History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Luka Boršić – "Women in Capitalism"
2018-08-02 10:00 - 11:15 (Europe/Berlin) | L-Building, Uni-Campus, Warburgerstr. 100, Paderborn, 33100, Germany
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 Gender Equality in Europe” (with I. Skuhala Karasman), Monist 98: 1 (2015)
“Patrizi and His Women”, in Francesco Patrizi: Philosopher of the Renaissance (Palacky University Press, 2014)

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Robyn Arianrhod – "Émilie Du Châtelet"
2018-08-01 10:00 - 11:15 (Europe/Berlin) | L-Building, Uni-Campus, Warburgerstr. 100, Paderborn, 33100, Germany
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)

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Antonio Calcagno – "Self and Subjectivity in Edith Stein"
2018-07-31 10:00 - 11:15 (Europe/Berlin) | L-Building, Uni-Campus, Warburgerstr. 100, Paderborn, 33100, Germany
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 in the Structure of the State: Edith Stein and Edmund Husserl,” Continental Philosophy Review 49 (2016)

Lived Experience from the Inside Out: The Social and Political Philosophy of Edith Stein (Duquesne University Press, 2014)

The Philosophy of Edith Stein (Duquesne University Press, 2007)

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Dorothy Rogers – "American Women Philosophers"
2018-07-30 10:00 - 11:15 (Europe/Berlin) | L-Building, Uni-Campus, Warburgerstr. 100, Paderborn, 33100, Germany
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 Contributions by Women to Nineteenth Century American Philosophy (Mellen, 2012)
“Elizabeth Cady Stanton,” Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2010)
America’s First Women Philosophers: Transplanting Hegel, 1860-1925 (Continuum, 2005)

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Elizabeth Minnich - Opening Lecture
2018-07-29 19:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Deelenhaus, Krämerstraße 8-10, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany
Elizabeth Minnich is Distinguished Fellow at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research in 1977. Her dissertation, “Philosophy, Democracy and Communication: A Study of John Dewey As Political Philosopher,” was supervised by Hannah Arendt and Richard Bernstein. She was Hannah Arendt’s teaching assistant in 1969-70, at the time when Arendt was defending her report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann (“The Engineer of the Nazi Final Solution”). This is where Arendt announced her controversial observation concerning the “the banality of evil.” In the years since then, Minnich has continued reflecting on, researching, and writing about evil, which culminates in her recent work The Evil of Banality.
Her publications include:

The Evil of Banality: On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016)
The Fox in the Henhouse. How Privatization Threatens Democracy (Berrett-Koehler, 2005)
“Arendt, Heidegger, Eichmann: Thinking in and for the World,” Soundings 86:1/2 (2003)
Transforming Knowledge (Temple, 1990)

Location: DeelenHaus, Krämerstraße 8-10, Paderborn

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Master Class: Hannah Arendt Today. The Evil of Banality
2018-07-27 10:00 - 2018-07-28 13:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Technologiepark 21, Universität Paderborn, 33100, Germany
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 “extensive evils” through the examples of as slavery, human trafficking, economic exploitation, for-profit penitentiaries, etc. Minnich considers explanations of the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of extensive evils by social psychologists and historians such as Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo, whose work on obedience to authority and peer pressure she challenges.
Dates and times:
July 27, 2018 – 10:00-13:00 and 14:00-17:00
July 28, 2018 – 10:00-13:00
Location:
Technologiepark 21

Elizabeth Minnich is Professor of Philosophy at Queens University of Charlotte (Charlotte, North Carolina) and Distinguished Fellow at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research in 1977. Her dissertation, “Philosophy, Democracy and Communication: A Study of John Dewey As Political Philosopher,” was supervised by Hannah Arendt and Richard Bernstein. She was Hannah Arendt’s teaching assistant in 1969-70, at the time when Arendt was defending her report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann (“The Engineer of the Nazi Final Solution”). This is where Arendt announced her controversial observation concerning the “the banality of evil.” In the years since then, Minnich has continued reflecting on, researching, and writing about evil, which culminates in her reversal of Arendt’s concept: the evil of banality.
Participants are encouraged to send questions to Prof. Minnich via email.

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Women in the History of Science, Philosophy and Literature
2018-07-12 - 2018-07-13
The International Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, the Commission on Women and Gender Studies DHST/IUHPST, the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University, the School of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University, the Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation, and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Athens organize a two-days’ workshop to study Women in the History of Science, Philosophy and Literature. The CoSciLit workshop is already an established part of the very prestigious “Hermoupolis Seminars” which have been organized for more than 30 years every July on Syros Island.
This workshop aims to rediscover and to re-evaluate the impact and role of women in the history of science, philosophy, and literature. In recent years there has been growing interest in the history of women’s contributions to science, philosophy, and literature which dates back to the very beginnings of these disciplines. Theano, Hypatia, Du Châtelet, Lovelace are only a small selection of prominent women philosophers and scientists throughout history. The conference offers an open forum for all scholars interested in this growing research field, thus bringing into the dialogue multiple perspectives and different disciplines in order to build communication and cooperation bridges between science, philosophy, and literature. We especially welcome contributions placing women at the forefront and confirming their role in the production of modern scientific, technical knowledge and its philosophical foundation.

Speakers and topics:

Chelsea Harry (Southern Connecticut State University, USA) – Sappho of Lesbos as a Philosopher of Time?
Effie Lampropoulou (Hellenic Open University, Greece) – Women and Science in Antiquity. An Underestimated Driving Force
Maya Roman (Tel Aviv University, Israel) – Alfred and Evelyn: A Comparison of Alfred N. Whitehead’s and Evelyn Fox Keller’s Philosophy of the Organism
Anna Smywińska-Pohl (Jagellonian University, Poland) – Jewish Women Philosophers at the Jagiellonian University in the Mid War Time
Ivana Buljan (University of Zagreb, Croatia) – From Nature to Virtue: Female Identity in Han Chinese Thought
Alina Bako (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania) – The Feminine Romanian Novel and the Unfaithful Memory
Diana Gianola (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart – Milan, Italy) – The Philosophy of Women on Democracy and Forgiveness: a Comparison Between Arendt and Nussbaum
Nechama Haddad (Tel Aviv University, Israel) – The Making of Woman
Stylianos Virvidakis (National University of Athens, Greece) – Iris Murdoch and Contemporary Moral Philosophy
Andrew Brown/Ulla Kölving (Centre Int. d’étude XVIIIe siècle, Ferney, France) – Du Châtelet’s Impact: Her Correspondence
Ruth Hagengruber (Paderborn University, Germany) – Rewriting the History of Philosophy: Du Châtelet’s Philosophical Impact
Andrea Reichenberger (Paderborn University, Germany) – Du Châtelet on Hypotheses
Ana Rodrigues (Paderborn University, Germany) – Du Châtelet’s Modern Turn in Eudemonistic Ethics
Panagiotis Lazos (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece) – Emilie Du Châtelet and Jean Antoine Nollet. Scientific Instruments and the Interaction Between Two Significant Scholars of the 18thCentury
Qiu Lin (Duke University, USA) – Émilie Du Châtelet’s Views on Space
Natalia-Rozalia Avlona (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) – From the Virtual Communities of Digital Commons to the Physical Practices of Makerspaces: An Intersectional Feminist Study
Elena Zaitseva (Moscow State University, Russia) – First Russian Women Chemists: Joining the Professional Community
Georgia Manoli (Panteion University, Greece) – The feminist critique on the rhetorics of Natural Sciences
Themis Kanetaki (Independent Scholar) – “Get dressed my lady but do it upright”. The History of the Bra – A Female Technology in Greece, 1960-1980
Elpida Printezi-Kampeli (Independent Scholar) – Ursulines Sisters: First Girls’ Teachers in Syros, in the Middle of the 18th Century
Aleksandar Petrovic/Aleksandra Stevanovic (University of Belgrade, Serbia) – Olgivana Lloyd Wright and Eastern Religious Literature Impact on Modern Architecture
Tuvaal Klein (Tel Aviv University, Israel) – Marie Curie’s Public Persona – A Critical Examination
Dimitris Kilakos (Sofia University, Bulgaria) – S.A. Yanovskaya: The Marxist Pioneer of Mathematical Logic in Soviet Union
Kosana Jovanovic, Iris Vidmar (University of Rijeka, Croatia) – Echoes of Christine de Pizan in Contemporary Feminist Philosophy
Ivory Day (University Paris 1, Pantheon Sorbonne, France) – Stebbing and Russell on Bergson: Early Analytics on Continental Thought.
George N. Vlahakis (Hellenic Open University, Greece) – A Broken Cup of Tea and the First Female Philosopher in 20thCentury Greece
Argyro Loukaki (Hellenic Open University, Greece) – Sappho’s Poetics and the Science of Her Time
Natalia Fernández Díaz-Cabal (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain) – The Forgotten Names in the Natural History: Maria Sibylla Merian
Evangelia Chordaki (Hellenic Open University, Greece) and Lazopoulou Antigoni (University of Athens, Greece) – Reclaiming Our Health: Feminist Movements as a Form of Women’s Engagement with Science.
Anna Wilks (Acadia University, Canada) – Have Functions Really Disappeared from Scientific Inquiry?
Maria Terdimou (Independent Scholar) – Women in Sciences after the Establishment of the Greek University and the First Decades of the 20th Century

Call for Paper:
We invite paper proposals including a title, an abstract of 300 words, name, and affiliation of the author, as well as contact information. The presentation time is 30 minutes with additional 10 minutes for discussion. The conference language is English.
Please submit your proposal via email (ruth.hagengruber@upb.de; gvlahakis@yahoo.com) by March 31, 2018. Response of acceptance will be given at the latest by April 30, 2018.

Location:
The venue of the workshop will be the “Historical Archives of the State” in the Town Hall of Hermoupolis. Hermoupolis was once the capital of Greece and a city of great cultural, scientific, and industrial heritage. Syros Island is very close to Piraeus by boat and an ideal place for a high quality, inexpensive summer visit.
For participants giving a paper there will be a modest fee of 50 Euros and for those who will attend without a paper a fee of 40 Euros to cover administrative expenses. There will be some hotels with reduced prices on offer for the participants but there are plenty of places, in Hermoupolis or close by, at very convenient prices.
Participants are asked to make their own arrangements concerning their arrival and accommodation, but the conference organizers will be happy to give any necessary assistance.
Coffee and refreshments will be offered.

Organization:
George N. Vlahakis, Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST and Hellenic Open University, Greece
Manolis Patiniotis, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Athens, Greece
Efthymios Nicolaidis, Institute for Historical Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece
Maria Rentetzi, Commission on Women and Gender Studies DHST/IUPST, National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Ruth Hagengruber, Paderborn University, Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Germany
Andrea Reichenberger, Paderborn University, Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Germany

Hans Rainer Sepp - "Hedwig Conrad-Martius über Realität"
2018-07-05 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | O2, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098
Prof. Dr. Hans Rainer Sepp gives a talk on “Hedwig Conrad-Martius on Reality” as part of the colloquium Paderborner Kolloquium zur Philosophie SS 18.

Intensive Seminar on Teaching New Narratives in Early Modern Philosophy
2018-06-25 08:00 - 2018-06-29 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Burnaby, BC, CANADA, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
In this intensive weeklong seminar, we will work through a range of primary source materials by non-canonical authors, both women and men, to be included in a new teaching anthology (edited by Shapiro and Lascano) with an eye to interpreting texts, identifying philosophical themes within those texts, and devising creative ways to incorporate those texts into courses that can serve a range of purposes within the philosophical curriculum.
A familiarity with the standard early modern canon will be presupposed.
The intensive seminar responds to at least two issues facing the teaching of early modern philosophy. First, the familiar canon of seven philosophers (Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant) has become a bit ossified. While the integration of the history of science has helped to revitalize and introduce some new figures into early modern philosophy, it has not helped us address a second issue: the need to do a better job of incorporating women philosophers into the history of philosophy, and in particular into the history of early modern philosophy. To address these issues, and especially the second one, it helps to attend to an array of lesser known, yet still quite influential, philosophers of the period, both men and women.
Over the past several years, interest in European women philosophers of the early modern period has intensified rapidly. Yet while there is a lot of interest, there are also many challenges. For one, it is often challenging to delve into texts with which one is unfamiliar without a body of philosophical secondary literature to serve as a guide. Equally, women of the period often write in an array of genres, further complicating the interpretive work. Furthermore, even if one has found one’s way with these texts, women philosophers often take familiar themes in unfamiliar directions, and it can be a challenge to rethink the standard early modern philosophy course so as to include women thinkers as philosophers in their own right. Looking in detail not only at women thinkers but also at a range of non-canonical men is helpful because the themes that often engaged women thinkers were of interest not only to other (male) non-canonical philosophers as well, but also to the more familiar canonical figures. In addition, it is worth noting that most of the philosophers of the period wrote in a variety of genres, not just the women.
Directors: Lisa Shapiro, Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University and Marcy Lascano, Professor of Philosophy, California State University at Long Beach. Marguerite Deslauriers, Professor of Philosophy, McGill University, will provide additional instructional support.
Theme: Early Modern European Philosophy: Addressing the Challenges of Revitalizing the Early Modern Canon and Incorporating Women Thinkers into the Narrative

Application Deadline: February 1, 2018
Applications should include the following and be sent to new_narratives@sfu.ca

Current CV
Contact information for two references
Letter of application (preferably 2-3 pages, and no longer than 4 pages) explaining your own background and research interests, your interest in the seminar, and your prior teaching experience and approaches to teaching early modern philosophy

Notification Date: March 1, 2018. We expect to be able to accept up to 16 applicants for this intensive seminar.
Accept or Decline Offer by: March 8, 2018
Eligibility Criteria: We invite applications from philosophers at various stages of their career from advanced ABD PhD candidates to mid-career faculty. We expect that the majority of selected participants will have prior experience teaching a course in early modern philosophy. Thus, while not required, such experience is desirable.
Stipend: Individuals selected to participate in this intensive seminar will receive shared housing (a private room in a townhouse, with linens provided and a shared modestly equipped kitchen) at Simon Fraser University from 24-30 June, as well as reimbursement for other expenses up to approximately CAD 1700, consistent with SFU policy (to include economy class airfare, transportation to/from airports and a per diem at the official rate).
Support for this intensive seminar is provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada through a Partnership Development Grant, as well as the Simon Fraser University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and the SFU Philosophy Department.
Contact Haley Brennan at new_narratives@sfu.ca with any questions.

Linda Kaplan - "Undoing Gender als Grundbedingung gerechter Fürsorgeleistung"
2018-06-19 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | L3.204, Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098, Germany

Horizons of Sexual Difference
2018-06-14 - 2018-06-16 | Department of Philosophy, Brock University, 1812 Sir Isaac Brock Way, St. Catharines, Canada
The Department of Philosophy, with the support of the Faculty of Humanities at Brock University, will host the 9th meeting of The Luce Irigaray Circle in a three-day interdisciplinary conference devoted to scholarship and creative work on, or inspired by, the thought of Luce Irigaray at the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts at the Brock downtown campus.
Luce Irigaray’s thinking has far-reaching influence across a number of disciplines and practices including Philosophy, the Natural Sciences, Women’s Health, Literature and Literary Criticism, Women’s and Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Political Theory, Classics, Linguistics, Architecture, Performance Studies, Music, Sound Studies, Feminist Legal theory, Art and Aesthetic practices, etc. The Circle seeks to generate new possibilities for thinking sexual difference by honouring and supporting interdisciplinarity and the multiple research trajectories, methods and projects inspired by Irigaray’s thought.
This year’s conference draws its theme from the figure of the horizon mobilized in Irigaray’s work that encompasses social, political, ethical, and cultural processes in relation to sexual difference; a figure that indicates new possibilities for meaning – meanings that are located, historical and specific to the horizon of their appearance. In particular, we seek to reconsider Irigaray’s call to bring into view the appearance of sexual difference as a question for our time, as well as problematize the centrality of this claim. Does sexual difference open up other horizons of difference or occlude them? How can we conceive horizons of sexual difference?
The 9th meeting of the Luce Irigaray Circle will initiate conversations between this broader context of the figure of the horizon and sexual difference, and invites papers, panels, presentations, and performances that contribute to our understanding of the contemporary world by critically re-assessing and furthering the figure of the horizon and the concept of sexual difference. Please note all creative work and scholarship on or inspired by Irigaray’s thought will be considered. However, the circle especially welcomes submissions that address the following topics for inclusion in a number of thematically organized panels:
· Decolonizing Sexual Difference
· Performativity and Sexual Difference
· Trans and Sexual Difference
· the Global South and Sexual Difference
· Sexual Difference across borders, including Sexual Difference and War,
Sexual Difference and Migration
· Deploying the horizon against itself
Call for Papers (deadline: March 1, 2018)

Friederike Schmitz - "Tiere essen oder Tiere befreien? Ethik und Politik des Mensch-Tier-Verhältnisses"
2018-06-07 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | O2, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098
Dr. Friederike Schmitz gives the talk “Eating or freeing animals? Ethic and politics with regard to the human-animal relation” as part of the colloquium Paderborner Kolloquium zur Philosophie SS 18.

Dutch Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy
2018-05-30 08:30 - 2018-05-31 13:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Note that although this is a general Early Modern conference, 5 out of the 13 papers are about women philosophers! Correct me if I’m wrong, but this might be a first. Papers on Conway, Grouchy, Chatelet (2), and Avila.
Thank you Chris Meyns and Andrea Sangiacomo for organizing this!
Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dutch-seminar-for-early-modern-philosophy-v-dsemp18-tickets-44126847589

Program
Wednesday 30 May

8:30 am Arrival
9:00 am Opening9:05 am Keynote: Karin de Boer (KU Leuven): Kant’s Inquiries into a New Touchstone for Metaphysical Truth10:30 am Coffee10:45 am Adam Harmer (University of California, Riverside): Anthony Collins on Texture and Structural Emergence11:30 am Botond Csuka (Eötvös Loránd University): “Gentle” and “Gross” Exercises: Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being in Addison’s Essays12:15 pm Alan Nelson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill): Locke on Ideas of Reflection, Inner Sense, and the Historical Plain Method1:00 pm Lunch break
2:30 pm Nathan Porter (University of Utah): Spinoza’s Theodicy (via Skype)
3:00 pm Nastassja Pugliese (University of São Paulo): Substance and Individuation in Anne Conway as a Critique to Spinoza
3:45 pm Anna Markwart (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń): Sophie de Grouchy and Adam Smith: Education for Sympathy
4:30 pm Tea
4:45 pm Stephen Evensen (Biola University): Reading Kant Through Grotius: Is the Categorical Imperative Substantive or Procedural?
5:30 pm Stephen Howard (KU Leuven): Physical and Psychological Forces in Wolff, Baumgarten, and Kant
Thursday 31 May 2018
8:30 am Doors open
9:00 am Iulia Mihai (Ghent University): Du Châtelet on the Principle of Continuity, Change and Process
9:45 am Scott Harkema (Ohio State University): On the Role of Illusion in Du Chatelet’s Theory of Happiness
10:30 am Coffee
10:45 am Boris Demarest (University of Amsterdam): Soul as Nature: the Naturalist Animism of Van Helmont and Stahl
11:30 am Keynote: Christia Mercer (Columbia University): Descartes’ Demons and Debts, or Why We Should Work on Women in the History of Philosophy
1:00 pm End
Attendance is free and all are welcome, especially students.

Catherine Wilson - "Kant and the Theory of Women"
2018-05-29 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | L3.204, Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Dr. Catherine Wilson

Diotima’s Laughter: Philosophy as a Way of Life
2018-05-22 11:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | TP 21, Technologiepark 21, Paderborn, NRW, 33100, Germany
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 a way of life explores the ethical vocation of the philosopher in terms of the practical pursuit of wisdom. To this end, her research focusses on the contributions of women as philosophers.
During her stay in Paderborn, she will hold a master class on “Diotima’s Laughter: Philosophy as a Way of Life”.

Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) – Life and Legacy. Philosophy, Politics and Religion in Seventeenth Century Europe
2018-05-18 09:00 - 2018-05-20 15:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Building Q, Paderborn University, Warburgerstraße, Paderborn, NRW, 33098
Organizers: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Sarah Hutton, Ruth Hagengruber

Confirmed Talks:
Dr. Susanna Åkerman (Stockholm University) – “Descartes’ Competitors: Queen Christina and the Metaphysics of Light”
Dr. Nadine Akkerman (Leiden University) – “Elisabeth of Bohemia’s Aristocratic Upbringing and Education at the Prinsenhof in Leiden, 1628-32”
Prof. em. Lilli Alanen (Uppsala University) – “The Soul’s Extension – Elisabeth’s Solution to Descartes’s Mind-Body Problem”
Prof. Dr. Mirjam de Baar (Leiden University) – “Elisabeth of Bohemia’s Lifelong Friendship with Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-1678)”
Prof. Dr. Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (University of Copenhagen) – “Elisabeth on Astronomy”
Prof. Dr. Sarah Hutton (University of York) – “Princess Elisabeth and Anne Conway”
Prof. Dr. Denis Kambouchner (Université Paris 1) – “What is Elisabeth’s Cartesianism?”
Michael Girke & Sonja Langkafel (Städtisches Museum, Herford) – “Elisabeth of Bohemia and Herford”
Prof. Dr. Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte, Vercelli) – “Elisabeth and Descartes Read Machiavelli: On Morals, Politics and Natural Law”
Prof. Dr. Carol Pal (Bennington College, Vermont) – “Elisabeth of Bohemia: Princess and Politico”
Dr. Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin (Université Lyon III) – “Feminine Body in the Correspondence Between Elisabeth and Descartes”
Prof. Dr. Dominik Perler (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) – “Is Our Happiness Up to Us? Elisabeth of Bohemia on the Limits of Internalism”
Dr. Martina Reuter (University of Jyväskylä) – “Elisabeth’s Criticism of Descartes’ Notion of the Free Will”
Prof. Dr. Lisa Shapiro (Simon Frazer University) – “Princess Elisabeth and the Challenges of Philosophizing”
Everyone interested is welcome to attend.
The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists announces: The Ulrike Detmers ELISABETH OF BOHEMIA HERFORD PRIZE 2018
May 19, 2018 at the Conference venue.

I. Meeting of the Work Group Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie
2018-05-17 17:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Technologiepark 21, Universität Paderborn, 33100, Germany
This meeting will take place right after the workshop Elisabeth of Bohemia – Women and Early Modern Philosophy and before the international conference Elisabeth of Bohmia (1618-1680) – Life and Legacy in honor of the 400th anniversary of the Philosopher and Prince-Bishop Elisabeth of Bohemia and Herford.
Fundamental topics of the work group Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie, which connect to this epoch, will be discussed at this meeting.
Due to the numerous registrations for the workshop Elisabeth of Bohemia – Women and Early Modern Philosophy, the meeting of the work group will be held subsequently at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The junior scientists as well as everyone interested are welcome to attend to this meeting, wine and snacks will be offered. Advisor Sarah Hutton, Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Dominik Perler and Ruth Hagengruber will be present as participants of the work group.
For further information or to register please contact jessica.harmening@upb.de.

DGPhil website

Elisabeth of Bohemia - Women and Early Modern Philosophy
2018-05-17 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Technologiepark 21, Universität Paderborn, 33100, Germany
The aim of the workshop is to promote communication and collaboration amongst younger scholars working on women philosophers of the early modern period. We welcome submissions relating to Elisabeth of Bohemia’s letter exchanges and intellectual networks and to the conditions and challenges of women’s participation in the development of early modern philosophy. The workshop will be led by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Sarah Hutton and Ruth Hagengruber.
Call for paper (Deadline: February 28, 2018)
Following this, the first meeting of the work group Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie, with Sarah Hutton, Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, Dominik Perler and Ruth Hagengruber, will take place at the Center.

Women in Philosophy: Past, Present and Future
2018-05-17 - 2018-05-19 | University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland
True it is, Spinning with the Fingers is more proper to our Sexe, then studying or writing Poetry, which is the Spinning with the braine: but I having no skill in the Art of the first (and if I had, I had no hopes of gaining so much as to make me a Garment to keep me from the cold) made me delight in the latter – Margaret Cavendish
Though academic philosophy is still a male-dominated discipline, and the canon of philosophy is largely male, the future of philosophy promises to be less so. After years of scholarly neglect, the contribution of a large number of women philosophers across the ages is now being recognised – from medieval mystics to Enlightenment philosophers of science to founding mothers of analytic philosophy and phenomenology. At the same time, broad consensus is afoot that certain disciplinary norms, once-entrenched, no longer serve our discipline and have contributed to the attrition of female talent from philosophy.
This SWIP-Ireland conference, in collaboration with In Parenthesis, invites papers on the broad topic of Women in Philosophy: Past, Present and Future. The occasion of the workshop is the centenary of a paper published in Mind by the Irish philosopher and prominent librarian, Agnes Cuming. The conference welcomes contributions relevant to the general theme of the role of women in philosophy. Papers from all approaches and traditions in philosophy including submissions on neglected historical figures, reports of archival visits, as well as reflection on methodological practice and on visions for philosophy in the future are encouraged. Papers from graduate students and philosophers working outside academia are also welcome. Presentations and panels related to any aspect of the ​work of the keynote speakers are also welcome.

Keynote speakers:
Eileen Brennan (Dublin City University)
Nancy Cartwright (Durham University)
Siobhan Chapman (University of Liverpool)
Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University)
Sally Haslanger (MIT)
Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir (University of Iceland)

Call for Abstracts (Deadline: March 1, 2018)
Registration (Deadline: May 14, 2018, 9:00am IST)

Dagmar Pichová - "Czech Women Philosophers and Scientists"
2018-05-15 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | L3.204, Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Dr. Dagmar Pichová (Masaryk University)

Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics
2018-04-26 18:30 - 2018-04-28 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | McKenna Hall, Notre Dame Conference Center, IN, 46556, United States
In 2009, Isabelle Bour and Judith P. Zinsser published a partial translation of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics. Since 2014, faculty and students at the University of Notre Dame have worked to complete the translation (see www.kbrading.org/du-chatelet). This conference celebrates the completion of the project.
The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching.
Participants include: Katherine Brading, Karen Detlefsen, Lisa Downing, Jamee Elder, Ashton Green, Ruth Hagengruber, John Hanson, Sarah Hutton, Andrew Janiak, Marcy Lascano, Christia Mercer, Lauren Montes, Andrea Reichenberger, Annelise Rey, Anne Seul, Phil Sloan, George Smith, Monica Solomon, Marius Stan, Aaron Wells and Judith P. Zinsser.
Sponsors:
History and Philosophy of Science Graduate Program
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Henkels Lecture Series
Nanovic Institute for European Studies
Notre Dame Research
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Femmes et Philosophie dans le Monde Ancien
2018-04-19 14:15 - 2018-04-20 12:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Salle Denis de Rougemont, 2, Rue Jean-Daniel Colladon, Genève, 1205, Switzerland
Organised by Manuela Migliorati and Laurent Cesalli
With its six conferences , this workshop will examine various topics dealing with women and ancient philosophy. In particular, the audience will have the possibility to learn about women of the Pythagorean School, discover the character of Hypatia of Alexandria, and find out the status of women in Aristotle. Several attention will be given to sources, with a focus on the problem of their reconstruction. The last two talks will respectively concern the role of women in Philo’s work, and the function of priestesses in Greek philosophical literature.

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Andrea Reichenberger - "Einstein und Kant. Ilse Rosenthal-Schneiders Interpretation der Relativitätstheorie"
2018-04-17 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | L3.204, Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Dr. Andrea Reichenberger

The Third Annual MSU Denver Undergraduate Women's Philosophy Conference
2018-04-13 - 2018-04-14 | Metropolitan State University of Denver, Student Success Building, 890 Auraria Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204, USA, Denver, CO, United States
The purpose of this conference is to provide a forum for the presentation of philosophical work by female-identified undergraduates and encourage community-building amongst femaleidentified philosophers and their male-identified allies. The conference is open to all genders. Male-identified students can serve as commentators and session chairs.
Call for Papers (deadline: Febuary 19, 2018)

Ruth Hagengruber - "Science in the Making: Alternative approaches to Science and Philosophy"
2018-04-06 09:30 - 10:20 (Europe/Berlin) | Cubo 18C, VI piano, aula seminari, Via Pietro Bucci, Arcavacata, 87036, Italy
Full title: “Science in the Making: Alternative approaches to Science and Philosophy. Laura Bassi (1711-77) Du Châtelet (1706-1749) Luise Gottsched (1713 – 1754)”

Early Modern Women: Philosophy and Science
2018-04-05 14:45 - 2018-04-06 13:20 (Europe/Berlin) | Cubo 18C, VI piano, aula seminari, Via Pietro Bucci, Arcavacata, 87036, Italy

Early Modern Women Writers' Colloquium
2018-03-25 - 2018-03-27 | CVAR/Severis Foundation, Ermou, Nicosia, Cyprus
​Organising Committee for Othello’s Island: Dr. Stella Achilleos (University of Cyprus, Cyprus); Prof. James Fitzmaurice (Northern Arizona University); Prof. Lisa Hopkins (Sheffield Hallam University, UK); Dr Sarah James (University of Kent, UK); Dr Michael Paraskos (Imperial College London, UK)
Now in its second year as a strand within the annual academic conference “Othello’s Island”, the Early Modern Women Writers’ Colloquium has demonstrated the interest in developing a regular annual event dedicated to exploring the lives of women writers in the Renaissance and early modern periods.
For our second year in 2018, we are following the successful format established in our first year, by teaming up with the organisers of Othello’s Island, a well-established conference on medieval, renaissance and early modern studies, held annually in Cyprus. Again we will be organising a semi-autonomous conference strand (“the Colloquium”) within the Othello’s Island conference, focusing on the lives and work of women during the Renaissance and early modern periods.
As a whole, Othello’s Island attracts around 100 delegates, whose topics include archaeology, art history, history, and literary studies, to name but a few. The Early Modern Women Writers’ Colloquium runs alongside this at the Centre for Visual Arts and Research in Nicosia, Cyprus, allowing for interesting cross referencing to the work of speakers in the Othello’s Island Conference, and shared resources and events.
For 2018 the convenors of the Early Modern Women Writers’ Colloquium will be Dr Stella Achilleos of the University of Cyprus, and Professor James Fitzmaurice of Northern Arizona University.
The aim for 2018 is for the Early Modern Women Writers’ Colloquium to be open-minded, allowing a diverse range of approaches and topics related to Renaissance and early modern women to be discussed. This might include the lives of women during the periods, the work of specific women writers or other women artists, or the role and activity of women in wider society and culture. In the case of women writers and artists, this might also include consideration of their contemporary and posthumous reputations.
The Early Modern Women Writers’ Colloquium is fully intergrated into the wider Othello’s Island conference. This means delegates can mix-and-match attendance at talks in the strand with talks on other topics at the conference.
​Those taking part are also welcome to join in with the social events for the wider conference, including group meals and trips to some stunning medieval and renaissance sites.

Call for Papers
If you are interested in giving a talk at the conference on the early modern women strand please submit a proposal for a paper as early as possible. Standard papers are 20 minutes long, followed by 5 or 10 minutes for questions.
If your paper does not fit in this area you should submit it instead to the main Othello’s Island conference (click here for the Othello’s Island Conference website).
​ Proposals for papers for the early modern women strand should comprise a cover sheet showing:​
1. Your title (eg. Mr, Ms, Dr, Prof. etc.) and full name
2. Your institutional affiliation (if any)
3. Your postal address, e’mail address and telephone number
4. The title of your proposed paper​ ​
All papers must be delivered in English. Attendance of speakers is mandatory – we do not allow Skype or proxy presentations.
The deadline for submissions of proposals is 22 December 2017.
Early submission is strongly advised. We aim to have a decision on the acceptance of papers within four weeks of submission.
If you have any questions please contact Professor James Fitzmaurice at j.fitzmaurice@sheffield.ac.uk

Women Philosophers I: Science and the Natural World
2018-03-24 08:00 - 09:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Palm L, Hilton Buena Vista Palace, 1900 E Buena Vista Drive, Orlando, FL, 32830, United States
ASECS 2018 – ANNUAL MEETING
Section: Women Philosophers I: Science and the Natural World
Chair: Julie Candler Hayes (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

Gary Kelly (University of Alberta): “Philosophizing as a Woman”
Margaret Caryle (University of Chicago): “Philosophizing in the Boudoir: Women and Scientific Amateurism in Eighteenth – Century Paris”
Bryce Gessell (Duke University) and Andrew Janiak (Duke University): “Constraints and Opportunities for Women’s Philosophizing: The Case of Emilie Du Châtelet”

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Symposium in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Feminine* Perspektives
2018-03-15 06:00 - 2018-03-17 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Room W-5215, University of Montreal, 2900 Edouard Montpetit Blvd, Montreal, Québec, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
Keynote speakers:
Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)
Christina Van Dyke (Calvin College)

Complete Program:
Thursday, March 15
6:00-7:30 PM “Ancient Debates about Women: Reception in the Renaissance” by Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)
Friday, March 16
9:45 Opening and coffee
10:00-10:45 “Liberté sexuelle et plaisir féminin chez Lucrèce: une politique de la sexualité” by Julie Giovacchini (CNRS)
11:00-11:45 “Le plaisir libre et le mouvement volontaire chez Lucrèce” by Charlotte Tremblay-Lemieux (UdeM)
11:45-12:30 “La préméditation des maux, un exercice hédoniste?” by Isabelle Chouinard (UdeM and Paris-IV)
1:30-2:15 “Où sont passées les philosophes-reines? Sur la disparition apparente des gouvernantes dans le Politique de Platon” by Annie Larivée (Carleton University)
2:15-3:00 “Vieillesse, maladie et féminité chez Aristote: la portée d’une analogie” by Laetitia Monteils-Laeng (UdeM)
3:30-4:15 “L’état du livre I de la Rhétorique” by Jeanne Allard (McGill University)
Saturday, March 17
9:45 Opening and coffee
10:00-10:45 “Les pouvoirs du lieu dialectique chez Aristote” by Laurence Godin-Tremblay (UQAM and U. Firenze)
11:00-11:45 “Stoic Theory of Case and the Semantics of Nouns” by Marion Durand (U. of Toronto)
11:45-12:30 “La transformation des notions stoïciennes dans le De Abstinentia de Porphyre: le cas de l’oikeiôsis” by Delphine Gingras (ULaval)
1:30-2:15 “Perspectives néoplatoniciennes sur la légitimité des femmes en philosophie” by Mathilde Cambron-Goulet (UQAM)
2:15-3:00 “Virtues of the Mind, Powers of the Body: Intellectual Humility and Embodiment in Teresa de Avila and Hildegard von Bingen” by Kelsey Boor (Fordham University)
3:30-5:00 “Medieval Mystics on Persons: What John Locke Didn’t Tell You” by Christina Van Dyke (Calvin College)

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Marie Deutschbein’s and Walther Brand’s Introduction to the Philosophical Foundations of Mathematics (1929): a book for teaching practice?
2018-03-08 11:35 - 12:20 (Europe/Berlin) | J4.219 , University Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 33098
The talk “Marie Deutschbeins und Walther Brands “Einführung in die philosophischen Grundlagen der Mathematik” (1929): ein Buch für Lehre und Unterricht?” is part of the 3rd annual meeting of the Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung (DMV) and the Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik (GDM).
Section: Geschichte und Philosophie der Mathematik und des Mathematikunterrichtes
In 1929 the German book Introduction into the Philosophical Foundations of Mathematics appeared. The authors were Marie Deutschbein and Walther Brand. In the first chapter titled “Mathematics and Logic” the authors give an overview of the foundational debate (“Grundlagenstreit”) between intuitionists and formalists that developed along the decade of the twenties. My contribution deals with Deutschbein’s and Brand’s interpretation of the controversy, by focusing on the question on how to integrate Deutschbein’s and Brand’s contribution into the practice of teaching philosophy of mathematics.
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