Wondering how long it will take until we'll have to write a blog about how this is a mis-attributed Voltaire quote...

📢 Applications are now open for next year’s MSc in Digital Scholarship, for entry in October 2025. 📢 More information on the course and how to apply can be found here: humanities.ox.ac.uk/mscdigsch The application deadline is 7 January 2025.

We are back from the summer break with our 📢New programme of the #EnlightenmentWorkshopwww.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

Enlightenment Workshop

The video of our First Annual Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies, given by Professor Glenn Roe on 2 May on the topic The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century Archive, is now available to watch on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/50Wwy_A_Eog?...

Prof Glenn Roe: The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century Archive

First Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment StudiesSpeaker: Professor Glenn Roe (Sorbonne University & University of Oxford)Enlightenme...

❗❗❗ Hackathon! ❗❗❗ Come join us in Paris for our next Hackathon on Voltaire and the Press! Organised by the ERC ModERN project, the VF, and in collaboration with the DataLab of the French National Library (BnF). More info and how to register here: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

Read more about the significance of Montesquieu’s philosophy, with some works about his political thought now temporarily available #OpenAccessbit.ly/Montesquieu-...

De l’esprit d’un concours : Montesquieu au programme de l’agrégation de philosophie

Portrait anonyme de Montesquieu (d’après une médaille sculptée par Jacques-Antoine Dassier). On sait que parmi les auteurs que l’histoire a retenus comme les « philosophes français des Lumières », le ...

The prestigious French agrégation for philosophy has chosen Montesquieu as its focal point for 2024-25. To support scholars, select studies on Montesquieu from the Voltaire Foundation have now been made #OpenAccessbit.ly/Montesquieu-OA

Save the date for our postdoc Roman Kuhn's workshop 'Fugitive Poetry / poésie fugitive in 18th-century Europe: Genre, Media and Networks', 11-12 April. More info: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/worksh...

Workshop: Fugitive Poetry / poésie fugitive in 18th-century Europe: Genre, Media and Networks

St. Edmund Hall (Old Dining Hall), Queen’s Lane, Oxford Organisation: Roman Kuhn (Voltaire Foundation) A pdf of the programme can be found under this link. 13.30 Coffee & Welcome 13.45…

Thanks @voltaireoxford.bsky.social@glennroe.bsky.social for hosting me - it’s been so great to visit Oxford this week and catch up on all things Enlightenment DH!

New year, new lecture series! We are excited to invite you to our brand new Voltaire Foundation Lecture Series in Digital Scholarship 2024 - Digital Enlightenment Studies: Methods and Approaches! The full programme can be found on our website: www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/vo...

Voltaire Foundation Lecture Series in Digital Scholarship

Come join us for our brand new The programme can also be found under this link (pdf). 15 February 2024 Linacre College, Meeting Suite, 17:00–19:00 Tobias Hodel (University of Bern) Handwritten Text�...