The Otago/Sydney Early Modern Seminar
on the theme
Women, philosophy and literature
in the early modern period
took place on
3 - 4 September 2009
Centre for Innovation
87 St David Street
(Thanks to Roger Gaskell Books for permission to use the image.)
Programme
Thursday 3 September 2009
9.30-10.45am Liam Semler, ‘Margaret Cavendish on Fire’
Chair: Peter Anstey
10.45-11.15am Morning tea
11.15-12.45pm Karen Green, ‘Catharine Macaulay: philosopher of the Enlightenment’
Chair: Vicki Spencer
12.45-1.45pm Lunch
1.45-3.15pm Jacqui Broad, ‘Impressions in the Brain: Malebranche on Women, and Women on Malebranche’
Chair: Liam Semler
3.15-3.30pm Afternoon tea
3.30-4.45pm Carla Lam, Vicki Spencer, Karen Green and Jacqui Broad, Roundtable discussion of A History of Women’s Political Thought in Europe, 1400–1700, Cambridge University Press, 2009.
5.15-6.15pm
Plenary address: Jane Spencer, ‘The link which unites man with brutes': Enlightenment feminism, women, and animals’*
Chair: Jocelyn Harris
*PLEASE NOTE: This lecture will be given in the Quad 1 Lecture Theatre, Geology Building.
Conference dinner: Plato, 7.00pm
Friday 4 September 2009
10.00-11.15am Vicki Spencer, Concepts of power in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters and Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters
Chair: Jocelyn Harris
11.15-11.30pm Morning tea
11.30-12.45pm Sophie Tomlinson,
' A Woman's Reason': Aphra Behn reads Lucretius
Chair: Lyn Tribble
12.45-2.00pm Lunch
2.00-3.15pm Jocelyn Harris, Sexual politics in Mary Astell and Richardson’s Clarissa
Chair: Jane Spencer
3.15pm-3.30pm Afternoon tea
3.30-4.45pm Charles Pigden, Hume’s 'sensible knave' and Persuasion
Chair: Peter Anstey
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