Jil Muller - Descartes on clocks and automata
2022-04-21 11:30 - 12:00 (Europe/Berlin) | VivaMente Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy
2022-04-21 15:30 - 17:30 (Europe/London) | The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Clara Carus and Aaron Wells at the Annual Conference of the British Society for the History of Philosophy
On Thursday the 21st of April Clara Carus, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the New Voices, and Aaron Wells, Research Fellow, will be part of a panel on Emilie du Chatelet. Fellow New Voices Members Fatema Amijee and Julia Borcherding will be part of the panel too. The panel is exploring the versatility of Emilie du Chatelet. The panel starts at 3:30 pm BST.

Ruth E. Hagengruber - Inventing the Knowledge for the Universe. Changing Ideas from the Renaissance to Today
2022-04-22 14:15 - 15:00 (Europe/Berlin) | VivaMente Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Talk Series: Women in History on Education
2022-04-28 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin)
New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy is a group for emerging scholars who work on Women in the History of Philosophy launched by Clara Carus, Assistant Professor at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (directed by Ruth Hagengruber). It is a place to connect and to foster communication on our work.
The Talk Series: Women in History on Education will create such a space for connection online. Everyone is welcome to attend. To register and to receive the zoom invitation, e-mail clara.carus@uni-paderborn.de.

Dagmar Comtesse at the Colloquium of Paderborn University
2022-05-05 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany
Dr. Dagmar Comtesse der WWU Münster wird am 05. Mai den Vortrag ‘Zwischen Wahrheit und Macht – Für ein poststrukturalistisches Kanon-Konzept’ beim Kolloquium zur Philosophie an der Universität Paderborn präsentieren.

International Conference: Re-inventing the History of Philosophy
2022-05-12 - 2022-05-13 | International Centre for Philosophy NRW, Poppelsdorfer Allee 28, Bonn, 53115, Germany
The International Conference ‘Re-inventing the History of Philosophy. Die (Neu-)erfindung der Philosophiegeschichte’, co–organized by Michael Forster (IZPH, Bonn), Stefanie Buchenau (Université Paris 8 Saint–Denis) and Christian Berner (IrePh, Paris–Nanterre), takes place at the International Centre for Philosophy NRW in Bonn, Germany, on May 12-13, 2022.

You can find the full program here.

New Voices Summer Term Talk Series on Émilie Du Châtelet: Andrea Reichenberger
2022-05-19 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin) | online
We are delighted to announce the official beginning of the New Voices series of talks for Summer 2022, which will focus on Du Châtelet. You are warmly invited to the first presentation, which is by Andrea Reichenberger on “Émilie Du Châtelet as a Key Figure of the European Enlightenment: Challenges and Perspectives for Research and Teaching Practices.” This online talk will be hosted on Zoom on the 19th of May at 5PM CET.

Andrea Reichenberger works on history and philosophy of science, currently at the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Hagen, Germany. She is especially interested in women’s contributions to logic, mathematics and computer science, because it is of the utmost importance to show (especially to younger generations) the impact of female researchers to the history of philosophy and science. Andrea has published numerous articles on this subject in journals, edited volumes, and encyclopedias. These include studies on Émilie Du Châtelet, Grete Hermann, and Ilse Rosenthal-Schneider. Previously, she worked on research projects including the DFG research project Thought Experiment, Metaphor, Model at the Institute for Philosophy I at the Ruhr University Bochum. She has also worked at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (HWPS) at Paderborn University. Her doctoral dissertation was published by Springer as Émilie Du Châtelets Institutions physiques in 2016.

Abstract of the talk: Émilie Du Châtelet (1706–1749) is among those women who illuminated the Enlightenment through their writings. Through their intellectual salons, women played a pivotal role in spreading the ideas of the European Enlightenment. But Du Châtelet accomplished still more than that. She was among the French mathematicians, physicists and philosophers who revolutionized science and altered the way we look at the world. In Cirey, she established a research center which became part of an elite network, linked to the European academies. She transformed and modernized the physics of Newton’s Principia, and laid a solid foundation for the principle of the conservation of energy. Her thoughts found their way into the Encyclopédie, and her engagement in favor of human reason played an important role in the intellectual movements shaping the face of Enlightenment philosophy. This talk will address some of the challenges for current Du Châtelet scholarship concerning research and teaching practices. These challenges concern, for example, a possible new critical edition of Du Châtelet’s Principia-commentary (research) and the question of the teaching practice of classical mechanics, its philosophy, and its history (science education).

I hope many of you will be able to join us for an interesting talk and a friendly and engaged discussion! If you have registered for the New Voices talk series previously, you do not need to register again. If you haven’t registered before, please register here: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org (an empty email with ‘New Voices Talk Series’ in the subject is fine).
New Voices is an international group for scholars working on women in the history of philosophy at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. New Voices intends to interconnect and further the work of scholars in the field of Women Philosophers in the History of Philosophy. New Voices is currently organized by Clara Carus, Jil Muller, and Aaron Wells, with the help of Violeta Milicevic and the rest of the team at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (directed by Ruth Hagengruber). For further information about New Voices or to join New Voices please visit:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/projects/new-voices-on-women-in-the-history-of-philosophy/Talk

Voices from Ukraine: Women Philosophers and Scientists in the Situation of War
2022-05-27 - 2022-05-28 | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany
A cooperation between Kateryna Karpenko, Director of the Center for Gender Studies, Kharkiv National Medical University, and Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

When? May 27th – May 28th 2022
Where? Zoom
What? Hybrid Conference
Almost three months have passed since Russia launched a full-scale war against Ukraine, bringing death, suffering, destruction and radically changing the established way of life. Many people have moved to quieter areas of Ukraine, many have found temporary shelter abroad. The shock of the first days of the war is being replaced by the need to comprehend the current situation in various contexts, including articulating the issues of gender parity in scientific ethos in a new way.
The purpose of the conference “Voices from Ukraine: History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in the Situation of War”, on the one hand, is to support and continue scientific cooperation with the Center for Gender Education of Kharkiv National Medical University, and on the other hand, to create a scientific platform for the exchange of thoughts on the life trajectories of women scientists in war and their prospects.
An important topic of discussion will be the position of women researchers in the social sciences and humanities, where the proportion of women exceeds 60%. Low wages, involuntary part-time work, short-term contracts, self-financing of research—all these characteristics of the position of scientists and researchers can be interpreted as markers of an unsustainable situation, which is undoubtedly exacerbated by war.
Many Ukrainian women scientists came to Germany after the start of a full-scale war in Ukraine on guest invitations from local universities and foundations. The conference will discuss the problems of integration into German academic life and the continuation of an academic career.
An important topic of discussion will be the existential dimensions of war and peace in the context of the search for meaning in life and self-realization of women. Ecofeminism and the ethics of care will become the methodological basis for analyzing the environmental consequences of war.

Find more information here.

Workshop: Philosophy and Exclusion Teaching Area on Diversity - In der Philosophie zu Hause
2022-06-10 10:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Paderborn University
Workshop Philosophy and Exclusion
2022, June 10th at Paderborn University
Via Zoom
Meeting-ID: 964 9762 0520 Code: 303146
Program
10:00- 10:30 Welcome
10:30 – 11:30 Francesca Greco, Some Practices of Exclusions based on the Philosophical Historiography in Italian Language
11:30 – 12:30 Namita Herzl, Philosophical Mechanisms of Marginalisation in a Global Perspective
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30– 14:30 Andrea Günter, Exclusion by Inclusion: The Gender Bias of Philosophical Concepts and the Exclusion of Women in Philosophical Traditions
14:30 – 15:30 Björn Freter, The Cycle of Superiorism. Practices of exclusion in western philosophy
15:30 – 16:30 Final discussion

Online workshop hosted by the Teaching Area on Diversity at the Paderborn Philosophy Department (In der Philosophie zu Hause: www.uni-paderborn.de/in-der-philosophie-zu-hause) and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ ).
The workshop is organized by Ana Rodrigues, who is the organizational head of the research area of our Diversity section at the Chair for Practical philosophy. The workshop is co-organized by our Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, also a division of the Chair for Practical philosophy.
The workshop will be joined by Björn Freter (Lecturer in World Philosophy, The School of Oriental & African Studies SOAS, University of London) and Namita Herzl (Researcher at the Koselleck-Project – Histories of Philosophy in a Global Perspective, University of Hildesheim).
This workshop is also a cooperation with the Arbeitsgruppe ‘Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie’, which I am directing on behalf of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie. (https://dgphil.de/verbaende-und-ags/arbeitsgemeinschaften/ag-frauen-in-der-geschichte-der-philosophie/ )
Outline of the thematic background of this event:
Philosophy often presents itself as an enterprise in which everyone is invited to participate. On closer inspection, however, it is striking to note that a significant number of people have been and are being excluded by philosophers as unfit for philosophy. If we look at the history of Western philosophy, we soon find that certain human beings have been radically excluded time and time again. Since the eighteenth century, for example, it can be clearly stated that philosophers who were not perceived as male, who were not racialized as white, or who were not ascribed to Western culture, were systematically excluded from philosophy. However, in this very story, we cannot find not a single philosophical argument that could justify this exclusion. This is hardly surprising; it is doubtful that there can be such a philosophical justification. Who should legitimately be able to have this right? And yet it is a factual reality that philosophy is not ruled by all human beings, but only by very specific human beings. This is certainly not because only these particular human beings practice philosophy, but because these particular human beings, knowingly or not, keep alive a tradition of exclusion. In this workshop, we wish to expose this phenomenon from different perspectives be it based on examples, be it through general reflections. We want to promote an exchange on this problematic dimension of philosophy and its history and thus contribute to the ongoing change of the discourse and a renewal of the canon.

New Voices Summer Term Talk Series on Émilie Du Châtelet: Eszter Kovacs
2022-06-30 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin) | online
We are delighted to announce the New Voices series of talks for Summer 2022, which will focus on Du Châtelet. You are warmly invited to the presentation, which is by Eszter Kovacs on “ Lost in Transition: Émilie Du Châtelet and the Encyclopédie” This online talk will be hosted on Zoom on the 30th of June at 5PM CET.
I hope many of you will be able to join us for an interesting talk and a friendly and engaged discussion! If you have registered for the New Voices talk series previously, you do not need to register again. If you haven’t registered before, please register here: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org (an empty email with ‘New Voices Talk Series’ in the subject is fine).
New Voices is an international group for scholars working on women in the history of philosophy at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. New Voices intends to interconnect and further the work of scholars in the field of Women Philosophers in the History of Philosophy. New Voices is currently organized by Clara Carus, Jil Muller, and Aaron Wells, with the help of Violeta Milicevic and the rest of the team at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (directed by Ruth Hagengruber). For further information about New Voices or to join New Voices please visit:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/projects/new-voices-on-women-in-the-history-of-philosophy/Talk

Croatia Libori Summer School 2022
2022-07-11 - 2022-07-14 | Zadar, Zadar, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
This year’s Summer School, under the title WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY – CHALLENGING THE CANON is a product of collaboration of three institutions:

Research Centre for Women in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb (Croatia)
Centre for History of Women Philosophers and Scientist at the University of Paderborn (Germany)
University of Zadar (Croatia)

The Summer School continues the tradition of the Libori Summer School which started in Paderborn in 2017 and lasted till the outbreak of the COVID pandemics. Institute of Philosophy organized an online-only summer school in 2021. This year, for the first time after 2019, with the support of University of Zadar, we will gather in-person in the beautiful city of Zadar again.
The Research Centre for Women in Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy in Croatia and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientist at Paderborn University in Germany are devoted to promoting research and studies of women in the history of philosophy. This special philosophical endeavour beyond the mainstream is pursued to fill gaps in the history of philosophy. Can we repair the damage done to philosophy which, by excluded practically all women from its history, put in question its credibility and identity? Can we fully understand Socrates without Diotima, Plato without Aspasia, Descartes without Teresa of Ávila, Kant without Émilie Du Châtelet? How do we integrate women philosophers in the philosophical canon? This year’s Croatia Libori Summer School aims to find answers to these questions along with the international research network which includes renown researchers and philosophers from Germany, the USA, Ukraine, Spain, and Croatia.
Dr. sc. Luka Boršić, Institute of Philosophy, Croatia
Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber, Paderborn University, Germany
Prof. Dr. Jure Zovko, University of Zadar, Croatia
For further questions contact: cizuf@ifzg.hr
For more information click here

6th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP Communicating Science, Philosophy and Literature
2022-07-16 08:00 - 2022-07-20 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | “Historical Archives of the State, Greece
The International Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, the Chair of Science, Technology and Gender Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität ErlangenNürnberg, the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University, the department of Sociology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the postgraduate program on Science Communication of the Hellenic Open University and the Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation organize an international workshop focusing on the Communication of Science, Philosophy and Literature. The CoSciLit workshop is already an established part of the prestigious “Hermoupolis Seminars” that have been organized for more than 30 years every July in the Cycladic island of Syros. This year’s workshop aims to cover various aspects of the wide interdisciplinary area of Science Communication by promoting the dialogue of science with significant fields of the Humanities such as Philosophy and Literature. In recent years there has been a growing interest in Science Communication as it is expected to play a crucial role in shaping the responses to such important social issues as the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate crisis. The conference offers an open forum for all scholars interested in this growing research field, allowing Science Communication to take advantage of the multiple perspectives that emerge at the intersection of science, philosophy, and literature. We especially welcome contributions focusing on the role of women and femininity in the production of modern technoscientific knowledge and its philosophical implications.
Last Call for Papers:
We invite paper proposals including a title and an abstract of max. 200 words, name(s), and affiliation(s) of the author(s), as well as contact information. The presentation time will be 20 minutes with an additional time of 10 minutes for discussion. The conference language will
be English. Please submit your proposal via email (gvlahakis@yahoo.com) by April 21, 2022. Notification of acceptance will be sent by April 30, 2022.
Find out more: Syros Conference

New Voices Summer Term Talk Series on Émilie Du Châtelet: Stephen Harrop
2022-07-21 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin) | online
We are delighted to announce the New Voices series of talks for Summer 2022, which will focus on Du Châtelet. You are warmly invited to thepresentation, which is by Stephen Harrop on “Du Châtelet’s Cosmological Argument in the Institutions de Physique” This online talk will be hosted on Zoom on the 21th of July ,, at 5PM CET.
I hope many of you will be able to join us for an interesting talk and a friendly and engaged discussion! If you have registered for the New Voices talk series previously, you do not need to register again. If you haven’t registered before, please register here: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org (an empty email with ‘New Voices Talk Series’ in the subject is fine).
New Voices is an international group for scholars working on women in the history of philosophy at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. New Voices intends to interconnect and further the work of scholars in the field of Women Philosophers in the History of Philosophy. New Voices is currently organized by Clara Carus, Jil Muller, and Aaron Wells, with the help of Violeta Milicevic and the rest of the team at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (directed by Ruth Hagengruber). For further information about New Voices or to join New Voices please visit:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/projects/new-voices-on-women-in-the-history-of-philosophy/Talk

New Voices Summer Term Talk Series on Émilie Du Châtelet: Maria Susana Seguin
2022-07-28 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin) | online
We are delighted to announce the New Voices series of talks for Summer 2022, which will focus on Du Châtelet. You are warmly invited to thepresentation, which is by Maria Susana Seguin on “An Online Edition of Du Châtelet’s Examens de la Bible” This online talk will be hosted on Zoom on the 28th of July, at 5PM CET.
I hope many of you will be able to join us for an interesting talk and a friendly and engaged discussion! If you have registered for the New Voices talk series previously, you do not need to register again. If you haven’t registered before, please register here: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org (an empty email with ‘New Voices Talk Series’ in the subject is fine).
New Voices is an international group for scholars working on women in the history of philosophy at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. New Voices intends to interconnect and further the work of scholars in the field of Women Philosophers in the History of Philosophy. New Voices is currently organized by Clara Carus, Jil Muller, and Aaron Wells, with the help of Violeta Milicevic and the rest of the team at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (directed by Ruth Hagengruber). For further information about New Voices or to join New Voices please visit:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/projects/new-voices-on-women-in-the-history-of-philosophy/Talk,

New Voices Summer Term Talk Series on Émilie Du Châtelet: Mitieli Seixas da Silva
2022-08-18 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin) | online

Workshop: The Phenomenon of Reality
2022-09-22 15:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Berlin) | zoom
Workshop The Phenomenon of Reality
2022, September 22nd at Paderborn University
Via Zoom
For meeting-ID please email: women.phenomenologists.hwps@gmail.com
Program
15:00 – 15:10 Welcome
15:10 – 15:30 Emiliano Trizio (Ca’ Foscari University Venice): A Phenomenological Foray among Possible Worlds and Quasi-Worlds
15:30 – 15:50 Lee Braver (University of South Florida): The Misjudgment of the Miracle of Language by Grammar and Logic
15:50 – 16:10 Tina Röck (University of Dundee): The Thing as Fourfold – Transforming the Idealism-Realism Debate
16:10 – 17:10 Discussion
17:10 – 17:30 Coffee Break
17:30 – 17:50 Josef Seifert (Internationale Akademie, Liechtenstein): The Ur-(Primordial)phenomenon of Reality. Its Incorrect Determination by Husserl and Insufficient Phenomenological Grasp by Scheler
17:50 – 18:10 Anna Varga-Jani (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Reality Fulfilling in Temporality. Parallel Analyses in Early Phenomenology: Hedwig Conrad-Martius and Edith Stein
18:10 – 18:30 Daniel Neumann (Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, University of Paderborn): Contact or Constitution. Reality in Early Phenomenology
18:30 – 19:30 Discussion
The workshop is co-organized by Tina Röck, lecturer in philosophy at the University of Dundee and Daniel Neumann, research associate for early phenomenology at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, University of Paderborn.
The event is hosted by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, University of Paderborn, directed by Prof. Ruth E. Hagengruber.

The Phenomenon of Reality
The phenomenon of the real is deeply ambivalent: Is it reality that shows itself, such that phenomenology is the discipline that can account for a real-ontological self-manifestation? Or is reality rather the product of a constitution by the subject, for whom the world is, in the first place, a transcendent experience? Or is reality shaped by both processes, the self-showing as well as the constitution, such that only the meeting of a constituting subject and a self-giving reality can generate world?
Along these lines, some of the early phenomenologists have discussed the real and ideal modalities of the experience of reality. In this workshop, we want to consider some of these historic aspects more closely and contrast them with more contemporary approaches. Next to the discussions between Husserl and other early phenomenologists, we are interested in what the method of phenomenology has to offer in addressing the phenomenon of reality more broadly considered. What are the modalities of the appearance of reality as reality? Can this phenomenon be naturalized? What are the metaphysical stakes that a phenomenological approach in particular can bring (and has brought) to the discussion of real and subjective reality?
Program Abstracts

New Voices Summer Term Talk Series on Émilie Du Châtelet: Marcy Lascano
2022-09-22 17:00 - 18:30 (Europe/Berlin) | online
We are delighted to announce the New Voices series of talks for Summer 2022, which will focus on Du Châtelet. You are warmly invited to thepresentation, which is by Marcy Lascano on “Du Châtelet on the Powers of Minds and Bodies.” This online talk will be hosted on Zoom on the 22nd of September, at 5PM CET.
I hope many of you will be able to join us for an interesting talk and a friendly and engaged discussion! If you have registered for the New Voices talk series previously, you do not need to register again. If you haven’t registered before, please register here: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org (an empty email with ‘New Voices Talk Series’ in the subject is fine).
New Voices is an international group for scholars working on women in the history of philosophy at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. New Voices intends to interconnect and further the work of scholars in the field of Women Philosophers in the History of Philosophy. New Voices is currently organized by Clara Carus, Jil Muller, and Aaron Wells, with the help of Violeta Milicevic and the rest of the team at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (directed by Ruth Hagengruber). For further information about New Voices or to join New Voices please visit:
https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/projects/new-voices-on-women-in-the-history-of-philosophy/Talk

Émilie Du Châtelet in Relation to Leibniz and Wolff – Similarities and Differences
2022-09-28 08:00 - 2022-09-30 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Paderborn University
e are delighted to present our newly started DFG funded project which is dedicated to exploring all aspects of Émilie Du Châtelet’s important relationship to Leibniz and Wolff. Émilie Du Châtelet’s account of knowledge has broadly been introduced as a version of Leibnizian or Wolffian metaphysics. More recently, as scholarship on her work has become more detailed, this classification has been put into question. Most importantly, the question has been posed as to whether this classification of Du Châtelet’s epistemic contributions as ‘Leibnizian’ or ‘Wolffian’ misses the original approach and newfound ideas in Du Châtelet’s work. This project seeks to encourage further research on the theme and invites scholars to explore Du Châtelet’s contribution to the history of philosophy in relation to Leibniz and Wolff. We are asking in detail in what aspects Du Châtelet is inspired by Leibniz or Wolff respectively, and where she may differ from them?
Professor Jeffrey McDonough, Harvard University, is Mercator Fellow in the project and is joining the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists for the academic year. Dr. Clara Carus is a postdoctoral researcher in the project. Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber is head of the project.
From the 28th – 30th of September 2022 we will host a workshop dedicated to the theme at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Paderborn. Confirmed keynote speakers are Katherine Brading (Duke University) and Anne-Lise Rey (Paris Nanterre). Mercator Fellow Jeffrey McDonough (Harvard University) will hold a welcome speech. Further confirmed invited speakers are Julia Borcherding (University of Cambridge/LMU) and Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet (Institute of Philosophy and Psychology, Romanian Academy/University of Bucharest). The full programme will soon be available on this website. If you would like to join the conference as a guest please register at contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org by the 15th of September.
For more information visit our conference page, click here

DGPhil AG Workshop - Transformationen des philosophischen Kanons für den Philosophieunterricht
2022-10-10 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Münster
Uhrzeit
Thema
Verantwortliche/r

11-11.15
Begrüßung
Raum 315 (Domplatz 23)
Ruth Hagengruber / Dagmar Comtesse
Siehe auch: AG DGPhil Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie

11.15-h-12h
„Die Philosophin Margaret Cavendish“
Julia Borcherding / AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie

12-12.45h
„Die Sprachphilosophin Victoria Lady Welby und ihr Einsatz im Philosophieunterricht“
Violetta Milicevic / AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie

12.45-14h
Mittagspause

14-14.45h
„Frauen* in philosophischen Lehrwerken“

Anne Burkard/ Katharina Schulz
Evt. hybrid noch Kinga Golus

14.45-15.30
„Instanzen des Schulkanons: Wie entstehen gegenwärtig Kernlehrpläne und Schulcurricula?“

Manuel Lorenz

15.30-15.45
Kaffeepause

16-16.45h
Strategie-Gespräch: Welche konkreten Kooperationen der AGs sind möglich? Lehrer*innenfortbildung? Tandem-Bildung von Philosophin-Expert*in und Didaktiker*in (möglicher Erfahrungsbericht Katharina Schulz/ Erdmann Görg) Auch mögliche Diskussion: konkurrierende Zielsetzungen in der Kanon-Politik? Aufnahme von Philosophinnen oder von außereuropäischer Philosophie?

Moderation: Ruth Hagengruber und Dagmar Comtesse

16.45-17
Kaffeepause

17-18.30h
Abendvortrag / Diskussion
„Philosophinnen in der Antike“
Hörsaal F2 (Domplatz 20-22)
Maria Nühlen

19-20h
Abendessen

New Voices Winter Term 22/23 Talk Series on Women and their body: Naomi Jacobs
2022-10-20 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Abstract: Femtech is the collective name for technologies that address female health needs. Femtech applications can, e. g., help women digitally track their period, manage their fertility and support their pregnancy. Although femtech has beneficial potential, there are various ethical concerns to be raised with current femtech apps. In this talk, I will discuss three of the main ethical concerns with femtech apps regarding (1) medical reliability, (2) privacy, and (3) gender stereotyping and epistemic injustice, and I explore how Capability Sensitive Design (CSD), a novel design framework for health and wellbeing technologies (Jacobs 2020), is able to mitigate these concerns and help create morally sensitive femtech.
Biography: Dr. Naomi Jacobs works as an assistant professor in bioethics at the Philosophy Department of Twente University, the Netherlands. Her research focuses on ethics-by-design for women’s health technologies.

This online talk will be held on Zoom. I hope many of you will be able to join us for an interesting talk and a friendly and engaged discussion! Please register (no registration fees) here: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org

New Voices Winter Term 22/23 Talk Series on Women and their body: Maria Borges
2022-11-17 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Abstract: In this presentation, I aim at analyzing the importance of beauty for contemporary women. I begin by showing some traditional views in the history of Philosophy, such as Kant´s conception that “woman is beautiful while man is sublime”. I claim that beauty is still considered one of the main assets for women, not only in the “dating scene” but also in the pursue of a carrier. I show the criticism of beauty practices in the feminist literature. I then argue that in the XXI century, beauty is not only a natural asset but became a duty. From the 20th century on, we see aesthetic procedures becoming popularized, that can be enjoyed by an increasing number of women. Liposuction, Botox, breast prosthesis implants, dental bleaching, modification of the capillary structure are becoming increasingly common and accessible.If, on the one hand, this indicates greater autonomy in relation to the construction of the desired body, on the other hand, being beautiful becomes a duty. Beauty ceases to depend on the natural lottery and becomes a moral duty. Failure to fulfill this duty will be punished more harshly than if ugliness were simply given by nature. Whoever is ugly, is by her own decision, or by weakness of will, by akrasia, a term well known in ethics since Aristotle. For this reason, ugliness is so much more critical and unforgivable. Among the ugliness, one of the most obnoxious features is being fat. In a world that values productivity, speed, and movement, being fat appears as the great sin of contemporaneity. Fat still has an association with two traditional sins: laziness and gluttony. At the end I argue whether beauty is always oppressive, or we could reconceptualize the concept of beauty in order to create a new inclusive idea that incorporates a plurality of bodies.
Biography: Maria Borges is Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) She was Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Humboldt Universität (Germany) and Columbia University (USA). She is researcher of the CNPq/Brazil. She is the author of the books Body and Justice (Cambridge Scholars Publishing) and Emotion, Reason, and Action in Kant (Bloomsbury, 2019), and the following books in Portuguese: História e Metafísica em Hegel/ History and Metaphysics in Hegel ( 1998), Amor/ Love (2004), Atualidade de Hegel/ Actuality of Hegel (2008), co-author of O que você precisa saber sobre Ética/ All you should know about Ethics (2003). She co-edited Kant: Liberdade e Natureza/ Kant: Freedom and Nature (2005), and Filosofia: Machismo e Feminismo/ Philosophy: Sexism and Feminism (EdUFSC, 2014). Her philosophical interests are Kantian ethics, theory of emotions and feminist philosophy.
This online talk will be held on Zoom. I hope many of you will be able to join us for an interesting talk and a friendly and engaged discussion! Please register (no registration fees) here: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
If you already have registered for the previous talk, you do not have to register again. The Zoom link will be the same.

IAPH International Workshop 'Feminism and Philosophy: New and old questions'
2022-12-01 09:30 - 2022-12-02 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, 1st DECEMBER
9:30-10:00 Presentation and Inauguration10:00-10:30 Ruth Hagengruber: Why Women Philosophers were excluded: The History of Women Philosophers and the New Philosophy. From Bible critics to a (Monist) Metaphysics of Love10:30-11:00 Concha Roldán: Philosophical Canon against Philosophy’s History: Ideology and Context11:00-11:30 Debate11:30-12:00 Coffee12:00-12:30 Agustina Varela: Spaces of (Non) Appearance. Rethinking Identity and Violence in Hannah Arendt’s work from a Feminist Perspective12:30-13:00 Cristina Sánchez: Political Violence’s and Gender: Exclusions, reductions, and some innovations13:00-13:30 Debate13:00-15:00 Lunch15:00-15:30 Stella Villarmea: Obstetric Violence: A view from the Philosophy of Birth15:30-16:00 Mary Ellen Waithe: Women Philosophers from Non-Western Traditions: The First Four Thousand Years16:00-16:30 Debate
FRIDAY, 2nd DECEMBER
9:30-10:00 Astrid Wagner: The vicious circle of post-Truth discourse in the digitalized public shere10:00-10:30 Inmaculada Perdomo: Gender and Digital Technologies. Epistemic Injustices10:30-11:00 Debate11:00-11:30 Coffee11:30-12:00 María José Guerra: Ecofeminist Critical approaches: Why we need them now?12:00-12:30 Priyanka Jha: Women shaping Institutions: Annie Besant and Making of an Indian University12:30-13:00 Debate13:00-14:00 Lunch14:00-14:30 Andrea Günther: Creating the IAPH Archive14:30-15:00 Debate and ConclusionsIAPH Board Meeting: 15:00-16:00 (CET)

Further information can be found here.
Organization:Cristina Sánchez Muñoz, Agustina Varela Manograsso and Patricia Lara Folch (Institute of Women’s Research, IUEM)

Ruth E. Hagengruber - Why Women Philosophers were excluded
2022-12-01 10:00 - 10:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Autonomous University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain
In the context of the International IAPH Workshop, Ruth E. Hagengruber holds a talk on ‘Why Women Philosophers were excluded: The History of Women Philosophers and the New Philosophy. From Bible critics to a (Monist) Metaphysics of Love’ on December 1, 2022.
The workshop ‘Feminism and Philosophy. New and old questions’ is organized by Cristina Sánchez Muñoz, Agustina Varela Manograsso and Patricia Lara Folch from the Institute of Women’s Research (IUEM) of the AUM. The workshop will take place from 1st to 2nd December 2022 at Autonomous University of Madrid in Madrid, Spain. You can find the programm here.

Ethics & Digitalization
2022-12-01 14:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
The fourth digital Conference ‘Ethics and Digitalization’ will be hosted 1 December 2022 from 2 – 6 pm by the Cultural Entrepreneurship Institute, Berlin. The conference is an event organized by Cultural Entrepreneurship Institute Berlin in cooperation with Venice International University and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.

The event will be streamed on YouTube on 1 December 2022, 2 pm. Find the link for the live stream here.
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Programme 13:50 – 14:00 Accreditation
14:00 – 14:20 Dr. Clara Mavellia – Cultural Entrepreneurship Institute, Berlin (Germany)
14:20 – 14:40 Prof. Mariarosaria Taddeo – Keynote – Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow – ICSS DPhil Programme Director Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (UK) Dstl Ethics Fellow | Alan Turing Institute, London (UK) “On Cyber Defence”
14:40 – 15:00 Prof. Fiorella Battaglia – Università del Salento, Lecce (Italy) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (Germany)„Trustworthy AI“
15:00 – 15:20 Prof. Atoosa Kasirzadeh – University of Edinburgh (UK) „Benefits and perils of digitalisation in relation to Iran and women“
15:20 – 15:40 Prof. Frauke Kreuter – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (Germany) „Data Ethics: Ensuring appropriate flow in data collection and analysis“
15:40 – 16:00 Prof. Carla Conti – Conservatorio Santa Cecilia, Rome (Italy) „Gender issues and digitalization in musical careers“
16:00 – 16:10 Dr. Gloria Mähringer – Centre for Ethics and Philosophy in Practice (ZEPP) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich (Germany)
16:10 – 16:20 Beatrice and Ahmad Mansour – Founder of MIND prevention – Mansour-Initiative für Demokratieförderung und Extremismusprävention GmbH, Berlin (Germany)
16:20 – 16:30 Massimo Cerofolini – Television journalist and editor (Eta Beta) at RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana), Rome (Italy)
16:30 – 16:40 Dr. Ines Kappert – Director of the Gunda Werner Institute at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, Berlin (Germany)
16:40 – 17:00 Prof. Riccardo Pozzo – Università Tor Vergata, Rome (Italy) „Social, Cultural and Religious Innovation: Convergence and Divergence: Iran and the West”
17:00 – 17:15 Prof. Ruth Edith Hagengruber – Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University (Germany), „1789 – 2022. From France to Iran. Women pave the way to freedom. Introducing Shohreh Bayat. Voices from Iran.”
17.15 – 17.30 Shohreh Bayat – International Chess Arbiter, London (UK)
17:50 – 18:00 Dr. Clara Mavellia closing wordsPresenter: Isabella R. Agostino

Ruth E. Hagengruber - 1789 – 2022. From France to Iran. Women pave the way to Freedom. Introducing Shohreh Bayat. Voices from Iran
2022-12-01 17:00 - 17:30 (Europe/Berlin) | online
In the context of the fouth digital Conference ‘Ethics and Digitalization’, an event hosted by the Cultural Entrepreneurship Institute Berlin on 1 December 2022, Ruth Edith Hagengruber will hold a talk on ‘1789 – 2022. From France to Iran. Women pave the way to Freedom. Introducing Shohrey Bayat. Voices from Iran‘. With contributions by Prof. Riccardo Pozzo and Shohreh Bayat, this talk takes part of the section on Iran of the conference.

Shohreh Bayat, chess champion from Iran, talks about the situation of women in Iran.

The conference is organized by the Cultural Entrepreneurship Institute Berlin in cooperation with Venice International University and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The event will be streamed on YouTube on 1 December 2022, 2 pm. Find the link for the live stream here.

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Ethics & Digitalization

Conference 'Collecting the Heritage: South-East European Women Philosophers'
2022-12-02 09:30 - 2022-12-03 19:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
The Research Center for Women in Philosophy (CIŽUF) at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb is proud to invite you to the conference
Collecting the Heritage: South-East European Women Philosophers
which will take place in a hybrid mode at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb and online on 2nd and 3rd December 2022.
Find the link for online participation here.
The region of South-East Europe is problematic from many perspectives. It was the region in which the famous Theodosian border cut the oikoumene in two parts which resulted in two different historical and cultural developments: Western Europe and Eastern Europe. The region is marked by a variety of perspectives and historical tensions: the Christian Europe vs. the Ottoman Empire, the Catholic “West” vs. the Orthodox “East”, communism vs. transition to capitalism, the 19 th -century desire to unite vs. the late 20 th -century desire to split, life at the border vs. the magnetism of the center, periphery of the cultural world vs. authentic and independent cultural identity, shame vs. comes The list could go on.
Due to linguistic barriers, ie the Western lack of interest in getting acquainted with texts in “different” languages, works of many women philosophers of the region are still not known to the rest of the world. In order to change that, we encourage to contribute to the with some of the following topics:

More general overviews of women philosophers of the past in a particular SE European country.
Intellectual biography of a single SE European woman philosopher.
Women’s education and philosophy.
Women philosophers in context:

of religious and cultural diversity,
of specificity of communism,
of transitions.

Is there a common philosophical denominator of SE European women philosophers?
Are there specific feminist movements within single SE European countries?
SE European women philosophers and recent refugee crises.

This invitation is also a call for papers for a special issue that aims at collecting articles that will popularize women philosophers of South-East Europe. Selected texts will be published in the Journal of the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (BRILL), Volume 2, Issue 1 (2023) with guest editors Luka Boršić and Ivana Skuhala Karasman.
Organizing Committee:
Ph.D. Ivana Suhala Karasman
Ph.D. Ana Maskalan
Prof. Ph.D. Ankica Čakardić
Ph.D. Luka Boršić

Please find the whole program of the conference here.

Interview on the book Latin American Perspectives on Women Philosophers in Modern History
2022-12-05 18:00 - 19:30 (Europe/Berlin) | online
On December the 5th at 6pm CET we will have an interview with Christine Lopes, Katarina Peixoto, Pedro Pricladnitzky, editors of the book Latin American Perspectives on Women Philosophers in Modern History. The book was published in July 2022 and is part of the Women in the History of Philosophy and Sciences series coordinated and edited by Ruth Hagengruber, Mary Ellen Waithe, Gianni Paganini. Latin American Perspectives on Women Philosophers in Modern History comprises texts from the “First International Conference of Women in Modern Philosophy” that took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in June of 2019. The conference was organized by Katarina Peixoto and Pedro Pricladnitzky, and brought together over twenty national, transnational, and international philosophers from seven countries, whose work combines historical and analytical insight to recover the philosophical legacy of women philosophers. The ongoing task of building a standardized body of thought that is neither androcentric nor Eurocentric is immense for all women thinkers worldwide. The difficulties range from the painful scarcity of resources to undertake research, which creates unfortunate competition for support among different forward-thinking schools of women’s philosophical thought, to the current wave of epistemic obscurantism. In Brazil specifically, and in the Latin America more broadly, discussions about canon rewriting and recognition of the contribution of women to the history of philosophy go hand in hand with colonial and slavery history and the ongoing spirit of political conflagration within the universities as an image of society. The impact on the freedom of thought and speech is palpable and often frightening. Latin American Perspectives on Women Philosophers in Modern History is testimony to the enduring power of multinational and multicultural philosophical friendship in the face of open threat to candour of thought and behaviour, which is a pre-requisite of communicable truth and viable communication. Christine, Katarina, and Pedro will talk with us about this and much more.
They will be accompanied by Ulysses Pinheiro and Mitieli Silva, two of the authors in their book. Come and join us!
Zoom Link: https://uni-paderborn-de.zoom.us/j/8317774101?pwd=[REDACTED]

New Voices Winter Term 22/23 Talk Series on Women and their body: Marjolein Oele
2022-12-08 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Abstract: Pregnancy has been a life-changing experience for me. It has been so not only because of my bodily transformation and the amazing two forms of life that emerged, but also because of its painful loss. It has prompted me to ask a simple yet profound question: how to grasp this grief, and how to combat the prevailing cultural discourse that seems in so many ways unsuited to address the ambivalence surrounding early pregnancy loss?[1]
One way of accessing the meaning of pregnancy loss is through rethinking the meaning of pregnancy in terms of a constellation. In previous work, I have proposed to view pregnancy in light of the building of a pregnant city,[2] in analogy to Plato’s building of a city in the Republic. Following this thought: what happens when the emerging pregnant city falls apart prematurely? Here it is the liminal experience of early miscarriage (i.e., miscarriage before the 12th gestational week) that I seek to investigate, which is important for 3 reasons. First, this form of ephemeral loss is conceptually under-articulated, yet experientially prevalent: 70 % of conceptions end prior to birth.[3] Secondly, rethinking early pregnancy loss stimulates correction of many accounts of loss that are predominantly focused on the loss of individuated, singular beings, rather than allowing for an analysis of loss at the level of the milieu. Thirdly, recognizing the importance and prevalence of dissipating constellation may bring further understanding and recognition to those caught in the grieving aftermath of miscarriage. I will show that Gilles Simondon’s account of pre-individuation is a helpful tool to both conceptualize the pregnant city in its early formation and in its dissolution, precisely because Simondon discusses a metaphysics of life that focuses not on being, but on being-as-becoming (ontogenesis) and affords a place for processes that are pre-individual.[4]
[1] In other philosophical publications on pregnancy, I have referenced the figure of Diotima (in Plato’s Symposium) as a key inspirational figure for my own thoughts on pregnancy. While, along the lines of Cavarero’s critique, I disagree with Diotima’s ultimate assessment of physical pregnancy (as a “lower” form of pregnancy, thereby annihilating maternal power), Diotima reminds us that pregnancy can and should stand center—as a liminal experience—in our philosophical accounts. Marjolein Oele, “Dasein and the Experience of Pregnancy: Contemplating Becoming-With, Attunement and Temporality with and beyond Heidegger,” in: Dasein and Gender, co-edited by Susanne Claxton and Patricia Glazebrook (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
[2] Marjolein Oele, “Openness and Protection: A Philosophical Analysis of the Placenta’s Mediatory Role in Co-Constituting Emergent Intertwined Identities,” in: Configurations, Vol. 25 (3), July 2017, 347-371.
[3] The incidence of early clinical pregnancy loss “is estimated to be 15 % of conceptions with a significant variation according to age. Thus, the incidence ranges from 10 % in women aged 20 to 24 years to 51 % in women aged 40 to 44 years.” Overall, Larsen argues that 70 % of all conceptions end in death prior to birth. Larsen et al, “New Insights into Mechanisms behind Miscarriage,” BMC Medicine 2013, 11 (154), 2-3.
[4] Gilles Simondon, “The Genesis of the Individual,” 1992, p. 300.
Biography: Marjolein Oele is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco. She was trained as an MD at the Free University of Amsterdam, has a master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam and received her PhD in Philosophy in 2007 from Loyola University Chicago. Her research intertwines Ancient Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Environmental Philosophy and Philosophy of Medicine. She is the author of E-Co-Affectivity: Exploring Pathos at Life’s Material Interfaces (SUNY, 2020) and co-editor of Ontologies of Nature: Continental Perspectives and Environmental Reorientations (Springer, 2017). She is currently working on a new book manuscript entitled Elemental Loss. Her articles have been published in a range of journals, including Ancient Philosophy, Configurations, Environmental Philosophy, Epochê, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, Radical Philosophy Reviews and Research in Phenomenology. She is a member of the executive board of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) and she joined the editorial board of the journal Environmental Philosophy in 2017 as its book review editor.
This online talk will be held on Zoom. I hope many of you will be able to join us for an interesting talk and a friendly and engaged discussion! Please register (no registration fees) here: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
If you already have registered for the previous talk, you do not have to register again. The Zoom link will be the same.

New Voices Winter Term 22/23 Talk Series on Women and their body: Cornelia Möser
2023-01-12 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin)
Abstract: When feminists speak about sexuality they sometimes refer to social and political power structure, sometimes to procreation, others speak about pleasure practices or subcultures and even others refer to questions of identity. At the example of the body, these disparities in feminist thought regarding sexuality become even more evident. While the body has been of crucial interest in feminist and LGBTQ thought, it has only rarely been addressed explicitly and many times in quite negative fashion as Simone de Beauvoir’s very negative views on procreation or menstruation. But also Monique Wittig’s writings on the lesbian body struggle with negative association regarding women’s bodies and more particularly desire between them. It was the so called French feminist school and namely Luce Irigaray and Hélène Cixous that tried to find resources for resistance in the female body and its supposed refusal to submit to the rule of the One imposed by phallocracy. Their writings inspired postmodern and queer studies to inquire new views on the sexual body, on differences between female bodies but also on the possibility of finding lust and pleasure in these bodies. Susan Bordo’s work has become canonical in this sense. In this talk I would like to retrace some of the ways in which the body has been thought of in feminist theories on sexuality in discussing first the body in feminist struggles with psychoanalysis, second, I will address the ways in which the feminist sex wars brought the topic of pleasure back into feminist views on sexuality and gender and, third, I would like to present more recent perspectives on the sexual body including the questions of race and of validity. Can we still find revolutionary potential in our sexual and desiring bodies today?
Biography: Cornelia Möser is a researcher in gender and cultural studies at the French CNRS working in the research institute CRESPPA (Center for sociological and political research in Paris) where she is the head of the work group “Gender, work, mobilities”. Since 2013 she is an associated researcher at the Berlin-based Centre Marc Bloch. Her work is focused on feminist, queer and gender studies in France, the United States and Germany, especially since the 1960s. She has published her PhD-thesis on the French and German feminist gender debates and recently published her habilitation thesis under the title “Libérations sexuelles. Une histoire des pensées féministes et queer”.
This online talk will be held on Zoom. I hope many of you will be able to join us for an interesting talk and a friendly and engaged discussion! Please register (no registration fees) here: contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org
If you already have registered for the previous talk, you do not have to register again. The Zoom link will be the same.

Dynamics and Reason: A Workshop on Du Châtelet and Kant
2023-02-09 08:00 - 2023-02-10 17:00 (Europe/Berlin)
This two-day workshop will focus on the work of Du Châtelet and Kant and on historical and conceptual links between them, as well as connecting figures such as Euler, Maupertuis, Formey, and Kästner.
Invited speakers:
Emily Carson (McGill University)
Silvia De Bianchi (University of Milan)
Katherine Dunlop (University of Texas, Austin)
Hartmut Hecht (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences)
Klaus Mainzer (Technical University of Munich)

You can find further information on the workshop as well as the program here.
