Schedule

Wednesday, 13 June

8:30 PM

Informal, optional get-acquainted session (we'll gather in the bar in our hotel and possibly head out from there)

Thursday, 14 June

9:30 - 9:45

Welcoming remarks (C. Ivar McGrath)

9:45 - 11:45

Session I. Chair: Brean Hammond

• Group discussion, led by J. Alan Downie and Courtney Weiss Smith, of two common readings from the literature of the financial revolution
  • Reading 1: Alexander Pope. Of the use of riches: an epistle to the Right Honorable Allen Lord Bathurst. (London, 1732[/33])
  • Reading 2: [John Gay]. A panegyrical epistle to Mr. Thomas Snow, Goldsmith, near Temple-Barr: Occasion'd by his Buying and Selling of the Third Subscriptions, taken in by the Directors of the South-Sea Company, at a Thousand per Cent. (London, 1721)

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch: The Bicycle Thief (1475 Lower Water St, Bishop's Landing)

2:30 - 4:00

Session II. Chair: Ivar McGrath

• Farley Grubb—Is paper money just paper money? Experimentation and local variation in the fiat paper monies issued by the colonial governments of British North America, 1690-1775

6:00

Dinner: The Henry House (1222 Barrington Street)

Friday, 15 June

10:00 - 11:30

Session III. Chair: James Hartley

• Group discussion of two common readings from the literature of the financial revolution
  • Reading 1: David Hume, "Of the balance of trade". Discourse V in Political discourses (Edinburgh: printed by R. Fleming for A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1752)
  • Reading 2: Malachy Postlethwayt, "Of the encrease and decrease of real money in a state, and of the price of commodities; with a comparison between France and England in relation to the latter, more minutely, considered". Letter IX in Great-Britain's true system (London: A. Millar et al., [1757])

12:00 - 1:30

Lunch: gio (1725 Market Street)

2:30 - 4:30

Session IV. Chair: Alan Downie

• Christine Desan—Redefining money: home-grown credit, traders' silver, and the struggle over the modern imagination
• Helen J. Paul—Eternal versus ephemeral: the importance of land and gold in the pamphlet literature

7:00

Dinner: Curry Village (1569 Dresden Row, 2nd Floor)

Saturday, 16 June

9:00 - 11:30

Session V. Chair: Rick Kleer

• Jill Bradbury—Interest and the Irish financial revolution
• Scott Breuninger—Patriotism, virtue and improvement: the Irish critique of luxury (1725-40)
• Patrick Walsh—Bringing the financial revolution to the provinces: the Irish Revenue Board and the uses of bureaucratic print

11:45 - 1:30

Session VI. Chair: Chris Fauske

• Working lunch (served on-site at the Citadel) to discuss:
  • colloquium results
  • recent publications of interest to MPP
  • agenda for future research

7:00

Optional dinner: Five Fishermen (1740 Argyle Street)