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Please consider sending your proposals this week to participate in the coming 2022 IASS Conference to be held in Bogotá, Universidad de los Andes, 11-13 July. Deadline for submissions has been extended until March 14. All topics on Smith are welcome, especially those on Smith’s influence or interpretation in Latin America. Notifications and more details on logistics will be sent by the end of March. 

For more information on the Conference, please visit: https://bit.ly/3tr10CS

To send your proposals, please use this link: https://bit.ly/3GqI4aZ

Thank you,

Jimena Hurtado

The IASS is excited to put out a Call for Papers for our upcoming conference in Bogota, Colombia!

Please submit abstract proposals (200 word minimum) or session proposals (500 word minimum) by February 25, 2022. Submit proposals here. Notifications will be sent by March 31, 2022 and full papers are expected by June 1, 2022.

For information or questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jimena Hurtado at jihurtad@uniandes.edu.co

The final schedule for our upcoming 2021 conference in beautiful Madison, Wisconsin has been posted to the website. You can find it here. Please be sure to check your presentation dates, times, and roles as some have changed.

See you soon!

	Schedule At-a-Glance All times are listed in Central Standard Time [CST]
Friday, 10/15
8:30am	Coffee
8:45-9:00am	Welcome
9:00-10:30am	Panel 1a + 1b + 1c
10:30am	Coffee
10:45am-12:15pm	Panel 2a + 2b
12:15pm-1:00pm	Lunch
1:00-2pm	Business Meeting (coffee available)
2:15-3:45pm	Panel 3a + 3b
4:00-5:30pm	Welcome Reception
Saturday, 10/16
8:45am	Coffee
9:00-10:30am	Panel 4a + 4b + 4c
10:45am-12:15pm	Panel 5a + 5b
1:30pm	Coffee
1:45-3:15pm	Panel 6a + 6b
3:30-5:00pm	Panel 7a + 7b
5:00-6:45pm	Reception
Sunday, 10/17
8:00-8:30am	Board Meeting
8:30am	Coffee
8:45-10:15am	Panel 8a + 8b
10:30am-Noon	Closing Keynote
	Friday, October 15
Welcome: 8:45am
	Room: Pyle 235
	In-person guests: Pick up your registration folders with name tags in the lobby
Panel 1: 9:00-10:30am
Panel 1A [Online]	Room: Pyle 235 (Broadcast)
Alexandra Oprea	“Smith and Wollstonecraft on the Corruption of Moral Sentiments”
Eveline Hauck	“Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith on Modern Commercial Society”
Discussant:	Craig Smith
Chair:	Ryan Hanley

Panel 1B	Room: Pyle 332
Robert Wylie	“When there is no envy in the case”: Smith’s Envy-Skepticism as Liberal Foundation”
Dirk Schuck	“Property and Habits”
Discussant:	Howard Schweber
Chair:	Susannah Tahk

Panel 1C – Author-Meets-Critics	Room: Pyle 335
Sam Fleischacker	Samuel Fleischacker’s Being You, Being Me: Adam Smith and Empathy
Karsten Stueber
Nir Ben-Moshe
Remy Debes

Panel 2: 10:45am-12:15pm
Panel 2A	Room: Pyle 335
F. E. Guerra-Pujol	“Love and Liberty: The Lost History of Adam Smith’s Private Life”
Yujia Song	“Smithean Sympathy: Entangled Emotions”
Discussant:	Daniel Klein
Chair:	Nils Ringe
Panel 2B	Room: Pyle 235
Vishal Choudhury	“Adam Smith in Beijing: The Market, the State and Society”
Jeffrey Young	“Smith’s Early and Rude State and the Component Parts of Price in WN I.vi”
Maria Pia Paganelli	“Adam Smith’s Digression on Silver: the centerpiece of the Wealth of Nations”
Discussant:	Nina Serdarevic
Chair:	Dan Kapust

LUNCH: 12:15-1:00pm
	Room: Pyle Center, AT&T Room
Grab-and-go lunch	Courtyard seating available, weather permitting

IASS Business Meeting 1:00-2:00pm
	Room: Pyle 235

Panel 3: 2:15-3:45pm
Panel 3A [Online]	Room: Pyle 235 [Broadcast]
Maria Carrasco	“Sources and resources of Smith’s concept of justice”
Jose de la Cruz Garrido	“The Psychology of Social Recognition by Adam Smith”
Garret Edwards	“Mandeville was the Seinfeld of the 18th Century, Smith was the Larry David”
Discussant:	Dan Kapust
Chair:	Jimena Hurtado
Panel 3B	Room: Pyle 335
Ciarán Coyle	“Smith’s Savage Sympathy: Proto-Racism in The Theory of Moral Sentiments”
Patrick Fitzsimmons	“A Smithian theory of kin-networks: Exploring Smith’s works on the structure of families and their effects”
Nir Ben-Moshe	“An Adam Smithian Account of Humanity”
Discussant:	Lauren Kopajtic
Chair:	Keisha Lindsay

Welcome Reception: 4:00-5:30pm
	Room: Lee Room
	Courtyard available, weather permitting

Saturday, October 16

Panel 4: 9:00-10:30am
Panel 4A [Online]	Room: Pyle 235 (Broadcast)
Craig Smith	“The Natural and Ordinary State of Mankind, The Necessities of Nature, and Adam Smith’s Politics”
Kevin Quinn	“Was Smith a Moral Subjectivist?”
Huahui Zhu	“Adam Smith, F. A. Hayek and the English Common Law”
Discussant:	Alexandra Oprea
Chair:	Maria Carrasco

Panel 4B	Room: Pyle 332
Matías Vernengo	“From Classical Liberalism to Neoliberalism: Bourgeois and Vulgar Economics Critically Interpreted”
Discussant:	Jeffrey Young
Chair:	Kirun Sankaran

Panel 4C [Online]	Room: Pyle 335 [Broadcast]
Sule Ozler	“Sympathy, Recognition, and Affection”
Julio Elias and Walter Castro	“Injecting Adam Smith’s Ideas in the Market for Kidney Transplantation”
Discussant:	Mu-Jeong Kho
Chair:	Garrett Edwards

Panel 5: 10:45am-12:15pm
Panel 5A [Online]	Room: Pyle 235 (Broadcast)
Mu-Jeong Kho	“Adam Smith and Thorstein Veblen: Are Capitalist Systems Truly Self-Organizing?”
	Title TBD
Alejandra M. Salinas	“Rawls on Smith”
Discussant:	Huahui Zhu
Chair:	Sule Ozler
Panel 5B	Room: Pyle 335
Sarah Skwire	“As If: Clueless About the Invisible Hand”
Shal Marriott	“A Cautious Conservatism”
Kacey Reeves	“A case for Smith’s Prudent Man as an Entrepreneur”
Discussant:	Brianne Wolf
Chair:	Rick Avramenko

LUNCH (on your own)

Panel 6: 1:45-3:15pm
Panel 6A	Room: Pyle 235
Daniel Klein	“Smith’s Allegory and Organon: Attractive Aspects”
Nina Serdarevic	“Choosing Less Over More Money: the Love of Praiseworthiness and the Dread of Blameworthiness in One-Player Games”
Brianne Wolf	“No Man is an Island Entire of Itself: Adam Smith on Homoeconomicus, Autonomy, and Judgment”
Discussant:	Xinzhi Zhao
Chair:	Maria Pia Paganelli
Panel 6B	Room: Pyle 335
Lauren Kopajtic	“Gender and Self-Control: Re-Examining Mary Wollstonecraft’s Critique of Adam Smith”
Tim Tennyson	“Adam Smith on Education”
Hairuo Tan	“Adam Smith and Confucius on morality: A comparative study of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Analects of Confucius”
Discussant:	Erik Matson
Chair:	James Messina

Panel 7: 3:30-5:00pm
Panel 7A [Online]	Room: Pyle 235 (Broadcast)
Toshiaki Ota	“The Roles of Judges in Adam Smith’s Jurisprudence”
Thais Alves Costa and Evandro Barbosa	“Adam Smith’s Tripartite Theory: The Possibility of Sympathetic Engagement”
David Coker	“Smith’s Religiosity? The Stoic Overlap Between Adam Smith and Calvin”
Discussant:	José de la Cruz Garrido
Chair:	Thais Alves Costa

Panel 7B	Room: Pyle 335
Erik Matson	“A Smithian Critique of the New Paternalism”
Kirun Sankaran	“Rosenberg’s Smith”
Xinzhi Zhao	“Economic Exchange as a Realm of Persuasion: A Normative Dimension in Adam Smith’s Critique of Monopoly by the Third Order”
Discussant:	Robert Wylie
Chair:	Sarah Skwire

RECEPTION: 5:00-6:45pm
	Room: Pyle Center, Lee Room
	Courtyard available, weather permitting

Sunday, October 17

Panel 8: 8:45-10:15am
Panel 8A [Online]	Room: Pyle 235 (Broadcast)
Mauricio Chalfin Coutinho	“Smith on Colonies”
Paulo Roberto de Almeida	“Adam Smith in the Tropics: fortunes and misfortunes of classical economic liberalism in Brazil”
Alvaro Perpere	“Can the Franciscan Scholastic Tradition On Economic Thought Help Us To Understand Smith’s Ideas On Capital and Usury?”
Marcus Shera	“An Inclusive Order and Epistemic Justice: Adam Smith and William James”
Discussant:	Julio Elias
Chair:	Garret Edwards

Panel 8B Author-Meets-Critics	Room: Pyle 335
Michelle Schwarze	Michelle Schwarze’s Recognizing Resentment: Sympathy, Injustice, and Liberal Political Thought
Glory Liu
Doug Den Uyl
10:30-Noon – Closing Keynote	Room: Pyle 235
Samuel Fleischacker	“Learning From Adam Smith in 2021”

We are pleased to present this draft schedule for our upcoming IASS conference in Madison, Wisconsin. This schedule is still a draft and thus subject to changes. Please note: all times are Central Standard Time (CST).

	Schedule At-a-Glance All times are listed in Central Standard Time [CST]
Friday, 10/15
8:30am	Coffee
8:45-9:00am	Welcome
9:00-10:30am	Panel 1a + 1b + 1c
10:30am	Coffee
10:45am-12:15pm	Panel 2a + 2b
12:15pm-1:00pm	Lunch
1:00-2pm	Business Meeting (coffee available)
2:15-3:45pm	Panel 3a + 3b
4:00-5:30pm	Welcome Reception
Saturday, 10/16
8:45am	Coffee
9:00-10:30am	Panel 4a + 4b + 4c
10:45am-12:15pm	Panel 5a + 5b
1:30pm	Coffee
1:45-3:15pm	Panel 6a + 6b
3:30-5:00pm	Panel 7a + 7b + 7c
5:00-6:45pm	Reception
Sunday, 10/17
8:00-8:30am	Board Meeting
8:30am	Coffee
8:45-10:15am	Panel 8a + 8b
10:30am-Noon	Closing Keynote
	Friday, October 15
Panel 1: 9:00-10:30am
Panel 1A [Online]	Room: Pyle 235 (Broadcast)
Jimena Hurtado	“From Sympathy as Socialization to Sympathy as Politicization”
Alexandra Oprea	“Smith and Wollstonecraft on the Corruption of Moral Sentiments”
Eveline Hauck	“Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith on Modern Commercial Society”
Discussant:	Craig Smith
Chair:	Ryan Hanley

Panel 1B	Room: Pyle 225
Robin Malloy	“A Theory of Adam Smith’s Jurisprudence”
Robert Wyllie	“When there is no envy in the case”: Smith’s Envy-Skepticism as Liberal Foundation”
Discussant:	Howard Schweber
Chair:	Susannah Tahk

Panel 1C – Author-Meets-Critics	Room: Pyle Vandeburg Auditorium 121
Sam Fleischacker	Samuel Fleischacker’s Being You, Being Me: Adam Smith and Empathy
Karsten Stueber
Nir Ben-Moshe
Remy Debes

Panel 2: 10:45am-12:15pm
Panel 2A	Room: Pyle 226
F. E. Guerra-Pujol	“Love and Liberty: The Lost History of Adam Smith’s Private Life”
Yujia Song	“Smithean Sympathy: Entangled Emotions”
Discussant:	Daniel Klein
Chair:	Nils Ringe
Panel 2B	Room: Pyle 225
Vishal Choudhury	“Adam Smith in Beijing: The Market, the State and Society”
Jeffrey Young	“Smith’s Early and Rude State and the Component Parts of Price in WN I.vi”
Maria Pia Paganelli	“Adam Smith’s Digression on Silver: the centerpiece of the Wealth of Nations”
Discussant:	Nina Serdarevic
Chair:	Dan Kapust

LUNCH: 12:15-1:00pm
	Room: TBA
	Hosted by UW-Madison Center for European Studies

IASS Business Meeting 1:00-2:00pm
	Room: Room: Pyle Auditorium 121

Panel 3: 2:15-3:45pm
Panel 3A [Online]	Room: Pyle 226 [Broadcast]
Maria Carrasco	“Sources and resources of Smith’s concept of justice”
Jose de la Cruz Garrido	“The Psychology of Social Recognition by Adam Smith”
Garrett Edwards	“Mandeville was the Seinfeld of the 18th Century, Smith was the Larry David”
Discussant:	Dan Kapust
Chair:	Jimena Hurtado
Panel 3B	Room: Pyle 225
Ciarán Coyle	“Smith’s Savage Sympathy: Proto-Racism in The Theory of Moral Sentiments”
Patrick Fitzsimmons	“A Smithian theory of kin-networks: Exploring Smith’s works on the structure of families and their effects”
Nir Ben-Moshe	“An Adam Smithian Account of Humanity”
Discussant:	Lauren Kopajtic
Chair:	Keisha Lindsay

Welcome Dinner: 6:00pm
	Room: TBA
	Hosted in part by UW-Madison Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy

Saturday, October 16

Panel 4: 9:00-10:30am
Panel 4A [Online]	Room: Pyle 226 (Broadcast)
Craig Smith	“The Natural and Ordinary State of Mankind, The Necessities of Nature, and Adam Smith’s Politics”
Dirk Schuck	“Property and Habits”
Huahui Zhu	“Adam Smith, F. A. Hayek and the English Common Law”
Discussant:	Alexandra Oprea
Chair:

Panel 4B	Room: Pyle 225
Matías Vernengo	“From Classical Liberalism to Neoliberalism: Bourgeois and Vulgar Economics Critically Interpreted”
Julio Elias and Walter Castro	“Injecting Adam Smith’s Ideas in the Market for Kidney Transplantation”
Discussant:	Jeffrey Young
Chair:

Panel 4C	Room: Pyle Auditorium 121
Brianne Wolf	“No Man is an Island Entire of Itself: Adam Smith on Homoeconomicus, Autonomy, and Judgment”
Bart Wilson	“What Did Adam Smith Mean? The Semantics of the Opening Key Principles in the Wealth of Nations”
Nina Serdarevic	“Choosing Less Over More Money: the Love of Praiseworthiness and the Dread of Blameworthiness in One-Player Games”
Discussant:	Maria Pia Paganelli
Chair:

Panel 5: 10:45am-12:15pm
Panel 5A [Online]	Room: Pyle 226 (Broadcast)
Mu-Jeong Kho	“Adam Smith and Thorstein Veblen: Are Capitalist Systems Truly Self-Organizing?”
Riccardo Bonfiglioli	Title TBD
Alejandra M. Salinas	“Rawls on Smith”
Discussant:
Chair:
Panel 5B	Room: Pyle 225
Sarah Skwire	“As If: Clueless About the Invisible Hand”
Shal Marriott	“A Cautious Conservatism”
Kacey Reeves	“A case for Smith’s Prudent Man as an Entrepreneur”
Discussant:	Bart Wilson
Chair:	Rick Avramenko

LUNCH (on your own)

Panel 6: 1:45-3:15pm
Panel 6A	Room: Pyle 226
Daniel Klein	“Smith’s Allegory and Organon: Attractive Aspects”
Kevin Quinn	“Was Smith a Moral Subjectivist?”
Sule Ozler	“Love, Recognition, and Sympathy”
Discussant:	Xinzhi Zhao
Chair:	Brianne Wolf
Panel 6B	Room: Pyle 225
Lauren Kopajtic	“Gender and Self-Control: Re-Examining Mary Wollstonecraft’s Critique of Adam Smith”
Tim Tennyson	“Adam Smith on Education”
Hairuo Tan	“Adam Smith and Confucius on morality: A comparative study of The Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Analects of Confucius”
Discussant:	Erik Matson
Chair:	James Messina

Panel 7: 3:30-5:00pm
Panel 7A [Online]	Room: Pyle 226 (Broadcast)
Toshiaki Ota	“The Roles of Judges in Adam Smith’s Jurisprudence”
Thais Alves Costa	“Adam Smith’s Tripartite Theory: The Possibility of Sympathetic Engagement”
David Coker	“Smith’s Religiosity? The Stoic Overlap Between Adam Smith and Calvin”
Discussant:
Chair:

Panel 7B	Room: Pyle 225
Erik Matson	“A Smithian Critique of the New Paternalism”
Kirun Sankaran	“Rosenberg’s Smith”
Xinzhi Zhao	“Economic Exchange as a Realm of Persuasion: A Normative Dimension in Adam Smith’s Critique of Monopoly by the Third Order”
Discussant:	Robert Wylie
Chair:	Sarah Skwire

RECEPTION: 5:00-6:45pm
	Room: TBA
	Hosted by UW-Madison Institute for Legal Studies

Sunday, October 17

Panel 8: 8:45-10:15am
Panel 8A [Online]	Room: Pyle 226 (Broadcast)
Mauricio Chalfin Coutinho	“Smith on Colonies”
Paulo Roberto de Almeida	“Adam Smith in the Tropics: fortunes and misfortunes of classical economic liberalism in Brazil”
Alvaro Perpere	“Can the Franciscan Scholastic Tradition On Economic Thought Help Us To Understand Smith’s Ideas On Capital and Usury?”
Marcus Shera	“An Inclusive Order and Epistemic Justice: Adam Smith and William James”
Discussant:
Chair:

Panel 8B Author-Meets-Critics	Room: Pyle 225
Michelle Schwarze	Michelle Schwarze’s Recognizing Resentment: Sympathy, Injustice, and Liberal Political Thought
Glory Liu
Doug Den Uyl
Deidre McCloskey
10:30-Noon – Keynote	Room: Pyle Auditorium 121
Samuel Fleischacker	“Learning From Adam Smith in 2021”

Registration for the upcoming 2021 IASS Madison Conference is now available online! Our full program will be forthcoming soon. 

If you are interested in attending the conference, whether you plan on presenting a paper or not, please register for the conference at your earliest convenience.

To do so, submit the Google form available on the conference website: https://smithsociety.org/2021-international-adam-smith-society-madison-conference/ The registration fee for non-members is $25; registration is free for current IASS members. You can join the IASS here; if you indicate that you would prefer to pay the $25 fee on your registration form, you will be invoiced.

Discounted lodging arrangements for in-person participants have been made available at the Springhill Suites Madison. We are in the process of making travel arrangements to and from the conference hotel to campus.

We’re looking forward to hosting our hybrid conference in Madison in October.

Today, May 14, is the final day to submit paper proposals for the 2021 IASS Conference in Madison, WI.

The upcoming IASS Annual Conference is October 15-17, 2021 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference will be hybrid: online and in-person sessions.

The Paper Submission Deadline has been extended to May 14, 2021!

TO DO: Abstracts or author meets critic panel proposals of approximately 500 words or less should be submitted via Google forms at https://forms.gle/4MBtPwmtz4S1dYEv6  

The review committee will make every effort to notify authors of acceptance decisions by mid- June 2021.

QUESTIONS: If you have any questions about the status of your proposal, please email mschwarze@wisc.edu

For more information about the IASS, visit our website: https://smithsociety.org

The 2021 IASS Conference is cosponsored by the departments of Political Science, Philosophy, and Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS), as well as the Center for Early Modern Studies, Center for Study of Liberal Democracy (CSLD), Center for European Studies (CES), Political Economy, Philosophy, and Politics (PEPP) Certificate, and the Political Theory Workshop. It is supported in part by generous donations from the Jack Miller Center, Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the Center for European Studies, and the Institute for Legal Studies.

The upcoming IASS Annual Conference is October 15-17, 2021 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The conference will be hybrid: online and in-person sessions.

The Paper Submission Deadline has been extended to May 14, 2021!

TO DO: Abstracts or author meets critic panel proposals of approximately 500 words or less should be submitted via Google forms at https://forms.gle/4MBtPwmtz4S1dYEv6  

The review committee will make every effort to notify authors of acceptance decisions by mid- June 2021.

QUESTIONS: If you have any questions about the status of your proposal, please email mschwarze@wisc.edu

For more information about the IASS, visit our website: https://smithsociety.org

The 2021 IASS Conference is cosponsored by the departments of Political Science, Philosophy, and Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS), as well as the Center for Early Modern Studies, Center for Study of Liberal Democracy (CSLD), Center for European Studies (CES), Political Economy, Philosophy, and Politics (PEPP) Certificate, and the Political Theory Workshop. It is supported in part by generous donations from the Jack Miller Center, Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the Center for European Studies, and the Institute for Legal Studies.

The upcoming IASS Annual Conference is October 15-17, 2021 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2021!

TO DO: Abstracts or author meets critic panel proposals of approximately 500 words or less should be submitted via Google forms at https://forms.gle/4MBtPwmtz4S1dYEv6  

The review committee will make every effort to notify authors of acceptance decisions by mid- June 2021.

QUESTIONS: If you have any questions about the status of your proposal, please email mschwarze@wisc.edu

For more information about the IASS, visit our website: https://smithsociety.org

The 2021 IASS Conference is cosponsored by the departments of Political Science, Philosophy, and Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS), as well as the Center for Early Modern Studies, Center for Study of Liberal Democracy (CSLD), Center for European Studies (CES), Political Economy, Philosophy, and Politics (PEPP) Certificate, and the Political Theory Workshop. It is supported in part by generous donations from the Jack Miller Center, Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the Center for European Studies, and the Institute for Legal Studies.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: April 30, 2021

CONFERENCE DATES: Friday, October 15 – Sunday, 17 October, 2021

WHAT: The Smith Conference Committee at UW-Madison invites submissions for the 2021 IASS Annual Conference. The conference builds on the success of the IASS’s recent meetings in Scotland, Chile, Italy, Southern California, and the planned conference in Japan.

We aim to bring together scholars of Smith across disciplines and will consider individual and coauthored papers on Smith from any field and at any institution. We also welcome proposals for author meets critics sessions to discuss books published in the last two years (or forthcoming); proposers of such sessions should solicit interest in participating from the author and at least two critics prior to submission.

WHERE: We hope to be able to host an in-person conference in Madison but are planning for both a hybrid and online format as well. We aim to be able to include as much of our membership as possible. We will follow CDC, WHO, and UW-Madison protocols in determining the final format of the conference, which we plan to announce with acceptance decisions. 

TO DO: Abstracts or author meets critic panel proposals of approximately 500 words or less should be submitted via Google forms at https://forms.gle/4MBtPwmtz4S1dYEv6  

The review committee will make every effort to notify authors of acceptance decisions by mid- June 2021.

QUESTIONS: If you have any questions about the status of your proposal, please email mschwarze@wisc.edu

For more information about the IASS, visit our website: https://smithsociety.org

The 2021 IASS Conference is cosponsored by the departments of Political Science, Philosophy, and Integrated Liberal Studies (ILS), as well as the Center for Early Modern Studies, Center for Study of Liberal Democracy (CSLD), Center for European Studies (CES), Political Economy, Philosophy, and Politics (PEPP) Certificate, and the Political Theory Workshop. It is supported in part by generous donations from the Jack Miller Center, Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy, the Center for European Studies, and the Institute for Legal Studies.