Constructing the equality of the sexes in the early modern period / Penser l’égalité des sexes à l’ancien régime
Publié le 17 octobre 2017 par Institut du Genre
International Conference, 25th-26th October 2017, National University of Ireland, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
Wednesday 25th October
* Margarete Zimmermann, Freie Universität Berlin (Emerita)
‘L’anachorétisme “mondain” de Gabrielle Suchon : un outil pour penser l’égalité’
* Derval Conroy, University College Dublin
‘Strategies of ambivalence : constructing equality in Gabrielle Suchon’s Traité de la Morale et de la Politique’ (1693)
* Key-note speaker :
Geneviève Fraisse, Centre national de recherche scientifique, Paris
‘L’opérateur égalité’
* Key-note speaker :
Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin, Université de Lyon
‘Égalité, neutralité, différencialisme. Confronter Descartes, Malebranche et Poulain de la Barre’
* Sarah Carvallo, École centrale de Lyon
‘Riolan et l’anthropologie médicale du sexe’
* Kathryn Hoffmann, University of Hawaii-Manoa
‘Difference and unstable gender in seventeenth-century France’
Thursday 26th October
*Jan Clarke, Durham University
‘The equality of women : theatre professionals in seventeenth-century France’
* Dan Carey, NUI Galway, & Gábor Gelléri, Aberystwyth University
‘Women and the Art of Travel, 1570-1800’
* Key-note speaker :
Siep Stuurman, Utrecht University (Emeritus)
‘The emergence of a ‘sense of the global’ and the Enlightenment critique of colonialism
*Heidi Keller-Lapp, Eleanor Roosevelt College, University of California, San Diego
‘Writing Canadoises and Jesuitesses into being : Ursuline missionaries in seventeenth-century New France’
* Carol Baxter, Trinity College Dublin
‘Anti-equality narratives in Port-Royal : an equality strategy ?’
* Danielle Clarke, University College Dublin
‘ “Their sex not equal seemed”’ : concepts of equality in 17th-century English writing’
Enquiries and registration to :
Dr Derval Conroy, Associate Professor, French and Francophone Studies, UCD
(derval.conroy[at]ucd.ie)
Graciously supported by
the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Research Fund, University College Dublin ;
Centre for Gender and Women’s History, Trinity College Dublin ;
College of Arts and Humanities, University College Dublin ;
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, University College Dublin ;
The Society for Renaissance Studies (UK)
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