Reading seminars

The reading seminars focus on questions concerning women and the history of philosophy. During our meetings, we analyze and discuss a selected text of relevance to WHENCE.

Fall 2026

  • 16.09.2026: Anaïs Waag: Elaine Chalus, ‘Elite Women, Social Politics, and the Political World of Late Eighteenth-Century England’, The Historical Journal, 43:3 (2000), 669-97. Elite Women, Social Politics, and the Political World of Late Eighteenth-Century England | JSTOR
  • 30.09.2026: Publication discussion
  • 07.10.2026: Maria Mårsell: Skuncke, Marie-Christine. 2003. ‘Was There a Swedish Enlightenment?’ Norden och Europa 1700-1830. Synvinklar på ömsesidigt kulturellt inflytande: Rapport från en konferens i Reykjavík 14-15 Juni 2002, p. 25-41.
  • 21.10.2026: Jelena Bundalovic: TBA
  • 28.10.2026: Hanne Roer: ‘The Rhetoric of Birgitta of Sweden’

Spring 2026

  • 11.02.2026: Maria Mårsell: Clarke, Danielle. 2024. ‘The early modern canon and the construction of women’s writing’. Textual Practice, 38:2, 299–317.
  • 25.02.2026: Bodil Hvass Kjems: Bredsdorff, Thomas. 2014. ‘Feminism with a Good Laugh – Holberg, Irony, and Equal Rights’. Scandinavistica Vilnensis, no. 9 (December): 17–26.
  • 25.03.2026: Martin Fog Arndal: Rosalind Smith – Chapter 2 ’Authorship, Attribution, and Voice in Early Modern Women’s Writings’. The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700, pp. 23–38.
  • 15.04.2026: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: TBA
  • 13.05.2026: Irina Hron: TBA

Fall 2025

  • 17.09.2025: Martin Fog Arndal: Praising at the Threshold: Commendatory Verses as Paratextual Blind Spots
  • 08.10.2025: Bodil Hvass Kjems: Foemina docta: Thinking about the catalogue genre, female virtue and exemplarity
  • 29.10.2025: Ida Marie Munck: Care in Higher Education
  • 12.11.2025:  Maria Mårsell: Women’s political power and thought in printed works published during the Age of Liberty (1719–1772) and the Gustavian era (1772-1809) in Sweden-Finland
  • 19.11.2025: Irina Hron: Laughing Philosophers: The Case of Hedwig Charlotta Nordenflycht
  • 03.12.2025: Jelena Bundalovic: Birgitte Thott: Wisdom, Education and Stoicism

Spring 2024

  • 20.02.2024: Moira Gatens – ‘Feminist Methods in the History of Philosophy, Or, Escape from Coventry’ in The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy. Routledge (2017), pp. 13-22.
  • 05.03.2024: Sarah Hutton – “Context” and “Fortuna” in ‘The History of Women Philosophers: A Diachronic Perspective’, in Methodological Reflections on Women’s Contribution and Influence in the History of Philosophy. Springer (2020), pp. 29-42.
  • 13.03.2024: Sarah Tyson – Chapter 1. ‘Reclamation Strategies’ in Where Are the Women? Why Expanding the Archive Makes Philosophy Better. Columbia University Press (2018), pp. 1-52.
  • 03.04.2024: Robert Nelson – ‘Lutheranism and the Equality of Women in the Nordic Countries’ in On the Legacy of Lutheranism in Finland. Finish Literature Society (2019), pp. 193-219.
  • 16.04.2024: Birgitte Thott – Chapter 46 from Om Weyen till et Lycksalligt Liff. Optional: Lisa Hill & Eden Blazejak – ‘Stoic Feminism and Early Modern Women Writers’ in Stoicism and the Western Political Tradition. Palgrave Macmmillan (2021), pp. 191-223.
  • 01.05.2024: Dorothe Engelbretsdatter – Selected Psalms. Optional: Marie Nedregotten Sørbø – ‘Fighting for Her Profession: Dorothe Engelbretsdatter’s Discourse of SelfDefence’ in Economic Imperatives for Women's Writing in Early Modern Europe (2018), pp. 73-96.
  • 15.05.2024: Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht - Defence of the female sex against J. J. Rousseau, citizen of Geneva (1761). Trans. Alan Crozier. Lund: Ellerström. Optional reading: Matilda Amundsen Bergström (2023) – ’Our Sex's Rights Have Seen Such Autocratic Treatment: Hedvig Charlotta Nordenflycht on Women's Rights’ in Hypatia (2023), 38, 475–492.
  • 05.06.2024: Mathias Wullum Nielsen – ‘Scandinavian Approaches to Gender Equality in Academia: A Comparative Study’ in Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017, vol. 61 (3), pp. 295-318.