Schedule

Wednesday, 16 June

8:30 PM

Informal, optional get-acquainted session in the bar of the Aberdeen Northern Hotel

Thursday, 17 June

9:30 - 10:30

Session I. Chair: C. Ivar McGrath

• Welcoming remarks (C. Ivar McGrath)
• Introduction to Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies (Michael Brown)

11:00 - 1:00

Session II. Chair: Catherine Eagleton

• Marischal Museum (hosted by Neil Curtis, Senior Curator)

1:15 - 2:45

Lunch: Foyer, 82A Crown Street

3:00 - 5:00

Session III. Chair: Rick Kleer

• Group discussion of three common readings from the contemporary public-finance literature
  • Reading 1: [George Berkeley]—Queries Relating to a National Bank, Extracted from The Querist…(Dublin, 1737)
  • Reading 2: [John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon]—Cato's Letters, (nos. 1-6). (London, 1720)
  • Reading 3: [Charles Davenant]—Discourses on the public revenues. Discourse V: On the public debts and engagements (London, 1698; as reprinted in Political and Commercial Works, vol. 1 (1771))

7:30

Dinner: Howies, 50 Chapel Street

Friday, 18 June

10:00 - 12:00

Session IV. Chair: Alan Downie

• Group discussion, facilitated by Eoin Magennis and Chris Fauske, of Robert D. Hume, "The Economics of Culture in London, 1660-1740", Huntington Library Quarterly 69.4 (2006):487-533

12:30 - 1:45

Lunch: The Stagedoor, North Silver Street

2:00 - 4:00

Session V. Chair: Eoin Magennis

• George Selgin—Those Dishonest Goldsmiths
• Courtney Weiss Smith—Money Matters: the Nature of Money in the English Recoinage Crisis

7:00

Dinner: Blue Moon, 11 Holburn Street

Saturday, 19 June

10:00 - 12:00

Session VI. Chair: Michael Brown

• Alexander Deguise—Murders, Riots and Horse Slayings: Portrayals of John Law's Monetary System in the London Press
• Helen Julia Paul—Archibald Hutcheson and the South Sea Bubble

12:15 - 1:30

Lunch: Manchurian, 136 Causewayend

1:45 - 3:45

Session VII. Chair: Farley Grubb

• Sean Moore—John Dryden and sovereign default risk: literature, publicity and the creation of confidence in Charles II's reign. When reading this paper you may wish to consult the full text of Dryden's poem "Absalom and Achitophel", available here.
• Anne Murphy—The Grand Palladium of Public Credit: the Bank of England during the later eighteenth century

4:00 - 5:00

Session VIII. Chair: Chris Fauske

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

7:00

Optional dinner: Crynoch at Lairhillock, Netherley