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War & Peace Reading Group: Week 1

Date: Thursday 15 October
Time: 17:00-18:00
Venue: All Souls College, Hovenden Room 

This reading group explores the writing of history in the historical novel. In Michaelmas and Hilary Term will be exploring Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace (1869). 

To join our mailing list, please contact: mrinalini.wadhwa@all-souls.ox.ac.uk 

Session 1: War and Peace in Intellectual History

Readings:

  • Mandatory reading: War and Peace, Volume I, Part 1

  • Optional reading: Leo Tolstoy, “A Few Words Apropos the Book War and Peace” (1868), appendix to the Pevear and Volokhonsky translation (PDF in this folder)

Tolstoy as Historian

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Shmuel Feiner (Bar-Ilan University), The emotional experience of Jewish secularization

29 October
Enlightenment Workshop and the Centre for Hebrew & Jewish Studies
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Fatima Naveed (University of Edinburgh), Censoring a Nation

02 November
South Asian Intellectual History Seminar
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Conference: Across Anti-Imperial Metropolises: Nonstate Approaches to Modern Japan-France History

05 November to 06 November
Global Intellectual History Seminar
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War & Peace Reading Group: Week 4

05 November
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Taushif Kara (Kings College London),Orthodoxy as Method: Islam, Pakistan, and Fazlur Rahman’s political philosophy

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

10 November
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
Enlightenment Workshop
Tolstoy as Historian

War & Peace Reading Group: Week 5

12 November
18th Century World Map by Georg Matthaus Seutter

Workshop on Gender and Global Intellectual History

17 November
Global Intellectual History Seminar
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Emerging Digital Methodologies Conference

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

18 November
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies