Events
The Unchartered Letter
On 29-30th November 2021, WINK is holding the International Seminar entitled “The Unchartered Letter: Translation and Reception of Early Modern European Women Writers”, in collaboration with UPF and the Università Degli Studi di Messina. It will be an in-person event.
Literary Genre and the Gender of Intellectual Value in Early Modernity
WINK project director, Carme Font, will give an invited talk at the seminar hosted by professor Sabrina Ebbersmeyer and Women in the History of Early Modern Philosophy, at University of Copenhagen, on 10th June 2021. The talk, entitled Literary Genre
WINK-Lab 2 Online
On 18 May 2021, from 9:00-17:00, we hold the second WINK-Lab entitled “Genealogies of knowledge (Women Writers C16-C19): Transmission and Reconstruction of Ideas”. We look forward to meeting you there! Join us via Teams! Request your access link to Helena.Aguila@uab.cat
The Body Politics of Memory
On 16 April, 10:30, WINK Project Director Carme Font will give an invited talk at the seminar The Body Politics of Memory: Gender Witnesses (Corpo-polítiques de la memoria: testimonis de gènere) hosted by professor Begonya Sáez for the research group
Genre, Gender and Print
On 13-22nd April 2021, WINK members will participate in a roundtable at the Renaissance Society of America (Virtual) with a discussion entitled “Genre, Gender, and Print: Can Early Modern Women’s Writing Change the History of the Book?”This roundtable addresses the
Online Course Les Invisibles
WINK and Laie Bookshop organize the online course Les Invisibles: escriptura i pensament de les dones de la primera modernitat. The cours is well-underway and you can sign-up for individual sessions here! The sessions take place online Wednesdays from 18:30
WINK-Lab 1 Online
On Friday 27 November, 10:30-13:30, we hold the first WINK-Lab entitled “Genealogies of knowledge (Women Writers C16-C19): Education and Social Change”. Join us via Zoom! Request your access link to Helena.Aguila@uab.cat Share on facebook Share on twitter Share on whatsapp
WINK Research Seminar in Messina
(Postponed until 2021 due to covid-19.) WINK postdoctoral researcher Helena Aguilà Ruzola and project director Carme Font will hold a research session on WINK’s trans-genre methodology and value recovery in the Dipartimento di Civiltà Antiche e Moderne (DiCAM) at Università
Hands-on research at Biblioteca de Catalunya
WINK core group will hold a research session at Biblioteca de Catalunya on 10 March 2020 accompanied by BBC radio journalist Tim Smith. We shall discuss WINK’s hands-on methodology with a selection of rare books from the library. Share on
Celebrate Women’s Day
WINK organizes an open research session about the recovery of women’s writing on the occasion of the International Women’s Week. It is even more special because it will be hosted by a BBC Radio 2 journalist, Tim Smith, who is
Work in Progress
WINK doctoral researchers Paula Yurss and Francesca Blanch will present their doctoral work-in-progress to date in the Department of Filologia Anglesa, UAB. Presentations on Helen Maria Williams and Anna Seward will be subject to questions and comments from a specialist
WINK at the University of Chicago Center in Paris
WINK postdoctoral researcher Maxim Rigaux will participate in a research seminar at the University of Chicago center in Paris, organized by Prof. Frederick A. de Armas, in which Dr. Rigaux will discuss the critical foundations for researching the female epic
Recovering Spiritual Writings by Early Modern Women
WINK project director, Carme Font, will give an invited talk at the seminar Figures de la Spiritualité Féminine dans les Espaces Catholiques et Protestants, at Aix-Marseille Université, on 9th December 2019. The talk, entitled Recovering the Value of Early Modern
The Female Epic at Biblioteca Nacional de España
WINK postdoctoral researcher Maxim Rigaux will present his paper on female interventions in the Spanish epic tradition in the Iberian world (1556-1756) for the Congreso Internacional BIESES: Redes y escritoras en la esfera cultural de la primera Edad Moderna (siglos
Posthumous Legacies, Keele University
WINK doctoral researcher Francesca Blanch Serrat will give a seminar at Keele University for the Early Modern series: Keele Interdisciplinary Early Modern Seminars. Her talk is entitled ‘Writing herself out of reputation’: Age and Gender in Anna Seward’s Posthumous Legacy.
Findings at Johnson Birthplace Museum
WINK doctoral researcher Francesca Blanch Serrat will conduct a workshop on Anna Seward at the Johnson Birthplace Museum, Lichfield, on October 15, 2019. Her talk is entitled: “Anna Seward in the Johnson Birthplace Museum”. Hosted by the museums’ curator, Joanne
Meet WINK Researchers
WINK core group organizes an open session day to present the main project lines and exchange views with interested colleagues and researchers. Stop by any time on 8-9 October 2019, from 10:00-14:00, office B11-190 in the Facultat de Filosofía i
Conscience and the Spiritual Lives of Early Modern Women
WINK project director, Carme Font, will give a seminar lecture at Women of the Book: A Conference on the Spiritual Lives of Early Modern Women, at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, on 7th September 2019. The lecture, entitled Conscience Matters: A
Narratives of Ageing
WINK doctoral researcher Francesca Blanch Serrat and project director Carme Font will present their papers on the literary intersections of gender and age at the conference Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century, University of Lincoln, 23 July 2019. Share
Feminists in the Early Modern Print Trade
WINK postdoctoral researcher Helena Aguilà Ruzola will present her paper on feminist interventions in the early modern Spanish print trade at the Congreso Internacional Entreculturas, Universidad de Málaga, Gerard Brenan Room 4, Málaga, 28 June 2019. Share on facebook Share
WINK at ERC Iberian Summit
WINK project director Carme Font will present an overview and the research statement of Women’s Invisible Ink: Trans-Genre Writing and the Gendering of Intellectual Value in Early Modernity in the ERC Iberian Summit at the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, 8
Recovering the Value of Women’s Religious Writings in the Long Reformation
WINK project director, Carme Font, will give the keynote talk Hermeneutics of the Feminine: Recovering the Value of Women’s Religious Writings in the Long Reformation, at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, on 19th March 2019. The talk, kindly hosted by