• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall) , Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College)
• Timing: Wednesdays 17:00
• Web Address: https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Turning the page on the reign of Frederick the Great: Mirabeau, Zimmermann and the "Berlin Enlightenment", 1786-1792
  Kevin Hilliard (St Peter's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Enlightenment origins of historicism
  Béla Kapossy (Lausanne)

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Cosmopolitanism against revolution: counter-revolutionary legacies of the Enlightenment
  Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam)

Wednesday 29 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The animal question: from Bayle to Bentham
  Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews)

Wednesday 24 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The play’s the thing: Jean-François Ducis’s Hamlet (1769-1815)
  Joseph Harris (Royal Holloway, London)

Wednesday 7 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Cataloguing the Enlightenment: classification, marginalisation, and digital scholarship
  Zoe Screti (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)

Wednesday 14 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Étienne-Géry Lenglet and the political economy of equality for the modern republic (online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University)
  Please note this session is online at 11:00 (GMT)
  Minchul Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul)

Wednesday 21 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Putting the Enlightenment in its place: religion, moral leadership and the genealogy of the 18th-century age of improvement
  Damien Tricoire (Trier)

Wednesday 6 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Imagined afterlives in eighteenth-century France
  Jessica Goodman (St Catherine's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Philosophical narratives and the formation of national culture: the case of the Leibnizian-Wolffian tradition
  Paola Rumore (Turin)

Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Manners and political stability in a commercial republic: the case of France, c. 1795-1799
  Sonja Asal (Halle)

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Ask them what and whom they liked: Montesquieu, Smith and others
  Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge)

Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Doing things with poetry: uses and reuses of poésie fugitive in the long 18th century
  Roman Kuhn (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)