As part of its 40th birthday celebrations, the society launched this archive of all programmes from the society’s previous conferences. It provides a wonderful window into the changing interests of the society’s memberships, and will continue to do so with each year’s programme continuing to be added.
Use the drop down arrows on the right hand side to see the programme for each event.
June 2025 — University of Stirling: “Scots and the Environment”
May/June 2024 — Princeton Theological Seminary (with the Institute for the Study of Scottish Philosophy): “Crisis, Continuity, and Change in 18th Century Scotland”
July 2023 — St Andrews, Scotland (Institute for the Study of Scottish Philosophy and the International Adam Smith Society): “Commemorating 300 years of Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson and John Witherspoon, and 250 years since Boswell and Johnson’s tour of the Hebrides.”
October 2022 — Ottawa, Canada (Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies): “Experiencing Modernity; Modernity of Experimentation”
July 2022 — University of Liverpool, England, “Scots Abroad”
July 2021 — Online Conference on “Race and Enlightenment” (co-sponsored by ISSP and the 18th-Century Worlds Research Centre at the U. of Liverpool)
August 2020 — Online ECSSS/ISSP Conference on “Religion and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Scotland”
July 2018 — Glasgow, Scotland at the University of Glasgow
March/April 2016 — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
July 2015 — Rotterdam, NL (Fourteenth International Congress for 18th-Century Studies)
October 2014 — Montreal, Canada (Canadian Society for 18th-Century Studies)
July 2013 — Paris, France (International Adam Smith Society and the Centre Roland Mousnier, Sorbonne): “Scotland, Europe and Empire in the Age of Adam Smith and Beyond”
July 2012 — Columbia, SC (University of South Carolina Libraries): “Media & Mediation in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: Voices, Manuscripts, and ‘Guid Black Prent’”
July 2011 — Aberdeen, Scotland (Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies, U. of Aberdeen): “The Arts and Sciences of Progress”
June 2010 — Princeton, NJ (Princeton Theological Seminary): “Thomas Reid, William Cullen and Adam Smith: The Science of Mind and Body in the Scottish Enlightenment”
July 2009 — St. Andrews, Scotland (St. Andrews University)
June 2008 — Halifax, Nova Scotia (Dalhousie University)
July 2007 — Montpellier, France (Twelfth International Enlightenment Congress)
April 2006 — Williamsburg, Virginia (College of William and Mary)
June 2005 — Budapest, Hungary (Hungarian Society for 18th-Century Studies and Central European University): “Empire, Philosophy and Religion: Scotland and Central–Eastern Europe in the Eighteenth Century”
June 2004 — Dublin, Ireland (18th- Century Ireland Society and Trinity College Dublin): “Ireland and Scotland: Conjoined Histories”
April 2003 — Charleston, South Carolina (The Citadel)
July 2002 — Edinburgh, Scotland (University of Edinburgh): “Union and Cultural Identities in Eighteenth-Century Scotland”
June 2001 — Arlington, Virginia (International Adam Smith Society and George Mason University): “Political Economy and 18th-Century Scottish Culture”
October 2000 — Toronto, Ontario (Canadian Society for 18th-Century Studies and the University of Toronto): “Memory and Identity: Past and Present”
July 1999 — Dublin, Ireland (Tenth International Enlightenment Congress)
July 1998 — Utrecht, The Netherlands (Dutch 18th-Century Studies Society and University of Utrecht)
October 1997 — Chicago, Illinois (Midwest ASECS): “Urban Culture”
July 1996 — Grenoble, France (Groupement de Recherche Etudes Ecossaises, Université Stendhal): “France and Scotland in the Enlightenment”1
July/August 1995 — Aberdeen, Scotland (King’s College): “Jacobitism, Scotland and the Enlightenment”
July 1994 — Providence, Rhode Island (John Carter Brown Library at Brown University): “Scotland and the Americas 1600–1800”
July 1993 — Ottawa, Canada (The Hume Society and the University of Ottawa): “Hume in His Scottish Setting”
October/November 1992 — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (East Central ASECS): “Centers and Peripheries of Enlightenment”
July 1991 — Bristol, England (Eighth International Enlightenment Congress)
July/August 1990 — Glasgow, Scotland (University of Strathclyde): “Glasgow and the Enlightenment”
April 1989 — New Orleans, Louisiana (American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies)
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