The Cultures of Philosophy team is delighted to announce that the conference ‘Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges’ will take place on 2-4 June 2025 in the Knightley building at the University of Exeter.
The history of philosophy is experiencing a major paradigm shift, with the work of early modern women philosophers in the spotlight: this conference builds on that momentum to produce a more inclusive account of “science” in the long seventeenth century. The conference aims to recover women’s contributions to early modern natural philosophy, looking beyond the treatise and dialogue to other genres both in manuscript and print; and to examine women’s roles in transnational communities of scientific exchange.
Invited Speakers:
- Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin)
- Ruth Hagengruber (University of Paderborn)
- Sarah Hutton (University of York)
- Eric Jorink (Leiden University)
- Meredith Ray (University of Delaware)
- Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL)
Please find our programme on our website here
If you wish to attend, we encourage you to fill this form as soon as possible to secure your place. Please note that spaces are very limited, and participants will be selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Participation is in-person only. Attendance is free and refreshments will be provided but the conference dinner is for speakers and chairs only.