Voltaire Foundation Research Showcase: Presentations by postdoctoral researchers from Voltaire Foundation and Turin Humanities Programme (Fondazione 1563)

14/11/2025 - 14/11/2025, 9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Friday 14 November 2025

Presentations by postdoctoral researchers from Voltaire Foundation and Turin Humanities Programme (Fondazione 1563).

Salon, Maison Française d’Oxford

Discussion chaired by Antoine Lilti (Collège de France).

Chair: Antoine Lilti

9.00 VF postdocs presentations

Olivier Higgins, ‘After Frederick: German Idealism and the Echo of Enlightenment’

Jonas Thorup Thomsen, ‘A Media Revolution in 18th-Century Denmark: The Emergence of Rural Lending Libraries’

10-10.15 coffee

10.15 Turin Humanities Programme postdocs presentations

Caroline Gleason-Mercier, ‘Becoming a Fugitive Wife: Julie Candeille’s Catherine, ou La belle fermière‘

Sam Harrison, ‘Can the cannibal speak? Reasonable and unreasonable people-eating in the French Enlightenment’

Morgan Golf-French, ‘Who were the Peguinen? Race, confusion, and career opportunities at eighteenth-century Göttingen’

11.45-12 coffee

12-1pm

Nicholas Cronk, Gillian Pink, Alison Oliver, Zoe Screti

1-1.45pm lunch

2.15-3pm Taylor Institution, Voltaire Room – organised by Nick Hearn

Exhibition of items acquired with William Barber Fund