Three Salons on the Enlightenment

The idea of a Salon was developed in 17th and 18th Century France. Typically they were created and organised by the aristocratic ladies, to hear the ideas of the great thinkers of the time, to debate their meaning, for entertainment, because they believed ideas were important and because they wanted to know where the world was going, and of course to flirt. The Salon was central to the intellectual ferment of the end of 18th Century. They hosted the great thinkers of the time; Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire. They were the scenes of excitement, outrage, and the shock of the new in a time when ‘the new’ still seemed possible. They signalled a time when the future was still an unwritten book.The East Midlands Salon is organised in homage to those days which only came to end with the eruption of the French Revolution and the arrival of a new constellation: the age of revolutions. Many historians think that Salons helped develop the ideas that ushered in that age.The East Midlands Salon, like those that currently exist in Birmingham Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, New York, Zurich and Lisbon, is inspired by the Institute of Ideas.

East Midlands Salon

The East Midlands Salon is committed to promoting the Enlightenment values of reason, truth and human progress. In 2019 we begin with two Salons on the British Enlightenment with a focus on Derby and the Midlands. Our third Salon will be a contemporary discussion of the possibility of humans colonising space. 
Tickets are available on the door at £2 (a donation towards costs) or you can book all three for £5 here on Eventbrite.
Thursday 31 January - Professor Paul Elliott  discussed the Derby Philosophers and the British Enlightenment; 
Thursday 28 February -Professor Jonathan Powers will talk about the leading thinkers and scientists of the Enlightenment in the Midlands; 
Thursday 18 April - in the tradition of Enlightenment speculation, scientist and astronomer Dr Martin Braddock will probe 'The next step: Space Exploration and Colonisation.'
Further details and readings will soon be available on the East Midland Salon <A HREF="http://www.eastmidlandssalon.org.uk/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">web site</A>.

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