Workshop on Women in the History of Medicine and Philosophy

June 18, 2025, 2pm – 5 pm (hybrid)

Preliminary Program:

14.00-14.10 Welcome Dr. Jil Muller

14.10- 14.30 Dr. Ivana Skuhala Karasman (Senior scientific fellow at IFZG Croatia) – Croatian Women Philosopher and Psychologist: Elza Kučera

14.50-15.10 Dr. Ilaria Ferrara (adjunct professor at the University of Salerno, Italy; former Post-doc at University of Ferrara) – The Logic of Exclusion: Prejudice and the Fallacy of Generalization in Dorothea Christiane Erxleben’s Rigorous Investigation.

15.30-15.45 Break

15.45-16.05 Vanessa Sabbatini (PhD Candidate at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy) – Medical women  in the Marche region in the Contemporary Age: the case of Giulia Bonarelli and her “method of gentleness.”

16.25-16.45 Ivana Zečević (PhD Candidate at University of Groningnen, the Netherlands) – From Hospitals to Village Outreaches: Changing Ideas Around Motherhood and Childcare in Villa Maria and Mua Hospitals, 1900s-1980s.

Invited Discussants (Q&A for each paper will last 20 minutes): Dr. Fabrizio Bigotti (CSMBR, Pisa); Dr. Michele Vagnetti (Paderborn University); PD Dr. Friedrich Markewitz (Paderborn University) and Dr. Jil Muller (HWPS, Paderborn).

More information will be provided soon.

To participate please register via our registration platform: https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/event/115/registrations/143/

Organizer:

Dr. Jil Muller, Paderborn University