Voltaire Foundation Workshop on Digital Enlightenment Studies
30/04/2026 - 01/05/2026, 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Voltaire Foundation, in collaboration with Digital Scholarship at Oxford (DiSc) and the Maison Française d’Oxford, is pleased to host its third annual workshop dedicated to Digital Enlightenment Studies.
This two-day event, held at the Maison Française d’Oxford, brings together international researchers and digital humanists to explore the intersection of 18th-century scholarship and computational methods. The programme features updates on major digital editions, discussions on network analysis, and presentations from leading research groups across Europe and the US.
The workshop will conclude with the Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture at the Weston Library, delivered this year by Professor Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary University of London).
A pdf file with the programme can be found under this link.
Programme:
Thursday 30 April |
| 2pm-2:30pm
Welcome 2:30pm-3:00pm Nicholas Cronk et al., Oxford University Voltaire 3:00pm-3:30pm Gillian Pink, Miguel Arana-Catania & Glenn Roe: Indexing Voltaire 3:30pm-4:00pm Andrew Kahn & Clovis Gladstone: Russia18 4:00pm-4:30pm Coffee break 4:30pm-5:00pm Patrick Flood, New College, Scottish Enlightenment Networks 5:00pm-5:30pm Kimberley Williams & Eric Crahan: Princeton University Press |
Friday 1 May |
| 9:30am-10:00am
Welcome (coffee and pastries) 10:00am-11:30am Mikko Tolonen, Lidia Pivovarova & Ruilin Wang, Helsinki Computational History Group 11:30am-1:00pm Glenn Roe, Dario Nicolosi, Clément Castellon & Martial de Jurquet, ERC ModERN project (ENS/Sorbonne) 1:00pm-2:00pm Lunch 2:00pm-2:30pm Katie McDonough, MapReader, Lancaster 2:30pm-3:00pm Rachel Tils, University of Chicago 3:00pm-3:30pm Pierre Musitelli, ENS, 18C Italian novels 3:30pm-4:00pm Clovis Gladstone, ARTFL, University of Chicago 4:00pm-4:30pm: Closing remarks |
Friday 1 May, 5:00pm:
Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies:
Ruth Ahnert (Queen Mary University of London)
“Unmasking Aliases: A New Way to Find Hidden Identities in the Tudor State Papers”.
Weston Library, Broad Street, drinks to follow.
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