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Scotland’s First Minister Alex Salmond has lectured on the theme of ‘Citizenship and Scottish Civic Culture’ in the prestigious Stevenson and Adam Smith Research Foundation lecture series at the University of Glasgow at 7pm on Thursday 5 March in the Bute Hall at the University of Glasgow.

Professor Christopher Berry, of The Stevenson Trust Committee said: “Adam Smith was one of the greatest minds to teach in Glasgow University and Daniel Stevenson one of the city and University’s greatest benefactors. This legacy is conjoined in the Stevenson-Smith lecture series and this year’s is designed around the fact that 2009 is the 250th anniversary of the publication of Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments.

“We are delighted to have such a distinguished group of lecturers, each of whom has risen to the challenge to talk, from a theme derived from Smith’s book, about their own current work or ideas. This fusion between the legacy and the here and now is what makes this year’s series such an exciting, unmissable event.”

Earlier in the current series, Rt Hon George Reid, Stevenson Professor and former Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament, spoke on ‘Sentiments for Scotland’. Economist, philanthropist and Nobel Prize winner, Professor Muhammad Yunus was awarded an Honorary Degree by the University of Glasgow before his Stevenson lecture on Social Business for a New Global Economic Architecture last month.

The First Minister's lecture can be read in full here:
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/This-Week/Speeches/First-Minister/stevadamsmith

Further information:
Martin Shannon, Media Relations Officer,
University of Glasgow Tel: 0141 330 8593

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First published: 3 March 2009