Schedule
Wednesday, 16 June
Wednesday, 16 June
8:30 PM
Informal, optional get-acquainted session in the bar of the Aberdeen Northern Hotel
Thursday, 17 June
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
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
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