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/

Talks:

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

Colonialism, cosmopolitanism and Kant’s justification of territorial rights (joint session with the Oxford Political Thought seminar)
Date: 27 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Lea Ypi (LSE)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Robespierre speaks
Date: 29 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 2nd week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Colin Jones (Queen Mary, London/University of Chicago)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Roundtable on The Enlightenment: An Idea and Its History (2024) by J C D Clark.
Date: 12 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker s: Caroline Warman, Jacob Chatterjee, John Robertson, J C D Clark
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Newton’s reception at the Berlin Academy
Date: 26 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Bucharest)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Montesquieu in East Asia (annual online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University)
Date: 5 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 7th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul National University)
Venue Details: Online
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Kant’s republicanism
Date: 12 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 8th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Bit-making and artisanal Enlightenment: the codification of practical knowledge from the pictorial rhetoric of bit-books to riding manuals and encyclopaedic knowledge
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 16th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 18th week, Hilary 2025)
Speaker : Giora Sternberg (Hertford College, Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark