Name: IASS 2025
Start: 2025-03-28T07:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-03-30T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Lecce, Italy

IASS 2025

from Friday, 28 March 2025 (07:30) to Sunday, 30 March 2025 (22:00)

Monday, 24 March 2025
Tuesday, 25 March 2025
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
Thursday, 27 March 2025
Friday, 28 March 2025

07:30 ROOM 1
ROOM 1
07:30 - 08:00

ROOM 2
ROOM 2
07:30 - 08:00

ROOM 3
ROOM 3
07:30 - 08:00

08:00 Welcome coffee and registration opening
Welcome coffee and registration opening
08:00 - 08:30

08:30 Conference opening
Conference opening
08:30 - 09:00
09:10 A.1 SESSION: MORAL AND ECONOMIC VULNERABILITY
09:10 - 10:40
Room: ROOM 1
Contributions

09:10 Adam Smith’s Account of Moral Vulnerability as an Essential Element of the Human Condition - Christel Fricke (University of Oslo, Norway)

09:40 Love, respect and “sympathetic individualism” - Maria Alejandra Carrasco (UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES, CHILE)

10:10 Poverty, Vulnerability, and Moral Sentiments: Adam Smith’s Framework for Human Progress in Liberal Societies - Evandro Barbosa (Ufpel) Thais Cristina Alves Costa (Unochapecó/ UFPel)
A.2 SESSION: COMMERCE AND SOCIAL STABILITY
09:10 - 10:40
Room: ROOM 2
Contributions

09:10 Smith, Aristotle and the Politics of Sympathy - João Pinheiro da Silva (University of St Andrews) Mateus Martins Bruno (University College Dublin)

09:40 Fidelity, Social Stability, and The Commercial Man - Remy Debes (The University of Memphis)

10:10 "The economic problems of cosmopolitanism in the Wealth of Nations: doux-commerce thesis revisited" - Shinji Nohara (University of Tokyo / University of Glasgow)
A.3 SESSION: NORMATIVITY AND ECONOMIC PROGRESS
09:10 - 10:40
Room: ROOM 3
Contributions

09:10 The Normative Benchmark of Economic Progress: Adam Smith’s Use of the Stadial Theory - Huahui Zhu (Tsinghua University)

09:40 The natural and the social: description and normativity in Adam Smith’s thought - Leo Steeds (University of Glasgow)

10:10 The other of progress: Adam Smith on native American societies and European settler colonies - Ivan Sternick (UFMG)
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 B.1 SESSION: RESENTMENT AND JUSTICE
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Hume and Smith on Justice: assessing the “narrowness” objection - Otto Lehto (New York University, School of Law, Classical Liberal Institute)

11:30 Resentment and the Limits of Humanity in Adam Smith and Aquinas - Atanacio Hernandez (Wabash College)

12:00 To Speak With a Blow: Innocence, Accountablity, and Justice in Smith's TMS and Melville's Billy Budd - Neil Saccamano (Cornell University)
B.2 SESSION: EUROPEAN ENLIGHTENMENT
11:00 - 12:30
Room: ROOM 2
Contributions

11:00 Reclaiming Intellectual Sentiments in European Enlightenment: curiosity in Adam Smith and Giambattista Vico - Spyridon Tegos (University of Crete)

11:30 Popularizing Smith, Radicalizing Sympathy: On the Importance of Sophie de Grouchy - Jason Canon (University of Cambridge)

12:00 Adam Smith and the language of liberty of Francesco Ferrara - Cristina Guccione (Università di Palermo) Fabrizio Simon (Università di Palermo)
B.3 SESSION: AESTHETICS IN MORALS AND INDUSTRY
11:00 - 12:30
Room: ROOM 3
Contributions

11:00 When the Good Is a Matter of (Fine) Taste: Hume and Smith on Aesthetic Education - Pilar Bravo de Lallana (University of Navarra)

11:30 Beauty as Economic Drive: Adam Smith’s Aesthetics and Aesthetic Political Economy - Geven Liu (University of Oxford)

12:00 Adam Smith’s Account of the Industrial Revolution - Jimena Hurtado (Universidad de los Andes)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00 C.1 SESSION: GENDER, MORALITY AND HISTORY
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Modesty as a Real Virtue: Hume, Wollstonecraft and Smith - Jacqueline Taylor (University of San Francisco)

14:30 Smith on Women in Public and Private Sphere - Looking for Confluences with Mary Wollstonecraft’s Thinking - Riitta Koivisto (Tampere University)

15:00 Adam Smith on the condition of women and slaves in historical perspective - Zack Rauwald (University of Cambridge)
C.2 SESSION: SOME OF SMITH’S CATEGORIES REVISITED (JOINT SESSION WITH AISPE)
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Smith read and interpreted by Say - Alessandro Le Donne (Università di Torino) Riccardo Soliani (Università di Genova)

14:30 The capitalism of the “prudent man” and the “spirit of capitalism”: a comparison between A. Smith and the representatives of the GHS (Weber and Sombart) - Vitantonio Gioia

15:00 Benevolence as charity, relations of subordination and gift in Adam Smith - Stefano Fiori (University of Torino)
C.3 SESSION: ADAM SMITH, HIS TIMES AND OURS
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Adam Smith on Neutral Trade - Victor Bianchini (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

14:30 The Endowment Effect in Smith’s TMS: Father of Behavioral Economics? - John Stinespring (University of Tampa)

15:00 Adam Smith, the Author of The Wealth of Nations: Our Visionary yet Observant Contemporary - Eyüp Ozveren M. Erdem Ozgur
15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 15:50
15:50 D.1 SESSION: APPLIED AND CONTEMPORARY ETHICS
15:50 - 17:20
Room: ROOM 1
Contributions

15:50 How Adam Smith’s Moral Theory Explains the Rise and Fall of ESG— and Provides a Responsible Way Forward - Douglas Stevens (Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University)

16:20 Artificial Hearts: Can AI Fulfill Adam Smith's Vision of Friendship? - Thaís Alves Costa (Federal University of Pelotas / Unochapecó) Evandro Barbosa (Federal University of Pelotas)

16:50 Smith and the Moralistic Fallacy - Nir Ben-Moshe
D.2 SESSION: SPONTANEOUS ORDER AND NATURALISM
15:50 - 17:20
Room: ROOM 2
Contributions

15:50 The Ruin of Some Nations: Understanding the Institutional Theory through Adam Smith - Marcos Lüdy (University of CEMA)

16:20 Smith and the Austrians: Hayek's 1980s View - Tomáš Krištofóry (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

16:50 Inequality, Domination and Moral Disciplining: on the Naturalism Behind Adam Smith’s Politics of Commercial Society - Mateus Martins Bruno (University College Dublin)
D.3 SESSION: CAPITALISM AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
15:50 - 17:20
Room: ROOM 3
Contributions

15:50 Monetary Politics and Social Justice: Conceptions of Capital from Smith to Marx - Ruoyu Han (University of Cambridge)

16:20 Development of Capitalism and Human Nature in Adam Smith: A Problem of the Synthesis - Ledson Luiz Gomes da Rosa (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

16:50 Adam Smith and the Post-Keynesians: A Study of Regional Divergences in Italy - Guglielmo Forges Davanzati (University of Salento)
17:30 KEYNOTE SPEECH: Problems of Other Minds (and Hearts): On Some Challenges of Being a Smithian Spectator, and How Literature Helps / Lauren Kopajtic
KEYNOTE SPEECH: Problems of Other Minds (and Hearts): On Some Challenges of Being a Smithian Spectator, and How Literature Helps / Lauren Kopajtic
17:30 - 19:00

19:00 Welcome banquet at Chiostro del Cinquecento - Convitto Palmieri
Welcome banquet at Chiostro del Cinquecento - Convitto Palmieri
19:00 - 19:20
Saturday, 29 March 2025

08:00 Welcome coffee
Welcome coffee
08:00 - 08:30

08:30 IASS General Assembly
IASS General Assembly
08:30 - 09:00
09:10 E.1 SESSION: RELIGION AND ENLIGHTENMENT
09:10 - 10:40
Room: ROOM 1
Contributions

09:10 Adam Smith’s Lectures on Natural Religion: Re-constructing what he might have said - Craig Smith (The University of Glasgow)

09:40 A Textual Approach to the Ideas of Merchant’s and Commercial Society: From the Scholastics to Adam Smith - Alvaro Perpere (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina)

10:10 The Philosopher's Muse? Adam Smith and the duchesse d'Enville - F. E. Guerra-Pujol (University of Central Florida)
E.2 SESSION: ADAM SMITH IN RETROSPECT
09:10 - 10:40
Room: ROOM 2
Contributions

09:10 Adam Smith in the Writings of Vilfredo Pareto - Manuela Mosca (University of Salento)

09:40 Adam Smith on Economic Progress-cum-Equality. What was left in development economics? - Claudia Sunna (Università del Salento)

10:10 Adam Smith’s legacy against slavery: old and new perspectives - Simona Pisanelli (Università del Salento)
E.3 SESSION: DIVISION OF LABOR, REVENUE AND COMPETITION
09:10 - 10:40
Room: ROOM 3
Contributions

09:10 Service in Kind: A Rethinking on Smith’s Thought on the Division of Labour - Chenxi Gao

09:40 Gross and net produce in the Wealth of Nations - Mauricio Coutinho (UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

10:10 Modern economic theory and Smith's analysis of competition - Paolo Trabucchi (Roma Tre University)
10:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:40 - 11:00
11:00 F.1 SESSION: TMS AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Peculiar Relations, Partiality, and Moral Perception - Eugene Heath (State University of New York, New Paltz)

11:30 The Conditional Imperative: Smith and Kant on Moral Duties - Austin Lamb (Boston College)

12:00 The 3 ethical lives of Adam Smith and Soren Kierkegaard - Brendan Long (Charles Sturt University)
F.2 SESSION: ADAM SMITH AND POLITICS
11:00 - 13:00
Room: ROOM 2
Contributions

11:00 Adam Smith and Liberalism - John Thrasher

11:30 Adam Smith the Dissenter - Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University)

12:00 Adam Smith’s Critique of Monopoly: Is there a natural system of economic liberty? - Chandran Kukathas (Singapore Management University)
F.3 SESSION: NARRATIVE PERSUASION AFTER ADAM SMITH
11:00 - 13:00
Room: ROOM 3
Contributions

11:00 Sympathy and Spectation: Seeing the other in Gustave de Beaumont’s Marie, or On Slavery - Christine Dunn Henderson (Singapore Management University)

11:30 To “Reason in Metaphors:” Coleridge, Smith, and the Sympathetic Science - Pamela Edwards (Independent scholar)

12:00 Adam Smith and literary persuasion - John Alcorn (Trinity College, Connecticut)
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:30
14:30 G.1 PANEL: POLITICAL OBLIGATION AND LEGITIMACY
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Adam Smith on Good Citizenship - Yiftah Elazar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

15:00 Public Judgment and Global Commerce in Smith’s Political Thought - Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago)

15:30 Adam Smith on Egalitarianism v. Freedom - Michelle Schwarze (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

16:00 Smith on political obligation: between Locke and Filmer - James Harris (St Andrews)
G.2 SESSION: MORALITY, IDEALIZATION AND HISTORY
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Adam Smith’s Moralization of Liberty in the New Science of Political Economy - Henry Clark (Dartmouth College)

15:00 Idealization and Practical Normative Guidance in Smith’s Ethics and Politics - Keith Hankins (Chapman University)

15:30 The Two Voices and Two Times of Adam Smith - David Williams (Queen Mary Un iversity London)
G.3 SESSION: GLOBAL DISSEMINATION OF SMITH'S THOUGHT
14:30 - 16:30
Contributions

14:30 Travelers and Transmission: Adam Smith and the Early Reception of The Wealth of Nations in Late Qing China - Qing Guo (University of Glasgow/Nankai University)

15:00 The eclectic reception of Adam Smith on the causes of poverty among early Iberian readers of The Wealth of Nations - Alexandre Cunha (Cedeplar / Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)

15:30 Adam Smith’s Influence on British Reform Movements of the Early- to Mid-Nineteenth Century - Alexandra Digby (Minerva University)

16:00 Translating the Lectures on Jurisprudence into Portuguese - Eveline Hauck (Unicamp)
16:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:30 - 16:50

16:50 KEYNOTE SPEECH: The ‘sympathetic market-exchange thesis’ in Adam Smith scholarship / Vivienne Brown
KEYNOTE SPEECH: The ‘sympathetic market-exchange thesis’ in Adam Smith scholarship / Vivienne Brown
16:50 - 18:20

18:30 End of the conference
End of the conference
18:30 - 18:50

19:30 Gala dinner at Torre del Parco
Gala dinner at Torre del Parco
19:30 - 19:50
Sunday, 30 March 2025

10:00 Historic city center cultural tour - Meeting point at Porta Napoli
Historic city center cultural tour - Meeting point at Porta Napoli
10:00 - 10:20
Room: Porta Napoli