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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