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Voltaire Foundation

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World leader in Enlightenment studies, based at the University of Oxford. Our publications: Voltaire's Complete Works (OCV), Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OSE) and much beyond. https://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/

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📣Postdoctoral position📣 Arab Enlightenment Research Fellow We seek a Research Fellow for a 2-year role who will pursue their own two-year research project in the general area of the relationship between the European Enlightenment and the Arabic and Islamic worlds. More info: tinyurl.com/3f3vefty

voltaire.ox.ac.ukOpportunity: Arab Enlightenment Research FellowWe are delighted to invite applications for a 2-year role: Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (2 years) Hours: Full time (37.5 hours) About the role The Voltaire Foundation is a busy and friendly…
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📣Postdoctoral position📣 Arab Enlightenment Research Fellow We seek a Research Fellow for a 2-year role who will pursue their own two-year research project in the general area of the relationship between the European Enlightenment and the Arabic and Islamic worlds. More info: tinyurl.com/3f3vefty

voltaire.ox.ac.ukOpportunity: Arab Enlightenment Research FellowWe are delighted to invite applications for a 2-year role: Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (2 years) Hours: Full time (37.5 hours) About the role The Voltaire Foundation is a busy and friendly…

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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment
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EVENT | Shmuel Feiner will be discussing his volume, The emotional experience of Jewish secularisation, in this Enlightenment workshop. 📆 29th October 🕜️ 5pm-6:30pm 📍 Clarendon Institute, Oxford More info here ⬇️ bit.ly/ShmuelFeiner...

bit.lyEnlightenment Workshop: Shmuel Feiner, The emotional experience of Jewish secularisationShmuel Feiner (Bar-Ilan University) (Thu!) The emotional experience of Jewish secularisation Joint session with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies (Clarendon Institute, Walton Street…

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Liverpool University Press
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📣 Oxford University Voltaire continues to grow. Launched earlier this year with Voltaire's complete works and correspondence, OV's first major update has arrived, bringing Voltaire's marginalia and more than a dozen new items of correspondence to the resource. Read more on the blog: bit.ly/4dHYBK3

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Our colleagues at @voltaire.ox.ac.uk have written this wonderful article exploring the value of Open Voltaire and its tributaries. By connecting different kinds of evidence, Open Voltaire unlocks new avenues for scholarship, offering fresh perspectives on Voltaire and his world: lnkd.in/p/ecug4a4p

lnkd.inOpen Voltaire: new ways to explore Voltaire’s world | Open Creative CommunicationsOur colleagues at the Voltaire Foundation have written this wonderful article, which explores the value of Open Voltaire and its tributaries. These include Voltaire Iconography, the first critically a...
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New on the blog! Read all about digitising Voltaire's marginalia, the technical challenges, and the solutions worked out together with @opencreative.bsky.social for our digital edition OV. And what has the French Ambassador to the UK to do with it? voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/o...

voltairefoundation.wordpress.comOxford University Voltaire: a living editionThe Complete works of Voltaire (OCV) concluded in 205 print volumes in 2022, and in January 2026 was reborn in digital form, as Oxford University Voltaire (OV). As a living edition, OV can continue…
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Farewell to our brilliant Director, Prof. Nicholas Cronk, after 29 years 👋 The venue couldn’t be more fitting: Voltaire’s Genevan home, Les Délices. Thanks to our friends at the Bibliothèque de Genève for the hospitality!

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Call for Papers! Especially welcome are proposals (in French) from doctoral students and Early Career Researchers working on Voltaire or Diderot. voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

voltaire.ox.ac.ukCall for Papers: Journées internationales jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs Diderot-Voltaire 2027Doctoral students and Early Career Researchers working on Voltaire or Diderot are warmly encouraged to submit proposals in French (by 30 September 2026) for the next Journées internationales jeunes…
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Our colleagues at IZEA, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, are recruiting for five doctoral research positions in the research group 'Politik der Aufklärung'/'Politics of Enlightenment'! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...

voltaire.ox.ac.ukOpportunities: Five positions as doctoral research associates (m-f-d), Research Training Group “Politics of Enlightenment” (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)The Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) at Martin-Luther-University HalleWittenberg is offering 5 part time (65%) positions as part of the “Politics of the…
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We're pleased to share the animation we presented during the French Ambassador's visit last weekend to celebrate the launch of Oxford University Voltaire. 🇫🇷 The animation showcases the platform, including a newly discovered letter from Voltaire to the ambassador of his time. www.ov-vf.com

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Dr Dave Hitchcock
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I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

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Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

technosphere.earthThe bonfire of the humanities150 academic posts at the University of Exeter are to be cut, most in the humanities but also in social sciences, engineering and environmental sciences
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Thank you, ‪@opencreative.bsky.social‬ , for your continued excellent and expert work in this collaboration!

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This animation shows how Oxford University Voltaire brings The Complete Works of Voltaire – a 205-volume scholarly edition – into a flexible digital resource for research and teaching. 💻 Thank you to @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and @livunipress.bsky.social for their continued collaboration.

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The 2027 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) will take place April 1-3, 2027, in Portland, Oregon, at the Portland Downtown Hilton. Further information, including the Call for papers, is now available here: asecs.org/2027-annual-...

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Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
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With our very own Cameron Bowman and Ross Moncrieff!

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ISECS Early Career Scholars Seminar 2026 Reforming Religion, Morality and Society in Afro-Eurasia: Intellectual and Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global Eighteenth Century Universität Trier, Germany 17-19 June 2026 The programme is now available: oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/docs...

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BSECS
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IT'S TIME! The #CFP for #BSECS2027 has been released! This year's theme is 'Artifice and Authenticity'. The deadline for submissions is the 15 September 2026. The conference will by the 6-8 January 2027 @pembrokeoxford.bsky.social #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

bsecs.org.ukBSECS Annual ConferenceBSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

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ISECS/SIEDS
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Enlightenment and (In)equality 17th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies Zaragoza, Spain 12-16 July 2027 The submission period for for thematic sessions and roundtables is now open! All the information is available on the Congress website: www.isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/

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Tom Wynn
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I’m honoured and thrilled to be the next Director of the Voltaire Foundation. Wonderful team and great projects! I couldn’t be happier.

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On our own behalf, some exciting news! Professor Thomas Wynn appointed as next Director of the Voltaire Foundation voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/pr...

voltaire.ox.ac.ukProfessor Thomas Wynn appointed as new Director of the Voltaire FoundationThe Voltaire Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Thomas Wynn as Director, from 1 October 2026. Professor Wynn is currently Professor of French in the School of Modern…
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CANCELLED Unfortunately, we have to cancel this session of the Enlightenment Workshop, tomorrow, 20 May. But to come to Patrick Spero's talk on 28 May! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/patric...

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We have several exciting events this month! In order: This week Wednesday, 20 May, 5pm, our Enlightenment Workshop welcomes Jessica Patterson (Trinity College, Cambridge), who speaks on Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/enligh...

voltaire.ox.ac.ukEnlightenment Workshop: Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought20 May Jessica Patterson (Trinity College, Cambridge) Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought New College…
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We have several exciting events this month! In order: This week Wednesday, 20 May, 5pm, our Enlightenment Workshop welcomes Jessica Patterson (Trinity College, Cambridge), who speaks on Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/enligh...

voltaire.ox.ac.ukEnlightenment Workshop: Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought20 May Jessica Patterson (Trinity College, Cambridge) Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought New College…
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We are delighted to welcome Patrick Spero, CEO of the American Philosophical Society and its former Librarian, at the Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Patrick's talk on “The Meanings of the Revolution” takes place on Thursday 28 May, 4pm. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/patric...

voltaire.ox.ac.ukPatrick Spero, ‘The Meanings of the Revolution’Patrick Spero, “The Meanings of the Revolution” Thursday 28 May 2026, 4pm L1 Lecture Theatre, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities Dr Patrick Spero, the CEO of the American Philosophical Society and…
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Lastly (for May), we are excited to support the performance of the comic opera 'Catherine, ou La belle fermière' in London on 30 May, 6pm (Forsyth Room, Royal College of Music). www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/opera-...

voltaire.ox.ac.ukOpera: Catherine, ou La belle fermièreImmensely popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Catherine, ou La belle fermière is a comic French opera that tells a tale of mistaken identity. The beautiful farmer, Catherine…
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We have several exciting events this month! In order: This week Wednesday, 20 May, 5pm, our Enlightenment Workshop welcomes Jessica Patterson (Trinity College, Cambridge), who speaks on Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/enligh...

voltaire.ox.ac.ukEnlightenment Workshop: Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought20 May Jessica Patterson (Trinity College, Cambridge) Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought New College…
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The VF’s Dr Zoe Screti and Dr Thomas Wood are convening the Oxford Seminar for Epistolary Research. This Thursday, we have DR LENA VOSDING speaking on ‘What is a letter and how to use it? Materiality and Communication Cultures in Late Medieval Convents’ www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/oxford...

voltaire.ox.ac.ukOxford Seminar for Epistolary Research - DR LENA VOSDING, ‘What is a letter and how to use it? Materiality and Communication Cultures in Late Medieval Convents’21 May: DR LENA VOSDING, ‘What is a letter and how to use it? Materiality and Communication Cultures in Late Medieval Convents’ Warrington Room, Harris Manchester College The VF’s Dr Zoe Screti and Dr...

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Avi Lifschitz
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TODAY, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome!

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What linked the first partition of Poland and American independence? David Armitage (@davidrarmitage.bsky.social) explores the question in the George Rousseau Lecture, 13 May, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social: www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/2026-a...

history.ox.ac.uk2026 Annual George Rousseau Lecture: "Poland was but a breakfast": or, why 1772 helps us to understand 1776David Armitage (Harvard University)

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Damiano Bardelli
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What was the actual dynamic of discussions between Enlightenment thinkers? For those who wonder, the manuscript collection of the Lausanne Literary Society offers us a glimpse of the Enlightenment in action. More at the @voltaire.ox.ac.uk blog 👇 voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/w...

voltairefoundation.wordpress.comWitnessing Enlightenment in ActionLausanne Grand Hôpital. Photo Wikimedia Commons, 2011. In January 1782 the Lausanne Literary Society (Société littéraire de Lausanne) convened a meeting to discuss its purpose and organisation. The…
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TODAY, 5pm, New College: Keith Michael Baker (Stanford) discusses his magisterial biography of Marat (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...). Commentators: Charles Walton (Warwick) and Sofía Sanabria de Felipe (Oxford). All welcome!

press.uchicago.eduJean-Paul MaratA landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution—Jean-Paul Marat.   Who better to pen an authoritative biography of Jean-Paul Marat (1743–93) t...
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Don’t miss this term‘s programme of our Enlightenment Workshop! Info here: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

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Tom Wynn
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Terrific piece by Gillian Pink on her wonderful new study of Voltaire's writing practices. I read her book yesterday, and loved it. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/r...

voltairefoundation.wordpress.comReconstruire l’atelier de VoltaireIl m’arrive parfois d’oublier que Voltaire est mort. C’est le résultat de la fréquentation quasi-quotidienne, depuis une vingtaine d’années, de ses papiers, de ses brouillons, et de sa correspondan…