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Voltaire Foundation
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Hegel's Enlightenment

Professor Richard Bourke delivers the 2023 Annual Besterman Lecture.
Isaiah Berlin

Some Sources of Romanticism: 3 – The True Fathers of Romanticism

The third of Isaiah Berlin's famous 1965 Mellon Lectures
Isaiah Berlin

Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment

The second of Isaiah Berlin's famous 1965 Mellon Lectures
Isaiah Berlin

Some Sources of Romanticism: 1 – In Search of a Definition

The first of Isaiah Berlin's famous 1965 Mellon Lectures
Voltaire Foundation
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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.
Voltaire Foundation

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
Voltaire Foundation

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.
Voltaire Foundation
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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’.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The Pragmatic Enlightenment and Other Enlightenments

Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston) discusses his book 'The Pragmatic Enlightenment'
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment

A discussion of Jim Reed's book
Voltaire Foundation

‘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.
Voltaire Foundation

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.
Voltaire Foundation

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.
Journey of a Molecular Detective; David Sherratt

Freemasons versus Jesuits: Conspiracy Theories in Enlightenment Germany

Inaugural lecture by Ritchie Robertson as Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature.

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