The Cultures of Philosophy Team at the University of Exeter is excited to announce our new online lecture series, “Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World”. In recent years, the history of philosophy has been transformed through the recovery of early modern women philosophers, revaluing the forms they used and contexts in which they operated to write philosophy (Detlefsen & Shapiro (2023), Ebbersmeyer & Paganini (2020)). To build on this paradigm shift, this lecture series brings together seven leading scholars working across the globe to explore how women wrote and engaged with philosophy in the 16th – 18th centuries.
Please do join us on Zoom for these talks. Talks will generally be 40 mins, followed by 20 mins for questions. Sign up to receive the link here: https://forms.office.com/e/8V5WjGG3hN
Contact the CultPhil team (cultphil@exeter.ac.uk) with any queries.
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].
