Schedule
Thursday, 24 June 2004
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
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
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.)