History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Women in the History of Phenomenology and Phenomenological Psychology
2017-11-23 13:00 - 2017-11-24 13:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Technologiepark 21, Universität Paderborn, 33100, Germany
Thursday, 23 November
13.00 – Welcome and Opening (Technologiepark 21. EG. Seminarraum)
13.30 – Ronny Miron (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) – “Down to a truer approximation of reality”: Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Critical Alternative to Idealistic Philosophy
14.30 – Íngrid Vendrell Ferran (Universität Jena) – Else Voigtländer’s Theory of Emotions and Self-Feelings (Selbstgefühls)
15.30 – Coffee Break
Paderborner Kolloquium zur Philosophie (Hörsaal O2)
16.00 – George Heffernan (Merrimack College, USA) – Between Husserl’s Phenomenology and Heidegger’s Philosophy of Existence: Edith Stein’s Phenomenology of the Human Person
18.00 – Conference Dinner
Friday, 24 November
9.30 – Welcome and coffee (Technologiepark 21. EG. Seminarraum)
10.00 – Thomas Vongehr (KU Leuven, Belgium) – Erika Gothe und Margarete Ortmann: Nähe und Distanz zur Phänomenologischen Bewegung
11.00 – Sophie Loidolt (Universität Kassel) – Hannah Arendt’s Phenomenology of Plurality
12.00 – Coffee Break
12.30 – Daniele De Santis (University of Rome II, Italy) – “Viatores” and Transcendental Idealism. Positive and Negative Function of the Doctrine of “Angelology” in Edith Stein
13.30 – Closing reception/lunch

All interested parties are welcomed to attend!
Please RSVP via Facebook or to Rodney Parker (rodney.parker@uni-paderborn.de) by 19. November.
This event is organized as part of the DGPhil Working Group Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie.

Culture of Exclusion? 5th Edition: Women
2017-11-24 - 2017-11-26 | Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Gołębia 24, Kraków 31-007, Poland
In the fifth (and the first international) edition of our „Culture of Exclusion” conference program we want to examine the situation of women.
On the one hand, women in Western societies have gained the rights to equality. However, a question about the actual implementation of these rights emerges. Is really the role of women equal to the role of men? Do they really earn the same? Or maybe they still have to choose between career and family? Are women still objects of sexist remarks or is their sexuality commonly respected?
On the other hand, in many regions of the world women are objectified and subordinated to men. Nevertheless, there are also feminists in those regions. So are the human rights really for all humans or not?
Half of the mankind is constituted by women, often marginalized, often mocked and ridiculed, „too old”, „too fat”, „too dumb”, „too emotional”. Our discussion of the exclusion will analyze these stereotypes resulting in the lack of actual equality and the approval of a gender-conditioned physical and psychological violence. It will also aim at showing the power of women and their ever important contribution in shaping cultures and societies.

Maria Robaszkiewicz - "Das Wagniss der Öffentlichkeit: Hannah Arendt zwischen Denken und Handeln"
2017-11-28 17:30 - 19:00 | Biulding KII, room M 17.72, Keplerstr. 17, Stuttgart, Germany
The Service Gender Consulting is showing the film “Hannah Arendt” this semester in cooperation with the Uni-Film e.V.
Before the screening, for a thematic attunement to the topic, Dr. Maria Robaszkiewicz from Paderborn University will introduce the audience to the work of Hannah Arendt.

The Idea, History and Institutional Foundations of Science
2017-12-09 09:00 - 18:00 | Maynooth, County Kildare, Ireland, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth (NUIM)
This workshop (No. 2) is organized as part of a research project that focuses on the philosophical and institutional foundations of ‘scientific empiricism’, i.e., the association of rationality with systematic models which are compatible with experience and/or experiments . The project draw s a historical and conceptual line of reflection from the schools of the 14th century, through renaissance humanism, the early modern scientific revolution, the Kantian critique, up to and including contemporary science, while addressing the phenomenological attempt to found the natural and human sciences in the twentieth century.

Andrea Reichenberger - "Emilie du Châtelet: What Kind of Rationalist?"
2017-12-09 12:00 - 13:00

Andrea Reichenberger - "Zwei Perspektiven auf Einsteins Relativitätstheorie: Luise Lange und Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider"
2017-12-19 16:00 - 18:00 | O1.258, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098
Please notice that unfortunately the Event has to be cancelled.

Ruth Hagengruber - "Zwischen Leibniz und Kant: Emilie Du Châtelet (1706-1749) über den Raum"
2018-01-17 18:15 - 20:15 | UL 6, 2094, Unter den Linden 6, Berlin, 10099, Germany

The Unknown Du Châtelet: Inedita from St. Petersburg
2018-01-23 16:00 - 20:00 | O1.258, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098
The Center History of Women Philosophers and Scientists recently acquired the Du Châtelet manuscripts contained in the Voltaire Collection of the Russian National Library at Saint Petersburg. In this workshop, the Center’s working group that focuses on the respective writings will give an introduction into new aspects of the Du Châtelet research arising from their insights into the manuscripts.

Prof. Dr. Sarah Hutton (University of York): welcome and commentaries
Dr. Stefanie Ertz (Center History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn): inedita from St. Petersburg – “Some new details from the intellectual biography of Mme Du Châtelet”
Ana Rodrigues (Paderborn University): “Du Châtelet on social order and the foundations of morals”
George Vlahakis (Hellenic Open University Patras): guest talk – “The “Greek” Emilie and her role for the re-appearance of metaphysics in natural philosophy books during modern Greek Enlightenment”

All interested parties are welcomed to attend!

Round-Table on Digital Humanities
2018-01-24 14:00 - 16:00 | Technologiepark 21, Universität Paderborn, 33100, Germany
With: Prof. Ruth Hagengruber, Dr. Rodney Parker, Dr. Stefanie Ertz, Julia Lerius, Niklas Olmes, Ana Rodrigues (Paderborn University)
Special guest: Prof. Manolis Patiniotis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Please send a short e-mail to contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org, if you plan to attend.

Jessica Harmening - "Die Sozialphilosophie von Charlotte Perkins Gilman"
2018-01-25 16:00 - 18:00 | O2, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098

CFP Special Issue: Women & Language
2018-01-31
The Following CPF may be of interest to those of you interested in the history of gender identity.
Special Issue: Women & Language
Guest Editor: Leland G. Spencer, Miami University
Transcending the Acronym: Genders, Sexes, Sexualities, and Gender Identities Beyond “LGBT”
Article Deadline: January 31, 2018
Critical studies of gender, sex, sexuality, and gender identity have many goals, and certainly one includes the effort to trouble, interrogate, and upend binaries, dichotomies, and rigid categories—and the naturalization thereof. Despite these underlying theoretical commitments many of us share, research about sexuality and gender identity often subtly reinscribes many of the categories and even binaries it purports to disavow. The ubiquitous initialism LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender), sometimes extended to become more inclusive by adding a Q for “queer” or “questioning” or an A for “ally” or “asexual,” often obscures as much as it clarifies. For instance, the acronym problematically conflates gender identity and sexuality, leading to dubious conclusions in articles that claim to report results about “LGBT” people but have actually only surveyed cisgender gay and lesbian people. The acronym also leaves out a range of sexualities and gender identities, and the ones it represents overemphasize colonized, Western, and White understandings of sexuality and gender identity.
Thus, this special issue invites articles that explore identities and expressions of gender, sex, sexuality, and gender identity not typically contained in the acronym, including analyses that interrogate the acronym and its hegemony as such. Potential topics include but are not limited to:

pansexuality,
asexuality,
skoliosexuality,
agender,
genderqueer,
quare,
intersex,
two spirit,
polyamory,
third gender,
gender fluidity,
and many more.

All types of original research are welcome, including but not limited to: quantitative, qualitative, rhetorical, critical, theoretical, historical, performative, creative/artistic, and autoethnographic. Contributions that consider intersections of various axes of difference are especially encouraged, as are articles that consider non-Western understandings of gender, sex, sexuality, and gender identity. Articles may have any of the following goals (again, not an exhaustive list):

definition and theorization of terms,
offering histories and best practices for language use,
analysis of experiences of persons at particular social locations,
criticism of portrayals or representations in media,
theoretically informed analysis of personal experiences,
social movement criticism,
or examination of the influence of social institutions such as education, statist violence, religion, workplaces and the economy, or healthcare practices.

Articles should follow the general guidelines for manuscripts to be submitted to Women & Language but should be submitted by email to Dr. Leland G. Spencer, spencelg@miamioh.edu. Inquiries about the issue may be sent to the same email address.

Radicalism and Compromise
2018-02-01 09:00 - 2018-02-02 20:00 | Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, University of Minho. Campus de Gualtar., 4710-057 Braga, Portugal
The Center for Ethics, Politics and Society (CEPS) – formerly the Political Theory Group – of the University of Minho, is pleased to announce the III Braga Colloquium in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy, an international annual conference to be held every year in January at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal. The purpose of this conference series is to promote the study of the tradition of political and moral philosophy and its legacy in shaping our institutions, culture and beliefs. But it will focus on how this tradition can contribute to tackling the challenges our societies are facing today. Every year the conference will have a specific theme, which will be chosen by taking into consideration the current global political situation.
In line with the spirit behind this new series of conferences, the third edition of the Braga Colloquium in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy will be dedicated to explore the ideas of “radicalism” and “compromise”.
Politics has frequently been defined as the art of the possible or the art of compromise. More dramatically, it has been depicted as the realm of Faustian deals and tragic choices. Max Weber famously wrote that the political call demands endurance in the face of disappointment. It is the realm of frustration and sacrifices, of fragile equilibriums between fiat justitia and raison d’état.
Sometimes the existence of political structures of accountability relaxes the dependence on character, reputation, and honor among conflicting parties. Reasonable civic duties suffice to deflate social conflicts and to compensate offended actors. Lacking these institutions, integrity becomes non-negotiable for social trust.
On occasion, however, a social order of tolerance would not emerge without sacrificing the moral integrity of former heroes that we now consider dogmatic integrists. Conversely, this institutional order of tolerance also allows the political space for the reconstruction of identity claims for recognition that derive their radical strength from their intrinsic aversion to political settlement.
From a historical point of view, our political languages and attitudes towards compromise, negotiation, bargaining, and agreement have changed in a myriad of contexts and traditions. As so did our conceptions of what seemed once worth sacrificing or defending.
The aim of this Colloquium is to bring to the fore philosophical treatments from various philosophical traditions of these aspects of political activity, and to do so from an historical perspective that might help us shed light on the shape of things as they are now.
​The Colloquium welcomes original explorations of political conflicts that illuminate these dimensions of conceptual change in radicalism and compromise from different traditions and perspectives.
The keynote speaker will be Prof. Avishai Margalit (The Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
The official language of the conference will be English.

Call for Papers

Please note that the organizers encourage submissions about the contribution of women philosophers of the past.
Abstract submission:
Proposals must contain an abstract (400-500 words) prepared for blind review, along with 5 keywords. Please provide your name, contact information, affiliation, and a short 2-3 line bio.
Proposals must be sent via this Registration Form.
Further queries can be directed to >bragacolloquium@gmail.com
Deadline for abstract submissions: November 15, 2017.
Deadline for notification of acceptance: November 26, 2017.

Early Modern Analyses of Male Dominance as Tyranny
2018-02-09 14:00 - 15:30
Two 17th century Venetian women, Lucrezia Marinella and Arcangela Tarabotti, argued that the power men exercised over women should be conceptualized as tyranny. Their aim in so doing was to expose that power as a political injustice. In disputing the claim that the authority of men over women was grounded in nature they contributed to making sexual inequality visible as a political phenomenon. In this paper I sketch the context in which Marinella and Taribotti wrote, and explore their different claims and arguments. I argue that in insisting on the natural, divinely bestowed liberty and rational capacity of women in their criticism of masculine tyranny they laid the foundation for later efforts to gain the rights of political participation for women.

Frauen - Das käufliche Geschlecht
2018-02-16 13:00 - 19:00 | University Paderborn, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, Nordrhein-Westfalen, 33098, Germany
This panel discussion is organized by the working group “Frauenrechte sind Menschenrechte“, the project “In der Philosophie zu Hause“, its related student group PEGASUS and the women’s shelter in Paderborn.
Prostitution, from the Latin prostituere = flaunt, denotes the performance of sexual acts as a trade. Prostitution is often referred to as the “oldest trade in the world”, but in fact can only be found in patriarchally organized cultures that introduced private property and the gender division of labor. The social evaluation of prostitution is culture-dependent, it varies according to prevailing ideological and religious prejudices. However, prostitutes have always been stigmatized, discriminated against and often exploited. Since the late twentieth century, prostitution associations and human rights organizations try to stop this discrimination and exploitation. However, what action needs to be taken is discussed controversially. Some call for a legal recognition for prostitution as work, others fight for the abolition of this social practice, which is considered a violation of human dignity. The discussion about legalization or criminalization of prostitution and all involved is controversial worldwide.
With this debate, the action day “Frauen – Das käufliche Geschlecht (Women – The Gender For Sale)” Day would like to make a contribution to the special situation in Germany. What regulates the German Prostitution Protection Act? What is the situation of prostituting women in Germany? And how do the communities deal with prostitution? The German Prostitution Protection Act incorporates a regulatory principle in dealing with commercial prostitution, but many serious problems remain. Is the abolition principle, also called the Nordic model, also a solution for Germany?
We would like to discuss these and other questions with experts and the audience.
All interested parties are welcome to attend!
Registration under: frauenrechte-sind-menschenrechte@web.de

Bridging the Gender Gap Through Time: How Women Philosophers of the Past Contributed to Today's Thought
2018-02-22 - 2018-02-23 | King’s College London, The Strand, London, United Kingdom
Women have had a far deeper and more extensive influence on the history than is commonly realised. Far from confining their interests to questions of gender and domestic matters, women have been writing on all aspects of philosophy for as long as such a discipline can be identified. Indeed, it is often surprising just how much high quality philosophical and political thought women have produced throughout history given that so few of the writers are known outside of a few specialist departments.
Across history, women’s writing is now being recovered not as marginal but as theoretically important in its own right. Amongst the many names one could list, we might think of Hildegard von Bingen and Christine de Pizan from the Middle Ages; Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, and Mary Astell in the Early Modern Period; Catharine Macaulay, Mary Wollstonecraft, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, as well as Olympe de Gouges and Sophie de Grouchy, in the revolutionary period of the Enlightenment; to say nothing of Mary Prince, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth amongst the numerous slave and abolitionist writings of the nineteenth century.
In spite of the many difficulties women have had in making their voices heard philosophically – women did not have access to the highest levels of education, they often had to confine themselves to safe subjects to avoid social censure, they frequently found it necessary to write anonymously or to destroy one’s work, and they were in any case not normally taken seriously – their work far was more influential in their own time than we often realize today, and it still has the potential to speak to us in our own time through its influence on contemporary debates and issues.
The purpose of this conference is both to raise awareness of the rich historical tradition of women’s philosophy as well as to help make the connection with current social, moral, political and philosophical debate by bringing neglected women writers, past and present, into dialogue with today’s discourses.
We invite submissions for papers on any related theme, including but not limited to those named above. We are also interested in papers focused on women writing from a non-Western tradition, or under conditions of social or political oppression today. Presentations may address any area of philosophy, or of social, moral and political thinking more widely conceived. Some suggested topics include women philosophers on education, social reform, or revolution.
Convenors: Sandrine Bergès (Bilkent), Alan Coffee (King’s)
Keynote Speakers: Eileen Hunt Botting (Notre Dame) and TBA
Call for Papers
Program

Julia Lerius - ""The Soul in the Body is Like Sap in a Tree” – Reconsidering Hildegard of Bingen’s Philosophical Perspective on the Body and Soul Relation"
2018-02-23 11:45 - 12:15 | King’s College London, The Strand, London, United Kingdom
The purpose of this conference is both to raise awareness of the rich historical tradition of women’s philosophy as well as to help make the connection with current social, moral, political and philosophical debate by bringing neglected women writers, past and present, into dialogue with today’s discourses.
Convenors: Sandrine Bergès (Bilkent), Alan Coffee (King’s)
Julia Lerius (Paderborn University) will talk about Hildegard’s of Bingen philosophical perspective on the body and soul relation and give some impulses for future discussions.

Was bin ich – als Mensch? Philosophische Anthropologie und ihre Synthese von Selbsterfahrung und Menschenkenntnis
2018-02-24
“Nach einigen Jahrzehnten des Schlummers ist die philosophische Anthropologie wieder erwacht” schrieb Kurt Bayerz 2011 und er führt das neuerliche Nachdenken über den Menschen und seine Natur auf Fortschritte der modernen Biowissenschaften und die mit ihnen verbundenen praktischen Möglichkeiten der Biotechnologie zurück.
Dabei ist die »philosophische Anthropologie« erst am Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts auf den Begriff gekommen. Ihre Entstehungsgeschichte ist vom Bewusstsein getragen, durch den Verlust von Denktraditionen und den Zusammenbruch von Weltanschauungen an einem Wendepunkt der Geschichte zu stehen, der in seiner Unausweichlichkeit jeden Vergleich mit anderen Epochen der Sozial- und Geistesgeschichte außer Kraft setzt, wie Gerald Hartung erst kürzlich feststellte.
Ziel der Tagung wird er daher sein, auch im Hinblick auf den Abiturschwerpunkt 2019 „Was ist der Mensch?“, das Gespräch zu öffnen zwischen empirischen Anthropologien einerseits und Denkansätzen, die in der Tradition des Idealismus und Kulturalismus stehen.

Ruth Hagengruber - "Philosophinnen in die Schule – eine politische Forderung"
2018-02-24 12:15 - 13:00
Christine de Pizan (1365 – 1430) sagte,sie wolle nicht den „Meinungen der alten Theologen und Philosophen folgen“, sondern sich vielmehr „ihres eigenen Verstandes“ bedienen, als sie die gesellschaftliche Herabwürdigung der Frauen im öffentlichen Leben ihrer Zeit als ungerechtfertigt zurückwies.
Olympe de Gouges (1748 – 1793) forderte die gleichen Bürgerrechte für Frauen wie für Männer und empfahl den Frauen, keine Regierung anzuerkennen, in der sie nicht die Hälfte der Repräsentantinnen stellten. Sie zahlte den Preis dafür auf der Guillotine.
Die uns heute zur Verfügung stehenden Materialien sind dank der digitalen Techniken immens. In den letzten dreißig Jahren wurde eine großartige Forschung zu den Ideen der Philosophinnen vorgelegt. Nun ist es an den etablierten Institutionen, diese Erkenntnisse auch in den Schulunterricht zu überführen und die Philosophinnen in den Unterricht zu integrieren.
Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber ist Professorin für Philosophie und Leiterin des philosophischen Instituts an der Universität
Paderborn sowie Leiterin des Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.

Julia Lerius - "Was bin ich – eine Einheit aus Leib und Seele?"
2018-02-24 13:45 - 16:00 | Landesinstitut für Lehrerbildung und Schulentwicklung, Felix-Dahn-Straße 3, Hamburg, 20357, Germany
Eine philosophische Annährung an Hildegards von Bingen (1098 – 1179) Verständnis von Leib und Seele mit Impulsen für den Philosophieunterricht. Der im Rahmenplan Philosophie festgelegte Arbeitsbereich „Anthropologie und Kultur“ behandelt zentrale Anliegen der philosophischen Anthropologie.
Die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Leib und Seele ist ein Schwerpunkt des Arbeitsbereichs. Dieser Workshop bietet Impulse für die Integration der Leib-Seele-Problematik anhand von Textauszügen aus Hildegards von Bingen Werk „Scivias“ (dt. Übertragung), die den Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern des Workshops zugänglich gemacht werden. Die Bestimmung von Leib und Seele, ihre Relation zueinander und die kontextuale Verortung von Vernunft, Verstand und Wille sind Aspekte, die im Mittelpunkt des Workshops stehen.

Blurred Lines?
2018-03-03 14:45 - 16:15 | Rathaus Paderborn, Rathausplatz 4, Paderborn, Germany
Part of the project seminar “Philosophy of Sexuality” at Paderborn University by Ana Rodrigues, at the professorial chair of Prof. Dr. Hagengruber, the project In der Philosophie zu Hause (IPH) and its student group PEGASUS.
In recent times, we have not been speaking of “sexual”, but of “sexualized” violence. This new description is indicative of a shift in consciousness regarding sexually connoted acts of violence. This new description is supposed to express, that such acts are not sexual acts, but violence, enacted in a sexual manner. The redesignation is trying to draw a clear line between sexuality and violence. But the attempt of a clear distinction is undermining that sexuality and violence are still woven into our still patriarchal culture. The socialization of boys and men within an order order of unequal gender relations makes power and violence into a non-negligible part of their sexual identity and forces us to acknowledge, that there is sexual violence which exists as a gender-specific crime. But this in turn makes us validate those cultural and societal conditions of existing gender relations and therefore male self-conception, which needs to be overcome, if the described problem situation is to be overcome. For the International Women’s Day 2018, the participants of the project seminar “Philosophy of sexuality” of the university of Paderborn will first present the noted controversy in form of a debate. Afterwards, the student group PEGASUS invites to further discussion at several different round tables, in order to further discuss individual aspects of the debate.
All interested parties are warmly invited!

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 | 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.
Webpage and registration.

Symposium in Ancient and Medieval Philosophy - Feminine* Perspektives
2018-03-15 06:00 - 2018-03-17 17:00 | 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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Women Philosophers I: Science and the Natural World
2018-03-24 08:00 - 09:30 | 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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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

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

Ruth Hagengruber - "Science in the Making: Alternative approaches to Science and Philosophy"
2018-04-06 09:30 - 10:20 | 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)”

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)

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

Femmes et Philosophie dans le Monde Ancien
2018-04-19 14:15 - 2018-04-20 12:30 | 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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Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics
2018-04-26 18:30 - 2018-04-28 16:30 | 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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