Enlightenment Projects
Monday 30 September
14:00-15:30 Networks and Networking
(The Barn, St John’s College)
Chair: Nicholas Cronk (French/Voltaire Foundation, Oxford)
Daniel Zimmer (German, HU): Enlightenment at Court. Anglo-German Relations
Catriona Seth (French, Oxford): Personal Correspondences
Martin Urmann (French, FU): Prize Contests as Media of Knowledge in the French
Academies from 1670
Howard Hotson (History, Oxford): Prospects for Networking the Republic of Letters
16:00-18:00 Writing the Enlightenment(s): a roundtable discussion
(St John’s College Auditorium, Garden Quad)
Chair: Karen O’Brien (Head of Humanities, Oxford)
Discussants: Steffen Martus (German, HU), Stefanie Stockhorst (German, Potsdam), Ritchie Robertson (German, Oxford), Andrew Kahn (Russian, Oxford); this event will be in English and German
18:15 Drinks Reception
(St John’s College Auditorium, Garden Quad)
Tuesday 1 October
9:00-10:30 Genres and Media
(The Barn, St John’s College)
Chair: Kathryn Murphy (English, Oxford)
Anita Traninger (French, FU): Competing Communities: Debating the Enlightenment
Roman Kuhn (French, FU): Enlightening Classicism: Generic and Temporal
Hybridisations?
Friederike Günther (German, FU): Competition between image and sound in the early
18th century
Claudia Olk (English, LMU): Shakespeare in eighteenth-century German Criticism
11:00-12:30 Critique & Controversy
(The Barn, St John’s College)
Chair: Avi Lifschitz (History, Oxford)
Brian Young (History, Oxford): Christians and Unbelievers in Enlightenment England
Stefan Willer (German, HU), Enlightened Eschatology
Kevin Hilliard (German, Oxford), Polemical Theology (Pro and Contra)
Caroline Warman (French, Oxford): Diderot's Eléments de physiologie between
physiology and philosophy
Matthias Pohlig (History, HU): Apocalypticism and Enlightenment
15:00-16:30 Practices of Enlightenments I
(The Barn, St John’s College)
Chair: Barry Murnane (German, Oxford)
Mark-Georg Dehrmann (German, HU): Enlightening the Arts and Crafts: The Example
of Printers’ Manuals
Stefanie Stockhorst (German, Potsdam): Equitation for the Public Sphere: Disclosure
and Concealment of Practical Knowledge in 18th-Century Riding Manuals
Steffen Martus/Charlotte Kurbjuhn (German, HU): Doing Aesthetics
David Taylor (English, Oxford): Visual Thinking and Thinking the Visual in Eighteenth-
Century Theatre
17:00-18:30 Practices of Enlightenment II
(The Barn, St John’s College)
Chair: Barry Murnane (German, Oxford)
Erica Charters (History, Oxford): War, Knowledge, and Enlightenment
Giora Sternberg (History, Oxford): Writing Acts: The Power of Writing in the Ancien
Régime
Helga Schwalm (English, HU): Embedded Lives: Enlightenment Dictionaries, Small
Biographies in Interaction, and Biographical Knowledge
Marie-Theres Federhofer (Scandinavian, HU), Patient’s Participation: Illness
Narratives and Medical Knowledge
Wednesday 2nd October
9:00-10:30 Legacies of Enlightenment
(The Barn, St John’s College)
Chair: Howard Hotson (History, Oxford)
Paul Lodge (Philosophy, Oxford): Leibniz’s Philosophy as a Way of Life?
Ritchie Robertson (German, Oxford): Representative or Revolutionary Democracy:
Madison or Paine?
Jessica Goodman (French, Oxford): Self-Projection in Mercier’s l’An 2440
Nicholas Cronk (French/Voltaire Foundation, Oxford): Digitizing Enlightenment
FU: Freie Universität, Berlin
HU: Humboldt-Universität, Berlin
Generously supported and hosted by:
The Oxford-Berlin Partnership
TORCH: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
