• 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/

Monday 15 January 2018

• 17:00 - Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salon: a data-driven approach
  Chloe Edmondson (Stanford University)

Monday 22 January 2018

• 17:00 - Life and (love) letters: looking in on Winckelmann’s correspondence
  Katherine Harloe (Reading), Lucy Russell (Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2018

• 17:00 - Philosophical kingship in eighteenth-century Europe: Frederick II, Catherine II, and the philosophes
  Shiru Lim (University College London)

Monday 5 February 2018

• 17:00 - What are Jews for? Moses Mendelssohn and the problem of Jewish purpose
  Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London)

Monday 12 February 2018

• 17:00 - How much did eighteenth-century Enlightenment owe to seventeenth-century Improvement?
  Paul Slack (Linacre College, Oxford)

Monday 19 February 2018

• 17:00 - The end of the world in the eighteenth century: natural catastrophes and Enlightenment perspectives on the Last Judgment
  László Kontler (Central European University, Budapest)

Monday 26 February 2018

• 17:00 - Maria Theresa and the Catholic Enlightenment
  Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (University of Münster)

Monday 5 March 2018

• 17:00 - Do we need the concept of Enlightenment? A survey of older and more recent debates
  Elisabeth Décultot (University of Halle-Wittenberg)

Thursday 26 April 2018

• 17:00 - The late German Enlightenment and its temples
  Paul Kerry (Brigham Young University / Oxford)

Thursday 3 May 2018

• 17:00 - Lighting the Enlightenment: public illumination and the Siècle des Lumières
  Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire)

Thursday 10 May 2018

• 17:00 - Patterns of materialist thought: fragments and formulations from Diderot to Destutt de Tracy
  Caroline Warman (Jesus College, Oxford)

Thursday 17 May 2018

• 17:00 - Roundtable discussion of Anthony La Vopa’s book: The labor of the mind: intellect and gender in Enlightenment cultures (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
  Various Speakers

Monday 14 January 2019

• 17:00 - Keeping characters: Charlotte Lennox and Oliver Goldsmith between 18th-century British theatre and the novel
  Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford)
• 17:00 - Keeping characters: Charlotte Lennox and Oliver Goldsmith between 18th-century British theatre and the novel
  Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford)

Monday 21 January 2019

• 17:00 - Images of Enlightenment: How visual representations contributed to the Enlightenment Agenda
  Daniel Fulda (Enlightenment Research Centre, Halle)

Monday 28 January 2019

• 17:00 - Terrorists, anarchists and republicans: The Genevans in Ireland
  Richard Whatmore (St. Andrews)

Monday 4 February 2019

• 17:00 - The flight from humanism? Botanists, book learning and the Enlightenment of ginseng
  Emma Spary (Cambridge)

Monday 11 February 2019

• 17:00 - The birth of the story-ballet: Dancing literature in the long 18th century
  Julia Bührle (New College, Oxford)

Monday 18 February 2019

• 17:00 - Writing the attentat on Louis XV, 5 January 1757
  Kate Tunstall (Worcester College, Oxford)

Monday 25 February 2019

• 17:00 - Editing Charles Burney’s letters from Paris to Montreal, 1814-2019
  Peter Sabor (McGill)

Monday 4 March 2019

• 17:00 - Locusts of love: Imagi(ni)ng insect reproduction in the 18th century
  Dominik Hünniger (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen)

Monday 29 April 2019

• 17:00 - George Rousseau Lecture - Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism
  PLEASE NOTE: The session will be held at Magdalen College, preceded by an afternoon colloquium (1:30-4:30) on human rights and the Enlightenment, featuring Annelien de Dijn (Utrecht), Mark Philp (Warwick), Céline Spector (Paris) and Dan Edelstein.
  Dan Edelstein (Stanford)

Monday 6 May 2019

• 17:00 - Where is Rousseau? Tracking Enlightenment discourse in the French Revolutionary period
  Clovis Gladstone (ARTFL Project, University of Chicago)

Monday 13 May 2019

• 17:00 - The Enlightenment and the northwest Pacific coast: Alexander Walker and José Mariano Moziño at Nootka Sound, 1785-1792
  Maxine Berg (Warwick)

Monday 20 May 2019

• 17:00 - Enlightenment and migration politics
  Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile (Potsdam)

Monday 20 January 2020

• 17:00 - Religion and Enlightenment
  Maria Florutau, Henrique Laitenberger, Vincent Roy-Di Piazza

Monday 27 January 2020

• 17:00 - Forms of federalism: Edward Gibbon’s Great Republic of Europe vs. Johannes von Müller’s Bundesrepublik
  Béla Kapossy (EPFL/Université de Lausanne)

Monday 3 February 2020

• 17:00 - Countering Islamophobia in the early 18th century
  Ann Thomson (European University Institute, Florence)

Monday 10 February 2020

• 17:00 - "Beyond too much": Shakespearean excesses in 18th-century Germany
  Claudia Olk (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich/Exeter College)

Monday 17 February 2020

• 17:00 - What does the new history of distributed cognition do for Enlightenment Studies?
  George Rousseau (Oxford/Bergen)

Monday 24 February 2020

• 17:00 - L’Hospitalité dans les romans d’émigration / Hospitality in novels of emigration
  Michèle Bokobza Kahan (Tel Aviv University)

Monday 2 March 2020

• 17:00 - Violence and the Enlightenment
  Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle, Australia/All Souls College)

Monday 9 March 2020

• 17:00 - The orang-utan and the limits of humanity in Enlightenment debates
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)

Monday 27 April 2020

• 17:00 - The Virgin’s republican turn: personification of the body politic in Britain and Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries
  This event has been cancelled.
  Thomas Maissen (German Historical Institute, Paris)

Monday 4 May 2020

• 17:00 - D’Holbach: the many faces of an invisible author
  This event has been cancelled.
  Ruggero Sciuto (Voltaire Foundation)

Monday 18 May 2020

• 17:00 - John Locke, treaties, and the Two Treatises of Government
  This event has been cancelled.
  David Armitage (Harvard/King’s College London)

Monday 1 June 2020

• 17:00 - Radical translations and the transfer of Revolutionary culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)
  This event has been cancelled.
  Sanja Perovic (King’s College London)

Monday 8 June 2020

• 17:00 - In the shadow of the public: Enlightenment and modernity
  This event has been cancelled.
  Antoine Lilti (EHESS, Paris)

Monday 15 June 2020

• 17:00 - Violence and the Enlightenment
  This event has been cancelled.
  Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle, Australia/All Souls College)

Monday 25 January 2021

• 17:00 - 'The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790' (2020) by Ritchie Robertson
  Joanna Innes (Oxford), Anthony La Vopa (North Carolina), Karen O'Brien (Oxford), Ritchie Robertson (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 February 2021

• 17:00 - "'L'Héritage des Lumières: ambivalences de la modernité' (2019) by Antoine Lilti
  Margaret Jacob (UCLA), Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth), Antoine Lilti (EHESS, Paris)

Monday 22 February 2021

• 17:00 - 'Marie-Antoinette, Lettres inédites', ed. Catriona Seth (2019) / 'Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings', ed. Avi Lifschitz (2021)
  Tim Blanning (Cambridge), Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (University of Southern California), Catriona Seth (University of Oxford), Avi Lifschitz (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 March 2021

• 17:00 - 'Voltaire, Précis du siècle de Louis XV' (OCV, vols. 29 A-C, 2019-2020), eds. Janet Godden and James Hanrahan
  Colin Jones (Queen Mary, London/University of Chicago), Siofra Pierse (University College Dublin), Janet Godden (University of Oxford), James Hanrahan (Trinity College Dublin)

Monday 17 January 2022

• 17:00 - Doing research in eighteenth-century France: private libraries as public resources
  Laurence Brockliss (Magdalen College, Oxford)

Monday 24 January 2022

• 17:00 - Patrick Colquhoun and the Science of Society: magistracy and political economy in Glasgow and London
  Joanna Innes (Somerville College, Oxford)

Monday 31 January 2022

• 17:00 - Securing Peace, Prosperity, and Population Growth in Scotland, 1745-1767
  Conor Bollins (Queen Mary University of London)

Monday 7 February 2022

• 17:00 - Theatrum criticum: Pierre Bayle, Benito Jerónimo Feijoo, and the early modern genealogies of Enlightenment critique
  Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin)

Monday 14 February 2022

• 17:00 - Orangutans and the Borders of Humanity in the Enlightenment
  Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Paris)

Monday 21 February 2022

• 17:00 - The Göttingen university Fachjournale from 1765 to 1825 – and a few remarks on information, organization, and history as evolution
  Martin Gierl (University of Göttingen)

Monday 28 February 2022

• 17:00 - The European network of Jean-Claude Pingeron (1730–1795), amateur and collectioneur of useful arts
  Marie Thébaud-Sorger (CNRS, Paris)

Monday 7 March 2022

• 17:00 - Language and Logos in the Writings of A. N. Radishchev
  Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (University of Southern California)

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 17:00 - Rekindling the French Enlightenment in the embers of World War: internationalism, bibliography, and cultural policy in the origins of the critical edition of the Voltaire Correspondence
  Gregory S Brown (University of Nevada)

Wednesday 18 January 2023

• 17:00 - Lecturing on pedagogy: Kant's creative use of Basedow’s educational philosophy
  Jürgen Overhoff (Münster)

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 17:00 - «Fi! l[a] vilain[e] hypocrite»: picturing women atheists in eighteenth-century Paris
  Ruggero Sciuto (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 17:00 - Radical translations: the transfer of revolutionary culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)
  Sanja Perovic (King’s College London)

Monday 20 February 2023

• 17:00 - Islamic influences on European thought in the seventeenth century
  Please note this seminar is on a Monday.
  Luisa Simonutti (ISPF/CNR, Milan)

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 17:00 - The Old Regime deck of playing cards
  Jeffrey Ravel (MIT)

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 17:00 - Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and the law of nations
  David Armitage (Harvard)

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 17:00 - Lessing, Voltaire and theodicy
  Friedrich Vollhardt (LMU, Munich)

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 17:00 - William Warburton’s Divine Legation of Moses (1738-1741) and theological learning in the public sphere
  Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, Oxford)

Wednesday 24 May 2023

• 17:00 - Herder and the French Revolution
  Eva Piirimäe (Tartu)

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 17:00 - Seven years of literary and artistic life (1737-1744): what Voltaire’s new letters to Marie-Louise Denis bring to light
  Nicolas Fréry (Strasbourg)

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 17:00 - Turning the page on the reign of Frederick the Great: Mirabeau, Zimmermann and the "Berlin Enlightenment", 1786-1792
  Kevin Hilliard (St Peter's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Enlightenment origins of historicism
  Béla Kapossy (Lausanne)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 17:00 - Cosmopolitanism against revolution: counter-revolutionary legacies of the Enlightenment
  Matthijs Lok (Amsterdam)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 17:00 - The animal question: from Bayle to Bentham
  Mara van der Lugt (St Andrews)

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 17:00 - The play’s the thing: Jean-François Ducis’s Hamlet (1769-1815)
  Joseph Harris (Royal Holloway, London)

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 17:00 - Cataloguing the Enlightenment: classification, marginalisation, and digital scholarship
  Zoe Screti (Harris Manchester College, Oxford)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 11:00 - Étienne-Géry Lenglet and the political economy of equality for the modern republic (online session with the Global Intellectual History Unit, Sungkyunkwan University)
  Please note this session is online at 11:00 (GMT)
  Minchul Kim (Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul)

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 17:00 - Putting the Enlightenment in its place: religion, moral leadership and the genealogy of the 18th-century age of improvement
  Please note the change of date from Wednesday 21 February to Thursday 22 February; all other details remain the same
  Damien Tricoire (Trier)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - Imagined afterlives in eighteenth-century France
  Jessica Goodman (St Catherine's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - Philosophical narratives and the formation of national culture: the case of the Leibnizian-Wolffian tradition
  Paola Rumore (Turin)

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 17:00 - Manners and political stability in a commercial republic: the case of France, c. 1795-1799
  Sonja Asal (Halle)

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 17:00 - The dialectics of myth in the Enlightenment
  Sylvana Tomaselli (Cambridge)

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 17:00 - Doing things with poetry: uses and reuses of poésie fugitive in the long 18th century
  Roman Kuhn (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 17:00 - Reinhart Koselleck’s Enlightenment reconsidered
  Hans Erich Bödeker (Göttingen)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:00 - How revolutionary was equality in the 18th Century?
  Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth)

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 17:00 - Roundtable on The End of Enlightenment (2023) by Richard Whatmore
  Sofia Sanabria de Felipe, Cameron Bowman, Joanna Innes, Richard Whatmore (St. Andrews)

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 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

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

Wednesday 12 February 2025

• 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

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

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 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

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

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)