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    FRINGE FESTIVAL TERCENTENARY LECTURE SERIES

    9, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22, 24, 26 August 2023

    Thanks to the generosity of our funders, we are welcoming leading authors and thinkers to Adam Smith to Panmure House.

    Speakers will explore Smith's work and legacy as well as his formative experiences, the context of 18th-century society and the Scottish Enlightenment.

    The lecture series features: 

    Dr. Paul Sagar - Postponed

    Senior Lecturer of Political Economy, King's College London.

    Paul will explore the Political Economy of Adam Smith. Revered as a moral philosopher and economist, must we now reconsider Adam Smith as one of the pre-eminent political thinkers of his time?

    Dominic Frisby

    Economics and Investments Commentator and Performer

    In 2020 Dominic wrote and produced 'Adam Smith: Father of the Fringe' exploring how the ideas of Adam Smith permeate and are in the lifeblood of the world's biggest Arts Festival. Join us a Dominic for a unique showing of the film in Adam Smith's last remaining home and and Q+A with Dominic himself.

    Dr. Roos Slegers


    Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

    Dr. Slegers will look at Adam Smith's 1759 philosophical masterpiece The Theory of Moral Sentiments and the idea of vanity. According to Adam Smith, vanity is a vice that contains a promise: a vain person is much more likely than a person with low self-esteem to accomplish great things. Problematic as it may be from a moral perspective, vanity makes a person more likely to succeed in business, politics and other public pursuits. “The great secret of education,” Smith writes, “is to direct vanity to proper objects:” this peculiar vice can serve as a stepping-stone to virtue. How can this transformation be accomplished and what might go wrong along the way? What exactlyis vanity and how does it factor into our personal and professional lives, for better and for worse?

    Brian Bonnyman

    Author of 'The Third Duke of Buccleuch and Adam Smith: Estate Management and Improvement in Enlightenment Scotland'

    Brian Bonnyman will explore the impacts that the relationship between Henry the young Duke of Buccluech had on the improvements of Scotland from the Scottish Enlightenment. From land reform to the lifelong relationship between Smith and the Duke there is much to discuss in this fascinating part of Smith's life.

    Professor Chandran Kukathas 

    Sydney University

    Professor Chandran Kukathas is Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Political Science at School of Social Sciences at Singapore Management University.

    He has a prolific academic career which includes being head of the department of government at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) from 2015 to 2019. He also served as the chair of political theory in the Department of Government and as warden of High Holborn and Grosvenor House Halls of Residence at LSE. 



    Professor Estrella Trincado


    Complutense University of Madrid

    Professor Trincado explores and compares the works of the two great economists and philosophers of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume and Adam Smith, considering their contributions to language, perception, sympathy, reason, art and theatre to find a general theory of rationality and economics. Over the course of the lecture both figures are analysed to show how language affect their ideas of value and growth showing how rhetoric is underpins us as humans and our approach.

    Professor Sandrine Berges

    Professor of Philosophy at Bilkent University

    Professor Berges will explore the importance of translation of ideas. Smith had an impact on the French Revolution and although many translations existed, the translation by Sophie de Grouchy had particular influence through the coffee shops of 18th century Paris.

    Click here for biographies of our guest speakers

    Click here to register your free place at these lectures

    Showing dates

    9 August Dr Paul Sagar - Postponed

    15 August Dominic Frisby - Father of the Fringe Showing and Q+A with Dominic Frisby

    17 August Dr Roos Slegers

    18 August Professor Brian Bonnyman

    21 August Professor Chandran Kukathas

    22 August Professor Estrella Trincado

    24 August Professor Sandrine Berges

    26 August To Be Confirmed

    DURATION

    55 minutes

    LOCATION

    The Reading Room, Panmure House

    TICKETING

    Full price: FREE

    Concession: FREE

    Latecomers cannot be admitted under any circumstances. Please arrive at the venue in plenty of time.

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