EH.N: CfP: Colloquium on 18th-Century Financial Revolution

[Richard Kleer]

Money, Power, and Print: Interdisciplinary Studies on the Financial
Revolution in the British Isles, 1688-1776. 
Aberdeen, Scotland, June 17-19, 2010.

This colloquium will gather scholars from a wide range of disciplines to
study the intersections between public finance, politics and literature
during Britain's so-called Financial Revolution. (The term "British"
is used loosely to refer to all constituent parts of the United Kingdom and
also to Ireland and the colonies. The term "literature" is broadly
defined to include newspapers, pamphlets, treatises, novels, plays, and
prints.)

The colloquium organizers invite papers of two broad types: original
research on any aspect of the revolution or overviews of the principal
issues and arguments in some broad area of secondary scholarship
relating to the revolution (with the intent of introducing scholars from
other disciplines to the work going on within your own discipline).
Graduate students and junior scholars are particularly encouraged to
contribute.

Papers must address broad questions that would be of interest to, and be
written in a style that is accessible to, a non-specialist,
interdisciplinary audience. Preference will be given to papers that
consider the influence and role of texts written by contemporaries about
the financial revolution. Also very welcome would be papers considering
British attitudes toward developments in French public financing,
especially to John Law's "System" and the so-called "Mississippi
Bubble."

The organizers hope to select two papers each from the following three
broad subject areas:

      * the financial innovations themselves
      * the impact of these innovations on politics (including the
        political functions of contemporary writing on public finance)
      * the ways in which the innovations were portrayed in contemporary
        literature.

Proposals may be submitted to any of the colloquium organizers listed
below. Proposals of 250 words are due 15 June 2009. The program will be
announced in December 2009. Accepted papers will be due on 1 May 2010
and will be circulated among colloquium participants in advance. The
colloquium is an initiative of 'Money, Power and Print', an association
of scholars interested in an interdisciplinary approach to the Financial
Revolution. The association hosted similar colloquia at Regina,
Saskatchewan (2004), Armagh, Northern Ireland (2006), and St John's,
Newfoundland and Labrador (2008). Further details are available at
www.moneypowerandprint.org.