Postdoc opportunity! Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk (University of Oxford) looking to appoint to 2-year Arab Enlightenment Research Fellowship. voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...

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Voltaire Foundation@voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 6d ago

📣Postdoctoral position📣 Arab Enlightenment Research Fellow We seek a Research Fellow for a 2-year role who will pursue their own two-year research project in the general area of the relationship between the European Enlightenment and the Arabic and Islamic worlds. More info: tinyurl.com/3f3vefty

📣Postdoctoral position📣 Arab Enlightenment Research Fellow We seek a Research Fellow for a 2-year role who will pursue their own two-year research project in the general area of the relationship between the European Enlightenment and the Arabic and Islamic worlds. More info: tinyurl.com/3f3vefty

Opportunity: Arab Enlightenment Research Fellow

We are delighted to invite applications for a 2-year role: Contract type: Fixed Term Contract (2 years) Hours: Full time (37.5 hours) About the role The Voltaire Foundation is a busy and friendly…

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This book is an exploration of Jewish secularization, adding new dimension to understanding how Jewish modernity was felt and thought. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk #c18studies #enlightenment #skystorians Discover more about the volume here ⬇️ bit.ly/3VB0KRP

EVENT | 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 ⬇️ bit.ly/ShmuelFeiner...

Enlightenment Workshop: Shmuel Feiner, The emotional experience of Jewish secularisation

Shmuel Feiner (Bar-Ilan University) (Thu!) The emotional experience of Jewish secularisation Joint session with the Oxford Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies (Clarendon Institute, Walton Street…

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New 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 ⬇️ bit.ly/4jiLcfl #c18studies #huguenots #skystorians @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

Our 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: lnkd.in/p/ecug4a4p

Open Voltaire: new ways to explore Voltaire’s world | Open Creative Communications

Our colleagues at the Voltaire Foundation have written this wonderful article, which explores the value of Open Voltaire and its tributaries. These include Voltaire Iconography, the first critically a...

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NEW | 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 ⬇️ bit.ly/BrissotandBo...

New in July | 'The publication of Bayle and the origins of Hume's philosophy' edited by Jacopo Agnesina, Antony McKenna, and Gianluca Mori. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/OSEJuly26 #c18 #academicsky📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Available 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 ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #c18studies #academicsky

New 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 ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10.... #c18studies #skystorians #academicsky

New 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? voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2026/09/15/o...

Oxford University Voltaire: a living edition

The Complete works of Voltaire (OCV) concluded in 205 print volumes in 2022, and in January 2026 was reborn in digital form, as Oxford University Voltaire (OV). As a living edition, OV can continue…

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For 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.

Farewell 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!

'Enlightenment Decentred': moving on from the centre-periphery paradigm and national Enlightenments to focus on connections and multi-directional transfer. Join us in Oxford, 30 Sep - 2 Oct: intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/enligh...

Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices

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Call for Papers! Especially welcome are proposals (in French) from doctoral students and Early Career Researchers working on Voltaire or Diderot. voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

Call for Papers: Journées internationales jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs Diderot-Voltaire 2027

Doctoral students and Early Career Researchers working on Voltaire or Diderot are warmly encouraged to submit proposals in French (by 30 September 2026) for the next Journées internationales jeunes…

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Our 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.uk/news-item/op...

Opportunities: Five positions as doctoral research associates (m-f-d), Research Training Group “Politics of Enlightenment” (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany)

The Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) at Martin-Luther-University HalleWittenberg is offering 5 part time (65%) positions as part of the “Politics of the…

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Open Creative Communications@opencreative.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We're pleased to share the animation we presented during the French Ambassador's visit last weekend to celebrate the launch of Oxford University Voltaire. 🇫🇷 The animation showcases the platform, including a newly discovered letter from Voltaire to the ambassador of his time. www.ov-vf.com

I am very glad to see how widely covered the insanity at Exeter is, but please I beg everyone, understand this is happening EVERYWHERE in UK universities. If people care about anything valuable that this sector does or contributes too, they need to get loud, now.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Something deeply troubling & shocking is happening at Exeter University*, where a mass cull of staff is planned, even though it's in surplus. No good justifications given. @jamesgdyke.info provides the details: www.technosphere.earth/the-bonfire-... *Disclosure: I have a Visiting Fellowship here. +🧵

Here's another great photo from last weekend's celebrations at the Maison Française d'Oxford 🇫🇷 Congratulations again to Professor Nicholas Cronk and the @voltaire.ox.ac.uk team on the successful launch of the digital scholarly edition of The Complete Works of Voltaire!

Thank you, ‪@opencreative.bsky.social‬ , for your continued excellent and expert work in this collaboration!

Open Creative Communications@opencreative.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This animation shows how Oxford University Voltaire brings The Complete Works of Voltaire – a 205-volume scholarly edition – into a flexible digital resource for research and teaching. 💻 Thank you to @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and @livunipress.bsky.social for their continued collaboration.

The 2027 ISECS Congress in Zaragoza now has an Instagram account: www.instagram.com/isecs.zarago... Suivez le nouveau compte Instagram du Congrès 2027 de la SIEDS à Saragosse: www.instagram.com/isecs.zarago...

Forthcoming this month | 'Essay competitions in the long eighteenth century' edited by Avi S. Lifschitz and Martin Urmann. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/C18-Essay-Competitions #c18 #academicsky📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Call for papers | Women in Long Eighteenth-Century Scotland and Beyond 41st Annual Conference of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, 6–9 July 2027, Sorbonne Université, Paris oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

Séminaire de la SIEDS des jeunes dix-huitiémistes 2026 Réformer la religion, la morale et la société en Afro-Eurasie : Traditions intellectuelles et culturelles en mouvement au XVIIIe siècle mondial Universität Trier, Allemagne 17-19 juin 2026 Programme: oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/docs...

The 2027 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) will take place April 1-3, 2027, in Portland, Oregon, at the Portland Downtown Hilton. Further information, including the Call for papers, is now available here: asecs.org/2027-annual-...

Appel à propositions | Le monde des révolutions. Jacques-Pierre Brissot: Circulations, réseaux et mobilisations politiques des années 1780 à nos jours Colloque international et interdisciplinaire, Université de Caen-Normandie (France), mars 2027. oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

All Souls College, Oxford, is seeking 5 Postdoctoral Research Fellows in - Asian and Middle Eastern Studies - History of Art/History of Music - Law - Life Science - Theoretical Computer Science These are 5-year appointments starting autumn 2027. Deadline: 4 Sep 2026 www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...

Why was the 18th century the heyday of prize contests on virtually everything? Many answers in this new book, now available with a discount from @livunipress.bsky.social: mailchi.mp/e854e1290516...