2023 marked the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth, and the University of Glasgow led a year of academic events in honour of it. RGCS was a partner in those activities.
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Ryan Griffiths听(McGill Political Science/ RGCS Ph.D. 2003)
delivered a Research Group on Constitutional Studies Lecture:
"Adam Smith's 'Coarse Clay' Political Realism"
with response and comments by Shal Marriott, Political Science, McGill
A Lecture co-sponsored by the Adam Smith Tercentenary of the University of Glasgow
Thursday, September 14 2023, 4:30-6 pm
Leacock 232
Reception cosponsored by the Scottish Government Office in Canada and the University of Glasgow
The RGCS Lecture Series is supported in part by a grant from the Institute for Liberal Studies
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Two undergraduate members of the RGCS Student Fellowship,听Amelia Lang听and听Natalie Pennisi,听took part in the University of Glasgow's "Age and ideas of Adam Smith" summer school in June-July 2023
RGCS Student Fellow and MA student听Shal Marriott听presented a paper at the 2023 meeting of the International Adam Smith Society at the University of St. Andrews marking the 300th anniversary of Smith's birth, "The Dramatic Scottish Enlightenment: The Influence of Racine on Hume and Smith"
Ryan Griffiths and RGCS faculty member Jacob Levy presented papers at the academic workshops of the Adam Smith Tercentenary at the University of Glasgow in June 2023
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Article from the McGill Faculty of Arts, May 2023:听Undergraduate and graduate students from the Research Group on Constitutional Studies will take part in lectures, conferences and summer school programs in Scotland and Canada to mark Adam Smith鈥� 300th Anniversary celebrations led by the University of Glasgow.
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