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.

Spring 2026

  • 03.2026: Maria Mårsell: Going Public: Anna Maria Lenngren Announces Her Authorship
  • 03.2026: Irina Hron: Satire and the Politics of Speech in the Nordic Enlightenment (Discussion of a scientific article)
  • 04.2026: Martin Fog Arndal: New Spaces of Exchange: Commendatory Verses as a Rudimentary Public Sphere
  • 04.2026: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: TBA
  • 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

  • 09.2025: Martin Fog Arndal: Praising at the Threshold: Commendatory Verses as Paratextual Blind Spots
  • 10.2025: Bodil Hvass Kjems: Foemina docta: Thinking about the catalogue genre, female virtue and exemplarity
  • 10.2025: Ida Marie Munck: Care in Higher Education
  • 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
  • 11.2025: Irina Hron: Laughing Philosophers: The Case of Hedwig Charlotta Nordenflycht
  • 12.2025: Jelena Bundalovic: Birgitte Thott: Wisdom, Education and Stoicism