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Sandrine Berges@sandrineankara.bsky.social · yesterday

'Ô muse, dis moi l' homme aux mille tours' is the first line of the first translation of the Odyssey by a woman, Anne Dacier in 1716. She had previously translated the Iliad in 1699. And she got involved in a controversy, much like the current Nolan vs Wilson one #QuerelleD'Homer

New podcast episode: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html Mary Purcell talks with Anik Waldow (U. of Sydney) about the life & philosophy of Marie de Gournay (1565–1645), incl. Gournay’s views on alliances and human flourishing, reason and virtue, self-identity, and intellectual courage.

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New open-access book, by Alison Stone: Julia Wedgwood and the Law of Imperfect Antithesis 📖 Read it here: www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116... #Philosophy #VictorianStudies #HistoryOfPhilosophy #PhilSky #WomenInPhilosophy #OpenAccess

The Philosophy of Julia Wedgwood: Imperfect Antithesis

Combining philosophical analysis with innovative digital methods for recovering lost texts, this study restores Wedgwood as a major nineteenth-century philosopher and offers a compelling new lens on m...

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Summer downtime? Catch up with all of our podcast episodes: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html Also available on Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/4IjLIcT...

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Why Read Wollstonecraft Today I wrote a post about my book Why Read Wollstonecraft Today and it is published on the Cambridge University Press blog, Fifteen Eighty Four. You can read it here.

New podcast episode! 🎧 Emily Thomas (Durham) on Victoria Welby: motion, energy, space, time, and a philosophical salon at the heart of an extraordinary intellectual network. www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html #philsky #womenphilosophers

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Very exciting new resource by Project Vox for pre-college teachers and students. More lesson plans to come soon! Share widely, #philsky ! More info here: projectvox.org/announcement...

Pre-College Lesson Plans Now Available

We are excited to announce that Project Vox's first-ever pre-college lesson plans are now available. These lesson plans feature Project Vox philosophers who made important contributions to ethical, ...

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Extending New Narratives@ennhistphil.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Whose voices shape the stories we tell about philosophy? Project Vox’s pre-college lesson plans help students discover philosophers often left out of traditional narratives, while developing critical reading, inquiry, and analytical skills: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements #philsky

Whose voices shape the stories we tell about philosophy? Project Vox’s pre-college lesson plans help students discover philosophers often left out of traditional narratives, while developing critical reading, inquiry, and analytical skills: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements #philsky

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We are delighted to announce the launch of the first pre-college lesson plans from Project Vox . These new educational resources introduce students to philosophers who made important contributions to....

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Sandrine Berges@sandrineankara.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Cfp: Brill JHWP Women and the Abolition of Transatlantic Slavery, Guest Editors S. Bergès and A. Coffee Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Volume 6, Issue 2 Women and the abolition of transatlantic slavery Guest editors Sandrine Bergès and Alan Coffee While the enslaved…

⚠️ A few days left to apply to the INSPIRE Summer School: Thinking in Many Forms: Gender, Genres, and Practices. Feat. an outstanding group of speakers from Denmark, Sweden, the United States, Italy, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. More info on the summer school website. Deadline: June 1, 2026

New podcast episode: Jennifer Wang (Simon Fraser University) explores a striking philosophical encounter: the meeting point between Confucius and contemporary analytic metaphysics. Listen here: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html #philsky

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NEXT WEEK: Workshop: “Philosophemes in Marguerite Porete’s Mirror of Simple Souls” 13–14 May 2026 Collège Ahuntsic, Montreal (in person) + online (UTC-4) Full programme, registration link, and more info: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/other-events... #philsky

One more installment of this event series coming up: And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy April 30, 2026: Marianne Charrier-Vozel & Huguette Krief on women, philosophy, and gender equality in early modernity Info+registration: shorturl.at/0JmZH #WomenInPhilosophy #philsky

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

Séminaire hybride International et Interdisciplinaire  Et la philosophie créa la femme / Et la femme créa la philosophie :  L'intersection des savoirs autour de l'égalité des sexes durant la première ...

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Extending New Narratives@ennhistphil.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In under a week: the 3rd session of And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy Nov 26, 17h30 CET / 11h30 EDT Talks by Margo Echenberg (McGill) & Margherita Giordano (Torino & Copenhagen). More info + registration: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/seminars.html #philsky 1/2

In our first substantive post (by @allauren.bsky.social ) , Mary Astell considers the question of whether Gen Z women ought to marry Gen Z men, given recent data that 31% Gen Z men think that wives ought to always obey their husbands. allauren.substack.com/p/should-gen... #philsky

Should Gen Z Women Marry Gen Z Men?

17th century philosopher Mary Astell says: probably not! | humour/satire

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Extending New Narratives@ennhistphil.bsky.social · 4mo ago

ENN has launched a Substack! 👀 Cavendishing it Out is organized around providing historical hot takes and hidden histories - bringing historically overlooked philosophers into the present by connecting them with contemporary and timeless questions. allauren.substack.com #philsky

ENN has launched a Substack! 👀 Cavendishing it Out is organized around providing historical hot takes and hidden histories - bringing historically overlooked philosophers into the present by connecting them with contemporary and timeless questions. allauren.substack.com #philsky

Cavendishing It Out | allauren | Substack

Why read historically overlooked philosophers? Bringing you smart, thoughtful, and spicy takes on contemporary issues from the quill of our philosophical predecessors. Click to read Cavendishing It Ou...

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One week left to submit your panel proposals: #philsky

Extending New Narratives@ennhistphil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Call for *Panels*: Final ENN Conference: Philosophy's Future, Past and Present (Montréal, Oct 7–9, 2027) Bilingual (EN/FR) conference Deadline: April 15 (Call for papers coming later.) www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements #philsky

Y'all have a little over 2 weeks to submit your panel proposals to the coolest thing to happen in Canada since Heated Rivalry! 🤓 (General CFP coming soon). #philsky

Extending New Narratives@ennhistphil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Call for *Panels*: Final ENN Conference: Philosophy's Future, Past and Present (Montréal, Oct 7–9, 2027) Bilingual (EN/FR) conference Deadline: April 15 (Call for papers coming later.) www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements #philsky

Day 30 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher and journalist Margaret Fuller! Fuller rethought female intellectual solidarity, initiating "Conversations" that gathered women to discuss philosophy and social issues. With #Emerson, she founded American #transcendentalism. #herstory

Day 29 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Puerto Rican suffragist and scientist Ana Roqué de Duprey! Roqué rethought civil rights for Puerto Rican women, fighting for equality beyond the vote. She wrote a study of Caribbean botany and an astronomical text called “The Sky of Puerto Rico.” #herstory

Day 28 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American Jewish poet, essayist & translator Emma Lazarus! Lazarus rethought the relationship between immigration, loyalty, and community, writing “Until we are all free, we are none of us free.” Her words are immortalized on the Statue of Liberty. #herstory

Day27 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: British author & reformer Frances Power Cobbe! Cobbe rethought social patterns that produced domestic violence, publishing essays condemning official indifference, exposing hypocrisy, & demanding reform. She also pioneered arguments for animal rights. #herstory

Day 26 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: British mathematician Ada Lovelace! Lovelace rethought the potential of symbolic thinking, creating programming techniques that led to what we now call software. She is now the namesake of a programming language and a cryptocurrency! #herstory #womeninSTEM

Day 25 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American pacifist Dorothy Detzer! Detzer rethought the relationship between #pacifism and anticolonialism, arguing that white pacifists must fight against the exploitation of African colonies if they truly wanted to prevent war. #womenshistory #herstory

Day24 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American author & reformer Charlotte Perkins Gilman! Gilman rethought the relation bn women’s labor & economics, arguing that housework & childcare should be paid so women could think. Her worldview unfortunately included a racist eugenics that mars her legacy.

Day 23 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Polish economist and socialist Rosa Luxemburg! Luxemburg rethought the relationship between colonialism and capitalism, illustrating how imperialist aims demanded capitalist principles. She was murdered for her role in the German Revolution of 1919. #herstory

Day 22 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: novelist and civil rights leader Jessie Fauset! Fauset rethought the tensions facing Black women, exploring, in Morgan Jerkins’ words, how to balance “desire and ambition” during the Harlem Renaissance. #herstory #womenshistorymonth #Blackhistory #ushistory

Day 21 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld is American abolitionist Lydia Maria Child! Child rethought regional responsibility for slavery, telling her fellow Northerners that their money, racism, & political cowardice made them complicit. “Let us not flatter ourselves,” she wrote. Boston was unamused.

Day20 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American minister & philosopher Antoinette Brown Blackwell! Blackwell rethought Darwin’s theory of evolution by insisting that female traits receive equal consideration & by denying that women's differences from men implied inferiority. #womeninSTEM #herstory

Day 19 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher Ella Lyman Cabot! Lyman Cabot rethought #ethics, focusing not on universal principles but on moral vision. Her “everyday ethics” called on readers to widen their vision to see others' needs more clearly. #philsky #womeninphilosophy

Day 18 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: inseparable German feminists/pacifists Lida Gustava Heymann & Anita Augspurg! Heymann & Augspurg rethought women’s political potential by editing a political journal & lobbying for Hitler’s expulsion from Bavaria in 1923. They died in exile in 1943. #herstory