📢New programme of the #EnlightenmentWorkshop for 2024/25!📢 Our guests in the 1st term: Hans Erich Bödeker, Lea Ypi (LSE), Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth 🌲) and Richard Whatmore (Institute of Intellectual History). For the full annual schedule: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-…

How did 18thC authors portray slaves' suicides? How did suicide feature in construction of the figure of the black hero? Cécile Vidal EHESS discusses these issues (& much more) at our Besterman Lecture on 7 Nov. Magdalen College. All warmly welcome! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/besterma…

Our #EnlightenmentWorkshop returns with a reassessment of Reinhart Koselleck's Enlightenment by Hans Erich Bödeker, who contributed to Koselleck's conceptual history lexicon. Wednesday 16 Oct, 5pm, Magdalen College (Sophia Sheppard Room), followed by a reception. All welcome!

📢 New BLOG 📢 In the first in a new series of posts on the inaugural Oxford Centre for Intellectual History Graduate Conference, Ming Kit Wong discusses 'Presentism in Intellectual History'. intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/presen…

Now available: The Sermons of Jonathan Swift by Nathalie Zimpfer is the first detailed textual analysis of Jonathan Swift's sermons. Find out more: bit.ly/4h7pQxN #c18th

Now available: Science and political economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805 by Lavinia Maddaluno offers an exciting new perspective on the Milanese Enlightenment in a European context. Find out more: bit.ly/3A0bb6V #c18th

How did 18th-century authors envisage 'the end of Enlightenment'? Roundtable on Richard Whatmore's book at our #EnlightenmentWorkshop on Wednesday, 13 Nov, 5pm Magdalen College. With the author (Institute of Intellectual History) and Oxford-based discussants: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-… All welcome!

📢 Oxford Political Thought Seminar | MON 25 NOVEMBER - 17.00 Alexander Schmidt (Vanderbilt): 'How Did the Enlightenment Rights of Man Become Christian?' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/alexande…

Kant, colonialism and cosmopolitanism: don't miss the next session of our #EnlightenmentWorkshop with Lea Ypi LSE Government! Wednesday 27 Nov, 5pm Magdalen College (Summer Common Room). voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-…

Enlightenment as a process of communication: Jonas Gerlings writes in our blog on the recent OxUniStEnlightenment volume in honour of Hans Erich Bödeker and its launch at our #EnlightenmentWorkshop. voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/the…

New on the blog: Today we celebrate the birthday of Hans Erich Bödeker! 🎉 Dive into a special post by editor Jonas Gerlings exploring The Process of Enlightenment, a volume dedicated to Bödeker's impactful work➡️ bit.ly/4ijmGI2

TODAY'S THE DAY! Registration for #BSECS2025 closes at MIDNIGHT. Come and join us at Pembroke College, Oxford, 8-10 January 2025 #18thC #twitterstorians bsecs.org.uk/conferences/an…

Now available: Gender and emotion in eighteenth-century Britain by Anne F. Widmayer offers an exciting new perspective upon emotional displays being linked to theatrical performances during the eighteenth century. Find out more: bit.ly/3AFRvp8 #c18th

Highly recommend the Science Museum’s stunning Versailles exhibition

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

Turkish student reading Jean Jacque Rousseau's Social Contract in defiance of anti-terror armoured vehicles. Ankara, Middle East Technical University ODTÜ campus. What Erdoğan government is trying to do is a clear civilan coup attempt against democracy for two reasons: +

My new book review of ‘The Process of Enlightenment: essays by and inspired by Hand Erich Bödeker’ edited by Jonas Gerlings & Ere Nokkala (Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment series, 2024) Liverpool University Press Voltaire Foundation | DOI: doi.org/10.1080/174969…

Un nouveau rendez-vous avec Voltaire et Rousseau le 21 mai à la BnF, 5 rue Vivienne, 75002 Paris, 9h30-18h fabula.org/actualites/127…

Call for papers for international conference on Voltaire and the Baltic World, March 5-6 2026, Tartu, Estonia voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/call…