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Title	Description	People	Date	Captions
The Poetics of Text Reuse	The Poetics of Text Reuse: Digital Intertextuality in the Eighteenth-century Archive	Glenn Roe	10 May, 2024
Hegel's Enlightenment	Professor Richard Bourke delivers the 2023 Annual Besterman Lecture.	Richard Bourke	14 November, 2023
Rule-Mania in Enlightenment Paris	Professor Lorraine Daston delivers the 2019 Besterman Lecture	Lorraine Daston	21 November, 2019
Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture - Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism	Dan Edelstein from Stanford University gives the Inaugural George Rousseau Lecture, the convenor is Avi Lifschitz, Magdalen College.	Dan Edelstein, Avi Lifschitz	1 May, 2019
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 November, 2018
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 July, 2018
Digital Rhetoric, literae humaniores and Leibniz's dream	Willard McCarty, King's College, London, gives the 2017 Besterman lecture.	Willard McCarty	13 December, 2017
Adam Smith, Poverty and Famine	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.	David Wootton	2 June, 2017
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 March, 2017
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 November, 2016
The French Revolutionary Terror: Proto-Totalitarian or Public Sphere?	Professor Colin Jones CBE (Queen Mary University of London) delivers the annual Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation at Wolfson College, Oxford	Colin Jones	20 November, 2015
‘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 November, 2014
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 November, 2012
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 November, 2012