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02 October 2024
Isidora Grubački (Ljubljana)
The origins of Yugoslav feminisms: Political thought in East Central Europe and the “woman question” before the First World War
Manaswini Sen (Hyderabad)
(Re)Inventing Feminism within the Discourse of Class-Struggle: Women and Intellectual History in the Trade Union Movement of Late Colonial Bengal; and Alternative Narrative of Decolonisation (1920-1947)
Commentator: Dr Paola Zichi (Warwick)
06 November 2024
Emily Evans (Cambridge)
Female Economists, Pedagogy, and the Codification of British Economic Thought, 1816-1897
Claudia Roesch (Konstanz)
Abolitionist, Feminist, Free Thinker – Placing Frances Wright within Intellectual History
Commentator: Luna Sabastian (Northeastern / London)
13 November 2024
Sam Harrison (Cambridge)
Education, citizenship and dignity in the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft
Kylie McGlothlin (Georgetown)
The Individual in Society: Ties of Sympathy in Staël’s Liberal Thought
Commentator: Adela Halo (UCL)
04 December 2024
Tingting Wu (Jena)
Sophie Mereau – From Passive Surrender to Autonomy
Brigitta Schvéd (Péc / Mainz)
The Word and the Image: Early Modern Female Self-Representations in the Works of Artemisia Gentileschi and Margaret Cavendish
Commentator: tbc
08 January 2025
Iryna Mykhailova (Venice)
Women Historians and the Study of Medieval and Early Modern Europe in the Soviet Union
Thiago Augusto Modesto Rudi (São Paulo)
Maria Maury and the panthéon historien in the 19th century: an occasion and its im-possibilities (1849…)
Commentator: Dina Gusejnova (LSE)
29 January 2025
Alice Baldock (Oxford)
Embodied Intellectual History: The Case of Women Butoh Dancers
Andrea Pérez Fernández (Barcelona)
How are we ‘canonizing’ women political thinkers? A methodological contribution based on historical evidence from turn-of-the-century Germany
Commentator: tbc
19 February 2025
Sarah Miles (Montreal)
“The Men Are too Busy Discoursing…”: Women in the Intellectual History of Left-Wing Print Media in 1960s France
Ajibola Adigun (Alberta), Doyinsola Ibikunle (Ilaro)
Like Jones, Like Davies. The Marginalisation of Black Women’s Intellectual History
Commentator: tbc
12 March 2025
Luah Batina Tomas (York)
Rosalina Coelho Lisboa: The Transnational History of a Right-Wing Feminist in the Americas
Carolina Peters (São Paulo)
“Comrade has a Feminist Deviation”: On Brazilian Communist Writer Alina Paim
Commentator: Katharina Rietzler [Sussex]