The Complete works of Voltaire (OCV) concluded in 205 print volumes in 2022, and in January 2026 was reborn in digital form, as Oxford University Voltaire (OV). As a living edition, OV can continue…

Doctoral students and Early Career Researchers working on Voltaire or Diderot are warmly encouraged to submit proposals in French (by 30 September 2026) for the next Journées internationales jeunes…

The Interdisciplinary Centre for European Enlightenment Studies (IZEA) at Martin-Luther-University HalleWittenberg is offering 5 part time (65%) positions as part of the “Politics of the…

BSECS Annual Conference: the annual meeting of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is Europe's largest and most prestigious annual conference

Immensely popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Catherine, ou La belle fermière is a comic French opera that tells a tale of mistaken identity. The beautiful farmer, Catherine…

The Voltaire Foundation is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Thomas Wynn as Director, from 1 October 2026. Professor Wynn is currently Professor of French in the School of Modern…

20 May Jessica Patterson (Trinity College, Cambridge) Empire and the Idea of the Constitution in Enlightenment Political Thought New College…

Lausanne Grand Hôpital. Photo Wikimedia Commons, 2011. In January 1782 the Lausanne Literary Society (Société littéraire de Lausanne) convened a meeting to discuss its purpose and organisation. The…

A landmark biography of one of the most notorious and controversial protagonists of the French Revolution—Jean-Paul Marat.   Who better to pen an authoritative biography of Jean-Paul Marat (1743–93) t...

Scholarly editions have long been central to humanist study, and print editions continue to be produced according to well-established methodologies. In recent decades, digital scholarly editions ha…

Il m’arrive parfois d’oublier que Voltaire est mort. C’est le résultat de la fréquentation quasi-quotidienne, depuis une vingtaine d’années, de ses papiers, de ses brouillons, et de sa correspondan…

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David Armitage (Harvard University)

Convened by Glenn Roe (Jesus College) and Nicholas Cronk (Voltaire Foundation)

A ‘name is an infinite source of control’ (George Lamming, ‘The Negro Writer and his World’, 1956). While personal to each human being, it also becomes a social designation of one’s identity. It is…