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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.
![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)
