Name: Adam Smith 300 Templeton Foundation Lecture - Professor Deirdre McCloskey
Start: 2023-06-07T17:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-06-07T19:00:00+01:00
Location: Seminar Room 237, Advanced Research Centre , University of Glasgow

Adam Smith 300 Templeton Foundation Lecture - Professor Deirdre McCloskey

College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow

Public Lecture celebrating the 300th Anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith - welcoming delegates in-person and on-line

Seminar Room 237, Advanced Research Centre , University of Glasgow

The University of Glasgow is delighted to welcome Professor Deirdre McCloskey to the Advanced Research Centre for this public lecture, sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation, as part of a programme of events celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith.Deirdre Nansen McCloskey occupies the Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute, Washington, and is Emerita Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has written two dozen books, the latest forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press as God’s Economy: Public Theology for an Age of Innovism, and some five hundred scholarly and journalistic pieces in economic theory, economic history, rhetorical theory, philosophy of science, literary criticism, gender studies, theology, ethics, legal and political theory, and statistical theory and practice. She taught economics and history (1968-1980) at the University of Chicago, and has taught and visited widely, as at Erasmus University of Rotterdam and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. A fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she holds eleven honorary doctorates. Delegates are most welcome to join us from 5pm for a networking drinks reception in the Atrium of the Advanced Research Centre, before the start of the lecture which will begin at 6pm.

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