FRINGE FESTIVAL TERCENTENARY LECTURE SERIES

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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.

Please Note: Due to the film screening this event will be 90 mins in duration

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?

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..

This lecture is in collaboration with University of Glasgow and John Templeton Foundation

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.

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 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.

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DURATION

55 minutes

LOCATION

The Reading Room, Panmure House please see below for a map

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