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 8 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)
Philosophical narratives and the formation of national culture: the case of the Leibnizian-Wolffian tradition
Date: 8 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Paola Rumore (Turin)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
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Wednesday 15 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)
Manners and political stability in a commercial republic: the case of France, c. 1795-1799
Date: 15 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Sonja Asal (Halle)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Sophia Sheppard Room
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Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)
Ask them what and whom they liked: Montesquieu, Smith and others
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
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Wednesday 29 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)
Doing things with poetry: uses and reuses of poésie fugitive in the long 18th century
Date: 29 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:00 (Wednesday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker
:
Roman Kuhn (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Summer Common Room
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Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark