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, Harvard University ‘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 Adam Smith 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 Sermon’ Matt Sangster (Glasgow), ‘Enlightenment Genres in Eighteenth-Century Scotland’ 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, ‘Robert Blair, 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) Networks of Enlightenment 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: Jane Austen, 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), ‘David Hume, 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’ Networks of Enlightenment 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. Networks of Enlightenment 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 Edinburgh: 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: Ossian, Discourses of Sympathy’ Early Republic’ Beethoven and the Constantine Vass (Toronto), Gideon Mailer (University of Formation of the ’Montesquieu 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 ‘James Hutton'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 Networks of Enlightenment 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 James Macpherson, 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