Distinguished visiting professor Sarah Hutton is guest at the Teaching and Research Area “History of Women Philosophers” at the Department of Philosophy in Paderborn. Professor Hutton‘s research focuses on the Renaissance and Seventeenth-century literature and intellectual history, including the history of science and history of philosophy. She is specialized in the History of Women Philosophers […]
This II. Autumn School at the Center History of Women Philosophers and Scientists offers units on the thoughts of women philosophers from 1600-1900 for advanced students who are interested in the history of women philosophers. Units are offered on: - Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) - Olympe de Gouges (1748-1793) - Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) - Sophie […]
Visiting professor Michelle Boulous Walker is guest at the Project "Center History of Women Philosophers" at the Department of Philosophy in Paderborn. Professor Boulous Walker is author of Slow Philosophy: Reading Against the Institution (Bloomsbury 2017), Philosophy and the Maternal Body: Reading Silence (Routledge 1998) and Performing Sexualities (IMA 1994). Her work in philosophy as […]
In this 2 day Master Class, Prof. Elizabeth Minnich will discuss the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, with special emphasis on Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on The Banality of Evil. This serves as the background for Minnich’s latest book, The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking (2017). This work presents elaborates the concept of […]
Prof. Karen Green (University of Melbourne) Course Description This course will focus on the reception of John Locke's classical liberalism and republicanism among women in 18th-Century England, particularly Catharine Trotter Cockburn and Catharine Macaulay. It will begin with a discussion of recent controversies over the role of Locke in the development of republicanism (Pocock, Israel, […]
Recent events have shown that it is urgent and fundamentally important to shed new light, through philosophical, linguistic, literary, scientific, medical and artistic perspectives, on the female body and the position of women in relation to their body. Too often it seems that women do not have the right to determine their own body, although […]
At April 5, 2023, Ruth E. Hagengruber will give a Masterclass and Keynote Lecture on "Women Philosophers: Thinking Europe Anew" at the talk series "Voices from Contemporary Philosophy". The talk series takes place from January to May 2023 at the Department of Humanities of the University of Trento, Italy, and is coordinated by Michele Nicoletti, […]
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