2025.03.05
Women in the Nordic Enlightenment (WHENCE)
The overall objective of WHENCE is to uncover and critically assess women’s intellectual contribution to the Nordic Enlightenment. This investigation includes two further objectives, namely, to change the standard narratives of the development of the Nordic Enlightenment, and to assess women’s role in the emergence of Scandinavian gender equality.
Central research questions
- What was women’s intellectual contribution to the Nordic Enlightenment?
- How does women’s thought change our understanding of the individual and of society during the early modern period?
- What was the impact of early modern women’s thought on the emergence of Scandinavian gender equality?
Funding
External partners
The project will be supported by an international expert panel composed of:
- Jacqueline Broad, Department of Philosophy, Monash University, AU
- Karen Detlefsen, Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania, US
- Corey Dyck, Department of Philosophy, Western University, CA
- Elisabeth Göransson, Center for the Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, SE
- Sarah Hutton, Department of Philosophy, University of York, UK
- Ellen Marie Krefting, Dept. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, Univ. of Oslo, NO
- Anne-Marie Mai, Department for the Study of Culture, University of Southern Denmark, DK
- Martin Mulsow, Research Center Gotha, University of Erfurt, DE
- Ann Öhrberg, Department of Literature, Uppsala University, SE
- Anne Birgitte Rønning, Dept. of Literature, Area Studies and Europ. Languages, Univ. of Oslo, NO
- Bente Rosenbeck, Department of Nordic Studies, University of Copenhagen, DK
- Lisa Shapiro, Department of Philosophy, McGill University, CA