Avi Lifschitz

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Avi Lifschitz

Avi Lifschitz

@Diderotesque

Historian @OxfordHistory, @MagdalenOxford, @VoltaireOxford & @OxfordCIH. Hovering between the 18th century and the 21st. Tweeting in personal capacity.

Oxford, Berlin, London. Beigetreten Mart 2014
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Avi Lifschitz
Avi Lifschitz@Diderotesque·
Enlightened Absolutism, social contract, the ruler as ‘the first servant of the state’, critiques of Christianity and kingship by divine grace: all for less in the new paperback edition of Frederick the Great’s Philosophical Writings @PrincetonUPress. press.princeton.edu/books/paperbac…
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins@daniel_dsj2110·
Looks like a great job at Cambridge: University Assistant Professor in Political Theory: "we are especially interested in international political theory, or historically informed research on anti-colonial and post-colonial political thought": jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS180/uni…
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Barnaby Taylor
Barnaby Taylor@miserabiliter·
Job: Regius Professorship of Greek, here at Oxford
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Intellectual History Review
Intellectual History Review@IHRjournal·
[🆕WINNER OF THE 2025 CHARLES SCHMITT PRIZE 🔓] Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College), “When sinologists were geologists: Chinese chronology in early modern England and the heterodox Chinese studies of Robert Hooke and John Beaumont” IHR (2026). doi.org/10.1080/174969….
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Voltaire Foundation
Voltaire Foundation@VoltaireOxford·
How universalist was Enlightenment thought? In our 2025 Besterman Lecture, Antoine Lilti (Collège de France) discusses 'The three languages of universalism: thinking globally in the Enlightenment’. Thursday 13 Nov, 5pm @magdalenoxford: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/besterma…
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Voltaire Foundation
Voltaire Foundation@VoltaireOxford·
Don’t miss the new programme of our Enlightenment Workshop: research presentations, book talks, and seminar papers on intellectual history and literacy culture in the long 18thC! voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/research-…
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Voltaire Foundation
Voltaire Foundation@VoltaireOxford·
📣📣📣 Opportunity: Director of the Voltaire Foundation 📣📣📣 We are seeking a Director to lead the Voltaire Foundation, in succession of Prof. Nicholas Cronk, and warmly invite applications. voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/oppo…
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Ere Nokkala
Ere Nokkala@EreNokkala·
Our new book "J.H.G von Justi: Philosoph - Kameralist - Publizist" has been published in De Gruyter's Werkprofile series. The book has chapters in German and in English and they are openly available here doi.org/10.1515/978311… Join us tomorrow for our book launch in Jyväskylä!👇
DEPE ERC Project@DEPE_ERC

Join us in person tomorrow in Jyväskylä (15:15-17:45, room H105) for our book launch event of « Johann H. G. von Giusti (1717-71): Philosoph, Kameralist, Publizist » with a distinguished panel of 8 speakers from Munich, Halle, Uppsala, Helsinki & JKL👇 jyu.fi/en/events/book…

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Ross Moncrieff
Ross Moncrieff@RossMoncrieff·
A wonderful start to this year's Global Intellectual History seminar yesterday, with a paper by Yu Sakai. Do check out our lineup for the rest of the term!
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St Andrews History
St Andrews History@StAndrewsHist·
We have got seminars this week on English Roman Catholic Writers, Frederick the Great (@Diderotesque ), and, well, absolutely nothing!
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University of Oxford
University of Oxford@UniofOxford·
The Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre, a new world-class centre for the Arts and @OxHumanities will open to the academic community on 13 October 2025 🏛️✨ A public cultural programme hosted by the Centre will begin in April 2026. 🧵 [1/6]
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Nicholas Guyatt
Nicholas Guyatt@NicholasGuyatt·
In Our Time couldn't happen without Melvyn and the brilliant production team, but the show's secret sauce is the academics who anchor every episode - almost all from UK universities. An amazing testament to a sector which successive governments seem determined to destroy
BBC Press Office@bbcpress

Having presented well over 1,000 episodes of the much-loved BBC Radio 4 series, Melvyn Bragg has made the decision to step down from In Our Time following the series which aired earlier this year Read more ➡️ bbc.in/3K0J2RE

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Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History@OxfordCIH·
Don’t miss our DPhil student Harun Ali's thorough introduction to a posthumous essay by the great J. G. A. Pocock @HEIjournal! #abstract" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
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Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History@OxfordCIH·
Still time to sign up for this conference on Natural Law taking place on Monday 29 September. Follow the link below!
S. F. M. Head@MrHistoryHead

September is here and in a few weeks the Nat Law and Christian Communities colloquium is taking place at Christ Church, Oxford. See link to the event page and registration below, we have an excellent line up of speakers! There is still time to sign up!!! intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/natural-…

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Oxford Centre for Intellectual History
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History@OxfordCIH·
📣 New Publication Jacob Donald Chatterjee, ''Bernard Mandeville's Critique of Epicurus and the ''easie Divines'' of the Church of England, 1705-1732.'' Intellectual History Review, Online First View (2025) doi.org/10.1080/174969…
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