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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12d

International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science -- #HOPOS 2026
Ohio State University, Columbus (OH)
22 to 26 June 2026

NEW Submission Deadline: 15 October 2025, 11:59 (PT) & remote option for scholars unable to travel to US
hopos2026.dryfta.com.
#HPS #philsky 🗃️

HOPOS 2026

Paper and symposium proposals for HOPOS 2026 can now be submitted through this web site. For detailed instructions, plea

hopos2026.dryfta.com

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Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · Sep 2

My book launch is next week! Please do come along 😊

Dr Helen Newsome-Chandler @hnewsome-chandler.bsky.social · Jul 29

📖I'm having an online book launch with @ewoodacre.bsky.social and @srsrensoc.bsky.social
for my @royalhistsoc.org Camden Edition of 'The Holograph Letters of Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots' (out 8 Aug).

🗓️10 Sept 2025
⏰17.00BST/12.00EDT/18.00CEST

Register here: shorturl.at/Z6zfN

Please join us!

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Zanna Van Loon @zannavanloon.bsky.social · Aug 20

REGISTRATION OPEN!

Now more than ever, research is reshaping our view of women’s roles in the early modern book trade. Join us in Antwerp (5–7 Nov 2025) for our conference Women & the Household in the #earlymodern Book Trade.

Register here: tinyurl.com/womenbooktrade

#rarebooks #bookhistory 💙📚📜

Conference: Women and the Household in the Early Modern Book Trade | Museum Plantin-Moretus

The aim of this two-day conference is to share knowledge of women’s rich and varied lives and works in the period before the rapid industrialisation of book production which changed the face of home l...

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Niko Kontovas @nikokontovas.bsky.social · Jun 5

My first co-curated exhibit opens this evening @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social!

TREASURED is a treasures exhibition that questions the very notion. It's also the first at the #Bodleian with around 50% non-Western material.

Those in #Oxford can visit starting tomorrow, 6 June. And it's free!

a green exhibition poster with pink elephants that reads TREASURED in big gold letters

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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · Jun 4

Snippets from the terrific talks and conversations we’ve been having at Cultures of Philosophy in Exeter the past few days on women and natural philosophy - featuring a cameo from Saint-Évremond in a paper not by me! Bravo @cultphil.bsky.social

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CEMS KCL @cemskcl.bsky.social · May 30

Next Friday! CEMS Colloquium on #earlymodern war narratives. Join us for a day of panels.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...

@kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsenglish.bsky.social @kingshistory.bsky.social

Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog

Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. Keynote: Prof. Andrew Hopper and Dr. Ismini Pells.

kingsearlymodern.co.uk

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · May 30

Do take a look at the program on our website to get a taste of the exciting work creating new narratives about how women shaped philosophy in the early modern world culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/category/eve...

Events – Cultures of Philosophy

culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk

CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · May 30

We’re so looking forward to bringing together some incredible scholars in Exeter next week for our conference: Women Writing Philosophy in Early modern Europe - Spaces and Exchanges

Conference poster: Women Writing Philosophy in Early modern Europe - Spaces and Exchanges 2-4 June, knightly building

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Apr 22

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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Annalisa Nicholson @apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social · Apr 22

Hugely looking forward to the Cultures of Philosophy conference in June - on early modern women's engagement with natural philosophy, and all things salons, academies, and networks! 💫

CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Apr 22

If you wish to attend, we encourage you to fill this form as soon as possible to secure your place: shorturl.at/7gHi9 Please note that spaces are very limited, and participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Participation is in-person only.

CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Apr 22

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

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Caroline Fish @diplohistoryfish.bsky.social · Mar 30

Fellow #Renaissance #earlymodern #skystorians of women's #diplomatichistory! The CFP for women + diplo strategy panel AND roundtable on approaches to women and EM diplomacy at #16thc #16thCentury Society in Portland! Royals, merchants, ambass's wives (+ sisters, nieces, daughters), servants, nuns

Call for Papers: History panel on women, strategy, and diplomatic practice in the early modern world for the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 Conference in Portland.

Call for Papers: History roundtable on methodological approaches to locating diplomatic women in the archive and examining documents to identify and examine their agency, contributions, and challenges. For the Sixteenth Century Society's 2025 conference in Portland.

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Mar 22

Final day of #RSA2025 calls for pancakes and a team debrief after our roundtable yesterday - thank you to all who came! We’re looking forward to more events centring women in early modern philosophy

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Mar 22

Thank you to everyone who came to our #RSA_2025 roundtable!

We feel newly invigorated by the discussion & by the advice from esteemed colleagues to “drive the car like we stole it”

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Mar 12

Thank you to the SSEMWG for sponsoring our panel! We'll be heading to Laura Knoppers' Lecture for the society after our roundtable: “Heire Apparant”: Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Clifford, and the Arts of the Triptych"

Listing from Conference Program
Title: Heir Apparent: Aemilia Lanyer, Anne Clifford, and the Arts of the Tripych

Abstract: This paper aligns the much-puzzled-over tripartite division of Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1611) with religious and dynastic triptychs. Lanyer’s three-part poem parallels the devotional center and the prominent placement of donors in the left and right wings of the altarpiece triptych, as well as its intermingling of past and present, sacred and secular, far and near. Recognizing how Lanyer draws on the triptych, we can see new unity and structure in her composition as well as new links with Anne Clifford, who commissioned a large triptych portrait, some thirty years later, to commemorate her accession to Clifford family titles and estates. Given her court connections, Lanyer might well have seen the tripartite dynastic portraits of Henry VIII adduced by scholars as precedent for Clifford’s portrait. Religious triptychs were also still found in Reformation England, including one owned by Clifford’s cousin. While Clifford fashions herself as landed heir, Lanyer shapes her as “Heire Apparant” of a crown of goodness, grace, and piety, not only by legacy from her pious mother, Margaret Russell, but by her own honorable deeds, including patronage. Lanyer’s appeal is more unified and strategic in its use of the visual arts than has been recognized.

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Mar 12

The CultPhil team are preparing for Boston! We'd love to see you at our #RSA2025 roundtable "Women Writing Philosophy in 17th century Europe" on Friday afternoon

There'll be chameleons, divine wetnurses, recently uncovered manuscripts, and arguments against tyranny

rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee...

Abraham Bosse, The Wise Virgins, print. Shows 5 women siting around a home altar, discussing books held int heir hands .

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Mar 6

Congratulations to CultPhil Italianist @carlottamoro.bsky.social who has a new article out in Renaissance Quarterly on martyrdom, mysticism, & protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella's Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648)

#womenshistory #earlymod
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Following in the Apostles’ Footsteps: Martyrdom, Mysticism, and Protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella’s Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648) | Renaissance Quarterly | Cambridge Core

Following in the Apostles’ Footsteps: Martyrdom, Mysticism, and Protofeminism in Lucrezia Marinella’s Holocausto d’amore della vergine Santa Giustina (1648) - Volume 77 Issue 3

www.cambridge.org

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Feb 20

Next week @carlottamoro.bsky.social & @crevans.bsky.social will speak at the Center for Translating Cultures seminar - Pregnant with Thought: Women Writing Philosophy in Early Modern England and Italy

Please join us if you’re in Exeter! Wed 26 Feb, 15.30
www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...

Centre for Translating Cultures | Research Centres | University of Exeter

www.exeter.ac.uk

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Alice Thornton's Books @thorntonsbooks.bsky.social · Feb 14

Happy #ValentinesDay! Alice Thornton often referred to her husband as 'dearest heart' and sometimes with the symbol ❤️.

See our post: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2...

@exploreyourarchive.bsky.social #EYALove #EarlyModern 🗃️ 📜

Alice Thornton’s Heart: An Early Modern Emoji

Blog article - 13 February 2023

thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk

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Renske Hoff @renskehoff.bsky.social · Jan 15

Do you work on religion and language? Join our panel at #EuARe2025 in Vienna this summer! In 'Access to the Divine', we explore the impact of language choices in religious practice, both historical and contemporary. Here's our abstract, let me know if you've got any questions! @evenelise.bsky.social

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CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Jan 27

The Cult Phil team has a regular reading group and today we’re discussing Debapriya Sarkar’s wonderful monograph “Possible Knowledge: the literary forms of early modern science”

What should be next on our reading list?

Book held in front of a window. The book has a hand opening a window on the cover and the text: Debapriya Sarkar Possible Knowledge: the literary forms of early modern science

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Plants and People 2025 conference @people-plants-2025.bsky.social · Jan 23

We are delighted to announce our #CfP for 'Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800'! Please email your abstracts (300 words) and bios to @zarakesterton.bsky.social @lucyjhavard.bsky.social, by 14 March 🪴

A 17th century Dutch painting of pink roses, carnations, cornflowers, and narcissus. The text reads: Call for Papers. Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800. University of Cambridge, 8–9 July 2025.

Text reads: This interdisciplinary conference will examine botanical knowledge exchange among early modern individuals at the periphery of professional science. We will focus on women, domestic workers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved and indigenous naturalists who used plant knowledge in their everyday life, yet did not (or could not) derive a living primarily from botany.

Over the course of this conference, and a subsequent publication, we intend to address the following questions:
What kinds of people and spaces fostered botanical knowledge outside of traditional institutions of learning?
What role did embodied experience play in the acquisition of botanical knowledge?
What did the social networks of these practitioners look like, and how did this overlap with or differ from the networks of professional scientists?
How was the knowledge of these non-professional practitioners valued (or devalued) by their contemporaries?

Reflecting the creative nature of our subject matter, we welcome applications for papers in formats other than traditional presentations. Furthermore, the conference will include a practical workshop with the artist and natural dye expert Nabil Ali. We hope that our creative workshop will feed into participants’ practice and inform their contributions to our proposed publication.

This conference will be held in person from 8–9 July at the University of Cambridge. Lunch and refreshments will be included. We aim to offer grants of £150 to contribute towards the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers coming from outside of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Please let us know in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant.

Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biography to the conference organisers, Lucy Havard (lh655@cam.ac.uk) and Zara Kesterton (zlk21@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 14 March 2025.

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Bodies and Being: The Premodern Body Project @bodiesandbeing.bsky.social · Jan 26

This lecture series from the Centre for the Study of #Medicine and the #Body in the #Renaissance looks rad.

#medieval #earlymodern #women #childbirth #skystorians #academicsky #whatshistory #historysky

Women's Ideas in the History of Medicine - CSMBR

This series explores women's contributions to various medically relevant fields and practices such as natural philosophy, household remedies, plant manipulation and selection, as well as midwifery.

csmbr.fondazionecomel.org

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Deborah Howard @deborahhoward.bsky.social · Jan 17

Women, Spaces, Freedom - forthcoming conference in Vicenza 21-23 May 25. Please spread the word!
www.palladiomuseum.org/en/courses/w...

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