Historian @OxfordHistory, @MagdalenOxford, @VoltaireOxford & @OxfordCIH. Hovering between the 18th century and the 21st. Tweeting in personal capacity.
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27 Feb 2024
Enlightened Absolutism, social contract, the ruler as ‘the first servant of the state’, critiques of Christianity and kingship by divine grace: all for less in the new paperback edition of Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings @PrincetonUPress. press.princeton.edu/books/pa…
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The poster and programme are out! 🎯
With several exciting new volumes on academies and learned societies appearing this year, the timing couldn't be better: find out more here 👇
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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:
mailchi.mp/e854e1290516/essa…
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Come discuss Books, Letters and Empires in the Age of Enlightenment!
CFP open, International Seminar for early-career scholars, ISECS, July 7-10, 2027, that I coorganise w. Jesús Astigarraga & Alicia Montoya.
Deadline 30 September 2026.
isecs-zaragoza2027.net/en/ea…...
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Toller - und preiswerter! - Katalog einer Göttinger Ausstellung von Brian Kjær Olesen: "Seeing Things Their Way. Carsten Niebuhr and the Art of Oriental Travel". Muß man haben.
gvdkunst.de/p/seeing-things-…
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📣New publication!
Avi Lifschitz, 'Enlightenment for the Common People? Frederick II and the Philosophes on Popular Prejudice, Deception, and Education,' Modern Intellectual History, doi.org/10.1017/S14792443261….
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Jun 2
We wouldn't have heard of Rousseau without them, most likely.
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:
mailchi.mp/e854e1290516/essa…
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Bring back the public prize contests? In the book, we suggest that to an extent, they were forerunners of modern peer-review procedures.
Jun 2
I'm judging an essay prize for 18yos based on the (now defunct) single-word element of the All Souls prize fellowship exam. I set the word 'Friendship'. The quality of the entries is fantastic.
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An excellent book indeed by the co-editor of the new collection. We refer often to the French contests.
There is also another pertinent book on the topic concerning French academies - and luckily available for download:
harrassowitz-verlag.de/title…
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Our final ERC postdocs have now been advertised. These are with my co-PI @welpita.bsky.social at the University of Girona focusing on the empirical study of popular government
Jun 1
📢 We are hiring!
2 postdoctoral researchers at the University of Girona on:
🔹 Participatory Constitution-Making
🔹 Direct Democracy, Constitutional Change & Recall
📅 Deadline: 11 June 2026
⏳ Up to 4 years
Please share widely!
popgovproject.wordpress.com/…
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My forthcoming book "Constructions of femininity in the Spanish Enlightenment" already has a cover!
It will be coming out in the fall at Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, Liverpool University Press.
liverpooluniversitypress.co.…
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[🆕WINNER OF THE 2025 CHARLES SCHMITT PRIZE 🔓] Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College), “When sinologists were geologists: Chinese chronology in early modern England and the heterodox Chinese studies of Robert Hooke and John Beaumont” IHR 36 (2): 239-259. doi.org/10.1080/17496977.202….
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May 13
Applications are now open for the 2026/27 BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship, offering expenses up to the value of £4000 to support a visiting scholar undertaking research into the long eighteenth century. More information and apply at bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-awar…
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May 13
TODAY, 5pm @magdalenoxford. All welcome!
What linked the first partition of Poland and American independence? David Armitage (@davidrarmitage) explores the question at the George Rousseau Lecture, 13 May, 5pm @magdalenoxford. Free admission, but book your tickets here: ticketsource.com/magdalen-co…
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Diese Woche in Marburg: Aufklärung, Toleranz, Fortschritt. Ein deutsch-japanischer Dialog – organisiert von Eva Buddeberg und Masahide Goto, mit Vorträgen u.a. von Achim Vesper und Sofie Møller sowie einer Keynote von Rainer Forst. Die Anmeldung ist noch möglich!
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CfA for the 2026 #HSGB Annual Conference: “Hegel and the Modern World”
3–4 September, Oxford
Submission by 29.5.
#Hegel #germanidealism #modernity #conference #philosophy #unitedkingdom #oxford #CallForAbstracts @hegelpd @hegelsocietyAU @SEHegelianos @theBSHP
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What linked the first partition of Poland and American independence? David Armitage (@davidrarmitage) explores the question at the George Rousseau Lecture, 13 May, 5pm @magdalenoxford. Free admission, but book your tickets here: ticketsource.com/magdalen-co…
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Don’t miss this term‘s programme of our Enlightenment Workshop! Further info here: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/resea…
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Apr 1
Excited to share the Spring/Summer 2026 programme of the Online Enlightenment Club — featuring an outstanding lineup from Uppsala to Bologna, Berlin, London, Cardiff and beyond.
For the latest updates, see our website: jyu.fi/en/humsoc/hela/resear…
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