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Initiatives Underway

  • Major Pilot Event

    On April 21-23, 2010, the Project convened for The Re:Enlightenment Exchange: Futures for Knowledge and Its Institutions at the New York Public Library.

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  • Financial Literacy 2010 Study Group

    The Financial Literacy Group aims to dissect, analyze, and comment on the diverse forms of writing (professional, popular and literary) that created the conventional wisdom challenged by the current financial crisis.

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  • New Approaches to Publishing

    In addition to using established modes of publication, the Project is exploring new approaches to the dissemination of knowledge and research results. We have been cooperating with Open Book Publishers  . . .

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  • Books

    The Project is generating scholarly publication, starting with This Is Enlightenment, edited by Clifford Siskin and William Warner, and published by the University of Chicago Press (2010). . . .

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  • Collaborative Research Seminar

    The Project is collaborating with NYU’s Anglophone Project and France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in a two-year Research Seminar (2009-2011) . . .

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  • Working Research Group

    The Project was awarded a NYU Humanities Initiative Working Research Group grant that connects scholars from the NYU Faculty of Arts and Science with colleagues . . .

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  • Speakers Series

    The Project organizes a speakers series that has included Peter De Bolla on “The Architecture of Concepts: Parsing Human Rights" and William St Clair on "The Parthenon in the Age of Enlightenment."

  • Participation in Venues for Scholarly and Public Exchange

    Members of the Project have been forwarding its goals at a wide range of conferences. The 2009 Modern Language Association Convention in Philadelphia featured a division session on “This Is Enlightenment," as did the 2010
    Conference in New Mexico of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. . . .

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News and Events

  • Plenary Talk: "If This Is Enlightenment, then What is Romanticism?" by Clifford Siskin and William Warner, August 19, 2010
  • @ NYPL - The Gutenberg Bible, ongoing
  • @ The Frick - From Mansion to Museum: The Frick Collection Celebrates Seventy-Five Years, June 22, 2010 - September 5, 2010
  • @ University of Oslo - This Is Enlightenment, September 9, 2010

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