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