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– Course instructors/experts: 30 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion
– Graduate speakers: 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for discussion
– Students (BA/MA): 10 minutes, plus 5 minutes for discussion
Status of the program: July 21, 2026. Changes still possible.
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| Monday (July 27) | Room L3 204 | Room L2 202 | Room L1 202 |
| 9:30 – 12:00 |
Celebration – 10 Years Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
Welcome President of Paderborn University, Prof. Dr. Matthias Bauer Deputy Mayor of Paderborn, Sabine Kramm Office Manager for Verena Mertens, Member of the European Parliament for the OWL Constituency, Hartwig Höschen Managing Director of the Paderborn Economic Development Agency, Jürgen Janke
Birthday Greetings Dean of Research of Paderborn University, Prof. Dr. Ilka Mindt Executive Board of the IAPh e.v., Prof. Dr. Ma Theresa Payongayong Women’s & Gender Research Network NRW, Dr. Corinna Bath Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund, Prof. Dr. Dorothee Meister Constitutive Member of ZenMeM, Peter Stadler
10 Years of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber, Director
Honours Deputy Directors 10 Years Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists Project Digital Humanities Cooperation Partners
Music Charlotte Michels: Deborah Henson-Conant (*1953) Baroque Flamenco
Awarding Ceremony of the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize Laudatio: Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko Thanks to the Donator: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers
Music Charlotte Michels: Henriette Renié (1875-1956) Pièce Symphonique
Official Signing of two Memoranda of Understanding with the University of the Philippines Diliman represented by Chancellor Prof. Atty. Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II, Prof. Ma Theresa T. Payongayong, Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Philosophy Prof. Ruth Lusterio-Rico, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy Prof. Lilybeth Lumagbas. with the Islamic University of Science & Technology (IUST), Kashmir, India, represented by Vice Chancellor Prof. Shakil Ahmad Romshoo, Assistant Professor Muzaffar Ali Malla, Dean Academic Affairs Prof. Sheikh Aijaz Bashir, and Dean of the School of Humanities & Social Sciences Prof. Afroz Bisati
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 |
14.00-14.40: Julia Lerius, Embodied Knowledge: Vision, Medicine, and Authority in Hildegard of Bingen; Rethinking Knowledge Beyond Scholastic Epistemology 14.45-15.00: Luca Esfehanian, Images of Nature and Healing: Applying Hildegard of Bingen’s viriditas to natural spaces in Konrad Fleck’s Flore und Blanscheflur 15.00-15.15: Finn Salinus, Healthy Nutrition in Oliva Sabuco
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14.00-14.40: Luka Borsic and Ivana Skuhala Karasman, From Helene Druskowitz to Valerie Solanas 14.50-15.20: Tatiana Levina, Caring for the Truth: Lina Tumanova’s Philosophy and Human Rights Activism in the Late USSR |
14.00-14.40: Katrin König, Faith Seeking Experience. The Question of Divine Presence in Female Perspectives 14.40-14.55: Veronica Fernandes, Sor Juna Inés de la Cruz’ defense of women’s right to study 15.00-15.30: Viridiana Platas Benítez, Immerse in Divinity: the lost and found voices of Sor Francisca Josefa del Castillo and Sor Jerónima Nava |
| 15:30 – 15:35 |
Break |
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| 15:35 – 17:30 |
15.35-16.15: Jil Muller, The Cold Female Body in Oliva Sabuco: Motherhood, Semen and Milk
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15.35-16.15: Ma Theresa Payongayong, EcoTechGender and the Politics of Women’s Space 16.15-16.30: Sofia Sivaglieri, Through and Beyond the Lockean Paradigm: A Comparative Genealogy of the Lived Body through the Thought of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Iris Marion Young 16.30-17.00: Meng Tian, Pussy Panic and the Question of Theoretical Legitimacy in Animal Studies: Adams, Haraway, and Gruen 17.00-17.30: Violeta Milicevic, Explaining What, to Whom, How, When and Why? Purposes of XAI in Predictive Policing |
15.35-16.05: Judith Margaretha Damian, The Engagement of Jewish “Salonières” with Religious Topics and Identity in Light of Multidimensional Inequalities
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| Tuesday (July 28) | Room L3 204 | Room L2 202 | Room L1 202 |
| 9:00 – 10:00 | Keynote (room: L3 204) Dorota Dutsch, Women in the Archive: An Argument with Silence | ||
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:15 – 12:30 |
10.15-10.40: Pierpaolo Betti, The Digital Project: Manuscript and Commentary 10.50-11.30: Pierpaolo Betti, The Sources of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique 11.30-12.00: Jan Forsman, Metaphysics Under a Watchful Eye: Émilie Du Châtelet’s “On Freedom” and Voltaire’s Traité de Metaphysique |
10.15-10.55: Federica Giardini, Gender and Economics: Regimes of Visibility, Regimes of Value 10.55-11.10: Maria Fiammetta Maccario, Economic dependence and female citizenship in post-Partition Pakistan: Fatima Jinnah and women’s technical education 11.10-11.40: Sowmya Ayyar, Feminine Epistemologies of Diplomacy in Indic Traditions: Reading Avvaiyar as a Diplomatic Theorist 11.40-12.10: Dany Kanjirathingal Shaju, Booker Laureate to “Anti-Antioanl”: Arundhati Roy and the Gendered Politics of Intellectual Legitimacy 12.10-12.25: Ron Joshua Imperial, Barangay Arbitration as a Moral and Political Discourse: Seyla Benhabib in Dialogue with Katarungang Pambarangay |
10.15-10.55: Vera Grund, “They call it love we call it unpaid labor”: Musical Legacy of the Wages for Housework Movement 10.55-11.10: Theodora Anna Spai, The Dancer of the Future: Productive Dialectics of Embodiment and Spirituality in Isadora Duncan’s Dance Philosophy 11.10-11.40: Francesca Maria Villani, Sounding Thought: The Musical Condition of Cixous’s Feminist Philosophy 11.40-11.55: Matilde Sciortino, Susanne K. Langer between Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Mind, and Cognitive Science |
| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 |
14.00-14.40: Clara Carus, Du Châtelet’s Metaphysics: The Knowable and Unknowable 14.40-15.10: Kenneth Novis, Du Châtelet and Spinoza: A Fiction to Command the Emotions |
14.00-14.15: Anna Eleni Tzeraki and Chatzakou Despoina, Rachel Fanny Antonina Lee: Political Thought and Feminist Agency in the Age of Revolutions 14.15-14.45: Nadia De Sario, Re-Production in the Wallmapu: The Telluric Revolution of Moira Ivana Millán in the ancestral Mapuche Territory 14.45-15.25: Gabriele Schimmenti, Women Philosophers and Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Germany |
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| 15:30 – 15:35 |
Break |
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| 15:35 – 17:30 |
15.35-16.15: Chelsea Harry, An Alternate Origin Story: Sappho of Lesvos and Ancient Greek Philosophy 16.15-16.55: Kris Mclain, Theorizing Power: Ancient Greco-Roman Women Philosophers on the Maintenance of the State 16.55-17.25: Ashwini Ramesh Sharma, Domestic Life as Philosophy: A Comparative Dialogue between Theano and Bahinabai Chaoudhari |
15.35-15.50: Marie Šebková, Real People and Abstract Structures: Dorothy Emmet’s Notion of Institutional Man 15.50-16.20: Aybüke Mete, “Has Somebody Invented Old Women Yet?”: Gender and Aging through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Selected Essays 16.20-17.00: Pedro Pricladnitzky, Press and Political Power: Women Writers, Education, and Suffrage in Nineteenth-Century Latin America 17.00-17.15: Carolyn Maria Los, The Packhorse Library Project: Women’s initiative and Alternative Narratives during the Great Depression
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| Wednesday (July 29) | Room L3 204 | Room L2 202 | Room L1 202 |
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote (room: L3 204) Kateryna Karpenko, Ecofeminism in the context of the challenges of artificial intelligence |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:15 – 12:30 |
10.15-11.45: Aristi Trendel ; Theodora Tsimpouki, Feminist Ecocriticism: From Mary Shelley to Han Kang (BIP Program) 11.45-12.00: Chrysa Kalimeri, Earth and Femininity: Healing Wounds Through Nature in Art 12.00-12.15: Foteini Eleni Kotsaina, Good Sister/Bad Sister: The Deconstructed Feminine in Sharp Objects 12.15-12.30: Alexander Woitinas, Feminism and the Fairy Tale: Deconstructing Patriarchal Narratives in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories |
10.15-10.55: Juliette Morice, The concept of freedom in Gabrielle Suchon’s feminism 10.55-11.10: Lene G. Vos, A Life of One’s Own: Suchon and Astell on Women’s Liberty between Solitude and Community 11.10-11.25: Zachary H. Roberts, Self-Motion and the Continuousness of Nature in Margaret Cavendish. 11.30-12.10: David Harmon, Images and imagination in Anne Conway’s Vitalistic Inversion of Mechanical Philosophy |
10.15-10.55: Aurélie Knufer, A queer history of philosophy? Methodological reflections based on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft 10.55-11.25: Aylin Akyar, The Intellectual Dialectic Between Mary Shelley and Lord Byron 11.25-11.55: Yanan Qizhi, Sex and Gender in Early Modern Dreaming: German and Chinese Sources Compared 12.00-12.15: Georgia Karakatsani, Wounds: Female Vampirism, Sexuality and Abjection in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire |
| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 |
14.00-14.30: Edo Huskovic, Marija Josheska, Sadije Asanova, Environmental ethics and environmental protection 14.30-15.10: Anastasia Guidi, Anne Conway in Brazil: vitalist ontologies, ecofeminism and successor science to keep the forest standing 15.10-15.25: Bora Lumani, Margaret Atwood: Shaping Modern Dystopian Narrative |
14.00-14.30: Carmen Gerns, Elisabeth of the Palatinate’s Correspondence with René Descartes: Between Technologies of the Self and Technologies of Domination 14.30-15.00: Abel dos Santos Beserra, Voices Between Classical Rationalism and the Contemporary: Elisabeth of Bohemia and the Question of the Body 15.00-15.30: Mamedova Mayya, Virtue Theory of Damaris Masham: How to Be a Virtuous Cognisant? |
14.00-14.40: Kristin Käuper, Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Conceptual Analysis of Asexuality and Aromanticism 14.45-15.00: Eleni Magdalini Lytra, Shamed Female Sexuality: from Tradition and Myth to Revision and Reclamation 15.00-15.15: Elina Rohleder, Not a Service Like Any Other: A Critical Engagement with Martha Nussbaum’s Account of Prostitution |
| 15:30 – 15:35 |
Break |
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| 15:35 – 17:15 |
15.35-15.50: Stamatia Kapetanou, Shirley Jackson: An Exploration of Gender through Horror 15.50-16.05: Maria Gerdt, Feminist Perspectives on Responsibility in Contemporary Military Conflicts 16.05-16.35: Tetiana Gardashuk, Ukrainian Women in Wartime: Between Essentialism and Ecological Citizenship 16.35-17.05: Massih Zekavat, Woman, Life, Freedom: Hoda Hadadi’s Multimodal Resistance to Heteropatriarchy in Iranian Children’s Literature |
15.35-16.05: ĽUbica Kobová, Reason and Thinking in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Work 16.05-16.35: Marina Aguilar, Poetic Form and the Democratization of Philosophy in the Spanish Enlightenment: María de Camporredondo and Benito Jerónimo Feijoo 16.35-17.15: Björn Freter, Polite Insurrection. Johanna Charlotte Unzer’s Outline of Worldly Wisdom for Women |
15.35-16.15: Elodie Pinel, Mystics Women as Philosophers: Revisiting the History of Middle Ages Philosophy 16.15-16.45: Clara Romani, Prophecy as a Mode of Expression: The Prophetesses of Late Medieval France 16.45-17.15: Laura Carolina Durán, The Mystical Journey: Four 13th-Century Women in Four Cities
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| Thursday (July 30) | Room L3 204 | Room L2 202 | Room L1 202 | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote (room: L3 204) Priyanka Jha, Dissent as Survival and Resistance in Global Populist Cultures: Herstory of Women’s Voices and Grammars in Indian Academia |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:15 – 12:30 |
10.15-10.55: Namita Herzl, Philosophies of Women Beyond the Canon 10.55-11.25: Mounira Balghouthi, Gender Beyond the West: Translation, Hermeneutics, and the Rewriting of Women in Arab Thought 11.25-11.55: Zafar Iqbal, Zeb-un-Nisā’s Epistemology of Bātin : Rethinking Agency in theHistory of Non-Western Women Philosophers 11.55-12.25: Aya Masmoudi, Dreaming Through Borders: Fatema Mernissi’s Feminist Reconfiguration of Cultural Power Relations between East and West |
10.15-10.55: Andrea Reichenberger, Hidden Voices and Gendered Spaces in the History and Philosophy of Science 10.55-11.10: Jan Poll, Uncovering Hidden Voices: Grete Hermann’s Critique of von Neumann and her Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics 11.10-11.40: Laida Arbizu Aguirre, Whose Konwledge Counts? Gendered Epistemic Authority and Science Denial 11.40-11.55: Jahmine Rafaralahy, Marie Curie and the recognition of women in science 12.00-12.30: Monosree Chakraborty, Credited to Others: Lovelace, Ayrton, and the Philosophy of Stolen Intellectual Labor |
10.15-10.55: Daniela Zumpf, Simone de Beauvoir’s essay “An eye for an eye” in secondary school philosophy classes 10.55-11.25: Elle Lepoutre, Learning to think by doing – philosophy with twelve-year-olds 11.30-12.00: Louise Beaujean, Discovering philosophy in adolescence through the poetry of Hélène Dorion |
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 – 15:30 |
14.00-14.40: Rutte Andrade, African Women’s Agency and Epistemic Sovereignty: Philosophical Foundations of Batuku and Tina 14.40-15.10: Ossai Onyinyechi Gift, Negotiating Patriarchal Traditions: Married Women, Cultural Control, and Everyday Resistance in Southeastern Nigeria 15.10-15.25: Nmesoma Michael Okeke, Recovering Hidden Voices: Women’s Epistemic Agency in Precolonial Igbo Intellectual Traditions |
14.00-14.30: Igor Larionov, Magda Arnold’s Impact on the Theory of Emotions and the Ethics of Virtue 14.30-15.00: Ties van Gemert, E.M. Whetnall on Ultimate Analysis in Philosophy: Metaphysics and Social Situations 15.00-15.30: Michela Bella, Feminist history of psychology and pragmatist feminism |
14.00-14.40: Julia Mühl, Gerda Walther – Between Social Determinism and Free Will 14.40-15.10: Anna Mammen Koyickal, Simulation without Being: A Steinian Critique of Digital Personhood 15.10-15.25: Rieke Marie Borys, Feminism as a social media trend- how “microfeminism” slowly changes the way we view the world |
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| 15:30 – 15:35 |
Break |
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| 15:35 – 17:00 |
15.35-15.50: Sofia Kulikova, Negotiating Socialist Internationalism: Southern African Women Activists and Gendered Visions of the Future in the 1960s 15.50-16.30: Abosede Ipadeola, African Storytelling as Philosophical/Feminist Practice 16.30-16.45: Eleni Ainalaki-Papastavrou, Re-Searching Our Mothers Gardens: Revisiting Alice Walker and Black Women’s Creativity |
15.35-16.15: Michele Vagnetti, Vilma Fritsch: A Forgotten Pioneer of the History of Analytic Philosophy 16.15- 16.30: Andrea Zhang, The “Harvard Computers” 16.30-17.00: Kailyn Smith, Theoretical Physics and Theories of Lament
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15.35-15.50: Kelly Dinneen, Before the Zetetic Turn: Twentieth-Century Women on the Epistemology of Attention 16.00-16.40: Antonio Calcagno, The Negation and Background of the I and Their Constitutive Possibilities in Gerda Walther’s Phenomenology |
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| Friday (July 31) | Room L3 204 | Room L2 202 | Room L1 202 |
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote (room: L3 204) Ronny Miron, Between Encroachment and Appearance: The Phenomenology of Distance and Distance-lessness in Hedwig Conrad-Martius |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 |
Break |
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| 10:15 – 12:30 |
10.15-10.45: Ingrid Mae H. De Jesus, From Confucian Equality to Radical Refusal: A Genealogy of South Korean Feminist Thought 10.45-11.00: Zhang Wenxia, Korean fiction by women writers 11.00-11.30: Tinni Goswami, Gender and Religion: Understanding Women, Empowerment, and Society in Colonial Bengal—The Life of Sarada Devi |
10.15-10.45: Fiorella Giaculli, An Unconventional Taxonomy: Life and Politics in Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium 10.45-11.15: Mihaela Drăgoi, The societal Architecture of Care 11.30-12.00: Markia Liapi, The Greek Writer Pinelopi Delta 12.00-12.30: Lina Schilling, The IAPh-Archiv as Fundament for the History of Women Philosophers |
10.15-10.45: Varsha Upadhyay, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Post-Colonial Public Health: Social and Moral Imaginaries for Modern India (1930s-1960s) 10.50-11.20: Vanessa Sabbatini, Women in medicine in the Marche region (1900–1960): stories of obstacles and recognition 11.30-11.45: Marina Antoniou, Examples of Female Infanticide in North American and Greek Rural Literature |
| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch |
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| 14:00 |
Fare Well and end Libori Summer School 2026* |
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| *14:00 – 17:00 |
Special Mandatory Program for our registered ERASMUS and UPB Students only: Field Study Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum
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