@carlottamoro.bsky.social
Postdoc @UniofExeter Researching women’s writing, feminism & philosophy in early modern Italy
It was an honour to celebrate the 25th Week of Italian Language in the World at the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh, with a talk on early modern feminism, the Italian canon and translation. Special thanks to Prof Davide Messina for the conversation!
21.10.2025 14:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations!!! I can’t wait to read it.
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The most stimulating week of the summer has come to an end! Very grateful for the opportunity to attend the superbly organised Summer School in Women’s History of Philosophy in Copenhagen
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Workshop poster containing the following text: MORE THAN PEN PALS INTEGRATING HISTORICAL WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS INTO SYSTEMATIC PHILOSOPHY TEACHING SATELLITE WORKSHOP AT GAP.12 CONGRESS SEPTEMBER 12, UNIVERSITY DÜSSELDORF HYBRID WORKSHOP | ONLINE ACCESS SEE BELOW How can we systematically integrate texts by historical women philosophers into university teaching? This question will be addressed in a full-day workshop as part of the GAP.12 Congress in Düsseldorf. The program includes: Presentation of information materials from the BMFTR joint project "Bildersturm. Making women in philosophy visible and establishing new role models" Presentation of a Reader with new translations of early modern women philosophers Presentation of a Special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on 'How To Teach Historical Women Philosophers'. Keynotes: Lisa Shapiro (McGill University) and Frederique Janssen-Lauret (University of Manchester) 3 images here: the first contains black and white pictures of three male philosophers, in the second, the three pictures are being shuffled and mixed with others, which are colourful, in the third image, there are faces of many philosophers, men and women, all colourful. INFO AND REGISTRATION FOR ONLINE ACCESS: WWW.UNI-GOETTINGEN/BILDERSTURM ALL CONFERENCE INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND HERE: WWW.GAP12.DE The poster contains 4 logos at the bottom: BILDERSTURM - RUHR UNIVERSITÄT - UNIVERSITÄT BIELEFELD - Bundesministerium für Forschung, Technologie und Raumfahrt
Great event coming up in Germany: a full-day workshop as part of the GAP.12 Congress in Düsseldorf, with keynotes by Lisa Shapiro (McGill) and Frederique Janssen-Lauret (Manchester)
More info: gap12.de
Feeling incredibly inspired by the brilliant speakers and wide range of transnational, interdisciplinary talks at our conference on early modern women writing natural philosophy!
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Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges University of Exeter, Knightley Building, 2-4 June MONDAY 2nd JUNE From 9.00 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION 9.25 WELCOME – CultPhil Team 9.30-11 ACADEMIES & NETWORKS Chair: Felicity Henderson (Exeter) Annalisa Nicholson (KCL), Mediating Knowledge Across Borders: Hortense Mancini, the Mazarin Salon, and the Royal Society Carlotta Moro (Exeter), Women, Natural Philosophy, and the Italian Academies in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparative Study of the Ricovrati and the Arcadia Aron Ouwerkerk (Utrecht), Latin: Language of Knowledge? A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Latinity across the Early Modern Low Countries and France Coffee break 11.15-12.45 COMMUNITIES & READERS Chair: Carlotta Moro (Exeter) Meredith Ray (Delaware), Gender, Natural Philosophy, and the Oral Landscape in Early Modern Italy Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck), Publishing an Astronomical Book in Seventeenth-Century Silesia: Maria Cunitz’ Urania Propitia between Self-Translation, Intellectual Networks and Male Power Kate Allan (Anglia Ruskin), “One rich usefull masse”: Katherine Philips and her Contemporary Scientific Readers Lunch 1.45-3.45 MEDICINE & BODIES Chair: Meredith Ray (Delaware) Giada Merighi (Pisa), «Io lo vorei curare con questa dicozione» («I would like to treat you with this decoction»). ‘Medical’ advice in family letters from a female hand. The example of Claudia Grumelli Salis Úna Faller (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon), “...to make a woemans milk come & increase, take the Green Leaves of fennell”: Manuscript recipe books’ epistemologies and herbal remedies for managing women’s health concerns, 1600-1697 Madeleine Sheahan (Yale), Mastering Time: Preservation, Longevity, and Timelessness Ilaria Ferrara (Ferrara), From prejudices about women to gender stereotypes: new forms of female agency starting from Dorothea Christiane Erxleben's "Rigorous Investigation"
4-5.00 CAVENDISH ROUNDTABLE: Esther Kearney (Nottingham), Sophie White (York), Evan Thomas (Otterbein), Chair: Sarah Hutton (York) TUESDAY 3rd JUNE 9.00-10.30 GENRES Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin), '"I am all a storm": Chaos and Disordered Matter in the Writings of Jane Cavendish and Frances Feilding Sajed Chowdhury (Utrecht), Psychology, Alchemy and the Woman Philosopher-Poet: Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681) Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway), ‘So short do humours last’: Elizabeth Cary on Anger Management in The Tragedy of Mariam Coffee 10.45-12.45 ECOFEMINISM & NONHUMAN ANIMALS Eric Jorink (Leiden & Huygens Insitute, Amsterdam), Embroidery, Needles and Microscopes. Seventeenth-century Women and the Representation of Insects Manuel Fasko (Basel), Anne Conway on the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals (NHA) Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Verse: Ecofeminist Poetry in Early Modern England Catherine Evans (Exeter), “She rolls her unctuous embryo east and west”: Hester Pulter’s “creaturely poetics” and the Limits of the Maternal Body Lunch 1.40-2.40 ROUNDTABLE 2: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY & POETICS Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL); Meredith Ray (Delaware); Helena Taylor (Exeter), Chair: Cassie Gorman (ARU) Comfort Break 2.45-4.15 WOMEN AND DESCARTES Sarah Hutton (York), Women and Cartesian natural philosophy. From Margaret Cavendish to Émilie du Châtelet Michaela Manson (Monash), The Natural Philosophy of Mary Astell Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), Mary Astell Reads Descartes Tea 4.30-6.00 MANUSCRIPTS & EPISTEMOLOGIES Emma Bartel (Université Paris Cité), Looking for Women’s Engagement with Natural Philosophy in Marginal Manuscript Genres Jil Muller (Paderborn), Oliva Sabuco on Natural Philosophy Pedro Pricladnitzky (Paderborn), The Manuscript of Institutions de Physique: Émilie du Châtelet’s Development of Methodological Eclecticism CONFERENCE DINNER 7pm Côte Brasserie
![WED 4th JUNE
9.30-11 METHODS
Chair: Eric Jorink (Leiden)
Kirsten Walsh (Exeter), Action at a Distance—Reflections on the History of Women in Science
Peter West (Northeastern University London), “A Scientific Association”: New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy
Marina Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Tratado Philosóphico-poético escótico by María de Camporredondo as an example of Hispanic Women Thinker from the Modern Age
Coffee
11.15-12.45 RECEPTION, AUTHORSHIP, and POPULARISATION
Chair: Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen)
Arianne Margolin (Independent), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique
Aretina Bellizzi (Ghent), From a New Readership to a New Authorship. Vernacular Plato and the Female Audience in Early Modern Italy
Floris Verhaart (Exeter), The Doctor, the Theologian, and the Translator: Medicine and Divine Providence in the Writings of Johan van Beverwijck, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer
CLOSE AND LUNCH
This conference is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:peyr652ptzk3m4gf3dgs4gmk/bafkreihuop4aupg2mp34d6apimeredvytwqabfll73i3g5ynem2eahujju@jpeg)
WED 4th JUNE 9.30-11 METHODS Chair: Eric Jorink (Leiden) Kirsten Walsh (Exeter), Action at a Distance—Reflections on the History of Women in Science Peter West (Northeastern University London), “A Scientific Association”: New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy Marina Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Tratado Philosóphico-poético escótico by María de Camporredondo as an example of Hispanic Women Thinker from the Modern Age Coffee 11.15-12.45 RECEPTION, AUTHORSHIP, and POPULARISATION Chair: Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen) Arianne Margolin (Independent), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique Aretina Bellizzi (Ghent), From a New Readership to a New Authorship. Vernacular Plato and the Female Audience in Early Modern Italy Floris Verhaart (Exeter), The Doctor, the Theologian, and the Translator: Medicine and Divine Providence in the Writings of Johan van Beverwijck, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer CLOSE AND LUNCH This conference is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].
We are delighted to announce the program for our summer conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, to be held in Exeter 2-4 June
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Rebecca Walker’s brilliant comparative study of Sapienza and Ferrante is hot off the press! Looking forward to delving into my copy.
31.03.2025 15:15 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Winged statue in Boston square
Thank you to everyone who came to our #RSA_2025 roundtable!
We feel newly invigorated by the discussion & by the advice from esteemed colleagues to “drive the car like we stole it”
Since so many of us are at #RenSa25 it's a good time to give this a little boost: go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt
20.03.2025 13:28 — 👍 52 🔁 30 💬 6 📌 2
Abraham Bosse, The Wise Virgins, print. Shows 5 women siting around a home altar, discussing books held int heir hands .
The CultPhil team are preparing for Boston! We'd love to see you at our #RSA2025 roundtable "Women Writing Philosophy in 17th century Europe" on Friday afternoon
There'll be chameleons, divine wetnurses, recently uncovered manuscripts, and arguments against tyranny
rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee...
Thank you so much, Lily!
06.03.2025 16:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Next week @carlottamoro.bsky.social & @crevans.bsky.social will speak at the Center for Translating Cultures seminar - Pregnant with Thought: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern England and Italy
Please join us if you’re in Exeter! Wed 26 Feb, 15.30
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
Call for Conference Papers
Thrilled to share the CfP for Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of #EarlyModern Natural Philosophy
26–27th June 2025, ARU, Cambridge
Deadline for submissions: Monday 3rd March 2025.
Please share widely!
scientificpoetry.org/news/2025/ca...
Women, Spaces, Freedom - forthcoming conference in Vicenza 21-23 May 25. Please spread the word!
www.palladiomuseum.org/en/courses/w...
It’s out! Today is publication day for Gender and the Book Trades, from the conference of the same name in June 2021. Huge thanks to everyone who contributed and read drafts of this behemoth's xxii + 492 pages. We are so proud of it and hope you enjoy. brill.com/edcollbook/t...
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Painted ceiling of a vaulted colonnade. The ceiling mind shows religious men in brown cloaks. On the back wall is a mural of a tree covered in people, at its foot stands a naked man.
An Italian courtyard on a sunny day. The walls are whitewashed and there is a tower at the far end.
Research fellow @carlottamoro.bsky.social is in the beautiful Palermo state archives this week tracking down networks of learned Sicilian women #womenshistory #earlymodern
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Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges (Exeter, 2-4 June 25)
Deadline: 29 Nov
Please see our website for our exciting #cfp! We've had some incredible submissions so far culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2024/08/05/p...
#skystorians #philosophy #histsci
Statue of a woman at the bottom of steps with a neoclassical building in the background. A very sunny autumn day.
We’ve gathered on the sunny Exeter campus today for our first workshop on methodologies with collaborators joining from Australia and Denmark.
On the agenda today: can mysticism be philosophy? Was it a good thing to be a “savant” in 17th cent France? Why is Cavendish so popular now?
