{"id":16333,"date":"2026-05-08T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/?p=16333"},"modified":"2026-05-08T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:03:43","slug":"the-figure-of-the-female-philosopher-in-early-modern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siefar.org\/gb\/the-figure-of-the-female-philosopher-in-early-modern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Cultures of Philosophy project team is delighted to announce the programme for our conference ‘The Figure of the Female Philosopher in Early Modern Europe’, June 4-5, Knightley Building, University of Exeter. Attendance is free, but places are in-person only and offered on a first-come, first-served basis: sign up by May 16 here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thursday 4 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

PANEL 1: SATIRE AND PRAISE<\/strong><\/p>\n

JACQUELINE BROAD Monash University
\nMary Astell on Ridicule and Honour<\/p>\n

PHILIPPE CHOM\u00c9TY Universit\u00e9 Toulouse \u2013 Jean Jaur\u00e8s
\nBeauty, Virtue and Knowledge: Figures of Learned Women in Seventeenth-Century Poetry<\/p>\n

SANDRA PLASTINA Universit\u00e0 della Calabria
\nSelf-Representation in Urania by Giulia Bigolina<\/p>\n

PANEL 2: SELF-PRESENTATION AND GENRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

LIEKE VAN DEINSEN & KAREN HOLLEWAND KU Leuven & University of Groningen
\nRethinking the femme savante: the case of Isabella de Moerloose (1661-after 1712)<\/p>\n

ANIK WALDOW University of Sydney
\nMarie de Gournay on Intellectual Courage, Female Solidarity, and
\nSocial Change<\/p>\n

SANDRINE BERG\u00c8S University of York
\nTo philosophize is to act: Anne Dacier\u2019s translation of Marcus Aurelius\u2019s Meditations.<\/p>\n

ROUNDTABLE 1: SELF-PRESENTATION AND GENRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

MARGUERITE DESLAURIERS, LIEKE VAN DEINSEN AND KAREN
\nHOLLEWAND
\nMcGill University, KU Leuven & University of Groningen<\/p>\n

ROUNDTABLE 2: WHAT\u2019S IN A NAME? TERMINOLOGY<\/strong>
\nAND IDENTITY<\/strong><\/p>\n

CATHERINE EVANS, FELICITY HENDERSON, CARLOTTA MORO, HELENA TAYLOR AND FLORIS VERHAART
\nUniversity of Exeter<\/p>\n

Friday 5 June<\/strong><\/p>\n

PANEL 3: DISCIPLINES, TRADITIONS & INSTITUTIONS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

SABRINA EBBERSMEYER University of Copenhagen
\nBright, Bold, and Pious – Writing a philosophical treatise under oppressive conditions: Birgitte Thott and her treatise \u201cOn the path to a happy life \u201d (c. 1659)<\/p>\n

FLORIS VERHAART University of Exeter
\nBetween Human and Divine Knowledge: The Reception of Anna Maria van Schurman among Lutheran German Scholars<\/p>\n

RUTH BOEKER University College Dublin
\nSpaces for Learning outside Institutional Settings: Insights from the Cockburn-Arbuthnot Correspondence<\/p>\n

EMILIO MARIA DE TOMMASO Universit\u00e0 IUL
\nSame Species, Different Ideas: Why Women Are Better than Men According to Lucrezia Marinella<\/p>\n

PRIMARY SOURCES: DISCUSSION<\/strong><\/p>\n

FUTURE PLANS & CLOSE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The conference is supported by \u2018Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe\u2019, a project funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the UK government\u2019s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP\/Y006372\/1].<\/p>\n

Programme d\u00e9taill\u00e9<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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