Année : 2025

The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 is a small, informal, multidisciplinary group formed to promote women’s studies in the early modern period and the long eighteenth century. Established in the 1980s, the group has enabled those interested in women’s and gender studies to keep in touch, hear about one another’s research, meetings and publications, and meet regularly to discuss relevant topics. We organize regular meetings and an annual workshop (see membership application form) where members can meet and discuss women’s studies topics. This season we shall also be hosting two book...

SSEMWG is please to once again sponsor a ECR session at the annual conference of the Sixteenth Century Society.   Proposals by early career researchers for a roundtable or panel sponsored by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender are invited for the next Sixteenth Century Society and Conference which will take place in Portland, Oregon from October 30 – November 1, 2025.   The session aims to showcase new work that supports the mission of the SSEMWG, which seeks to foster inclusive, creative scholarship on women and gender across the early modern world. Since the...

Colloque à l’occasion du 400e anniversaire de sa naissance Alors que les Œuvres complètes de la Grande Mademoiselle viennent d’être éditées pour la première fois (trois volumes publiés sous la direction de Jean Garapon aux éditions Honoré Champion, 2020-2024), alors qu’elle a fait l’objet de douze biographies au fil du XXe siècle, le seul colloque (à vrai dire une journée d’études) qui lui a été consacré date de plus de trente ans (Actes de la Journée sur la Grande Mademoiselle, Saint-Fargeau 15 mai 1993, Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Biblio 17, n° 42, vol. XXII, janvier...