| The Poetics of Text Reuse |
The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century Archive |
Glenn Roe |
10 May, 2024 |
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| Hegel's Enlightenment |
Professor Richard Bourke delivers the 2023 Annual Besterman Lecture. |
Richard Bourke |
14 November, 2023 |
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| Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris |
Professor Lorraine Daston delivers the 2019 Besterman Lecture |
Lorraine Daston |
21 November, 2019 |
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| Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture - Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism |
Dan Edelstein from Stanford University gives the Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture, the convenor is Avi Lifschitz, Magdalen College. |
Dan Edelstein, Avi Lifschitz |
1 May, 2019 |
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| Writing Rights in 1789 |
Keith M Baker, professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University, explains a Digital Humanities project mapping the debates on the constituent articles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. |
Keith M Baker |
23 November, 2018 |
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| Methusela and the unity of mankind: late Renaissance and early Enlightenment conceptions of time |
Martin van Gelderen delivers a talk for the Besterman Lecture 2018 |
Martin van Gelderen |
25 July, 2018 |
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| Digital Rhetoric, literae humaniores and Leibniz's dream |
Willard McCarty, King's College, London, gives the 2017 Besterman lecture. |
Willard McCarty |
13 December, 2017 |
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| Adam Smith, Poverty and Famine |
A highly critical account of Adam Smith's views on famine, which fail to recognize that you can have starvation in the midst of plenty. |
David Wootton |
2 June, 2017 |
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| The Lure of Paris: The Republic of Letters and Eighteenth-Century Speed-Dating |
Final talk of the Besterman Enlightenment Workshop 2017, Laurence Brockliss explains the popularity of Paris as a place to visit in the 18th century and explores the opportunities for and obstacles to making contacts in the European Republic of Letters. |
Laurence Brockliss |
22 March, 2017 |
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| Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress |
Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford, will speak on ‘Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress’. |
Ritchie Robertson |
18 November, 2016 |
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| The French Revolutionary Terror: Proto-Totalitarian or Public Sphere? |
Professor Colin Jones CBE (Queen Mary University of London) delivers the annual Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation at Wolfson College, Oxford |
Colin Jones |
20 November, 2015 |
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| ‘True Enlightenment can be both achieved and beneficial.’ The German Enlightenment and its Interpretation |
Professor Joachim Whaley, Professor of German History and Thought, Cambridge, gives the 2014 Besterman Lecture, hosted by The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment and the TORCH Enlightenment Programme. |
Joachim Whaley, Richie Robertson |
20 November, 2014 |
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| Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert |
Short podcast looking at Enlightenment philosopher Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert, housed in the Bodleian Library. |
Nathalie Ferrand |
23 November, 2012 |
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| Rousseau: Archive et Invention. |
Professor Nathalie Ferrand (École Normale Supérieure Paris) gives the 2012 Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation. This lecture is in French. |
Nathalie Ferrand |
23 November, 2012 |
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