Enlightenment Workshop

Enlightenment Workshop

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University of Oxford (Faculty of History and Faculty of Modern Languages)
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Oxford
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Oxford
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United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
15.01.2018 - 17.05.2018
Von
Avi Lifschitz

The Enlightenment Workshop is a series of seminars on 18th-century history, culture, and literature, held on Monday at 5pm in the Spring and Summer (Hilary and Trinity Terms) at the Voltaire Foundation (unless otherwise noted). The convenors are Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall) and Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College).

Programm

15 January: Chloe Edmondson (Stanford University), Julie de Lespinasse and the ‘philosophical’ salon: a data-driven approach

22 January: Katherine Harloe (University of Reading) and Lucy Russell (University of Oxford), Life and (love) letters: looking in on Winckelmann’s correspondence

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

5 February: Adam Sutcliffe (King’s College London), What are Jews for? Moses Mendelssohn and the problem of Jewish purpose

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

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

26 February: Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (University of Münster), Maria Theresa and the Catholic Enlightenment
[This session takes place at the Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College]

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

26 April: Paul Kerry (Brigham Young University / Oxford), The late German Enlightenment and its temples

3 May: Darrin McMahon (Dartmouth College, New Hampshire), Lighting the Enlightenment: public illumination and the Siècle des Lumières

10 May: Caroline Warman (Jesus College, Oxford), Patterns of materialist thought: fragments and formulations from Diderot to Destutt de Tracy

17 May: Roundtable discussion of Anthony La Vopa’s book, The labor of the mind: intellect and gender in Enlightenment cultures (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)
[This session takes place at the Old Dining Hall, St Edmund Hall]

Kontakt

Ayala Kingsley

Voltaire Foundation, 99 Banbury Road, Oxford

email@voltaire.ox.ac.uk

http://www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news/events/enlightenment-workshop
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