Past Events
Was there a Russian Enlightenment?
Listen to the podcasts of this University of Oxford study day to find out – in particular Gillian Pink on the Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire, including the recently published volume 8, which contains Voltaire’s annotation on Rousseau.
‘Rousseau, archive et invention’, Nathalie Ferrand’s Besterman Lecture
Watch the video of Nathalie Ferrand’s lecture on Rousseau’s manuscripts.
Journées Voltaire: Voltaire et la musique
22-23 June 2012
Amphithéâtre Quinet, Université Paris-Sorbonne
Link to Programme (pdf).
Besterman Lecture 2012, 7 June 2012, Maison Française d’Oxford
‘Celebrating Rousseau’s Tricentenary’. Ourida Mostefai, Boston College.
Besterman Lecture 2011, 24 November 2011
‘Emulation: Anxieties of Influence and the Progress of Plagiarism in Eighteenth-Century French Art’. Katie Scott, Courtauld Institute.
Naming, Re-Naming and Un-Naming (1450-1800), 23-25 November 2011.
A Joint Conference with the Charles Singleton Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.‘Le long travail: Casanova autographe’
Gérard Lahouati, Professor at the University of Pau (currently preparing a new edition of the History of my life by Casanova).
Tuesday 18 October 2011, Maison Française d’Oxford, followed by a panel discussion with Pierre-Marc de Biasi (ITEM, CNRS-Ecole normale supérieure), Nicholas Cronk (Voltaire Foundation) and Nathalie Ferrand (ITEM-CNRS).
Anonymity and Pseudonymity (1450-1800)
18-20 November 2010.
A Joint Conference with the Charles Singleton Center, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
Download Anonymity Conference Programme (pdf).
A second conference on the same theme will be held in Oxford in November 2011.
Enlightenment Correspondence: letter-writing and reading in the 18th century
St Anne’s College, Oxford, Saturday 13 November 2010.
Presented by the Electronic Enlightenment Project and the Bodleian Library Centre for the Study of the Book.
Full details on the website of the Bodleian Library Centre for the Study of the Book.
Download Enlightenment Correspondence Programme (pdf).
11 November 2010: Besterman Lecture 2010
‘Le théâtre de Voltaire: dramaturgie et politique’.
Pierre Frantz, Paris IV-Sorbonne. Maison Française, Oxford.
3 November 2010, Seminar: ‘The Works of Jean le Rond D’Alembert, Printed and Digital Editions’
Maison Française d’Oxford digital humanities seminar 2010.
Presented in French by Olivier Ferret and Alexandre Guilbaud.
19 October 2010: Philippe Wiener Annual Lecture
Professor Bruno Bernard (Université libre de Bruxelles), ‘The British Isles in Voltaire’s Essai sur les mœurs’, Wolfson College, Oxford.
Click here for poster (pdf).
14 October 2010: public lecture by Martin Wahlberg
‘Musical Scenes in the French Novel of the Eighteenth Century’, Maison Française, Oxford.
25 September 2010: Lessing and the Republic of Letters
One-day conference, St John’s College.
11 May 2010: Special Lecture
Professor Colin Jones (Queen Mary, London), ‘Laughing all the Way to the Revolution: The Caricatures of Charles-Germain de Saint-Aubin’.
Click here for poster (pdf).
Oxford Amnesty Lectures, February–May 2010
‘Self-Evident Truths: Human Rights and the Enlightenment’.
Click here for poster (pdf).
French Research Seminar 2010
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Enlightenment Workshop 2010
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13 November 2009: Les Théâtres Institutionnels au prisme de leurs Querelles (1660-1848) / Theatrical Institutions and their Quarrels (1660-1848)
In collaboration with the GRIHL (EHESS and Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle) and Paris X-Nanterre. Maison Française, Oxford.
Programme (pdf).
Poster (pdf).
29-31 October 2009: Celebrating Diderot Studies
In collaboration with the CIERL (Université Laval).
Programme (pdf).
Poster (pdf).
16-18 September 2009: 250 years of Candide
30 June 2009: Round Table, ‘In and Around the Encyclopédie’
French Studies Conference with Marian Hobson, Isabelle Moreau, Sanja Perovic, Kate Tunstall and Caroline Warman.
Enlightenment Workshop 2009
Click here for programme details (pdf).
French Research Seminar 2009
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1 June 2009: Talk with English ‘Restoration to Reform’ Seminar
Jonathan Lamb, ‘Characters, Persons, Authors: Fictionality and the Novel’.
26 January 2009: Round Table on Ann Thomson’s ‘Bodies of Thought’
With Ann Thomson, John Christie, John Robertson, Kate Tunstall and Caroline Warman.
Click here for poster (pdf).
13-14 November 2008: Study Days, Eighteenth-Century Quarrels
Poster (pdf).
Programme (pdf).
Abstracts (pdf).
Press Release.
Annual Besterman Lecture
Click here for Besterman Lectures Backlist (pdf)
26 May 2008: Inauguration of the Centre
Professor Sir Colin Lucas, with a lecture by Professor Marian Hobson FBA.
Click here for poster (pdf).
