Conference Papers
Over 50 conference papers. Starting in 2012, they are:
2012
“Anna Maria van Schurman’s Networking and the Republic of Letters,’ Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Cincinnati (October 2012)
2013
"Anna Maria van Schurman and Madeleine de Scudéry: Salon Sociability and the Recasting of the Femme Savante," South Central Modern Language Association, New Orleans (October 2013).
2014
“Anna Maria van Schurman and Descartes,” Renaissance Society of America, New York (March 2014).
“Anna Maria Van Schurman versus Madeleine de Scudéry: Should the Salonnière be a Savante?” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, New Orleans (October 2014).
2015
“Walking a Tightrope: To be or not to be a Savante in Seventeenth-Century France,” NEMLA conference, Toronto (April 30-May 3, 2015).
“Time to Talk about Women in Salons and Learned Circles,” Special Session for “Attending to Early Modern Women: It’s about Time,” Milwaukee (June 18-20, 2015).
2016
“Bathsua Makin, Anna Maria van Schurman, and Educational Reform for Girls in England and on the Continent,” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference (Bruges, Belgium), (August 2016).
2017
“The Mystical Other: Anna Maria van Schurman and Jean de Labadie,” for the Isidore Silver Colloquium on “La Rencontre de l’Autre: Altérité et différences à l’aube des temps modernes,” Washington University in Saint Louis (26-27 April 2017).
“Mystical Alterity and Nomadism: Anna Maria van Schurman and Jean de Labadie,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Milwaukee (27-30 October 2017).
2018
“Marie Bruneau, Dame des Loges (1595-1641): Politics, Religion, and the Honnête Femme,” The Isidore Silver Colloquium, Washington University in Saint Louis (19-20 April 2018).
“Marie Bruneau, Dame des Loges (1595-1641): Fashioning the Honnête Femme,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Albuquerque (November 2018).
2019
“Anna Maria van Schurman as Religious Polemicist,” session on Women and Religion, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, St Louis (Oct. 2019).
2020
“An Archived Network: Anna Maria van Schurman’s Manuscript Friendship Letters,” session on “New Approaches to Anna Maria van Schurman,” Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia (March 2020) (rescheduled).
“‘Dieu se servit de Jeanne d’Arc’: The Textual Public Identity of Mining Engineer Martine de Bertereau, Baronne de Beausoleil,” Special Session, Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Baltimore (October 2020) (rescheduled).
“Salons, Network Patronage, and the Self-Representation of French Seventeenth-Century Women of Science,” Autour du Livre. Silver Colloquium: Journée d’études en l’honneur de Colette Winn. Washington University in Saint Louis (online, Oct. 2020).