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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

Catherine Evans, CultPhil postdoc, gave a paper entitled, ‘”Her Prety Globe-like Nest in Sunder Split”: Animals and Motherhood in early modern England’, at the British Society for the History of Philosophy Annual Conference on Animals and the Environment in the History of Philosophy, in Cambridge, 3-5 April 2025.

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, 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.