Legacies of Enlightenment – Postdoctoral Symposium
21/06/2023 - 22/06/2023
POSTDOC SYMPOSIUM
Turin Humanities Programme (Turin) – Voltaire Foundation (Oxford)
Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo
At New College, Oxford, 21 – 22 June 2023
Organisers: Nicholas Cronk & Nino Luraghi
With the generous support of the New College Ludwig Fund for the Humanities
and additional support from the Voltaire Foundation and the Turin Humanities Programme (Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo)
A pdf version of the programme can be found under this link.
To register, please fill in the short Google form here: https://forms.gle/qtFemkqfVVT1Gsgy9
If you would like to watch the proceedings, please email Birgit Mikus for a join link and passcode to the sessions.
PROGRAMME
Wednesday 21 June
Session 1 (McGregor-Matthews Room, New College, access from the main quad)
9.00-9.15
Welcome and coffee
Chair : Céline Spector
9.15-10.05
ARIANE FICHTL (THP Junior Fellow)
Mental metempsychosis and abolitionist biopolitics as a way to immediate emancipation
10.05-10.55
BRYNNE MCBRYDE (THP Junior Fellow)
Physiognomy, expertise and the limits of universal Enlightenment
coffee
11.10-12.00
TOM PYE (THP Junior Fellow)
The Scottish Enlightenment and the politics of land reform
12.00-12.50
GRAHAM CLURE (THP Junior Fellow)
The grotesque monarchism of Rousseau’s “Considerations on Poland”
lunch
Session 2 (McGregor-Matthews Room, New College)
Chair: Michael Drolet
2.00-2.50
GIUSEPPE GRIECO (City, University of London)
Vico, the Neapolitan Enlightenment, and the foundations of international law
2.50-3.40
GUGLIELMO GABBIADINI (Researcher at the University of Bologna)
Wilhelm von Humboldt and the Basques. literary anthropology and human rights in the age of the Holy Alliance
coffee
4.00-4.50
VALENTINA ALTOPIEDI (Researcher at the University of Torino)
“Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights”: Olympe de Gouges, thinker of the late Enlightenment
4.50-5.40
ALESSANDRO MAURINI (University of Torino)
Race: The lost legacy of the Declaration of Independence’s Enlightenment project
5.45-6.15
NINO LURAGHI (University of Oxford)
Identity and freedom before the rights of man
6.30
Drinks in the Warden’s Garden
7.15
Conference dinner at New College
Thursday 22 June
Session 3 (McGregor-Matthews Room, New College)
9.00
coffee
Chair: Gillian Pink
9.15-10.05
JEAN-ALEXANDRE PERRAS (Marie Curie Research Fellow, European University
Institute, Florence)
Defining utility at the Berlin “Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres”
10.05-10.55
ROMAN KUHN (Newton International Fellow, British Academy, VF)
Fugitive legacies: crisis, ephemerality and reuses of Enlightenment poetry
coffee
11.10-12.00
ZOE SCRETI (Astra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for Manuscript Studies, VF)
Presenting the past, creating a legacy: the role of catalogues in perpetuating Enlightenment legacies
12.00-12.50
RUGGERO SCIUTO (Leverhulme Fellow, Modern Languages Faculty, Oxford)
From utopia to reality and back: “Le Tombeau du despotisme ministériel” and d’Holbach’s “Morale universelle”
lunch
2.30
Visit to Bodleian Library: details to follow
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