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gregorybrown.bsky.social
Social history of ideas, democratic political culture, knowledge transfer. Dept of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Voltaire Foundation, Unviersity of Oxford.
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Pretty much everything they say about immigrants today they said about your grandparents and great-grandparents. Support and defend immigrants today like they’re your own grandparents.

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Why were Newton's theories so controversial in 18th-century Berlin? Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet talks at our Enlightenment Workshop on the reception of Newton in the Berlin Academy: Wednesday 26 Feb, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

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Read our newest blog: VF Director Nicholas Cronk on 50 years of Voltaire Room at the @tayoxford.bsky.social ! #18C voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2025/01/28/t...

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Robespierre speaks: Colin Jones (QM London/U Chicago) on the revolutionary’s writings and political theory — Wednesday (29 Jan), 5pm, Magdalen College. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

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I’ve spent many a happy hour down in the Voltaire room at the @tayoxford.bsky.social - it’s a great place to work.

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I get the emails now, so it's probably past time to note that I have recently joined the advisory boards of: - Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America - Electronic Enlightenment And the editorial board of Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment

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Glad to announce that the manuscript of our volume Enlightenment at Court (ed. together with Thomas Biskup, Ben Marschke and Andreas Pecar) has been formally accepted by the editors of the excellent series Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment (OUSE). Thank you!

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#Parution : Bastien, Pascal (dir.). Policing and urban society in eighteenth-century Paris. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment), 2024. ISBN : 9781835536766.

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Daniella Gilboa hugging her parents for the first time in 477 days. Welcome home 💛

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UNlV Holocaust Remembrance Day observation and discussion of genocide education : bit.ly/UNLVHRD25

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A busy synagogue in Melbourne, Australian was firebombed last night, leaving two injured with burns. Jews worldwide are being violently targeted in our sacred spaces. If you’re still silent, you are the problem.

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@alonpinkas.bsky.social do you listen to the British podcast @originstorypodcast.bsky.social ? Their most recent 2 part episode is on the life and career of one Benjamin Netanyahu, and it's likely to be of great interest to you.

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We were delighted to welcome Ambassador Hélène Duchêne at the VF yesterday! uk.ambafrance.org/Ambassador-H...

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Mohammad Sinwar is having trouble cementing control over Hamas Gaza. According to Israeli sources he is far weaker in ever way than his brother. Hes only communicating through notes, slowing communications down and won’t leave the tunnels for fear of assassination.

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Not enough attention being paid to this: Trump “won not by picking up large numbers of new voters—it appears he lost voters—but because Democratic voters of color dropped out, perhaps reflecting the new voter suppression laws put into place since 2021.“ open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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Mike DeWine, Susan Collins, and Lisa Murkowski should all be taking a hard look in the mirror and asking themselves what role they want to play at this moment. They could pull the country and and the world back from the abyss.

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📣 Enlightenment Workshop | WEDS 13 NOVEMBER - 17.00 | @voltaireoxford.bsky.social | Roundtable on The End of Enlightenment (2023), by Richard Whatmore intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/event/roundt...

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How did 18th-century authors envisage 'the end of Enlightenment'? Roundtable on Richard Whatmore's book at our #EnlightenmentWorkshop TOMORROW Wednesday, 13 Nov, 5pm, Magdalen College, with the author and Oxford-based discussants: voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc... All welcome!

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Have a look at this exciting CfP our colleague at IZEA has circulated! #18C International conference to be held at IZEA, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle, 26-27 June 2025, organised by Jean-Alexandre Perras, Humboldt Research Fellow. Deadline 31 December 2024! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

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