Harvard History Workshop on Émilie du Châtelet
2023-04-18 08:00 - 2023-06-20 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany
This summer we will host a Harvard History Workshop on Émilie du Châtelet in cooperation with the Center for the History of Women Philosophers. The workshop is organized by Jeff McDonough, Harvard University and Aaron Wells, Paderborn University and Ruth Hagengruber, Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University. The talks will take place in person only at the Paderborn University; everyone is welcome to come!
Look forward to the following talks:
18th April: Dr. Guillaume Coissard, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on “Du Châtelet’s Influence on French Materialism”
19th May: Dr. Marco Storni, University of Neuchâtel, TBA
24th May: Maaike Korpershoek, University of Groningen, on “Du Châtelet’s essay on fire”
20th June: Dr. Qiu Lin, Cornell University and Einstein Forum and Prof. Fatema Amijee, University of British Columbia, on “Causation in Du Châtelet”

Croatia Libori Summer School 2023
2023-06-19 - 2023-06-22 | Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THE 2ND CROATIA LIBORI SUMMER SCHOOL FROM 19TH TO 22ND OF JUNE 2023 IN ZAGREB
WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS AND SCIENTISTS ON MEDICINE, PSYCHOLOGY, AND BODY AWARENESS
Venue: Institute of Philosophy, Ulica grada Vukovara 54/V, Zagreb Croatia
In cooperation with the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: 31ST OF MAY 2023. REGISTER HERE: LIBORISS@HISTORYOFWOMENPHILOSOPHERS.ORG
You can look forward to workshops animated by:

Luka Boršić & Ivana Skuhala Karasman on Druskowitz
Ankica Čakardić
Chelsea Harry on Karoline von Günderrode
Jil Muller on Émilie du Châtelet and Elisabeth of Bohemia
Daniel Neumann on Edith Stein
Michele Vagnetti on E.E. Constance Jones
More to come…

More to come. Stay tuned for the program.
For further information and registration please use the following adress: liboriSS@historyofwomenphilosophers.org

Harvard History Workshop on Émilie du Châtelet: Qiu Lin, Clara Carus & Fatema Amijee
2023-06-20 13:00 - 17:30 | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany
The Spring/Summer 2023 Harvard History Workshop on Émilie Du Châtelet (in cooperation with the Center for the History of Women Philosophers) will conclude with a mini-workshop on Metaphysical Themes in Du Châtelet.
The workshop will take place on the 20th of June, 2023, in the ground-floor seminar room, Technologiepark 21, Paderborn. All are invited to attend.
The schedule will be as follows:
13:00-14:30. Dr. Clara Carus, University of Oxford/Paderborn University: “Simple Beings in Du Châtelet”
14:30-16:00. Prof. Qiu Lin, Cornell University/Simon Fraser University: “Du Châtelet: an unusual theory of monads”
16:00-17:30. Prof. Fatema Amijee, University of British Columbia: “Was Du Châtelet a causal idealist?”
The workshop is organized by Jeff McDonough, Harvard University and Aaron Wells, Paderborn University, with the support of Ruth Hagengruber, Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University.

New Voices Summer Term 23 Talk Series on Phenomenology and Metaphysics: Julia Zaenker
2023-06-22 15:00 - 17:00
Abstract: Gerda Walther’s work in phenomenology is often presented in light of the metaphysical struggles of its founding fathers, namely Pfänder’s realistic phenomenology, Husserl’s transcendental turn and Heideggerian ontology. Instead, I want to revisit Walther’s phenomenological approach to social ontology by reflecting on the relation between metaphysics and feminist phenomenology. To do this, I bring her into dialogue with Iris Marion Young’s careful perspective on the contemporary reality of political activism. My analysis juxtaposes Walther’s description of the reflective, self-referential nature of communities with Young’s suggestion to think about gender as a serial collective. I argue that this points towards a possible meaning of Walther’s “realist” commitments that invites us to read and apply her work beyond the standard interpretative paradigms.
Biography: Julia Zaenker is a PhD fellow at the Center fo Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen. She is interested in themes from “classical” phenomenology, broadly construed, and contemporary developments in phenomenology (critical phenomenology, 4E-approaches, applied phenomenology).
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: phenomenology@historyofwomenphilosophers.org

I Colóquio Émilie: Filosofia, contexto, tradução
2023-07-03 - 2023-07-07 | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Brazil
From 3 to 7 July 2023, the first colloqium “Colóquio Émilie: Filosofia, contexto, tradução”, organized by Mitieli Seixas Da Silva, the Translation and Research Group Émilie, will be hosted at the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria in Santa Maria, Brazil. Part of the colloquium is the Translation School from 4 to 7 July 2023.
Find the registration for the colloquium here.

Seminar: Edith Stein’s “Finite and Eternal Being”
2023-07-10 - 2023-07-13 | Paderborn University
July 10 to 13th, 10:00 AM to 6PM
University of Paderborn
with Mette Lebech (Maynooth University)
and Sarah Borden (Wheaton College)
The seminar will provide an in-depth look into Edith Stein’s late magnum opus Finite and Eternal Being, investigating its metaphysical and phenomenological aspects. We will discuss how Stein draws on tradition (especially the philosophy of St. Thomas and Aristotle) and contemporary thinkers (Hedwig Conrad-Martius) in gauging her contribution as a unique attempt at founding a Christian philosophy. The structure is as follows:
Day 1 (10th of July): Discussion of chapter 1 – The Inquiry into Being
Day 2 (11th of July): Discussion of chapter 2 – Act and Potency as Modes of Being
Day 3 (12th of July): Discussion of chapter 3 – Essential and Actual Being
Day 4 (13th of July): Discussion of chapter 4 – Essentia (Ousia, Wesen) – Substance – Form and Matter
Every day will begin with a short introductory lecture, presenting some of the main ideas of the respective chapter. Chapters 1 and 2 will be introduced by Sarah Borden, Chapter 3 by Mette Lebech and Chapter 4 by Daniel Neumann.
In-person visitors are welcome and are asked to register at phenomenology@historyofwomenphilosophers.org.
Sarah Borden is the author of “Edith Stein’s Finite and Eternal Being. A Companion” (2023, Rowman & Littlefield). Mette Lebech’s recent publications on Edith Stein include “The Philosophy of Edith Stein: From Phenomenology to Metaphysics” (2015, Peter Lang).
The seminar language will be German and English.
Seminar Location
Mo, 10. Jul. 2023 10:00 18:00 Q 2 122
Di, 11. Jul. 2023 10:00 18:00 P 1 2.22
Mi, 12. Jul. 2023 10:00 18:00 P 1 2.22
Do, 13. Jul. 2023 10:00 18:00 P 1 4.08.1
A campus plan can be found here.

Research Colloquium - Dr. Maria Robaszkiewicz: Presentation on Habilitation Project and Hannah Arendt Research
2023-07-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Technologiepark 21, Universität Paderborn, 33100, Germany

Research Colloquium - Katja Cicigoj: Presentation of the Disserationproject
2023-07-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Technologiepark 21, Universität Paderborn, 33100, Germany

IAPh 19th Symposium: Feminisms Today. Philosophical Contributions against Violence, Discrimination and Exclusions
2023-07-31 08:00 - 2023-08-04 17:00 | Buenos Aires
19th Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh)
Feminisms Today. Philosophical Contributions against Violence, Discrimination and Exclusions
July 31 – 04 August 2023
Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the University of Buenos Aires
Venue: José Bonifacio 1443, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
The 2023 Symposium is the first of the International Association of Women Philosophers to take place in Latin Amercia. This event is an opportunity to promote the work of women philosophers, specially from our region, across all philosophical fields, and in national and international context. The conference focuses on philosophical contributions on Violence, Discrimination and Exclusions. On the other hand, faithful to the spirit of the IAPh, the Symposium constitutes, once again, a privileged space designed to make visible the work done by women and other groups traditionally subalternized by their sex-gender condition throughout the world and in different philosophical disciplines (theoretical philosophy, practical philosophy and history of philosophy).
In our region, philsophical practice often links activism, academic work and institutional management. In this opportunity, the IAPh symposium aims to bring together and highlight the contributions of these practices to adopt an analytical-critical approach and to enrich the problemativ horizon of violence, discrimination and exclusion.
Find the whole Call for Abstracts here.

Invited Symposium Expanding the Canon at ECAP11
2023-08-24 11:00 - 13:00 | University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
On August 24, Ruth E. Hagengruber (Paderborn University), Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (University of Copenhagen), and Sophia Connell (Birkbeck University of London) will offer a symposium on “Expanding the Canon”. The Invited Symposium is part of this year’s ECAP11. Please find the ECAP11 program as well as further information here.

In the Symposium “Expanding the Canon,” Ruth E. Hagengruber, Sabrina Ebbersmeyer, and Sophia Connell discuss the following topics:
Depictions of ‘typical’ philosophers are almost entirely of white men, preferably with beards. The idea of a wise, reflective, genius type has almost always been a male-coded ideal and for the most part tracks white supremist and exceptionalist ideology.
Since the 1990s significant progress was made in bringing women philosophers back into our histories of the early modern period (O’Neill 1998, Hutton 2015). Black feminists made a similar case for black female intellectuals, some of whom should count as philosophers; these thinkers have been ignored or excluded from our histories mostly due to genre and circumstance (Hill Collins 1990).
Alongside this positive incorporation of gender and ethnic diversity in the philosophical conversation, has been the steady progression of an all-white male narrative of analytic philosophy, written almost exclusively by men (e.g. Soames 2003, Glock 2008). This story is false and it is easy to prove it to be so
Sophia Connell will introduce the work of a number of very important, influential and intellectually powerful female philosophers from the period 1830-1970, whose ideas form the basis of contemporary analytic philosophy. She will particularly touch on Maria W. Stewart, whose public speeches contain the roots of civic rights arguments still crucial to political philosophy, Dr Sophie Bryant, the first woman to hold a postdoctoral degree in Philosophy in the United Kingdom, who advocated for education for women and minorities through virtue-based discussions, Professor Grace De Laguna, whose speculative brand of philosophical investigation is still influential, and Professor Alice Ambrose Lazerowitz, whose transatlantic ponderings in the early 1930s would help to shape the very way we do philosophy today.
Ruth Hagengruber will reflect on how women have critically examined the concepts of philosophy, discussed or questioned the history of philosophy itself, exposed idolatry, and were active in important areas of religious criticism. She will briefly discuss Du Chatelet and Kant to illustrate the problems that arise from this sexist exclusion and that shape a history of philosophy that is still marked by abridgements, half-truths and plagiarism.
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer will talk about mechanisms of exclusion, text genres, and modes of writing historiography, and will be mostly focussing on the German context during the 19th century.

Dr. Jil Muller at the 6th FINO Graduate Conference in the History of Philosophy
2023-09-11 14:30 - 2023-09-12 17:30
On September 12th, at 16h30, Dr. Jil Muller will give a keynote talk on Marie de Gournay: The Philosopher Slandered by a Patriarchal Society, at the 6th FINO Graduate Conference in the History of Philosophy, in Pavia, Italy.

R.E. Hagengruber's Keynote Talk on "Die Gesellschaft neu denken: Philosophinnen über Staat, Recht und Ökonomie."
2023-09-28 09:30 - 10:30 | University of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
On September 28, 2023, Ruth E. Hagengruber will give a Keynote Talk on ‘Zur Geschichte der Frauen in der Philosophie des Rechts’ at the conference ‘Rechtsphilosophinnen’. The conference takes place on September 28-29, 2023 at the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg in Salzburg, Austria. The event is organized by Kristin Albrecht, Carolina Esser and Stephan Kirste.

You can find the program of the conference here.

Voices from Ukraine: Women Philosophers and Scientists Against War and Ecocide
2023-10-27 09:00 - 2023-10-28 18:00 | L3.204, Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, 33098, Germany
Where: University of Paderborn, Paderborn, Germany
When: October 27th-28th, 2023
Type of Conference: Hybrid
The conference is organized by Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko, Director of the Center for Gender Education of National Medical University (KHNMU) & Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber, Director of the internationally acting Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. This project has received funding through the MSCA4Ukraine project, which is funded by the European Union. The talks will be held in Englisch. Discussions can be in English, German and Ukrainian. In addition an Ukrainian-German Interpreter (Prof. Dr. Volodymyr Abashnik) will be present via Zoom.
Today, it is becoming obvious that demonstrating its inability to win in a direct military confrontation, Russia is purposefully implementing traditional, patriarchal tactics of domination to destroy the Ukrainian economy and environment.
The purpose of this conference, on the one hand, is to show, that the airstrikes mainly target Ukraine’s critical life support infrastructure, industrial facilities, oil and fuel depots, chemical and pharmaceutical depots, public utilities such as sewage pumping stations, power stations and railways.
On the other hand, the task is to prove that this tactic being accompanied by a public demonstration and self-praise of the masculine superiority of the leaders is a pathetic imitation of it. It will be disclosed the fact that the Russian war against Ukraine means violence, poverty, forced displacement, broken lives, insecurity and lack of a future, depletion of nature, and ecocide.
The important topics of discussions will be the ontological, phenomenological, and existential dimensions of ecocide at the time and after the war. Ecofeminism and the ethics of care will become the methodological basis for analyzing the phenomena of ecocide.
The speakers include Oksana Zabuzhko (Receiver of France’s Legion of Honor), Dr. Tatiana Perga (Senior Researcher of ‘Institute of World History of National Academy of Science of Ukraine’), Dr. Iryna Utiuzh (Department of Social Sciences, Zaporizhzhia State Medical University), Dariya Tsymbalyuk, Iryna Zamuruyeva, Pina Piccolo, Prof. Dr. Tetiana Gardashuk, Cynthia R. Nielsen (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas), Valeria Korablyova, Angela Boyko, Mariya Shcherbyna, Tentyana Chumachenko, Natalia Martynenko,Oksana Nakonechna.
For Registration, send an e-mail to contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org with the subject “VoFUkr Registration”. Also include if you will participate online or in-person.
Here is the Preliminary Program.

DGPhil AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie – Workshop 08.11.2023
2023-11-08 13:00 - 18:00 | Paderborn University, Warburger Str. 100, Paderborn, NRW, 33098, Germany
13.15-13.30 Welcome
13.30-14.15 Marit Rullmann, M. A. Phil.: „Philosophinnen Porträts“
14.15-14.30 Dr. Maria Robaszkiewicz (Universität Paderborn): „HannahArendt.net. Die Zeitschrift und ihre Geschichte“
14.30-15.15 Anne Specht, M. Ed. (Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover): „Die ‚Dialektik der Aufklärung‘ durch die Feder Margareta Adornos“
15.15-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-16.15 Dr. Tetiana Havlin (Universität Siegen): “Earth and Re-Birth: Resilience, Recovery, and Responsibility in the Wake of War”
16.15-16.30 Coffee Break
16.30-17.30 Philipp Hagemann, M. Ed. (Universität Paderborn) & Katharina Schulz, M. Ed. (Universität Göttingen): „Zur Repräsentation von Philosophinnen / Frauen in philosophischen Bildungsmaterialien“
17.30-18.00 AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie

David Owen on Khadīja Bint al-‘Āqil: Logician of Islamic West Africa
2023-11-20 15:00 - 17:00 | Technologiepark 21, Universität Paderborn, 33100, Germany
On the 20th of November at 3pm David Owen will give a talk on Khadīja Bint al-‘Āqil: Logician of Islamic West Africa at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. David Owen studies the history of logic in the western Islamicate world. He is especially interested in formal patterns of reasoning in the legal education of big religious traditions, and especially within the cultural continuum of the Bissau-to-Bilbao complex. In Fall 2023, David will defend his dissertation in Arabic & Islamic Studies at Harvard University, where he has also completed the Secondary Field in Classical Philosophy. The dissertation provides the first treatment of the Avicennan logic of a prominent west Saharan luminary, Ghadīja (Khadīja) Mint (Bint) al-‘Āqil (d. ca. 1835).
See here the abstract of the talk: Ghadīja (Khadīja) Mint (Bint) al-‘Āqil al-Daymānīya (d. ca. 1835) flourished at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century in the southwestern Sahara, in the Gebla region of today’s Mauritania. A brief review of women’s contributions to the history of logic underscores Ghadīja’s historical importance, as one of only two women authors on logic prior to Frege with a complete, extant work on logic. Khadīja’s Ṭurra ‘alā l-Sullam is the best known, and most reliably preserved, textual record of her teaching across the intellectual sciences of the Core Curriculum of Islamic West Africa (Hall and Stewart, 2010). Her Ṭurra, still being glossed and reproduced for study in Mauritania, is a commentary on a 16th century arjūza of Avicennan logic, the Sullam al-murawnaq. The Sullam was composed by the Algerian scholar ‘Abd al-Raḥmān al-Akhḍarī, and is arguably the most widely studied work of Arabic logic in the world today. In this talk, I introduce the audience to what is known about Ghadīja’s life, teaching, and legacy. I compare Ghadīja’s treatment in the sources to that of her brother and student Aḥmad, and unveil a digital archive for Arabic logic texts, with the work of al-Akhḍarī and Ghadīja as its centerpiece. The research results herein show the relevance of gender to, as well as the utility of text-editing, digital archiving, and comparative scholasticism for, the field of Arabic logic.
We are excited to welcome Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson as respondent from David Owens talk. Peter Adamson’s primary areas of interest are late ancient philosophy and Arabic philosophy. His two monographs deal with the Arabic version of Plotinus, the so-called “Theology of Aristotle,” and with al-Kindi (d. after 870 AD). He has devoted articles to several figures of the Greek tradition: Aristotle, Plotinus, and Porphyry; and numerous philosophers of the Arabic tradition, including al-Kindi, Abu Bakr al-Razi, Yahya Ibn ‘Adi, Miskawayh, Avicenna, and Averroes. He has also edited and co-edited numerous books, including “The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy,” three further volumes on philosophy in the Islamic world for the Warburg Institute, several volumes for the Institute of Classical Studies including “Philosophical Themes in Galen,” and “Interpreting Avicenna: Critical Essays” for Cambridge University Press.

Kolloquium Geschlechter Geschichte: Dr. Jil Muller, "Philosophinnen sichtbar machen"
2023-12-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Humboldt-Universität, Sophienstr. 22a, Berlin, Germany

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

About the Speakers:

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

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

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