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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!

As you know, the International Adam Smith Society is engaging more early career scholars and scholars from different geographical areas and backgrounds. We are trying to offer as much financial support as possible.

To continue our activities, we need your help.

We have depleted our bursary fund, and we hope you will contribute to replenish it. Our upcoming conferences are in Tokyo 2024, Lecce 2025, and Glasgow 2026. It would be wonderful for us to be able to support wider participation in these events.

Please consider donating to the bursary fund and support many scholars!

IASS is not for profit, and all donations are tax deductible.

Thank you

Maria Pia Paganelli 

President, IASS

The deadline for the Smith, Ferguson, and Witherspoon Conference is rapidly approaching! The deadline is June 30, 2023.

You may register using this link.

The deadline for registering for ‘Smith, Ferguson, and Witherspoon at 300’ is 9 June. After that date, there will be no guarantee that rooms in University accommodation will be available to participants. So please register as soon as possible, if you haven’t already.

Here is a link to the registration site:  https://www.eventsforce.net/standrews/184/register

You may also find the current program below:

On the occasion of Adam Smith’s Tercentenary celebrations, the Marie Curie Project ‘Rethinking Exchange’ would like to solicit papers for a session titled ‘Smith and the Nature of Commerce’ and to be organized jointly with the International Adam Smith Society (IASS) during the upcoming 2023 AISPE (Associazione Italiana per la Storia del Pensiero Economico) and SISE (Società Italiana degli Storici Economici) conference.

Before the 19th century, commerce was part of a vast debate on human nature, the foundations of sociability and society, which involved thinkers from nascent disciplines like anthropology, political science, political economy and natural history, later considered separately. Back then, commerce was not exclusively understood as an economic concept, but also as a moral and political one. It meant not only the economic exchange of goods but was rather conceived as a particular form of social interaction based on moral sentiments, as a principle of social regulation that could possibly serve as an alternative to war and political subordination. On which attributes of human nature was commerce grounded? What kind of exchange and sociability did it concern? Under which moral, social or political conditions could it become a peaceful, free and fair way of social interaction? And under which conditions could it turn into a means of alienation, social domination and corruption? These were some of the questions that thinkers from the 18th century were grappling with.

Adam Smith made an important contribution to these debates through his two main works: the Theory of Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations. In these books, Smith developed his own response to challenges put forward by thinkers like Hobbes, Pufendorf, Mandeville, Hume and Rousseau regarding the nature of commerce and human sociability. But what is the meaning of his contribution? Although scholars now amply recognize there was no contradiction between his economic and moral thought, there is no consensus regarding his stance towards commerce. In Smith’s view, was commerce an expression of the moral sentiments and a means of fulfilling one’s moral needs, or did it beget inequality, corruption and social division? Was it after all an actual solution for the problem of social conflict and violence, or did it instead pose serious moral and political problems to modern societies? We can also ask ourselves: how Smith’s questions and answers are still relevant today?

The session is open to contributions by scholars and PhD students that intend to consider Smith’s thought on these and related issues in the historical and theoretical depth of the multidisciplinary debates in which he participated. It is also open to contributions that discuss Smith’s current relevance for the branches of economics, philosophy, social and political sciences that in various ways reintroduce the themes of those debates in contemporary times.

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

• The role of moral feelings and ideas in Smith conceptualization of economic exchange
• The debate on human nature and Smith’s concept of self-love
• The 17th and 18th century debate on moral and political concerns regarding commerce (e.g. corruption, inequality, social division, political and religious fanaticism, nationalism, slavery and imperialism).
• Smith’s conception of commerce and its relation to the doctrine of reason of state.
• Smith and the legacy of natural law tradition

Please reply with an abstract of up to 200 words to Ivan Sternick (ivanprates@cedeplar.ufmg.br) by Wednesday 31 May.

Ivan Sternick and Michele Bee

Please see the post below on an upcoming One Day Workshop during the Adam Smith Tercentenary.

The YSI History of Economic Thought working group is organizing a one-day workshop on 7th June as part of the 2023 Adam Smith tercentenary events at the University of Glasgow, UK. This is an exciting opportunity for ten young scholars working on Smith to participate in the prestigious and historic tercentenary events planned at Glasgow and discuss their work with peers and senior Smith scholars.

The theme of the workshop will be “Adam Smith at 300”. This theme has been left deliberately open-ended to allow space for the broadest range of approaches to Smith’s work, including, for example, those working on the contemporary relevance of his ideas, as well as those doing more historicist work.

If you are interested in attending the workshop, you should:

(i) be a young scholar (Master, PhD, Post-Doc);

(ii) complete this form by 3rd May.

Invited participants will receive travel stipends and enjoy free lodging during the workshop and Smith tercentenary week. We will let applicants know the outcome by 8th May.

For more information about the Workshop ysi.ineteconomics.org/project

For other Tercentenary Week events, see www.gla.ac.uk/explore/adamsmith300/events

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. 

Best regards,

Ana Paula Londe Silva (she/her)

Research Associate | School of Social and Political Sciences | University of Glasgow

PhD candidate | History of Economics | Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

This post contains information about registration for “Smith, Ferguson, and Witherspoon at 300”, taking place at the University of St Andrews, 18-21 July 2023.

You can register using this link: – https://www.eventsforce.net/standrews/184/register

Graduate students and scholars from the Global South are offered a 50% discount on the cost of registration. If you wish to take advantage of this discount, please register by 15 May at the latest.

Basic registration includes lunches during the conference and an opening reception on 18 July. You can also register for the conference banquet on 21 July, which will include a ceilidh (traditional Scottish dancing), and for a coach trip to Kirkcaldy and the Fife fishing village of Anstruther on the afternoon of 20 July.

You will also have the option of booking accommodation owned by the University of St. Andrews. There are other possibilities, including local hotels and bed and breakfasts. Accommodation can be in short supply in St. Andrews in the summer, so it’s advisable to make arrangements as soon as possible.

You are welcome to bring guests to the banquet (and on the trip), but note that we’re obliged to charge an extra 20% VAT on the cost.

If you have problems with registration, please write to aceteam@st-andrews.ac.uk in the first instance.

The conference team