📣📣📣 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...

APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS: Voltaire et les passions, Société des études voltairiennes voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ap...

#Docélec #EnTest jusqu'au 20/11 Oxford University Voltaire @voltaire.ox.ac.uk Version numérique des 205 vol. des Œuvres complètes de Voltaire. Elle sera enrichie en 2026 de la correspondance de Voltaire et de ses notes marginales. ► tinyurl.com/ycya9zxx #Littérature #Philosophie #Lumières #18esiecle

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...

📣📣📣 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...

New on the blog: Dr Zoe Screti and Dr Gillian Pink investigate a curious coincidence surrounding three near-identical letters by French philosopher Voltaire. voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/t...

We’re happy to say that @voltaire.ox.ac.uk has signed up to receive IP address updates with details of verified changes via theipregistry.org. The Voltaire Foundation will soon be implementing our APIs to automate the process. #Library #libraries #publisher #publishers #publishing

New to the series | Sports and sociability in Britain in the long eighteenth century edited by Alexis Tadié and Caroline Bertonèche. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/SportsandSociability #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

New on the blog: our postdoctoral research assistant Sonya Dmitrieva on Voltaire as an owl. voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/h...

Dr Zoe Screti and Dr Gillian Pink from the Voltaire Foundation have unearthed an intriguing mystery relating to three Voltaire letters - one that requires analysing the handwriting, folding techniques, and seals of several letters to investigate. Blog: https://ow.ly/2uVq50XaTRA

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...

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...

Extended deadline! Call for Papers now open until 20 October.

Ask your librarian to get this free trial, hot of the (digital) press!

The Voltaire Foundation has signed up to receive IP address updates with details of verified changes via theIPregistry.org. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk is encouraging #libraries to register for FREE access at app.theipregistry.org. #Library #libraries #publisher #publishers #publishing

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...

The excellent journal Lumières is looking for contributions to its 'varia' and book review sections. More info: www.pub-editions.fr/fr/868-lumie...; past issues: shs.cairn.info/revue-lumier...

In 2026, to accompany the digital edition of Voltaire’s complete works (OV: www.ov-vf.com), the Voltaire Foundation will launch Voltaire Iconography – an open-access critically annotated database of visual representations of Voltaire. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/digital-enli...

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...

Ask your librarian to get this free trial, hot of the (digital) press!

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...

Apply by 27 October!

CfP: @asecsoffice.bsky.social 2026 Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, April 9-11,2026, for either one of the following two Panels: 1. Archives, Collections, Object Making (sponsored by the Goethe Society) [ID 36] 2. Popularizing the Global [ID 287] Complete CfP: dgej.hab.de/index.php/ak...

📝 New Blog Post! 📝 Check out this new @voltaire.ox.ac.uk blog post by Nicholas Cronk, celebrating our recent acquisition of a rare printing of Voltaire's Candide, from 1791. Read on to learn more about the novel itself and the history of its publication, as well as more details on our new edition!

New on the blog | 'The making and remaking of the Enlightenment' by Hanna Roman & Olivia Sabee. In this post, the authors reflect on their recent publication in the series and its relevance to the current political climate. Read now: bit.ly/remaking-the-enlightenment 📚 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk #c18

Archival mysteries, plagiarism and the Enlightenment discourse on India: Mrinalini Wadhwa (@oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social & @magdalenoxford.bsky.social ) on Sylvia Murr‘s scholarship in @jhideas.bsky.social

As promised, the latest news (blog) about this rare printing of Candide! voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/08/28/r...

The Eighteenth-Century Studies Collection offers over 700 volumes from two perpetual access digital collections and includes a complete archive of all content published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series between 1955–2021. Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...

Exciting news about the recent acquisition of a 1791 edition of Voltaire’s Candide. The edition is recorded – there are copies in Geneva and Louvain – but it is certainly rare. A Voltaire Foundation (voltairefoundation.wordpress.com) and @tayoxford.bsky.social blog coming soon!

New to the series | La Place Louis XV from the Old Regime to the Revolution by Victoria E. Thompson. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/LaPlaceLouisXV #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Call for Papers – Voltaire in the Baltic World: Circulations, Receptions, Legacies Our colleague Sophie Turner is organising this exciting conference in Tarttu, Estonia, next year, which the Voltaire Foundation is supporting. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

New on the blog | Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment at 70: Celebrating the Legacy and Future of the series. In this post, series editor Gregory Brown reflects on the enduring legacy of the series. Read now: bit.ly/OSE-at-70 📚 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @gregorybrown.bsky.social #c18

Congrats to Ingrid Schreiber, a recent DPhil @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, on the publication of her fascinating article in the august @jhideas.bsky.social, re-examining recent attempts to view Kant as a social (or proto-sociological) thinker. doi.org/10.1353/jhi....

New to the series | Cultural transmission and the French Enlightenment, edited by Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/Cultural-Tra... #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Call for Papers – Voltaire in the Baltic World: Circulations, Receptions, Legacies Our colleague Sophie Turner is organising this exciting conference in Tarttu, Estonia, next year, which the Voltaire Foundation is supporting. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

Five funded PhD positions (4 years each) at the Politics of Enlightenment research group at IZEA @unihalle.bsky.social! Details here: polight.uni-halle.de/en/five-posi...

How were 18thC Germans involved in transatlantic slavery, in the absence of an overseas empire? Morgan Golf-French (Fondazione 1563, Turin) writes in our blog on the German Enlightenment's discourses on, and entanglements with, slavery: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...

A wonderful launch event at the Slovak Embassy for 'René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences by Jozef Ignác Bajza' - the first Slovak novel, newly edited and translated by Dobrota Pucherová & Erika Brtáňová. 📷 Pictured: the book being blessed with salt in a traditional ceremony.

New to the series | The age of Du Pont de Nemours: Politics, law and physiocracy in the Ancien Régime to the American republic, edited by Arnault Skornicki and Anthony Mergey. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/DuPontdeNemours #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

‘The Useful Enlightenment’ was a great conference. Small and focused, with some really excellent papers and lively discussion. With many thanks to Jean-Alexandre Perras.

How were 18thC Germans involved in transatlantic slavery, in the absence of an overseas empire? Morgan Golf-French (Fondazione 1563, Turin) writes in our blog on the German Enlightenment's discourses on, and entanglements with, slavery: voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/t...

📣 Calling all budding dix-huitiémistes! 📣Applications are welcome until 1 July to the annual Early Career Seminar of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (@isecs-sieds.bsky.social) in summer 2026! oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

Reading Voltaire's entire correspondence (over 20,000 letters in 45 vols) has its disadvantages and rewards, says Gillian Pink. Read her blog post on one of the latter - a 1753 letter containing elements of Voltaire's Candide (1759): voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/06/20/f...

📣 Calling all budding dix-huitiémistes! 📣Applications are welcome until 1 July to the annual Early Career Seminar of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (@isecs-sieds.bsky.social) in summer 2026! oraprdnt.uqtr.uquebec.ca/portail/gscw...

The Embassy of the Slovak Republic in London is hosting the launch of the book Jozef Ignác Bajza, Réne, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences Edited by Dobrota Pucherová and Erika Brtáňová 5 JUNE 2025 More info: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/bo...

Many thanks to all speakers and audience members at our Enlightenment Workshop this academic year! 👏 You have made this a wonderful venue for discussion of 18thC culture and ideas. Watch this space for next year’s programme, to be advertised in a few months. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

The deadline for postdoc applications (30 May) is fast approaching! 👇

🎥 Live streamed lecture! 🎥 Don't miss Professor Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University) on the topic ‘Buffon and the Degenerated Human’, 29 May 2025, 9.30am (UK time). More info and link to the stream on our website: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/live-s...

TODAY, 5PM @magdalenoxford.bsky.social!

All welcome at the final session of our Enlightenment Workshop for this academic year! Giora Sternberg @hertfordcollege.bsky.social on ‘writing acts and the family in the 18th century’, Wed. 21 May, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. Not to be missed! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...