Archived reading groups

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To Die Contented: Hume, Smith, and Lucian on the Final Journey

October/November 2023

with Dan Kapust

Arrowsmith and Adam Smith

January/February 2024

with Elaine Sternberg

An Economy of Words: Adam Smith and the Political Philosophy of Language

with Aaron White

Hume and Smith on Benevolence and Justice (June 2023)

with Ted Harpham

Smith and Rousseau's Competing Visions of Commercial Society

January/February 2024

with Ted Harpham

Sympathy and Justice in Jane Austen and Adam Smith

April/May 2024

with Darwyyn Deyo

What Adam Smith Ate – Celebrating Adam Smith’s 300th birthday!

June 7, 2023

with Renee Wilmeth

Friendship in Adam Smith and Aristotle (May 2023)

with Elaine Sternberg

Adam Smith and the Division of Labor and an Introduction to AdamSmithWorks

Thursday, October 26, 2023, 6:00-7:30 pm EDT

with Alice Temnick

Religion and Politics in Hume and Smith (March 2023)

with Edward Harpham

This Virtual Reading Group will explore Adam Smith’s religious and political ideas through the lens provided by David Hume's writings.

The House of Mirth and Adam Smith (April 2023)

with Alice Temnick

Adam Smith and the Rights of Man

October 2023

with Renee Wilmeth

Time Travel and Adam Smith (February 2023)

February 2023

Time Travel and Adam Smith: Social and Moral Considerations in Science Fiction

with Renee Wilmeth

All aboard! We're reading the Digression on Silver

August 22 and 24, 2023

with Janet Bufton

Star Trek and Adam Smith's Moral Sentiments (January 2023)

January-February 2023

with James Hartley

The Scottish Enlightenment & the Distinction of Ranks (October 2022)

October, 2022

with Amy Willis

Teaching in the Spirit of Liberty (October 2022)

October 6, 2022

with Alice Temnick

For those of you who missed this terrific discussion in July, we're doing it again!

Teaching in the Spirit of Liberty (July 2022)

July 13, 2022

with Alice Temnick

Liberty, Equality, Jane Eyre, and Adam Smith’s Lectures on Rhetoric (June 2022)

with Renee Wilmeth

Star Trek and Adam Smith (May 2022)

With James Hartley

Wonder, Surprise, and Admiration: Reading Smith's Essays on Philosophical Subjects (April 2022)

with Sarah Skwire

How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life (February 2022)

with Christy Horpedahl

Aristotle and Adam Smith on Living a Virtuous Life (October 2021)

with Alice Temnick

Slavery in Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (September 2021)

September 2021

with Janet Bufton

Adam Smith and the American Colonies (June 2021)

with Ryan Hanley

Rights and Responsibilities in Frankenstein and The Theory of Moral Sentiments (January 2021)

January 2021

with Caroline Breashears

What Adam Smith Can Teach Us About Civil Discourse (April 2019)

with Tawni Ferrarini

Dennis Rasmussen's The Infidel and the Professor (August 2019)

with Amy Willis

Teaching with the Wealth of Nations (July 2019)

with Alice Temnick