We have several eighteenth-century letters-related events coming up this term in Oxford:
The TORCH Enlightenment Correspondence Network will be hosting Pierre Musitelli (Italian, ENS, Paris) from 12.30-14.00 on Tuesday, 16 February (Fifth Week), and Fiona Stafford (English, Oxford) from 12.30-14.00 on Tuesday, 1 March (Seventh Week). Both events will be held at Ertegun House, 37A St Giles’, Oxford. More details and more events to follow!
The Besterman Enlightenment Workshop will also host some letters-related seminars this term. The Workshop meets on Mondays at 5 p.m. at the Voltaire Foundation (99 Banbury Road, Oxford). All welcome!
Monday, 25 January (Second Week), Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (Oxford), ‘The Play of Publicity in the Letters of Catherine the Great’
Monday, 22 February (Sixth Week), Tessa Whitehouse (Queen Mary University of London), ‘Friendly Enlightenment: Creativity and Textual Production among the Young’
For a full programme of Besterman Enlightenment Workshop seminars for this term, please see the TORCH Enlightenment Programme/Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment website.
Enlightenment Correspondences 