Escola Europea de Pensament Lluís Vives

Creative Women Cycle

Conference

Mme du Châtelet (1706-1749) – Reason and Passion during the Elightenment

Female Creators Cycle

In charge:

ISABEL MORANT DEUSA

Former Full-time University Professor in Modern and Contemporary History at Universitat de València

Host

Maxime HENRI-ROUSSEAU

Valencia’s French Institute’s Principal

ISABEL MORANT DEUSA

Former Full-time University Professor in Modern and Contemporary History.

First female vice-principal in UV in the first direction democratically elected from 1984 until 1990.

Feminisms Collection

She was the promoter and director of the Feminismos collection, born in 1991, as a joint editorial project of the Universitat de Valencia and Cátedra Editorial, Madrid. Its aim was to provide a channel for research on women's inequality and gender difference, highlighted by international feminism, while at the same time meeting the demand of a public that was increasingly interested in the topics to be published in the collection.

History of women

A pioneer in women's history studies, she participated in the creation of a historiography that began to develop from the 1980s onwards in Europe and America. At the same time, she promoted the creation of the new subjects that began to be taught in the regulated studies of the Faculties of History from the 1990s onwards. She has directed the History of Women in Spain and Latin America, published by Cátedra between 2005 and 2006. The work, in four volumes, with almost 4000 pages, highlights the advances in the historiographical production that we call the history of women and gender, produced on both sides of the Atlantic. This edition, which has been very well received internationally, has shown the existence of a historiography, written in Spanish, which was still little known in other academic spheres, both in Europe and in the USA.

In El lugar de las mujeres en la Historia. Shifting the Boundaries of the Representation of the World (published in 2023 by the Publications Service of the University of Valencia, in two vols.) highlights the didactic objective of a work which, aimed at teachers and students of history, seeks to contribute to the integration of women's and gender history studies at the different levels of history teaching.

On this conference:

MORANT, I. ed. (1996) Mme Du Châtelet. Discourse on happiness and correspondence,

Cátedra, Madrid (6th edition).

MORANT, I. (2023): ‘Las mujeres en el imaginario afectivo de los filósofos Ilustrados’ in

Homenaje al profesor Rafael Benítez (Ed. Síntesis).

MORANT, I. (2024) ‘MMe de Staël. Opinión de las mujeres’ in Gloria Franco, Inmaculada Arias, Ofelia Rey.

Arias, Ofelia Rey: El telar de la vida: tramas y urdimbres de lo cotidiano, Barcelona and Madrid.

Free admission, limited seating

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