Thursday 24 March 2016, 4:30 pm

Accademia delle Scienze di Torino - Sala dei Mappamondi
Welcoming address: Alberto Piazza (President of Accademia delle Scienze, Turin)
Introduction: Guido Abbattista (University of Trieste)

A Culture of Growth: A Lecture by
Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University
Sackler Professor, Eitan Berglas School of Economics, Tel Aviv University

A discussion by Giuseppe Berta (Bocconi University, Milan) will follow

Thursday 25 March 2016, 09:00 am - 01.00 pm
Chair: Carlo Capra (University of Milan)
Girolamo Imbruglia (University of Naples “L’Orientale”): General introduction
Guido Abbattista (University of Trieste): Europe and China in a ‘Long Enlightenment’ (1780‐1840)
Antonella Alimento (University of Pisa): European ‘Long Enlightenment’ and the harmonization of national interests: eighteenth‐century debates on commercial treaties
Jesus Astigarraga (Universidad de Zaragoza): The enlightened roots of the Spanish liberalism: Turgot´s case (1774‐1828)
Comments: Rolando Minuti (University of Florence) and Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)

Thursday 25 March 2016, 03:00 am - 07.00 pm
Chair: Renato Pasta (University of Florence)
Edoardo Tortarolo (University of Eastern Piedmont): Reforming religion: secularization in the long eighteenth century
Laszlo Kontler (Central European University, Budapest): The Enlightenment narrative in the age of liberal reform: William Robertson in Central Europe
Sandro Landi (Université Bordeaux Montaigne): “Laissez écrire”. The call for a free trade of ideas in the Raynal’s Histoire des deux Indes: ‘Long‐Enlightenment’ belief
Comments: Antoine Lilti (EHESS, Paris)
Final Remarks: Joel Mokyr
General Discussion