Programme

Monday, 24 August, 2026 (Room 15A-0-13)

09:00 – 09:30 Arrival & Welcome Coffee
09:30 – 09:45 Words of Greeting by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Head of INSPIRE, Copenhagen)
Welcoming Remarks – Irina Hron and Maria Mårsell (Copenhagen)
09:45 – 11:15 Introductory Session – All course participants
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45 Lecture 1: Sina Dell’Anno (Berkeley/Vienna): Other Worlds: Female Satire as Philosophy’s Antigenre, from Sulpicia Caleni to Margaret Cavendish
12:45 – 14:00 Career Luncheon (Career development module for early-career scholars)
Room 14.4.80
14:00 – 15:00 Consortium: Sina Dell’Anno (Berkeley/Vienna): Margaret Cavendish: The Blazing World
15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break
15:15 – 16:15 Lecture 2: Christian Benne (Copenhagen): What We Talk About
When We Talk About Women: On Philosophical Misogyny
16:15 – 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 – 17:30 Reading Room with Christian Benne (Copenhagen): Baubô: Sarah Kofman on Reading (Nietzsche)

Tuesday, 25 August, 2026 (Room 15A-0-13)

09:15 – 10:15 Lecture 3: Mats Malm (Gothenburg/Swedish Academy): Historical Notions of Feminine Voice, Philosophising and Theologising
10:15 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Reading Room with Mats Malm (Gothenburg/Swedish Academy): Voluptuous Language in Shakespeare
12:15 – 13:15 Table talk with Irina Hron (Copenhagen): The Curious Case of Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel
13:15 – 14:30 Career Luncheon (Career development module for early-career scholars)
Room 14.4.80
14:30 – 15:30 Lecture 4: Gunilla Hermansson (Gothenburg): “To Love, Sing!”: On Julia Nyberg’s Poetic Thinking and the Complexities of Reception
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 16:45 Translation Workshop with Gunilla Hermansson (Gothenburg): Lost and Found in Translation/Adaption
19:00 INSPIRE Symposium – Dinner at Restaurant Le Grand Rouge (Strandgade 85a, 1401 København)

Wednesday, 26 August, 2026 (Room 15A-0-13)

09:15 – 10:15 Lecture 5: Katie Ebner-Landy (Utrecht): Can a Character Sketch be Philosophy?
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:30 Shared Study with Katie Ebner-Landy (Utrecht): Can Literary Forms Be Gendered? Early Modern Women’s Poetry and Beyond
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 12:45 Lecture 6: Maria Mårsell (Copenhagen): A Nordic Women’s Manifesto. Anna Maria Lenngren’s Paratexts to Lucile
12:45 – 13:45 Lunch
13:45 – 14:45

Colloquium with Maria Mårsell (Copenhagen): The Question of Canonicity

 
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break
15:00 – 16:00 Lecture 7: Alberto Frigo (Milan): ‘A little about everything and nothing about anything, in the French style’: Gender, education, and the art of judgment in Montaigne
16:00 – 17:00 The Philosopher’s Table with Alberto Frigo (Milan): Writing philosophical texts

Thursday, 27 August, 2026

08:40 – 16:30

Full-Day Program in Lund, Sweden

Departure from Copenhagen:

  • 08:40: Meet under the Grand Clock at Copenhagen Central Station.
  • 59: Departure from Copenhagen Central Station (as a group).

In Lund:

  • Guided tour of Lund Cathedral led by Professor Charles Lock (Copenhagen).
  • Visit to Lund Art Gallery (guided tour).

Lunch for all participants at Restaurant Mat & Destillat (Kyrkogatan 17, 222 22 Lund)

Friday, 28 August, 2026 (Room 14-4-80)

Individual Paper Presentations and Closing Up / Evaluation of the Summer School.

10:00 – 10:30 Paper 1: Jon Tafdrup
10:30 – 11:00 Paper 2: Hanna Bendz
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00 Paper 3: Freja Værnskjold Dzougov
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:00 Paper 4: Caterina Fossi
14:00 – 14:30 Paper 5:  Anders Gjesse
14:30 – 14:45 Coffee break
14:45 – 16:00 Closing Discussion and Evaluation of the INSPIRE Summer School 2026 – All course participants
16:00 – 17:30 INSPIRE Wine Reception (16.1-hallway, South Campus)