Avi Lifschitz (@diderotesque) 's Twitter Profile
Avi Lifschitz

@diderotesque

Historian @OxfordHistory, @MagdalenOxford, @VoltaireOxford & @OxfordCIH. Hovering between the 18th century and the 21st. Tweeting in personal capacity.

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Save the date! Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (Wissenschaftskolleg) delivers the 2025 George Rousseau Lecture Magdalen College on 30 April, 5pm, 'On the logic of autocracy and the plasticity of history: the case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia'. Tickets here: ticketsource.co.uk/magdalen-colle…

Save the date! Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (<a href="/wiko_berlin/">Wissenschaftskolleg</a>) delivers the 2025 George Rousseau Lecture <a href="/magdalenoxford/">Magdalen College</a> on 30 April, 5pm, 'On the logic of autocracy and the plasticity of history: the case of Frederick William I, King of Prussia'. Tickets here: ticketsource.co.uk/magdalen-colle…
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Call for Papers: Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference 2025 This year's theme is 'Anachronism and History'. Deadline for applications is 20 April 2025. Submit an abstract below ⬇️ forms.office.com/Pages/Response…

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If you're in Oxford, do come along to the launch of our Divination book (and new TORCH Network!) next Tuesday - we can promise free hot drinks and biscuits!

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Cross-cultural knowledge transfer: Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul) discusses Montesquieu and East Asia in an online session of our #EnlightenmentWorkshop. Wednesday 5 March, 11:00 GMT, zoom.us/j/2739110432. Looking forward to seeing you virtually on Wednesday! tinyurl.com/3by4ujj7

Cross-cultural knowledge transfer: Jeanhyoung Soh (Seoul) discusses Montesquieu and East Asia in an online session of our #EnlightenmentWorkshop. Wednesday 5 March, 11:00 GMT, zoom.us/j/2739110432. Looking forward to seeing you virtually on Wednesday! tinyurl.com/3by4ujj7
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🚨The application for the SENIOR FELLOWSHIP in history is now open! (part of a new Institute of Advanced Studies for History at Oxford). This year's theme is "Religion and the State" (broadly construed). Please consider applying and help spread the word! history.ox.ac.uk/event/koch-sen….

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What kind of republicanism did Kant endorse in the context of absolutist Prussia? Join us for a talk by Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen) at our #EnlightenmentWorkshop, Wednesday 12 March, 5pm Magdalen College. Further info: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-…

What kind of republicanism did Kant endorse in the context of absolutist Prussia? Join us for a talk by Pauline Kleingeld (Groningen) at our #EnlightenmentWorkshop, Wednesday 12 March, 5pm
<a href="/magdalenoxford/">Magdalen College</a>. Further info: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-…
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Happy Women's Day! 🌼 The Women #Weavers on the #Bauhaus Stairway, #Dessau 1927. Lena Bergner, Grete Reichardt, Lijuba Monastirsky, Otti Berger, Lis Beyer, Elisabeth Mueller, Rosa Berger, Ruth Hollos, Lisbeth Oestreiche, young Gunta Stölzl in front. Photo © Lux Feininger

Happy Women's Day! 🌼 The Women #Weavers on the #Bauhaus Stairway, #Dessau 1927. Lena Bergner, Grete Reichardt, Lijuba Monastirsky, Otti Berger, Lis Beyer, Elisabeth Mueller, Rosa Berger, Ruth Hollos, Lisbeth Oestreiche, young Gunta Stölzl in front. Photo © Lux Feininger
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Excited to announce that Euan Huey and I will be hosting an early career workshop in global early modern intellectual history next term. This workshop is open to all PhD students and post-doc researchers. Details below! Thanks to our sponsors, Oxford Centre for Intellectual History and Oxford Global History

Excited to announce that <a href="/EuanHuey/">Euan Huey</a> and I will be hosting an early career workshop in global early modern intellectual history next term. This workshop is open to all PhD students and post-doc researchers. Details below! Thanks to our sponsors, <a href="/OxfordCIH/">Oxford Centre for Intellectual History</a> and <a href="/oxfordglobhist/">Oxford Global History</a>
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We are pleased to be sponsoring, in collab with Oxford Centre for Intellectual History, this Early Career Workshop, hosted by Ross Moncrieff & Euan Huey. PhD Students & Post-Doc Researchers, please do join us on the 2nd of May! #OxfordUniversity

We are pleased to be sponsoring, in collab with <a href="/OxfordCIH/">Oxford Centre for Intellectual History</a>, this Early Career Workshop, hosted by <a href="/RossMoncrieff/">Ross Moncrieff</a> &amp; <a href="/EuanHuey/">Euan Huey</a>. PhD Students &amp; Post-Doc Researchers, please do join us on the 2nd of May! #OxfordUniversity
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#EmiliaGalotti wurde am 13. März 1772 im Herzoglichen Opernhaus in Braunschweig uraufgeführt – ohne den von manchen erwarteten Skandal, aber auch ohne #Lessing, der an Zahnschmerzen litt. (Er besuchte, auch ohne Zahnschmerzen, allerdings auch keine der Wiederholungen.)

#EmiliaGalotti wurde am 13. März 1772 im Herzoglichen Opernhaus in Braunschweig uraufgeführt – ohne den von manchen erwarteten Skandal, aber auch ohne #Lessing, der an Zahnschmerzen litt. (Er besuchte, auch ohne Zahnschmerzen, allerdings auch keine der Wiederholungen.)
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📢 New Blog Read the latest post in our 'Democratic Identity' series: Andriy Zayarnyuk, 'A Peasant Democrat in the 1848 Revolution?' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/a-peas…

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Today and tomorrow, Boston College is celebrating Susan Meld Shell, a brilliant scholar, beloved teacher, and generous colleague, who is retiring at the end of this semester. cloughcenter.blog/2025/03/05/kan… CloughCenter

Today and tomorrow, <a href="/BostonCollege/">Boston College</a> is celebrating Susan Meld Shell, a brilliant scholar, beloved teacher, and generous colleague, who is retiring at the end of this semester.

cloughcenter.blog/2025/03/05/kan… <a href="/CloughCenterBC/">CloughCenter</a>
Christopher Kelly (@christo66947097) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Eve Grace and I have finished translating and editing a volume of Rousseau's selected correspondence. It will appear by the end of the summer. Here is an image of the cover to whet your appetite. Cornell University Press.

Eve Grace and I have finished translating and editing a volume of Rousseau's selected correspondence. It will appear by the end of the summer. Here is an image of the cover to whet your appetite. Cornell University Press.
Ere Nokkala (@erenokkala) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Pleased to announce the return of the Online Enlightenment Club for another season with an exciting line up of 9 speakers from across Europe and the United States, beginning on 24th April. To find out more about the club, do have a look at our website. jyu.fi/en/humsoc/hela…

Pleased to announce the return of the Online Enlightenment Club for another season with an exciting line up of 9 speakers from across Europe and the United States, beginning on 24th April. To find out more about the club, do have a look at our website. jyu.fi/en/humsoc/hela…
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📢 New Blog Reflections on a recent roundtable by Claire Rydell Arcenas, Emily Jones (Emily Jones), and Glory Liu (Glory Liu), on 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/roundt…

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📢 New Blog In the latest blog in our 'Democratic Identity' series, Anne Engelst Nørgaard discusses 'The Anti-Elitist Democrat, Jens Andersen Hansen' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/the-an…