Epistolary Archives and Sensibilities: Between the Personal and the Scientific in Women Mathematicians’ Correspondence
| Dates: | 5 March 2024 |
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| Times: | 17:00 - 18:30 |
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| What is it: | Talk |
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| Organiser: | School of Arts, Languages and Cultures |
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| Who is it for: | External researchers, General public |
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| Speaker: | Maria Tamboukou |
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Join us at the Rylands as Maria Tamboukou offers the notion of sensibility as a methodological move that she has deployed in conducting archival research, but also as an epistemological lens through which she has read, understood and analysed women mathematicians’ letters in Europe during the early modern period and beyond. The talk draws on a Leverhulme funded research project of writing a feminist genealogy of automathographies, tracing the process of becoming a woman mathematician, philosopher, and scientist. Women’s epistolary writing has been the focus of several studies over the years not only as a literary field documenting their contribution in the social, cultural, and political formations of their times and geographies, but also as a platform documenting their textual self-representation. Women’s letters as discursive sites for the production of scientific knowledge has not been adequately explored, however. It is this gap in the literature that Tamboukou's research is addressing, by contributing to a wider field acknowledging the diversity of women’s letter-writing practices, while also mapping new paths in the interface of the personal and the scientific.
Maria Tamboukou is Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of East London and Leverhulme Major Research Fellow for the project Numbers and Narratives: a feminist genealogy of automathographies. (2022-25) She has held academic positions in a number of institutions, including the ‘Hannah Arendt’ Centre for Political Studies at the University of Verona, Italy and of the Centre for the Study of Storytelling, Experientiality and Memory (SELMA), at the University of Turku, Finland. Maria’s research activity develops in the areas of philosophies and epistemologies in the social sciences, feminist theories, narrative analytics and archival research. She is the author of numerous publications and her latest book on Epistolary Narratives of Love, Gender and Agonistic Politics was published in 2023. See the author’s website for more details on research projects and publications: www.tamboukou.org
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This event is a collaboration between the Manchester Centre for Correspondence Studies, Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Arts and Languages and the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, you can find more information below by following the links:
https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/lives-of-letters/
https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cidral/
https://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/
Speaker
Maria Tamboukou
Role: Professor
Organisation: University of East London
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John Rylands Research Institute and Library
150 Deansgate
Manchester
Gtr Manchester
