Schedule

Thursday, 24 June 2004

11:00

Registration and coffee

11:30

University welcome and Introduction

12:00

Lunch (Fireside Bistro, 2305 Smith St.)

14:30

Coffee

15:00

Session I (Stuart Wilson, chair)

• Stephen Timmons, The hearth tax and customs duties in the West Country
• Steven Pincus, A revolution in political economy? Rethinking the Glorious Revolution
• Richard Kleer, "Fictitious cash": paper money and English war finance, 1689-97
• Carl Wennerlind, Credit in African Bodies: How the Slave Trade Contributed to the Financial Revolution

17:00

Break

18:00

Dinner (Neo Japonica Restaurant, 2167 Hamilton St.)

Friday, 25 June 2004

09:00

Coffee

09:30

Session II (Richard Kleer, chair)

• Noel Chevalier, Tradesman's Holiday: The Financial Revolution and the English Stage
• Arne Bialuschewski, Greed, Fraud, and Popular Culture: the Madagascar Schemes of the Early Eighteenth Century
• Christopher Finlay, The Politics of Ambivalence: Financial Revolution and the Scottish Enlightenment
• Paul Tonks, Scottish Political Economy and the Ideological Defence of the Eighteenth-Century British Fiscal-Military State

11:30

Break

12:00

Lunch (Cathedral Village Free House, 2062 Albert St.)

13:30

Session III (C. Ivar McGrath, chair)

• Linda Bomstad, Money, Method and Motivation in John Locke
• James Hartley, Beyond Robinson Crusoe: Defoe and Economics
• Alan Downie, Gulliver's Travels, the contemporary debate on the financial revolution, and the public sphere
• Christopher Fauske, Misunderstanding what Swift misunderstood: contemporary Irish economic theory in the early eighteenth century

15:30

Light refreshments

16:00

Free time

18:00

Dinner (India House, 806 Victoria Ave.)

Saturday, 26 June 2004

09:00

Coffee

09:30

Session IV (Christopher Fauske, chair)

• Michael Brown, The Place of Political Economy in the Irish Enlightenment
• C. Ivar McGrath, National Debt, Public Credit, and Community Identity: The Irish Experience of "Financial Revolution", 1716-54
• Sean Moore, Currency vs. Culture: the Anglo-Irish Literary Counter-Culture to Ireland's Public Sphere
• Eoin Magennis, Ireland, economics and the "poor nation" debate in the 18th century

11:30

Break

12:00

Session V (a working lunch catered in to the Window Room)

• Open discussion of:
• Conference volume
• Agenda for future research

14:00

Free time

19:00

Dinner (Viet-Thai Restaurant, 2080 Albert St.)