History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

1000 Places in 1 World - Absent Women’s Voices in Classical, Modern and Contemporary Indian Philosophy
2024-01-09 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | online
An intercontinental New Voices seminar. Hosted by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
This online seminar, dedicated to 1000 Places in 1 World, is a collaboration with colleagues from universities around the world, including contributions from the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, India and Tanzania. The seminar brings to life the research and dissemination of the ideas of women philosophers across the centuries and from different parts of the world.
Contemporary cultural criticism focuses on issues of race and class. The systematic and global oppression of women and the almost global totalitarian erasure of their cultural and intellectual heritage are virtually absent from these debates.
Yet this oppression and erasure is global. And the fact that this oppression is central to the global spread of violence can be seen almost everywhere. Thus, the current supposedly critical discourse is not so different from earlier discourses of violence and oppression; it continues to build on patriarchal dominance and rhetoric and actions that glorify violence.
This seminar sees itself as a signal against this politics. 1000 Places in 1 World is a collaboration of intercultural and intercontinental partners. Its aim is to revive, interpret and preserve the cultural and intellectual heritage of women.
The event is organised by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers. It is directed by Ruth Edith Hagengruber.
The seminar will begin on Tuesday 9 January 2024 at 16.00 CET/IST 8.30 in Zoom. It will consist of six sessions and will end on the 6th of February 2024.
2024, January 9, at 4.00 pm (CET/IST 8.30 via Zoom): Absent Women’s Voices in Classical, Modern and Contemporary Indian Philosophy, led by the Collective for Women Philosophers in India, featuring the speakers: Dr. Richa Schukla, Indian Institute of Technology, Bhubaneshwar, India, Co-founder of CWPI; Dr. Muzaffar Ail, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Co-founder of CWPJ, Mansi Rathour, OP Jindal Global University, Co-founder of CWPJ.
If you want to join online, just write an email to contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org

1000 Places in 1 World - Brazilian Women Philosophers
2024-01-16 16:00 - 18:00 | online
An intercontinental New Voices seminar. Hosted by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
This online seminar, dedicated to 1000 Places in 1 World, is a collaboration with colleagues from universities around the world, including contributions from the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, India and Tanzania. The seminar brings to life the research and dissemination of the ideas of women philosophers across the centuries and from different parts of the world.
Contemporary cultural criticism focuses on issues of race and class. The systematic and global oppression of women and the almost global totalitarian erasure of their cultural and intellectual heritage are virtually absent from these debates.
Yet this oppression and erasure is global. And the fact that this oppression is central to the global spread of violence can be seen almost everywhere. Thus, the current supposedly critical discourse is not so different from earlier discourses of violence and oppression; it continues to build on patriarchal dominance and rhetoric and actions that glorify violence.
This seminar sees itself as a signal against this politics. 1000 Places in 1 World is a collaboration of intercultural and intercontinental partners. Its aim is to revive, interpret and preserve the cultural and intellectual heritage of women.
The event is organised by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers. It is directed by Ruth Edith Hagengruber.
The seminar will begin on Tuesday 9 January 2024 at 16.00 CET/IST 8.30 in Zoom. It will consist of six sessions and will end on the 6th of February 2024.
2024, January 16 at 4 pm (CET/GMT 12.00 in person and in Zoom): Brazilian Women Philosophers, presented by PhD Pedro Pricladnitzky, Ass. Professor in currently Research Professor at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientist, Paderborn.
If you want to join online, just write an email to contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org

1000 Places in 1 World - Laureana Wright, a Feminist and Journalist in 19th century Mexico
2024-01-23 16:00 - 18:00 | online
An intercontinental New Voices seminar. Hosted by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
This online seminar, dedicated to 1000 Places in 1 World, is a collaboration with colleagues from universities around the world, including contributions from the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, India and Tanzania. The seminar brings to life the research and dissemination of the ideas of women philosophers across the centuries and from different parts of the world.
Contemporary cultural criticism focuses on issues of race and class. The systematic and global oppression of women and the almost global totalitarian erasure of their cultural and intellectual heritage are virtually absent from these debates.
Yet this oppression and erasure is global. And the fact that this oppression is central to the global spread of violence can be seen almost everywhere. Thus, the current supposedly critical discourse is not so different from earlier discourses of violence and oppression; it continues to build on patriarchal dominance and rhetoric and actions that glorify violence.
This seminar sees itself as a signal against this politics. 1000 Places in 1 World is a collaboration of intercultural and intercontinental partners. Its aim is to revive, interpret and preserve the cultural and intellectual heritage of women.
The event is organised by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers. It is directed by Ruth Edith Hagengruber.
The seminar will begin on Tuesday 9 January 2024 at 16.00 CET/IST 8.30 in Zoom. It will consist of six sessions and will end on the 6th of February 2024.
2024, January 23 at 4 pm (CET/GMT 12.00 in Zoom): Laureana Wright, a Feminist and Journalist in 19th century Mexico, presented by PhD Teresa Rodriguez, Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, Universidad Nacional Aut6noma de México.
If you want to join online, just write an email to contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org

1000 Places in 1 World - Women in Philippine History
2024-01-30 16:00 - 18:00 | online
An intercontinental New Voices seminar. Hosted by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
This online seminar, dedicated to 1000 Places in 1 World, is a collaboration with colleagues from universities around the world, including contributions from the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, India and Tanzania. The seminar brings to life the research and dissemination of the ideas of women philosophers across the centuries and from different parts of the world.
Contemporary cultural criticism focuses on issues of race and class. The systematic and global oppression of women and the almost global totalitarian erasure of their cultural and intellectual heritage are virtually absent from these debates.
Yet this oppression and erasure is global. And the fact that this oppression is central to the global spread of violence can be seen almost everywhere. Thus, the current supposedly critical discourse is not so different from earlier discourses of violence and oppression; it continues to build on patriarchal dominance and rhetoric and actions that glorify violence.
This seminar sees itself as a signal against this politics. 1000 Places in 1 World is a collaboration of intercultural and intercontinental partners. Its aim is to revive, interpret and preserve the cultural and intellectual heritage of women.
The event is organised by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers. It is directed by Ruth Edith Hagengruber.
The seminar will begin on Tuesday 9 January 2024 at 16.00 CET/IST 8.30 in Zoom. It will consist of six sessions and will end on the 6th of February 2024.
2024, January 30 at 4 pm (CET/IST 8.30 via Zoom): Women in Philippine History. Presented by Professor Ma. Theresa T. Payongayong, PhD, Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, University of the Philippines, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of the Philippines Diliman.

1000 Places in 1 World - Women’s Cultural Heritage from India
2024-02-06 16:00 - 18:00 | online
An intercontinental New Voices seminar. Hosted by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
This online seminar, dedicated to 1000 Places in 1 World, is a collaboration with colleagues from universities around the world, including contributions from the Philippines, Brazil, Mexico, India and Tanzania. The seminar brings to life the research and dissemination of the ideas of women philosophers across the centuries and from different parts of the world.
Contemporary cultural criticism focuses on issues of race and class. The systematic and global oppression of women and the almost global totalitarian erasure of their cultural and intellectual heritage are virtually absent from these debates.
Yet this oppression and erasure is global. And the fact that this oppression is central to the global spread of violence can be seen almost everywhere. Thus, the current supposedly critical discourse is not so different from earlier discourses of violence and oppression; it continues to build on patriarchal dominance and rhetoric and actions that glorify violence.
This seminar sees itself as a signal against this politics. 1000 Places in 1 World is a collaboration of intercultural and intercontinental partners. Its aim is to revive, interpret and preserve the cultural and intellectual heritage of women.
The event is organised by the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers. It is directed by Ruth Edith Hagengruber.
The seminar will begin on Tuesday 9 January 2024 at 16.00 CET/IST 8.30 in Zoom. It will consist of six sessions and will end on the 6th of February 2024.
2024, February 6 at 4 pm (CET/IST 8.30 in person and in Zoom): Women’s Cultural Heritage from India, presented by Priyanka Jha, PhD, Assistant Professor in Political Theory, including presentations by Namrata Chaturvedi, Arti Minocha. Sanchayita Paul Chakraborty, India.
If you want to join online, just write an email to contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org

Research Colloquium - Research Group Émilie Du Châtelet
2024-05-06 16:00 - 18:00
Research Colloquium Summer Term 2024
This summer term the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists continued with its tradition of the Research Colloquium. Within this colloquium members of the Center, Fellows and students present their status on personal research projects. The Research Colloquium takes place on the following dates at the center (room TP21.2.32)
This term we had a great exchange on the following topics:
May 6/May 27
Ruth E. Hagengruber, Aaron Wells & Pedro Pricladnitzky: Research Group on Émilie Du Châtelet
June 3
Iva Manova: The Research on Women Philosophers in Bulgaria
July 8
Jil Muller: Olivia Sabuco and the Mind-Body Problem
July 22
Ruth E. Hagengruber: 1000 Places: How Women Philosophers see the world and understand its history
Pedro Pricladnitzky: Brazilian Women Philosophers
Felix Grewe: Donna J. Haraways Concept of Storytelling as an Ecofeminist Perspective: Cyborgs, OncoMouse and Sympoiesis

New Voices Summer 2024: Food, Plants, Remedies and Healing Practices: Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine
2024-05-08 16:30 - 18:30
Dr. Giulia Guidara (Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici, Roma): From Body to Soul: Mental Disorders in Hildegard of Bingen’s Cause et cure
The Cause et cure of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) is both a cosmological text and a medical handbook. This double aspects, so to speak, of the work is not surprising: in medieval Europe human beings and nature are deeply interconnected. As the title Cause et cure suggests, most of the work focuses on the causes and natural treatment of several diseases. Hildegard’s idea of disease is very different from the present one: sickness always derives from a physiological change of the body. The reference framework is the humoral theory, according to which the four humors, or bodily fluids, (i.e. blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile) affect temperament, physical qualities and health. However, some diseases described in the Cause et cure mainly affect mood and behaviour and, in this regard, they can be assimilated to the modern concept of mental disorders. Indeed, the DSM-5 of the American Psychiatric Association (that is the reference book for mental health and brain-related conditions) defines mental disorder as a behavioural or psychological syndrome or pattern, which is characterized by an important disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behaviour. My lecture will analyse the passages of Cause et cure devoted to diseases that affect mood and behaviour, with a special focus on their causes and their possible treatment. This allows to highlight both Hildegard’s ideas on the relationship between soul and body, and medieval concept of mental illness.

Émilie Du Châtelet’s Scientific Methodology Hypotheses and the Principles of Knowledge
2024-05-23 13:00 - 2024-05-24 17:30 | online
International Online Conference
Émilie Du Châtelet’s Scientific Methodology: Hypotheses and the Principles of Knowledge
23rd/24th of May 2024
Organized by Clara Carus, Head of the DFG-Research Project :The Relationship between the Theory of Hypotheses and the Principles of Knowledge in Émilie Du Châtelet
at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists
Keynote Address: Katherine Brading (Duke University)
Interest and scholarship on Du Châtelet has been growing exponentially recently. Many Du Châtelet scholars see her newfound scientific methodology at the heart of her philosophy. Du Châtelet developed an intriguing theory of hypotheses, elaborating on the scope, legitimacy, content and proper establishment of hypotheses. Furthermore, she put forward an account of knowledge on the basis of self-evident axiomatic principles of knowledge. In Du Châtelet’s scientific methodology the principles of knowledge and the theory of hypotheses stand in a compelling relation. Du Châtelet takes up important ideas from Descartes, Leibniz, Wolff, Locke and Newton (among others) and develops them further in her scientific methodology, while consciously distancing herself from other aspects of their works.
This workshop features some of the most prominent Du Châtelet scholars as well as international experts in Early Modern Methodology and is committed to exploring Du Châtelet’s scientific methodology in its content and historic significance. It will be a fun and inclusive event, which is open to students and faculty alike.
All are welcome and attendance is free. Please register at clara.carus@uni-paderborn.de with your name, email address and affiliation (if applicable).
Speakers: Katherine Brading (Keynote), Fatema Amijee, Peter Anstey, Clara Carus, Katherine Dunlop, Andrew Janiak, Ruth Hagengruber, Qiu Lin, Pedro Prikladnitzky, Andrea Reichenberger, Natalia Lorena Zorrilla Sirlin, Aaron Wells
Dates: 23rd of May 2024 1.45pm-5.30pm CET & 24th of May 2024 9.45am-5.30pm CET
Location: Online/Zoom
Full program here.

Research Colloquium - Research Group Émilie Du Châtelet
2024-05-27 16:00 - 18:00 | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany

New Voices Summer 2024: Food, Plants, Remedies and Healing Practices: Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine
2024-05-29 16:30 - 18:30
Jana Schreiber (University of Marburg): Anna Margaretha Wiedemann – A healing woman and her patients in early modern Frankfurt
In 1670, a conflict between Frankfurt surgeons and the healer Anna Margaretha Wiedemann broke out. The surviving sources offer deep insights into the practice of women healers in the early modern period, who treated their patients, competing with male doctors and barbers. In addition to statements by Wiedemann and the surgeons, there are numerous testimonies from patients, which shed light on the coping strategies used by the community to deal with diseases. They also show the expectations and duties that were set and fulfilled by patients, their social environment and the healers.
The lecture will address the following questions:
How did the relationship between healers, patients and their social environment take form? What knowledge and forms of medical treatment were used by the practitioners? How were disease and health defined and differentiated by the protagonists?

About the Speaker:
Jana Schreiber is a PhD Student at Philipps-Universität Marburg where she works on the project The Actors in the Frankfurt Medical System in the Early Modern Period: Conflicts, Competition and Complementarity.

Workshop: Hedwig Conrad-Martius. Phenomenology, Ontology, Metaphysics
2024-05-31 14:00 - 18:00 | Technologiepark 21, Universität Paderborn, 33100, Germany
This workshop is occasioned by two recent publications on the early phenomenologist Hedwig-Conrad Martius. The first English translation of her early and seminal work Metaphysical Conversations, translated by Christina Gschwandtner, as well as the release of the second revised and enlarged edition of Ronny Miron’s Hedwig Conrad-Martius. The Phenomenological Gateway to Reality. Both author and translator will be present to discuss the ideas of this original and challenging thinker, whose re-discovery is long overdue.
The event takes place in-person at the conference room in Technologiepark 21, 33100 Paderborn, Germany, as well as via Zoom link.
Both in-person visitors and Zoom attendees are requested to register at: phenomenology@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
The workshop is organized by Daniel Neumann, Center for the History of Women Philosphers and Scientists, Paderborn University and Simona Bertolini, University of Parma.
The event is hosted by the Center for the History of Women Philosphers and Scientists, Paderborn University, directed by Prof. Ruth E. Hagengruber.

Research Colloquium - Iva Manova: The Research on Women Philosophers in Bulgaria
2024-06-03 16:00 - 18:00

New Voices Summer 2024: Food, Plants, Remedies and Healing Practices: Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine
2024-06-19 16:30 - 18:30
Dr. Justin Begley (University of Basel) Dr. Benjamin Goldberg (University of South Florida, USA): Margaret Cavendish and the Medical Establishment
This talk explores how the seventeenth-century philosopher Margaret Cavendish interacted with the medical world of her time. We examine a set of historiographical issues arising from a manuscript collection of her and William’s medical recipes, MS Pw V90, preserved in the archives of the University of Nottingham. Our transcription and analysis of this manuscript (The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish, Palgrave-MacMillan: 2023) challenges the common view that Cavendish opposed traditional Galenic medicine as well as the Scholastic tradition. In grappling with her views on professional medicine, we also investigate whether Cavendish faced any discrimination or mistreatment from her doctors because of her gender, as some have suggested, focusing on her relationship to one of her physicians in particular, the prominent doctor Théodore de Mayerne. Along the way, we highlight the medical achievements (mainly in the recipe field) of other noblewomen in Cavendish’s network.

About the Speakers:

Justin Begley is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Basel who focuses on early modern literature and intellectual history, particularly on the histories of science, medicine, and the book.
Benjamin Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of South Florida in Tampa. His work focuses on the intersection of natural philosophy and medicine in late Renaissance and early modern Europe including the history of medicine and authors such as Fernel, Harvey, and Descartes.

New Voices Summer 2024: Food, Plants, Remedies and Healing Practices: Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine
2024-06-26 16:30 - 18:30
Madeleine Sheahan (Yale University): Seasonality and Slaughter: Sourcing Animal-Ingredients in Seventeenth-Century Household Medicine
Springtime was an industrious season of the 17th century household. In a period of domestic production and proactivity, household medical practitioners worked to prevent illness and preserve health. The perceived environmental subjectivity of the body encouraged practitioners to prepare stocks of medicine for a host of ailments believed to arise from changing climatic, ecological, and astrological conditions, as well as shifts in human activity, labour, and diet. At the same time as the changing environment threated the health of the body, springtime opened new possibilities to sources natural ingredients for the making of remedies. Of note was the provisioning of pregnant and juvenile animals, made readily available by the changing season and desired for their perceived medical efficacy. Turning to these seasonal aspects of domestic medical care, this talk provides an analysis of animal sourcing and processing techniques recommended in a series of seventeenth-century English manuscripts recipes authored by women. In highlighting the interconnected issues of seasonality, medical provisioning, and animal utility, it illuminates a domestic epistemology of animal use and value, as well as the local, environmental specificity of household medicine in the seventeenth century.

About the Speaker:
Madeleine is a PhD student in the History of Science and Medicine and Santorio Global Fellow at the University of Parma. Her research examines the social history of female healthcare and the variability of local medical marketplaces in sixteenth and seventeenth-century Italy. She is particularly interested in the relationship between midwifery and pharmacology, with a focus on the therapeutic activities of lay women who operated on the periphery of conventional academic, monastic, and guild settings.

Fachtagung Frauen. Denken. Europa
2024-06-28 15:00 - 18:00 | Hisorisches Rathaus Paderborn, Rathausplatz 1, Paderborn, 33098
FRAUEN. DENKEN. EUROPA.

Die Veranstaltung findet statt unter der Schirmherrschaft der UN Women Deutschland.
Diese Veranstaltung wird freundlicherweise von der Verbund Volksbank OWL und der Hochschulallianz COLOURS unterstützt.
Programm 28. Juni 2024
Öffentliche Fachtagung im Großen Sitzungssaal des Historischen Rathauses der Stadt Paderborn, Rathausplatz 1, Paderborn
15.00 Uhr: Eröffnung durch Prof. Dr.in Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Leiterin des Center for the History of Women Philosophers an der Universität Paderborn und Vizepräsidentin des Deutschen Akademikerinnenbundes
– Es spricht der Stellvertretende Bürgermeister der Stadt Paderborn, Dietrich Honervogt
– Willkommen der Präsidentin des Deutschen Akademikerinnenbunds, Manuela Queitsch
– Willkommen der Vorsitzenden der Ortsgruppe Paderborn, Renate Ortner
– Willkommen der Leiterin des Implementation Offices der European University Alliance Colours an der Universität Paderborn, Dr. Isabelle Leitloff
15.30 – 17.15 Uhr Moderation: Prof.in Dr.in Dorothee M. Meister
15.30 Frauen. Denken. Europa. Das kulturelle Kapital Europas sichtbar machen!
Prof.in Dr.in Ruth Hagengruber, Universität Paderborn, Direktorin des Zentrums zur Erforschung der Geschichte der Philosophinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen (Center HWPS), Vizepräsidentin des DAB
15.55 Women in Europe. Making visible the history of their ideas
Präsidentin des Verbandes der University Women of Europe, Dr. Anne Nègre, Strassburg
16.20 Eine Forschungsinstitution für Philosophinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Klaus Mainzer, TUM Senior Excellence Faculty Technische Universität München, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Center, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen; President European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
16.45 Die Initiative des Deutschen Akademikerinnenbundes zur Erforschung der Ideen der Wissenschaftlerinnen
Prof.in emer. Dr.in Anne Schlüter, ehem. Sprecherin und Leiterin des Netzwerkes für Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung in NRW, Mitglied des DAB
17.10 Warum ich einen Preis stifte. Der Elisabeth von Böhmen-Herford Preis für die Geschichte der Philosophinnen
Prof.in Dr.in Ulrike Detmers, Fachhochschule Bielefeld, Inhaberin der Mestemacher AG.
17.15 Die Ideengeschichte der Frauen und ihr Ort im Rahmen der Universität Paderborn
Prodekanin der Fakultät Kulturwissenschaften an der Universität Paderborn und Mitglied des DAB, Prof.in Dr.in Dorothee M. Meister
Netzwerken beim Sektempfang, gestiftet von der Vorsitzenden der Ortsgruppe Paderborn.
Ende der Veranstaltung. Frauen. Denken. Europa ca. 18.00 Uhr
19.00 Uhr: Gemeinsames Abendessen (nach vorheriger Anmeldung) im Restaurant Bobberts, Neuer Platz 3, Paderborn

Erweitertes Vorstandstreffen des Deutschen Akademikerinnenbundes
2024-06-29 09:30 - 13:00 | L3 204, L-Gebäude Universität Paderborn, Pohlweg 57, Paderborn, 33098
Programm 29. Juni 2024
Sitzung des Erweiterten Vorstands des Deutschen Akademikerinnenbundes und Wahl der Kommissionen
9.30 Uhr: Eröffnung der Veranstaltung durch die Präsidentin des Deutschen Akademikerinnenbundes, Manuela Queitsch
– Bericht der Präsidentin und des Vorstands
– Bericht der Kommissionen
– Berichte der Regionalgruppen
– Berichte der Arbeitskreise
– Wahlen zu den Kommissionen der Mitgliederversammlung.
Es wird ein kleiner Mittagslunch gereicht.
Voraussichtliches Ende: 13.00 Uhr
Der Nachmittag steht zur freien Verfügung.
Hier können Sie an folgenden Führungen teilnehmen (Selbstzahlerin, ca. 8 Euro nur Bargeld):
15.00 – 16.30 Uhr:
Stadtrundgang: Lebenswege herausragender Frauen
Oder:
Heinz Nixdorf Forum: Sie waren die Ersten – Frauen in der Informationstechnik
Wer Lust hat, ist eingeladen, sich ab 18.00 dem Treffen der Präsidentin im Café Central anzuschließen.
Ende der Veranstaltung.

Research Colloquium - Jil Muller: Olivia Sabucco and the Mind-Body Problem
2024-07-08 16:00 - 18:00 | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany

New Voices Summer 2024: Food, Plants, Remedies and Healing Practices: Women’s Ideas in the History of Medicine
2024-07-10 16:30 - 18:30
Dr. Amalia Cerrito (University of Trento): Female seeds, powers, and bodies: Albert the Great and the vegetal sexuality
The 13th-century Dominican master Albert the Great extensively discusses vegetal sexuality. While animals reproduce through the mating of female and male individuals, plants lack a sexual distinction, reproducing through seeds that contain all necessary conditions for plant generation. Furthermore, the primary paternal and maternal functions, such as fertilization, generative material provision, and nourishment during development, do not involve individuals of the same plant species. External causal agencies perform these functions, like the Sun and the soil (traditionally regarded as the “father and mother of plants”). Despite the evident differences in animal and plant generation, Albert uses concepts such as “male and female”, “motherhood and fatherhood”, to explain vegetal sexuality. He is convinced that “male and female” and “motherhood and fatherhood” manifest in nature to varying degrees, ranging from the most perfect nature, i.e., human beings, to the less perfect, i.e., plants. Applying these categories to plants, he develops an explanatory model that aims to identify causal roles and powers of male and female, fatherhood and motherhood, in proportion to plant generation, using a comparative approach modeled on animal generation. In Albert’s view, plants lack sexually differentiated bodies not due to a factual absence of “male and female” attributes, powers, and causation outright, but rather as a consequence of their ontological status not due to a factual absence of “male and female” attributes, powers, and causation outright, but rather as a consequence of their ontological status. Plants express masculinitas and femininitas proportionally to their nature. The examination of plant generation provides an opportunity to elucidate these concepts, defining the essential aspects and causal roles of male and female functions and features. In this lecture, I will focus on how Albert employs concepts such as the female “body”, “seed”, and “power”, in his investigation on vegetal sexuality. By developing the analogy between the uterus/terra/mater (uterus/soil/mother), he adapts the Galenic humoral-complexion theory to the soil and identifies maternal and feminine properties and powers even in the simplest living body —namely, that of plants.

About the Speaker:
Amalia Cerrito is an Associate Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Medicine and the Body in the Renaissance and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Trento where she works on a project titled Between Science and Myth: Albert the Great, his Sources and his Followers” (PRIN 2022: “Itineraries of Philosophy and Science from Baghdad to Florence: Albert the Great, his Sources and his Legacies”). She received her PhD in Philosophy in 2020 jointly by the University of Pisa and the University of Florence. In 2022 her work on Albert the Great and the ‘virtus formativa’ was awarded the Santorio Award for Excellence in Research.

Research Colloquium - Ruth E. Hagengruber: 1000 Places: How Women Philosophers see the world and understand its history
2024-07-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany

Research Colloquium - Pedro Pricladnitzky: Brazilian Women Philosophers
2024-07-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany

Research Colloquium - Felix Grewe: Donna J. Haraways Concept of Storytelling as an Ecofeminist Perspective: Cyborgs, OncoMouse and Sympoiesis
2024-07-22 16:00 - 18:00 | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany

Workshop on Mind, Consciousness and Perception in Cavendish
2024-07-25 - 2024-07-26 | per Zoom
We are pleased to announce an upcoming online workshop on “Cavendish: Mind, Consciousness and Perception,” which will be held on 25 and 26 July, 2024. The workshop is organized by Pedro Pricladnitzky and Aaron Wells. Invited speakers:
Colin Chamberlain (University College London)
Marcy Lascano (University of Kansas)
Alison Peterman (University of Rochester
Jonathan Shaheen (University of Uppsala)
Submitted talks:
Olivia Branscum (University of Oklahoma)
Jan Forsman (University of Iowa)
Kevin Lower (Villanova University)
Milena Monteiro Rodrigues (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
This workshop aims to explore the philosophical perspectives of Margaret Cavendish regarding the nature of the mind in the context of early modern philosophy and its relations to contemporary discussions. Submissions concerning the philosophy of mind and the theory of knowledge within the context of Cavendish’s work, interpreted broadly, align perfectly with the goals of our workshop. We are especially keen on perspectives that highlight Cavendish’s departure from conventional notions of consciousness, while emphasizing the interconnectedness of mind, body, and environment.
Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), one of the most remarkable figures in early modern philosophy, made significant contributions to metaphysics, philosophy of nature, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. Despite being overshadowed by her contemporaries, her works offer profound insights into questions surrounding the mind, consciousness, and perception. She was a critic of the dominant mechanistic philosophy and proposed an alternative organicist explanation of nature, challenging the prevailing views of thinkers like Hobbes and Descartes. Cavendish’s unique metaphysical views anticipated later philosophers like Spinoza and Leibniz and contributed to a more nuanced understanding of nature’s order and infinitude. Her work also presents an early form of naturalism, resonating with contemporary philosophy and scientific inquiry. Additionally, it provides valuable insights relevant to ongoing inquiries into whether the entities surrounding us possess consciousness and intelligence.
Talk titles, schedule, and registration details will follow soon!
For registration/zoom link contact: wells@mail.uni-paderborn.de

FISP: Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy: Wilma Papst’s Reception of Frege.
2024-08-02 09:20 - 09:40 | CU009, Geologia e Mineralogia, Aula 14, Rome
On the 2. August at 09.20-09.40 in CU009, Geologia e Mineralogia, Aula 14 our Fellow Michele Vagnetti will present a paper on Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy: Wilma Papst’s Reception of Frege.
More information on the Center activities at the FISP 2024 can be found here.

FISP: History of Philosophy and the Biopolitical Crisis
2024-08-02 13:00 - 19:00 | CU002 Giurisprudenza, Aula “Francesco Calasso”, Rome
2. August 13.00-19.00, CU002 Giurisprudenza, Aula “Francesco Calasso”: Ruth Edith Hagengruber: Biopolitics: Erasing the Voices of Women Philosophers. The talk is part of an invited session hosted by Riccardo Pozzo.
In the 1990s, feminist critics pointed out that Foucault’s implicit androcentrism blinds this theory to the question of women: the categories of the philosophical field of biopolitics are and were not uncontroversial in feminist philosophy. This has largely been forgotten today, as feminists and political scientists, as well as representatives of the sociological interpretation of society, use the concepts introduced into the discussion by Foucault to operationalise their own content. The lecture will discuss the relationship between how these categories and operative processes were arrived at, what discourse they come from and where they are carried. It will also show the gaps in interpretation.
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FISP: Adding Voices to the Philosophy Curriculum
2024-08-02 17:00 - 19:00 | CU001 Rettorato, Aula Organi Collegiali, Rome
2. August 17.00-19.00, CU001 Rettorato, Aula Organi Collegiali: Ruth Edith Hagengruber: Adding Voices to the Philosophy Curriculum. The talk is part of an invited session hosted by Floris Velema.
Teaching Hypotheses with Émilie Du Châtelet by Ruth Edith Hagengruber
Abstract
The philosopher Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749) was one of the most successful writers on philosophy and science of her time. Her texts were translated into several languages during her lifetime, which demonstrates the international appeal of her work. She can certainly be considered an innovator in philosophy and science. This achievement can be emphasised in the classroom by interpreting the chapter On Hypotheses, from her main work, the Institutions of Physics.
The exclusion of this impacting text from the history of philosophy delivers not only another proof of the unjustified elimination of women’s contributions, but also illustrates the loss and the failings of that history and its reception as well as demonstrating the interest-based nature of philosophical criteria applied up to our days.
Ruth Hagengruber on Teaching Hypotheses

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FISP Invited Symposium: Women in the History of Philosophy
2024-08-03 17:00 - 19:00 | CAMPUS SAPIENZA, AULA MAGNA, Rome
3. AUGUST 17.00-19.00, CAMPUS SAPIENZA, AULA MAGNA: SYMPOSIUM ON WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY
Chair: Ruth Edith Hagengruber
Thanks to the president of the FISP, Luca Scarantino, and his board. For the first time in the history of FISP, and indeed for the first time in the entire history of FISP, this history of women philosophers is being placed at the centre of attention.
We realise that this is something completely new, at a time when women are still vastly underrepresented in many national philosophical societies and when no effort has yet been made to reconstruct the history of women philosophers at the national level. We are delighted that we can now do this here and together at an international level.
In addition to all the exclusions that have been practised in the history of philosophy and by its actors, sometimes consciously, the exclusion of women philosophers is nothing other than the act of a one-sided sexist practice. However, the history of philosophy of women philosophers is so rich and their knowledge so necessary for this world. It fills all areas of knowledge and it gives us a new idea of seeing philosophy.
It is an honour for me to stand here with these colleagues who have enriched the world of women philosophers. I thank my colleagues Marie Pauline Eboh, Heisook Kim and Mary Ellen Waithe for rewriting this history of women philosophers with me.

17:00-17:30 Marie Pauline Eboh: Unmute Herstory

17:30-18:00 Ruth Hagengruber: 1000 Places in 1 World. How women philosophers are changing the way we see the world and understand its history.

18:00-18:30 Heisook Kim: Sublimated Revolts against Patriarchal Order: the case of two women intellectuals in the Confucian history of Korea

18:30-19:00 Mary Ellen Waithe: A New Dawn For Philosophy? The Case for En Hedu’Anna of Mesopotamia, 2300 BCE

FISP: Round Table - Non Western Women Philosophers
2024-08-05 17:00 - 19:00 | CU003 Lettera e Filosofia, Aula XII, Rome
Round Table #1 Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists:
Monday 5 August 2024, CU003 Lettera e Filosofia, Aula XII, Time: 17:00- 19:00
17:00 – 17.30 Krissah Marga Taganas (Philippines): Empowering Mothers: Feminist Theorizing on Motherhood”.
17:30 – 18.00 Piergiacomo Severini (Japan/Italy): Women in the Non-Western Philosophy – ethical category of “distinction” in Jeanne Hersch and Kitarou Nishida
18.00 – 18.30 Pedro Pricladnitzky (Brasil / Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists): Nisia Floresta, A Brasilian Philosopher
18:30 – 19.00 Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists Award Ceremony: Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize (donated by Ulrike Detmers)
The winner of the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize 2024 will be announced; the speeches of honour will be held by: Mary Ellen Waithe and Cris Sanchez.
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FISP: 50 years of the Association Internationale des Professeurs de Philosophie: Past and Future
2024-08-05 17:00 - 19:00 | CU003 Lettera e Filosofia, Aula XII, Rome
5. August 17.00-19.00, CU003 Lettera e Filosofia, Aula XII: Ruth Edith Hagengruber: The Actuality of Teaching Hannah Arendt: The Origins of Totalitarianism, Association internationale des Professeurs de philosophie. Chaired by Riccardo Pozzo
Flyer -Society Session: 50 Years, Past and Present Association Internationale De Professeurs de Philosophie

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FISP: Round Table - Eco-, Health-Feminism
2024-08-07 13:00 - 15:00 | CU002 Giurisprudenza, Aula “Falcone e Borsellino”, Rome
Round Table #2 Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists: Eco-, Health-Feminism
Wednesday 07 August 13:00-15:00, CU002 Giurisprudenza, Aula “Falcone e Borsellino”
13:00-13:30 Kateryna Karpenko (Kharkiv National Medical University, Ukraine): Eco-cide and -feminism in Ukraine
13:30-14:00 Jil Muller (Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Luxembourg/Germany): Women and Their Body
14:00-14:30 Clara Mavellia (Cultural Entrepreneurship Institute Berlin, Italy/Germany): Health Body, Healthy Planet: A Plea for a Meditarranea or Epistemic Injustice
14:30- 15:00 Felix Grewe (Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Germany): Donna J. Haraways Concept of Storytelling as an Ecofeminist Perspective: Cyborgs, OncoMouse and Sympoiesis
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FISP IAPH: Women Philosophers in Academia: Achievements, Obstacles and Challenges
2024-08-07 17:00 - 19:00 | CU002 Giurisprudenza, Aula 302, Rome
7. August 17.00-19.00, CU002 Giurisprudenza, Aula 302: Ruth: Women Philosophers in Academia (IAPh)
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