The title "Politics as Theology" of the 5th Annual International Summer School and Conference 2017 "Beyond Secular Faith", stems from a conviction that only a faith liberated from the conceptual restraints and ideological presuppositions imposed by secular culture - a faith centered radically on Christ - can offer a word of hope and reason to […]
The first International Libori Summer School, organized by the Center for the History Women Philosophers and Scientists, starts with an event at the atmospheric Deelenhaus. After welcome addresses by Prof. Ruth Hagengruber, starting at 6:15 pm, Prof. Ronny Miron from Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv will hold an opening speech entitled "Shakespeare's Sisters". Afterwards, the […]
Libori Summer School course "Women Philosophers - Medieval and Renaissance Periods": With her book series „A History of Women Philosophers“ the instructor of this class, Prof. Dr. Mary Ellen Waithe, created a thorough overview over female thinkers, authors, and scientists within the history of philosophy. Together with Reverend Dr. Conley and Evina Glantzi this Libori […]
The Libori Summer School “Émilie Du Châtelet: Matter, Bodies, Forces, Motion” focuses on some of the chapters from Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique (1740/42) within the context of the scientific thinking of her time. In the early 18th century, the Dutch physicist Willem Jacob 's Gravesande, at Leiden University, performed a number of experiments wherein […]
Libori Summer School course "Women Phenomenologists of the Early 20th Century": In 1907, the Göttingen Circle of phenomenologists was founded by Theodor Conrad – one of many students of Theodor Lipps who travelled from Munich to study with Husserl – and Alfred von Sybel – one of Husserl’s early Göttingen followers. Over the next three […]
This Libori Summer School course "Helene Druskowitz and Modern Misandry" will offer an overview over a minimally investigated “third voice” in the history of ideas: man-hating (misandry, viriphobia). As some would argue, misandry, though more covertly than misogyny, has always been present in the public discourse of our civilization. However, around the fin de siècle […]
As part of the first International Libori Summer School, the project Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists will hold an evening event at the AStA Stadtcampus, starting at 6.30 pm on Wednesday, July 26th. Prof. Jeffrey K. McDonough, Head of the Department of the History of Philosophy at Harvard University, will present […]
The first International Libori Summer School will end ceremoniously with an evening event at the Deelenhaus. The director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Prof. Ruth Hagengruber, will chair the event together with American professor and project advisor Mary Ellen Waithe. Afterwards, Dr. Charles Wolfe from Ghent University will give […]
The interdisciplinary and award winning project “Philosophie in den Medien“ was launched 2014 by Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber (philosophy), Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard E. Ortner (dramatic staging), Ulrich Lettermann (music), and Bernhard Koch (filming) to present women philosophers’ thoughts via student performances to the broad public. These performances featured women philosophers and scientists as Émilie […]
Location: L2.202 , Paderborn University Dorothy Rogers is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Montclair State University (Montclair, New Jersey). She is also the coordinator of MSU's program in Jewish American Studies. Her publications include: "The Other Philosophy Club: America's First Academic Women Philosophers," Hypatia 24:2 (2009) "Marietta Kies: Idealist and Altruist (1853-1899)," in […]
Lecturers: Hartmut Hecht, Ruth Hagengruber, Andrea Reichenberger and Dieter Suisky Location: L1.202 , Paderborn University After the study of space and time in “Du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Newton” we are now moving on to explore “Du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Kant.” This course will focus on Du Châtelet and the Eberhard-Kant Controversy, including the problems […]
Lecturers: Ronny Miron, Antonio Calcagno, Rodney Parker Location: L2.202, Paderborn University Discussions of the self and subjectivity are a commonplace in phenomenological writings. The elaboration of the I as the focal point of experience is central to phenomenological research. In the Fourth Cartesian Meditation, Husserl argues that the phenomenology of “self-constitution coincides with phenomenology as whole.” […]
Lecturers: Mary Ellen Waithe and Dorothy Rogers Location: L2.201, Paderborn University This course explores the ideas of two women in the early idealist philosophical movement in the United States: Marietta Kies (1853-1899) and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936). Kies developed a theory of altruism in public/political life and was a member of the Christian Socialist movement. Ames […]
Lecturers: Luka Borsic, Ivana Skuhala Karasman Location: L3.204, Paderborn University Socialist Feminism professes that a complete emancipation of women is achieved through the abolition of economic and cultural sources of women's oppression. This, according to some, represents the synthesis of the arguments of Marxist feminism about capitalism as a source of oppression of women and the […]
Lecturer: Maria von Welser Location: L1.201, Paderborn University Guest Speakers: Nahid Shahalimi, Lea Ackermann, Berta Travieso, Godula Kosack Research was carried out in Afghanistan, India, Eastern Congo, and in international refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and on the Greek island of Lesbos. The result was a UN list titled: Countries in which it is the greatest danger to be […]
Location: L2.202, Paderborn University Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King's University College (London, Ontario), and co-director of the Centre for Advanced Research in European Philosophy (CAREP). His publications include: "On the Vulnerability of a Community: Edith Stein and Gerda Walther," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 49 (2018) "A Place for the Role of Community […]
Location: L2.202 , Paderborn University Robyn Arianrhod is Adjunct Research Associate in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). Her publications include: Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2012) Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics (Oxford University Press, 2006) All interested parties […]
Location: L2.202 , Paderborn University Luka Boršić is Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb (Croatia) and lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Zagreb Campus. His publications include: Lexicon of outstanding women in Croatia from XI till XX century (with Ivana Skuhala Karasman), (Naklada Jurcic, 2015) “Isotta Nogarola – The Beginning of […]
Location: L2.202 , Paderborn University Maria von Welser is a journalist and humanitarian who has dedicated her life to reporting on the living conditions of women in developing nations around the globe. She is also served as a member of the executive board of UNICEF Germany. All interested parties are welcome to attend! General information: Libori Summer […]
Please also visit our Libori Summer School 2019 webpage. ____________________________________________________ The Libori Summer School 2019 at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists will focus on "Teaching Women Philosophers." This year, two parallel Libori Summer Schools will be run, one in English and one in German language (see the German information below). […]
Lady Reason criticizes Christine de Pizan for idolatrizing philosophers, who « like to quote the authors they have read», writing «philofolly», instead of «philosophy». The exclusion of women philosophers from the history of philosophy is a result of the centuries-old practice of gendered-minded self-interest of certain groups, supported by a culturally established patriarchal hierarchy. After […]
WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THE 2ND CROATIA LIBORI SUMMER SCHOOL FROM 19TH TO 22ND OF JUNE 2023 IN ZAGREB WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS AND SCIENTISTS ON MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND BODY AWARENESS Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Ulica grada Vukovara 54/V, Zagreb Croatia In cooperation with the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: […]
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