The University of Glasgow is launching a Adam Smith Summer School in June 2023, offering University of Glasgow undergraduate credit to study with the leading Smith scholar, Dr Craig Smith, at the University where Adam Smith was a student, professor, and rector. Participation will entitle them to discounted tuition should they wish to pursue a Master’s at Glasgow when they graduate. Here is more information on the class. Note that applications open in January.
News & Events
Smithian Post-doc Positions at The University of Glasgow: Open Dicipline
2 two-year Post-Doctoral positions at The University of Glasgow working on Adam Smith or Smithian themes in any dicipline are now accepting applications! Applications are due October 14.
For more information and to apply, click here. Inquiries may be directed to Craig Smith at: Craig.Smith@glasgow.ac.uk
Call for Papers: Smith, Ferguson, and Witherspoon @ 300, St Andrews, 18-21 July, 2023
In conjunction with the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, the Institute for the Study of Scottish Philosophy, and the International Adam Smith Society:
The Institute of Intellectual History at the University of St Andrews will host a conference to celebrate the 300th birthdays of Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, and John Witherspoon, and also the 250th anniversary of Johnson and Boswell’s tour of the Highlands and Western Isles.
18-21 July 2023, St Andrews, Scotland
Plenary speakers:
Jeng-Guo Chen (Academia Sinica, Taipei)
Lisa Hill (Adelaide)
Nigel Leask (Glasgow)
Gideon Mailer (Minnesota Duluth)
We welcome paper abstracts (400 words max) and session proposals, both on the themes of the conference, and on eighteenth-century Scottish intellectual life more generally.
We also welcome proposals for author meets critics sessions on recent or forthcoming books.
A limited amount of funding will be available for PhD students.
DEADLINE FEBRUARY 25, 2023
Abstracts and proposals should be sent to standconf2023@gmail.com
General enquiries should also be sent to standconf2023@gmail.com
Call for Papers for University of Glasgow’s Tercentenary, June 2023
Call for Papers for a panel at the June 2023 University of Glasgow’s Tercentenary events. Dr. Charles Wheelan of Dartmouth College is looking to run the following panel:
“Adam Smith famously warned of the impact of guilds in inhibiting healthy economic competition. The guilds have disappeared, but Smith’s insights are more relevant than ever. Charles Wheelan will speak about the growing impact of occupational licensure, which is the process by which governments require legal credentialing for individuals to practice a profession. The professions licensed (at the state level in the U.S.) now include occupations like hair braiding and interior design. The effect, as Smith warned, has been to diminish economic and geographic mobility and to preclude some vulnerable populations, such as ex-felons, from finding work.”
Inquiries and interest can be directed to Charles Wheelan at: Charles.J.Wheelan@dartmouth.edu
Bogota Conference Schedule
We are pleased to announce the preliminary schedule for the upcoming IASS 2022 conference in Bogota, Colombia has been released! You can find the schedule and a link to the program of events here.
IASS 2022 Call for Papers – Deadline Extended!
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
IASS 2022 Conference Call for Papers
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
IASS Madison 2021 Final Schedule Announced!
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!
IASS Madison 2021 Final Schedule
| 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” |
2021 IASS Madison Conference Draft Schedule
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” |
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