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Our publications: Voltaire's Complete Works (OCV), Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OSE) and much beyond.
@oxunienl.bsky.socialReposted by @voltaire.ox.ac.ukThis book is an exploration of Jewish secularization, adding new dimension to understanding how Jewish modernity was felt and thought.
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Discover more about the volume here ⬇️
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@oxunienl.bsky.socialReposted by @voltaire.ox.ac.ukEVENT | Shmuel Feiner will be discussing his volume, The emotional experience of Jewish secularisation, in this Enlightenment workshop.
📆 29th October
🕜️ 5pm-6:30pm
📍 Clarendon Institute, Oxford
More info here ⬇️
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@oxunienl.bsky.socialReposted by @voltaire.ox.ac.ukNew on the blog | @norabake.bsky.social discusses her book Huguenot memory, 1689-1757, which offers a new perspective on Huguenot memoir through use of a trauma-theory-informed analytical lens.
Read here ⬇️
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@livunipress.bsky.socialReposted by @voltaire.ox.ac.uk📣 Oxford University Voltaire continues to grow.
Launched earlier this year with Voltaire's complete works and correspondence, OV's first major update has arrived, bringing Voltaire's marginalia and more than a dozen new items of correspondence to the resource.
Read more on the blog: bit.ly/4dHYBK3
@opencreative.bsky.socialReposted by @voltaire.ox.ac.ukOur colleagues at @voltaire.ox.ac.uk have written this wonderful article exploring the value of Open Voltaire and its tributaries.
By connecting different kinds of evidence, Open Voltaire unlocks new avenues for scholarship, offering fresh perspectives on Voltaire and his world:
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@oxunienl.bsky.socialReposted by @voltaire.ox.ac.ukNEW | Brissot and books by Robert Darnton is available now! By close study of the relations between a French author and a Swiss publisher, this book gives an inside view of how French books were produced and distributed in the literary underground.
Discover more here ⬇️
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@oxunienl.bsky.socialReposted by @voltaire.ox.ac.ukAvailable now | Constructions of femininity in the Spanish Enlightenment by
Mónica Bolufer Peruga, translated by Elizabeth Lewis, is publishing today!
Discover more and purchase directly for 20% off RRP here ⬇️
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@oxunienl.bsky.socialReposted by @voltaire.ox.ac.ukNew in Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment | Republicanism in France after the Revolution by Adam Lebovitz is available now.
Find out more and purchase directly for 20% off RRP here ⬇️
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@voltaire.ox.ac.ukNew on the blog!
Read all about digitising Voltaire's marginalia, the technical challenges, and the solutions worked out together with @opencreative.bsky.social for our digital edition OV.
And what has the French Ambassador to the UK to do with it?
@brycchancarey.bsky.socialReposted by @voltaire.ox.ac.ukFor those who missed it, here’s the two pages of the @bsecs.bsky.social conference programme for 1988: no parallel sessions and a field trip to Kenwood House. This and four boxes of other documents I am transferring from my shed to a new BSECS archive at the @voltaire.ox.ac.uk Foundation in Oxford.
@voltaire.ox.ac.ukFarewell to our brilliant Director, Prof. Nicholas Cronk, after 29 years 👋 The venue couldn’t be more fitting: Voltaire’s Genevan home, Les Délices. Thanks to our friends at the Bibliothèque de Genève for the hospitality!
@voltaire.ox.ac.ukOur colleagues at IZEA, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle, are recruiting for five doctoral research positions in the research group 'Politik der Aufklärung'/'Politics of Enlightenment'!
@voltaire.ox.ac.ukOn our own behalf, some exciting news!
Professor Thomas Wynn appointed as next Director of the Voltaire Foundation
@voltaire.ox.ac.ukDon’t miss this term‘s programme of our Enlightenment Workshop! Info here: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...
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@voltaire.ox.ac.ukFor all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!
@voltaire.ox.ac.uk📣📣📣 Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 📣📣📣
We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, to succeed Professor Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications.
@voltaire.ox.ac.ukHappy to announce the Enlightenment Workshop Programme 2025-26!
This year convened by Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee (New College).
Come for a packed November!
@voltaire.ox.ac.ukHow universalist was Enlightenment thought? In our 2025 Besterman Lecture, Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) discusses 'The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment’. Thursday 13 Nov, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social:
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/bester...
@voltaire.ox.ac.ukRead all about our new digital edition, Oxford University Voltaire, in the newest blog by our research editors!
And ask your librarian for the free trial!
