Dr Damiano Bardelli
Damiano Bardelli is a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Visiting Fellow at the Voltaire Foundation. His research focuses on the intellectual history of the Enlightenment, with particular emphasis on the exchanges between Switzerland and the rest of Europe. His current work examines late eighteenth-century reform projects addressing poverty, with special attention to essay contests organized by French and Swiss learned societies. He has previously held teaching positions at the Universities of Lausanne and Fribourg and research positions at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris and the University of St Andrews.
Contact Email: damiano.bardelli@voltaire.ox.ac.uk
Selected publications
Les registres de la Société littéraire de Lausanne (Slatkine, ‘Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumières’, 2026).
La Société littéraire de Lausanne. Sociabilité et débats de réforme (Liverpool University Press, ‘Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment’, 2025).
‘Gibbon et les sociétés lausannoises’, in Edward Gibbon et Lausanne. Le Pays de Vaud à la rencontre des Lumières européennes, ed. Béla Kapossy and Béatrice Lovis (Infolio, 2022), p. 243-255.
‘Une lettre inédite d’Edward Gibbon’, Trouvailles Lumières. Lausanne 4 (2015), http://lumieres.unil.ch/publications/trouvailles/4/.
‘Sensibility’, in Oxford Handbook of the History of the European Enlightenment, ed. Valérie Capdeville and Brian Cowan (Oxford University Press, in preparation).
‘Sous l’aile de Gibbon. Le séjour anglais du jeune Vaudois Wilhelm de Charrière de Sévery’, in The Travelling Self. Tourism and Life-Writing in Eighteenth-Century Europe, ed. Catriona Seth and Giovanni Iamartino (Classiques Garnier, forthcoming).
‘At the Crossroads of Diasporas. Circulation and Articulation of Ideas in the Lausanne Literary Society’, in Diasporas in the Long Eighteenth Century, ed. John Stone and Dario Galvão (Honoré Champion, forthcoming).
‘Les limites de la liberté de la presse’, in Die periodische Presse in der Schweiz im medialen Kontext Europas, ed. Claire Gantet and Andreas Würgler (Slatkine, ‘Travaux sur la Suisse des Lumières’, forthcoming).