IAPh 2025 Tokyo

Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Secretary of the IAPh, announces the Steering Committee's new release to the Program of this year’s IAPh Symposium in Tokyo. Further details can be found in the program

Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) – Program 

Venue: Faculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo

Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/v1rWAbdphg2fQTuc9

Conference Organiser:

Prof. Dr. Yuko Murakami (Rikkyo University)

Prof. Dr. Noburu Notomi (University of Tokyo)

Prof. Dr. Yukiko Muramoto, Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

Prof. Heisook Kim, President of the Federation International des Sociétés philosophiques.

IAPh General Secretary / President of the German Society for Philosophy Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber (Paderborn University)

IAPh Speaker Prof. Dr. Cristina Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid)

 

Program (last updated: July 26 with chairs)

Venue: Faculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo

Map: https://maps.app.goo.gl/v1rWAbdphg2fQTuc9

 

 

Day 1 (Friday, August 1, 2025)

13:00-14:00

second floor

Registration
14:00-15:00

Large Room 1

Opening Ceremony

 

Chair:  Yuko Murakami, Noburu Notomi

 

IAPh Congress Organizer

Prof. Dr. Yuko Murakami (Rikkyo University)

Prof. Dr. Noburu Notomi (University of Tokyo)

Pof. Dr. Yukiko Muramoto, Dean of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo

 

Prof. Heisook Kim, President of the Federation International des Sociétés philosophiques.

 

IAPh General Secretary / President of the German Society for Philosophy Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber (Paderborn University)

IAPh Speaker Prof. Dr. Cristina Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid)

 

15:00-16:30

Large Room 1

Session 1

Maternity, Reproduction and Self determination

 

Chair: Ruth E. Hagengruber

 

Dr. Christina Chuang (Nanyang Technological University) – #MeToo Movement and Self-Identity in the Age of the Metaverse

 

Prof. Dr. Katherine Cooklin (Slippery Rock University) – Epistemology of Ignorance, Epistemic Injustice, and Pornography Addiction Discourse

 

Dr. Mihaela Popa-Wyatt (University of Manchester) – Which Forms of Conceptual Engineering Should We Trust? The Case of Incels

 

16:30-17:00

Large Room 2

Coffee break
17:00-18:00

Large Room 1

Keynote 1

 

Chair:  Fumi Yao (The University of Tokyo)

 

Dr. Yasu Furukawa (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI) – Tsuda Umeko and Biology: A Historical Perspective of Science and Gender

 

18:30- Reception Party at Homeikan Morikawa Anex

 

Day 2 (Saturday, August 2, 2025)

Large Room 1 Large Room 2
10:00-11:00 Session 2

Combining Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions I

 

Chair: Maki Sato

 

Zheng Kou (Heibei Normal University) – Analysis of the Thinking Methods of “Rationality” and “Zhong Dao” – The transformation and direction of ethical thinking concepts in gender philosophy

 

Dr. Roman Paşca (Akita University) – Making sense of the world through stories – Arguments for a philosophy of the goze

 

Session 3

Perspectives from the Western and European History of Women Philosophers I

 

Chair:  Masahiko Abe (The University of Tokyo)

 

Geraldine Ng (King’s College London; Philosophy Lab CIC) – Radical Uncertainty, Imagination and Iris Murdoch

 

Dr. Carla Carmona (University of Seville) – Marie de Gournay: autobiography, perception of injustice and mechanisms of disqualification

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 4

Combining Eastern and Western Philosophical Traditions II

 

Chair: Maki Sato

 

Hyejung Han (Ewha Women’s University) – What can we learn from literary works about feminism? – focus on Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982

 

Dr. Maki Sato (Nanzan Institute of Religion and Culture – NIRC) – Chie Nakane and Relational Ethics

 

Dr. Ellie Hua Wang (National Chengchi University) – Solidarity through Reverence and Care: Insights from Nussbaum and Xunzi

 

Session 5

Perspectives from the Western and European  History of Women Philosophers II

 

Chair:  Masahiko Abe (The University of Tokyo)

 

Dr. Ashley Bohrer (Notre Dame University) – Angela Davis and Philosophizing Political Repression

 

Dr. Jane Connell (University of Melbourne) – Overlooked Women Philosophers of Ancient Greece: the Bacchae and the Theban Sphinx

 

Abigail Tulenko (Harvard University) – The Sound Of Silence: Murdoch On Love & The Real

 

13:00-14:30

Room: TBA

Lunch break and Networking
14:30-16:30 Panel 1

Women Philosophers Perspectives from the Early 20th Century

 

Chair: Ruth E. Hagengruber

 

Dr. Ivana Skuhala Karasman (Institute for Philosophy Zagreb) – Feminism in the Literary Works of Helene Druskowitz

 

Dr. Dr. Luka Borsic (Institute for Philosophy Zagreb) – The (proto)radical feminism of Helene Druskowitz

 

Prof. Dr. Marian Pérez Bernal (Universidad Pablo de Olavide) – Attention and Action in Simone Weil. A call to responsibility

 

Malwina Tkacz (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw) – Crisis and Hope in Simone Weil

 

16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Keynote 2

 

Chair: Noburu Notomi

 

Prof. Dr. Heisook Kim (Ewha Women’s University) – TBA

 

 

Day 3 (Sunday, August 3, 2025)

Large Room 1 Large Room 2
10:00-11:00 Session 6

Current Political Perspectives on Philosophy, Feminism and Gender I

 

Chair: Cristina Sánchez

 

Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko (Kharkiv National Medical University) – Analytical framework for the study of women’s experience and women’s subjectivity during war

 

Prof. Dr. Martha Palacio-Avendaño (University of Alcalá) – Political Kinship and Social belonging in Gloria Anzaldúa’s work: Borderlands, Nepantla and Interdependence

 

Session 7

Perspectives from the Western and European History of Women Philosophers III

 

Chair:  Priyanka Jha

 

Dr. Lisa Kampen (Radboud University) – The Need for Disciplinary Boundaries: Ethics and Religion in Mary Whiton Calkins’s Philosophy and Psychology

 

Ethan R. Vorster (Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori Pavia) – Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Helen Longino and Female Contributions to Scientific Thought

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Session 8

Current Political Perspectives on Philosophy, Feminism and Gender II

 

Chair: Kateryna Karpenko

 

Laura Gillot-Assayag (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales / Keio University) – Agonistic Democracy Revisited? The Complementary Role of Compromise Ethics in Chantal Mouffe’s Agonistic Theory

 

V.M. Giouli – Who is Afraid of Barbie (Anti-)Culture?

 

Session 9

Women Philosophers on Theories of Confucianism I

 

Chair:  Ching-Yuen Cheung

 

Prof. Dr. Wei Xiao (Tsinghua University) – Organoid Research: A Dialogue Between Truth and Goodness Within the Confucian Ethical Framework

 

Wanpu Xu (Heibei Normal University) – Confucian Culture and the Status of Women

 

Dr. Masashi Kasaki (Nagoya University) – Epistemic Injustice and Gendered Virtues in the Confucian Tradition: Makuzu Tadano and Bakin Takizawa

 

13:00-14:30

Room: TBA

Lunch break and Networking
14:30-16:30 Panel 2

Panel: Women Philosophers on AI, Data & Technology

 

Chair:  Ching-Yuen Cheung

 

Dr. Jeesun Rhee (Choonam National University) – The Physics of Mattering and the Ethics of Matter: Rethinking Oppenheimer through Hayashi’s Hibakusha Literature and Barad’s Ethico-onto-epistemology

 

Dr. Natalie Nenadic (University of Kentucky) – Thinking with Hannah Arendt about AI Deepfake Pornography

 

Beifen Dei (Beihang University) – Datafied Gender Performativity: The Complicity of Platform Capitalism and Algorithmic Patriarchy

 

16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 IAPh General Assembly

 

 

 

Day 4 (Monday, August 4, 2025)

Large Room 1 Large Room 2
9:30-11:30 Session 10

Women Philosophers in Academia: Achievements, Obstacles and Challenges

 

Chair / Speaker: Prof. Dr. Cristina Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid)

 

Dr. Priyanka Jha (Banaras Hindu University)

 

Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko (Kharkiv National Medical University)

 

Prof. Dr. Martha Palacio-Avendaño (University of Alcalá)

 

Prof. Dr. Wei Xiao (Tsinghua University)

 

 

Session 11

Perspectives from Asian Women Philosophers

 

Chair: Kateryna Karpenko

 

Karen Connie Abalos-Orendain (University of the Philippines) – Focus on Praxis : Challenges of Introducing Filipino Women Philosophers to the World

 

Natividad Dominique Manauat (De La Salle University) – Reimagining Glocalized Care: Comparing Feminist Bioethical Discourses in Western, Eastern and Filipino Perspectives

 

Dr. Hsiang-Yun Chen (Academia Sinica) – Beyond Anglocentrism: Cross-Linguistic Considerations in Gendered Pronoun Reform

 

11:30-12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:00 Session 12

Women Philosophers on Theories of Confucianism II

 

Chair: Cristina Sánchez

 

Demin Xu (Paris Institute of Political Studies) – Are Feminism and Confucianism incompatible?

 

Dr. Ning Zhao (Shanghai University) – Caring through Confucian Concepts of Ti (体) and Yong (用): A Normative Foundation for Care Ethics

 

Session 13

Feminist Philosophies

 

Chair: Luka Borsic

 

Dr. Saori Makino (Rikkyo University) – Femininity Embedded in Philosophy: Rereading Wittgenstein Through Scheman’s Critique of Skepticism

 

Dr. Priyanka Jha (Banaras Hindu University) – On ‘Being Human’: Exploring Women writings from Modern India (1850s-1950s)

 

Room: TBA

13:00-14:30

Lunch break and Networking

(13:00-14:30)

14:30-16:30 Panel 3

Panel EcoTechGender: Economy, Ecology, Technology, and Gender as Frames of Thought (hybrid)

 

Chair: Luka Borsic

 

Prof. Dr. Ma. Theresa Payongayong (University of the Philippines Diliman) – Understanding Filipino Philosophy through a Feminist Analysis of Emerita Quito’s Schematization of Philosophy

 

Dr. Karen Connie Abalos (University of the Philippines Diliman) – Focus on Praxis : Challenges of Introducing Filipino Women Philosophers to the World

 

Dr. Lilybeth Centeno-Lumagbas (University of the Philippines Diliman) – Hilot, Women, and the Ecology of Care

 

16:30-17:00 Coffee break
17:00-18:00 Award Ceremony of the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize 2025 (online)

Keynote 3

 

Chair: Ruth E. Hagengruber

 

Emeritus Prof. Keiko Kawashima (Nagoya Institute of Technology) – How the Gender Perspective Changed the History of Science – Émilie Du Châtelet’s ambition for her own reputation

 

 

Day 5 (Tuesday, August 5, 2025)

9:30-11:30

Large Room 1

Panel 4               

EcoTechGender. Women Philosophers on Economics, Ecology and Technology

 

Chair: Yuko Murakami

 

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko (Kharkiv National Medical University) – Women and digital technologies in wartime

 

Dr. Ingrid Becker (University of Sankt Gallen/Ruhr-University Bochum) – Giving between inexhaustibility and exhaustibility

 

Prof Dr. Priyanka Jha (Banaras Hindu University) – Ecological Underpinnings in the Gendered Philosophies from India

 

Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn University) – Time is money. A proposal for a new kind of economic calculation

 

11:45-12:45

Large Room 1

Keynote 4

 

Chair: Priyanka Jha

 

Prof. Dr. Cristina Sánchez (Autonomous University of Madrid)

 

12:45-13:00

Large Room 1

Closing Ceremony
13:00-14:30

Room: TBA

Lunch and Networking
15:00-18:00 Excursion

 

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