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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · 2d

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...

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CREMS-York @crems-york.bsky.social · 2d

📣 Our next research seminar is today! @lenaliapi.bsky.social will be presenting a paper titled ‘Contrasting News and Controlling the Narrative: English and French News Reporting in the Wake of the 1696 Conspiracy’.
🗓️ 8 October, 5pm
📍 Yarbrugh Room, HG/15
More info: www.york.ac.uk/crems/events...

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infoclio.ch @infoclio.bsky.social · 2d

Le projet rousseauonline.ch d'infoclio.ch fera l'objet d'une présentation lors du colloque "Interfaces des Lumières" qui commence demain à Paris.

Programme: lettres.sorbonne-universite.fr/evenements/i...

#DigitalHumanities #digitalhistory #Rousseau #Lumières

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · 3d

The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive —or #RPPA— runs on the PRISMS #OpenScholarship platform, which provides the flexible infrastructure needed to share RPPA’s #knowledgebase of the global Romantic period:

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org
www.prisms.digital

#SemanticWeb #DH #Romanticism #GlobalRomanticism

Screenshot of the RPPA poem page of Gonçalves Dias' "Canção do Exílio"

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Tibor Blaho @btibor91.blaho.me · 16d

SAP SE and OpenAI announced the launch of OpenAI for Germany in 2026, a partnership bringing enterprise applications expertise and leading AI technology to Germany's public sector through SAP's subsidiary Delos Cloud running on Microsoft Azure technology

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 17d

#CFP 'Reframing the Enlightenment: intellectual and political disputes today'
Paris, 10-12 June 2026
Please send proposals to [email protected] by the 26 October
Link to the full CFP here: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️
@isecs-sieds.bsky.social

Call for Papers: Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today / Le défi des Lumières. Enjeux intellectuels et politiques - BSECS

Please see the file linked below for information on the ISECS coordinated conference Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today, to be held in Paris, 10-12 June 2026. Early...

www.bsecs.org.uk

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INCSA @incsa.bsky.social · 22d

The submission portal for our 2026 conference––Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación––is open💥

Join us in Washington, DC, July 21-24, 2026.

Proposals due October 31, 2025

For more details, visit: in-csa.com/2026-call-fo... or in-csa.com/2026-convoca...

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · 18d

somatic?

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University of Oxford @ox.ac.uk · 21d

NEW: Oxford will be the first UK university to give all staff and students free ChatGPT Edu access, from this academic year.

ChatGPT Edu is built for education, with enhanced privacy and security.

Graphic from the University of Oxford, featuring an image of a glowing, digital brain with the text: 'Generative AI at Oxford'. Highlights that ChatGPT Edu is now available to all staff and students. Includes a link for more information: ox.ac.uk/gen-ai

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · 23d

We have added Lady Mary Chudleigh's _Poems on several occasions_ (1703), Thomas D'Urfey's _New poems_ (1690), and facsimiles of works by John Gay and Mary Robinson to the #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive.

www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org

#C18th #poetry #DigitalHumanities #ECPA

Facsimile of the title-page of Mary Robinson's #Poems (1775)

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Sarah Wride @srwride.bsky.social · 26d

📣CFP: 'Byron and Identity', 2026 Newstead Abbey Byron Conference, deadline 1 January 2026
👉 www.thebyronsociety.com/call-for-pap...

#AcademicSky #Romanticism #LordByron

@bars.bsky.social
@byronsociety.bsky.social
@bsecs.bsky.social

Portrait of Lord Byron in a heavy gilded frame; it hangs from chains on a wall in Newstead Abbey, covered in cream and red, strapwork wallpaper

A view of Newstead Abbey from the far side of Eagle Pond

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · 27d

***CFP DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 22 SEPTEMBER 2025***
Due to some members experiencing issues with our submission site, we have decided to extend the #BSECS2026 #CFP deadline by a whole week.
Get scribbling #skystorians! #18thC 🗃️

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · 29d

Her Fugitive Verses (1840) are in #ECPA: www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/bjb18....

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Voltaire Foundation @voltaire.ox.ac.uk · Sep 9

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...

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…

voltaire.ox.ac.uk

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Sep 9

***The #CFP for the #BSECS2026 conference closes on the 15 September 2025***
Submissions are welcome on any aspect of #18thC history, culture, and literature, but particularly on our conference theme 'Big and Small'.
@pembrokeoxford.bsky.social, 7-9 January 2026
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS - Submit a Proposal

Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · Sep 8

The #RomanticPeriodPoetryArchive participates in the #SemanticWeb of literatures and literary studies. Its ontologically-underpinned database of contextuality contributes to the wider knowledge base on the global Romantic period.

www.romanticperiodpoetry.org

#GlobalRomanticism #DH #poetry #c19th

Screenshot of the Oceanic region of the Romantic-Period Poetry Archive (RPPA) map

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · Sep 4

This tells me a great deal. Thanks!

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Huber Digital @huber-digital.bsky.social · Sep 4

Are you teaching a rare MS or out of print book? Why not make a digital edition of it, or even better, ask your students to collaborate!

Our training course is free and the edition can be published #OA in the digital editions platform #PRISMS:

www.prisms.digital/training/

#DSE #DH #TEI #XML

Merton's Bestiary: A Digital Edition, edited and transcoded by Sebastian Dows-Miller. Merton College Library, Oxford, MS 249.

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · Sep 4

I'm a bit confused about how this worked in practice: so, had they decided to embrace #AI, did your colleague have a completely separate lesson plan prepared with all the AI readings, training exercises, etc. needed to make any meaningful sense of it, which she then didn't use?

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · Sep 3

We have added three pre-1800 editions of Thomas Gray's poems to the #ThomasGrayArchive:

www.thomasgray.org/about/histor...

The poems of Mr. Gray. London: Kearsley, 1786. [ESTC T42615]
Poems by Mr. Gray. [London: 1787?] [ESTC T490245]
Poems by Mr. Gray. Parma: Bodoni, 1793. [ESTC N21109]

#c18th

Facsimile of the title-page of The poems of Mr. Gray. London: Kearsley, 1786. [ESTC T42615]

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BSECS @bsecs.bsky.social · Sep 1

The deadline for submitting proposals for #BSECS2026 is only two weeks away. Get scribbling! #skystorians #18thC 🗃️
This year's theme is 'Big and Small', 7-9 January, Pembroke College, Oxford.
www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

BSECS - Submit a Proposal

Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.

www.bsecs.org.uk

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Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland @virtualtreasury.bsky.social · Aug 27

Tickets are now available for ‘Ireland and the American Revolution: 250th Anniversary Perspectives’. The conference will take place @tlrhub.bsky.social on the 9-10 October. For booking and more information use the link below.

www.eventbrite.ie/e/ireland-an...

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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · Aug 29

The copyright of academic books and articles generally belongs to the publisher, not to the author. If one of your books or articles is in LibGen, it is the publishing house that will get any damages, not you. You may get additional royalties, but they would be a tiny percentage of the damages.

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Alexander Huber @c18ah.bsky.social · Aug 28

#AI #LLMs "The assertion that LLMs cannot ever 'think' or 'know' because they lack some vital human spark is just [...] a spurious justification of our own uniqueness." - Summerfield, "These Strange New Minds"

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · Aug 25

“O’er a’ my labours sey your skill”
10 Sep, @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Free

@rfergussonpoet.bsky.social & @glasgowburns.bsky.social launch a new poetry collection where contemporary writers respond to #C18th poet Robert Fergusson’s work, in English, Gaelic, & Scots
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glasgow-bo...

Glasgow Book Launch and Celebration: 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill'

Join us in Glasgow for the launch of the new poetry collection 'O'er a' my labours sey your skill': Poetic Responses to Robert Fergusson.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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