Emma Bartel

First post of the new academic year and it's a good one: JOBS! There are THREE fixed-term research jobs in @kingshistory.bsky.social attached to my colleague Francisco Bethencourt's new ERC project on the Visual and Material Culture of New Christians. Please circulate!

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method Cambridge Core - History of Ideas and Intellectual History - Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method

My friend and colleague Lauren Mancia's short book Embodied Epistemology as Rigorous Historical Method has just come out! You can download it or read it for free until the 23rd June here: www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Hoorah!!! A new book of essays in honour of Bernard Capp, courtesy of @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social !

📢 #Job alert! @ox.ac.uk is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support a new collaborative project with @nationaltrust.org.uk. You'll explore our early modern global carpets and their histories of production and use. Closing date: 6 June
Find out more👉 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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].

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

Hello Blueksy! I expect this first post will be my most exciting post 🤣 My article about a new manuscript copy of Sonnet 116 I have identified has been published online open access academic.oup.com/res/advance-... @oupacademic.bsky.social

The Chat Room Behind the Pelicot Rape Trial For years, Dominique Pelicot drugged his wife and invited strangers to his house to rape her. At the trial, none of the explanations for these events quite fit—apart from an online platform called Coc...

My friend and colleague Katie Ebner-Landy has written a truly insightful article about the wider implications of the Pelicot trial, you can check it out here! www.newyorker.com/news/the-wee...

Call for Conference Papers

Thrilled to share the CfP for Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of #EarlyModern Natural Philosophy

26–27th June 2025, ARU, Cambridge

Deadline for submissions: Monday 3rd March 2025.

Please share widely!

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So happy to see this published & out in the world! Our Special Issue explores displacement & innovation, interrogates the term 'exile', & foregrounds interdisciplinarity as a method especially apt for exile studies where border-crossings converge... Thank you to all our contributors ✨