The Cavendish Collective's Third Annual Virtual Workshop

The Cavendish Collective: Third Annual Virtual Workshop

The Cavendish Collective is a virtual reading group dedicated to investigating the philosophical writings of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). Our participants are primarily PhD students and early career scholars working on Margaret Cavendish and adjacent authors in the early modern period. We are excited to host our third annual virtual workshop to promote collaboration among researchers interested in the philosophical writings of Margaret Cavendish.

The event will be held virtually on Saturday, July 19, 2025  and will consist of seven presentations from speakers at different career stages. Each participant will receive 20 minutes of presentation time followed by 20 minutes of discussion.

Registration

To attend the event, please use the registration form on our website:

https://thecavendishcollective.weebly.com/workshop.html

Workshop Schedule

Note: All listed times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)

Opening Remarks: 8:55 AM

9:00 AM - Speaker: Aurora Yu (UNC, Chapel Hill)
Title: "Cavendish on Ecology, Harmony, and the Part-Whole Relationship"

9:50 AM - Speaker: Jan Forsman (University of Iowa)
Title: "Cavendish on Dreaming"

10:40 AM - Speaker: Shaurya Oberoi (Rutgers University)
Title: "'My Mind's Too Big': Excess and Embodiment in Margaret Cavendish's and Elisabeth of Bohemia's Philosophies of the Mind"

11:30 AM - Speaker: Tobias Sandoval (UT Austin)
Title: "Cavendishian Remembrance and Immune Memory"

Lunch Break: 12:10 - 1:00 PM

1:00 PM - Speaker: Cassidy Short (University of Illinois)
Title: "'The Labour of My Brain': Print Authorship as Queer Reproduction in Bell in Campo"

1:50 PM - Speaker: Sarah Turnbull (McMaster University)
Title: "Women in Cavendish: Unleashing Autonomy through Female Friendships"

2:40 PM - Speaker: Tyler Jean Dukes (Texas Christian University)
Title: "Margaret Lucas Cavendish: Infinite and Finite Capacities in A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life"

We look forward to hearing from you! Please direct any questions to: [email protected]