information.

We are also happy to announce our 2024 plenary speakers: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of the PPE Society) and a celebration of Adam Smith at 301 with Sandra Peart (University of Richmond), Maria Alejandra Carrasco (Universidad de los Andes-Chile), and Leonidas Montes (director of Centro de Estudios Públicos and Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez).

An early bird registration fee of $150 will be available until May 31, 2024 midnight US Central time. The fee for regular attendants registering after this date will be $200. We are glad to offer discounted registration fees for students (early bird: $50/regular: $100) and scholars with insufficient institutional support (early bird: $100/regular: $150).

The Society has secured a preferential rate with the InterContinental Santiago hotel. Rooms will be available for conference participants from $120/night, breakfast included. A free shuttle service will be provided to transport participants between the hotel and the main conference site. The reception and banquet will be held at the InterContinental Santiago.

The opening reception will be on Sunday July 14^th at a cost of $30. Scholars with insufficient institutional support can purchase tickets for $20, and students for $10.

The award banquet will be on Tuesday July 16^th at a cost of $70. Scholars with insufficient institutional support can purchase tickets for $50, and students for $30.

On Thursday July 18^th, we will offer a wine tour in a wonderful vineyard near Santiago. Prices will be announced soon.

There will be childcare facilities available upon request. For information, please contact Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian at jpc@udd.cl no later than May 31, 2024.

We are excited to release the conference program for our conference in Tokyo, Japan next month. You can find the conference program here or on the Conference web page. If you have not already, please register for the conference as soon as possible. The registration link is here.

Also, please see the conference web page for updated hotel information and transportation information. We look forward to seeing you all in Tokyo!

Date and Time: 17 June 2024, Sorbonne University Paris

The 16th-century European encounter with a variety of societies and languages in the world led to a general debate about their origins, especially during the 18th century. Controversies broke out in many European countries about speech and the human mind, ‘wild’ languages, sociability and the difference between human beings and animals. Were the newly encountered peoples of Americas proof of the primitive and rude state of human beings? Were they the evidence of human nature uncorrupted by the evils of civilization? Were individuals living in these societies without government and private property unsociable and in a perpetual state of war, or were they able to exchange? Was the evidence of diversity in morals and social practices a challenge to the idea of a universal human nature? Was language a fruit of society or its origin? The Scottish thinkers placed particular emphasis on the relationship between living conditions, morality, and sociability, as well as on the idea that language grew alongside the historical development of mankind, instead of being a divine gift or a product of human design. For this reason, they were particularly interested in the ‘primitive’ forms of society and speech.

In 1767, Adam Smith published the essay Considerations concerning the First Formation of Languages. Precisely in the same period, he was turning his attention more deeply to political economy and beginning to write the Wealth of Nations, where speech was proposed as the possible origin of his famous ‘propensity to exchange’. In his Lectures on Jurisprudence, Smith was even clearer and linked propensity to exchange to the capacity of persuading others, whose moral foundation can be found in his Theory of Moral Sentiments. 

Even if it is recognised as a key issue for political economy in its early days, there are many open questions concerning the connection between sociability, language, and exchange in Smith’s thought. What precisely is the role of feelings, speech, and persuasion in economic exchange? Under what conditions can exchange be regarded as a communicative and non-violent interaction? Does Smith’s conjectural history of exchange in the “rude state of society” allow a new understanding of his theory of value?

The workshop is open to contributions by scholars and PhD students that intend to consider Smith’s thought in the historical and theoretical depth of the multidisciplinary debates in which he participated, as well as to contributions that discuss other thinkers and works related to the eighteenth-century debate on the origins and history of societies and languages. 

The workshop will feature the presence of Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University), Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago), Michelle Schwarze (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris) and Marco E. L. Guidi (Università di Pisa) as discussants.

Papers may focus on, but are not limited to, the following topics:

• Smith on speech, persuasion, and exchange
• Scottish conjectural history and the inquiry into ‘primitive’ societies
• The debate on primitive societies and the constitution of political economy as a science
• The role of language in human sociability in the French and Scottish Enlightenment
• Hobbes, Locke, Mandeville, Hume, Condillac, Rousseau, Ferguson, Turgot and Smith on the origins of languages and societies
• Maupertuis, Formey, Herder and the debate around the Berlin Academy of Sciences
• Travel narratives (Charlevoix, Lafitau, etc.) and the representations of ‘primitive’ societies and languages – Smith on colonialism

Please reply with an abstract of up to 200 words to Michele Bee (michele.bee@unisalento.it) by 31 March 2024.

The workshop is organised in the framework of the Marie Curie project ‘Rethinking Exchange’ (Department of Economics, University of Salento) in collaboration with PHARE (Sorbonne University), LexEcon project (Department of Economics and Management, University of Pisa) and the International Adam Smith Society (IASS).

For more information: michele.bee@unisalento.it / laurie.breban@univ-paris1.fr / francesca.daldegan@unipi.it jean.dellemotte@univ-paris1.fr / ivanprates@cedeplar.ufmg.br 

The History of Economics Society will hold its 51^st meeting (and 50^th anniversary of the founding of the Society) from July 14 to 18, 2024 at the Universidad del Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile.

We invite joint sessions IASS/HES.

Individual paper and session submissions should be emailed to Maria Pia Paganelli at mpaganel@trinity.edu. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2024

For more information about the conference, please go to

https://historyofeconomics.org/2024-santiago

This will be the first time the History of Economics Society hosts its annual meeting in Latin America! We are excited about it. Santiago is easily connected to most European and American cities. Please remember it will be winter in the Southern Hemisphere, but temperatures usually range between 5-10C (40-50F). Chile is home to the Atacama Desert, Torre del Paine in Patagonia, and Easter Island, as well as many other natural and cultural attractions. See https://www.chile.travel/en/ or https://serviciosturisticos.sernatur.cl/ for detailed tourist information.

We are also happy to announce our 2024 plenary speakers: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of the PPE Society) and a celebration of Adam Smith at 301 with Sandra Peart (University of Richmond), Maria Alejandra Carrasco (Universidad de los Andes-Chile), and Leonidas Montes (director of Centro de Estudios Públicos and Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez).

An early bird registration fee of $150 will be available until May 31, 2024 midnight US Central time. The fee for regular attendants registering after this date will be $200. We are glad to offer discounted registration fees for students (early bird: $50/regular: $100) and scholars with insufficient institutional support (early bird: $100/regular: $150).

The Society has secured a preferential rate with the InterContinental Santiago hotel. Rooms will be available for conference participants from $120/night, breakfast included. A free shuttle service will be provided to transport participants between the hotel and the main conference site. The reception and banquet will be held at the InterContinental Santiago.

The opening reception will be on Sunday July 14^th at a cost of $30. Scholars with insufficient institutional support can purchase tickets for $20, and students for $10.

The award banquet will be on Tuesday July 16^th at a cost of $70. Scholars with insufficient institutional support can purchase tickets for $50, and students for $30.

On Thursday July 18^th, we will offer a wine tour in a wonderful vineyard near Santiago. Prices will be announced soon.

There will be childcare facilities available upon request. For information, please contact Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian at jpc@udd.cl no later than May 31, 2024.

The History of Economics Society will hold its 51^st meeting (and 50^th anniversary of the founding of the Society) from July 14 to 18, 2024 at the Universidad del Desarrollo, in Santiago, Chile.

We invite join sessions IASS/HES.

Individual paper and session submissions should be emailed to Maria Pia Paganelli at mpaganel@trinity.edu. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2024

For more information about the conference, please go to

https://historyofeconomics.org/2024-santiago/

This will be the first time the History of Economics Society hosts its annual meeting in Latin America! We are excited about it. Santiago is easily connected to most European and American cities. Please remember it will be winter in the Southern Hemisphere, but temperatures usually range between 5-10C (40-50F). Chile is home to the Atacama Desert, Torre del Paine in Patagonia, and Easter Island, as well as many other natural and cultural attractions. See https://www.chile.travel/en/ or https://serviciosturisticos.sernatur.cl/ for detailed tourist information.

We are also happy to announce our 2024 plenary speakers: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of the PPE Society) and a celebration of Adam Smith at 301 with Sandra Peart (University of Richmond), Maria Alejandra Carrasco (Universidad de los Andes-Chile), and Leonidas Montes (director of Centro de Estudios Públicos and Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez).

An early bird registration fee of $150 will be available until May 31, 2024 midnight US Central time. The fee for regular attendants registering after this date will be $200. We are glad to offer discounted registration fees for students (early bird: $50/regular: $100) and scholars with insufficient institutional support (early bird: $100/regular: $150).

The Society has secured a preferential rate with the InterContinental Santiago hotel. Rooms will be available for conference participants from $120/night, breakfast included. A free shuttle service will be provided to transport participants between the hotel and the main conference site. The reception and banquet will be held at the InterContinental Santiago.

The opening reception will be on Sunday July 14^th at a cost of $30. Scholars with insufficient institutional support can purchase tickets for $20, and students for $10.

The award banquet will be on Tuesday July 16^th at a cost of $70. Scholars with insufficient institutional support can purchase tickets for $50, and students for $30.

On Thursday July 18^th, we will offer a wine tour in a wonderful vineyard near Santiago. Prices will be announced soon.

There will be childcare facilities available upon request. For information, please contact Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian at jpc@udd.cl no later than May 31, 2024.

The History of Economics Society will hold its 51^st meeting (and 50^th anniversary of the founding of the Society) from July 14 to 18, 2024 at the Universidad del Desarrollo, in Santiago, Chile.

We invite individual paper and session submissions through our website. The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2024.

More information and session proposals can be found here.

This will be the first time the History of Economics Society hosts its annual meeting in Latin America! We are excited about it. Santiago is easily connected to most European and American cities. Please remember it will be winter in the Southern Hemisphere, but temperatures usually range between 5-10C (40-50F). Chile is home to the Atacama Desert, Torre del Paine in Patagonia, and Easter Island, as well as many other natural and cultural attractions. See https://www.chile.travel/en/ or https://serviciosturisticos.sernatur.cl/ for detailed tourist information.

We are also happy to announce our 2024 plenary speakers: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of the PPE Society) and a celebration of Adam Smith at 301 with Sandra Peart (University of Richmond), Maria Alejandra Carrasco (Universidad de los Andes-Chile), and Leonidas Montes (director of Centro de Estudios Públicos and Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez).

An early bird registration fee of $150 will be available until May 31, 2024 midnight US Central time. The fee for regular attendants registering after this date will be $200. We are glad to offer discounted registration fees for students (early bird: $50/regular: $100) and scholars with insufficient institutional support (early bird: $100/regular: $150).

The Society has secured a preferential rate with the InterContinental Santiago hotel. Rooms will be available for conference participants from $120/night, breakfast included. A free shuttle service will be provided to transport participants between the hotel and the main conference site. The reception and banquet will be held at the InterContinental Santiago.

The opening reception will be on Sunday July 14^th at a cost of $30. Scholars with insufficient institutional support can purchase tickets for $20, and students for $10.

The award banquet will be on Tuesday July 16^th at a cost of $70. Scholars with insufficient institutional support can purchase tickets for $50, and students for $30.

On Thursday July 18^th, we will offer a wine tour in a wonderful vineyard near Santiago. Prices will be announced soon.

There will be childcare facilities available upon request. For information, please contact Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian at jpc@udd.cl no later than May 31, 2024.

 YOUNG SCHOLARS

The HES provides support for several Warren J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholars to present papers at the conference, in the form of free registration, banquet and reception tickets, three nights lodging at the conference hotel, and a year’s membership in the society. A Young Scholar must be a current PhD candidate or have been awarded a PhD in 2020 or later. Those interested in having their paper considered for the Young Scholars program will be able to indicate this when submitting their paper proposal through the conference website and will be contacted subsequently with more details about the program.

The submission deadline for IASS 2024 in Tokyo is extended to November 15!

The conference will be March 11-13, 2024 at Waseda University.

You can submit your abstract here:  https://smithsociety.org/2024-international-adam-smith-society-conference/

The International Adam Smith Society aims to encourage scholarship from many disciplinary perspectives on Adam Smith’s writings, as well as in topics and issues connected with his writings; and to provide a forum for the sharing of research and scholarship relating to Adam Smith.

Its conference is an annual gathering of Smith scholars from around the world. The conference provides the opportunity to meet new and old friends, discuss
ideas, and develop research for publication

For information contact smithconference@gmail.com

The registration for IASS 2024 in Tokyo is now open!

The conference will be March 11-13, 2024 at Waseda University.

You can submit your abstract and register here:  https://smithsociety.org/2024-international-adam-smith-society-conference/

The deadline for submission is November 1, 2023

For information contact smithconference@gmail.com

The International Adam Smith Society conference is an annual gathering of Smith scholars from around the world. The conference provides the opportunity to meet new and old friends, discuss ideas, and develop research for publication.

If you are not already a member, you can become one here.

There should be some limited financial support for early career scholars and scholars in need.

If you wish to support this program and donate to our bursary fund, you can do it here.

In addition, the Young Scholars Initiative is sponsoring a pre-conference workshop on March 10th. The workshop offers early-career scholars working on Adam Smith a chance to discuss their work in detail with peers in a friendly and supportive context, and to get feedback from world-leading Smith scholars. The selected participants will receive travel stipends to attend the Workshop and Conference. Click here for more information.

The 2024 conference will be held March 11-13, 2024 at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. 

Japan holds a prominent place in Smithian scholarship. Part of Smith’s library is now located at the University of Tokyo. On March 14, we have planned a visit to the Smith Library. 

Please join us!

Submit your abstract, session or authors meet critics proposal by clicking here

Submission Deadline: NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Decisions Announced: Early November

Registration Opens: Early October

Registration Closes: Early February

Conference Dates: March 11-13, 2024, 

Visit to Smith Library at the University of Tokyo: March 14

 Conference Fees

All prices are in US Dollars
Conference Registration Fee: $25
Opening Reception: approximately $80
Closing Banquet: approximately $110

Hotel Information

Conference Hotel: Rihga Hotel, Tokyo. The hotel is located across the street from the University. The special discounted rate for the conference is approximately $200/night (booking procedure to follow)

Other hotels are in the area of Takadanobaba (approximately $100/night) and about a 10 minute bus or subway ride to the University. For any questions please contact us at 

smithconference@gmail.com

See you in Tokyo!