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.
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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.
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
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
We look forward to welcoming you for the second lecture in our online series Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World, this Thursday 12 February at 4 pm UK / 5 pm Sweden / 11 am EST.
We will be welcoming Cecilia Rosengren, Professor in History of Ideas and Science at the University of Gothenburg: ‘Women as agents of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Gothenburg‘
The first talk in our online seminar series on Women Writing Knowledge in the Early Modern World will be this Thursday: 29 January 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin (McGill University | Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Origin Stories of Gender Inequality in early modern Feminist Philosophy. Please email cultphil@exeter.ac.uk for more information or sign up here: https://forms.office.com/e/8V5WjGG3hN.
The CultPhil team is delighted to announce our online lecture series for 2026, ‘Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World’.
Please see below for more information.