Month: April 2018

Annual Conference of the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies This conference seeks to address the various modes and strategies through which female intellectuals (authors, scientists, educators, and others) sought to negotiate and legitimize their authority in Early Modern and Enlightenment Europe (1600-1800).The 17th and 18th centuries have often been described as a decisive period in terms of professionalization as well as disciplinary formation and/or consolidation in the arts and sciences. In the course of this period, learned women increasingly articulated an awareness...

Université de Wrocław, Institut HistoriqueLa Femme a le droit de monter sur l’échafaud; elle doit avoir également celui de monter à la Tribune. – Olympe de Gouges (1791)La subordination juridique d’une sexe à l’autre est mauvaise en soi […]; elle devrait être remplacée par le principe de l’égalité parfaite, n’admettant ni pouvoir ni privilège pour les uns ni incapacité pour les autres. – John Stuart Mill (1861) L’Institut historique, l’Institut d’études romanes et l’Institut d’études anglaises de l’Université de Wrocław vous invitent à participer au colloque international Liberté, égalité…...

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women will sponsor one panel at the annual conference to be held in New York, 13-16 February 2019. I am soliciting proposals for a panel that explores the relationships between women, gender, and artistic or material culture during the early modern period (c. 1300-1800). Cross-cultural or transnational panels are especially welcome.College Art Association (CAA) offers the SSEMW the opportunity to submit an already-formed panel or to participate in the association’s general call for participation. Panel proposals may therefore consist of a completed...