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The Voltaire Foundation (University of Oxford), a world leader in 18th-century scholarship. Our publications: the Complete Works of Voltaire (OCV) and Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment (OSE).

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Besterman Lecture 2025: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France)

Besterman Lecture 2025: Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to 18th-C Book and Intellectual History

Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to 18th-C Book and Intellectual History Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Besterman Lecture 2024: Cécile Vidal, Suicide and slavery in Enlightenment thought

Besterman Lecture 2024: Cécile Vidal, Suicide and slavery in Enlightenment thought Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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

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

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The 2023 Besterman Lecture: Richard Bourke, 'Hegel's Enlightenment'

The 2023 Besterman Lecture: Richard Bourke, 'Hegel's Enlightenment' Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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The 2022 Besterman Lecture: 'Napoleon’s Nemesis: Madame de Staël and the Origins of Liberalism'

The 2022 Besterman Lecture: 'Napoleon’s Nemesis: Madame de Staël and the Origins of Liberalism' Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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VF at the British Academy: Adam Gopnik - Once, A Philosopher: Voltaire the Liberal

VF at the British Academy: Adam Gopnik - Once, A Philosopher: Voltaire the Liberal Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Professor Robert Darnton: ‘Theatricality and Violence in Paris, 1788’

Professor Robert Darnton: ‘Theatricality and Violence in Paris, 1788’ Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Editing Voltaire

Editing Voltaire Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Besterman Lecture 2021, Sophia Rosenfeld: How the Enlightenment understood truth & why that matters

Besterman Lecture 2021, Sophia Rosenfeld: How the Enlightenment understood truth & why that matters Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Discussion of Voltaire's Précis du siècle de Louis XV

Discussion of Voltaire's Précis du siècle de Louis XV Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Discussion of Marie Antoinette, Lettres inédites and Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writing

Discussion of Marie Antoinette, Lettres inédites and Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writing Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Interview with Professor Alan Charles Kors 250th Anniversary of d'Holbach's Système de la nature

Interview with Professor Alan Charles Kors 250th Anniversary of d'Holbach's Système de la nature Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Discussion of L'Héritage des Lumières ambivalences de la modernité by Antoine Lilti EHESS, Paris

Discussion of L'Héritage des Lumières ambivalences de la modernité by Antoine Lilti EHESS, Paris Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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The 2020 Besterman Lecture: ‘Who were the French Revolutionaries’ by Professor William Doyle

The 2020 Besterman Lecture: ‘Who were the French Revolutionaries’ by Professor William Doyle Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Discussion of The Enlightenment - The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680 1790, by Ritchie Robertson

Discussion of The Enlightenment - The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680 1790, by Ritchie Robertson Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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Elizabeth Montagu - A digital edition of her correspondence

Elizabeth Montagu - A digital edition of her correspondence Voltaire Foundation Oxford

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