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Damiano Bardelli

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historian, visiting fellow @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · intellectual history of the Enlightenment and beyond · work & poverty · sociability & cosmopolitanism · Switzerland<>Europe

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Au-delà de l'enfermement : repenser les réponses à la pauvreté au temps des Lumières Conférence de Damiano Bardelli, Voltaire Foundation, Université d'Oxford

Looking forward to being back at @unil.bsky.social, my alma mater, to present my ongoing research on Enlightenment reform projects of poor relief 👇

www.unil.ch/events/fr/17...

09.02.2026 09:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Opportunités de carrière : Maître·sse d'enseignement et de recherche 1 en Littérature française moderne (22638)

Ouverture d’un poste de MER en littérature française moderne à Lausanne : career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

02.02.2026 08:58 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Que dit Kant dans son texte "Qu'est-ce que les Lumières" ? : épisode du podcast Qu'est-ce que les Lumières ? AUDIO • Qu'est-ce que les Lumières ? , épisode : Que dit Kant dans son texte "Qu'est-ce que les Lumières" ? . Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez Avec philosophie, et découvrez nos...

📍Que dit Kant dans son texte "Qu'est-ce que les Lumières" ?📍, avec Antoine Lilti @college-de-france.fr @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr #GEHM ➡️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?2443
📻 @franceculture.fr, Émission "Avec philosophie"
🗓️ Lundi 26 janvier 2026
▶️ www.radiofrance.fr/francecultur...

28.01.2026 10:04 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Nous apprenons le décès de Catherine Duprat, titulaire de la chaire d'histoire de la Révolution française à la Sorbonne (Paris 1) et directrice de l'IHRF de 1994 à 1999, à la suite de Michel Vovelle.
Elle aura mené des travaux majeurs sur la philanthropie au siècle des Lumières et de la Révolution.

14.01.2026 11:38 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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📞AAC, PLUS QUE 10 JOURS ❗
📍A social question before the Social Question: Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century📍
👤org. par Damiano Bardelli, post-doctorant @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr @ox.ac.uk @voltaire.ox.ac.uk, visiting fellow
📅 Deadline : 31/12/2025
▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?10...

20.12.2025 20:52 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME: 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS - 2025 TURIN HUMANITIES PROGRAMME 6th CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – 2025 2026-2028 RESEARCH CYCLE The full call can be found here as pdf file. Terms and Conditions (pdf) Project Description (pdf) Flyer (pdf)…

For all postdocs and ECRs: don't miss out on this great opportunity with the Turin Humanities Programme!

voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/tu...

26.11.2025 11:15 👍 10 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1
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📌JE 📍Pauvreté et propriété au siècle des Lumières. Enjeux, défis, solutions📍
👤org. par Damiano Bardelli #FNS @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr
#GEHM ▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?9763
📅 3.11.2025, 9h-17h
🏨EHESS, Paris
▶️ crh.ehess.fr/index.php?10...

26.11.2025 00:24 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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📣 Dear colleagues and translation studies enthusiasts,

The CFP for the international conference 'Translations and Academies in the Eighteenth Century' I am organizing at IZEA @unihalle.bsky.social is officially open!

Please RT, circulate and get in touch if interested!

Full details below👇

19.11.2025 10:28 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Retour sur origines, et sous quelques arpents de neige❄️ Mercis Brian Cowan and Valérie Capdeville for gathering us in resplendent sociability at @mcgillu to work through our upcoming Oxford Handbook on the #Enlightenment and why it matters in our brave new world✨

13.11.2025 03:59 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Homepage | Radio and Newspapers Conference 2026 Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?

📅 Reminder: The call for papers for the @impresso.bsky.social "Radio and Newspapers" conference closes next Monday, November 10. We look forward to reading your proposals and welcoming you to Lausanne (@unil.bsky.social)!

CFP in English and French: impresso.github.io/radio-and-ne...

04.11.2025 10:43 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Switzerland and Poverty: Looking for the Enlightenment Origins of the Social Question The willingness to put an end to poverty is usually considered a novelty of the 19th century, but it was actually a major Enlightenment theme. This new project aims to investigate the continuities and...

So excited to be at @princeton.edu to present my book project on Switzerland and poverty!

If you are on campus and have a couple of hours to spare, drop in for the session of the Eighteenth Century Seminar in Dickinson Hall 211.

history.princeton.edu/news-events/...

28.10.2025 19:40 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Poverty and the Parish - Southern History Society Join us for a deep dive into the impact of poverty on Southern history at Poverty and the Parish - Southern History Society!

The Southern History Society is holding a conference at Winchest on 18 October, on 'Poverty and the Parish'. It looks great. Registration is here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poverty-an...

10.10.2025 09:31 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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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.bsky.social:
voltaire.ox.ac.uk/event/bester...

08.10.2025 09:31 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
Promotional graphic for the book Mexican Jesuits Write the History of the Americas: Reason, Rights and Revolution (1767–1824) by Luis Ramos. The book cover is shown on the right with a blue background and an illustration of a domed building and a large public gathering. On the left, a blue text box reads: ‘An examination of how three exiled Jesuits shaped the discourse of continental emancipation from Spain.’ Logos of Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, and the Voltaire Foundation appear at the bottom.

Promotional graphic for the book Mexican Jesuits Write the History of the Americas: Reason, Rights and Revolution (1767–1824) by Luis Ramos. The book cover is shown on the right with a blue background and an illustration of a domed building and a large public gathering. On the left, a blue text box reads: ‘An examination of how three exiled Jesuits shaped the discourse of continental emancipation from Spain.’ Logos of Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, and the Voltaire Foundation appear at the bottom.

New to the series | Mexican Jesuits write the history of the Americas by Luis Ramos. Find out more, and purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/MexicanJesuits #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

11.09.2025 13:03 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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Please join us tomorrow (September 22nd) at 6:30 pm BST for a British Museum Member's lecture featuring Dr. Ian Stewart discussing his new book, The Celts: A Modern History.
This online event is free for members. Learn more here: www.britishmuseum.org/events/membe...

21.09.2025 13:15 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Assistant Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

A real, honest to goodness, entry-level, permanent, academic job in Economic History! #Economic #history #ecr #academic

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT480/a...

20.09.2025 06:54 👍 29 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 1
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Imprimé !
Le numéro double bientôt disponible en librairie 📖

19.09.2025 12:18 👍 35 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
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Call for Papers: A social question before the Social Question - Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century University of Oxford 22-23 October 2026 A pdf file of this call can be found here. Precariousness and hardships were inescapable features of the life of the lower orders in early modern European…

Call for Papers!

A social question before the Social Question – Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century

Deadline 31 December 2025

voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...

09.09.2025 13:35 👍 16 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 1
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📞AAC 📍A social question before the Social Question: Addressing poverty in the long eighteenth century📍
📅Deadline 31.12.25
👤 Damiano Bardelli #UniversityofOxford @ehess.fr @crh.ehess.fr Voltaire Foundation visiting fellow
👛 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk, the Swiss National Science Foundation
▶️ bit.ly/46dBGlf

10.09.2025 18:11 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Do you work on the intellectual history of the long 18th century?

Have you an interest in subjects relating to poverty and inequalities?

Then you should definitely answer this call!

For more info, you can dm me ✉️

10.09.2025 13:07 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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The background of the image is blue. Centred at the top of the image is the Oxford University Voltaire logo which features the letters 'OV' in a white box, the letters are separated by a vertical line. Below this white text reads 'A new digital scholarly edition of the Complete Works of Voltaire'. To the left of the image is a black line drawing of Voltaire in profile on a light blue background.

We are delighted to announce that libraries can now request an early access free trial of Oxford University Voltaire, a new digital scholarly edition from the Voltaire Foundation.

Find out more > bit.ly/oxunivoltaire

@voltaire.ox.ac.uk

10.09.2025 10:15 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Cover: Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1854)

Cover: Histoire naturelle générale des règnes organiques (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, 1854)

'Pour une histoire du concept de #domestication (France 1830-1860)'

par Benedetta Piazzesi (@crh.ehess.fr)

Sur un concept au croisement de la #zoologie, de l' #anthropologie, des #utopies et des #empires.

👉 dx.doi.org/10.1017/ahss...

02.09.2025 07:59 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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Lancement de la collection "Cette année-là à Paris" le 2 octobre.
Heureux de vous proposer, pour premiers titres, un "1794" inattendu (sur le plus grand accident industriel de l'histoire de France) et un "1840" sur le retour des cendres de Napoléon.
À suivre, 1973, 1694, 1998...

31.07.2025 07:31 👍 85 🔁 31 💬 6 📌 3
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🌟Va paraître le 11.03.2025
📕"La Société Littéraire de Lausanne: sociabilité et débats de réforme"
✍️Damiano Bardelli, postdoctorant, @ehess-fr.bsky.social #FNS crh.ehess.fr/index.php?9763
▶️http://crh.ehess.fr/index.php?9990

16.02.2025 21:41 👍 7 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The image is a promotional graphic for the book La Société littéraire de Lausanne: Sociabilité et débats de réforme by Damiano Bardelli, published as part of the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. The book cover is displayed on the right side, featuring a historical illustration of a group of men gathered around a table in discussion, with a blue title banner. The left side of the image contains bilingual text in French and English:

"Une étude détaillée des pratiques et des débats de la Société littéraire de Lausanne."
"A detailed study of the practices and debates of the Lausanne Literary Society."

At the bottom, logos of Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, and the Voltaire Foundation. The background is a faded version of the illustration on the book cover.

The image is a promotional graphic for the book La Société littéraire de Lausanne: Sociabilité et débats de réforme by Damiano Bardelli, published as part of the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series. The book cover is displayed on the right side, featuring a historical illustration of a group of men gathered around a table in discussion, with a blue title banner. The left side of the image contains bilingual text in French and English: "Une étude détaillée des pratiques et des débats de la Société littéraire de Lausanne." "A detailed study of the practices and debates of the Lausanne Literary Society." At the bottom, logos of Liverpool University Press, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, and the Voltaire Foundation. The background is a faded version of the illustration on the book cover.

New to the series: 'La Société littéraire de Lausanne' by @damianobardelli.bsky.social is the first book on the Lausanne Literary Society. Purchase directly for 20% off RRP: bit.ly/La-Soci%C3%A... #EighteenthCentury 📖 @voltaire.ox.ac.uk

14.03.2025 12:19 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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Less than two weeks to go before the release of my book in the @oxunienl.bsky.social series! It was a great pleasure to finally browse a paper copy after the different rounds of revision on pdf 📖

More info about the book here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

28.02.2025 08:30 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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My first book will be out exactly in a month with @livunipress.bsky.social! So excited!

Is it gonna be any good? Well, they say to never judge a book by its cover... but that's all I have for you today ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For more details 👉 www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

11.02.2025 19:55 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by Guido Alfani

As Gods Among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by Guido Alfani

“In centuries past the very rich were tolerated with suspicion, because their wealth could be deployed – during a plague, a war or a financial crisis – to stabilise society. The modern super-rich are different…”

www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

@guidoalfani.bsky.social

05.02.2025 15:32 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 2
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The Enlightenment in history and polemics: John Robertson, Caroline Warman and Jacob Chatterjee discuss J.C.D. Clark‘s new book, with the author, at our Enlightenment Workshop on Wed. 12 February, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. All welcome! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/home/researc...

03.02.2025 12:32 👍 28 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 2
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If you happen to be in the Bay Area, don't miss my talk on my new project exploring Enlightenment thought on poverty!

When: February 6, 12-1 pm
Where: Stanford, Green Library, Tierney Room

(Don't be scared by the mugshot looking photo, I'm not a criminal.)

events.stanford.edu/event/damian...

30.01.2025 19:58 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0