Il programma del Congresso comprenderà keynote lectures tenute da:
Sébastien Charles (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières - CA)
Antonio De Francesco (Università degli Studi di Milano - IT): la versione inglese e italiana della conferenza sono disponibili qui (versione in italiano) e qui (versione in inglese)
Sutapa Dutta (Gargi College, University of Delhi - IN)
Chantal Grell (Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - FR)
Wen Jin (East China Normal University, Shanghai - CN)
Merit Laine (Uppsala University, Sweden - SE)
Halima Ouanada (Université de Tunis El Manar - TN)
Pierre Saint-Amand (Yale University - US)
Carlos Spoerhase (Università di Bielefeld - DE)
Hiroshi Watanabe (University of Tokyo - JP)
Tavola rotonda: Daniel Roche (1935-2023), historien de l'Europe du XVIIIe siècle
Convenor : Brigitte Marin
Antoine Lilti, L’énigme des Lumières
Maria Pia Donato, Les académies: l'Europe des Lumières par les pratiques
Marcello Verga, Pour une histoire de l'Europe
Brigitte Marin, Cultures urbaines, sociétés en mouvement
Tavola rotonda: Meanings & Messages: ISECS and the growth of 'Eighteenth-century studies'
Convenor : Penelope J. Corfield
Gregory S. Brown, Intellectual and Institutional Origins of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 1930 - 1970 : A Transnational History
Daniel Fulda, How activist should enlightenment studies be? Historical examples from three centuries
Al Coppola, Enlightenolatry and the Promotion of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the United States