
Wednesday 11th November (afternoon session: 12.30-4pm UK time)
12.30-12.40 Introduction and Welcome
Chair: Helena Taylor
12.40 Hannah Dawson (KCL), Consciousness raising in (teaching) early modern feminism
12.50 Elizabeth Thomas (Alliance University, Bangalore), Reasoning Otherwise: Teaching Wollstonecraft in a Postcolonial Classroom
13.00 Xinyao Zhang (University of Cambridge), Teaching Sor Juana Between Devotion and Philosophy: Women’s Learning, Religious Authority, and Literary Self-Defence
Discussion & Break
Chair: Felicity Henderson
13.40 Bogdana Miletić (University of Belgrade), The Odd One Out: Teaching Cavendish Beyond Biography
13.50 Sarah Hutton (University of York), Thinking Women in the Seventeenth Century: course outline and rationale.
14.00 Peter West, Sarah Connell, Brian Ball (Northeastern University), Teaching Cavendish’s Philosophy, Digitally
Discussion & Break
Chair: Floris Verhaart
14.40 Rebecca Kingston (University of Toronto), Christine de Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies (1405) – Toronto and Afghanistan
14.50 Dwight Lewis Jr (University of Minnesota), Teaching Beyond Inclusion: Reflection from the Center for Canon Expansion and Change
15.00 Amanda Pipkin (UNC Charlotte), Using Historical Fiction to Teach Early Modern Women’s Writing
15.10 Manali Allen (Bryn Mawr College), Les dialogues des Galantes Modernes by Catherine Durand
Until 16.00 Discussion and Close
Thursday 12th November (morning session: 9.30-1pm UK time)
9.30-9.40 Introduction and Welcome
Chair: Floris Verhaart
9.40 Dino Jakušić and Hannah Straw (Warwick University), Canonical Recognition VS Pedagogical Integration: Some Lessons from Medieval Philosophy and Aphra Behn
10.00 Suchismita Ghoshal (Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Teaching Emotional Wisdom Before Psychology: Philosophy of Moral Feeling, Grief, and Melancholy in the Writings of Lucy Hutchinson and Anne Finch
10.10 Sandra Plastina (University of Calabria/SWIP Italia), SWIP Italia: Promoting Women in Philosophy through Research and Teaching.
Discussion & Break
Chair: Kirsten Walsh
11.00 Victoria Rimbert (University of Geneva), Women in Translation. Introducing women’s philosophical writings into literary translation courses
11.10 Francesca Masiero (Pisa/University of Padua), Beyond the Canon: Teaching Premodern Women’s Intellectual History through the History of Girls’ Education: Archival Evidence from Fifteenth-Century Verona
11.20 Francesca Romana Recchia Luciani (Università di Bari Aldo Moro), A counterintuitive effect of feminism: the appearance on the cultural scene of women philosophers
Discussion & Break
Chair: Helena Taylor
12.00 Joana Serrado (Technischen Universität Chemnitz), Early modern women writings as pedagogical hospitality. Some theoretical and practical notes from Chemnitz.
12.10 Elena Gordon (UCD), Teaching Feminist History of Philosophy in Secondary and Tertiary Education
12.20 Susan James (Birkbeck/BSHP/BJHP), Expanding the Canon at the BSHP/BJHP: Aspirations and Activities
Until 13.00 Discussion and Close


