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In The Footsteps of Marie-Antoinette

In The Footsteps Of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 3

Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University Of Oxford, heads for Paris in her pursuit of Marie-Antoinette.
In The Footsteps of Marie-Antoinette

In The Footsteps Of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 2

Catriona Seth, visits Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire, built in the 19th century by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, a great collector of 18th century decorative arts, especially objects associated with Marie-Antoinette.
In The Footsteps of Marie-Antoinette

In the Footsteps of Marie-Antoinette - Episode 1

Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford, visits the Wallace Collection in London on the trail of objects that once belonged to Marie-Antoinette.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

The 2020 Besterman Lecture: Who were the French Revolutionaries?

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Robespierre and the Politicians' Terror

The TORCH Crisis, Extremes, and Apocalypse network hosted a talk on 'Robespierre and the Politicians’ Terror' with Marisa Linton (Kingston University).
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Great men and fallen heroes

Jessica Goodman explores how the meaning of ‘hero’ shifted in France in the late eighteenth-century in this TORCH Bite-Size talk at the Ashmolean Museum LiveFriday.
Voltaire Foundation
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The French Revolutionary Terror: Proto-Totalitarian or Public Sphere?

Professor Colin Jones CBE (Queen Mary University of London) delivers the annual Besterman Lecture for the Voltaire Foundation at Wolfson College, Oxford
Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge

The French Revolution in a Global Perspective

A lecture by the Humanitas Visiting Professor in Historiography, Lynn Hunt.
Judgement and Justice: The Life and Diary of William Godwin

Godwin and his historical context

A discussion of the historical period in which William Godwin was writing and the social and political pressures that he was working under at the time.
African Studies Centre

Islam, the ‘Originaires’ and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal

Mamadou Diouf from the University of Columbia gives the 2009 African Studies Annual Lecture on the influence of Islam in Post-Colonial Africa, in particular, the public spaces of the former French Colonial City of St Louis in Senegal.
Isaiah Berlin

Freedom and Its Betrayal: 2 – Jean Jacques Rousseau (1952)

Berlin lectures on Rousseau's 'On the Social Contract' and discusses his anti-intellectualism, his idealism of Nature, and the worryingly authoritarian implications of his philosophy. Originally broadcast on the BBC Third Programme in 1952.

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