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Carlotta Moro

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Extending New Narratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · last mo.

And Philosophy Created Woman/And Woman Created Philosophy: Disciplinary Intersections around Gender Equality in Early Modernity is back! Here's the 2026-2027 calendar of events. Save the dates!

Poster: And Philosophy Created Woman/And Woman Created Philosophy: Disciplinary Intersections around Gender Equality in Early Modernity

International and interdisciplinary online seminar organized by Eleonora Alfano (McGill and Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin

Registration: tinyurl.com/philofemme

September 30 2026
10h-12h (Montréal, UTC-4), 11h-13h (Buenos Aires, UTC-3), 16h-18h (Paris, UTC+2)
Marie-Frédérique PELLEGRIN (Université Grenoble-Alpes), Marie de Gournay (1565-1645) est-elle une philosophe? Réflexions sur le statut d'une écrivaine de l'Ancien Régime.

October 28 2026
11h-13h (Montréal, UTC-4), 12h-14h (Buenos Aires, UTC-3), 16h-18h (Paris, UTC+1)
Luce DELIRE (University of Cologne), Spinoza's politics of seduction.
Magalli FOURGNAUD (Université de Bordeaux), La réécriture comme voie d'émancipation chez Fanny de Beauharnais.

November 25 2026
10h-12h (Montréal, UTC-5), 12h-14h (Buenos Aires, UTC-3), 15h-17h (Edimbourg, UTC+0), 16h-18h (Paris, UTC+1), 17h-19h (Helsinki, UTC+2)
Oberto MARRAMA (University of Oulu), Margaret Cavendish and seventeenth-century panpsychism.
Séverine GENIEYS-KIRK (University of Edinburgh), L'acte mémoriel dans les Journées amusantes (1722-1731) de Madeleine-Angélique de Gomez: au croisement de la philosophie morale et de la philosophie de l'histoire.

December 16 2026 10h-12h (Montréal, UTC-5), 12h 14h (Buenos Aires, UTC-3), 16h-18h (Paris, UTC+1)
Monika MALINOWSKA (Uniwersytet Warszawski-Instytut Romanistyki), Et la misogynie créa la parodie: Poulain de la Barre et l'art d'être mal lu.
Rotraud VON KULESSA (Universität Augsburg & Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia), Les femmes des 'anti-Lumières et le protoféminisme.

January 27 2027
10h-12h (Montréal & Tallahassee, UTC-5), 12h-14h (Buenos Aires, UTC-3), 16h-18h (Pans, UTC+1)
Ludmilla LORRAIN (Université Côte d'Azur-CRHI/IdEx), De la nécessité de publiciser les relations familiales selon Flora Tristan.
Cathy MCCLIVE (Florida State University), Gender, meclical practice and public health …

EMoDiR @emodir.bsky.social · 3mo ago

#CfP 📢 Interdisciplinary symposium: "Arcangela Tarabotti in Context: Authority, Community, and Resistance in Early Modern Eureope", Johns Hopkins University. 🗓️ 16–17 April 2027 | 🌎Baltimore (USA) ⏰ Deadline: 1 August 2026 🔗 www.rsa.org/news/730095/... #EarlyModern #HistoryofWomen #AngelaTarabotti

Lily Freeman-Jones @freemanjones.bsky.social · 4mo ago

***job klaxon!*** Postdoctoral Research Associate on ERC-funded project TextDiveGlobal at QMUL 12 month post from 1 September 2026 Apply by 28 July: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSG130/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate - 'TextDiveGlobal' at Queen Mary University of London

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Gender & History Journal @genderandhistory.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New article by Stephen Bowd, drawing on letters by dozens of women in northern Italy around the 1st phase of the Italian Wars (1494–1530). It shows how military activity, female agency and dynastic identity were closely allied in their letters. #EarlyModern 🗃️ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/S9XNMD...

A Family Affair: War, Agency and Female Epistolary Networks in Renaissance Italy

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Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 4mo ago

It’s here! Publication day for my @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social @catholicismsem.bsky.social book. Click here for disgruntled ministers, canny bookwomen, and a world of Catholic print that was more complex and multiconfessional than you could have ever imagined. boydellandbrewer.com/book/print-a...

Print and Catholic Persistence in the Dutch Golden Age

Reveals the hidden world of ephemeral Catholic print in the so-called Dutch Golden Age, reconstructing lost works to discover the lived experience of a religious community marginalised within a multi-...

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Sandrine Berges @sandrineankara.bsky.social · 6mo ago

CfP: Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy

Cultures of Philosophy Pedagogy Workshop, November 11th and 12th 2026 The Cultures of Philosophy team at the University of Exeter invites proposals for the online workshop Teaching Early Modern Women’s Writing Between Literature and Philosophy: Pedagogy and Practice. The aim of this workshop is to share case studies and best practice regarding the teaching of early modern women’s philosophical writing in HE, across languages, disciplines and national settings.

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Less that a month until our conference The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe (4-5th June, University of Exeter) Attendance is free but limited: forms.office.com/e/shHr43XuHf

The Figure of The Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe Conference, Knightley Building, University of Exeter, 4-5 June 2026

Society for Renaissance Studies @srsrensoc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

"Why Machiavelli Matters Now". Join Stephen Bowd and Alexander Lee, in conversation with Brian Maxson, as they celebrate the publication their new book with friends, colleagues and well-wishers. 18 June 2026, 12:00EDT/17:00BST/18:00CEST #SRSlyGood #Skystorians rensoc.org.uk/announcement...

Book Launch to the left of book cover.

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"Why Machiavelli Matters Now"
Stephen Bowd & Alexander Lee
Join the authors in conversation with Brian Maxson
18 June 2026, 12:00EDT/17:00BST/18:00CET
Register: https: www.crowdcast.io/c/machiavelli

CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

So excited to announce our next conference: The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe (4-5th June) Please do join us in Exeter to hear our fantastic speakers explore this fascinating topic Attendance is free but very limited forms.office.com/e/shHr43XuHf #womenshist #philsky

The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe
Knightley Building University of Exeter 4-5 June 2026

DAY 1 June 4th

From 9: Coffee and Registration
9.20 Welcome
9.30-11: Panel 1 Satire and Praise

Jacqueline Broad (Monash), Mary Astell on Ridicule and Honour 
Philippe Chométy (Université Toulouse – Jean Jaurès), Beauty, Virtue and Knowledge: Figures of Learned Women in Seventeenth-Century Poetry
Sandra Plastina (Università della Calabria), Self-Representation in Urania by Giulia Bigolina  
11-11.30: Tea/Coffee Break
11.30-1: Panel 2 Self-presentation and Genre
Lieke van Deinsen (KU Leuven) and Karen Hollewand (University of Groningen), Rethinking the femme savante: the case of Isabella de Moerloose (1661-after 1712)
Anik Waldow (University of Sydney), Marie de Gournay on Intellectual Courage, Female Solidarity, and Social Change 
Sandrine Bergès (University of York), To philosophize is to act: Anne Dacier’s translation of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations.

1-2: Lunch

2-3: Roundtable 1: Self-presentation and Genre:
Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University), Lieke van Deinsen and Karen Hollewand
3-3.30: Tea/Coffee Break
3.30-5: Roundtable 2: What’s in a Name? Terminology and Identity
Catherine Evans, Felicity Henderson, Carlotta Moro, Helena Taylor and Floris Verhaart (University of Exeter)
7pm: Conference dinner: Côte Brasserie, Cathedral Green, Exeter
DAY 2 June 5th
9.30-11.30 PANEL 3: Disciplines, Traditions & Institutions Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (University of Copenhagen), Bright, Bold, and Pious - Writing a philosophical treatise under oppressive conditions: Birgitte Thott and her treatise “On the path to a happy life” (c. 1659) 
Floris Verhaart (University of Exeter), Between Human and Divine Knowledge: The Reception of Anna Maria van Schurman among Lutheran German Scholars
Ruth Boeker (University College Dublin), “Spaces for Learning outside Institutional Settings: Insights from the Cockburn-Arbuthnot Correspondence” 
Emilio Maria De Tommaso (Università IUL), Same Species, Different Ideas: Why Women Are Better than Men According to Lucrezia Marinella

11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12-1 Primary Sources (Further) Discussion: all conference participants
1-2 Lunch
2-3 Publication Plans and Close

Carlotta Moro @carlottamoro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

📢 The @cultphil.bsky.social team is thrilled to announce that our podcast, The Impossible Salon, hosted by Helene von Tabouillot, is now available on our website, YouTube Music, Amazon, Spotify, and Apple. culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/podcasts/

Podcasts – Cultures of Philosophy

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Open Book Publishers @openbookpublish.bsky.social · 9mo ago

NEW TITLE | Science in the Salon: Atoms and Animals in Madeleine de Scudéry’s 'Conversations' (1680–92): An Essay and Translation by Helena Taylor Read freely online, or purchase a copy: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #OAbooks #OpenAccess

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

Madeleine de Scudéry (1607–1701) was a celebrated seventeenth-century novelist and essayist, yet her engagement with natural philosophy and the sciences has been largely overlooked. This volume presents the first English translation of 'The Story of Two Chameleons' (1688) and situates it within Scudéry’s broader scientific and philosophical writing. Beyond this seminal text, the book explores her reflections on atomism, natural history, and epistemology, revealing her critical engagement with cutting-edge theories of her time, including a challenge to the Cartesian ‘animal-machine’ hypothesis.

With a critical introduction and extensive commentary, this open access edition makes Scudéry’s work widely available to scholars and students in early modern studies, French literature, philosophy, animal studies, and the environmental humanities. It is a timely contribution to ongoing efforts to recover women’s intellectual history and reassess the intersections of literature, science, and philosophy in early modern Europe.

Carlotta Moro @carlottamoro.bsky.social · last yr.

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!

Carlotta Moro @carlottamoro.bsky.social · last yr.

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

Extending New Narratives @ennhistphil.bsky.social · last yr.

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

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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

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Carlotta Moro @carlottamoro.bsky.social · last yr.

Feeling incredibly inspired by the brilliant speakers and wide range of transnational, interdisciplinary talks at our conference on early modern women writing natural philosophy!

CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

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].

Carlotta Moro @carlottamoro.bsky.social · 2y ago

Rebecca Walker’s brilliant comparative study of Sapienza and Ferrante is hot off the press! Looking forward to delving into my copy.

CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 2y ago

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”

Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal @emwjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Since so many of us are at #RenSa25 it's a good time to give this a little boost: go.bsky.app/Cqqbspt

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

Abraham Bosse, The Wise Virgins, print. Shows 5 women siting around a home altar, discussing books held int heir hands .

CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

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Kate Allan @katefallan.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

Call for Papers: Women’s Scientific Literatures

See details of the call for papers for the upcoming conference Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy - deadline 3rd March 2025.

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Deborah Howard @deborahhoward.bsky.social · 2y ago

Women, Spaces, Freedom - forthcoming conference in Vicenza 21-23 May 25. Please spread the word! www.palladiomuseum.org/en/courses/w...

Elise Watson @ewatson.bsky.social · 2y ago

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...

Gender and the Book Trades

"Gender and the Book Trades" published on 01 Jan 2025 by Brill.

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 2y ago

Research fellow @carlottamoro.bsky.social is in the beautiful Palermo state archives this week tracking down networks of learned Sicilian women #womenshistory #earlymodern

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.

CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 2y ago

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

CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · 2y ago

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?

Statue of a woman at the bottom of steps with a neoclassical building in the background. A very sunny autumn day.