Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford

Voltaire Foundation• Publisher / research centre

in the Humanities Division of the University of Oxford

Our main publications:

• Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment

• Complete works of Voltaire / Œuvres complètes de Voltaire

Digital projects, for example:

• TOUT VOLTAIRE http://artfl-project.uchicago.edu/tout-voltaire

Voltaire Foundation

• founded by Theodore Besterman

• passed to Oxford in 1976

• endowment of £2 million

• self-funding

• Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment -- since 1955

• Œuvres complètes de Voltaire -- since 1968• aim to complete 220 print volumes in 50 years, by 2018

Voltaire Foundation

the challenges now:

PRINT PUBLICATION SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL

RESEARCH CENTRE MADE PERMANENT

Voltaire Foundation needs• Finishing the Voltaire print edition £1,500,000

• Digital edition of Voltaire £1,500,000 • Endow one DPhil student £750,000 • Endow one postdoctoral fellow £1,000,000 • Research fund £500,000

£5,000,000