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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 
8:30amCoffee 
8:45-9:00amWelcome 
9:00-10:30amPanel 1a + 1b + 1c 
10:30amCoffee 
10:45am-12:15pmPanel 2a + 2b 
12:15pm-1:00pmLunch (hosted by UW-Madison Center for European Studies) 
1:00-2pmBusiness Meeting (coffee available) 
2:15-3:45pmPanel 3a + 3b 
4:00-5:30pmKeynote 
6pmWelcome dinner (Hosted in part by the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy) 
 
Saturday, 10/16 
8:45amCoffee 
9:00-10:30amPanel 4a + 4b + 4c 
10:45am-12:15pmPanel 5a + 5b 
1:30pmCoffee 
1:45-3:15pmPanel 6a + 6b 
3:30-5:00pmPanel 7a + 7b + 7c 
5:00-6:45pmReception (Hosted by Institute for Legal Studies) 
 
Sunday, 10/17 
8:00-8:30amBoard Meeting   
8:30amCoffee 
8:45-10:15amPanel 8a + 8b 
10:30am-NoonClosing Keynote 
                
  Friday, October 15 
Panel 1: 9:00-10:30am
Panel 1A [Online]Room: Pyle 226 (Broadcast)
Jimena Hurtado“From Sympathy as Socialization to Sympathy as Politicization”
Alexandra Oprea“Smith and Wollstonecraft on the Corruption of Moral Sentiments”
Eveline HauckTitle TBD
Discussant: Craig Smith
Chair: Ryan Hanley
Panel 1BRoom: 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-CriticsRoom: Pyle Vandeburg Auditorium 121
Sam FleischackerSamuel Fleischacker’s Being You, Being Me: Adam Smith and Empathy
Karsten Stueber 
Nir Ben-Moshe 
Remy Debes 
Panel 2: 10:45am-12:15pm
Panel 2ARoom: 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 2BRoom: 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 3BRoom: 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 4BRoom: 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 4CRoom: 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 BonfiglioliTitle TBD
Alejandra M. Salinas“Rawls on Smith”
Discussant: 
Chair: 
Panel 5BRoom: 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 6ARoom: 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 6BRoom: 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 7BRoom: 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-CriticsRoom: Pyle 225
Michelle SchwarzeMichelle Schwarze’s Recognizing Resentment: Sympathy, Injustice, and Liberal Political Thought
 Glory Liu 
Doug Den Uyl 
Deidre McCloskey 
10:30-Noon – KeynoteRoom: Pyle Auditorium 121
Samuel Fleischacker “Learning From Adam Smith in 2021”
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2021 IASS Madison Conference Registration

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.

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2021 IASS Conference Call for Papers Deadline

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.

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2021 IASS Conference Call for Papers Deadline Extended

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.

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Reminder: 2021 International Adam Smith Society (IASS) Annual Conference Paper Submission Deadline

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.

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2021 International Adam Smith Society (IASS) Annual Conference: Call for Papers

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.

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Call for Papers: Commentaries on Smith/Hume Scholarship

Dear IASS members: 

Econ Journal Watch (EJW) has announced a call for papers for commentaries on Smith/Hume scholarship.

https://econjwatch.org/news/call-for-papers-commentaries-on-smith-hume-scholarship

Please consider participating in the symposium and helping get the word out to Smith/Hume scholars in your network.

Critical comments are to be on Smith/Hume scholarships of the past 20 years—particularly on scholarship pertaining to their moral, political, and economic philosophizing and historiography. Authors of the papers commented on will be invited to reply and the exchange will be published inEJW.

EJW is a Web of Science journal with an extensive readership and a special preoccupation with Adam Smith. Nine Nobel Laureates who have lent their names to EJW’s advisory council.

Your contribution to this project of the journal offers the opportunity for friendly and open discussion about differences of interpretation about Smith and Hume. If you’d like to propose a critical comment write to EJW Managing Editor Jason Briggeman at jason@briggeman.org.

Sincerely,

Daniel Klein

Chief editor, Econ Journal Watch

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Cancellation of 2020 IASS in Tokyo

It is with great pain that the IASS board came to the decision to cancel the annual conference in Tokyo, due to the current outbreak of Coronavirus.

Refunds for registration and dinner will be processed soon. We cannot refund the fees that PayPal charges.
Individual participants will be responsible for their own cancellations and refunds of transportation and accomodation.

We regret any inconvenience this cancellation may cause. And we surely hope we can see each other soon enough in another event.
The IASS board would also recognize and deeply thank the local organizers for all the hard work they did both in organizing a conference that had a remarkably wonderful program, and in handling all the difficulties due to the consequences of the Coronavirus.
The IASS Board
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Register now for IASS Tokyo Conference!

Registration for the upcoming International Adam Smith Society Tokyo conference on March 15-17, 2020 is now open!
More information about registration, the conference itself, and lodging can be found on our IASS site: IASS 2020 Tokyo
Registration will only be open until the end of January 2020, so be sure to register as soon as you can!
The Adam Smith Review – the journal of the International Adam Smith Society – will also publish a special issue of selected papers from the Tokyo conference.  Conference participants will receive guidelines on how to prepare their papers for submission and review at the close fo the Tokyo conference.