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...

New to the series | Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon, by Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/AntoineLasalle #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

🎥 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...

From manuals to encyclopaedias: how was artisanal knowledge diffused in the 18thC? Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam) discusses the case of bit-making at our Enlightenment Workshop: Wednesday (7 May), 5pm at Magdalen College. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

The diverse perspectives of Enlightenment authors on equality: Darrin McMahon @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social writes in our blog on 18thC discussions of equality and their legacies. voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/e...

This Friday! All welcome.

This looks fantastic!

From manuals to encyclopaedias: how was artisanal knowledge diffused in the 18thC? Stefanie Stockhorst (Potsdam) discusses the case of bit-making at our Enlightenment Workshop: Wednesday (7 May), 5pm at Magdalen College. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

TODAY, 5pm. We look forward to seeing you @magdalenoxford.bsky.social!

Many thanks to @roydipiazza.bsky.social for a generous review of 'The Process of Enlightenment' @oxunienl.bsky.social! 'A landmark contribution to the fields of intellectual history and Enlightenment studies [...] timely, nuanced, and rich addition to current debates'. doi.org/10.1080/1749...

📣 Call for Applications! 📣 The Turin Humanities Programme and Fondazione 1563 are pleased to invite doctoral students and ECRs to submit their applications to the Summer School Slavery and Serfdom in Europe and the Americas in the Early Modern Period. www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

📆 Save the date! 📆 Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social (@helsinki.fi) is going to give our Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies! 9 May 2025, Blackwell Hall, Weston Library, 17:00–19:00. More information: tinyurl.com/3cjmx4zj

📣 Come join us! 📣 A two-year postdoc in Enlightenment Studies @voltaire.ox.ac.uk and Oxford's lively community of researchers working on the long 18thC @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social, Modern Languages, and beyond. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Applications welcome by 30 May.

Also, don't miss Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger's research discussion with graduate students and early career researchers. Wednesday 30 April, 11:00 @magdalenoxford.bsky.social, sponsored by the Oxford Centre for European History: oceh.web.ox.ac.uk/event/resear...

What happens when someone who rejects all rules becomes the ruler? Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (@wiko-berlin.bsky.social) discusses the logic of autocracy in the case of Frederick William I: Wed. 30 Apr, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. Free registration here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/magdalen-col...

The correct link to the call for applications is my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru.... Apologies!