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 7 May 2025

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
Speaker : Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Writing acts and the family in the 18th Century: the Courtin-Brisay affair
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
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