Enlightenment Decentred: Networks, Media, Practices
Date: Wednesday 30 September to Friday 2 October
Venue: Magdalen College, Summer Common Room
WEDNESDAY, 30 September
9.00 Welcome & Introduction
Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) & Avi Lifschitz (Oxford)
9.15 Session 1
Avi Lifschitz (Oxford), Paris – Potsdam – Ferney – London: the incomplete rehabilitation of Emperor Julian
Mónica Bolufer Peruga (European University Institute, Florence), Caracas – London – Istanbul: cosmopolitanism and patriotism in the life and readings of an Enlightened, revolutionary criollo
11.15 Session 2
Eun-Jeung Lee (Freie Universität Berlin), Rome – Beijing – Seoul: a knowledge network and its media, 1644–1783
Nicola Miller (University College London), A methodology for intellectual independence: Enlightened strategies for modern knowledge in Guatemala, 1790s–1820s
13.30 Session 3
Chenxi Tang (University of California, Berkeley), Europe – the Sinosphere: the Eurasian Enlightenment in two keys
Brian Young (Oxford), An English Enlightenment from Lausanne and Göttingen to St Petersburg and Pennsylvania
THURSDAY, 1 October
9.15 Session 4
Anita Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin), Oviedo – Polling – Parnassus: alternative routes to an Enlightened ars critica
László Kontler (Central European University), Eger – Vienna – Rome: Catholicism and improvement across borders in the Enlightenment
(1750s–90s)
11.15 Session 5
Alicia Montoya (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen), Berlin – Venice – Madrid – Lisbon – Recife: making the Portuguese Jewish Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic
Dmitri Levitin (Oxford), Pierre Bayle: global history as Christian apologetics. Rotterdam – St. Andrews – Paris – Göttingen – Calcutta
14.15 Session 6
Shiru Lim (Leiden), When the nomads met the naturalists: knowing and narrativizing the steppe from the Volga to the Amur
Damiano Bardelli (Oxford), Florence – Châlons – Basel: Enlightenment projects of poor relief
16:15
Tom Wynn (Oxford), The Voltaire Foundation: an introduction
FRIDAY, 2 October
9.15 Session 7
Jonas Thorup Thomsen (Oxford) & Olivier Higgins (Oxford), Berlin, Copenhagen and beyond: educational reform, public Enlightenment, and authority
John Robertson (Cambridge), Enlightenment by comparison: Scotland and Naples revisited and continued
Richard Whatmore (St. Andrews), John Pocock’s decentred Enlightenments
12.00 Concluding discussion
Generously supported by the John Fell OUP Fund, University of Oxford, and the Division of International Affairs, Freie Universität Berlin
