Category: Conferences

Dates: 29-30 April 2021 Event type: Online Organizers: Department of Art History, University of Murcia, Spain Director: Noelia García Pérez Coordinators: Melania Soler Moratón and Emma Luisa Cahill Marrón Website: https://www.um.es/en/web/jornadas-artepoderygenero/ Registration dates: 1 January 2021 to 22 April 2021 Registration link: https://casiopea.um.es/cursospe//artepoderiv.f Deadline for papers: 31 March 2021 Paper submission email: artepoderygenero@um.es Many uses and functions have been attributed to Renaissance portraiture -sentimental, documental, devotional or legitimatizing- becoming a quintessential genre in this period. These functions were condensed in portrait galleries that, alongside Wunderkammers and studiolos, where the new storage and exhibition spaces developed in this period. The IV…

International Conference October 5-7, 2023 The University of Gothenburg, Sweden In Nicomachean Ethics and Politics, Aristotle conceived ethics and politics to be both interrelated and exclusively male endeavors. This notion continued to be influential in the early modern period (c. 1500 – 1800). Yet in recent decades, feminist scholarship has showed that throughout the early modern world numerous women nonetheless discussed, developed, and challenged politics and ethics in profound and often surprising ways. The conference Early Modern Women on Politics and Ethics is organized by the Early Modern Seminar and the research network Philosophy in Other Words, at the University…

Lucy Hutchinson, 1620-81: Revolution and Women’s Writing: University of Nottingham, 27-29 June 2022 This three-day conference will mark the quatercentenary of the birth of one of the most wide-ranging early modern women writers, Lucy Hutchinson’s (with two years' delay owing to covid!). It will also mark the opening of a new ‘Rebellion Gallery’ in the refurbished Nottingham Castle, in which the manuscript of her ‘Life of John Hutchinson’ is given a prime position. Papers will explore the manuscript itself, its history and circulation, the ‘Life’ in the light of recent research on local, national and gender history, Hutchinson’s literary, artistic…

Hi Everyone, At the SCSC in St. Louis, I will be giving a paper that might be of interest to scholars of early modern women and gender: “The Materiality of Last Will” in the panel The Materiality of Writing: Social Norms and Performative Text in Premodern Towns, # 46, Mill Studio 5, 8:30-10:00. The paper considers last wills of seventeenth century Tuscan women as performative acts to understand women’s legal literacy and how they used it. Best, Giovanna Giovanna Benadusi Professor of History University of South Florida 4202 East Fowler Avenue, SOC 260 Tampa, FL 33620-8100 (813) 974 2807 office…

The Eighth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies (June 15-17, 2020) is a convenient summer venue in North America for scholars to present papers, organize sessions, participate in roundtables, and engage in interdisciplinary discussion. The goal of the Symposium is to promote serious scholarly investigation into all topics and in all disciplines of medieval and early modern studies. The plenary speakers for this year will be David Abulafia, of Cambridge University, and Barbara Rosenwein, of Loyola University, Chicago. The Symposium is held annually on the beautiful midtown campus of Saint Louis University. On campus housing options include affordable, air-conditioned…

Libori Summer School 2019 The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists invites everyone to participate in the Libori Summer School 2019. From July 29 – August 2, 2019, the third international Libori Summer School will take place at Paderborn University. This year, we will focus on the topic ‘Teaching Women Philosophers’ in two parallel Libori Summer Schools, one in English and one in German language. This concept offers the opportunity for scholars and students from all over the world to come together and work on innovative ways to integrate women philosophers into the syllabus. To register for…

Submissions are now open for the SSEMW sponsored session at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association to be held Jan. 3-6, 2019 in Chicago, IL. Proposals are due to Amy Froide (froide@umbc.edu) by FEB. 1, 2018. For more information visit the AHA website: https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on-history/october-2017/loyalties-the-theme-of-the-133rd-annual-meeting

“Life of the Muses’ day, their morning star!” The Cultural Influence of Lucy Harington Russell, Countess of Bedford, 11–12 August 2016, Lincoln College, Oxford Please see https://ladybedford.wordpress.com/ for conference information, a draft schedule, and full registration details. Graduate subsidies are available thanks to the Society for Renaissance Studies, Royal Historical Society, Royal Musical Association. Early registration would be appreciated. * Keynote speakers: Professor Linda Levy Peck and Professor Merry Wiesner-Hanks. Lucy Harington Russell (1580–1627), Countess of Bedford, was the pre-eminent woman patron of early seventeenth-century England, and a key figure behind the artistic achievements of such luminaries as John Donne,…

Gloriana Society 1st Annual Conference In the Light of Gloriana 18-20 November 2016 Registration is open and our provisional programme has been uploaded to our website!!! Check it out today! The Gloriana Society conference, In the Light of Gloriana, will be held at the majestic and historic Tower of London from the 18-20 November 2016. The conference aims to be an on-going interdisciplinary project designed to bring together disparate elements of Elizabethan studies, to better understand the impact and wider influence of the Elizabethan world and the cultivation of the myth of ‘Gloriana’ and the ‘golden age’ in the later…

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women offers a limited number of travel grants for graduate students wishing to attend the annual meeting of the Sixteenth Century Society & Conference and the SSEMW annual business meeting (held during the conference). For best consideration please apply by June 5th, 2015. For more information and to apply, go to https://ssemwg.org/opportunities/graduate-student-travel-funds/. Meredith K. Ray Associate Professor of Italian University of Delaware Vice President, SSEMW