Irene Calà: Aspasia and the Others: Women and Medicine in Late Antiquity Medical texts from Late Antiquity are invaluable for our understanding of lost medical sources. This is particularly true […]
Anna Gili: Women’s Health in Early Islamic Medical Works: Contextualising al-Maǧūsī’s "Kitāb al-malakī" Al-Maǧūsī, a Zoroastrian physician from the Fārs province, composed his Kitāb al-malakī during the second half of […]
Shannon McHugh: Women’s Reproductive Lives in Renaissance Italian Lyric Poetry What can a sonnet teach us about the history of women’s reproductive bodies? For the early modern world, notions about […]
Dr. Pichová is giving a guest lecture in the seminar Radical Feminism (led by Ana Rodrigues). The lecture will take place on campus in room E2.316. Interested guests are welcome! […]
Karine Durin: Fluids as Dynamic and Organic Forces. Medical knowledge in Oliva Sabuco de Nantes This work will examine the study of organic fluids and movements in the Nueva filosofía de […]
Dr. Michael Walshots, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, will introduce us into his research on Johanna Charlotte Unzer (1725–82): The first female german philosopher. The talk is […]
Prof. Dr. Fatima-Zohra Iflahen, Full Professor at Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco, will introduce us into her research on Women’s Rights Theories and Movements in Morocco and North Africa: Coming […]
Viktorya Vasilyan: A History of Breastfeeding: Its Iconography and Medical Importance During human history, infants were fed human milk for survival, either through breastfeeding by their mothers or adoptive breastfeeding […]
Dr. Gabriele Schimmenti, Post Doctoral Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer at the University Roma Tre (Italy), will introduce us into his research on (History of) Philosophy, Politics, and Art in Louise […]
Dr. Andrea Reichenberger, research group leader at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Siegen, will introduce us into her research on Grete Hermann: From Quantum Physics to Politics […]
Martina Guzzetti: Pregnant Women’s Wellbeing in Jane Sharp’s "The Midwives’ Book" (1671) Women’s health, wellbeing, and medical conditions have always been at the centre of gendered debates concerning, among other […]
Felix Grewe, Research Fellow and Doctoral Student at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, will introduce us into his research on Donna J. Haraway and her […]
Dr. Dr. Luka Boršić, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy Zagreb (Croatia), will introduce us into hisresearch on Radical Feminism in 16th Century Dubrovnik: The Strange Case of […]
Dr. Jil Muller, Deputy Director of The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, will introduce us into her research on Holistic Philosophical Anthropology. The talk is part […]
Dr. Manaswini Sen will introduce us into her research on Trade Unionism, Communism and Feminist Intellectual History in late colonial Bengal. She is an Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian […]
Abstract: Most scholars emphasize the discontinuity in Kant’s early accounts of matter, reinforcing the longstanding view that the young Kant explored various positions without committing to a specific one. More […]
While the historiography of philosophy has increasingly integrated marginalized figures, the philosophical exchanges between Leibniz and his female correspondents remain understudied. Beyond well-known exchanges with figures like Lady Damaris Masham […]
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft will present his and Rodney K. B. Parker’s newly published book Gerda Walther. Toward an Ontology of Social Communities (De Gruyter, 2025) as part of the […]
Dr. Pietro Gori is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at NOVA University Lisbon, where he is in charge of the chairs in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy […]
Minji Lee will present her newly published book The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s views on the female reproductive body. as part of the regular Research Colloquium at the Center […]
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