Adam Smith’s Enlightened World
Conference
Zhejiang, Hangzhou, China
23-28 September 2017
23th September (Saturday)
18:00
Reception
Introducing students and tutors
24th September (Sunday)
9:10- 9: 20
Opening ceremony
Chair: Prof. LUO Weidong and others
9:30- 10: 40
Keynote Speech: title (TBA),
Speaker: Dr. Fonna Forman
Chair: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Break
11:00- 12:10 Reading Sympathy and Passions, pp. 9- 42, TMS
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Lunch
14:00- 15: 10Reading Judgement, reward and punishment, and justice pp. 43- 108, TMS
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Break
15:30- 16:40Re-reading Sympathy and Passions, and justice, pp. 9- 108, TMS
Moderator: Dr. Fonna Forman
Dinner
19:00- 20:10
Group discussion lead each by assistant tutors
25th September (Monday)
9:30- 10: 30Reading sense of duty, effect of utility, custom and fashion, pp. 109-211, TMS
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Break
11:00- 12:10Reading virtue, pp. 212-264, TMS
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Lunch
14:00- 15: 00 Re-reading sense of dutyand virtue, pp. 109- 264, 265-313, TMS
Moderator: Dr. Fonna Forman
Break
15:30- 16:40Reading TMS and Adam Smith as a Moralist
Moderator: Dr. Fonna Forman
Dinner
19:00- 20:10
Group discussion lead each by assistant tutors
26th September (Tuesday)
9:30- 10: 40 Reading division of labour, market and money, pp. 13-81, WN
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Break
11:00- 12:10Reading system of political economy, pp. 428-72, WN
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Lunch
14:00- 15: 00Reading commerce and colony, pp. 545-590, WN
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Break
15:00- 17:30
Group discussion lead by assistant tutors
Tutors are expected in this session to help students in writing a short essay, up to 3500 Chinese characters, based on the readings. Three essays of each group will be nominated by the tutors for the prize, a set of collected works of Adam Smith published by Liberty Fund. Among the nominees, three will be the winners.
18: 00
Dinner
27th September (Wednesday)
9:30- 10: 40 Keynote Speech
Speaker: Dr. James R. Otteson
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Break
11:00- 12:10Re-reading division of labour, market and money, pp. 13-81, WN
Moderator: Dr. James Otteson
Lunch
15:10- 16:00Reading Adam Smith as a political economist, pp. 591- 688, WN
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
16:10- 17:10Reading justice, virtue and marketplace pp. 78-108, TMS
Moderator: Dr. James Otteson
18:00
Dinner
19:00- 20:10
Group discussion lead each by assistant tutors
28th September (Thursday)
09: 30- 10:30 Reading public debt, pp. 907-947 WN
Moderator: Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
11: 00- 12: 00 Revisiting Adam Smith as a political economist, based on readings of TMS & WN in the conference
Moderator: Dr. James Otteson
12:10- 12:30Closing ceremony
Chairs: Prof. Weidong LUO
Prof. James Otteson
Dr. Jeng-Guo Chen
Lunch
Farewell reception