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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment @oxunienl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

New on the blog: Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley explore the lasting impact of the "Black Legend" - the narrative of Spain and its empire as cruel and intolerant - examining its historical roots, and modern debates on colonialism and memory. Read more: bit.ly/4b1Zf2q @voltaire.ox.ac.uk #c18

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‘The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century’ by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley

The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Constructing National Identities, edited by Catherine M. Jaffe and Karen Stolley, has recently been published in the Oxf…

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Created in partnership with the Voltaire Foundation, the Eighteenth-Century Studies collection now offers over 700 volumes from the foremost series in Enlightenment studies. @voltaire.ox.ac.uk @oxunienl.bsky.social Find out more: bit.ly/digital-enlig...

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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment @oxunienl.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

New to the series: 'La Société littéraire de Lausanne' by @damianobardelli.bsky.social is the first book on the Lausanne Literary Society. Purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/La-Soci%C3%A... #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

The image is a promotional graphic for the book La Société littéraire de Lausanne: Sociabilité et débats de réforme by Damiano Bardelli, published as part of the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. The book cover is displayed on the right side, featuring a historical illustration of a group of men gathered around a table in discussion, with a blue title banner. The left side of the image contains bilingual text in French and English:

"Une étude détaillée des pratiques et des débats de la Société littéraire de Lausanne."
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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment @oxunienl.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

New to the series | Jozef Ignác Bajza, René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences, edited by Dobrota Pucherová and Erika Brtáňová. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/first-slovak... #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Promotional image for the English translation of the first Slovak novel, René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences by Jozef Ignác Bajza. The image features the book cover on the right, which includes a medieval-style illustration of several figures and an angel. The left side of the image has a decorative angel blowing a trumpet and text stating: "The first translation into another language of the first Slovak novel, René, or: A Young Man’s Adventures and Experiences, published in 1783–1785." Logos at the bottom include Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, Voltaire Foundation.

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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 30/04/2025

Many thanks to @roydipiazza.bsky.social for a generous review of 'The Process of Enlightenment' @oxunienl.bsky.social! 'A landmark contribution to the fields of intellectual history and Enlightenment studies [...] timely, nuanced, and rich addition to current debates'. doi.org/10.1080/1749...

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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment @oxunienl.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

New on the blog | Denys Van Renen, author of 'The Scottish picaresque as environmental justice', urges scholars and readers of the picaresque to rediscover it as a key genre for the environmental humanities. Read the post on the LUP blog: bit.ly/3F2dOHM #environmentalhumanities #c18 🍃

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Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment @oxunienl.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

New to the series | Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon, by Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/AntoineLasalle #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

Promotional image for the book Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon: Politiques de la science sous la Révolution et l’Empire by Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon, published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. The book cover, shown on the right, features a cropped reproduction of the painting 'The Death of Chatterton' ( by; after Edward Orme; Henry Singleton, 1794. © National Portrait Gallery, London) depicting the tragic death of the young poet Thomas Chatterton. In the image, Chatterton lies lifeless in a garret, with a woman and child entering the scene in distress. On the left side, promotional text for the book in italic reads: “The life and work of an eighteenth-century translator and an account of the reception of his translation of Francis Bacon.” Publisher logos for Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, and the Voltaire Foundation appear at the bottom.

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Andrew Ungvari @drewunga.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

68 teams in this tournament and only three of them have Jewish head coaches. Two of the three punched their tickets to the Final Four today and the other can do it tomorrow. I'm verklempt. And Lindsay Gottlieb and USC advanced to the Elite 8 on the women's side. No wonder UNLV hired Josh Pastner.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

This Wednesday March 5 at 3:30 in @unlv.edu Greenspun Hall, please join the Dept of History for a discussion with internationally acclaimed journalist and historian Yardena Schwartz, of her critically acclaimed book, "Ghosts of a Holy War" Reserve seats and parking here tinyurl.com/YardenaUNLV

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Michael Kagan @michaelgkagan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Pretty much everything they say about immigrants today they said about your grandparents and great-grandparents. Support and defend immigrants today like they’re your own grandparents.

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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 19/02/2025

Why were Newton's theories so controversial in 18th-century Berlin? Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet talks at our Enlightenment Workshop on the reception of Newton in the Berlin Academy: Wednesday 26 Feb, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 28/01/2025

Robespierre speaks: Colin Jones (QM London/U Chicago) on the revolutionary’s writings and political theory — Wednesday (29 Jan), 5pm, Magdalen College. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

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Kate Astbury @100days1815.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I’ve spent many a happy hour down in the Voltaire room at the @tayoxford.bsky.social - it’s a great place to work.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 24/10/2022

I get the emails now, so it's probably past time to note that I have recently joined the advisory boards of: - Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America - Electronic Enlightenment And the editorial board of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment

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Pamphlets and Patrons @papaerc.bsky.social · 30/06/2021

Glad to announce that the manuscript of our volume Enlightenment at Court (ed. together with Thomas Biskup, Ben Marschke and Andreas Pecar) has been formally accepted by the editors of the excellent series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OUSE). Thank you!

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Bibliothèque de Port-Royal @bibportroyal.bsky.social · 06/09/2024

#Parution : Bastien, Pascal (dir.). Policing and urban society in eighteenth-century Paris. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment), 2024. ISBN : 9781835536766.

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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Daniella Gilboa hugging her parents for the first time in 477 days. Welcome home 💛

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

UNlV Holocaust Remembrance Day observation and discussion of genocide education : bit.ly/UNLVHRD25

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

As for a stronger footing for peace, do you have any response to the chair of the Hamas politburo giving a speech today promising another attack on Israel or the crowds in Gaza City as we speak chanting "death to the Jews"?

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Your consistent ability to overlook saying anything about the hostages or the security of Israelis is a failure. And no this will not allow a surge in humanitarian support of, as they are, the terrorist entity that illegally governs Gaza continues to confiscate the aid.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Conversation spirituelle entre Navarre et Ricoeur.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Nothing whatsoever to do with Israel. But they have no concern with opposing antisemitism, only opposing the response to it. Now is their chance to show any basis to accept them on good faith as a Jewish advocacy organization. Waiting....

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Organizations like JVP have developed whole campaigns to make the whole idea of antisemitism awareness and response seem like merely a "weaponization" to "suppress criticism of israel." And when a synagogue is firebombed, JVP says nothing.

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Hen Mazzig @henmazzig.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A busy synagogue in Melbourne, Australian was firebombed last night, leaving two injured with burns. Jews worldwide are being violently targeted in our sacred spaces. If you’re still silent, you are the problem.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

"Him" = Chris Brooke? Hashing on historians now?

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

On this point, though, Begin always assumed the Arab population would be a minority within Israel, however configured. His idea of Arabs who would become Arab citizens did not include a right of return or anticipate the demographic spike in WB / Gaza.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Of the responses, the "yes" is heavily boosted by respondents <16 yrs old, those with "low" Jewish identification and those born in US. Fewer than 10% of respondents above age 17, either "high" Jewish identification or born outside US said yes.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

So on the "sympathetic with Hamas" question, it's asked as the last of of 3 statements with which respondents are asked if they agree. There is no "yes" "somewhat" "no" or "don't know" option. So already a badly designed question. 1/2

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I'm skeptical. I'm going to try to find the actual survey.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Your semi-autobiographical screenplay is going to be a hot property. If you get Tiffany Haddish to star....

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

The only consolation may be in a Leninist version of Bitecofer. Once power is won, it should be used not to solve problems with policy but to change the political environment ...through consolidation of the gains of negative partisanship.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

I think this is the right question to ask, and once again I am drawn to the position laid out by @rachelbitecofer.bluesky.social that this is an era of "negative partisanship" and the Democratic campaign necessarily ought to have been overwhelmingly a demonization of Maga republicanism. 1/2

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Some day the Democratic Party will have leadership as sensible, thoughtful and committed as @rachelbitecofer.bsky.social That day better come soon.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

@alonpinkas.bsky.social do you listen to the British podcast @originstorypodcast.bsky.social ? Their most recent 2 part episode is on the life and career of one Benjamin Netanyahu, and it's likely to be of great interest to you.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Lastly the long paen to Qatari "soft power" is hard to square with its atrocious record on human rights for immigrant workers, educational policies that promote Muslim Brotherhood ideology, sponsorship of AJ. "Enormous wealth" feels like a tell. As a liberal I don't buy that Qatar is an ally.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

No medical visits. Very limited signs of life. Nothing to suggest Qatar is in any way a broker between the utter inhumanity and indecency of Hamas and the rest of the world. I'm not inclined to agree with the right on anything but this does seem like primarily an argument against Netanyahu.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Sure there is a case that the Israeli govt has been inflexible. But seriously Hamas is still holding Kfir. Would not an "honest broker" have gotten at least the release of an infant? Does your logic not presume that Hama (and Qatar) need to be rewarded for their vilest and most evil actions?

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

But Qatar has NOT achieved any mediation at all. I don't follow this logic. I'm not defending BN in any way but what is the basis for believing Qatar has in any way been an effective broker. 1/2

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

There are three Israeli antimissile systems plus airborne interdiction. It's not just iron dome and that's why "offensive weapons" is a deliberate obsfucation.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

First they didn't call for US to stop sending weapons. It's in the headline. "Offensive weapons" meaning heavy bombs. Which are not in use in northern Gaza. Secondly that there is a "hostage deal" available is refuted by all mediators. I'm so tired of arguing against moralistic oversimplifications

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Actually no. Only among Arab-Americans in Dearborn where local Dem electeds pointedly did not support the ticket. Slotkine nevertheless won there. Harris won Black Muslims in Detroit handily. AOC is upset about Bowman and Bush who were both deeply flawed candidates

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

In Michigan, Slotkine won. Here in NV, Rosen won. Harris lost both states. There's an empirical case that Harris lagged because she was seen by many Jewish voters as too weak in response to anti-Israel campus and urban unrest.

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Gregory Brown @gregorybrown.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

And as @AOC never tires of pointing out, AIPAC also supports Republicans. There's no logic to the idea Harris lost because of excessive support for Israel, let alone AIPAC lobbying.

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