CFP: From Scotland to the South of the Mediterranean. The Thought of Adam Smith Through Europe and Beyond
6-7 July 2017, University of Palermo
Adam Smith is one of those authors who has left a very profound sign in the history of ideas. Yet, the reception of Smithian ideas was not a unique and uniform process, equal for every country, rather it was shaped by different regional contexts. Smith’s works made entry through institutional, cultural, linguistic, religious, and political filters which were not neutral and these filters affected the reading, understanding and use of his works.
With reference to this perspective, the University of Palermo invites proposals for papers and/or sessions along the lines listed below or on others relevant to develop this prospective of inquiry.
The thematic directions suggested are:
- Adam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment and the European Enlightenment: similarities, differences in methods and analysis, influences, intellectual disagreements;
- The intellectual link between Smith’s teaching and the development of a national style of economics in the various countries from the eighteenth century to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries;
- The reception of Smithian thoughts in different religious frameworks: Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Muslim and Jewish;
- Smithian liberalism as an intellectual source of the liberal revolutionary phase that in the nineteenth century changed the political and economic face of Europe and the Mediterranean;
- The works of Adam Smith: language, style, translations.
Scholars planning to participate should submit a 500-word abstract for a paper or a 1000-word abstract for a session to: fabrizio.simon@unipa.it and/or cristina.guccione@unipa.it by 8 January 2017.
For more information, please see the conference website.