• 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 27 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Colonialism, cosmopolitanism and Kant’s justification of territorial rights (joint session with the Oxford Political Thought seminar)
  Lea Ypi (LSE)

Wednesday 29 January 2025 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Robespierre speaks
  Colin Jones (Queen Mary, London/University of Chicago)

Wednesday 12 February 2025 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Roundtable on The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History (2024) by J C D Clark.
  Caroline Warman, Jacob Chatterjee, John Robertson, J C D Clark

Wednesday 26 February 2025 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Newton’s reception at the Berlin Academy
  Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Bucharest)

Wednesday 5 March 2025 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Montesquieu in East Asia (annual online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University)
  Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul National University)

Wednesday 12 March 2025 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Kant’s republicanism
  Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen)

Wednesday 7 May 2025 (16th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Bit-making and artisanal Enlightenment: the codification of practical knowledge from the pictorial rhetoric of bit-books to riding manuals and encyclopaedic knowledge
  Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam)

Wednesday 21 May 2025 (18th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair
  Giora Sternberg (Hertford College, Oxford)