Sessions and Course-Leaders - Libori Summer School 2026

The following section details the individual sessions and the names of the course instructors. It is important to note that all is subject to change.

Women Philosophers in Antiquity:

Chelsea Harry: An Alternate Origin Story: Sappho of Lesvos and Ancient Greek Philosophy

Kris Mclain: Theorizing Power: Ancient Women Philosophers on the Maintenance of the State

 

Women in the Middle Ages:

Elodie Pinel: Mystics Women as Philosophers: Revisiting the History of Middle Ages Philosophy

Sina Menke : « Tacheles! » – Dialectical Self-Defense in Christine de Pizan’s La Cité des Dames

 

Women in the (Early) Modern Period:

David Harmon: Images and imagination in Anne Conway’s Vitalistic Inversion of Mechanical Philosophy

Juliette Morice: tbc

Björn Freter: Polite Insurrection. Johanna Charlotte Unzer’s Outline of Worldly Wisdom for Women

 

Émilie du Châtelet:

Pierpaolo Betti: Du Châtelet’s Influence on Kant’s Natural Philosophy

Clara Carus: Du Châtelet’s Metaphysics: The Knowable and Unknowable

Ana Rodrigues: Embodiment and Rational Agency in Du Châtelet’s Moral Theory

 

Women in the History of Medicine:

Jil Muller: The Female Body in the Early Modern Period

Fabrizio Bigotti: Giovanni Marinelli on Women’s Illnesses

Julia Lerius: Embodied Knowledge: Vision, Medicine, and Authority in Hildegard of Bingen; Rethinking Knowledge Beyond Scholastic Epistemology

 

Women in Ecofeminism:

Aristi Trendel; Theodora Tsimpouki: Feminist Ecocriticism: From Mary Shelley to Han Kang

Anastasia Guidi: Anne Conway in Brazil: vitalist ontologies, ecofeminism and successor science to keep the forest standing

 

Women Philosophers and Global Culture:

Namita Herzl: Philosophies of Women Beyond the Canon

Abosede Ipadeola: African Storytelling as Philosophical/Feminist Practice

Rutte Andrade: African Feminist Epistemologies: Philosophical Foundations of Batuku and Tina

 

Women in Phenomenology:

Julia Mühl: Gerda Walther – Between Social Determinism and Free Will

Antonio Calcagno: tbc

 

Women in Theology:

Katrin König: Faith Seeking Experience. The Question of Divine Presence in Female Perspectives

Aurélien Chukurian: The Principles of Conway in light of its theological scope

 

Women in Economics, Politics, and Society

Federica Giardini: Gender and Economics: Regimes of Visibility, Regimes of Value

Gabriele Schimmenti: Women Philosophers and Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Germany

Pedro Pricladnitzky: Press and Political Power: Women Writers, Education, and Suffrage in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

 

Women in the Philosophy of Science and Logic:

Andrea Reichenberger: Magdalena Aebi

Michele Vagnetti: Wilma Papst on Frege

 

EcoTechGender:

Ma Theresa Payongayong: EcoTechGender and the Politics of Women’s Space

 

Women and Sexuality:

Aurélie Knufer: A queer history of philosophy? Methodological reflections based on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft 

 

Radical Feminism:

Luka Borsic: tbc

Ivana S. Karasman: tbc

 

Women in Culture and Arts:

Vera Grund: tbc

Lena Frömmel: The first female composer! – Again?

 

Women Philosophers and Teaching:

Daniela Zumpf: Some suggestions on teaching Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy in middle school classes

Felix Grewe/Jil Muller: Teaching material from the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

 

Digital manuscripts at the Center:

Henning Vreyborg: tbc

Pierpaolo Betti: tbc

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