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Cat Evans
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Early modernist working on women's writing & philosophy @cultphil.bsky.social‬

Interested in books, beads, birds and baking.
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CfP for an online workshop on Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900
@annafranjam.bsky.social and I can't wait to hear about your objects!
September 5, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Morning dip in Copenhagen before another great day at the Women’s history of philosophy summer school
August 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
crevans.bsky.social
The broad beans are so happy for the rain
June 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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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
Conference poster: Women Writing Philosophy in Early modern Europe - Spaces and Exchanges 2-4 June, knightly building
May 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Delighted to see this mock up of the front cover of my first book, due to be published later in the Summer with @cambridgeup.bsky.social .

It's been several years in the making, and has had input and guidance from so many people - but it nearly exists!
A mock up of a front cover of a book entitled 'Birth, Death, and Domestic Religion in early modern London'. The book cover is red, and the image is from a seventeenth-century woodcut of bodies being removed from London households during the plague.
May 23, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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The bridgewater canal really suffering in comparison to Venice today 🦆
May 7, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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So excited about our upcoming conference! Some absolutely fascinating papers foregrounding women’s intellectual work across early modern Europe
cultphil.bsky.social CultPhil @cultphil.bsky.social · Apr 22
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
Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges University of Exeter, Knightley Building, 2-4 June MONDAY 2nd JUNE From 9.00 COFFEE AND REGISTRATION 9.25 WELCOME – CultPhil Team 9.30-11 ACADEMIES & NETWORKS Chair: Felicity Henderson (Exeter) Annalisa Nicholson (KCL), Mediating Knowledge Across Borders: Hortense Mancini, the Mazarin Salon, and the Royal Society  Carlotta Moro (Exeter), Women, Natural Philosophy, and the Italian Academies in the Seventeenth Century: A Comparative Study of the Ricovrati and the Arcadia  Aron Ouwerkerk (Utrecht), Latin: Language of Knowledge? A Quantitative Analysis of Women’s Latinity across the Early Modern Low Countries and France  Coffee break 11.15-12.45 COMMUNITIES & READERS Chair: Carlotta Moro (Exeter) Meredith Ray (Delaware), Gender, Natural Philosophy, and the Oral Landscape in Early Modern Italy Johanna Luggin (Innsbruck), Publishing an Astronomical Book in Seventeenth-Century Silesia: Maria Cunitz’ Urania Propitia between Self-Translation, Intellectual Networks and Male Power  Kate Allan (Anglia Ruskin), “One rich usefull masse”: Katherine Philips and her Contemporary Scientific Readers Lunch 1.45-3.45 MEDICINE & BODIES Chair: Meredith Ray (Delaware) Giada Merighi (Pisa),  «Io lo vorei curare con questa dicozione» («I would like to treat you with this decoction»). ‘Medical’ advice in family letters from a female hand. The example of Claudia Grumelli Salis  Úna Faller (CNRS, École Normale Supérieure, Lyon), “...to make a woemans milk come & increase, take the Green Leaves of fennell”: Manuscript recipe books’ epistemologies and herbal remedies for managing women’s health concerns, 1600-1697  Madeleine Sheahan (Yale), Mastering Time: Preservation, Longevity, and Timelessness  Ilaria Ferrara (Ferrara), From prejudices about women to gender stereotypes: new forms of female agency starting from Dorothea Christiane Erxleben's "Rigorous Investigation"  4-5.00 CAVENDISH ROUNDTABLE: Esther Kearney (Nottingham), Sophie White (York), Evan Thomas (Otterbein), Chair: Sarah Hutton (York) TUESDAY 3rd JUNE 9.00-10.30 GENRES Cassie Gorman (Anglia Ruskin), '"I am all a storm": Chaos and Disordered Matter in the Writings of Jane Cavendish and Frances Feilding Sajed Chowdhury (Utrecht), Psychology, Alchemy and the Woman Philosopher-Poet: Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681)  Hannah Cotterill (Royal Holloway), ‘So short do humours last’: Elizabeth Cary on Anger Management in The Tragedy of Mariam  Coffee 10.45-12.45 ECOFEMINISM & NONHUMAN ANIMALS  Eric Jorink (Leiden & Huygens Insitute, Amsterdam), Embroidery, Needles and Microscopes. Seventeenth-century Women and the Representation of Insects  Manuel Fasko (Basel), Anne Conway on the Moral Status of Non-Human Animals (NHA)  Aurélie Griffin (Sorbonne Nouvelle), Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Verse: Ecofeminist Poetry in Early Modern England  Catherine Evans (Exeter), “She rolls her unctuous embryo east and west”: Hester Pulter’s “creaturely poetics” and the Limits of the Maternal Body  Lunch 1.40-2.40 ROUNDTABLE 2: NATURAL PHILOSOPHY & POETICS Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (KCL); Meredith Ray (Delaware); Helena Taylor (Exeter), Chair: Cassie Gorman (ARU) Comfort Break 2.45-4.15 WOMEN AND DESCARTES  Sarah Hutton (York), Women and Cartesian natural philosophy. From Margaret Cavendish to Émilie du Châtelet  Michaela Manson (Monash), The Natural Philosophy of Mary Astell  Richard Serjeantson (Cambridge), Mary Astell Reads Descartes  Tea 4.30-6.00 MANUSCRIPTS & EPISTEMOLOGIES Emma Bartel (Université Paris Cité), Looking for Women’s Engagement with Natural Philosophy in Marginal Manuscript Genres  Jil Muller (Paderborn), Oliva Sabuco on Natural Philosophy  Pedro Pricladnitzky (Paderborn), The Manuscript of Institutions de Physique: Émilie du Châtelet’s Development of Methodological Eclecticism  CONFERENCE DINNER 7pm Côte Brasserie WED 4th JUNE 9.30-11 METHODS Chair: Eric Jorink (Leiden) Kirsten Walsh (Exeter), Action at a Distance—Reflections on the History of Women in Science Peter West (Northeastern University London), “A Scientific Association”: New Digital Methods for Understanding the Impacts of Early Women Writers on the Development of Science and Philosophy  Marina Aguilar (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Tratado Philosóphico-poético escótico by María de Camporredondo as an example of Hispanic Women Thinker from the Modern Age  Coffee 11.15-12.45 RECEPTION, AUTHORSHIP, and POPULARISATION  Chair: Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen) Arianne Margolin (Independent), Jeanne Dumée’s Plurality of Worlds: The Feminine Voice and the Emergence of the Fiction Scientifique   Aretina Bellizzi (Ghent), From a New Readership to a New Authorship. Vernacular Plato and the Female Audience in Early Modern Italy  Floris Verhaart (Exeter), The Doctor, the Theologian, and the Translator: Medicine and Divine Providence in the Writings of Johan van Beverwijck, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer CLOSE AND LUNCH This conference is supported by the European Research Council-selected Starting Grant, ‘Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe’, funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), under the UK government’s Horizon Europe funding guarantee [grant number EP/Y006372/1].
April 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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What ethical responsibilities do we bear when we write about war? This is one of the questions we’re posing in our June colloquium on early modern war narratives. CFP here and the deadline is 11th April! Please share widely and consider submitting an abstract!
kingsearlymodern.co.uk/events/lamen...
Early Modern War Narratives - Annual CEMS Colloquium — CEMS KCL Blog
Join CEMS for our annual colloquium. This year's theme is early modern war narratives. CfP deadline: 11th April.
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April 4, 2025 at 11:05 AM
crevans.bsky.social
Looking forward to singing Thomas Adès’ America (a new version!) tonight with the @thehalle.bsky.social conducted by the man himself!

The concert will be on Radio 3 for those unlucky souls not in manchester 🐝 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring from Manchester
The Hallé performs works by Stravinsky, Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Time to explore beautiful Boston before #RSA2025 kicks off
Winged statue of a woman standing in a Boston square Sunset over a cityscape
March 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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For anyone interested in the early Bodleian Library or early modern book owners, the Shaping Scholarship project at CELL, UCL has made the project data available: ebdo.org.uk/data/ It details every officially recorded donation made c. 1600-1620, plus some extras, which is around 10,000 items.
Phtotograph of Bodleian Benefactors' Register, open and showing gifts of Robert Barker and William Ballow, in italic print and manuscript on parchment.
March 17, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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A new form of art to covet
theframeblog.bsky.social The Frame Blog @theframeblog.bsky.social · Mar 14
Dorien Tamis's new article on The Frame Blog examines the rarely-researched area of figurative painted frames - here, in the Low Countries in the C16 and C17:

theframeblog.com/2025/03/14/f...
March 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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cultphil.bsky.social
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

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Abraham Bosse, The Wise Virgins, print. Shows 5 women siting around a home altar, discussing books held int heir hands .
March 12, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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Thrilled at the arrival of spring
Grumpy fluffy cat sitting on a sunny balcony edge
March 6, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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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...
Centre for Translating Cultures | Research Centres | University of Exeter
www.exeter.ac.uk
February 20, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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A shocking report from @manchestermill.bsky.social about what's going on in Bolton.
HE is in crisis, and this university is in the hands of a marketing advisor "who makes racist jokes, shouts at colleagues and openly threatens people with the sack" manchestermill.co.uk/university-o...
‘I’ll sack who I want’: Inside the chaotic, mutinous new University of Greater Manchester
The strange story of how a marketing man from Milton Keynes turned a university into his poison-filled fiefdom
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February 6, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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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 🪴
A 17th century Dutch painting of pink roses, carnations, cornflowers, and narcissus. The text reads: Call for Papers. Plants and People: the cultivation and propagation of botanical knowledge among non-professional communities, c.1600–1800. University of Cambridge, 8–9 July 2025. Text reads: This interdisciplinary conference will examine botanical knowledge exchange among early modern individuals at the periphery of professional science. We will focus on women, domestic workers, artisans, merchants, and enslaved and indigenous naturalists who used plant knowledge in their everyday life, yet did not (or could not) derive a living primarily from botany.    Over the course of this conference, and a subsequent publication, we intend to address the following questions: What kinds of people and spaces fostered botanical knowledge outside of traditional institutions of learning? What role did embodied experience play in the acquisition of botanical knowledge? What did the social networks of these practitioners look like, and how did this overlap with or differ from the networks of professional scientists? How was the knowledge of these non-professional practitioners valued (or devalued) by their contemporaries? Reflecting the creative nature of our subject matter, we welcome applications for papers in formats other than traditional presentations. Furthermore, the conference will include a practical workshop with the artist and natural dye expert Nabil Ali. We hope that our creative workshop will feed into participants’ practice and inform their contributions to our proposed publication.   This conference will be held in person from 8–9 July at the University of Cambridge. Lunch and refreshments will be included. We aim to offer grants of £150 to contribute towards the cost of travel and accommodation for speakers coming from outside of Cambridge and the surrounding area. Please let us know in your application whether you would like to be considered for a travel grant.   Please send an abstract of max. 300 words and a short biography to the conference organisers, Lucy Havard (lh655@cam.ac.uk) and Zara Kesterton (zlk21@cam.ac.uk) by Friday 14 March 2025.
January 23, 2025 at 10:38 AM
crevans.bsky.social
My ears are still ringing from the organ and the bells, but what a thrill to have sung Mahler’s 2nd symphony with @thehalle.bsky.social last night. Also my first time being conducted by Kahchun Wong, who brings the magic out of every piece of music
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January 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Hello friends & colleagues. I will be developing a project this year on spatial histories of infertility (the places & spaces associated with this experience, sites of intercession, prayer, pilgrimage, healing) & would love to learn of any connected research/ sites/ histories/ practices. Thank you!
Image of a holy well in Co Clare with ribbons tied to the trees
January 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Delighted to share the CfP for an upcoming Special Issue of Scottish Literary Review, guest edited by @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social and @ainsley76.bsky.social. We'd love to have your contributions to 'Cultures of Care in Scottish Women's Writing'. Details 👇

@scottlyall.bsky.social
@asls.org.uk
Call for Papers 'Cultures of Care in Scottish Women's Writing' Papers are invited for a special issue which will explore the myriad ways in which the concept of care has been imagined by Scottish women writers. 'Care' encompasses a diversity of meanings across philosophical, moral, and spiritual traditions; in practices which range from social to medial to therapeutic, and beyond; and in semantic terms evokes ideas of nurture, protection, welfare; feelings of solicitude, concern, love. 'To care for' someone, or something, is both to experience, and to enact, such affect with vigilance and a kind of watchful attention. We are interested in the ways in which Scottish women writers - across a variety of genres and forms - have imaginatively explored the concept of care as ethos and/or practice. We also invite a range of theoretical and disciplinary approaches from (for example) environmental humanities; medical humanities; history of emotion studies. Themes which might be explored include, but are not limited to: care of, and for self; care of, and for others, including communities and networks; care for nature, environment, and non-human others; therapeutic and/or medical care; concepts of welfare (individual and collective); ideas of nurture; expression of affect and emotion (including anxiety); care as cultural activism; writing/creating as an act of care; the experience of being taken care of. Please send 200 word abstracts and a short bio to s.m.dunnigan@ed.ac.uk and amcinto9@ed.ac.uk by Thursday 30 January 2025.
January 10, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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It's Epiphany, which means it's time for Cuddling Kings in Medieval art
Gislebertus Dream of the Magi 1120-30 Stone Cathedral of Saint-Lazare, Autun "Master Gislebertus was one of the greatest sculptors of the Middle Ages, who inscribed his name on the tympanum of the main portal of the Sainte-Lazare Cathedral at Autun. The majority of the capitals in the interior of the cathedral are also ascribed to him; most of them are on pilasters and therefore remain firmly connected to the surface. His sculptures are some of the most human, touching works that exist in Romanesque sculpture. The original capitals were removed and are on display in the Musée Rolin near to the Cathedral. The Dream of the Magi, the capital originally on the east side of the north-east crossing pillar, shows the three crowned figures together under a large, round cover. Two of them are still asleep, but the third has already been woken by the movingly gentle touch of the angel who is pointing the star out to him." (WGA) Three Magi cuddle under a blue blanket as an angel appears in their dream British Library - Royal 1 D X fol-2v Three kings sleep inside the letter E BnF Latin 7586; Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiarum libri XX; 11th century; France; f.45r (Bibliothèque nationale de France) The Dream of the Magi, from the Queen Mary Psalter, England, 1310-20. (British Library)
January 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Really glad that I managed to catch “The Imaginary Institution of India” @barbican.bsky.social - art from emergency rule to nuclear testing in 1998
Bhupen Khakhar, Two men in Benares (1982) oil painting showing two nude male lovers embracing with vignettes of religious life around them Gulammohammed Sheikh, Speechless city (1975). Oil painting of an abandoned city with wild dogs and cattle, the houses are green and sky orange
December 29, 2024 at 10:19 AM
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Let’s be havin’ you
Delia smith cookbook with her face on the front
December 24, 2024 at 2:17 PM
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Wreath constructed, Lindsey Lohan’s surprisingly enjoyable seasonal Netflix offering on - Christmas can start!
Home made, not very good Christmas wreath held up in a poly tunnel
December 1, 2024 at 9:49 PM