Hugely excited to see our edited volume with OUP now out in the world! The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives, co-edited with the indefatigable @davidrarmitage.bsky.social and Felix Waldmann. academic.oup.com/book/63006

The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives

Abstract. The Political Thought of John Locke: New Perspectives brings together research essays by political theorists, historians of political thought, an

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With our very own Cameron Bowman and Ross Moncrieff!

ISECS/SIEDS@isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ISECS Early Career Scholars Seminar 2026 Reforming Religion, Morality and Society in Afro-Eurasia: Intellectual and Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global Eighteenth Century Universität Trier, Germany 17-19 June 2026 The programme is now available: oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/docs...

With our very own Cameron Bowman and Ross Moncrieff!

ISECS/SIEDS@isecs-sieds.bsky.social · 3mo ago

ISECS Early Career Scholars Seminar 2026 Reforming Religion, Morality and Society in Afro-Eurasia: Intellectual and Cultural Traditions in Motion in the Global Eighteenth Century Universität Trier, Germany 17-19 June 2026 The programme is now available: oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/docs...

What place has religion in politics? Join us as Prof Mark Goldie reconsiders the thought of John Locke, challenging familiar assumptions about religion, toleration, and public life. 17:00 Wed 10th June Room 00.063 Schwarzman Centre Followed by a drinks reception. Registration: khc.web.ox.ac.uk

On our own behalf, some exciting news! Professor Thomas Wynn appointed as next Director of the Voltaire Foundation voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/pr...

Professor Thomas Wynn appointed as new Director of the Voltaire Foundation

The Voltaire Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Thomas Wynn as Director, from 1 October 2026. Professor Wynn is currently Professor of French in the School of Modern…

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Next Wednesday (13 May), 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social! All welcome.

Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What linked the first partition of Poland and American independence? David Armitage (@davidrarmitage.bsky.social) explores the question in the George Rousseau Lecture, 13 May, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social: www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/2026-a...

Don’t miss this term‘s programme of our Enlightenment Workshop! Info here: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

My book is Online! 🥳🥳🥳 Race, Culture, and Politics in German Historical Thought, 1785–1815 represents the culmination of ten years' work. In it, I try to peel back our assumptions about how historiography worked in the German Enlightenment, situating it between the... academic.oup.com/book/62547

As part of the Observatory podcast series, the NOTCOM Team has produced two new episodes. Check them out: - 'Green sickness, the disease of virgins' with Úna Faller notcom.hypotheses.org/6657 - 'Se battre en philosophie' avec @heleneleblanc.bsky.social notcom.hypotheses.org/6991

Today marks four years since the passing of Sir John Elliott (1930-2022). At Oxford, we remember him as a unique model of intellectual generosity and dedication to nurturing the next generation of scholars. www.jhelliotthistoryforum.com @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

For this piece with @voltaire.ox.ac.uk, we argue that French writers' use of names, including in abolitionist lit, mirrored the logic of slavery itself: authors liberally detached these names from the cultures in which they had originated, and turned them into markers for an undifferentiated "Other"

Voltaire Foundation@voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 5mo ago

How 'Mirza' and 'Zamor(e)' became generic names for colonised persons in French literature of the 18thC: a fascinating blog post by Caroline Gleason-Mercier and Samuel Harrison (Turin Humanities Programme) voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/t...

I’m delighted to be delivering the 9th annual Adams Lecture in the Public Humanities at UNC on April 17th, “First Among Equals: Redeeming Equality as a Political Ideal.” Details at the link: philosophy.unc.edu/event/the-ni...

The Ninth Annual Adams Symposium for the Public Humanities - Department of Philosophy

First Among Equals: Redeeming Equality as a Political Ideal Featuring Dr. Teresa Bejan Dr. Teresa Bejan will discuss themes from her forthcoming book, First Among Equals, which explores equality as a ...

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Professor Samuel Moyn to give Cyril Foster Lecture 2026

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Book here your free tickets for David Armitage's lecture on Poland's partition and US independence (13 May): www.ticketsource.co.uk/magdalen-col...

Avi Lifschitz @diderotesque.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What linked the first partition of Poland and American independence? David Armitage (@davidrarmitage.bsky.social) explores the question in the George Rousseau Lecture, 13 May, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social: www.history.ox.ac.uk/event/2026-a...

Third lecture now online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l... - on the New Psychology and ideas of the self. (1/2)

The James Ford Lectures in British History

The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life - Peter Mandler (Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge)

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Peter Mandler@petermandler.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Second lecture now available online - www.history.ox.ac.uk/james-ford-l... - on how people learned the language of social science and how we historians learn what they learned. (1/2)

📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...

Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History at University of Oxford

An opportunity for an academic position as a Associate Professorship in Eighteenth Century History is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

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🚨 Applications are now open for the 2026–27 Koch History Centre Fellowships at Oxford! We are seeking 12 historians (9 junior, 3 senior) for a one-year fellowship at Wadham College & the Faculty of History. This year’s theme: “Scarcity and Abundance” Deadline: 17 Dec 2025 Please share widely!

Don’t miss our DPhil student Harun Ali's thorough introduction to a posthumous essay by the great J. G. A. Pocock! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

J. G. A. Pocock, essay on the fourth volume of Gibbon's Decline and Fall

This essay presents J. G. A. Pocock reflections on Gibbon’s fourth volume and the shift it marks in the Decline and Fall towards a narrative we might consider ‘Byzantine’. It is the work of Gibbon’...

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Four postdoc fellowships at the Turin Humanities Programme on legacies and interpretations of the Enlightenment; applications welcome by 16 Feb 2026.

Voltaire Foundation@voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 8mo ago

For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...

Come and apply to be the Professor of Bibliography & Modern Book History @engfacoutreach.bsky.social & @jesusoxford.bsky.social (and work closely with us @bodleian.ox.ac.uk). Following a long line of great scholars: Don McKenzie, Kathryn Sutherland, & Dirk van Hulle ... my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

📣📣📣 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. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/op...

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. The Voltaire Foundation, originally established thanks to the…

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David Hayton once told me that the best thing a historian can do to be immortally relevant is to produce a scholarly edition of a primary source. Our monographs will be superseded, a good primary edition is permanent. Anyway, here's mine, just out. shorturl.at/xJXNU

Happy to announce the Enlightenment Workshop Programme 2025-26! This year convened by Nicholas Cronk and Jacob Chatterjee (New College). Come for a packed November! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

Enlightenment Workshop

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How 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...

The Betty Behrens Seminar resumes at Clare Hall, Cambridge, discussing the works by Benedetto Croce, José de Acosta and Robert Lowth, presented by R. Bellamy, G. Ramos and V. Davis | @camhistory.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @oxfordcih.bsky.social @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social

We've updated our three BlueSky starter packs for historians. Our principal list now includes details of 130+ societies and networks, based in the UK and Ireland, that advance the study, research and promotion of history go.bsky.app/AZaYQDd Please let us know if there are gaps. #Skystorians 1/2

Happy to share my new blog post on C18 French-Swedish relations for the Oxford Centre for Intellectual History blog @oxfordcih.bsky.social. French-Swedish diplomacy treated cultural alignment as a powerful vehicle for political change in Sweden👇 intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/enli...

Enlightening the king: French-Swedish relations in the letters of Gustaf Philip Creutz with Gustav III

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Read 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! voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/09/10/c...

Calling all librarians – sign up for Oxford University Voltaire free trial

The Voltaire Foundation and Liverpool University Press are delighted to announce that the new online edition of Voltaire’s complete works, including extensive scholarly apparatus, is now available …

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Call for Papers! A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century Deadline 31 December 2025 voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

Call for Papers: A social question before the Social Question - Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century

University of Oxford 22-23 October 2026 A pdf file of this call can be found here. Precariousness and hardships were inescapable features of the life of the lower orders in early modern European…

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Congratulations to Mrinalini Wadhwa of our MPhil in Intellectual History (and @magdalenoxford.bsky.social) on a fascinating blog post @jhideas.bsky.social!

Journal of the History of Ideas@jhideas.bsky.social · 11mo ago

In today’s think piece, Mrinalini Sisodia Wadhwa analyzes how historian Sylvia Murr’s discovery of plagiarism in “the most celebrated work of nineteenth-century Indology” led her to develop an approach to historical discourse that challenges received genealogies of the ‘global’ turn.