The Enlightenment Workshop is Oxford’s leading seminar in 18th-century intellectual history and literary culture. Convened by the Voltaire Foundation by Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall) and Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), it usually takes place in the spring and summer terms (Hilary and Trinity).
The seminars in 2023 are taking place in-person in the Summer Common Room, Magdalen College in Hilary Term, and in the Sophia Sheppard Room, Magdalen College, in Trinity Term.
Enlightenment Workshop 2023 – REVISED, please update your diaries
We are delighted to present our programme for Hilary and Trinity Term 2023. You can find a pdf version of the UPDATED programme by following this link.
An interdisciplinary research seminar supported by the Faculty of History, the Faculty of Modern Languages, and the Voltaire Foundation
Wednesdays at 5:00pm unless stated otherwise
HILARY TERM
Summer Common Room, Magdalen College
18 Jan. Jürgen Overhoff (Münster)
Lecturing on pedagogy: Kant’s creative use of Basedow’s educational philosophy
25 Jan. Ruggero Sciuto (St Edmund Hall, Oxford)
« Fi! l[a] vilain[e] hypocrite »: picturing women atheists in eighteenth-century Paris
No seminar on 1 February
8 Feb. Sanja Perovic (King’s College London)
Radical translations: the transfer of revolutionary culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)
20 Feb. Luisa Simonutti (ISPF/CNR, Milan)
MONDAY Islamic influences on European thought in the seventeenth century
8 Mar. Jeffrey Ravel (MIT)
The Old Regime deck of playing cards
TRINITY TERM
Sophia Sheppard Room, Magdalen College
26 Apr. David Armitage (Harvard)
Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro and the law of nations
3 May Friedrich Vollhardt (LMU, Munich)
Lessing, Voltaire and theodicy
17 May Michelle Pfeffer (Magdalen College, Oxford)
William Warburton’s Divine Legation of Moses (1738-1741) and theological learning in the public sphere
24 May Eva Piirimäe (Tartu)
Herder and the French Revolution