Schedule
Wednesday, 11 June
Wednesday, 11 June
8:00 PM
Informal, optional get-acquainted session (we'll gather in the lobby of the Institute and head out from there)
Thursday, 12 June
Thursday, 12 June
9:00 - 9:15
Welcoming remarks (C. Ivar McGrath)
9:15 - 9:40
Introduction to The Leuven Institute for Ireland in Europe
9:45 - 11:45
Session I. Chair: Farley Grubb
- Group discussion of two common readings from the literature of the financial revolution
- Reading 1: Benjamin Franklin. A Modest Enquiry into the Nature and Necessity of a Paper-Currency. Philadelphia, 1729. Reprinted in Leonard W. Labaree, ed.,The papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 1 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1959), pp. 139-157
- Reading 2: William Douglass. A Discourse Concerning the Currencies of the British Plantations in America. Boston, 1740
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch: on-site at the Institute
2:00 - 4:00
Session II. Chair: Anne Murphy
- Chris Fauske — Why Cato?
- C. Ivar McGrath — Financial necessity is the mother of fiscal invention: innovation, imitation and "banking against the grain" in Ireland, 1660-1783
7:00
Dinner: Mykene Restaurant, Munstraat 44
Friday, 13 June
Friday, 13 June
10:00 - 12:00
Session III. Chair: Alan Downie
- Lina Weber — Trust and dependency: the Dutch discourse on British public credit, ca. 1760-80
- Natalie Roxburgh — "A tale of two currencies": narrating money in the wake of the financial revolution
12:15 - 1:30
Lunch: on-site at the Institute
2:00 - 4:00
Session IV. Chair: Jim Hartley
- Koji Yamamoto — "I invest, you speculate, they gamble": James Brydges, the first Duke of Chandos, during the South Sea Bubble
- Nuno Palma (co-written with Patrick K. O'Brien) — Danger to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The Bank of England, Warfare and the State in Britain, 1694-1819
7:00
Domus, Tiensestraat 8
Saturday, 14 June
Saturday, 14 June
9:30 - 11:30
Session V. Chair: Patrick Walsh
- Charles Larkin — The rise of the fiscal central bank: contemporary lessons in central banking for economic historians
- Stephen Timmons — Before the financial revolution: economic thought and the West Country during the Exclusion Crisis
11:45 - 1:30
Session VI. Chair: Chris Fauske
- Working lunch (served on-site) to discuss:
- colloquium results
- plans for the future
7:00
Optional dinner: Namaste Tandoori Restaurant, Naamsestraat 25