Materialist New York? French late Enlightenment in the early American republic

Date: Wednesday 11 November 
Time: 17:00
Venue: Magdalen, Summer Common Room 

Strings and knots

Roger Chartier (Collège de France), Strings and Knots: Enlightened Quipus

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Maison Française d'Oxford
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Stéphane Van Damme (Maison Française d’Oxford), Materialist New York? French late Enlightenment in the early American Republic

11 November 2026
Enlightenment Workshop
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 5

12 November 2026
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Shatema Threadcraft (Vanderbilt): The Labors of Resurrection: Black Women, Necromancy, and Morrisonian Democracy

16 November 2026
New Book Panel - Oxford Political Thought Seminar
Luke Bretherton Inaugural

Luke Bretherton (Oxford): The Struggle to be Human: Christian Humanism and the Future of our Common Life

16 November 2026
Inaugural lecture
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Workshop on Gender and Global Intellectual History

17 November 2026
Global Intellectual History Seminar
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Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference

18 November 2026
Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Programme
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Jokha Alharthi (Sultan Qaboos University), Novels and Women in Iran

18 November 2026
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
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Karen Stolley (Emory University), Saber/conocer: ways of knowing in the Hispanic Enlightenment

19 November 2026
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 6

19 November 2026
leviathan

Robert Cheah (Oxford): What was the Point of Ideal Theory?

23 November 2026
Oxford Political Thought Seminar
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Maria Floruțău, Beyond the metropolis: Enlightenment learned societies in Batavia, Calcutta, and Manila

25 November 2026
Enlightenment Workshop