Women contributed extensively to the production of knowledge in the eighteenth century, without however always receiving credit for their intellectual and scientific practices. Largely excluded from the ranks of universities and academies, women fashioned alternative practices and found other venues in the margins of the institutions of knowledge. Their participation in intellectual life took multiple forms: by participating in correspondence networks, by influencing and facilitating the election of new academy members, by participating in competitions anonymously, or simply by publishing their work. Others were patrons, hosted salons, wrote memoirs, attended public lessons and sessions, etc. This panel seeks to re-evaluate women's relationships to multiple forms of knowledge production in eighteenth- century Europe.
Please send a 200-word abstract to Julie Candler Hayes (jhayes@hfa.umass.edu) and Sarah Benharrech (sbenharr@umd.edu) by September 15th 2019.