History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

XX IAPh Symposium
2025-08-01 - 2025-08-05 | University of Tokyo, aculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan
XX. Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh)
The XX. Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) takes place from August 1-5, 2025 at the University of Tokyo. The XX. Symposium is organized by:
Prof. Dr. Noburu Notomi, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Prof. Dr. Yuko Murakami, Rikkyo University (Japan)
IAPh Secretary Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber, Paderborn University/Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (Germany)
IAPh Speaker Prof. Dr. Cris Sánchez, Complutense University Madrid (Spain)
The IAPh invites everbody to register for participation at this outstanding event. More information about the program and links to the venue can be found here.

Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize 2025
2025-08-04 17:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Tokyo) | University of Tokyo, aculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan
Since 2018, this prize is sponsored by Professor Dr. Ulrike Detmers and awarded in cooperation with Professor Dr. Ruth Hagengruber, the director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. “The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists is pleased and proud to join with Professor Detmers in awarding a prize that explicitly honors scholars whose work best acknowledges the contributions of women philosophers in history,” says Professor Dr. Ruth Hagengruber.
The Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize is intended to acknowledge an internationally known scholar whose work best preserves the memory of women in philosophy. “The awareness that women have contributed to the philosophical tradition is not very common. But it is important to celebrate our knowledge that women of past centuries were active philosophers who raised their voices and have been heard in former times,” explains Professor Ruth Hagengruber.
The prize is awarded to an outstanding contemporary philosopher in memory of Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680). She was the eldest daughter of Prince Friedrich V. of the Palatinate and his wife Elisabeth Stuart, a granddaughter of Maria Stuart. In her time Elisabeth of Bohemia was also a well-known European intellectual and pupil of Descartes. “I have been fighting for many years to ensure that women get the place in society that they deserve,” says Professor Ulrike Detmers. “It is important to raise awareness about women in the history of philosophy and thereby to revitalize the relevance of the philosophical discipline.”
The Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize will be awarded this year within the XX. IAPh Symposium at the University of Tokyo.
The Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize is awarded by this years award comittee consists of:
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers – Professor of Business Administration | University for Applied Sciences Bielefeld | Entrepreneur | Donor of the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize
Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber – University of Paderborn | President of the German Society for Philosophy
Prof. Dr. Yuko Murakami – Rikkyo University, Japan
More Informations can be found at the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize – Main Page.

EcoTechGender. Women Philosophers on Economics, Ecology and Technology
2025-08-05 09:00 - 11:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | University of Tokyo, aculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan
EcoTechGender. Women Philosophers on Economics, Ecology and Technology
Panel within the XX. IAPh Symposium.
Panel Contributor:
Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko (Kharkiv National Medical University) – Women and digital technologies in wartime
Prof. Dr. Asha Mukherjee (Visva-Bharati University) – Eco-tech gender: Search for more Objectivity?
Dr. Ingrid Becker (University of Sankt Gallen/Ruhr-University Bochum) – Giving between inexhaustibility and exhaustibility
Prof Dr. Prijanka Iha (Banaras Hindu University) – Ecological Underpinnings in the Gendered Philosophies from India
Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn University) – Time is money. A proposal for a new kind of economic calculation
More information can be found here.

Ruth E. Hagengruber: Time is money. A proposal for a new kind of economic calculation
2025-08-05 09:00 - 11:30 (Asia/Tokyo) | University of Tokyo, aculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan
On August 5, 2025 Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber gives her talk on Time is money. A proposal for a new kind of economic calculation. The talk is part of the Panel EcoTechGender. Women Philosophers on Economics, Ecology and Technology of the XX. IAPh Symposia.
More information about the panel and the conference can be found here.

Libori Summer School 2025 - Day 1 - Enlightenment perspectives on ethics and moral theory
2025-09-08 | L3 204, Building L, Paderborn University, Pohlweg 57, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Monday, 8 September 2025: Enlightenment perspectives on ethics and moral theory: Commentary on Mandeville’s Fable of the Bees
Experts: Judith P. Zinsser and Ana Rodrigues
For further Information visit our conference main page. Registration is required!
If you are interested to participate, please register here.
The full program can found here.

Libori Summer School 2025 The Early Works of Émilie Du Châtelet
2025-09-08 - 2025-09-12 | L3 204, Building L, Paderborn University, Pohlweg 57, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Libori Summer School 2025 – The Early Works of Émilie Du Châtelet
We are excited to announce the Libori Summer School 2025, dedicated to exploring the early works of Émilie Du Châtelet, one of the most influential women in the history of philosophy and science.
Led by Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber and organized by Dr. Jil Muller with the support of Felix Grewe the Summer School invites Master’s and PhD students from around the world to engage in a collaborative, in-depth exploration of Du Châtelet’s early writings and intellectual legacy.
This year’s program offers a rare opportunity to engage directly with the first digital and historical-critical edition of Du Châtelet’s early manuscripts—produced in collaboration with the National Library of Russia, Saint Petersburg. These texts, rich with philosophical insight and annotated by Du Châtelet herself, reveal how her thought shaped and was shaped by the major metaphysical debates of her time.
More information about the current running CfP and additional information about the speakers, program, venue and registration can be found on the conference’s webpage:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/libori-summer-school-2025/

Libori Summer School 2025 - Day 2 - The nature of liberty and free will
2025-09-09 | L3 204, Building L, Paderborn University, Pohlweg 57, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Tuesday, 9 September 2025: The nature of liberty and free will: Chapter 5 On Liberty
Experts: Ruth E. Hagengruber, Julia Jorati and Eszter Kovács
For further Information visit our conference main page. Registration is required!
If you are interested to participate, please register here.
The full program can found here.

Libori Summer School 2025 - Day 3 - The foundations of natural philosophy
2025-09-10 | L3 204, Building L, Paderborn University, Pohlweg 57, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Wednesday, 10 September 2025: The foundations of natural philosophy: Chapter 4 On the Formation of Colours
Experts: Bryce Gessell, Fritz Nagel and Andrew Janiak
For further Information visit our conference main page. Registration is required!
If you are interested to participate, please register here.
The full program can found here.

Libori Summer School 2025 - Day 4 - On language and ontology
2025-09-11 | L3 204, Building L, Paderborn University, Pohlweg 57, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Thursday, 11 September 2025: On language and ontology: Chapter 6 On Grammar
Experts: Pedro Pricladnitzky, Katarina Peixoto and Viridiana Platas Benítez
For further Information visit our conference main page. Registration is required!
If you are interested to participate, please register here.
The full program can found here.

Libori Summer School 2025 - Day 5 - On metaphysics, eternity, immortality of the soul and an eternal being
2025-09-12 | L3 204, Building L, Paderborn University, Pohlweg 57, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Friday, 12 September 2025: On metaphysics, eternity, immortality of the soul and an eternal being: Treatise on Metaphysics
Expert: Ulla Kölving
For further Information visit our conference main page. Registration is required!
If you are interested to participate, please register here.
The full program can found here.

Research Colloquium- Dr. Manaswini Sen: From Practice to Philosophy: Trade Unionism, Communism, and Feminist Intellectual History in Late Colonial Bengal.
2025-10-13 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Technologiepark 8, Technologiepark 8, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Dr. Manaswini Sen will introduce us into her research on Trade Unionism, Communism and Feminist Intellectual History in late colonial Bengal.
She is an Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History at the Department of History, Easwari School of Liberal Arts, SRM University Ap (India). Her research interests lie within the fields of Labour History, the History of Decolonisation in South Asia, Intellectual History, the History of Surveillance, and the History of Communism in the Global South.
The Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organised by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
Everybody is welcome to attend!
The talk will start at 4 pm.
Room: TP8.1.46
Building: Technologiepark 8
Adress: Technologiepark 8, 33098 Paderborn

Research Colloquium - Dr. Pierpaolo Betti: Atomism and Monadism Combined: Continuities between Du Châtelet’s and Kant’s Accounts of Matter
2025-10-20 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Technologiepark 8, Technologiepark 8, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Abstract: Most scholars emphasize the discontinuity in Kant’s early accounts of matter, reinforcing the longstanding view that the young Kant explored various positions without committing to a specific one. More specifically, commentators tend to read the shift from atomism to monadism or, conversely, from monadism to atomism, as a turning point in Kant’s pre-critical account of matter. I challenge these readings by arguing that the young Kant did not conceive of atomism and monadism as mutually exclusive alternatives. Rather, he developed an account of matter that combined monadism in metaphysics and a version of atomism known as corpuscularism in physics. I further show that, prior to Kant, Du Châtelet had already articulated such a hybrid account of matter by drawing on Wolffian ideas. By comparing Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique with Kant’s early texts on natural philosophy, I suggest that Du Châtelet’s views may have influenced Kant’s early account of matter more significantly than has generally been acknowledged in the literature.
Pierpaolo Betti obtained his PhD from KU Leuven in 2025. His doctoral research focused on the evolution of the concept of monad in Kant’s philosophy in light of the early reception of Leibniz’s monadology. As of November, he will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University, where he will contribute to the historical-critical edition of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique. His publications include “Kant’s Mature Account of Monads as Objects in the Idea” (The Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2024) and “The Influence of Leibniz’s New Essays on Kant’s Account of Impenetrability in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science” (book chapter in Leibniz in der klassischendeutschen Philosophie, edited by Gregor Schäfer. Springer/Metzler, forthcoming).
The Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organised by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
Everybody is welcome to attend!
The talk will start at 4 pm.
Room: TP8.1.46
Building: Technologiepark 8
Adress: Technologiepark 8, 33098 Paderborn

New Voices - Aneta Kohoutova: Through my absent body, I perceive you. Spatiality and female corporeality in public spaces
2025-10-31 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | online
Hannah Arendt Today
The Winter Term Talk Series 2025/26, organised by Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin) and Maria Robaszkiewicz (UPB), is an online talk series dedicated to Hannah Arendt.
Arendt could aptly be described as a thinker of the crisis, or perhaps rather of multiple crises. This motif is ever-present in her work and, indeed, it is a concept that is becoming ever-present in our own time. This is one of the reasons why academic and public interest in Arendt’s writings is currently skyrocketing. It is because so many politically acute challenges today call not for dogmatic, but for critical and practical perspectives. In her works, Arendt seems to be looking for crises: cracks in the fabric of the everyday, which offer an opening, enabling individuals to appear before each other and become political actors. It is not that action necessarily needs a crisis, but a crisis definitely needs action. Crisis, for Arendt, is always ambivalent. It presupposes a destructive moment, but also a constructive one. As she states, “The opportunity, provided by the very fact of crisis – which tears away façades and obliterates prejudices to explore and inquire into whatever has been laid bare of the essence of the matter.” A crisis only proves disastrous when the reaction to it consists of recourse to the ways of thinking prescribed by tradition, answered in conventional, schematic ways.
In line with Arendt’s critical spirit, and especially her concept of natality (every human’s capability of striking new beginnings in the world), this edition of the New Voces talk series introduces contributions of emerging Arendt scholars addressing issues of philosophic and political relevance for the world in which we live today. Topics include the female body, speech and speechlessness, dwelling and home, meanings of property, and natality in times of dictatorship. Everyone is welcome to join us in discussing Hannah Arendt’s relevance today!
Everyone is welcome to attend. You will get the Zoom-Link here or at maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de.

Research Colloquium - Laura E. Herrera Castillo: Beyond Passive Reception: Liselotte von der Pfalz and G.W. Leibniz on F.M. van Helmont
2025-11-03 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Technologiepark 8, Technologiepark 8, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
While the historiography of philosophy has increasingly integrated marginalized figures, the philosophical exchanges between Leibniz and his female correspondents remain understudied. Beyond well-known exchanges with figures like Lady Damaris Masham and Caroline of Ansbach (within the Clarke-Dispute), significant correspondences still await scholarly attention. This paper examines a rich thread in Leibniz’s correspondence with Sophie of Hannover, focusing on the critical intervention of Elisabeth Charlotte (Liselotte) von der Pfalz, whose challenges prompted an exchange on the thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont. As the first study, to my knowledge, dedicated to this episode and to treating Liselotte’s letters as philosophical documents, its primary aim is to present and analyze this correspondence. Through this analysis, the study seeks to elucidate Liselotte’s distinct philosophical attitude and, to a lesser extent, Sophie’s. Ultimately, this microhistory addresses a broader meta-philosophical question: What does this episode reveal about early modern intellectual networks and the strategies women used to engage in philosophical discourse from the margins of official academic life?
Dr. Laura Herrera Castillo currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Leibniz-Forschungsstelle in Münster and teaches as an adjunct lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte) in Philosophy at the University of Münster. Originally from Colombia, she earned her doctorate on Philosophy in Granada, Spain, with a thesis on Leibniz’s concept of function across his mathematics, physics, and metaphysics. She has conducted research at the universities of Münster and Hannover and has held a visiting professorship at LMU Munich.E-Mail: laura.herreracastillo@uni-muenster.de
The Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
Everybody is welcome to attend!
The talk will start at 4 pm.
Room: TP8.1.46
Building: Technologiepark 8
Adress: Technologiepark 8, 33098 Paderborn

Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab - The falls of Europe and Critical European Philosophy
2025-11-04 09:00 - 11:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Lecture Hall O2, O-Building, Paderborn University
The falls of Europe and Critical European Philosophy
Talk by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
Much of critical European philosophy has emerged in response to situations of European collapse such as the rise of fascism, World War II, the annihilation of European Jewry, and the Gaza war. To what extent was the non-European a consideration in those efforts of philosophical critical self-reflection? In other words, to what extent was the history of Europe outside Europe part of that self-reflection? My talk examines this question by looking at a few samples of those efforts, namely Adorno’s analysis of the “Authoritarian Personality,” Sartre’s Existentialism and Levinas’s ethical prima philosophia. It compares them with readings of the same epoch and the same phenomena by philosophers from outside Europe, such as Aimé Césaire, W.E.B. Dubois and others. My talk ends with a few remarks on some of the findings of this contrapuntal reading and some reflections on the last episode of Europe’s fall in Gaza.

Inputtalk - Felix Grewe: Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival - TU Dresden
2025-11-05 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin) | TU Dresden
On November 5, 2025 the Office of the Equal Opportunities Officer of the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (Sca DS.AI) invited our colleague Felix Grewe to give an input talk on the life, works and expertises of Donna J. Haraway.
The input talk is part of the movie presentation Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival held on November 5, 2025 at the Technical University Dresden. The talk and movie presentation are part of the event Visual Takes – Cyborgs in the Colors of the Spectrum that is a section of the series Pillars and Umbrellas organized by Dr. Jutta Luisa Eckhardt and Dr. Stephanie Feilitzsch at TU Dresden.
Felix Grewe is research fellow at the Chair for Practical Philosophy and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Padeborn University. His research and PhD Project focus on the works and theories of Donna J. Haraway.
More information about the venue and the event series can be found here.

New Voices - Magnus Ferguson: Speaking Others into the World
2025-11-07 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | online
Abstract: In certain contexts unreciprocated speech can be an important form of care for persons who would otherwise find it difficult to retain their place in shared worlds of linguistic meaning, such as those who lose capacities for linguistic expression due to illness. Philosophers and political theorists often underscore the importance of reciprocated speech for sharing in a human world. Hannah Arendt makes this point especially forcefully in The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, in which she suggests that ‘speechless’ persons are excluded from the linguistic ‘web of relationships’—they are, she writes, ‘literally dead to the world.’ I reconstruct several of Arendt’s analyses of speech and speechlessness, and argue that they are prima facie exclusionary to nonspeaking persons. I also identify resources in Arendt’s corpus for theorizing unreciprocated speech as a mode of care that can offer listeners footholds in the linguistic spheres of meaning around them.
Magnus Ferguson (Ph.D.) is a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the University of Chicago Society of Fellows. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston College in 2023, and his B.A. in Religion from Columbia University in 2014.
More about the New Voices Winter Term Talk Series 25: https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/new-voices-talk-series/

Research Colloquium - Sebastian Luft: Toward an Ontology of Social Communities - With an Appendix on the Phenomenology of Social Communities
2025-11-10 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Technologiepark 8, Technologiepark 8, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft will present his and Rodney K. B. Parker’s newly published book Gerda Walther. Toward an Ontology of Social Communities (De Gruyter, 2025) as part of the regular Research Colloquium at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
Luft, S. & Parker, R. (2025). Gerda Walther. Toward an Ontology of Social Communities: With an Appendix on the Phenomenology of Social Communities. De Gruyter.
Abstract:
This is the first full-text English translation of a seminal book within the phenomenological movement.
The work was orginally published in 1922 in Edmund Husserl’s yearbook Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, and has had a wide impact on work in phenomenology (Husserl, Heideger, Stein) and social ontology. Gerda Walther broaches the topic of social ontology, i.e., a study of social communities. She carries out this task by using the phenomenological method, that is, a study of the first-person (both singular and plural) experience of being a part of a community, what it feels like internally (and its constitutive elements), how it relates to other individuals or other communities, and how unifications between individiuals and communities or between communities take place.
The book is an important contribution to the phenomenology of intersubjectivity or the study of social ontology. Social ontology has been an important and fruitful field of research in contemporary social theory, cognitive science, and other disciplines. It will be a crucial contribution to current research.

Pioneering study of the nature of the social world
Author was student of Edmund Husserl
Important work of early phenomenology

About the translators:
Sebastian Luft is Professor of Philosophy at Paderborn University, Germany. Rodney K.B. Parker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College, Western University, Ontario, Canada.

Everybody is welcome to attend!
The talk will start at 4 pm.
Room: TP8.1.46
Building: Technologiepark 8
Adress: Technologiepark 8, 33098 Paderborn

New Voices - Catherine Koekoek: Towards an architecture of democratic infrastructures
2025-11-14 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | online
Hanna Arendt Today
The Winter Term Talk Series 2025/26, organised by Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin) and Maria Robaszkiewicz (UPB), is an online talk series dedicated to Hannah Arendt.
Arendt could aptly be described as a thinker of the crisis, or perhaps rather of multiple crises. This motif is ever-present in her work and, indeed, it is a concept that is becoming ever-present in our own time. This is one of the reasons why academic and public interest in Arendt’s writings is currently skyrocketing. It is because so many politically acute challenges today call not for dogmatic, but for critical and practical perspectives. In her works, Arendt seems to be looking for crises: cracks in the fabric of the everyday, which offer an opening, enabling individuals to appear before each other and become political actors. It is not that action necessarily needs a crisis, but a crisis definitely needs action. Crisis, for Arendt, is always ambivalent. It presupposes a destructive moment, but also a constructive one. As she states, “The opportunity, provided by the very fact of crisis – which tears away façades and obliterates prejudices to explore and inquire into whatever has been laid bare of the essence of the matter.” A crisis only proves disastrous when the reaction to it consists of recourse to the ways of thinking prescribed by tradition, answered in conventional, schematic ways.
In line with Arendt’s critical spirit, and especially her concept of natality (every human’s capability of striking new beginnings in the world), this edition of the New Voces talk series introduces contributions of emerging Arendt scholars addressing issues of philosophic and political relevance for the world in which we live today. Topics include the female body, speech and speechlessness, dwelling and home, meanings of property, and natality in times of dictatorship. Everyone is welcome to join us in discussing Hannah Arendt’s relevance today!
Everyone is welcome to attend. You will get the Zoom-Link here or at maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de.

75 Years German Society for Philosophy/75 Jahre Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie
2025-11-20 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Historisches Rathaus, Rathauspl. 1, Paderborn, (NRW), 33098, Germany
Thinking Europe Anew.
Seventy-five years ago, Germany joined the Council of Europe. Seventy-five years ago, the German Society for Philosophy was founded. We are celebrating this coincidence with our anniversary event.
The ideals of the Council of Europe—rule of law, human rights, and democracy—are the result of centuries of philosophical reflection and debate. The European idea and the universal values it embodies cannot be understood without the great European philosophical tradition.
The motto of the anniversary celebration of the German Society for Philosophy is therefore: Rethinking Europe’s Philosophical Tradition in Light of Contemporary Challenges.
Prior registration required
Historic Town Hall Paderborn
Room: Main Council Chamber (1st Floor)
Rathausplatz 1, 33098 Paderborn
Further information: DGPhil
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Europa neu denken.
Vor 75 Jahren wurde Deutschland in den Europarat aufgenommen. Vor 75 Jahren wurde die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie gegründet. Diese Koinzidenz würdigen wir mit unserer Jubiläumsfeier.
Die Ideale des Europarates, Rechtsstaatlichkeit, Menschenrechte und Demokratie, sind das Ergebnis jahrhundertelanger Auseinandersetzungen. Die europäische Idee und die von ihr getragenen Universalien sind ohne die große europäische philosophische Tradition nicht zu verstehen.
Das Motto der Festveranstaltung zum 75-jährigen Jubiläum der Deutschen Philosophischen Gesellschaft lautet daher: Europas philosophische Tradition angesichts aktueller Herausforderungen neu denken.
Vorherige Anmeldung erforderlich
Historisches Rathaus Paderborn
Raum: Großer Sitzungssaal (1. Obergeschoss)
Rathausplatz 1, 33098 Paderborn
Weiterführende Informationen: DGPhil

New Voices - Jonathan Wren: Dwelling in the common world: Arendt and the right to share home with-others
2025-11-21 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | online

Talk by Ruth E. Hagengruber at the Goethe-Institut Barcelona
2025-11-28

New Voices - Anna Jurkevics: Hannah Arendt on Eigentum: an anti-liberal theory of private property
2025-11-28 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | online

New Voices - Elsa Siu Lonzas: Natality as a formative structure in Hannah Arendt’s work. A phenomenological approach to the question of the university in times of dictatorship
2025-12-05 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | online
Hannah Arendt Today
The New Voices Talk Series continues this winter with a lecture dedicated to Hannah Arendt and is organized by Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin) & Maria Robaszkiewicz (Paderborn University).
Talk: Natality as a formative structure in Hannah Arendt’s work. A phenomenological approach to the question of the university in times of dictatorship by Elsa Siu Lanzas (University of Costa Rica)
Abstract:
This paper is guided by Hannah Arendt’s phenomenological approach to education, arguing that a university undergoing dictatorial intervention fractures one of the structures of formation: natality. I first review the possibilities the author grants to the concept of ‘natality’ for thinking about the relationship between education and formation. Then I present an approximation to Arendt’s own understanding of the university. Finally, I develop a description of the forced closure of the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua and, regarding the possibilities of Arendt’s conceptual framework, I seek to provide some of the aspects that, due to the university’s fragile situation, ends up limiting the formation.
About the speaker:
Elsa Siu Lanzas (Dra. phil.) is visiting professor and researcher specializing in phenomenology and the philosophy of education, trained at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia and the University of Costa Rica. Her work focuses on questions of passivity, embodiment, and philosophical formation, including the role of the body in thinking and teaching. She has published on Husserl, Patočka, and philosophical pedagogy, contributing studies on responsibility, memory, and educational challenges in Latin American contexts.
Everyone is welcome to attend. You will get the Zoom-Link here or at maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de.
More about the New Voices Winter Talk Series 25/26:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/new-voices-talk-series/

Workshop - AG DGPhil: „Sie waren ihrer Zeit voraus“
2025-12-08 09:30 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Technologiepark 8, Technologiepark 8, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
PHILOSOPHINNEN UND WISSENSCHAFTLERINNEN UND IHR PLATZ IN DER GESCHICHTE
Anmeldungen zur Teilnahme (ohne Beitrag) am Workshop sind noch bis zum 4. Dezember 2025 möglich. Nur noch für Online Teilnahme. ANMELDUNG.
Das Jahrestreffen der AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie widmet sich Philosophinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen, deren Ideen und Theorien ihrer Zeit weit voraus waren und bislang nicht ausreichend als solche anerkannt wurden. Der hybride Workshop lädt dazu ein, Fallstudien vorzustellen, die aufzeigen, wie Denkerinnen in verschiedenen Disziplinen – von der Philosophie bis zu den Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften – grundlegende Paradigmenwechsel vorbereitet und geprägt haben.
Ziel des Workshops ist es, an konkreten Fallstudien das Gefüge philosophischer und wissenschaftlicher Diskursentwicklungen sichtbar zu machen und Strukturen zu identifizieren, die Vergleiche zwischen unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Theorien ermöglichen.
Vorläufiges Programm:

9.30-10.00
Julia Lerius, Reziprozität als ökologische Leitkategorie im Denken Hildegards von Bingen

10.00-10.30
Christian Henkel, Fundamentality, Simplicity and Mass-Energy: Du Châtelet’s Theoretical Philosophy as an Anticipation of Contemporary Physics

10.30-11.00
Susann Hofbauer und Sabrina Zucca-Soest, Der Staat als Geschlechterordnung – Mathilde Vaertings (1884-1977) Beitrag zur politischen Philosophie

11.00-11.10
Pause

11.10-11.40
Anne Pollok, Bloß eine fragmentarische Stimme? Frauen in Zeitschriften und Rezensionen

11.40-12.10
Heike Kahlert und Xenia Wenzel, Die Internationale Assoziation von Philosophinnen als Pionierin in der wissenschaftlichen Organisationsbildung von Frauen

12.10-12.15
Pause

12.15-13.00
Keynote: Andrea Reichenberger, Vergessene Philosophinnen als Brückenbauerinnen zwischen Philosophie und Physik

13.00-14.00
Lunch

14.00-14.30
Elżbieta Filipow, From Double Exclusion to Being Authoress on Her Own Terms – Towards the Recognition of Harriet Taylor Mill’s Contribution to Sociological Thought

14.30-15.00
Justin Joseph Vlasits, Margaret Macdonald as a Pioneer in Philosophy of Science

15.00-15.20
Dagmar Berger, Laura Bassi

15.20-15.40
Linda Brancaleone, Educating for Emancipation: Legal-Philosophical Resonances Between My Brilliant Friend and the Feminist Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges

15.40-16.00
Valentina Lommatzsch, Gertrud Simmel

16.00-16.15
Pause

16.15-18.00
Mitgliederversammlung der AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie:
1) Publikationsmöglichkeit der Beiträge AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie 2025
2) neue Optionen der Webpage DGPhil für die AGs
3) Entwicklung von Lehrmaterialien
4) Workshop 2026
5) Kongress 2027
6) Repräsentation der AG

Felix Grewe: Von Diffraktion zum Storytelling: Eine alternative Wissenschaftsgeschichte aus der Perspektive der Philosophin Donna J. Haraway
2025-12-16 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Room P1.1.02, P-Gebäude, Universität Paderborn
Am 16. Dezember 2025 stellt Felix Grewe seine Forschungen zum Konzept des Storytellings und seiner Genese im Werk von Donna J. Haraway vor. Der Vortrag Von Diffraktion zum Storytelling: Eine alternative Wissenschaftsgeschichte aus der Perspektive der Philosophin Donna J. Haraway ist Teil der Seminarreihe Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung, der dieses Semester von Oxana Eremin und dem Zentrum für Geschlechterstudien der Universität Paderborn organisiert wird.
Das Seminar bietet einen Einblick in die Geschlechterforschung an der Universität Paderborn und eröffnet vielfältige Perspektiven auf das Forschungsfeld der Gender Studies. Gastvorträge von Expert:innen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen ermöglichen es, aktuelle Debatten, Forschungsperspektiven und Anwendungsfelder der Geschlechterforschung kennenzulernen. Geschlecht wird dabei als gesellschaftliche, kulturelle und soziale Kategorie aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Blickwinkeln reflektiert. Das Seminar richtet sich an alle, die sich für Gender Studies und interdisziplinäre Forschung interessieren.
Felix Grewe ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie der Universität Paderborn und ist dort am Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists tätig. Seine Forschungen und sein Dissertationsprojekt fokussieren sich auf die Werke und Theorien Donna J. Haraways.
Mehr Informationen zu diesem Event können über die Seiten des Zentrums für Geschlechterstudien abgerufen werden.

Guest Lecture - Kristin Käuper: „What Can We Learn about Sexual Orientation from Asexuality?“
2025-12-17 11:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Building P1.5.08.2, University Paderborn, Paderborn, 33100, Germany
Guest Lecture in the Seminar “Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality” – A seminar offered within the Teaching Area on Heterogeneity – Lecturer: Ana Rodrigues
Kristin Käuper (University of Leeds): The Invisible Orientation: What Can We Learn about Sexual Orientation fromAsexuality?
About the Speaker:
Kristin Käuper studied at the University of Paderborn and completed her Master’s dissertation at the University of St Andrews on Asexuality and Sexual Orientation. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships at the University of Leeds, where sheresearches the philosophical dimensions of asexuality and aromanticism. Kristin is also the founder and organiser of the Aromanticism& Asexuality Research Network.
About the Lecture:
What does it actually mean to have a sexual orientation? Philosophical theories often define sexual orientation in termsof desire or behaviour – yet this approach proves insufficientonce we take asexuality seriously as a sexual orientation. Asexual people experience little or no sexual attraction toothers, revealing that desire, behaviour, and attraction are not the same thing. This talk explores how asexuality challengesour understanding of sexual orientation – and argues that weshould instead view it as a disposition to experience sexual attraction.
This perspective has far-reaching implications for how we:

conceptualise sexuality,
distinguish between sexual, romantic, and platonicattraction,
and determine the place these forms of attraction occupyin society.

ALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE WARMLY INVITED TO ATTEND!
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German Version:
Gastvortrag im Seminar „Feministische Perspektiven auf Sexualität“ – Ein Seminarangebot im Lehrbereich Heterogenität – Leitung: Ana Rodrigues
Kristin Käuper (University of Leeds): Die unsichtbare Orientierung: Was können wir von Asexualität über sexuelle Orientierung lernen?
Über die Vortragende:
Kristin Käuper hat an der Universität Paderborn studiert und ihre Masterarbeit an der University of St Andrews zum Thema Asexualität und sexuelle Orientierung verfasst. Derzeit promoviert sie am Centre for Love, Sex, and Relationships der University of Leeds zu den philosophischen Dimensionen von Asexualität und Aromantik. Zudem ist sie Gründerin und Organisatorin des Aromanticism& Asexuality Research Networks.
Über den Vortrag:
Was bedeutet es eigentlich, eine sexuelle Orientierung zu haben? Philosophische Theorien definieren sie meist über Begehren oder Verhalten – doch diese Sichtweise greift zu kurz, wenn wir Asexualität als sexuelle Orientierung ernst nehmen. Asexuelle Menschen empfinden wenig, bis keine sexuelle Anziehung zu anderen und machen sichtbar, dass Begehren, Verhalten und Anziehung nicht identisch sind. Der Vortrag zeigt, wie Asexualität unser Verständnis sexueller Orientierung herausfordert – und warum wir sie besser als Disposition zur Erfahrung sexueller Anziehung verstehen sollten.
Dies hat weitreichende Konsequenzen dafür,

wie wir Sexualität konzeptualisieren,
wie wir sexuelle, romantische und platonische Anziehung voneinander abgrenzen,
und welchen gesellschaftlichen Stellenwert wir ihnen zuweisen.

ALLE INTERESSIERTEN SIND WILLKOMMEN!

Anniversary of Émilie Du Châtelet - Online Event
2025-12-17 16:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Berlin) | online
Du Châtelet’s Eclectic Laboratory

L’Expérience est le bâton que la nature a donné à nous autres aveugles, pour nousconduire dans nos recherches ~ Du Châtelet, Institutions de physique, Avant-propos

To celebrate Émilie du Châtelet’s 319th birthday, the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists invites you to take a deep dive into the empirical foundations of her Institutions de physique. The event is organised by Ruth E. Hagengruber and Pierpaolo Betti.
While Du Châtelet’s engagement with major figures like Descartes, Newton, and Leibniz is well documented, her work also draws extensively on a wide range of lesser-known experimentalists of her time. This event shifts the focus to the “eclectic laboratory” embedded in the Institutions and the remarkable variety of experiments she references. The program will feature an introductory talk by Pierpaolo Betti, with responses by Clara Carus and Christian Henkel, followed by a discussion with all participants. Join us as we investigate how Du Châtelet intagrates these findings to construct and support her natural philosophy.
Registration for participation is required: https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/event/150/

Talk by Jil Muller - Enseigner les femmes philosophes: correspondances, journaux intimes et la querelle des femmes
2025-12-18 - 2025-12-19 | Université Jean Moulin–Lyon 3 (France), 1 Av. des Frères Lumière, Lyon, France, 69008
Jil Muller will present her talk “Enseigner les femmes philosophes: correspondances, journaux intimes et la querelle des femmes” at the international colloquium “ENSEIGNER LES INVISIBLES : QUELS CORPUS DE PHILOSOPHIE MODERNE DANS LES SALLES DE CLASSE ?”, taking place on December 18–19, 2025, at Université Jean Moulin–Lyon 3 (France).
Program:
JEUDI 18 DECEMBRE
9h15 : ACCUEIL et Préambule
9h30-10h30
KEYNOTE SPEECH : Sarah Hutton (université de York) : « Penser aux penseuses : quelques réflexions sur un programme d’études sur les femmes philosophes »
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10h45-11h30
Jil Muller (université de Paderborn) : « Enseigner les femmes philosophes : correspondances, journaux intimes et la querelle des femmes »
11h30- 12h15
Nicolas Piqué (INSPE Grenoble) : « Enseigner les controverses au risque du contexte, une tension funeste ? »
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14h-14h45
Aurélie Knüfer (université de Montpellier) : « Enseigner l’histoire queer de la philosophie »
14h45-15h30
Elena Nájera (université d’Alicante) : « Le problème de l’autorité intellectuelle. Le cas de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz »
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15h50-16h35
Marco Menin (université de Turin) : « Rendre visibles les émotions : autrices et cartographie philosophique des Lumières »
17h20-18h05
Lina Davy et Mary Purcell (université Lyon3 / Duke University) : « Project Vox Showcase »

VENDREDI 19 DECEMBRE
9h30-10h30
KEYNOTE SPEECH : Lisa Shapiro (université McGill) : « (L’histoire de) la philosophie de l’esprit en tant que la philosophie de l’éducation »
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10h45-11h30
Ernest Mbonda (université de Montréal) : « L’« oubli » de la philosophie africaine dans l’enseignement de la philosophie : comment et pourquoi ? »
11h30- 12h15
Thierry Hoquet (université de Nanterre) : « Trucs, Astuces et cas pratiques pour enseigner les auteurs qui ne figurent pas au programme »
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14h-14h45
Clément Raymond (Lycée Léonard de Vinci, Villefontaine) : « Penser la domination coloniale. Une séance autour de Bacon, la poudre à canon et les Codex américains »
14h45-15h30
Anne-Lise Rey (université de Nanterre) : « Le canon : entre inclusion et explosion »
15h30-16h15
André Charrak (université Paris1-Sorbonne) : « L’absence de la philosophie chinoise dans les corpus modernes »

Research Colloquium - Patricia Grill: Olga Hahn-Neurath im Kontext des Neurath-Kreises / des Wiener Kreises
2026-01-19 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | per Zoom
Olga Hahn zwischen Zugehörigkeit und Ausschluss
Vorgestellt wird ein Ausschnitt aus einem laufenden Dissertationsprojekt, der der Sichtbarmachung der Philosophin Olga Hahn gewidmet ist. Hahn gehörte zu den wenigen weiblichen Mitgliedern des Wiener Kreises und promovierte 1911 als erst dritte Frau im Fach Philosophie an der Universität Wien. Dennoch ist ihre eigene philosophische Stimme in der Forschung weitgehend in den Hintergrund getreten.
Ausgehend von biografischen Quellen und späteren Erinnerungen soll in diesem Vortrag gezeigt werden, dass Hahn zwar hohe intellektuelle Anerkennung genoss, institutionell jedoch nur begrenzt verankert war. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, wie sich diese ambivalente Position – im Diskurs präsent, aber kaum dokumentiert – erklären lässt und welche epistemischen wie sozialen Bedingungen dazu beigetragen haben, dass ihr Denken nur fragmentarisch überliefert ist.
Ziel ist es, Olga Hahn als eigenständige Akteurin der frühen Wissenschafts- und Ideengeschichte sichtbar zu machen und zugleich die strukturellen Grenzen philosophischer Überlieferung kritisch zu reflektieren.
Der Vortrag ist Teil des regulären Research Colloquiums des Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. Das Research Colloquium wird vom Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists organisiert.
Alle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen!
Der Vortrag beginnt um 16:00 Uhr.
Raum: TP8.1.46
Gebäude: Technologiepark 8
Adresse: Technologiepark 8, 33098 Paderborn
