Lights of Caledonia

This series of events is designed to celebrate Scotland’s intellectual and cultural contributions to the world, aptly delivered from the final home of Adam Smith, the father of modern economics.

Andrew Gilmour

CEO of the Berghof Foundation

Professor Richard Williams, Principal of Heriot-Watt University introduces our inaugural keynote speaker, Andrew Gilmour. The Former Assistant Secretary-General in Human Rights opens with a lecture on ‘A Scots View from the UN’, finishing with a stimulating Q&A session with the live audience in Panmure House.

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Dr Caroline Howitt

Programme Director of Adam Smith's Panmure House

Panmure's own Programme Director, Dr Caroline Howitt, presents a keynote lecture on beloved Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. Chaired by Professor Heather McGregor CBE, incoming Provost, Dubai campus, Heriot-Watt University.

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Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP

Smith biographer and MP for Hereford and South Herefordshire

Renowned Smith biographer and Politician Dr Jesse Norman, author of the brilliant 2018 biography Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters, speaks on 'Three Hundred Years of Adam Smith' Chaired by Professor Angus Laing, Executive Dean of the School of Social Sciences at Heriot-Watt University and with a Q+A and interviews with both Jesse Norman and Angus Laing.

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Dr Glory M. Liu

Former lecturer in Social Sciences at Harvard and Assistant Director for the Center for Economy and Society and Assistant Research Professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University

Dr Glory M. Liu discusses the unlikely story of how Americans canonise Smith as the Patron Saint of the free market and why we should consider Adam Smith and his works today. Chaired by Professor Adam Dixon, Adam Smith Chair in Sustainable Capitalism, the session is followed by a stimulating chaired Q+A session to a live audience in the Lecture Room of Panmure House.

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Lights of Caledonia

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