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]