Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille
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Professor @EriacRouen @univrouen; early modern studies; women's writing; Remembering the English Revolutions https://memorev.hypotheses.org; journals.openedition.org/episteme/
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We are delighted to announce the program for our summer conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, to be held in Exeter 2-4 June
Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges 
University of Exeter, Knightley Building, 2-4 June 
MONDAY 2nd JUNE 
From 9.00 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION
 9.25 WELCOME – CultPhil Team 
9.30-11 ACADEMIES & NETWORKS  
Chair: Felicity Henderson (Exeter) 
Annalisa Nicholson (KCL), Mediating Knowledge Across Borders: Hortense Mancini, the Mazarin Salon, and the Royal Society  
Carlotta Moro (Exeter), Women, Natural Philosophy, and the Italian Academies in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparative Study of the Ricovrati and the Arcadia  
Aron Ouwerkerk (Utrecht), Latin: Language of Knowledge? A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Latinity across the Early Modern Low Countries and France 
Coffee break 
11.15-12.45 COMMUNITIES & READERS  
Chair: Carlotta Moro (Exeter)  
Meredith Ray (Delaware), Gender, Natural Philosophy, and the Oral Landscape in Early Modern Italy 
Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck), Publishing an Astronomical Book in Seventeenth-Century Silesia: Maria Cunitz’ Urania Propitia between Self-Translation, Intellectual Networks and Male Power  
Kate Allan (Anglia Ruskin), “One rich usefull masse”: Katherine Philips and her Contemporary Scientific Readers  
Lunch 
1.45-3.45  MEDICINE & BODIES  
Chair: Meredith Ray (Delaware)  
Giada Merighi (Pisa),  «Io lo vorei curare con questa dicozione» («I would like to treat you with this decoction»). ‘Medical’ advice in family letters from a female hand. The example of Claudia Grumelli Salis  
Úna Faller (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon), “...to make a woemans milk come & increase, take the Green Leaves of fennell”: Manuscript recipe books’ epistemologies and herbal remedies for managing women’s health concerns, 1600-1697  
Madeleine Sheahan (Yale), Mastering Time: Preservation, Longevity, and Timelessness  
Ilaria Ferrara (Ferrara), From prejudices about women to gender stereotypes: new forms of female agency starting from Dorothea Christiane Erxleben's "Rigorous Investigation"  4-5.00 CAVENDISH ROUNDTABLE: Esther Kearney (Nottingham), Sophie White (York), Evan Thomas (Otterbein), Chair: Sarah Hutton (York)  

TUESDAY 3rd JUNE 
9.00-10.30 GENRES  
Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin), '"I am all a storm": Chaos and Disordered Matter in the Writings of Jane Cavendish and Frances Feilding  
Sajed Chowdhury (Utrecht), Psychology, Alchemy and the Woman Philosopher-Poet: Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681)  
Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway), ‘So short do humours last’: Elizabeth Cary on Anger Management in The Tragedy of Mariam  
Coffee 
10.45-12.45 ECOFEMINISM & NONHUMAN ANIMALS  
Eric Jorink (Leiden & Huygens Insitute, Amsterdam), Embroidery, Needles and Microscopes. Seventeenth-century Women and the Representation of Insects  
Manuel Fasko (Basel), Anne Conway on the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals (NHA)  
Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Verse: Ecofeminist Poetry in Early Modern England  
Catherine Evans (Exeter), “She rolls her unctuous embryo east and west”: Hester Pulter’s “creaturely poetics” and the Limits of the Maternal Body  
Lunch 
1.40-2.40 	ROUNDTABLE 2: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY & POETICS  
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL); Meredith Ray (Delaware); Helena Taylor 	 (Exeter), Chair: Cassie Gorman (ARU) 
Comfort Break 
2.45-4.15 WOMEN AND DESCARTES   
Sarah Hutton (York), Women and Cartesian natural philosophy. From Margaret Cavendish to Émilie du Châtelet  
Michaela Manson (Monash), The Natural Philosophy of Mary Astell  
Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), Mary Astell Reads Descartes   
Tea 
4.30-6.00     MANUSCRIPTS & EPISTEMOLOGIES  
Emma Bartel (Université Paris Cité), Looking for Women’s Engagement with Natural Philosophy in Marginal Manuscript Genres  
Jil Muller (Paderborn), Oliva Sabuco on Natural Philosophy  
Pedro Pricladnitzky (Paderborn), The Manuscript of Institutions de Physique: Émilie du Châtelet’s Development of Methodological Eclecticism  
CONFERENCE DINNER 7pm Côte Brasserie WED 4th JUNE 

9.30-11      METHODS  

Chair: Eric Jorink (Leiden) 

 

Kirsten Walsh (Exeter), Action at a Distance—Reflections on the History of Women in Science  

 

Peter West (Northeastern University London), “A Scientific Association”: New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy  

 

Marina Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Tratado Philosóphico-poético escótico by María de Camporredondo as an example of Hispanic Women Thinker from the Modern Age  

 

Coffee 

 

11.15-12.45 RECEPTION, AUTHORSHIP, and POPULARISATION  

Chair:  Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen) 

 

Arianne Margolin (Independent), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique   

 

Aretina Bellizzi (Ghent), From a New Readership to a New Authorship. Vernacular Plato and the Female Audience in Early Modern Italy  

 

Floris Verhaart (Exeter), The Doctor, the Theologian, and the Translator: Medicine and Divine Providence in the Writings of Johan van Beverwijck, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer  

 

CLOSE AND LUNCH 

 

This conference is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].
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My new book, co-authored with Michelle Dowd, is now out from Oxford University Press in the UK. US publication to follow shortly. global.oup.com/academic/pro...
A flyer with discount code AAFLYG6 for Early Modern Women's Wrtiing and the Future of Literary History by Michelle M. Dowd and Lara Dodds
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Happy 50th birthday!
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Join us in May for our annual conference on 'Local Habitation in Shakespeare' and a very festive programme as we celebrate the Société Française Shakespeare's 50th birthday 🎉!
Programme and registration form available at the following link: www.societefrancaiseshakespeare.org/annuaire/wp-...
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New TWTUD klaxon! Jackie Eales explores the oft-ignored role of women in the civil wars - from radical religious groups like the Quakers offering women equality of worship and preaching to women directly petitioning Parliament www.worldturnedupsidedown.co.uk/podcast/wome...
A pamphlet from the British Civil Wars regarding a petition presented by women, alongside woodcut images of two women from the period.
cgraffeuille.bsky.social
très bon souvenir de ce lieu aussi! mais il y a 30 ans!
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The vehemently republican MS was held close by the family and not published till 1806. Julius Hutchinson issued special large-paper copies and boosted subscriptions; it became a best-seller.
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Julius Hutchinson did cut many passages he thought readers would dislike and only in 1973 did James Sutherland issue an edition from the original MS. N. H. Keeble followed with a modernized edition. The new edition will for the first time include in full an earlier version written during the war.
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Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar, 5.15 pm, Graham Storey Room at Trinity Hall:
Claire Gheeraert-Graffeuille (University of Rouen Normandy) - Memoir-writing, historiography and the English Revolution: the case of Sir Thomas Fairfax's Short Memorials
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[Suspension du PEB]
En raison d'une baisse de plus de 40% de son budget 2025, la BIS est contrainte de réduire ses activités et services, notamment le service du Prêt entre bibliothèques, suspendu pour une durée indéterminée à partir du lundi 17 février.
Les demandes déjà en cours seront traitées.
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These are the editions of Lucretius, by Denys Lambin and Daniel Pareus, which Lucy Hutchinson would have consulted 'in a roome where my children practizd the severall quallities they were taught, with their Tutors, & I numbred the sillables of my translation by the threds of the canvas I wrought in'
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Introducing Lucy Hutchinson’s writings in a few posts. In the 1650s, translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, a bold atheist epic. How did a Puritan engage with materialist vision of history? Texts available in Oxford Works vol. 1, with Latin text and full commentary; text only ed. Hugh de Quehen.
cgraffeuille.bsky.social
Lucy Hutchinson is now on Bluesky!
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Hutchinson is likely to have read, in Latin or in the translation of Thomas May, the passage in Lucan’s Pharsalia where Caesar raids the treasury, a key moment in his coup (iii.108-11):
Caesar was all: the Senate sit to beare
Witnesse of private power, and grant what ere
He please to aske.
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Le livre devrait être publié en anglais / espagnol, en 2025, chez Brill (Leiden/Boston), dans la collection Heterodoxia Ibérica dirigée par Jorge Ledo, sous le titre Preface to the conversion of Moors or The Moorish Catechism attributed to Juan de Almarza, s.j. (1619-1669).
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