Date: Thursday, February 2nd, 2023

Location: Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room, 74 Morningside Drive, New York, NY 10027 and online via Zoom.

Time: 6:15 PM EST

Register here (for both in-person and virtual attendance)

Hosted by James Stafford (Columbia University) with panelists Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University), Susan Pedersen (Columbia University), Pablo Piccato (Columbia University), and Nadia Urbinati (Columbia University).

Join us for our New Book Series event honoring The Case of Ireland: Commerce, Empire, and the European Order by James Stafford. The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism, and unionism. The Case of Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022) offers a fresh account of Ireland’s neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians, and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the center of European intellectual history.

This event is organized by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy and cosponsored by the Office of the Divisional Deans in the Faculty of Arts and Science and the Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.