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enlightenment
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Writing Rights in 1789 | Keith M Baker, professor of Early Modern European History at Stanford University, explains a Digital Humanities project mapping the debates on the constituent articles of the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. | Keith M Baker | 23 Nov 2018 | |
| 2 | Creative Commons | Methusela and the unity of mankind: late Renaissance and early Enlightenment conceptions of time | Martin van Gelderen delivers a talk for the Besterman Lecture 2018 | Martin van Gelderen | 25 Jul 2018 |
| 3 | The Lure of Paris: The Republic of Letters and Eighteenth-Century Speed-Dating | Final talk of the Besterman Enlightenment Workshop 2017, Laurence Brockliss explains the popularity of Paris as a place to visit in the 18th century and explores the opportunities for and obstacles to making contacts in the European Republic of Letters. | Laurence Brockliss | 22 Mar 2017 | |
| 4 | Creative Commons | Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress | Professor Ritchie Robertson FBA, Taylor Professor of German at the University of Oxford, will speak on ‘Writing the Enlightenment: Reflections on Work in Progress’. | Ritchie Robertson | 18 Nov 2016 |
| 5 | The Pragmatic Enlightenment and Other Enlightenments | Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts University, Boston) discusses his book 'The Pragmatic Enlightenment' | Dennis Rasmussen | 14 Oct 2015 | |
| 6 | Light in Germany: Scenes from an Unknown Enlightenment | A discussion of Jim Reed's book | Jim Reed, Joachim Whaley, Kevin Hilliard, Ritchie Robertson | 12 May 2015 | |
| 7 | ‘True Enlightenment can be both achieved and beneficial.’ The German Enlightenment and its Interpretation | Professor Joachim Whaley, Professor of German History and Thought, Cambridge, gives the 2014 Besterman Lecture, hosted by The Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment and the TORCH Enlightenment Programme. | Joachim Whaley, Richie Robertson | 20 Nov 2014 | |
| 8 | Creative Commons | Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert | Short podcast looking at Enlightenment philosopher Rousseau's copy of La Lettre à d'Alembert, housed in the Bodleian Library. | Nathalie Ferrand | 23 Nov 2012 |
| 9 | Creative Commons | Rousseau: Archive et Invention. | Professor Nathalie Ferrand (École Normale Supérieure Paris) gives the 2012 Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation. This lecture is in French. | Nathalie Ferrand | 23 Nov 2012 |
| 10 | Creative Commons | Freemasons versus Jesuits: Conspiracy Theories in Enlightenment Germany | Inaugural lecture by Ritchie Robertson as Taylor Professor of the German Language and Literature. | Ritchie Robertson | 29 May 2012 |