Research colloquium

The WHENCE Research Colloquium is a series of meetings where WHENCE project members participate and take turns to present the status of their research and discussed them in plenary sessions.

Fall 2026

  • 09.09.2026: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: Chapter on Thott and Plato, circulated Sunday 6.
  • 04.11.2026: Maria Mårsell: ‘Contemporary Publishing Practices from an Early Modern Perspective: Stierncrona, Ahlgren and Lenngren’
  • 11.11.2026: Martin Fog Arndal: ‘Nature, Mythology, and Idealism: Karen Thorlacius, An Overlooked Philosopher’
  • 18.11.2026: Anaïs Waag: ‘Forms of Female Rule: Continuity and Change in the Experience of Power of Nordic Queens’
  • 25.11.2026: Jelena Bundalovic: TBA
  • 02.12.2026: Irina Hron: TBA
  • 09.12.2026: Bodil Hvass Kjems: ‘Mulieres Philosophantes’ (1699): Petrus Hedengran’s arguments for philosophising women’

Spring 2026

  • 11.03.2026:Maria Mårsell: Going Public: Anna Maria Lenngren Announces Her Authorship
  • 18.03.2026: Irina Hron: Satire and the Politics of Speech in the Nordic Enlightenment (Discussion of a scientific article)
  • 08.04.2026: Martin Fog Arndal: New Spaces of Exchange: Commendatory Verses as a Rudimentary Public Sphere
  • 29.04.2026: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: TBA
  • 06.05.2026: Bodil Hvass Kjems: The reception of Cille Gad and Leonora Christina Ulfeldt in Ludvig Holberg’s authorship: Conceptions of gender equality, female virtue and political agency.

Fall 2025

  • 10.09.2025: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: Shaping Women Philosophers (2025) – ‘The Precarious Identities of Early Modern Women Philosophers’.
  • 01.10.2025: Jelena Bundalovic: David de la Croix and Mara Vitale – ‘Women in European Academia before 1800—Religion, Marriage, and Human Capital’. European Review of Economic History, vol. 27, no. 4, 2023, pp. 506–32.
  • 22.10.2025: Martin Fog Arndal: Charlotte Sabourin – The Routledge Handbook of Women and Early Modern European Philosophy (2023) – ‘Critical Perspectives on Religion’.
  • 05.11.2025: Maria Mårsell: Joan Wallach Scott – Only Paradoxes to Offer (1996), ‘Preface’ (Only read the first 2,5 pages) + Chapter 1, ‘Rereading the History of Feminism’.
  • 26.11.2025: Irina Hron: Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel - On Improving the Status of Women (Über die bürgerliche Verbesserung der Weiber) (1792). 
  • 10.12.2025: Bodil Hvass Kjems: Ann Rosalind Jones – The Poetics of Gender (1986) – ‘Renaissance Gender Ideologies and Women’s Lyric’.