{"id":15570,"date":"2025-12-02T12:15:25","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/?p=15570"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:19:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T11:19:37","slug":"female-anatomists-gendered-perspective-of-sensory-expertise-in-early-modern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/female-anatomists-gendered-perspective-of-sensory-expertise-in-early-modern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Anatomists: Gendered Perspective of Sensory Expertise in Early Modern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

International conference “Female Anatomists: A Gendered Perspective of Sensory Expertise in Early Modern Europe”, will take place at the University of Li\u00e8ge and online, on the 11th and 12th of December 2025.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the conclusive event of the \u00ab Female Anatomists \u00bb Incentive Grant for Scientific Research (MIS Mandat d\u2019Impulsion Scientifique) n\u00b0 F.4544.23 (2023-2025), awarded by the Fund for Scientific Research (F.R.S.-FNRS).<\/p>\n

The conference aims to explore the sensory experiences of women involved in practices of anatomy during the early modern period, thereby shedding light on female surgical skills and women\u2019s sensory encounters with dissected bodies.<\/p>\n

In the program<\/strong>
\nSharon Strocchia (Professor, Emory University), Domesticating Anatomy: Women and the Art of Leeching in Late Renaissance Italy.
\nAlessandra Quaranta (Researcher, Italian-German Historical Institute of Trento), Observing Symptoms, Overturning Corpses: Women\u2019s Sensory Experiences of the Ill and Dead Bodies in the Republic of Venice (Sixteenth\u2013Seventeenth Centuries).
\nCynthia Klestinec (Professor, Miami University), Women and the Popular Errors Tradition.
\nAlessandra Foscati (Associate Professor, UniCamillus – International University of Health and Medical Sciences, Rome), Bloody Practices. The work of Midwives Between the Fourteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Italian Peninsula and France).
\nAlessandro Laverda (Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Li\u00e8ge), Modesty, Noblewomen, and the Inquiry on Incorrupt Female Corpses in Early Modern Italy and Spain.
\nMichael Stolberg (Senior Professor, University of W\u00fcrzburg), Female Surgeons in Early Modern Germany (1550-1750).
\nCatherine Baudouin (PhD Candidate, EHESS\/Centre Alexandre Koyr\u00e9, Paris), The Surgical Skills of Midwives in Spain and the Spanish Atlantic World in the Sixteenth Century.
\nJulia Martins (Public Historian), A Charitable Female Healer: Madame Fouquet\u2019s Remedies and Seventeenth-Century Medicine.
\nLucia Dacome (Associate Professor and Pauline M.H. Mazumdar Chair in the History of Medicine, University of Toronto), Surgical Families: Women, Skill, and Mobility in Italy\u2019s Long Eighteenth Century.
\nIntroduction by Viktoria von Hoffmann (Senior Research Associate, Fund for Scientific Research\/University of Li\u00e8ge).<\/p>\n

Discussants<\/strong>
\nSandra Cavallo (Professor, Royal Holloway University of London); Francesco Paolo de Ceglia (Full professor, Universita\u0300 di Bari Aldo Moro); Rafael Mandressi (Research Director CNRS, EHESS\/Centre Koyr\u00e9, Paris); and Gideon Manning (Visiting Associate Professor, UCLA).<\/p>\n

Participation is free and open to everyone. Please make sure to register for the event no later than 7th of December. Click here to register.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

International conference “Female Anatomists: A Gendered Perspective of Sensory Expertise in Early Modern Europe”, will take place at the University of Li\u00e8ge and online, on the 11th and 12th of December 2025. This is the conclusive event of the \u00ab Female Anatomists \u00bb Incentive Grant for Scientific Research (MIS Mandat d\u2019Impulsion Scientifique) n\u00b0 F.4544.23 (2023-2025), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"categorie_personnage":[],"class_list":["post-15570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-manifestations-scientifiques"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","language":"gb","enabled_languages":["fr","gb"],"languages":{"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"gb":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15570"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15581,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15570\/revisions\/15581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15570"},{"taxonomy":"categorie_personnage","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categorie_personnage?post=15570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}