Enlightenment Workshop - Oxford Talks

Enlightenment Workshop

An interdisciplinary research seminar supported by the Faculty of History, the Faculty of Modern Languages, and the Voltaire Foundation.

Wednesdays at 17:00 at Magdalen College

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 7 May 2025

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

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

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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