Carlotta Moro is giving a paper entitled “Lucrezia Marinella as a Philosopher and a Theologian” on July 9th at the Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference, 9th-11th July 2026 in Dublin.
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Floris Verhaart, CultPhil Post-doc, gave an invited lecture entitled ‘Editing Her Out, Editing Her In: Gender and Early Modern Letters’ at the Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, July 1 2026.
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CultPhil post-doc, Floris Verhaart, is giving a paper entitled, ‘“Pure Fantasy” Written by a
“Shrewd Witch”: The Memoir of Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer between
Fiction, History, and Religious Polemic’ at the conference, Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750, at the University of Oxford, 18-19 June, 2026.
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CultPhil post-doc, Cat Evans, gave a paper Health Medicine and Bodies Early Career Researcher Network Conference at the University of Exeter, June 3rd, entitled ‘Philosophising the maternal body in early modern English literature’.
We are greatly looking forward to seeing you on Thursday 18th June at 9 am BST for the final talk in our series Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World.
We will be hearing from Hwa Yeong Wang (Duke Kunshan University) about “Women Writing Confucian Philosophy in Late Joseon Korea: Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang”. See here for more information!
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The CultPhil team will all be presenting papers at the Scientiae: Disciplines of Knowing in the Early Modern World Conference in Nantes, France, June 9th-12th 2026. More info here!
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Helena Taylor, CultPhil PI, has been awarded the 2025 Society for French Studies R. Gapper Book Prize for her book, Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (OUP, 2024).
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Helena Taylor is giving a paper, ‘Marie de Gournay on the Origins of Gender Inequality’ at the Theorizing Gender Inequality: Renaissance and Early Modern Perspectives workshop at Ca’ Forscari University, Venice, May 21-22, 2026.
We are delighted to announce our call for papers for our online workshop, ‘Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice‘, Nov 11th-12th 2026. Please see below for more details.
We look forward to seeing you later this week at the penultimate lecture of our series, Women Writing Philosophy in the Early Modern World, on Thursday 14th May 4.30 pm BST. We will be hearing from Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton): Two Early Modern Women Thinkers of China: Empress Renxiaowen and Madame Liu .