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 .
We are greatly looking forward to seeing you on Thursday 30th April at 4 pm BST for the next talk in our series Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World.
We will be hearing from Professor Derval Conroy (UCD) “Constructing a Philosophy of Celibacy: Gabrielle Suchon’s Le Célibat volontaire ou la vie sans engagement (1700)”
Please email cultphil@exeter.ac.uk for more information or sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/8V5WjGG3hN.
We are delighted to announce the programme for our conference ‘The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe’, June 4-5, Knightley Building, University of Exeter. See programme below. Attendance is free, but places are limited and offered on a first-come, first-served basis: sign up by May 16 here.
CultPhil postdoc, Floris Verhaart, is giving an online paper entitled ‘Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer: Memoirist, Translator, and Religious Polemicist’ at the online seminar, Female Voices, Media and Modes of Communication in Philosophy and Theology, on Tues 28th April at 3.30 UK time, organised by the Saint Joseph University of Beirut, the University of Lorraine and Paderborn University.
We’re delighted to continue our online seminar series with Dalia Nassar (Sydney University), ‘Diotima’s Daughters: Women Philosophers on Love Beauty, Goodness and Truth in the Early Romantic Period’, Thursday 16th April, 9 am UK / 6pm Sydney
Carlotta Moro is giving an invited paper entitled ‘Unruly Bodies, Proto-Feminism, and Holy Desires: Women Writing Sexual Dissidence in Early Modern Italy’ at the workshop on ‘Inventing, Expressing, Experiencing Sexuality: Critical Approaches Beyond the Dichotomy of Norm and Transgression’, April 16-17th at LMU Munich.
We are thrilled to announce our podcast, The Impossible Salon, hosted by Helene von Tabouillot, featuring three episodes (on Camilla Bonfiglio, Marie de Gournay and the early Royal Society), available on this website and YouTube Music; Amazon; Spotify; and Apple.
We’re delighted to continue our online seminar series with Natacha Fabbri (University of Siena / Galileo Museum), ‘Claiming the Heavens: Women, Astronomy, and Intellectual Authority in Seventeenth-Century Europe,’ Thursday 19 February, 4 pm UK / 5 pm Italy