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Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe University of Exeter, https://culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/

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1680 Planisphaerium Coeleste by Frederik de Wit, map of the astrological figures, showing them as e.g. a crab, a lion.

Next Thursday at 4 pm UK we'll be continuing our lecture series with a talk from Natacha Fabrri on "Claiming the Heavens: Women, Astronomy, and Intellectual Authority in Seventeenth-Century Europe" - and there's still time to sign up for this and our other forthcoming talks! #womenshistory

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There's still time to sign up for our next online lecture this Thursday at 4 pm UK/ 11 am EST: Prof Cecilia Rosengren (University of Gothenburg) ”Women as agents of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Gothenburg”

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There's still time to sign up for our next online lecture this Thursday at 4 pm UK/ 11 am EST: Prof Cecilia Rosengren (University of Gothenburg) ”Women as agents of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Gothenburg”

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#womeninphilosophy #womenshistory

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Book cover: Science in the Salon: Atoms and Animals in Madeleine De Scudery's Conversations (1680-92) An Essay and Translation Helena Taylor The cover shows a print of a late seventeenth century gallery, with courtiers admiring art works. Book cover and blurb: Science in the Salon: Atoms and Animals in Madeleine de Scudery's "Conversations" (1680-92). An Essay and translation by Helena Taylor

An exciting new translation of de Scudéry from CultPhil PI Helena Taylor @openbookpublish.bsky.social!

Science in the Salon: Atoms and Animals in Madeleine de Scudéry’s 'Conversations' (1680–92) An Essay and Translation

Available open access here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...

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So looking forward to the first instalment of our 2026 lecture series this week

Thurs 29th Jan 4pm - Natalia Zorilla Sirlin “Origin Stories of gender inequality in Early Modern Feminist Philosophy”

There’s still time to sign up for, please do join us: forms.office.com/e/8V5WjGG3hN

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Call for Papers

Very excited for this conference next summer!
#CFP (deadline 28 Feb) Clio Reframed: Women Writing History, 1500-1750 at Oxford 18-19 June 2026. #earlymodern 🗃️ clioreframed.hcommons.org/call-for-pap...

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Antognazza Lecture 2025: Professor Sandrine Bergès, 'ASTELL, MARRIAGE AND CHATTEL SLAVERY'' YouTube video by British Society for the History of Philosophy

Wonderful to have the opportunity to catch up on @sandrineankara.bsky.social lecture for @thebshp.bsky.social on Mary Astell, the language of freedom, & chattel slavery

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRy1...

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Recordings available of the Society's 2025 Anniversary Lecture, with Professor Jane Ohlmeyer - RHS On 21 November, the Society was delighted to welcome Professor Jane Ohlmeyer to give the 2025 RHS Anniversary Lecture: ‘Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland’. Recordings of Jan...

Recordings are now available of Jane Ohlmeyer's excellent RHS Anniversary Lecture: 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland' bit.ly/3MdjXEn

Jane's lecture was given on 21 November and is available to watch or listen to again. #Skystorians 1/2

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Talks will be kicking off Thursday 29 February with Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin on "Origin stories of Gender Inequality in Early Modern Feminist Philosophy"

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A front cover of a book with title and subtitle in white text over a detail of a still life painting of fruit by Fede Galizia.

New book announcement!

A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the C17th & Beyond
Bryn Critz Schockmel with contributions by Catherine Powell-Warren, Joaneath Spicer & Eve Straussman-Pflanzer

To order, email melissa.montgomery@hydecollection.org

#newbooksaboutwomenartists

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Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World Lecture Series 2026 Cultures of Philosophy, University of Exeter 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 Thursday 12 February 4 pm UK | 5 pm Sweden Cecelia Rosenberg (University of Gothenburg) Women as Agents of the Enlightenment in 18th-century Gothenburg Thursday 19 March 4 pm UK | 5 pm Italy Natacha Fabbri (University of Siena | Galileo Museum) Claiming the Heavens: Women, Astronomy, and Intellectual Authority in Seventeenth-Century Europe Thursday 16 April 9 am UK | 6 pm Sydney Dalia Nassar (University of Sydney) Diotima’s Daughters: Women Philosophers on Love, Beauty, Goodness and Truth in the Early Romantic Period Thursday 30 April 4 pm UK & Ireland Derval Conroy (University College Dublin) Constructing a Philosophy of Celibacy: Gabrielle Suchon's Le Célibat Volontaire ou la Vie Sans Engagement (1700) Thursday 14 May 4.30 pm UK |11.30 am ET Ann Pang-White (University of Scranton) Two Early Modern Women Thinkers of China: Empress Renxiaowen and Madame Liu Thursday 18 June 9 am UK | 5 pm South Korea Hwayeong Wang (Duke Kunshan University) Women Writing Confucian Philosophy in Late Joseon Korea: Im Yunjidang and Gang Jeongildang This work 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're so excited to announce our new lecture series for 2026 "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World"

Please do join us online for an incredible selection of talks by leading scholars working on #womeninphilosophy

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Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

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CNA Office Hours: Applying for Fellowships Want to apply for fellowships that support the study of Netherlandish art but not sure where to begin? Wondering how to make your personal statement stand out, or how to ask for recommendation…

For grad students and recent PhD's: The Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is hosting a virtual “office hours” on the topic of applying for fellowships on Friday, November 7, 2025, 10:30–11:30 am (EST)

Sign up at www.mfa.org/event/cna-of...

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Workshop this afternoon!

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✨Excitingly my monograph now has a cover!✨ It’s out in November @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, which means there will finally be a whole book on Hortense Mancini’s salon, the eager few will be relieved to know. It comes with an academic price tag £££ but will be Open Access. Library orders welcome 🙏

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Early Modern Feminism: Women Writers, Translation and the Canon in Italy | XXV Week of Italian Language in the World The 25th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World (Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo) will be held from 13 to 19 October 2025, with the theme “Italophony: Language Beyond Borde...

In #Edinburgh on Thursday evening? @carlottamoro.bsky.social will be speaking about Early Modern Feminism at the Italian Institute of Culture - drawing on her work editing and translating women writing about male tyrant and female excellence

iicedimburgo.esteri.it/en/gli_event...

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HOPOS 2026 Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea

International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026

NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️

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6 months ago

My book launch is next week! Please do come along 😊

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Conference: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home l...

REGISTRATION OPEN!

Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.

Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade

#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

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9 months ago
a green exhibition poster with pink elephants that reads TREASURED in big gold letters

My first co-curated exhibit opens this evening @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social!

TREASURED is a treasures exhibition that questions the very notion. It's also the first at the #Bodleian with around 50% non-Western material.

Those in #Oxford can visit starting tomorrow, 6 June. And it's free!

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Snippets from the terrific talks and conversations we’ve been having at Cultures of Philosophy in Exeter the past few days on women and natural philosophy - featuring a cameo from Saint-Évremond in a paper not by me! Bravo @cultphil.bsky.social

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Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Keynote: Prof. Andrew Hopper and Dr. Ismini Pells.

Next Friday! CEMS Colloquium on #earlymodern war narratives. Join us for a day of panels.

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Events – Cultures of Philosophy

Do take a look at the program on our website to get a taste of the exciting work creating new narratives about how women shaped philosophy in the early modern world culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/category/eve...

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Conference poster: Women Writing Philosophy in Early modern Europe - Spaces and Exchanges 2-4 June, knightly building

We’re so looking forward to bringing together some incredible scholars in Exeter next week for our conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early modern Europe - Spaces and Exchanges

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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].

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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Hugely looking forward to the Cultures of Philosophy conference in June - on early modern women's engagement with natural philosophy, and all things salons, academies, and networks! 💫

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If you wish to attend, we encourage you to fill this form as soon as possible to secure your place: shorturl.at/7gHi9 Please note that spaces are very limited, and participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Participation is in-person only.

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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].

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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Call for Papers: History panel on women, strategy, and diplomatic practice in the early modern world for the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 Conference in Portland. Call for Papers: History roundtable on methodological approaches to locating diplomatic women in the archive and examining documents to identify and examine their agency, contributions, and challenges. For the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 conference in Portland.

Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns

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