Tercentenary Week events
Tercentenary Week, from 5─10 June, will be an opportunity to hear some of the world's most prestigious speakers on Adam Smith's legacy. Registration is now open for three lectures taking place during Tercentenary Week - join us in person or online.
On Monday 5 June, Gita Gopinath, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, will present the first lecture in the Hunter Foundation lecture series which will touch on what Adam Smith would say about the state of globalisation. This will be followed by a fireside conversation with Kirsty Wark, BBC Newsnight presenter. Prior to taking up the role of First Deputy Managing Director, Gita held the post of Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund and was a Professor at Harvard University Economics Department. She was also named amongst the Financial Times most influential women in 2021.
On Wednesday 7 June, Professor Deirdre McCloskey, Isaiah Berlin Chair in Liberal Thought at the Cato Institute, Washington, and Emerita Professor of Economics, History, English and Communication at the University of Illinois in Chicago, will deliver the Adam Smith 300 Templeton Foundation Lecture. Deirdre has written two dozen books, the latest forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, 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 from 1968─80 in economics and history at the University of Chicago, and has taught and visited widely, including 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 the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she holds eleven honorary doctorates.
We will welcome Professor Sir Angus Deaton to the University of Glasgow on Thursday 8 June. Sir Angus won the Nobel prize in Economic Science in 2015 for his analysis of consumption, poverty and welfare. He is a Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University. As a citizen of both Britain and America, he is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His recent book with Professor Anne Case, Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, explores how flaws in our economic system can have devastating implications for people's lives and livelihoods.
The lectures by Gita Gopinath and Professor Sir Angus Deaton are supported by The Hunter Foundation.
The lecture by Professor Deirdre McCloskey is supported by the John Templeton Foundation.