Wonderful to have the opportunity to catch up on @sandrineankara.bsky.social lecture for @thebshp.bsky.social on Mary Astell, the language of freedom, & chattel slavery www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRy1...

Recordings are now available of Jane Ohlmeyer's excellent RHS Anniversary Lecture: 'Visible | Invisible: Voices of Women in Early Modern Ireland' bit.ly/3MdjXEn Jane's lecture was given on 21 November and is available to watch or listen to again. #Skystorians 1/2

New book announcement! A Feast of Fruit and Flowers: Women Still Life Painters of the C17th & Beyond Bryn Critz Schockmel with contributions by Catherine Powell-Warren, Joaneath Spicer & Eve Straussman-Pflanzer To order, email [email protected] #newbooksaboutwomenartists

We're so excited to announce our new lecture series for 2026 "Women Writing Knowledge: Philosophy in the Early Modern World" Please do join us online for an incredible selection of talks by leading scholars working on #womeninphilosophy Sign up here: forms.office.com/e/8V5WjGG3hN

ARCHIVAL FUNDING: Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History, to use Bodleian Libraries collections to advance scholarship in women’s history, of any geographical area and historical period. Deadline 28th Nov. www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

For grad students and recent PhD's: The Center for Netherlandish Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is hosting a virtual “office hours” on the topic of applying for fellowships on Friday, November 7, 2025, 10:30–11:30 am (EST) Sign up at www.mfa.org/event/cna-of...

Workshop this afternoon!

✨Excitingly my monograph now has a cover!✨ It’s out in November @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social, which means there will finally be a whole book on Hortense Mancini’s salon, the eager few will be relieved to know. It comes with an academic price tag £££ but will be Open Access. Library orders welcome 🙏

In #Edinburgh on Thursday evening? @carlottamoro.bsky.social will be speaking about Early Modern Feminism at the Italian Institute of Culture - drawing on her work editing and translating women writing about male tyrant and female excellence iicedimburgo.esteri.it/en/gli_event...

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 🗃️

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

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 💙📚📜

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!

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

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

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

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

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! 💫

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

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

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

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”

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...

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...

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...

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 🗃️ 📜

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

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?

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 🪴

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

2025 is here and so is the RSA program! Hope to see you at our roundtable on Friday at 2.30 - “Women Writing Philosophy in Seventeenth-Century Europe: Questions, Methods, Approaches” rsa.confex.com/rsa/2025/mee... Let us know of any other panels on women and intellectual history at #shakesass

The WHAI are delighted to announce the call for papers for our 2025 Conference. See our website for more details. retweets appreciated.

An exciting #cfp for the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland, Cork 6 - 7th June #skystorians #womenshistory

Please share the CFP for our conference: 'Bodies and Environments in the Early Modern World'. Our keynotes are Marcy Norton @marcynorton.bsky.social (Pennsylvania) & Sara Miglietti (Warburg Institute). Join us 9-10 June at JRRIL, Manchester. Further details at: sites.manchester.ac.uk/sleeping-wel...

Deadline tomorrow for our conference on Women writing natural philosophy! #skystorians #womenshistory #philosophy

For anyone with digital humanities expertise looking for a postdoc role there's a great opportunity on Christina Anderson's Connecting Histories, Connecting Heritage: Early Modern Cities and Their Afterlives project at UCL, advert here: tinyurl.com/abv6w348 #jobfairy #earlymodern #digitalhumanities

🔔 #CallforPapers for an #earlymodern #BookHistory conference: ‘Tudor England & the Antwerp Book Trade. From Tyndale to Plantin’ in Antwerp between 8-11 July 2025 to mark the 500th anniversary of the publication of Tyndale’s translations of the New Testament. Apply now! Deadline: 15 February 2025

First actual publication out!! Read to hear about women’s interactions w/ books in #EarlyModern Navarre, especially my fav María Josefa de Soraburu who just wanted the cold hard cash owed to her versus some tired old books! (happy to send PDF if needed!) #BookHistory #HerBook doi.org/10.1163/9789...

Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges (Exeter, 2-4 June 25) Deadline: 29 Nov Please see our website for our exciting #cfp! We've had some incredible submissions so far culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2024/08/05/p... #skystorians #philosophy #histsci

A hero who came through for Thornton time & again was servant & friend Daphne. She prayed with Thornton’s family at their deathbeds, breastfed her babies, & helped her after her husband’s death. Read more in @hagenilda.bsky.social's blog: thornton.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/posts/blog/2... #EYAHeroes

Research fellow @carlottamoro.bsky.social is in the beautiful Palermo state archives this week tracking down networks of learned Sicilian women #womenshistory #earlymodern

An exciting #CfP on for a special issue on Mary Astell, Catherine Cockburn & Damaris Masham -- so much exciting work on women philosophers emerging feministhistoryofphilosophy.wordpress.com/2024/07/15/l...

New article out in the Huntington Library Quarterly by #CultPhil research fellow @crevans.bsky.social 📚🕰️⏳📝

9 days left to get your proposals in for Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges 📚🔥 (Exeter, 2-4 June 2025) Deadline: 29 nov See our website for the #cfp culturesofphilosophy.exeter.ac.uk/2024/08/05/p... #earlymod #philosophy #skystorians

I'm very exited to share that my article "Relocating Early Modern Women: Teaching Margaret Cavendish to a Broader Audience" is now available with ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 (open access)...for anyone interested! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...

Interested in what CultPhil has been up to? Our PI Helena Taylor has an interview on the New Books in Early Modern History podcast, talking about her recent monograph "Women Writing Antiquity: Gender and Learning in Early Modern France" (OUP: 2024) megaphone.link/NBNK9696241088

About a month to go before the deadline! Consider submitting a short piece for our forum

We’ve gathered on the sunny Exeter campus today for our first workshop on methodologies with collaborators joining from Australia and Denmark. On the agenda today: can mysticism be philosophy? Was it a good thing to be a “savant” in 17th cent France? Why is Cavendish so popular now?

Have a look at this exciting CfP our colleague at IZEA has circulated! #18C International conference to be held at IZEA, Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle, 26-27 June 2025, organised by Jean-Alexandre Perras, Humboldt Research Fellow. Deadline 31 December 2024! www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk/news-item/ca...