9.30-10:00 Registration / Welcome. Taylor Room, Sydney Jones Library. L69 3DA

10:00-11:00 Music and Arts Chair: TBC
Valeria Lucentini (Universität Bern), Music as the cement of Italian cultural identity. The influence of eighteenth-century travel literature on the self-awareness of Italians
Lucy Russell (University of Oxford), Uneasy Inspiration: Winckelmann and Italy’s eighteenth-century art historians

11:00 – COFFEE BREAK

11:25-12:25: Faraway spaces Chair: TBC
Yusuke Wakazawa (University of York), Moral Sentiments and Intercultural Exchange: Adam Smith on the European Encounter with the Rest of the Globe
Jean-Alexandre Perras (University of Oxford), Exploration and Description of the Island Frivola: a new axiological territory

LUNCH 12:25-13:15

13:15-14:45 Esteemed models Chair: Kate Marsh
Leticia Villamediana González (University of Warwick), Estafeta de Londres or Spanish Letters Concerning the English Nation
Catherine Gadsby-Mace (University of Sheffield), Charlotte Smith’s Desmond: bringing the revolution home
Nick Treuherz (University of Oxford), Changing minds? The evolution of Voltaire’s thought between the first editions of the Lettres philosophiques and publication of the Essai sur les moeurs et l’esprit des nations

14:45-15:30 Move to Rendall Building, SR10. COFFEE BREAK

15:30 Keynote Nicholas Cronk (University of Oxford), Voltaire’s Letters concerning the English Nation: are they about the English?

16:30 END. Dinner.