Voltaire Foundation
Episodes
Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to Eighteenth-Century Book and Intellectual History
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment Studies: Mikko Tolonen on Books as Objects, Data and Meaning: A Computational Approach to ...
The Poetics of Text Reuse
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century Archive First Annual Voltaire Foundation Lecture on Digital Enlightenment...
Hegel's Enlightenment
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Richard Bourke delivers the 2023 Annual Besterman Lecture. Hegel described philosophy as its own time comprehended in thought. For him, that...
Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris
21 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Lorraine Daston delivers the 2019 Besterman Lecture By the late seventeenth century, Western Europe’s metropolises were in competition wit...
Writing Rights in 1789
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Keith M Baker, professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University, explains a Digital Humanities project mapping the debates on the con...
Methusela and the unity of mankind: late Renaissance and early Enlightenment conceptions of time
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Martin van Gelderen delivers a talk for the Besterman Lecture 2018
Digital Rhetoric, literae humaniores and Leibniz's dream
13 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Willard McCarty, King's College, London, gives the 2017 Besterman lecture. If the digital computer is to be a 'machine for doing thinking' in the arts...
Adam Smith, Poverty and Famine
02 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
A highly critical account of Adam Smith's views on famine, which fail to recognize that you can have starvation in the midst of plenty.
Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert
23 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Short podcast looking at Enlightenment philosopher Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert, housed in the Bodleian Library.
Rousseau: Archive et Invention.
23 Nov 2012
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Nathalie Ferrand (École Normale Supérieure Paris) gives the 2012 Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation. This lecture is in French.