Friday, 25 October
15:30 – 17:00
BSB B120
Keynote: Martina Reuter (Jyväskylä)
Epistemic Emotions in Poulain de la Barre’s On the Education of the Ladies
17:00 – 18:30
Alumni Hall, West Room
Reception for Attendees
Courtesy of McMaster’s Department of Philosophy
Saturday, 26 October
08:30 – 09:00
Coffee
UH 312
09:00 – 09:15
Opening Remarks
UH 112
09:15 – 10:15
Sandrine Roux
Gabrielle Suchon and the Rehabilitation of Female Curiosity
10:15 – 11:15
Natalia Zorrilla Sirlin
Contempt as an Epistemic Emotion in Louise Dupin’s Des Femmes
11:15 – 11:30
Brief Break
Coffee available in UH 312
11:30 – 12:30
Clara Carus
Émilie Du Châtelet on Happiness as the Purpose of Human Existence
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
UH 312
13:30 – 14:30
Michaela Manson
Love as Epistemic Emotion in Astell
14:30 – 15:30
Getty Lustila
Damaris Masham on Loving Persons
15:30 – 16:00
Break
Coffee available in UH 312
16:00 – 17:30
Keynote: Lisa Shapiro
Gabrielle Suchon on the Desire for Knowledge, Habit, and Women’s Solidarity
Sunday, 27 October
09:30 – 10:00
Coffee
UH 312
10:00 – 11:00
UH 112
Manuel Vasquez Villavicencio
Hume on Women’s Curiosity and the
Study of History
11:00 – 12:00
UH 112
Anik Waldow
Intellectual Identity, Alliance, and (Mis)recognition: The Case of Marie de Gournay
12:00 – 14:00
Mentoring Luncheon
UH 312 – Speakers only –
14:00 – 15:00
UH 112
Marcy Lascano
Margaret Cavendish and the Frustration of Genuis
15:00 – 16:00
UH 112
Aminah Hasan-Birdwell
Margaret Cavendish on the Skeptical Tradition
16:00-16:30
Coffee Break
UH 312
16:30 – 17:30
UH 112
Allauren Samantha Forbes & Elena Gordon
Macaulay and Wollstonecraft on Reasoned Benevolence
17:30 – 17:45
Closing Remarks
UH 112
