• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College) , Nicholas Cronk (Wolfson College)
• Timing: Mondays at 17:00

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 5 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

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

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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)