Female Voices, Media, and Modes of Communication in Theology and Philosophy

The New Voices Online Talk Series returns in Spring 2026 with a diverse programme dedicated to women’s voices, forms of communication, and media practices in theology and philosophy. Hosted by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, the series brings together early-career and established scholars from across Europe and beyond and offers an open forum for interdisciplinary exchange.

Registration is required for participation.
Please register via Indico. After successful registration, you will automatically receive the Zoom link, which is the same for all the sessions. The Registration is now open. The Talk Series takes place from April 28 at 16:30 (Paris Time) until June 6 at 18:00.

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Program Overview:

28 April 2026

• Floris Verhaart – Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer: Memoirist, Translator, and Religious Polemicist
• Margaret Matthews – Rhetoric, Method, and Genre in Gabrielle Suchon’s Treatise on Ethics and Politics

05 May 2026

• Élodie Pinel – Vernacular Theology and Authority: Marguerite Porete, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch of Antwerp
• Lila Braunschweig – A Voice of One’s Own: Philosophizing as Feminized Subjects (Impostor Syndrome & Authority)

12 May 2026

• Elżbieta Filipow – Women’s Writing of Harriet Taylor Mill and its Various Modes of Self-expression
• Shamoni Sarkar – Karoline von Günderrode: Fragmentation, Philosophy, and Early German Romanticism

19 May 2026

• Maxim Demin – Philosophy, God-Seeking, and Developmental Psychology: Stolitsa and Volkovich in Late Imperial Russia
• Patricia Guevara Wozniak – The Metaphysical Tenacity of Barbara Skarga – Metaphysics in Totalitarianism

02 June 2026

• Jake Nicholas Brooks – Autonomy Beyond Kant: Butler, Tronto, and Interdependence
• Kaimé Guerrero Valencia – Intervening Assemblages of Trans-formation/Action: Beatriz Nascimento (1942–1995)

09 June 2026

• Marianne Najm Abou-Jaoude – Beneficent Communication as Power
• Roula Azar Douglas – Women’s Digital Voices and the Reconfiguration of Public Debate