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‘
PUBLICATION NEWS: Helena Taylor’s translation of a selection of Madeleine de Scudéry’s Conversations, complete with a critical introduction and notes, has just been published open access with Open Book Publishers.
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.
Helena Taylor is giving a paper at the Paris Early Modern Seminar (organised by l’USN and Sorbonne Université) entitled ‘Practising Philosophy in the Seventeenth-Century French Salon’ on Thurs 22nd Jan, 2026; she will also be presenting at the Sphinx project study day on ‘Women and Scientific Practice in Early Modern England: Genres and Discourses’, Fri 23rd Jan, at the Sorbonne.
Helena Taylor is giving an invited presentation at KU Leuven’s workshop: ‘The Limits of Academia? Gender, Religion and the Production of Knowledge in the Early Modern Period’, a LECTIO Junior Initiative, on Dec 19th. She is in a panel on ‘Knowledge Actors: the Persona Behind the Academic’ and is presenting on the persona of the female intellectual. More info here.
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.
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.