CultPhil post-doc, Carlotta Moro, will be giving a talk in conversation with Prof Davide Messina on ‘Early Modern Feminism: Women Writers, Translation and the Canon in Italy’ at the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh as part of the ‘Week of the Italian Language in the World’, on Oct 16th, at 6pm.
Carlotta Moro, CultPhil post-doc, is giving a paper entitled ‘Contesting Patriarchy in Early Modern Sicily: Camilla Bonfiglio and Her Male Interlocutors’ at the Early Modern Mansplaining: Male-Authored Histories of Women conference at Palazzo Alberti, Florence, organised by the Medici Archive Project, 25-26 September, 2025.
Cat Evans, CultPhil post-doc, gave a paper entitled “‘The Chicken in the Egg Lies Still’: Hester Pulter’s animal mothers” at the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment conference, Galway, Ireland, August 12-14th, 2025.
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.