Conference Schedule
Thursday, October 8
4:30-5:45 p.m. Public Lecture: Professor Craig Smith of the University of Glasgow
Alumni Memorial Common Room (AMCR) Langford Building, Duke Divinity
6:30 p.m. Reception (invited guests) Washington Duke, Duke University Room
7:00 p.m. Dinner, Washington Duke, Duke University Room
Friday, October 9
Breakfast, lunch, and all sessions will be held in the Washington Duke, Rotunda.
8:15-9:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:45-9:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
9:00-9:50 a.m. Session 1
Vincent Carret (Seton Hall University), “Adam Smith’s System as seen through Maria Edgeworth’s Children’s Tales”
10:00-10:50 a.m. Session 2
Paul Oslington (Alphacrucis University College, Australia), “Providence and Fall: How Attending to the Eighteenth Century Scottish Theological Context Helps Us Better Read Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations”
11:00-11:50 a.m. Session 3
Henry C. Clark (Dartmouth College), “Reclaiming the Mainstream: Adam Smith and the Emergence of Political Economy”
12:00- 1:45 p.m. Lunch featuring a talk by Professor Ryan Hanley of Boston College
2:00-2:50 p.m. Session 4
Thais Alves Costa (Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Brazil), “Trust and Exchange under Conditions of Vulnerability in Smith’s Wealth of Nations”
3:00-3:50 p.m. Session 5
Robin Paul Malloy (Syracuse University), “Property and Justice in Adam Smith’s Market Jurisprudence”
4:00-4:50 p.m. Session 6
Qing Guo (Xidian University, China and University of Glasgow), “Concept in Transit, Theory in Crisis: Yan Fu’s Reconstruction of Adam Smith’s Value Theory in Late Qing China”
6:00 pm Dinner, Washington Duke, Duke University Room