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Doctorants SEAA 17-18 @doctorants1718.bsky.social · Sep 2

Le programme des 17e Journées des Doctorants et Jeunes Chercheurs de la SEAA 17-18 et de la SFEDS est disponible 👀👀

On se retrouve les 25-26 septembre 2025 à l'université de Rouen Normandie !

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Fabrizio Baldassarri @fabribald.bsky.social · Aug 27

#Bluehistorians #Skystorians
Happy to share this event, part of #ConEnvHist project on the environment♻️and botany🌿
In Milan, Oct13 with some great colleagues on practices and theories of knowledge. Attendance is free
@sergiooe.bsky.social
#environmentalstudies #environment #histsci #agriculture

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · Aug 27

apparently my book comes out in September, wow, preorder it for all your library and intellectual history needs, stay for the section on Paradise Lost and John Ray's herbals, or the story of George Psalmanazar, my favourite early modern scammer www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Hans Sloane's Library Collection and the Production of Knowledge | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

www.cambridge.org

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · Aug 15

A very exciting new John Locke find by @davidrarmitage.bsky.social now published in the @historicaljnl.bsky.social!

The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Aug 15

📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript

We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇

It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️

John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript

www.cambridge.org

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Dr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · Aug 15

Nice stuff from Armitage, and the salient thing here is just how heavily involved Locke was in the Board of Trade in the 1690s, and therefore in colonial policy and empire-making. Locke's 1690s publications also include his remarks on the poor laws.

That is not a coincidence.

The Historical Journal @historicaljnl.bsky.social · Aug 15

📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript

We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's
article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇

It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️

John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core

John Locke and Irish Linen Manufacture: A New Manuscript

www.cambridge.org

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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · Jul 28

This looks fantastic! Very tempted indeed.
>> Workshop: ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at Work and at Home, c. 1750-1914’ – CALL FOR PAPERS - due 1 Sept. #skystorians 🗃️ Thanks to @georgianlords.bsky.social for the heads-up!

royalhistsoc.org/calendar/wor...

Workshop: 'Power Couples? Collaborations at Work and at Home, c. 1750-1914’ - CALL FOR PAPERS - RHS

Workshop | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany | 11-13 May 2026 ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c. 1750-1914’ Call for Papers, deadline - 1 September 2025 In recent...

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Anita Leirfall @anitaleirfall.bsky.social · Jul 12

The French liar

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him? | by Sandrine Parageau aeon.co/essays/was-r... #Descartes #philosophy #PhilSky #philsci

Was René Descartes a self-centred guru and a lying fraud? | Aeon Essays

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

aeon.co

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Project Gutenberg @gutenberg.org · Jul 9

The French liar

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

By Sandrine Parageau

aeon.co/essays/was-r...

Descartes at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#Books #Literature #Philosophy

The Blind Leading the Blind (1568) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder.

The painting depicts six blind men, linked together by holding onto each other’s shoulders or sticks, stumbling across an uneven landscape. They move diagonally across the canvas, from the left foreground toward the right background.

The diagonal composition can be broken into nine parts with two sets of parallel lines perpendicular to each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blind_Leading_the_Blind#/media/File:%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%87%D0%B0_%D0%BE_%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BF%D1%8B%D1%85.jpeg

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Lawrence Wilkinson @lhwilkinson.bsky.social · Jul 13

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries Why?: "The French Liar" @sparageau.bsky.social @aeon.co
(Plus- John Dee)

Marshaling our marbles: roughlydaily.com/2025/07/13/i...

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Guillaume Calafat @gcalafat.bsky.social · Jul 9

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Sandrine Parageau @sparageau.bsky.social · Jul 9

Sur Descartes, menteur et manipulateur - lecture de plage! 😉

Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Jul 8

The French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) is generally presented as one of the founders of modern Western philosophy and science. Yet Descartes was not always the undisputed champion of reason that he is today. Why was he accused of being a purveyor of ignorance?

Was René Descartes a self-centred guru and a lying fraud? | Aeon Essays

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Jul 8

The French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) is generally presented as one of the founders of modern Western philosophy and science. Yet Descartes was not always the undisputed champion of reason that he is today. Why was he accused of being a purveyor of ignorance?

Was René Descartes a self-centred guru and a lying fraud? | Aeon Essays

René Descartes, the founder of modern philosophy, was furiously condemned by his contemporaries. Why did they fear him?

buff.ly

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ECHELLES @echelles-umr8264.bsky.social · May 27

🗓️ Les 18-20 juin se tiendra le colloque Aphra Behn on the Move @upcite.bsky.social @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social et @lettres-sorbonne.bsky.social

Le programme ➡️ aphrabehnparis.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag...

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Laurence Dubois @laurencedubois.bsky.social · Jun 17

Save the date! Our international conference "Who Cares? Psychiatry in the English-speaking World : Theories and Policies" will be taking place on 19-21 March 2026 at @uparisnanterre.bsky.social, with @creananterre.bsky.social
CFP - deadline 1 Sept ➡️ whocares.hypotheses.org/call-for-pap...

Call for Papers “Theories and Policies” Who Cares? 2026

“The Extraction of the Stone of Madness”, Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1494, Museo del Prado Call for Papers – International conference Who Cares ? Psychiatry in the English-speaking world #2 Theories and P...

whocares.hypotheses.org

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CREA Paris Nanterre @creananterre.bsky.social · May 26

Le CREA est heureux d'annoncer la parution de l'ouvrage de Sylvie Kleiman-Lafon "Antoine Lasalle, traducteur de Francis Bacon. Politiques de la science sous la Révolution et l'Empire" (Liverpool UP). Plus d'infos➡️ tinyurl.com/4wyebkp5

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Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic 1500-1800 @nonconformity2025.bsky.social · May 18

Call for Papers for our interdisciplinary conference exploring Dialogues of Nonconformity across the British Atlantic World, 1500-1800, taking place at the University of Birmingham on 12 September 2025. Keynote delivered by Professor Alec Ryrie. Papers welcome from researchers at any career stage.

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CREW-UR4399-USN.bsky.social @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social · Apr 29

The editors!
from @crew-ur4399-usn.bsky.social
@sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social
📘launch of

Fragmented Powers: Confrontation and Cooperation in the English-Speaking World 📘@emeraldpublishing.bsky.social

@emmanuelleavril.bsky.social
@lcossubeaumont.bsky.social
David Fée
@fabricemourlon.bsky.social

Fabrice Moulon, Laurence Cossu-Beaumont, David Fée and Emmanuelle Avril (standing left to right) from CREW research lab in the courtyard of Maison de la Recherche smiling and holding copies of Fragmented Powers book they coedited

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Michaël Roy @mroyupc.bsky.social · Apr 28

Change of plans: John-Erik Hansson @johnerik-h.bsky.social will be J. Michelle Coghlan's respondent. Join us in person or online for a discussion of Louise Michel's reception in the United States and the transnational turn in anarchist studies!

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Guy Sechrist, PhD @guysechrist.bsky.social · Apr 22

Hot off the press and on my desk! Looking forward to reading this wonderful work edited by @fabribald.bsky.social

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Dr Anne-Florence Quaireau @afquaireau.bsky.social · Apr 22

CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026,
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)

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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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Raf Van Rooy @adendros.bsky.social · Apr 16

📣 New open access publication on early modern student notes, in which Leuven features quite prominently, as it has a long tradition of research in this source type (e.g. Magister Dixit, DaLeT). An extra surplus is that it has appeared in the year of KU Leuven's sexcentenary.

Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750)

library.oapen.org

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Julia Gebke @juliagebke.bsky.social · Mar 4

Fantastic news for all #earlymodern #skystorians: Next week, the Natalie Zemon Davis Memorial Lectures 2025 will take place in Vienna with Prof. Lorraine Daston, hosted by the CEU. The leitmotiv of the lecture series: Diversity. And the best: you can also attend online.
www.ceu.edu/article/2025...

Domenico Remps, Cabinet of Curiosities, Opificio delle Petre Dure, Florence. A wooden display cabinet stuffed with wonders and curiosities: corals, images, beetles, a skull etc.

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Sandrine Parageau @sparageau.bsky.social · Feb 27

Bravo!!!

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Anna Cusack @annacusack.bsky.social · Feb 25

Gutted I'll miss this due to work but I'd encourage anyone in London on Thursday to go along and hear Nikki's paper. Knowing her work as I do I'm sure it'll be a fascinating talk.

IHR Society, Culture & Belief, 1500-1800 @ihrscb.bsky.social · Feb 17

Our next event is on Thursday 27 February, 5.30-7.00 pm. Nicola Clarke (Birkbeck) will speak on seventeenth-century accuracy and news: '“I am told … but I know not of a certainty”: The value of accuracy in the multimedia world of news in England 1658-1685.'
www.history.ac.uk/events/i-am-...

“I am told … but I know not of a certainty”: The value of accuracy in the multimedia world of news in England 1658-1685

www.history.ac.uk

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