March 11-12, 2005
Sponsored by the University of Aberdeen, the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, through Center for Renaissance Studies Consortium funding, and the Research Institute for Irish & Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
Program for Friday, March 11
8:30 | Coffee and other refreshments
9:00 | Introductory Remarks
Allan MacInnes, University of Aberdeen
9:15 | Session I: Comparative State Formation
Chair: Julius Kirshner, University of Chicago
"Hegemony and Patriarchy in Early Modern Europe"
Julia Adams, Yale University
"Empire-Building: The English Republic, Scotland and Ireland"
Jim Smyth, University of Notre Dame
"The Abandoned or Forgotten Principles of Florentine Constitutional Theory and Practice"
John McCormick, University of Chicago
11:15 | Session II: Emergence of Political Economy
Chair: Emmanuel Saadia, University of Chicago
"Expert Knowledge and Natural Advantage: The Case of Scottish Natural History c.1700-1776"
Fredrik Jonsson, University of Chicago
"The Social Life of Money and the Economic Self in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century England"
Deborah Valenze, Barnard College, Columbia University
"France's Atlantic Chambers of Commerce: Center, Periphery and Commerce National"
Paul Cheney, University of Chicago
2:30 | Session III: Comparative Political Economy
Chair: Esther Mijers, University of Aberdeen
"Going Dutch? Political Economy and Political Adversity for the Defeated, 1680-1745"
Jim Livesey, University of Sussex
"The National Interest Beyond Warfare and Mercantilism: The Political Organization of Self Interest"
Hans Blom, Erasmus University
"The 'Middle Sort' and the 'Middle Way': Virtuous Mediocrity and Political Economy in Seventeenth-Century England"
Ethan Shagan, Northwestern University
Program for Saturday, March 12
8:30 | Coffee and other refreshments
9:00 | Session IV: Imperial Political Economy
Chair: Robert Travers, Harvard University
"Political Slavery, Racial Slavery, and Rights in the Age of the American Revolution"
Eric Slauter, University of Chicago
"'Tis That Must Make Us a Nation in India': The Political Economy of a Seventeenth-Century Company-State"
Phil Stern, American University
"Population Politics: Benjamin Franklin and the Peopling of North America"
Alan Houston, University of California, San Diego
11:15 | Concluding Remarks and Discussion
Chair: Allan MacInnes, University of Aberdeen
Steve Pincus, University of Chicago
While there is no fee to attend this conference, participants should register in advance.To register, please contact the Center for Renaissance Studies at 312.255.3514, or at renaissance@newberry.org.