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    Lights of Caledonia

    ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

    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.

    Produced by Video Production Edinburgh.

    LIGHTS OF CALEDONIA LECTURES AND INTERVIEWS

    Andrew Gilmour

    Dr Caroline Howitt

    Rt Hon Jesse Norman MP

    Dr Glory M. Liu

    John Campbell OBE

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    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.

    Click here to watch the full session and an interview with Andrew Gilmour.

    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. 


    Click here to watch the full session

    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.


    Click here to watch the full session and interview with Dr Norman

    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. 

    Click here to watch the full session and interview with Dr Liu

    John Campbell OBE

    Non-Executive Chairman and Founder - Campbell Lutyens

    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. At this event, we welcome John Campbell OBE. John, known as Campbell, will discuss the life and influence of one of the most extraordinary figures of British political history in the early 20th Century, Edinburgh-born Richard Burdon Haldane, Viscount Haldane of Cloan.

    Chaired by Professor Adam Dixon, Adam Smith Chair in Sustainable Capitalism, the session will be followed by a stimulating Q+A session to a live audience in the Lecture Room of Panmure House.

    Click here to watch the full session with John Campbell OBE.