Welcome to the website for the annual meeting of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, hosted by the University of St Andrews.
Plenary addresses will be delivered by Knud Haakonssen, Professor and Director of the Centre for Intellectual History at the University of Sussex, on the publishing context of Thomas Reid’s Essays on the Active Powers, and T C Smout, Professor Emeritus at St Andrews and Historiographer Royal in Scotland, on reconsidering the improvers.
There will also be receptions, a walking tour of historic St Andrews, an excursion to Blair Atholl, a library exhibition, a conference dinner, and much more.
For general conference information, contact the conference organiser:
Dr David Allan
University of St Andrews
St Katharine’s Lodge
The Scores
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9AL
UK
E-mail: da2@st-andrews.ac.uk
Fax : (0)1334 462927.