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The meeting will begin with a reception in the Hunterian Museum from 5pm on Monday 20th July. This will be followed by two days of panels on Tuesday 21st July and Wednesday 22nd July. The meeting ends with a conference dinner in the University's Randolph Hall on the evening of Wednesday 22nd July.
Tuesday 21st July
Session 1 (0900-1030)
Panel A Morality: Rousseau and Smith on Music and the Imitative Arts
Location: Humanity Lecture Theatre
Chair: Charles Griswold (IASS)
Kris Worsley (Guildhall): Smith, Rousseau and the sentiments of impassioned musical expression
Denise Schaeffer (Holy Cross): Elevation and Corruption: The Dual Character of Imitation in Rousseau and Smith
Michael O’Dea (Lyon II Lumiere): Smith and Rousseau On Imitation in the Arts
Panel B Politics: Smith and Rousseau on Justice
Location: Room G466
Chair: Jason Neidleman (RA)
Neil Saccamano (Cornell): Rousseau and Smith: Sympathy, Justice, and Cosmopolitics
Jimena Hurtado Prieto (Los Andes): Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Justice as an Attribute of Individuals and Institutions
Warren Herold (Arkansas): Adam Smith and the Psychological Foundations of Contractualism
Panel C Smith and Rousseau: Smith
Location: Fore Hall
Chair: Cian O’Driscoll (GU)
Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity, USA): We Are Not The Center of The Universe: The Role of Astronomy in the Development of Morality in Adam Smith
Barry Weingast (Stanford): Deriving “General Principles” in Adam Smith: The Ubiquity of Equilibrium and Comparative Statics Analysis throughout His Works
Aino Lahdenranta (Jyvaskyla) Adam Smith on spontaneous propriety judgments
Tea (1030-1100) Fore Hall
Session 2 (1100-1230)
Panel A Morality: Imitation in Rousseau and Smith
Location: Humanity Lecture Theatre
Chair: John Scott (RA)
Iago Ramos (Salamanca): Imagination, mémoire et appropriation chez Rousseau et Smith
Spiros Tegos (Crete): Courtoisie without court? Adam Smith’s translation and reception by French ‘Liberals’
Wei Wang (Chinese Academy of Social Science):Sound and imitation: A reexamination of Rousseau’s theory of sign
Panel B Politics: Smith on Justice and Freedom
Location: Room G466
Chair: Sandra Peart (IASS)
Jonathan Diesel (GMU): Two Superiors, Two Jural Relationships in Adam Smith
Lisa Hill (Adelaide): Adam Smith’s Politics: Social Science and Pragmatic Liberalism
Daniel B. Klein (George Mason): Adam Smith’s Multifaceted Justice
Panel C Smith and Rousseau: Education and Virtue
Location: Fore Hall
Chair: Christopher J. Berry (GU)
Gloria Vivenza (Verona): Smith, Rousseau and Cato the Younger
Patrick Cox (Georgia State): Rousseau’s Favorite Educational Treatise in Relation to the Emile: Comparing and Contrasting the Emile and the Republic
Tabitha Baker (Warwick): Julie’s Garden and the Impartial Spectator: an examination of Smithean themes in Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse
Lunch (1230-1330) Fore Hall
Session 3 (1330-1500)
Panel A Morality: Smith and Rousseau on Spectatorship
Location: Humanity Lecture Theatre
Chair: Zev Trachtenberg (RA)
Adam Schoene (Cornell): Sentimental Conviction: Rousseau’s Apologia and the Impartial Spectator
Christopher Bertram (Bristol): Morality and the opinion of others
John McHugh (Denison): Pursuing Sympathy without Vanity: Reading Smith’s Attack on Rousseau through his Attack on Mandeville
Panel B Politics: Smith on Political Economy
Location: Room G466
Chair: Michelle Schwarze (IASS)
Edward Middleton (George Mason): Projectors as Men of System: Entangled Political Economy in Adam Smith’s Theory of Credit Markets
Donald Brand (Holy Cross): Adam Smith and Usury Laws
Reinhard Schumacher (Potsdam): Adam Smith and the Patterns of Foreign Trade: The Absence of an International Division of Labour in Smith’s Theory
Tea (1500-1530) Fore Hall
Session 4 (1530-1700)
Panel A Morality: Smith on Moral Judgement
Location: Humanity Lecture Theatre
Chair: Fonna Forman (IASS)
Antonino Falduto (Halle-Wittenberg): Adam Smith’s Moral Decision-Making Process
Scott Drylie (GMU): Distant Learner or Campus Resident? The Education of the Impartial Spectator
Lauren Kopatjic (Harvard): “Sentimentalizing” Self-Command: Adam Smith’s New Take on an Old Virtue
Panel B Politics: Commercial Society
Location: Room G466
Chair: Ourida Mostefai (RA)
Glory Liu (Stanford): Adam Smith on Poverty and the Paradox of Commercial Society
Byron Davies (Harvard): The Insult in Not Being Believed: Rousseau and Adam Smith
Fabien Delmotte (Paris West Nanterre La Defense): The question of emancipation: Adam Smith and Rousseau
Panel C Smith and Rousseau: Rousseau
Location: Fore Hall
Chair: Michael O’Dea (RA)
Mauro Dela Bandera Arco Junior (USP Brazil): Rousseau's anthropology in the Essai sur l'origine des langues
Thiago Vargas (USP Brazil): Rousseau's critique of political economy
Antoine Serge Bell (Yaounde 1 Cameroun): Jean-Jacques Rousseau Et La Science Économique De Son Temps
Manuscripts exhibit Library Special Collections (1700-1830)
Wednesday 22nd July
Session 5 (0900-1030)
Panel A: The Moral Sentiments
Location: Fore Hall
Chair: Alexander Broadie (GU)
Michael Schleeter (Pacific Lutheran): Adam Smith, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the Cultivation of Moral Sentiments
Jonathan Jacobs (John Jay-CUNY): Adam Smith on Resentment and Gratitude: The Moral Psychology of Justice and Civility
Benoit Walraevens (Caen) & Clare Pignol (Paris I PHARE): Rousseau and Smith on Envy in Commercial Societies
Panel B: Smith and Rousseau on Government
Location: Room G466
Chair: Christopher J. Berry (GU)
Jason Neidleman (La Verne): Left to their own devices: Smith and Rousseau on Public Opinion and the Role of the State
Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts): Smith, Rousseau, and the True Spirit of a Republican
Mark Hulliung (Brandeis): Rousseau and the Scottish Enlightenment: Connections and Disconnections
Tea (1030-1100) Fore Hall
Session 6 (1100-1230)
Panel A: Smith and Rousseau on Autonomy
Location: Fore Hall
Chair: Brigitte Weltman-Aron (RA)
Hina Nazar (Illinois Urbana –Champ): Rethinking Autonomy: Rousseau and Adam Smith
Mark Hill (LSE): Actors and Spectators: Rousseau's response to eighteenth century debates on self-interest
Supritha Rajan (Rochester): Autonomy and its Affects: Regret and Sympathy in Rousseau and Smith
Panel B: Conjectural History
Location: Room G466
Chair: Maria Pia Paganelli (IASS)
Zev Trachtenberg (Oklahoma): Smith and Rousseau on Habitation
Spencer Pack (Connecticut College): Rousseau's Influence on Smith's Theory of Unintended Consequences, the Invisible Hand and Smith's Understanding of History
Lunch (1230-1400) Fore Hall
Room G466 will be available for a meeting of Rousseau Association Members. The Fore Hall will be available for a meeting of International Adam Smith Society Members.
Session 7 (1400-1530)
Panel A: Sympathy/Pitie
Location: Fore Hall
Chair: Christopher Martin (IASS)
Christel Fricke (Oslo): Self-love, Sympathy, and the Challenges of Freedom and Equality – Smith’s Response to Rousseau
Michelle Schwarze (Wisconsin-Madison) & John Scott (UC Davis): The Possibility of Progress: Smith and Rousseau on Pitié, Sympathy, and the Moral Economy
Panel B: Smith and Rousseau
Location: Room G466
Chair: Thierry C. Pauchant
Gordon Graham (Princeton Theological): Smith and Rousseau on Religion
Christopher Kelly & Heather Pangle (Boston College): Rousseau and Julie von Bondeli on the Moral Sense
G & F Roosevelt (Metropolitan College of New York): Rousseau and Smith on Public and Private Education in Commercial Society
Tea (1530-1600) Fore Hall
Session 8 (1600-1730) - Plenary and Discussion
Chair: Craig Smith (GU)
Charles Griswold (Boston): Self-falsification, Exchange, and Freedom: Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Dialogue