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FERGUSON AFTER THE ESSAY

Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies

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(Humanity Manse, 19 College Bounds)

Friday and Saturday, 28 February-1 March

For Further Information Contact:

Xandra Bello r01xb12@abdn.ac.uk

PROGRAMME

Friday 28 February

2:00—2:30 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks

Cairns Craig—Glucksman Professor of Irish and Scottish Studies, Head of the School of Language & Literature, & Director of the Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies, 51cg

Michael Brown—Senior Lecturer in Irish and Scottish History and Acting Director, Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies, 51cg

2:30—3:30 pm Opening Keynote Speaker

(Chair: James Harris—Reader, Philosophy, University of St. Andrews)

Alexander Broadie, FRSE—Professor, School of Humanities/Sgoil nan Daonnachan, University of Glasgow

“Adam Ferguson on Greece, Rome and the Fragility of Civil Liberties”

3:30—4:00 pm Tea and Coffee

4:00—5:30 pm Session 1: Philosophy, Literature and the Science of Man

(Chair: David Allan—Reader, School of History [Scottish], University of St. Andrews)

Craig Smith—Adam Smith Lecturer in the Scottish Enlightenment, School of Social and Political Science, University of Glasgow

“Adam Ferguson: Moral Science and Moralising”

Xandra Bello—Postgraduate Researcher, Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, 51cg

“‘We are happily exempted from ever beholding such horrible examples repeated:’ Chronologies and Historical Distance in Adam Ferguson’s The Progress and the Termination”

5:30 pm Wine Reception

7:00 pm Dinner

(Those not listed on the programme should contact Xandra Bello r01xb12@abdn.ac.uk if desirous of attending the meal.)

Saturday 1 March

9:30-11:00 am Session 2: Religion and Pedagogy

(Chair: Alexander Broadie)

Jack Hill—Visiting Fulbright-Scotland Professor (Distinguished Chair) and Research Fellow, Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, 51cg

“The Stoic-Calvinist Strand of Ferguson’s Project of Moral Instruction”

Michael Brown

“Politics in the Classroom: Ferguson as a Professor in the Age of Revolution”

11:00-11:30 am Tea and Coffee

11:30-1:00 pm Session 3: History and Politics

(Chair: Michael Brown)

Anna Plassart—Junior Research Fellow in Modern History, Christchurch, University of Oxford

“Adam Ferguson on War and Empire, 1789-1815.”

Glen Doris—Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies, Alumnus

TBA

1:00-2:00 pm Lunch

2:00-3:00 pm Closing Keynote Speaker

(Chair: Jack Hill)

(David Allan—Reader, School of History [Scottish], University of St. Andrews)

“‘People who live long like me must be content to be last’: Multiple Fergusons beyond the Essay”