Carlotta Moro, CultPhil post-doc, is giving a paper entitled “Presi ardita la penna, alta regina’: Camilla Bonfiglio’s Libro di lodi delle donne e della crudeltà degli uomini Between Prayer and Polemic’ at the conference on Literary Devotions: Italy, c. 1200–1550 at Trinity College, Cambridge, 19-20th September, 2025.
CultPhil postdoc, Carlotta Moro, is giving a paper entitled ‘Ai margini della querelle des femmes: Il Libro di lodi delle donne e della crudeltà degli uomini (c. 1620) di Camilla Bonfiglio’ at the conference, Egemonie e margini nella letteratura italiana: XXVIII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione degli Italianisti, in Genoa, 11-13 September.
Carlotta Moro, CultPhil postdoc, has written a ‘schema’ for Lucrezia Marinella on the New Historia website. The New Historia is a digital platform dedicated to feminist historical recovery. The project challenges the silences, biases, and exclusions of traditional historical narratives through editorials and Schemas – condensed capsules that collect the details we know about female figures across time and geography. Read it here!
Carlotta Moro, CultPhil postdoc, has written a ‘schema’ for Lucrezia Marinella for The New Historia. The New Historia is a digital platform dedicated to feminist historical recovery. The project challenges the silences, biases, and exclusions of traditional historical narratives through editorials and Schemas – condensed capsules that collect the details we know about female figures across time and geography. Read it here!
Helena Taylor gave a paper at the annual Society for French Studies Conference at Bristol, July 2nd, 2025, entitled ‘Figuring philosophers in seventeenth-century France: practices, epistemologies, identities’.
Helena Taylor and Catherine Evans are giving papers at the conference, Women’s Scientific Literatures: the Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy, at Anglia Ruskin University, 26-27 June, 2025. Catherine’s paper is entitled “She rolls her unctuous embryo east and west”: Hester Pulter’s “creaturely poetics” and the limits of the maternal body”; and Helena’s keynote is ‘Atoms at Leisure in Early Modern France’. See here: https://scientificpoetry.org/events/womens-scientific-literatures-poetry-and-poetics-early-modern-natural-philosophy-0
Helena Taylor is giving a paper ‘Marie de Gournay et l’argent’ at the study day ‘Le sexe du savoir’ at Paris Nanterre, May 23rd, 2025
The conference programme is now available for Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, 2-4 June, 2025, University of Exeter. More info and sign up below.
Catherine Evans, CultPhil postdoc, gave a paper entitled, ‘”Her Prety Globe-like Nest in Sunder Split”: Animals and Motherhood in early modern England’, at the British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference on Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy, in Cambridge, 3-5 April 2025.
Helena Taylor, CultPhil PI, gave an invited paper at the NOTCOM project conference entitled ‘Natural Philosophy in French Periodicals: forms, principles, communication’, in Paris 12-14th March 2025.
You can hear her NOTCOM podcast on early modern women philosophers in France here.
Catherine Evans, CultPhil postdoc, will be giving a paper on Hester Pulter at the 2025 Shakespeare Association of America in Boston 19-22 March, in the seminar on ‘Ecofeminist Approaches to Shakespeare and His Contemporaries’, organised by Aurélie Griffin, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle and Claire Hansen, Australian National University (10 am, 20th March).