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- 🎥 Live streamed lecture! 🎥 Don't miss Professor Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University) on the topic ‘Buffon and the Degenerated Human’, 29 May 2025, 9.30am (UK time). More info and link to the stream on our website: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/live-s...
- The diverse perspectives of Enlightenment authors on equality: Darrin McMahon @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social writes in our blog on 18thC discussions of equality and their legacies. voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/e...
- This Friday! All welcome.
- 📆 Save the date! 📆 Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies! 9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00. More information: tinyurl.com/3cjmx4zj
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- From manuals to encyclopaedias: how was artisanal knowledge diffused in the 18thC? Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam) discusses the case of bit-making at our Enlightenment Workshop: Wednesday (7 May), 5pm at Magdalen College. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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- Many thanks to @roydipiazza.bsky.social for a generous review of 'The Process of Enlightenment' @oxunienl.bsky.social! 'A landmark contribution to the fields of intellectual history and Enlightenment studies [...] timely, nuanced, and rich addition to current debates'. doi.org/10.1080/1749...
- 📣 Call for Applications! 📣 The Turin Humanities Programme and Fondazione 1563 are pleased to invite doctoral students and ECRs to submit their applications to the Summer School Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...
- 📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.
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- 📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.
- 📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.
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- 📆 Save the date! 📆 Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies! 9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00. More information: tinyurl.com/3cjmx4zj
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- What kind of republicanism did Kant endorse in the context of absolutist Prussia? Join us for a talk by Pauline Kleingeld (@unigroningen.bsky.social) at our Enlightenment Workshop, Wednesday 12 March, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. Further info: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
- TOMORROW! All welcome.
- Cross-cultural knowledge transfer in 18thC: Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul) discusses Montesquieu and East Asia in an online session of our Enlightenment Workshop. Wednesday 5 March, 11:00 GMT, zoom.us/j/2739110432. Looking forward to seeing you virtually on Wednesday! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
- Cross-cultural knowledge transfer in 18thC: Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul) discusses Montesquieu and East Asia in an online session of our Enlightenment Workshop. Wednesday 5 March, 11:00 GMT, zoom.us/j/2739110432. Looking forward to seeing you virtually on Wednesday! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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- New digital resources! Explore the Voltaire Studio, which currently comprises two comprehensive databases: the Library of Voltaire, which contains records of all books and manuscripts known to have been part of his personal collection... web.explore-voltaire.org/library-of-v...
- Why were Newton's theories so controversial in 18th-century Berlin? Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet talks at our Enlightenment Workshop on the reception of Newton in the Berlin Academy: Wednesday 26 Feb, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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- ‘Nathan the Wise’ after Auschwitz: Hannes Kerber writes in our blog on Erwin Piscator’s postwar productions of Lessing’s play. voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/02/13/n... @lessingworkshop.bsky.social
- Thanks to all participants in last night’s fascinating discussion. Next: Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet on how Newton’s theories were received in the Berlin Academy (and why), 26 Feb, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome!
- The Enlightenment in history and polemics: John Robertson, Caroline Warman and Jacob Chatterjee discuss J.C.D. Clark‘s new book, with the author, at our Enlightenment Workshop on Wed. 12 February, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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- Finding overlooked sources of Encyclopédie articles thanks to the latest advances in AI and Digital Humanities: read Clovis Gladstone and Mark Olsen‘s contribution to our blog. voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/f... Dictionnaire Universel de Commerce by Jacques Savary des Brûlons
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- The Enlightenment in history and polemics: John Robertson, Caroline Warman and Jacob Chatterjee discuss J.C.D. Clark‘s new book, with the author, at our Enlightenment Workshop on Wed. 12 February, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
- Many thanks to Colin Jones for launching our second term with a fascinating talk - and to everyone who attended! Next, on 12 Feb., discussion of JCD Clark’s new book on the Enlightenment: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
- Robespierre speaks: Colin Jones (QM London/U Chicago) on the revolutionary’s writings and political theory — Wednesday (29 Jan), 5pm, Magdalen College. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
- TODAY, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social!
- Robespierre speaks: Colin Jones (QM London/U Chicago) on the revolutionary’s writings and political theory — Wednesday (29 Jan), 5pm, Magdalen College. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
- Reposted by Voltaire FoundationHi everyone enjoying #BSECS2025 @bsecs.bsky.social , the German Society for the Study of the 18th Century is advertising its first Dissertation Prize. Applications (& dissertations) in English, en français & auf Deutsch welcome. Deadline 31/1/2025. Details in image & alt-text. #C18 Please share. 🙏
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- Read our newest blog: VF Director Nicholas Cronk on 50 years of Voltaire Room at the @tayoxford.bsky.social ! #18C voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/t...
- Robespierre speaks: Colin Jones (QM London/U Chicago) on the revolutionary’s writings and political theory — Wednesday (29 Jan), 5pm, Magdalen College. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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- 📢 Term has started, and so will our #EnlightenmentWorkshop! 📢 Our guests in the 2nd term: Colin Jones, J. C. D. Clark, Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet, Jeanhyoung Soh, and Pauline Kleingeld. #18C More information on the website: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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- Do come and find us at #BSECS2025, #18C and #DH colleagues! We are also sharing a book stand with our publishing partner @livunipress.bsky.social.
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- New on the blog! We are delighted to introduce ‘L’Écriture est la peinture de la voix: essays in honour of Nicholas Cronk‘, the latest special collection from Modern Languages Open which is available to read Open Access. #18C #DH voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2024/12/12/i...
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- 🎉🎉 Our Digital Enlightenment Studies: Issue 2 is now live! 🎉🎉 #18C #DH This issue includes reports on digital projects currently underway, showcasing a range of varied possibilities offered by digital scholarship in the Enlightenment. More information: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/di...
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- Many thanks to Lea Ypi for a fascinating paper on Kant’s approach to colonialism and to the large, interdisciplinary audience at this term’s Enlightenment Workshop! Next session: Colin Jones on Robespierre, 29 Jan, 5pm. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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- Many congratulations to Hans and the editors!
- TODAY, 5pm at Magdalen College (Summer Common Room). All welcome!
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- Have a look at this Call for Papers! Organised by our colleagues at ERC ModERN, Sorbonne University, and the University of Chicago. Deadline for proposals is 15 December! #18C www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...
- This Wednesday!
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- Amazing! That is dedication!
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