RSA Virtual 2021: Margaret Cavendish Sessions

Don't Miss the Margaret Cavendish Sessions at the RSA!

Cavendish I: Margaret Cavendish and the Art of Education

Thursday, April 15, 2021

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM (EDT)

RSA Virtual 2021 - Meeting Room 09

10:00 AM

Not Your Foot, Your Tutor: Rethinking Education in the Work of Margaret Cavendish

Marina Leslie, Northeastern University

10:20 AM

"Thoughts are like Pancakes": The Improbable Possibilities of Self-Publishing

E Mariah Spencer, University of Iowa

Cavendish II: Matter, Medicine, and the Mind in the Works of Margaret Cavendish

Thursday, April 15, 2021

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)

RSA Virtual 2021 - Meeting Room 09

12:00 PM

"Let this Deadly Draught purge my Soul from Sin": Poisons and Remedies in Cavendish's Drama

Delilah A. Bermudez Brataas, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

12:20 PM

The Metaphysics of Metacognition: Natural Philosophy and Fancy in Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World

Sophia Richardson, Yale University

12:40 PM

Life Extension in The Blazing World

Beatrice Bradley, University of Chicago

Cavendish III: Experimental Methods in Margaret Cavendish

Thursday, April 15, 2021

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM (EDT)

RSA Virtual 2021 - Meeting Room 09

2:00 PM

The Animate Worlds of Francis Bacon and Margaret Cavendish

Pavneet Singh Aulakh, Vanderbilt University

2:20 PM

"By their infinite compositions and divisions": Testing Material Conversation in The Blazing World

Olivia Tracy, University of Denver

2:40 PM

Convents, Casuistry, and Self-Fashioning as Bildung in Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn

Elisabeth M. Kinsey, Regis University