University of Bologna

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Occupation Luce Irigaray
LI began teaching at postsecondary level at the University of Paris VIII in 1969, her teaching time there overlapping with her studies at the same institution towards her second doctorate. In 1974 her position there...
Reception Jane Squire
Elizabeth Carter wrestled with this book, driving herself half mad to find out the meaning of it and telling Catherine Talbot she was enraged at her own stupidity. Pope Benedict XIV , to whom a...

Timeline

1390
Dorotea Bocchi was appointed to the chair of medicine and moral philosophy at the University of Bologna, which she held for forty years.
1731
The University of Bologna (then included in The Papal States) appointed Doctress and ProfessorLaura Bassi (1711-1778), to the Chair of Anatomy; she later held a philosophy chair from which she taught Newtonian physics for...
1750
The progressive Pope Benedict XIV appointed a woman, Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-99), as professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna .