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The Mediterranean Society for the Study of the Scottish Enlightenment (MSSSE) is hosting its 5th annual international conference from May 24-26, 2016 in Istanbul, Turkey at Isik University. The schedule is below.

Tuesday, May 24

10:30-11:00 Welcoming Session

Sirin Tekinay (Isik University / Rector)

Greeting and Opening Speech

Dionysis G. Drosos (University of Ioannina):

Opening Remarks

Örsan K. Öymen (Isik University):

Opening Remarks

11:00-13:00 1^st Session

Chair: Halil Turan (Middle East Technical University)

Dogan Gocmen (Dokuz Eylul University):

Enlightenment and Democracy: Ancient and Modern

 Ioannis A. Tassopoulos (University of Athens):

Hobbesian Reciprocity and the Discourse of Factionalism and Democracy in the Federalist Papers: Some Comments on the History of Impartiality

Dionysis G. Drosos (University of Ioannina):

Modernity, Liberalism and the Lost Promise of Democracy

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-16:00 2^nd Session

Chair: Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa):

Sam Fleischacker (University of Illinois-Chicago):

Hume’s and Smith’s Worries about Democracy  

Spyros Tegos (University of Crete):

The Problem of Authority in David Hume and Adam Smith

 Gloria Vivenza (University of Verona):

Adam Smith and Democracy

 16:00-16:30 Coffee Break

16:30-18:30 3^rd Session

Chair: Dogan Gocmen (Dokuz Eylul University):

Nir Ben-Mosche (University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign):

Comprehensive or Political Liberalism?: The Impartial Spectator and the Justification of Political Principles

 Yiftah Elazar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem):

The Impartial Patriot: Adam Smith’s Theory of Enlightened Patriotism

Gokhan Murteza (Kırklareli University):

Democracy and Education in Adam Smith

Wednesday, May 25

10:30-12:30 4^th Session

Chair: Örsan K. Öymen (Isik University)

John T. Scott (University of California) & Michelle Schwarze (University of Wisconsin):

The Possibility of Progress: Smith and Rousseau on “Pitié”, Sympathy and the Moral Economy 

Halil Turan (Middle East Technical University):

Inequality and (Loss of) Freedom

Stavroula Balafa (University of Ioannina):

Liberty and Equality in Rousseau’s “Republique”

Özlem Ünlü (Middle East Technical University):

Rooting out Rousseauesque Conscience from the Unity of Reason

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:30 5^th Session

Chair: Dionysis G. Drosos (University of Ioannina):

Fania Oz-Salzberger (University of Haifa):

From “Republic of Letters” to “Democracy of Letters”: The Ambivalent Transition of Europe’s Translation-Culture in the Late Eighteenth Century

Saniye Vatansever (Bilkent University):

Kant’s Two Conceptions of Enlightenment

Christos Grigoriou (University of Crete):

Schiller’s Letters on Aesthetic Education. Republicanism and Democracy

Eylem Yolsal-Murteza (Kırklareli University):

Democracy as the Dissolution of the Markers of Certainty and the Empty Place of Power

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-18:00 6^th Session

Chair: Sam Fleischacker (University of Illinois-Chicago):

Schmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University):

Dreams and Nightmares: Moses Mendelssohn`s Battle for Religious Tolerance

 Roberto Rodriguez Milan (Hellenic Open University):

The Spanish Enlightenment and Democracy: From “Sinapia” to “La Pepa”

Örsan K. Öymen (Isik University):

Atatürk, Democracy and the Turkish Enlightenment

Thursday, May 26

11:00-18:00 Visit to the Hagia Sophia, Citadel, Blue Mosque, Topkapi Palace & Archeological Museum.

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A new two-hour documentary on Smith, “The Real Adam Smith: Markets and Morality,” featuring commentary from Ryan Patrick Hanley, James Otteson, Nick Phillipson, and Eamonn Butler, is airing on PBS this weekend. It is especially of interest for non-academics and student audiences.

Those interested can find exact details on when/where airing in their local PBS markets here: http://www.freetochoosemedia.org/broadcasts/adam_smith/public_tv.php

It’s also available on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6S6pMsKzlI

We encourage you to submit session proposals for two upcoming conferences: the 48th meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) and the annual American Philosophical Society (APA) Central Division meeting.

First, the IASS has the ability to sponsor a session at ASECS, March 30-April 2, 2017, in Minneapolis. The deadline for submission is May 15, 2016. If you have a session to propose, please email speart@richmond.edu so relevant information can be forwarded to you.

Second, the IASS has been invited to sponsor a session at the 2017 American Philosophical Association Central Division meeting, which will be held at the Sheraton Kansas City at Crown Center, Kansas City, MO, March 1-4, 2017. Initial requests are due by August 5, 2016. If you have a session to propose, please email speart@richmond.edu so relevant information can be forwarded to you.

Both conferences provide excellent opportunities for IASS members to obtain good comments about their scholarship.

The Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) is holding its 41st Annual Meeting in Las Vegas on April 3-5, 2016. Some panels may be of interest to IASS members, including the “New Perspectives on Adam Smith” panel.

More information on the APEE conference can be found here. 

Alongside the joint IASS and Rousseau Association meeting, “Themes from Smith and Rousseau,” in Glasgow last summer, the University of Glasgow’s Special Collections and Rare Books Library published a number of online exhibits and blog posts. You can view some of those exhibits and blog posts here:

• Adam Smith in the Republic 
• The Best and Worst Aspects of Archival Research

The International Adam Smith Society will sponsor sessions on Adam Smith at the History of Economics Society meeting to be held at Duke University, Durham, NC (USA) on June 17-20, 2016

If you are interested in presenting a paper on Adam Smith or on an Adam Smith related theme and would like to be included in the session, please send an abstract of your paper to Maria Pia Paganelli at mpaganel@trinity.edu by February 28^th, 2016.

For more information about the History of Economics Society: http://historyofeconomics.org/

For more information about the International Adam Smith Society: www.smithsociety.org

For more information about the HES conference at Duke: http://econ.duke.edu/events/events/conferences/history-of-economics-society-2016

The following announcement (from the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh) may be of interest to members of the Society.

Applications are invited for the Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th-Century Scottish Studies, co-sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society (ECSSS), the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS), and the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh (IASH).  The Fellowship is for two to six months and may be taken at any time of the year. Fellows are expected to be in residence in Edinburgh for the duration of the Fellowship and to participate fully in IASH activities.

The Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship honours two outstanding scholars of eighteenth-century Scottish literature and culture, Professor David Daiches (1912-2005) and Professor Susan Manning (1953-2013). David Daiches was one of the original directors of IASH during the 1980s and was the first recipient of ECSSS’s Lifetime Achievement Award, presented at the Society’s first annual conference in 1987. Susan Manning served as director of IASH from 2005 until her death, President of ECSSS from 1994 to 1996, and continuously as a member of the ECSSS Executive Board from 1994 to 2013. She was awarded the ECSSS Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in May 2013. Although both David Daiches and Susan Manning had broad intellectual interests and expertise, each made a particularly important contribution to eighteenth-century Scottish studies as an interdisciplinary and international research field.

The fellowship provides a bursary of US$3000/£1800* towards travel and accommodation in support of research on any aspect of eighteenth-century Scottish studies. It is open to post-doctoral scholars of all nationalities, in all disciplines, and at all career levels. Fellows must be members of ASECS and ECSSS at the time the funds are awarded.

[*Note: actual award amounts may vary from year to year according to currency exchange rate and other factors.]

IASH is housed in an eighteenth-century courtyard close to the Edinburgh University Library, and about twenty scholars are in residence at any time. Fellows are allocated a private office in the Institute with all the usual research facilities. They are also encouraged to develop contacts with colleagues within the College of Humanities and Social Science. They give at least one seminar on their current research work during their tenure.  For more information and to apply, please follow the link below.

http://www.iash.ed.ac.uk/fellowships/fellowships-at-iash/the-daiches-manning-memorial-fellowship-in-18th-century-scottish-studies/

• February 2016: IASS member Jeff Young (Professor of Economics, St. Lawrence University) has organized a symposium at the 2016 meetings of the Eastern Economic Association entitled “Adam Smith at 240.”  Three papers will be presented at the meetings and four papers will be published in the Eastern Economic Journal.

The International Adam Smith Society will sponsor a session at the History of Economics Society meeting to be held at Duke University, Durham, NC (USA) on June 17-20, 2016.

• March 11-13, 2016: The Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy hosts a conference on “Scottish Philosophy before the Enlightenment.” The CSSP is looking for papers that explore both prominent figures and philosophical themes that shaped Scottish intellectual debate before the Enlightenment (e.g. John Mair, the Logic curriculum, Cartesianism, Reformation theology) and papers that explore philosophical sources and themes from earlier centuries in the Scottish philosophers of the 18^th and 19^th centuries (e.g. Plato, Aristotle, the rejection of Stoicism, Epicureanism, Natural Law).

• Proposals should take the form of a 300 word abstract and be submitted to cssp@ptsem.edu by November 30^th 2015. Decisions will be advised by mid-December.