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Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe University of Exeter, culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk
![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].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:peyr652ptzk3m4gf3dgs4gmk/bafkreien444tmrwcrvxqdiwtuj6doa5hevnnsy7bdi45p5fm2avwigbaou)
![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)
