Schedule

Money, Power and Print – Programme

8-10 June 2022

NUI, Galway

Day 1 – Wednesday 8th June

19:00-19:30

Welcome: Charles Larkin

Venue: The Galway Arms (https://galwayarmsinn.com)


20:00

Dinner & Drinks: Kirwan’s Lane (https://www.kirwanslane.ie/)


Day 2 – Thursday 9th June

9:00-11:00

Session 1. Chair: Anne Murphy

  • Joyce Goggin: ‘Notes on a New Scholarly Edition of Pieter Langendijk’s Quincampoix or the Wind Traders and Harlequin Stock-Jobber’ (with Frans De Bruyn)

  • Leo Shipp: ‘Covent Garden 1767-68: Theatre Ownership, Profit, and Risk’

11:00-11:30

Coffee Break

11:30-13:30

Session 2. Chair: Natalie Roxburgh

  • Stephen A. Timmons: ‘The Financial Revolution in the West Country’

  • Brendan Twomey: ‘“Follow the money”, Lending and Borrowing in a World without Banks: The Evidence from the Irish Registry of Deeds’


13:30-15:00

Lunch

15:00-17:00

Session 3. Chair: Rick Kleer

  • Sean Moore: ‘How Early Americans Got Coins: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Specie’

  • Dan Carey: ‘Locke, Money, and America’


19:00

Colloquium Dinner at McSwiggans (http://mcswiggans.ie/#./home)


Day 3 – Friday 10th June

9:00-12:00

Session 4. Chair: Sebastian Meurer

  • Yihuan Xu: ‘The Social Structure and Credit Networks of the Original Subscribers to the Bank of England’

  • Andrew McDiarmid: ‘“The Proper Question is not Whether Paper Money be as Good as Silver or Gold, but Whether it is Better than No Money”: The New Jersey Loan Office of 1723 from a Scottish Perspective’

  • Megan K. Williams: ‘Imposing Imposts: Diplomacy and the Global Diffusion of Stamped Paper’

12:00-14:30

Lunch and River Cruise (https://corribprincess.ie/)

14:30-16:30

Session 5. Chair: Charlie Larkin

  • Anne Murphy: ‘Polite Banking: A Journey Through the Bank of England’s Banking Hall’

  • Katie A. Moore: ‘To Counterfeit is Death? Money, Print, and Punishment in the Early American Public Sphere’

16:30-18:00

Final Thoughts, Organisation Handover, and General MPP Business