Schedule

Wednesday, 25 June

8:30 PMInformal, optional get-acquainted session in the bar of the Quality Hotel Harbourview

Thursday, 26 June

9:30 - 11:30Session I. Chair: Eoin Magennis

• Welcoming remarks (Eoin Magennis)
• Introduction to The Rooms (Chrysta Collins)
• Introduction to the British Museum's early money holdings (Catherine Eagleton)

12:00 - 1:30Lunch: Aqua (310 Water Street)2:00 - 4:00Session II. Chair: Rick Kleer

• Group discussion of three common readings from the contemporary public-finance literature
  • Reading 1: [Daniel Defoe]—The chimera: or, the French way of paying national debts laid open (London, 1720)
  • Reading 2: Hercules Rowley—An answer to a book, intitl'd, Reasons offer'd for erecting a Bank in Ireland. In a letter to Henry Maxwell (Dublin, 1721)
  • Reading 3: [John Dickinson]—The late regulations respecting the British colonies on the continent of America considered (Philadelphia & London, 1766)

4:15 - 5:30Session III. Respondent: Sean Moore

• Dwight Codr—Generations of biters: providence in the time of the projecting humour

7:00Dinner: Gypsy Tea Room (195 Water Street)

Friday, 27 June

10:00 - 12:00Session IV. Chair: James Hartley

• Group discussion, facilitated by Eoin Magennis and Rick Kleer, of New Institutional Economics interpretations of the Financial Revolution. Common reading: Douglass North and Barry Weingast—"Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England". Journal of Economic History 49 (1989):803-32

12:30 - 1:45Lunch: India Gate (286 Duckworth Street)2:00 - 4:00Session V. Chair: Alan Downie

• Helen Julia Paul—Politicians and public reaction to the South Sea Bubble: preaching to the converted?
• Neil Guthrie—The Jacobite response to the South Sea Bubble in literature and material culture (plus illustrations)

7:00

Dinner: Casbah (2 Cathedral Street)

Saturday, 28 June

10:00 - 12:00Session VI. Chair: Catherine Eagleton

• Farley Grubb—Creating Maryland's paper money economy, 1720-1739: the role of power, print and markets
• Christine Desan—Reconceiving the creation story: money, credit, and the advent of capitalism

12:15 - 1:15Lunch: O'Reilly's Irish Newfoundland Pub (13 George Street)1:30 - 3:30Session VII. Chair: Joyce Goggin

• Stephen Timmons—The Bank of England and Financial Markets in the West Country during the late seventeenth-century
• Patrick Walsh—The Bubble on the periphery: Ireland and the South Sea Bubble, 1720-21

3:45 - 5:00Session VIII. Chair: Chris Fauske

• Working tea to discuss:
  • colloquium results
  • agenda for future research

7:00Optional dinner: Celtic Hearth (298 Water Street)