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).
CultPhil postdocs Catherine Evans and Carlotta Moro presented their research at Exeter’s Centre for Translating Cultures seminar on Feb 26th 2025. Their session was entitled: Pregnant with Thought: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern England and Italy
The CultPhil Team will be presenting a Roundtable at the RSA Annual Conference, 20-22 March 2025 in Boston on ‘Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Questions, Methods, Approaches’. Fri 21st March, 2.30-4pm, Berkeley Room, Marriot Copley Place. This session is sponsored by The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender.
Helena Taylor, project PI, was awarded a co-honourable mention as joint runner-up in the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender book prize, for her 2024 monograph Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France (OUP). Helena was also interviewed about this book by Elspeth Currie for the New Books Network podcast (series: New Books in Early Modern History).
Helena Taylor, project PI, gave an invited paper, ‘Atoms and Animals in Madeleine de Scudéry’s Conversations (1680-92)’, at the University of Bristol’s French Research Seminar, October 2nd, 1pm. Continue reading for details.
Carlotta Moro, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, organised a conference on Moderata Fonte, at the University of St Andrews, Sept 23-24 2024, funded by Society for Italian Studies, the Italian Department at the University of St Andrews, the Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh, and NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò.
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Call for Papers for conference ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges.’ University of Exeter, 2-4 June 2025. Deadline Nov 29th 2024.
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