Name: Avi Lifschitz
Magdalen College

Events this person is speaking at:

Tuesday 11 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

‘From the “civic improvement” of the Jews to the separation of state and church: Languages of reform in Prussia, 1781-1799’
Date: 11 June 2019, 14:00 - 15:00 (Tuesday, 7th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College)
Venue: Wadham College, Parks Road OX1 3PN
Venue Details: LSK Scholars Room A (ground floor staircase 5)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Events this person is organising:

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Keeping characters: Charlotte Lennox and Oliver Goldsmith between 18th-century British theatre and the novel
Date: 14 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford)
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Keeping characters: Charlotte Lennox and Oliver Goldsmith between 18th-century British theatre and the novel
Date: 14 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 1st week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Ros Ballaster (Mansfield College, Oxford)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Images of Enlightenment: How visual representations contributed to the Enlightenment Agenda
Date: 21 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Daniel Fulda (Enlightenment Research Centre, Halle)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Terrorists, anarchists and republicans: The Genevans in Ireland
Date: 28 January 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Richard Whatmore (St. Andrews)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

The flight from humanism? Botanists, book learning and the Enlightenment of ginseng
Date: 4 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 4th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Emma Spary (Cambridge)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

The birth of the story-ballet: Dancing literature in the long 18th century
Date: 11 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Julia Bührle (New College, Oxford)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Writing the attentat on Louis XV, 5 January 1757
Date: 18 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 6th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Kate Tunstall (Worcester College, Oxford)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Editing Charles Burney’s letters from Paris to Montreal, 1814-2019
Date: 25 February 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 7th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Peter Sabor (McGill)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Locusts of love: Imagi(ni)ng insect reproduction in the 18th century
Date: 4 March 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 8th week, Hilary 2019)
Speaker : Dominik Hünniger (Lichtenberg-Kolleg, Göttingen)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

George Rousseau Lecture - Liberty as equality: Rousseau and Roman constitutionalism
Date: 29 April 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Dan Edelstein (Stanford)
Venue: Magdalen College, High Street OX1 4AU
Venue Details: Grove Auditorium
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

The Enlightenment and the northwest Pacific coast: Alexander Walker and José Mariano Moziño at Nootka Sound, 1785-1792
Date: 13 May 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 3rd week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Maxine Berg (Warwick)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Enlightenment and migration politics
Date: 20 May 2019, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Iwan-Michelangelo D’Aprile (Potsdam)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College), Nicholas Cronk (St Edmund Hall)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 27 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

The Virgin’s republican turn: personification of the body politic in Britain and Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries
Date: 27 April 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 1st week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Thomas Maissen (German Historical Institute, Paris)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Nicholas Cronk (Wolfson College), Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 4 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

D’Holbach: the many faces of an invisible author
Date: 4 May 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Ruggero Sciuto (Voltaire Foundation)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Nicholas Cronk (Wolfson College), Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

John Locke, treaties, and the Two Treatises of Government
Date: 18 May 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 4th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : David Armitage (Harvard/King’s College London)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Nicholas Cronk (Wolfson College), Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 1 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Radical translations and the transfer of Revolutionary culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)
Date: 1 June 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 6th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Sanja Perovic (King’s College London)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Nicholas Cronk (Wolfson College), Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 8 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

In the shadow of the public: Enlightenment and modernity
Date: 8 June 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 7th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Antoine Lilti (EHESS, Paris)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Nicholas Cronk (Wolfson College), Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Violence and the Enlightenment
Date: 15 June 2020, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 8th week, Trinity 2020)
Speaker : Philip Dwyer (University of Newcastle, Australia/All Souls College)
Venue: 99 Banbury Road (Voltaire Foundation), 99 Banbury Road OX2 6JX
Organisers: Nicholas Cronk (Wolfson College), Avi Lifschitz (Magdalen College)
Hosts: TBA