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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. The conference website is here.

If you are not already a member, you can become one here.

The 2025 conference will be held March 28-30, 2025 at University of Salento in Lecce, Italy.

Selected papers from the conference may be part of the 2026 issue of the Adam Smith Review or History of Political Economy, marking the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations.

The confirmed Keynote Speakers for this conference are: Vivienne Brown (The Open University) and Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham University)

There should be some limited financial support for early career scholars and scholars in difficulty thanks also to a generous donation from the Cesare Barbieri Endowment for Italian Culture, Trinity College, Connecticut, and the Marie Curie “Rethinking Exchange” project. If you need it, please complete our bursary form application here.

In addition to the main conference, the Young Scholars Initiative is sponsoring a pre-conference workshop on March 27th. Building on the success of previous similar workshops, this will be excellent opportunity for early-career researchers working on Smith to receive feedback from senior scholars and peers. Participation in the workshop will be conditional on also attending the main IASS conference. The pre-conference workshop aims to cover costs for travel to and from the conference (including travel from outside Italy), and accommodation for the night before and night of the workshop, at least. The University of Chicago in Paris offers selected workshop participants the opportunity to develop their work on its new International Institute of Research in the weeks following the conference. For further details, see the call for participants here.

Conference Information

Conference Dates: March 28-30, 2025
Call for Papers: Early September 2024
Registration Opens: November 2024
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2024 November 15, 2024
Decisions Announced: November 2024
Early Bird Registration Closes: February 15, 2025

For any questions please contact us at iass2025@unisalento.it