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Voltaire Foundation, Oxford The Voltaire Foundation at University of Oxford is a research centre and academic publisher specialising in the 18th century. boundaries.

Founded in 1976 with the mission to lead research and publishing on the 18th century across all disciplines & geogr. The Voltaire Foundation is a world leader for eighteenth-century scholarship, publishing the definitive edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire (Œuvres complètes de Voltaire), as well as Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (previously SVEC), and the correspondences of several key French thinkers.

Call for Papers – Voltaire in the Baltic World: Circulations, Receptions, LegaciesOur colleague Sophie Turner is organis...
24/07/2025

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.

5-6 March 2026, University of Tartu, Estonia In connection with an upcoming exhibition on Voltaire at the University of Tartu’s Museum of Art, and in collaboration with the Voltaire Foundation…

Cultural Transmission and the French Enlightenment: Repurposing the Past, edited by Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee, is the...
18/07/2025

Cultural Transmission and the French Enlightenment: Repurposing the Past, edited by Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee, is the July 2025 volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This blog post by series editor Gregory Brown commemorates its publication as the 671st volume, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the series. Emphasizing the entangled nature of eighteenth-century thought and its reception, these essays ask where the past ends and its interpretation begins....

Cultural Transmission and the French Enlightenment: Repurposing the Past, edited by Hanna Roman and Olivia Sabee, is the July 2025 volume in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment serie…

Among non-specialists, it remains a commonplace that Germans played little, if any, appreciable role in the transatlanti...
27/06/2025

Among non-specialists, it remains a commonplace that Germans played little, if any, appreciable role in the transatlantic slave system. Even some specialists in German history have assumed that eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German-language commentaries on transatlantic slavery were primarily oblique interventions in debates of more obvious local relevance, such as serfdom.[1] In one essay published in 2001, the pre-eminent historian Jürgen Osterhammel even suggested that Germans’ absence from transatlantic slavery was one plausible explanation for Hitler’s rise to power....

Among non-specialists, it remains a commonplace that Germans played little, if any, appreciable role in the transatlantic slave system. Even some specialists in German history have assumed that eig…

This blog is based on the article by Gillian Pink, ‘L’allégorie d’Alcibiade et le dossier génétique de Candide’, recentl...
20/06/2025

This blog is based on the article by Gillian Pink, ‘L’allégorie d’Alcibiade et le dossier génétique de Candide’, recently published in the R***e Voltaire 24 (2025), p.239-251. Deciding to read Voltaire’s correspondence from start to finish (over 20 000 letters, in 45 volumes), as I did in late 2023, certainly entails an element of foolhardiness. People react with disbelief, and murmurs of the word ‘mad’ can be heard....

This blog is based on the article by Gillian Pink, ‘L’allégorie d’Alcibiade et le dossier génétique de Candide’, recently published in the R***e Voltaire 24 (2025), p.239-251. Deciding to read Volt…

The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice, written by Denys Van Renen, has recently been published in the Oxford ...
30/05/2025

The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice, written by Denys Van Renen, has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This blog post, by the author, highlights its intervention as the first book-length study to analyze the genre of the picaresque as drawing attention to how the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century iterations of it respond to environmental disasters....

The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice, written by Denys Van Renen, has recently been published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. This blog post, by the author…

I first encountered Voltaire in Estonia at the Mikkel Museum in Tallinn, and I began the first part of this piece introd...
23/05/2025

I first encountered Voltaire in Estonia at the Mikkel Museum in Tallinn, and I began the first part of this piece introducing some of the artworks in connection with Voltaire in Estonian museums, situating these within the broader history of the Baltic region. I discussed how the foreign art collections arrived in Estonia from east and west: from St Petersburg but also Italy, Germany, and France, and how the provenance of some items could be traced back centuries earlier when the Baltic German elite were ruling under the Russian empire....

I first encountered Voltaire in Estonia at the Mikkel Museum in Tallinn, and I began the first part of this piece introducing some of the artworks in connection with Voltaire in Estonian museums, s…

Book launch: Jozef Ignác Bajza, Réne, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and ExperiencesThe Embassy of the Slovak Republic in ...
22/05/2025

Book launch: Jozef Ignác Bajza, Réne, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences

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

An edition with commentary of the first Slovak novel

Edited by Dobrota Pucherová and Erika Brtáňová

Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, April 2025

5 JUNE 2025

PLEASE RSVP TO: [email protected]

More information on our website:

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 An edition with commentary of the first Slovak…

Voltaire, bronze, late 18th C. Jean-Antoine Houdon. Art Museum of Estonia. At the Mikkel Museum, part of the Art Museum ...
16/05/2025

Voltaire, bronze, late 18th C. Jean-Antoine Houdon. Art Museum of Estonia. At the Mikkel Museum, part of the Art Museum of Estonia, in Tallinn, there is a bronze sculpture of Voltaire by Jean-Antoine Houdon. When I first came across Voltaire here, it was somewhat unexpected, given how few French artworks there are in Estonia, and how French history in the region is little talked about....

Voltaire, bronze, late 18th C. Jean-Antoine Houdon. Art Museum of Estonia. At the Mikkel Museum, part of the Art Museum of Estonia, in Tallinn, there is a bronze sculpture of Voltaire by Jean-Antoi…

🎥 Live streamed lecture! 🎥Don't miss Professor Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University) on the topic ‘Buffon and the Degenera...
13/05/2025

🎥 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:

Our colleagues at the Turin Humanities Programme, Fondazione 1563, are live streaming a lecture given by Professor Andrew Curran, Wesleyan University, on the topic ‘Buffon and the Degenerated Human’.

Suzanne de Baecque, Georgia Scalliet et Thomas Blanchard dans la mise en scène de La Seconde Surprise de l’amour par Ala...
09/05/2025

Suzanne de Baecque, Georgia Scalliet et Thomas Blanchard dans la mise en scène de La Seconde Surprise de l’amour par Alain Françon (Odéon, 2021). Après avoir monté La Seconde Surprise de l’amour en 2021, Alain Françon la présentera à nouveau au Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin en juin prochain. Dans cette mise en scène remarquée, les critiques ont célébré le jeu de Georgia Scalliet, interprète de la Marquise, et celui de Suzanne de Baecque, révélée dans son rôle de Lisette....

Suzanne de Baecque, Georgia Scalliet et Thomas Blanchard dans la mise en scène de La Seconde Surprise de l’amour par Alain Françon (Odéon, 2021). Après avoir monté La Seconde Surprise de l’amour en…

I wrote my very first book, nearly twenty-five years ago now, on the Enlightenment’s opponents – men and women of the na...
01/05/2025

I wrote my very first book, nearly twenty-five years ago now, on the Enlightenment’s opponents – men and women of the nascent Right who regarded the prospect of moral progress as an illusion, who warned that loosening the ties of religion, patriarchal authority, the family, and tradition, would spell disaster, who scoffed at notions of individual rights, and who were suspicious of gender and sexual liberation....

I wrote my very first book, nearly twenty-five years ago now, on the Enlightenment’s opponents – men and women of the nascent Right who regarded the prospect of moral progress as an illusion, who w…

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