Networks of Enlightenment

Programme 17-21 July 2018

[Preliminary Programme – some events may be subject to change] Tuesday 17 July – Conference Opening

GLASGOW KELVIN HALL, Argyle Street

14.00 REGISTRATION OPENS

KELVIN HALL LECTURE THEATRE

15.00 CONFERENCE OPENING

Welcome from ECSSS President Leith Davis, Simon Fraser University

Welcome from Murray Pittock, Pro-Vice Principal – Special Projects, Glasgow University

15.30-17.00: OPENING KEYNOTE

CHAIR: tbc

SPEAKER: Emma Rothschild, Knowles Professor of History, ‘European Networks: Commerce and Exile in the Long Eighteenth Century’

19:00 GLASGOW CITY CHAMBERS, George Square, G2 1DU

CIVIC RECEPTION

An evening drinks reception welcoming delegates to Glasgow, hosted by Glasgow City in their magnificent chambers on George Square.

Directions: Subway from Kelvin Hall Station on Dumbarton Road. Take the outer circle to Buchanan Street. Exit at Bath Street and turn left for George Square. Networks of Enlightenment

Wednesday 18 July – All Day

8.00 FOYER REGISTRATION 9.00- KELVIN HALL LECTURE THEATRE BREAKOUT 1 BREAKOUT 2 10.30 Reading, Borrowing and Libraries ROUNDTABLE Clifford Siskin’s System: The Hugh Blair and the Multiplicity of Genres Chair: Nigel Leask (Glasgow) Shaping of Modern Knowledge Chair: tbc Mark Towsey (Liverpool), ‘Reading Networks Chair: tbc Xandro Bello, ‘Historians and Their and the Reception of Hume’s Mike Hill (SUNY Albany), ‘Framing System: With a Circumstances: Hugh Blair and John “Philosophical Politics”’ Nod to on Music’ Pinkerton on Historical Writing and Civic Katherine Halsey (Stirling) ‘”For the Benefit of Dahlia Porter (Glasgow), ‘System, Form, Network, Engagement’ All”: Innerpeffray Library and Genre’ Ronald Crawford (Strathclyde), ‘Hugh Blair and Networks of Enlightenment’ Anthony Jarrells (South Carolina), ‘System and the Idea of the Recycled ’ Matt Sangster (Glasgow), ‘Enlightenment Genres in Eighteenth-Century ’ Brad Boyd (Arizona State), ‘“Scarce ane has tried Readers in the Scottish Universities’ Lorna Hughes (Glasgow), ‘Systems of Knowledge the shepherd-sang / But wi’ miscarriage”: Robert Betteridge (NLS), ‘Business or Pleasure: and Digital Cultural Heritage’ Robert Fergusson, Hugh Blair and the What Did the Advocates Borrow from Response: Clifford Siskin (New York) Ironies of Pastoral’ Their Library during the Bill Zachs, (Independent) ‘The Rev. Hugh Blair: A Enlightenment?’ Borrower and a Lender He’ 10.30- FOYER TEA AND COFFEE 11.00 11.00- Continental Networks 1: Adam Smith and The ‘Foul Fiend’ and Friendship: Literary Men Scottish Craftsmanship, at Home and Abroad 12.30 France and Mental Health in Eighteenth-Century Chair: tbc Chair: Emma Rothschild (Harvard) Scotland Marion Amblard, (Grenoble Alpes), ‘James Byres Alain Alcouffe (Toulouse), ‘Adam Smith’s Chair: Pauline Mackay (Glasgow) (1734–1817): A Jacobite Artist, Encounters in Occitania, March 1764– Moira Hansen (Glasgow), ‘Sympathy and Self- Antiquarian and Cicerone in Rome and October 1765’ Knowledge in the Correspondence of His Influence on Scottish Artistic Tastes’ Philippe Massot-Bordenave (Toulouse), ‘Adam Robert Burns and Frances Dunlop’ Kelsey Jackson Williams (Stirling), ‘The Origins of Smith and the French Catholic Clergy: Richard B Sher (NJ Inst of Tech), ‘Shocked “in a Engraving in Scotland’ How to Create a Common Doctrine Peculiar Manner”: James Boswell and the Sébastien Scarpa, ‘, or the Gravity of about Slavery?’ Suicide of Andrew Erskine’ the Grave’ Toni Carey, ‘Networking in France: What Rhona Brown (Glasgow), ‘The Illness, Death and Adam Smith Learned from Quesnay’ Legacy of Robert Fergusson’ (1750–74)

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12.30- FOYER LUNCH 13.30 13.30- History and Cultural Memory Literary and Intellectual Networks ROUNDTABLE Some Problems and Even More 15.00 Chair: tbc Chair: tbc Opportunities: Editing Robert Burns for the 21st Leith Davis (Simon Fraser), ‘Networks of Juliet Shields (Washington), ‘The Commonplace Century Memory and the 1715–16 Jacobite Book as a Networked Genre’ Chair: Emma MacLeod (Stirling) Uprising: From “So fatal, and long to Courtney A. Hoffman (Georgia Institute of Carol Baranuik (Glasgow) be lamented, an Undertaking” to Technology), ‘Lady of Letters: Literary Pauline Mackay (Glasgow) “Damp Squib”’ Critique in Anne MacVicar Grant’s Letters Rhona Brown (Glasgow) Barbara C. Murison (Western Ontario), from the Mountains’ Ronnie Young (Glasgow) ‘Ancient or Modern Manners?: The Derya Tarbuck (Bahcesehir University), ‘Leisure Craig Lamont (Glasgow) Condition and Treatment of Women to a Purpose: An Early Example of Female in Ancient Rome and Enlightenment Intellectual Sociability in Britain – The Scotland’ Case of the Fair Intellectual Club’ Mikko Tolonen and Ville Vaara (Helsinki), ’A Yon Ji Sol (Minnesota), ‘To Enlist or Not, for the Quantitative Approach to Royalist and Empire: , Maria Edgeworth, Whig Sources in Hume’s History of and Charles William Pasley on Remaking England’ British Masculinity’ Marc Hanvelt (Carleton) and Mark Spencer (Brock), ‘, Sir Robert Walpole, and Future Historians’ 15.00- FOYER TEA AND COFFEE 15.30 15.30- Continental Networks 2: John Geddes and Editing Eighteenth-Century Correspondence: Networks of Sympathy: Adam Smith and Others 17.00 Scottish-Spanish Connections Chair: Richard B Sher (NJ Inst of Tech) Chair: Craig Smith (Glasgow) Chair: tbc The Correspondence of James Wodrow and James Spence (Adrian College), ‘Networks of Clotilde Prunier (Paris Nanterre), ’The Samuel Kenrick, 1750–1810, and of Sympathy: Justice in the Moral Enlightened Networks of John Geddes’ James Boswell and Samuel Temple Philosophies of David Hume and Adam John Stone (Barcelona), ‘The Hispano-Scottish Emma MacLeod (Stirling) Smith’ Correspondence Network of John Martin Fitzpatrick (Aberystwyth) Anna Markwart (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Geddes’ The Correspondence of James Boswell with Kopernika), ‘Networks of Individuals William Johnson Temple Influencing Each Other in Adam Smith’s Nigel Aston (Leicester) Philosophy’

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Alfredo Moro (Cantabria), ‘Cervantean Arby Ted Siraki (American University of Kuwait), Networks: Sir Walter Scott and the ‘Adam Smith and Larry David: A Enlightened Vision of Don Quixote’ Transhistorical and Transcultural Connection’ 17.15- GLASGOW UNIVERSITY LIBRARY 18.45 GIN TASTING / HUNTER BOOK EXHIBITION Sponsored by the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Stirling. Katherine Halsey will introduce the work of the Centre at Stirling, and there will be an opportunity for delegates to visit Special Collections to see important items from the library of William Hunter.

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Thursday 19 July – Morning Sessions and Conference Trip

9.00- KELVIN HALL LECTURE THEATRE BREAKOUT 1 BREAKOUT 2 10.30 Continental Networks 3: The Transatlantic Networks Music and the Arts French Connection Chair: tbc Chair: Kirsteen McCue Chair: tbc Roger Fechner (Adrian College), (Glasgow) Jean-François Dunyach ‘Samuel Miller’s Commentary Paula Telescoe (Mass. (Sorbonne), ‘Scottish on Eighteenth-Century Lowell), ‘A Tale of Continental Networks Scottish Philosophers Three Alexanders: from Below: William regarding the Philosophy of Who Wrote Playfair’s Scottish the Human Mind’ Alexander Connections in Ancien Florence Petroff (Paris), ‘Connecting Malcolm’s Chapter Régime Paris’ Boston and : The 13?’ Deidre Dawson (Independent), Scottish Friends of the Paul Moulton (College of ‘Epistolary Writing and Massachusetts Historical Idaho), ‘Creating French and Scottish Society at the Time of the Genius: , of Sympathy’ Early Republic’ Beethoven and the Constantine Vass (Toronto), Gideon Mailer (University of Formation of the ’ and Minnesota), ‘Jonathan Musical-Genius Hume’s English Affinities: Edwards, the Scottish Construct’ The Nature of Honour Enlightenment and American Elizabeth Ford and Brianna and its Function in Polite Slavery’ Robertson-Kirkland Commercial Society’ Andrew Hook (Glasgow) ‘The Scottish (Glasgow), ‘The Gregory Todd (Independent), Invention of Princeton Eighteenth-Century ‘'s Elusive University’ Arts Education Contacts with French Research Network Counterparts: A Work in (EAERN): Network, Progress’ Purpose and Future Development’

10.30- FOYER TEA AND COFFEE 11.00

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11.00- Hugh Blair’s Networks William Hunter, Anatomy and Regional Identity in the GLASGOW MUSEUMS 12.30 Chair: tbc Medicine West and South of RESOURCE CENTRE Spartaco Pupo (Calabria), Chair: tbc Scotland, 1778–1807 Tour of GMRC ‘Rousseau’s Ambiguity in Alicia Hughes (Glasgow), ‘New Chair: Rhona Brown Lead: Anthony Lewis the Letters from Hume to Perspectives on the (Glasgow) Optional, for those not Blair’ Anatomical Collections of Alex Benchimol (Glasgow), attending the trip. Limited Thomas Archambaud (Glasgow) William Hunter’ ‘Industry, Print and spaces: please sign-up at ‘The Prime Minister’s Francis Osis (Glasgow), ‘The Venereal Urbanisation: registration. Glasgow Bard and Professor: Poison: Collecting Diseases in Networks of Museums Resource Centre , Hugh the Enlightenment’ Material is the most visited museum Blair and Lord Bute’s Richard Bellis (Leeds), ‘Illustrating Improvement in store in the Europe, and Patronage’ Morbid Anatomy: Drawing Glasgow and the encourages scholars to use Michael Kugler (Northwestern Disease and Defining Morbid West of Scotland, its collections. Discover its College), ‘Divine Appearance’ 1783–1801’ 18th-century Scottish Providence in John Stephen Mullen (Glasgow), treasures on this tour (The Witherspoon and Hugh ‘The Rise of the tour itself is off-site and Blair’ Glasgow West India runs from 11.30-12.30. Interest in the Long Transport provided) Eighteenth Century’ Gerry McKeever (Glasgow), ‘Debatable Land: The Dumfriesshire and Galloway Tour, 1778–89’

12.45- The Ayrshire Enlightenment (OPTIONAL TRIP) 18.00 The coach departs from outside Kelvin Hall to take us on a tour of eighteenth-century Ayrshire, taking in Dumfries House, a splendid country house designed by the Adam brothers with ‘one of the most treasured interiors of the ’. We also stop by scenic Alloway, birthplace of poet Robert Burns and setting for his famous narrative poem ‘Tam o Shanter’. Lunch provided on arrival. Bus departs Ayrshire for return journey at 17.00.

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Friday 20 July – All Day

9.00- KELVIN HALL LECTURE THEATRE BREAKOUT 1 BREAKOUT 2 10.30 Maria Edgeworth and Scottish Empire, Slavery and Colonial Networks and Progress Enlightenment Networks Chair: Nelson Mundell (Glasgow) Chair: tbc Chair: Jane Rendall (York) Robin Mills (UCL), ‘Lord Monboddo’s Jeff Strabone (Connecticut College), ‘Form and Nation: Anne-Claire Michoux (Neuchatel), ‘“Mon Communications Network: Colonial 's Appropriation of the Cherrie Dieu, what savages!” (Leonora): Knowledge, Eccentric Hypotheses and and the Slae Stanza’ Maria Edgeworth and the Figure of the “History of Man”’ Ralph Jessop (Glasgow), ‘Of Mice and Modernity: the Savage’ Rosalind Carr (East London), ‘The Scottish ’s Philosophy and Robert Burns’s Rebecca Davies (Norwegian U. of Science Enlightenment in Early New South Poetry of Resistance’ and Technology), ‘A Child’s Guide to Wales, 1788–1800: Captains Watkin Andrew Noble (Strathclyde), ‘ and Progress: History and Epistemology Tench and John Hunter’ Scottish Radical Poets: Alexander Wilson and in Maria Edgeworth’s Stories for Paul Tonks (Yonsei), ‘The Madras System as James Thomson Callender’ Children’ Global Educational Network: Rev Dr Melissa Schoenberger (College of the Holy Cross), ‘“So Susan Manly (St Andrews), ‘Enlightened Andrew Bell of St Andrews on Race, mutable the state of man”: John Armstrong’s Edgeworthian Education and “the Poverty and Empire’ Virgilian Art of Preserving Health’ real felicity of the people”’ Justin Younchan Choi (U. of London), Regina Hewitt (South Florida), ‘Uncommon Virtues: Indigenising the ‘Transtemporal Enlightenment Scottish Analysis of Luxury and Slavery Networks: Hume and Smith in in Nineteenth-Century Korea’ Memoirs of Richard Lovell Edgeworth’

10.30- FOYER TEA AND COFFEE 11.00 11.00- KELVIN HALL LECTURE THEATRE 12.30 KEYNOTE CHAIR: Regina Hewitt (South Florida) SPEAKER: Jane Rendall, Honorary Fellow in History, University of York ‘Correspondence and Community: The Scottish Networks of Maria Edgeworth’ 12.30- BREAK FOR LUNCH 13.30

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13.30- ROUNDTABLE Nicholas Phillipson (1937– Spatial Networks of Enlightenment Civic and Family Networks 15.00 2018): An Enlightened Life Chair: tbc Chair: tbc Chair: tbc Michael Gavin (South Carolina), ’Spatial Henry Fulton (Central Michigan), ‘Marrying Glasgow: Thomas Ahnert (Edinburgh) Networks of Enlightenment (I): Dr John Moore, His Mother and Financial James Harris (St Andrews) Commerce and Communication’ Anxiety’ John Robertson (Cambridge) Eric Gidal (Iowa), ‘Spatial Networks of Anthony Lewis (Glasgow Museums), ‘John Glassford: Richard B Sher (NJ Inst of Tech) Enlightenment (II): Statistical Accounts His Family and Company’ and Environmental Change’ Elena Romero-Passerin D'Entreves (St Andrews), ‘Cultivating Plants and Friendships: John Hope’s Correspondence to the Service of the Botanic Garden of Edinburgh’ 15.00- FOYER TEA AND COFFEE 15.30 15.30- ROUNDTABLE Alexander Broadie: Hugh Blair’s Information and Improvement: The Old Statistical 17.00 Philosophy and Enlightenment Chair: tbc Account and the County Agricultural Surveys Chair: James A Harris (St Andrews) Gauti Kristmannsson (Iceland), ‘Hugh Blair’s Chair: Alasdair Raffe (Edinburgh) Giovanni Gellera (Lausanne) Lectures: National, World or John Moore (Glasgow), ’The People behind the Chris Lindsay (Glasgow) Comparative Literature?’ Accounts’ Murray Pittock (Glasgow) Ralph McLean (NLS), ‘Good Sense, Good Helen Barton and Neil Bruce (UHI), ‘How Useful Is the Writing, and Useful : The First Statistical Account in Enlightening Spectator and Hugh Blair’s Lectures on Historians about Childhood in the Highlands Rhetoric and Belles Lettres’ and Islands?’ Thomas Kennedy (Berry College), ‘“Where are Heather Holmes (Independent), ‘The Board of the monuments of their genius to be Agriculture (1793–1822) and the Purchasers met with?”: David Fordyce, Hugh Blair of Its County Agricultural Surveys: A Case and Writing the History of ’ Study of One of the Scottish Surveys’ 17.00- KELVINHALL MAIN LECTURE THEATRE 18.00 ECSSS Annual General Meeting 19.30 DINNER CONFERENCE DINNER Presentation of the ECSSS Lifetime Achievement Award to Alexander Broadie Presenter: James A Harris (St Andrews)

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Saturday 21 July – Morning Sessions and Conference Close

9.00- HUNTERIAN ROOMS KELVIN HALL LECTURE THEATRE BREAKOUT 1 BREAKOUT 2 10.30 William Hunter as Collector 1: Thomas Muir of Huntershill Religious Networks The Roots of Chair: tbc Chair: tbc Chair: tbc Environmental Aesthetics Michelle Craig (Glasgow), Carol Baraniuk (Glasgow) Ned Landsman (SUNY Stony Brook), in the Seventh and ‘William Hunter in the Don Martin (Independent), ‘The ‘Principal John Stirling and Eighteenth Centuries – In Republic of Letters: Local Impact of Thomas Scots Presbyterian Networks Memory of Ronald W. Building a Private Muir’ in Post-Union British Hepburn Library in Eighteenth- Gerard Carruthers (Glasgow), America’ CHAIR: tbc Century London’ ‘Thomas Muir at Glasgow’ Alasdair Raffe (Edinburgh), ‘An Emily Brady (Edinburgh), John S Warren (Independent), Angus Enlightenment? John ‘Nature, ‘The Strange Case of Dr Glas and the Formation of Aesthetics and Hunter and Mr Hunter: Church Parties, c. 1719– Humility’ Art, Literature and the 1730’ Endre Szécsényi Problem of Science’ Ashley Foster (Notre Dame), ‘What (Aberdeen/ELTE Mungo Campbell and Lola Body?: Questions Grappling Eötvös Loránd Sanchez-Juaregi, the Laity as Well as the University), ‘Early ‘Hunter and Scotland: A Literati via the Networks of Modern Showcase of items from Scottish Revivalism’ Aesthetics and R. the Collection of W. Hepburn’s William Hunter’ “Metaphysical Imagination”’ [tbc] Cairns Craig (Aberdeen), ‘”Nature’s Boundless Frame” (James Thomson, Winter, I. 575)’ 10.30- FOYER TEA AND COFFEE 11.00

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11.00- William Hunter as Collector 2: Curious Travellers: Thomas Networks of Authorship Sympathy, Self-Love and 12.30 Hunter’s Transatlantic Pennant’s Scottish Tours and Chair: tbc Networks of Connections Networks Michael C Amrozowicz, (SUNY Scottish Moral Chair: Lola Sanchez-Juaregi Chair: tbc Albany), ‘“Tread[ing] upon Philosophy In this session, the Hunterian Nigel Leask (Glasgow), ‘Ossianic the kibes of one another”: Chair: Craig Smith Museum highlights Networks: Pennant, Dr Social Complexity in Tobias Hunter’s transatlantic Johnson, and Donald Smollett’s Humphrey Clinker’ Euguene Heath (SUNY links with a specially MacQueen of Kilmuir’" Elizabeth Kraft (Georgia), ‘The New Platz), ‘Butler curated display of Alex Deans (Glasgow), ‘Authority, Monimia Connection: and Smith on Self- treasures from William Locality and History in William Hamilton of Love’ Hunter’s Collection Thomas Pennant’s Scottish Bangour, Tobias Smollett, Joel P Sodano (Keele), Networks’ and Christian Johnstone’ ‘Ever in Pursuit of Kirsty McHugh (University of Mark Hill and Mikko Tolonen (Universal) Wales/NLS), ‘In the (Helsinki), ‘Networks of Happiness: Francis Footsteps of Pennant and Authorship: A Stylometric Hutcheson, Adam Johnson: Reverend James Analysis of Sister Peg’ Smith and the Bailey’s 1787 Highland Tour’ Politics of Benevolence’ Caitlin Scheufler (SUNY Albany), ‘Francis Hutcheson’s Passions, Objects, and Politics of Affect’ 12.30- KELVIN HALL MAIN LECTURE THEATRE 14.00 KEYNOTE AND RECEPTION in celebration of the tercentenary of William Hunter, hosted by the Hunterian Museum CHAIR: Mungo Campbell, Deputy Director, The Hunterian SPEAKER: Anita Guerrini, Horning Professor in the Humanities and Professor of History, Oregon State University ‘William Hunter’s Collecting Networks’