BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//History of Women Philosophers and Scientists - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for History of Women Philosophers and Scientists REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20240331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20241027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Paris BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20250330T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20251026T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20260329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20261025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20270328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20271031T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251013T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251013T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251007T122101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T151341Z UID:31770-1760371200-1760378400@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Research Colloquium- Dr. Manaswini Sen: From Practice to Philosophy: Trade Unionism\, Communism\, and Feminist Intellectual History in Late Colonial Bengal. DESCRIPTION:Dr. Manaswini Sen will introduce us into her research on Trade Unionism\, Communism and Feminist Intellectual History in late colonial Bengal. \nShe is an Assistant Professor of Modern South Asian History at the Department of History\, Easwari School of Liberal Arts\, SRM University Ap (India). Her research interests lie within the fields of Labour History\, the History of Decolonisation in South Asia\, Intellectual History\, the History of Surveillance\, and the History of Communism in the Global South. \nThe Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organised by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-dr-manaswini-sen-from-practice-to-philosophy-trade-unionism-communism-and-feminist-intellectual-history-in-late-colonial-bengal/ LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_7962-scaled-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists":MAILTO:contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251020T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251020T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251013T130439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T151703Z UID:31833-1760976000-1760983200@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Dr. Pierpaolo Betti: Atomism and Monadism Combined: Continuities between Du Châtelet’s and Kant’s Accounts of Matter DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Most scholars emphasize the discontinuity in Kant’s early accounts of matter\, reinforcing the longstanding view that the young Kant explored various positions without committing to a specific one. More specifically\, commentators tend to read the shift from atomism to monadism or\, conversely\, from monadism to atomism\, as a turning point in Kant’s pre-critical account of matter. I challenge these readings by arguing that the young Kant did not conceive of atomism and monadism as mutually exclusive alternatives. Rather\, he developed an account of matter that combined monadism in metaphysics and a version of atomism known as corpuscularism in physics. I further show that\, prior to Kant\, Du Châtelet had already articulated such a hybrid account of matter by drawing on Wolffian ideas. By comparing Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique with Kant’s early texts on natural philosophy\, I suggest that Du Châtelet’s views may have influenced Kant’s early account of matter more significantly than has generally been acknowledged in the literature. \nPierpaolo Betti obtained his PhD from KU Leuven in 2025. His doctoral research focused on the evolution of the concept of monad in Kant’s philosophy in light of the early reception of Leibniz’s monadology. As of November\, he will be a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University\, where he will contribute to the historical-critical edition of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique. His publications include “Kant’s Mature Account of Monads as Objects in the Idea” (The Southern Journal of Philosophy\, 2024) and “The Influence of Leibniz’s New Essays on Kant’s Account of Impenetrability in the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science” (book chapter in Leibniz in der klassischendeutschen Philosophie\, edited by Gregor Schäfer. Springer/Metzler\, forthcoming). \nThe Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organised by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-dr-pierpaolo-betti-atomism-and-monadism-combined-continuities-between-du-chatelets-and-kants-accounts-of-matter/ LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/e_milie_du_cha_telet-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251031T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251031T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251031T091801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T101608Z UID:32018-1761926400-1761933600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices - Aneta Kohoutova: Through my absent body\, I perceive you. Spatiality and female corporeality in public spaces DESCRIPTION:Hannah Arendt Today\nThe Winter Term Talk Series 2025/26\, organised by Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin) and Maria Robaszkiewicz (UPB)\, is an online talk series dedicated to Hannah Arendt. \nArendt could aptly be described as a thinker of the crisis\, or perhaps rather of multiple crises. This motif is ever-present in her work and\, indeed\, it is a concept that is becoming ever-present in our own time. This is one of the reasons why academic and public interest in Arendt’s writings is currently skyrocketing. It is because so many politically acute challenges today call not for dogmatic\, but for critical and practical perspectives. In her works\, Arendt seems to be looking for crises: cracks in the fabric of the everyday\, which offer an opening\, enabling individuals to appear before each other and become political actors. It is not that action necessarily needs a crisis\, but a crisis definitely needs action. Crisis\, for Arendt\, is always ambivalent. It presupposes a destructive moment\, but also a constructive one. As she states\, “The opportunity\, provided by the very fact of crisis – which tears away façades and obliterates prejudices to explore and inquire into whatever has been laid bare of the essence of the matter.” A crisis only proves disastrous when the reaction to it consists of recourse to the ways of thinking prescribed by tradition\, answered in conventional\, schematic ways. \nIn line with Arendt’s critical spirit\, and especially her concept of natality (every human’s capability of striking new beginnings in the world)\, this edition of the New Voces talk series introduces contributions of emerging Arendt scholars addressing issues of philosophic and political relevance for the world in which we live today. Topics include the female body\, speech and speechlessness\, dwelling and home\, meanings of property\, and natality in times of dictatorship. Everyone is welcome to join us in discussing Hannah Arendt’s relevance today! \nEveryone is welcome to attend. You will get the Zoom-Link here or at maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-aneta-kohoutova-through-my-absent-body-i-perceive-you-spatiality-and-female-corporeality-in-public-spaces/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Kopie-von-Hannah-Arendt-Today-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251103T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251103T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251020T105748Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251103T125157Z UID:31862-1762185600-1762192800@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Laura E. Herrera Castillo: Beyond Passive Reception: Liselotte von der Pfalz and G.W. Leibniz on F.M. van Helmont DESCRIPTION:While the historiography of philosophy has increasingly integrated marginalized figures\, the philosophical exchanges between Leibniz and his female correspondents remain understudied. Beyond well-known exchanges with figures like Lady Damaris Masham and Caroline of Ansbach (within the Clarke-Dispute)\, significant correspondences still await scholarly attention. This paper examines a rich thread in Leibniz’s correspondence with Sophie of Hannover\, focusing on the critical intervention of Elisabeth Charlotte (Liselotte) von der Pfalz\, whose challenges prompted an exchange on the thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont. As the first study\, to my knowledge\, dedicated to this episode and to treating Liselotte’s letters as philosophical documents\, its primary aim is to present and analyze this correspondence. Through this analysis\, the study seeks to elucidate Liselotte’s distinct philosophical attitude and\, to a lesser extent\, Sophie’s. Ultimately\, this microhistory addresses a broader meta-philosophical question: What does this episode reveal about early modern intellectual networks and the strategies women used to engage in philosophical discourse from the margins of official academic life? \nDr. Laura Herrera Castillo currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Leibniz-Forschungsstelle in Münster and teaches as an adjunct lecturer (Lehrbeauftragte) in Philosophy at the University of Münster. Originally from Colombia\, she earned her doctorate on Philosophy in Granada\, Spain\, with a thesis on Leibniz’s concept of function across his mathematics\, physics\, and metaphysics. She has conducted research at the universities of Münster and Hannover and has held a visiting professorship at LMU Munich.E-Mail: laura.herreracastillo@uni-muenster.de \nThe Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-laura-castillo-insights-into-the-research-of-women-philosophers-and-ecotechgender/ LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_8060.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251104T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251104T110000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251027T160202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T152606Z UID:31982-1762246800-1762254000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab - The falls of Europe and Critical European Philosophy DESCRIPTION:The falls of Europe and Critical European Philosophy \nTalk by Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab \nAssociate Professor of Philosophy \nDoha Institute for Graduate Studies \nMuch of critical European philosophy has emerged in response to situations of European collapse such as the rise of fascism\, World War II\, the annihilation of European Jewry\, and the Gaza war. To what extent was the non-European a consideration in those efforts of philosophical critical self-reflection? In other words\, to what extent was the history of Europe outside Europe part of that self-reflection? My talk examines this question by looking at a few samples of those efforts\, namely Adorno’s analysis of the “Authoritarian Personality\,” Sartre’s Existentialism and Levinas’s ethical prima philosophia. It compares them with readings of the same epoch and the same phenomena by philosophers from outside Europe\, such as Aimé Césaire\, W.E.B. Dubois and others. My talk ends with a few remarks on some of the findings of this contrapuntal reading and some reflections on the last episode of Europe’s fall in Gaza. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/elizabeth-suzanne-kassab-the-falls-of-europe-and-critical-european-philosophy/ LOCATION:Lecture Hall O2\, O-Building\, Paderborn University CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Kassab-Talk-Europa-Neu-denken-2025-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251105T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251105T220000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251020T114042Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T095710Z UID:31879-1762372800-1762380000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Inputtalk - Felix Grewe: Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival - TU Dresden DESCRIPTION:On November 5\, 2025 the Office of the Equal Opportunities Officer of the Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (Sca DS.AI) invited our colleague Felix Grewe to give an input talk on the life\, works and expertises of Donna J. Haraway. \nThe input talk is part of the movie presentation Donna Haraway: Storytelling for Earthly Survival held on November 5\, 2025 at the Technical University Dresden. The talk and movie presentation are part of the event Visual Takes – Cyborgs in the Colors of the Spectrum that is a section of the series Pillars and Umbrellas organized by Dr. Jutta Luisa Eckhardt and Dr. Stephanie Feilitzsch at TU Dresden. \nFelix Grewe is research fellow at the Chair for Practical Philosophy and the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Padeborn University. His research and PhD Project focus on the works and theories of Donna J. Haraway. \nMore information about the venue and the event series can be found here. \n  \n  URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/felix-grewe-inputtalk-donna-haraway-storytelling-for-earthly-survival-tu-dresden/ LOCATION:TU Dresden CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/4-3.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251107T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251107T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251031T092012Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T162557Z UID:32020-1762531200-1762538400@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices - Magnus Ferguson: Speaking Others into the World DESCRIPTION:Abstract: In certain contexts unreciprocated speech can be an important form of care for persons who would otherwise find it difficult to retain their place in shared worlds of linguistic meaning\, such as those who lose capacities for linguistic expression due to illness. Philosophers and political theorists often underscore the importance of reciprocated speech for sharing in a human world. Hannah Arendt makes this point especially forcefully in The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition\, in which she suggests that ‘speechless’ persons are excluded from the linguistic ‘web of relationships’—they are\, she writes\, ‘literally dead to the world.’ I reconstruct several of Arendt’s analyses of speech and speechlessness\, and argue that they are prima facie exclusionary to nonspeaking persons. I also identify resources in Arendt’s corpus for theorizing unreciprocated speech as a mode of care that can offer listeners footholds in the linguistic spheres of meaning around them. \nMagnus Ferguson (Ph.D.) is a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and a Harper-Schmidt Fellow in the University of Chicago Society of Fellows. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Boston College in 2023\, and his B.A. in Religion from Columbia University in 2014. \nMore about the New Voices Winter Term Talk Series 25: https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/new-voices-talk-series/ URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-magnus-ferguson-speaking-others-into-the-world/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Kopie-von-Hannah-Arendt-Today-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251110T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251110T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251020T111735Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T150823Z UID:31866-1762790400-1762797600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Sebastian Luft: Toward an Ontology of Social Communities - With an Appendix on the Phenomenology of Social Communities DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dr. Sebastian Luft will present his and Rodney K. B. Parker’s newly published book Gerda Walther. Toward an Ontology of Social Communities (De Gruyter\, 2025) as part of the regular Research Colloquium at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nLuft\, S. & Parker\, R. (2025). Gerda Walther. Toward an Ontology of Social Communities: With an Appendix on the Phenomenology of Social Communities. De Gruyter. \nAbstract: \nThis is the first full-text English translation of a seminal book within the phenomenological movement. \nThe work was orginally published in 1922 in Edmund Husserl’s yearbook Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung\, and has had a wide impact on work in phenomenology (Husserl\, Heideger\, Stein) and social ontology. Gerda Walther broaches the topic of social ontology\, i.e.\, a study of social communities. She carries out this task by using the phenomenological method\, that is\, a study of the first-person (both singular and plural) experience of being a part of a community\, what it feels like internally (and its constitutive elements)\, how it relates to other individuals or other communities\, and how unifications between individiuals and communities or between communities take place. \nThe book is an important contribution to the phenomenology of intersubjectivity or the study of social ontology. Social ontology has been an important and fruitful field of research in contemporary social theory\, cognitive science\, and other disciplines. It will be a crucial contribution to current research. \n\n\n\nPioneering study of the nature of the social world\nAuthor was student of Edmund Husserl\nImportant work of early phenomenology\n\n  \nAbout the translators: \nSebastian Luft is Professor of Philosophy at Paderborn University\, Germany. Rodney K.B. Parker is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at King’s University College\, Western University\, Ontario\, Canada. \n\n  \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-sebastian-luft-insights-into-the-research-of-women-philosophers-and-ecotechgender/ LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_8063.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251114T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251114T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251031T092157Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T101958Z UID:32022-1763136000-1763143200@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices - Catherine Koekoek: Towards an architecture of democratic infrastructures DESCRIPTION:Hanna Arendt Today\nThe Winter Term Talk Series 2025/26\, organised by Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin) and Maria Robaszkiewicz (UPB)\, is an online talk series dedicated to Hannah Arendt. \nArendt could aptly be described as a thinker of the crisis\, or perhaps rather of multiple crises. This motif is ever-present in her work and\, indeed\, it is a concept that is becoming ever-present in our own time. This is one of the reasons why academic and public interest in Arendt’s writings is currently skyrocketing. It is because so many politically acute challenges today call not for dogmatic\, but for critical and practical perspectives. In her works\, Arendt seems to be looking for crises: cracks in the fabric of the everyday\, which offer an opening\, enabling individuals to appear before each other and become political actors. It is not that action necessarily needs a crisis\, but a crisis definitely needs action. Crisis\, for Arendt\, is always ambivalent. It presupposes a destructive moment\, but also a constructive one. As she states\, “The opportunity\, provided by the very fact of crisis – which tears away façades and obliterates prejudices to explore and inquire into whatever has been laid bare of the essence of the matter.” A crisis only proves disastrous when the reaction to it consists of recourse to the ways of thinking prescribed by tradition\, answered in conventional\, schematic ways. \nIn line with Arendt’s critical spirit\, and especially her concept of natality (every human’s capability of striking new beginnings in the world)\, this edition of the New Voces talk series introduces contributions of emerging Arendt scholars addressing issues of philosophic and political relevance for the world in which we live today. Topics include the female body\, speech and speechlessness\, dwelling and home\, meanings of property\, and natality in times of dictatorship. Everyone is welcome to join us in discussing Hannah Arendt’s relevance today! \nEveryone is welcome to attend. You will get the Zoom-Link here or at maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-catherine-koekoek-towards-an-architecture-of-democratic-infrastructures/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Kopie-von-Hannah-Arendt-Today-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251120T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251120T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251020T112648Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T103931Z UID:31870-1763654400-1763661600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:75 Years German Society for Philosophy/75 Jahre Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie DESCRIPTION:Thinking Europe Anew. \nSeventy-five years ago\, Germany joined the Council of Europe. Seventy-five years ago\, the German Society for Philosophy was founded. We are celebrating this coincidence with our anniversary event.\nThe ideals of the Council of Europe—rule of law\, human rights\, and democracy—are the result of centuries of philosophical reflection and debate. The European idea and the universal values it embodies cannot be understood without the great European philosophical tradition.\nThe motto of the anniversary celebration of the German Society for Philosophy is therefore: Rethinking Europe’s Philosophical Tradition in Light of Contemporary Challenges. \nPrior registration required\nHistoric Town Hall Paderborn\nRoom: Main Council Chamber (1st Floor)\nRathausplatz 1\, 33098 Paderborn \nFurther information: DGPhil \n————— \nEuropa neu denken. \nVor 75 Jahren wurde Deutschland in den Europarat aufgenommen. Vor 75 Jahren wurde die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie gegründet. Diese Koinzidenz würdigen wir mit unserer Jubiläumsfeier.\nDie Ideale des Europarates\, Rechtsstaatlichkeit\, Menschenrechte und Demokratie\, sind das Ergebnis jahrhundertelanger Auseinandersetzungen. Die europäische Idee und die von ihr getragenen Universalien sind ohne die große europäische philosophische Tradition nicht zu verstehen.\nDas Motto der Festveranstaltung zum 75-jährigen Jubiläum der Deutschen Philosophischen Gesellschaft lautet daher: Europas philosophische Tradition angesichts aktueller Herausforderungen neu denken. \nVorherige Anmeldung erforderlich\nHistorisches Rathaus Paderborn\nRaum: Großer Sitzungssaal (1. Obergeschoss)\nRathausplatz 1\, 33098 Paderborn \nWeiterführende Informationen: DGPhil URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/75-jahre-deutsche-gesellschaft-fur-philosophie-75-years-german-society-for-philosophy/ LOCATION:Historisches Rathaus\, Rathauspl. 1\, Paderborn\, (NRW)\, 33098\, Germany CATEGORIES:Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/00-Banner-Europa-Neu-Denken.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251121T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251121T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251031T092400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T101901Z UID:32024-1763740800-1763748000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices - Jonathan Wren: Dwelling in the common world: Arendt and the right to share home with-others DESCRIPTION:Hannah Arendt Today\nThe Winter Term Talk Series 2025/26\, organised by Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin) and Maria Robaszkiewicz (UPB)\, is an online talk series dedicated to Hannah Arendt. \nArendt could aptly be described as a thinker of the crisis\, or perhaps rather of multiple crises. This motif is ever-present in her work and\, indeed\, it is a concept that is becoming ever-present in our own time. This is one of the reasons why academic and public interest in Arendt’s writings is currently skyrocketing. It is because so many politically acute challenges today call not for dogmatic\, but for critical and practical perspectives. In her works\, Arendt seems to be looking for crises: cracks in the fabric of the everyday\, which offer an opening\, enabling individuals to appear before each other and become political actors. It is not that action necessarily needs a crisis\, but a crisis definitely needs action. Crisis\, for Arendt\, is always ambivalent. It presupposes a destructive moment\, but also a constructive one. As she states\, “The opportunity\, provided by the very fact of crisis – which tears away façades and obliterates prejudices to explore and inquire into whatever has been laid bare of the essence of the matter.” A crisis only proves disastrous when the reaction to it consists of recourse to the ways of thinking prescribed by tradition\, answered in conventional\, schematic ways. \nIn line with Arendt’s critical spirit\, and especially her concept of natality (every human’s capability of striking new beginnings in the world)\, this edition of the New Voces talk series introduces contributions of emerging Arendt scholars addressing issues of philosophic and political relevance for the world in which we live today. Topics include the female body\, speech and speechlessness\, dwelling and home\, meanings of property\, and natality in times of dictatorship. Everyone is welcome to join us in discussing Hannah Arendt’s relevance today! \nEveryone is welcome to attend. You will get the Zoom-Link here or at maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-jonathan-wren-dwelling-in-the-common-world-arendt-and-the-right-to-share-home-with-others/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Kopie-von-Hannah-Arendt-Today-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251129 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251020T112925Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T110810Z UID:31872-1764288000-1764374399@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Talk by Ruth E. Hagengruber at the Goethe-Institut Barcelona DESCRIPTION: URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/ruth-edith-hagengruber-at-the-goethe-institut-barcelona/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_7473.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251128T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251128T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251031T092516Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251031T101800Z UID:32026-1764345600-1764352800@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices - Anna Jurkevics: Hannah Arendt on Eigentum: an anti-liberal theory of private property DESCRIPTION:Hannah Arendt Today\nThe Winter Term Talk Series 2025/26\, organised by Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin) and Maria Robaszkiewicz (UPB)\, is an online talk series dedicated to Hannah Arendt. \nArendt could aptly be described as a thinker of the crisis\, or perhaps rather of multiple crises. This motif is ever-present in her work and\, indeed\, it is a concept that is becoming ever-present in our own time. This is one of the reasons why academic and public interest in Arendt’s writings is currently skyrocketing. It is because so many politically acute challenges today call not for dogmatic\, but for critical and practical perspectives. In her works\, Arendt seems to be looking for crises: cracks in the fabric of the everyday\, which offer an opening\, enabling individuals to appear before each other and become political actors. It is not that action necessarily needs a crisis\, but a crisis definitely needs action. Crisis\, for Arendt\, is always ambivalent. It presupposes a destructive moment\, but also a constructive one. As she states\, “The opportunity\, provided by the very fact of crisis – which tears away façades and obliterates prejudices to explore and inquire into whatever has been laid bare of the essence of the matter.” A crisis only proves disastrous when the reaction to it consists of recourse to the ways of thinking prescribed by tradition\, answered in conventional\, schematic ways. \nIn line with Arendt’s critical spirit\, and especially her concept of natality (every human’s capability of striking new beginnings in the world)\, this edition of the New Voces talk series introduces contributions of emerging Arendt scholars addressing issues of philosophic and political relevance for the world in which we live today. Topics include the female body\, speech and speechlessness\, dwelling and home\, meanings of property\, and natality in times of dictatorship. Everyone is welcome to join us in discussing Hannah Arendt’s relevance today! \nEveryone is welcome to attend. You will get the Zoom-Link here or at maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-anna-jurkevics-hannah-arendt-on-eigentum-an-anti-liberal-theory-of-private-property/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Kopie-von-Hannah-Arendt-Today-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251205T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251205T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251031T092704Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251204T133253Z UID:32028-1764950400-1764957600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices - Elsa Siu Lonzas: Natality as a formative structure in Hannah Arendt’s work. A phenomenological approach to the question of the university in times of dictatorship DESCRIPTION:Hannah Arendt Today\nThe New Voices Talk Series continues this winter with a lecture dedicated to Hannah Arendt and is organized by Samantha Fazekas (Trinity College Dublin) & Maria Robaszkiewicz (Paderborn University). \nTalk: Natality as a formative structure in Hannah Arendt’s work. A phenomenological approach to the question of the university in times of dictatorship by Elsa Siu Lanzas (University of Costa Rica) \nAbstract: \nThis paper is guided by Hannah Arendt’s phenomenological approach to education\, arguing that a university undergoing dictatorial intervention fractures one of the structures of formation: natality. I first review the possibilities the author grants to the concept of ‘natality’ for thinking about the relationship between education and formation. Then I present an approximation to Arendt’s own understanding of the university. Finally\, I develop a description of the forced closure of the Universidad Centroamericana in Nicaragua and\, regarding the possibilities of Arendt’s conceptual framework\, I seek to provide some of the aspects that\, due to the university’s fragile situation\, ends up limiting the formation. \nAbout the speaker: \nElsa Siu Lanzas (Dra. phil.) is visiting professor and researcher specializing in phenomenology and the philosophy of education\, trained at the Universidad Pedagógica Nacional de Colombia and the University of Costa Rica. Her work focuses on questions of passivity\, embodiment\, and philosophical formation\, including the role of the body in thinking and teaching. She has published on Husserl\, Patočka\, and philosophical pedagogy\, contributing studies on responsibility\, memory\, and educational challenges in Latin American contexts. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. You will get the Zoom-Link here or at maria.robaszkiewicz@upb.de. \nMore about the New Voices Winter Talk Series 25/26:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/new-voices-talk-series/ URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-elsa-siu-lonzas-natality-as-a-formative-structure-in-hannah-arendts-work-a-phenomenological-approach-to-the-question-of-the-university-in-times-of-dictatorship/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Kopie-von-Hannah-Arendt-Today-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251208T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251208T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251020T113718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251202T100723Z UID:31876-1765186200-1765216800@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Workshop - AG DGPhil: „Sie waren ihrer Zeit voraus“ DESCRIPTION:PHILOSOPHINNEN UND WISSENSCHAFTLERINNEN UND IHR PLATZ IN DER GESCHICHTE \nAnmeldungen zur Teilnahme (ohne Beitrag) am Workshop sind noch bis zum  4. Dezember 2025 möglich. Nur noch für Online Teilnahme. ANMELDUNG. \nDas Jahrestreffen der AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie widmet sich Philosophinnen und Wissenschaftlerinnen\, deren Ideen und Theorien ihrer Zeit weit voraus waren und bislang nicht ausreichend als solche anerkannt wurden. Der hybride Workshop lädt dazu ein\, Fallstudien vorzustellen\, die aufzeigen\, wie Denkerinnen in verschiedenen Disziplinen – von der Philosophie bis zu den Natur- und Sozialwissenschaften – grundlegende Paradigmenwechsel vorbereitet und geprägt haben. \nZiel des Workshops ist es\, an konkreten Fallstudien das Gefüge philosophischer und wissenschaftlicher Diskursentwicklungen sichtbar zu machen und Strukturen zu identifizieren\, die Vergleiche zwischen unterschiedlichen Disziplinen und Theorien ermöglichen. \nVorläufiges Programm: \n\n\n\n9.30-10.00\nJulia Lerius\, Reziprozität als ökologische Leitkategorie im Denken Hildegards von Bingen\n\n\n10.00-10.30\nChristian Henkel\, Fundamentality\, Simplicity and Mass-Energy: Du Châtelet’s Theoretical Philosophy as an Anticipation of Contemporary Physics\n\n\n10.30-11.00\nSusann Hofbauer und Sabrina Zucca-Soest\, Der Staat als Geschlechterordnung – Mathilde Vaertings (1884-1977) Beitrag zur politischen Philosophie\n\n\n11.00-11.10\nPause\n\n\n11.10-11.40\nAnne Pollok\, Bloß eine fragmentarische Stimme? Frauen in Zeitschriften und Rezensionen\n\n\n11.40-12.10\nHeike Kahlert und Xenia Wenzel\, Die Internationale Assoziation von Philosophinnen als Pionierin in der wissenschaftlichen Organisationsbildung von Frauen\n\n\n12.10-12.15\nPause\n\n\n12.15-13.00\nKeynote: Andrea Reichenberger\, Vergessene Philosophinnen als Brückenbauerinnen zwischen Philosophie und Physik\n\n\n13.00-14.00\nLunch\n\n\n14.00-14.30\nElżbieta Filipow\, From Double Exclusion to Being Authoress on Her Own Terms – Towards the Recognition of Harriet Taylor Mill’s Contribution to Sociological Thought\n\n\n14.30-15.00\nJustin Joseph Vlasits\, Margaret Macdonald as a Pioneer in Philosophy of Science\n\n\n15.00-15.20\nDagmar Berger\, Laura Bassi\n\n\n15.20-15.40\nLinda Brancaleone\, Educating for Emancipation: Legal-Philosophical Resonances Between My Brilliant Friend and the Feminist Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft and Olympe de Gouges\n\n\n15.40-16.00\nValentina Lommatzsch\, Gertrud Simmel\n\n\n16.00-16.15\nPause\n\n\n16.15-18.00\nMitgliederversammlung der AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie: \n1) Publikationsmöglichkeit der Beiträge AG Frauen in der Geschichte der Philosophie 2025 \n2) neue Optionen der Webpage DGPhil für die AGs \n3) Entwicklung von Lehrmaterialien \n4) Workshop 2026 \n5) Kongress 2027 \n6) Repräsentation der AG \n  URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/workshop-der-ag-dgphil-sie-waren-ihrer-zeit-voraus/ LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany CATEGORIES:Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/08b17d5f31d91ffe2ece08bbecf48776_400x400.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251216T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251216T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251020T114020Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251020T122748Z UID:31880-1765900800-1765908000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Felix Grewe: Von Diffraktion zum Storytelling: Eine alternative Wissenschaftsgeschichte aus der Perspektive der Philosophin Donna J. Haraway DESCRIPTION:Am 16. Dezember 2025 stellt Felix Grewe seine Forschungen zum Konzept des Storytellings und seiner Genese im Werk von Donna J. Haraway vor. Der Vortrag Von Diffraktion zum Storytelling: Eine alternative Wissenschaftsgeschichte aus der Perspektive der Philosophin Donna J. Haraway ist Teil der Seminarreihe Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung\, der dieses Semester von Oxana Eremin und dem Zentrum für Geschlechterstudien der Universität Paderborn organisiert wird. \nDas Seminar bietet einen Einblick in die Geschlechterforschung an der Universität Paderborn und eröffnet vielfältige Perspektiven auf das Forschungsfeld der Gender Studies. Gastvorträge von Expert:innen aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen ermöglichen es\, aktuelle Debatten\, Forschungsperspektiven und Anwendungsfelder der Geschlechterforschung kennenzulernen. Geschlecht wird dabei als gesellschaftliche\, kulturelle und soziale Kategorie aus verschiedenen wissenschaftlichen Blickwinkeln reflektiert. Das Seminar richtet sich an alle\, die sich für Gender Studies und interdisziplinäre Forschung interessieren. \nFelix Grewe ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl für Praktische Philosophie der Universität Paderborn und ist dort am  Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists tätig. Seine Forschungen und sein Dissertationsprojekt fokussieren sich auf die Werke und Theorien Donna J. Haraways. \nMehr Informationen zu diesem Event können über die Seiten des Zentrums für Geschlechterstudien abgerufen werden. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/felix-grewe-von-diffraktion-zum-storytelling-eine-alternative-wissenschaftsgeschichte-aus-der-perspektive-der-philosophin-donna-j-haraway/ LOCATION:Room P1.1.02\, P-Gebäude\, Universität Paderborn CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/ZG-Vortrag-Plakat-Seite2-17.10.2025-002.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251217T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251217T130000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251115T121754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251210T162708Z UID:32209-1765969200-1765976400@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Guest Lecture - Kristin Käuper: „What Can We Learn about Sexual Orientation from Asexuality?“ DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture in the Seminar “Feminist Perspectives on Sexuality” – A seminar offered within the Teaching Area on Heterogeneity – Lecturer: Ana Rodrigues\nKristin Käuper (University of Leeds): The Invisible Orientation: What Can We Learn about Sexual Orientation fromAsexuality? \nAbout the Speaker: \nKristin Käuper studied at the University of Paderborn and completed her Master’s dissertation at the University of St Andrews on Asexuality and Sexual Orientation. She is currently pursuing her PhD at the Centre for Love\, Sex\, and Relationships at the University of Leeds\, where sheresearches the philosophical dimensions of asexuality and aromanticism. Kristin is also the founder and organiser of the Aromanticism& Asexuality Research Network. \nAbout the Lecture: \nWhat does it actually mean to have a sexual orientation? Philosophical theories often define sexual orientation in termsof desire or behaviour – yet this approach proves insufficientonce we take asexuality seriously as a sexual orientation. Asexual people experience little or no sexual attraction toothers\, revealing that desire\, behaviour\, and attraction are not the same thing. This talk explores how asexuality challengesour understanding of sexual orientation – and argues that weshould instead view it as a disposition to experience sexual attraction. \nThis perspective has far-reaching implications for how we: \n\nconceptualise sexuality\,\ndistinguish between sexual\, romantic\, and platonicattraction\,\nand determine the place these forms of attraction occupyin society.\n\n\nALL INTERESTED PERSONS ARE WARMLY INVITED TO ATTEND!\n_______________________ \nGerman Version: \nGastvortrag im Seminar „Feministische Perspektiven auf Sexualität“ – Ein Seminarangebot im Lehrbereich Heterogenität – Leitung: Ana Rodrigues\nKristin Käuper (University of Leeds): Die unsichtbare Orientierung: Was können wir von Asexualität über sexuelle Orientierung lernen? \nÜber die Vortragende: \nKristin Käuper hat an der Universität Paderborn studiert und ihre Masterarbeit an der University of St Andrews zum Thema Asexualität und sexuelle Orientierung verfasst. Derzeit promoviert sie am Centre for Love\, Sex\, and Relationships der University of Leeds zu den philosophischen Dimensionen von Asexualität und Aromantik. Zudem ist sie Gründerin und Organisatorin des Aromanticism& Asexuality Research Networks. \nÜber den Vortrag: \nWas bedeutet es eigentlich\, eine sexuelle Orientierung zu haben? Philosophische Theorien definieren sie meist über Begehren oder Verhalten – doch diese Sichtweise greift zu kurz\, wenn wir Asexualität als sexuelle Orientierung ernst nehmen. Asexuelle Menschen empfinden wenig\, bis keine sexuelle Anziehung zu anderen und machen sichtbar\, dass Begehren\, Verhalten und Anziehung nicht identisch sind. Der Vortrag zeigt\, wie Asexualität unser Verständnis sexueller Orientierung herausfordert – und warum wir sie besser als Disposition zur Erfahrung sexueller Anziehung verstehen sollten. \nDies hat weitreichende Konsequenzen dafür\, \n\nwie wir Sexualität konzeptualisieren\,\nwie wir sexuelle\, romantische und platonische Anziehung voneinander abgrenzen\,\nund welchen gesellschaftlichen Stellenwert wir ihnen zuweisen.\n\n\nALLE INTERESSIERTEN SIND WILLKOMMEN! URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/gastvortrag-feministische-perspektiven-auf-sexualitat-kristin-kemper/ LOCATION:Building P1.5.08.2\, University Paderborn\, Paderborn\, 33100\, Germany CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Kristin-Kaeuper.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251217T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20251217T173000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251020T114300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251205T114807Z UID:31882-1765987200-1765992600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Anniversary of Émilie Du Châtelet - Online Event DESCRIPTION:Du Châtelet’s Eclectic Laboratory\n\nL’Expérience est le bâton que la nature a donné à nous autres aveugles\, pour nousconduire dans nos recherches ~ Du Châtelet\, Institutions de physique\, Avant-propos \n\nTo celebrate Émilie du Châtelet’s 319th birthday\, the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists invites you to take a deep dive into the empirical foundations of her Institutions de physique. The event is organised by Ruth E. Hagengruber and Pierpaolo Betti. \nWhile Du Châtelet’s engagement with major figures like Descartes\, Newton\, and Leibniz is well documented\, her work also draws extensively on a wide range of lesser-known experimentalists of her time. This event shifts the focus to the “eclectic laboratory” embedded in the Institutions and the remarkable variety of experiments she references. The program will feature an introductory talk by Pierpaolo Betti\, with responses by Clara Carus and Christian Henkel\, followed by a discussion with all participants. Join us as we investigate how Du Châtelet intagrates these findings to construct and support her natural philosophy. \nRegistration for participation is required: https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/event/150/ URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/anniversary-of-emilie-du-chatelet/ LOCATION:online CATEGORIES:Celebration ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/History-of-Women-Philosophers-and-Scientists-historyofwomenphilosophers.org-directed-by-Ruth-E.-Hagengruber-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20251218 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20251220 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251027T120236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251124T092107Z UID:31947-1766016000-1766188799@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Talk by Jil Muller - Enseigner les femmes philosophes: correspondances\, journaux intimes et la querelle des femmes DESCRIPTION:Jil Muller will present her talk “Enseigner les femmes philosophes: correspondances\, journaux intimes et la querelle des femmes” at the international colloquium “ENSEIGNER LES INVISIBLES : QUELS CORPUS DE PHILOSOPHIE MODERNE DANS LES SALLES DE CLASSE ?”\, taking place on December 18–19\, 2025\, at Université Jean Moulin–Lyon 3 (France). \nProgram: \nJEUDI 18 DECEMBRE \n9h15 : ACCUEIL et Préambule \n9h30-10h30 \nKEYNOTE SPEECH : Sarah Hutton (université de York) : « Penser aux penseuses : quelques réflexions sur un programme d’études sur les femmes philosophes » \n——— \nPause café \n——— \n10h45-11h30 \nJil Muller (université de Paderborn) : « Enseigner les femmes philosophes : correspondances\, journaux intimes et la querelle des femmes » \n11h30- 12h15 \nNicolas Piqué (INSPE Grenoble) : « Enseigner les controverses au risque du contexte\, une tension funeste ? » \n——– \nPause méridienne \n——— \n14h-14h45 \nAurélie Knüfer (université de Montpellier) : « Enseigner l’histoire queer de la philosophie » \n14h45-15h30 \nElena Nájera (université d’Alicante) : « Le problème de l’autorité intellectuelle. Le cas de Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz » \n——- \nPause café \n——- \n15h50-16h35 \nMarco Menin (université de Turin) : « Rendre visibles les émotions : autrices et cartographie philosophique des Lumières » \n17h20-18h05 \nLina Davy et Mary Purcell (université Lyon3 / Duke University) : « Project Vox Showcase » \n  \nVENDREDI 19 DECEMBRE \n9h30-10h30 \nKEYNOTE SPEECH : Lisa Shapiro (université McGill) : « (L’histoire de) la philosophie de l’esprit en tant que la philosophie de l’éducation » \n——— \nPause café \n——— \n10h45-11h30 \nErnest Mbonda (université de Montréal) : « L’« oubli » de la philosophie africaine dans l’enseignement de la philosophie : comment et pourquoi ? » \n11h30- 12h15 \nThierry Hoquet (université de Nanterre) : « Trucs\, Astuces et cas pratiques pour enseigner les auteurs qui ne figurent pas au programme » \n——– \nPause méridienne \n——– \n14h-14h45 \nClément Raymond (Lycée Léonard de Vinci\, Villefontaine) : « Penser la domination coloniale. Une séance autour de Bacon\, la poudre à canon et les Codex américains » \n14h45-15h30 \nAnne-Lise Rey (université de Nanterre) : « Le canon : entre inclusion et explosion » \n15h30-16h15 \nAndré Charrak (université Paris1-Sorbonne) : « L’absence de la philosophie chinoise dans les corpus modernes » \n  \n  URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/jil-muller-enseigner-les-femmes-philosophes-correspondances-journaux-intimes-et-la-querelle-des-femmes/ LOCATION:Université Jean Moulin–Lyon 3 (France)\, 1 Av. des Frères Lumière\, Lyon\, France\, 69008 CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Foto-Jil-Muller-e1632316788762.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260119T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260119T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20260112T140446Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260119T091713Z UID:32485-1768838400-1768845600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Patricia Grill: Olga Hahn-Neurath im Kontext des Neurath-Kreises / des Wiener Kreises DESCRIPTION:Olga Hahn zwischen Zugehörigkeit und Ausschluss \nVorgestellt wird ein Ausschnitt aus einem laufenden Dissertationsprojekt\, der der Sichtbarmachung der Philosophin Olga Hahn gewidmet ist. Hahn gehörte zu den wenigen weiblichen Mitgliedern des Wiener Kreises und promovierte 1911 als erst dritte Frau im Fach Philosophie an der Universität Wien. Dennoch ist ihre eigene philosophische Stimme in der Forschung weitgehend in den Hintergrund getreten.\nAusgehend von biografischen Quellen und späteren Erinnerungen soll in diesem Vortrag gezeigt werden\, dass Hahn zwar hohe intellektuelle Anerkennung genoss\, institutionell jedoch nur begrenzt verankert war. Im Zentrum steht die Frage\, wie sich diese ambivalente Position – im Diskurs präsent\, aber kaum dokumentiert – erklären lässt und welche epistemischen wie sozialen Bedingungen dazu beigetragen haben\, dass ihr Denken nur fragmentarisch überliefert ist.\nZiel ist es\, Olga Hahn als eigenständige Akteurin der frühen Wissenschafts- und Ideengeschichte sichtbar zu machen und zugleich die strukturellen Grenzen philosophischer Überlieferung kritisch zu reflektieren. \nDer Vortrag ist Teil des regulären Research Colloquiums des Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. Das Research Colloquium wird vom Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists organisiert. \nAlle Interessierten sind herzlich willkommen! \nDer Vortrag beginnt um 16:00 Uhr. \nRaum: TP8.1.46 \nGebäude: Technologiepark 8 \nAdresse: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-patricia-grill-on-olga-hahn-neurath-in-the-context-of-the-neurath-circle-vienna-circle/ LOCATION:per Zoom CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/women-philosophers-collage.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260122T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260122T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251020T115454Z LAST-MODIFIED:20251115T125227Z UID:31893-1769104800-1769112000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Talk by Ruth E. Hagengruber - Europa neu denken: Am Beispiel der Philosophin Émilie Du Châtelet (1706–1749) DESCRIPTION:[Further information will follow.] URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/ruth-e-hagengruber-europa-neu-denken-am-beispiel-der-philosophin-emilie-du-chatelet-1706-1749/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/IMG_7473.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260126T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260126T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251021T132842Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T092713Z UID:31930-1769443200-1769450400@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Pietro Gori: Mary B. Hesse’s contribution to the history and philosophy of science DESCRIPTION:[Further information about the talk will follow.] \nDr. Pietro Gori is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at NOVA University Lisbon\, where he is in charge of the chairs in Philosophy of Science and Philosophy of Knowledge. Integrated member of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy since 2012\, he is also the coordinator of the “Lisbon Nietzsche Group” at IFILNOVA. The main areas of his academic activity are Modern and Contemporary Western Philosophy\, History and Philosophy of Science\, Epistemology\, and Philosophical Anthropology. In this context\, Gori has particularly devoted his research to representatives of an anti-foundationalist shift in philosophy\, with a specific interest in the works of Friedrich Nietzsche\, William James\, and Ernst Mach. Since 2021\, his research has also been centered on the work of the British philosopher of science Mary B. Hesse and her post-empiricist approach. \nThe Talk is part of the regular research colloquium held at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The research colloquium is organised by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn \n  \nOr via Zoom: https://uni-paderborn-de.zoom-x.de/j/68025505662?pwd=iu11BXoHRCtxeWwwueasYhQzPaSJqD.1 URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-pietro-gori-on-mary-b-hesses-contribution-to-the-history-and-philosophy-of-science/ LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/women-philosophers-collage.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260202T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260202T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20251031T145513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T092758Z UID:32083-1770048000-1770055200@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Research Colloquium - Minji Lee: The Medieval Womb - Hildegard of Bingen’s Views on the Female Reproductive Body DESCRIPTION:Minji Lee will present her newly published book The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s views on the female reproductive body. as part of the regular Research Colloquium at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. \nLee\, M. (2025). The Medieval Womb: Hildegard of Bingen’s views on the female reproductive body. Arc Humanities Press. \nThis study of the twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen examines her understanding of the womb through her medical work Cause et cure and visionary work Scivias. Medieval tradition viewed female bodies negatively\, seeing their porous nature as easily polluted. Women were considered weaker and more vulnerable to spiritual invasion. This volume shows how Hildegard’s revolutionary understanding of the female reproductive body reversed these assumptions. She connected female bodily flows not to pollution but to purification\, presenting menstruation and reproductive fluids as vital components in natural cleansing and healing processes. The book concludes with a chapter showing how Hildegard’s concept of beneficial bodily flow remains relevant in modern Western and non-Western alternative medicine\, in which female bodily porosity and fluid exchange continue to be understood as sources of regenerative power. \nMinji Lee is Assistant Professor of Religion and Medical Humanities at Montclair State University\, New Jersey. She holds a PhD from Rice University\, and specializes in medicine in relation to cultural practices\, women’s health\, and reproductive issues. \nEverybody is welcome to attend! \nThe talk will start at 4 pm. \nRoom: TP8.1.46 \nBuilding: Technologiepark 8 \nAdress: Technologiepark 8\, 33098 Paderborn \n  \nOr via Zoom: https://uni-paderborn-de.zoom-x.de/j/69114807044?pwd=V7I83cOcvWR1001l4FbcVdywNR2zFF.1 URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/research-colloquium-minji-lee-the-medieval-womb-hildegard-of-bingens-views-on-the-female-reproductive-body/ LOCATION:Technologiepark 8\, Technologiepark 8\, Paderborn\, 33098\, Germany CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/06-Bingen.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260226T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260226T183000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20260119T134133Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T172137Z UID:32540-1772125200-1772130600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Talk by Pierpaolo Betti - Du Châtelet’s Influence on Kant’s Early Response to Newtonianism DESCRIPTION:February 26th\, 5.00-6.30 pm CET (Zoom)  \nAbstract: \nThis paper explores the influence of Du Châtelet’s Institutions physiques (1740–42) on Kant’s early natural philosophy. While recent scholarship has shown that both authors adopted a critical stance toward Newton’s ideas\, little research has been devoted to comparing their responses to the Newtonian paradigm. Yet\, as early as 1749\, Kant expressed sincere appreciation for Du Châtelet’s work in his treatise on living forces. In this paper\, I examine Du Châtelet’s and Kant’s critiques of the speculative strand of Newtonianism that goes back to the Opticks and was further developed by Newton’s followers. More specifically\, I compare their objections to John Keill’s highly influential account of matter and attraction\, which played an important role in shaping eighteenth-century speculative Newtonianism. On the basis of the similarities in their arguments\, I contend that Du Châtelet’s critical engagement with Keill’s work informed Kant’s early dynamical theory of matter. This paper thus highlights the often-overlooked yet crucial role of Du Châtelet in the German reception of Newtonian ideas. \nAbout the Speaker: \nPierpaolo Betti is a post-doctoral research fellow at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University. He is currently responsible for the commentary on the historical-critical edition of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Institutions de Physique. \nHis primary research interests lie in modern philosophy\, with a particular focus on the interrelation between the history of metaphysics and the history of science. He obtained his doctoral degree from KU Leuven in 2025. His doctoral research examined the evolution of the concept of the monad in Kant’s philosophy in light of the early reception of Leibniz’s monadology. \nRespondent: Aaron Wells (Metropolitan State University of Denver) \nPlease register through the website in order to receive the Zoom link: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/events/leuvenseminarinclassicalgermanphilosophy/program2026spring \nEvents are recorded and made available on the YouTube platform of the research group. \n  \n  URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/talk-by-pierpaolo-betti-du-chatelets-influence-on-kants-early-response-to-newtonianism/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/photo_2025-11-24_09-29-47-e1764065637265.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260311T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260311T173000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20260318T113639Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260318T122254Z UID:32893-1773221400-1773250200@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Talk by Ruth E. Hagengruber: The History of Women Philosophers and its Role in the Future of Global Philosophizing DESCRIPTION:On March 11th\, Ruth E. Hagengruber gave a talk at the international workshop Futures of Philosophizing – On the Transformation of the Philosophy Curriculum at the University of Hildesheim. The workshop took place from March 10 to March 13\, 2026\, and was organized by the Research Center for Advanced Studies GloPhi (Philosophizing in a Globalized World)\, Rolf Elberfeld\, Birgit Benzing\, Lerato Posholi\, and Abbed Kanoor.\n\nFor more information on the program\, see here.\n\n\nAbstract:\nWhat is the common feature of all philosophical traditions around the world\, and globally? – The exclusion of womens ideas is a key element to all philosophical traditions\, globally.\n\n\nConclusion 1 : Every institutionalised philosophical tradition was created to the exclusion of women’s ideas and must therefore be regarded as a dominant strategy that is essentially and necessarily linked to this dominant characteristic\n\nConclusion 2: why should the accumulation of these dominant strategies result in anything else than one big philosophy of oppression? URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/talk-by-ruth-e-hagengruber-the-history-of-women-philosophers-and-its-role-in-the-future-of-global-philosophising/ LOCATION:Hildesheim University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260311T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260311T200000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20260119T115513Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260303T070809Z UID:32530-1773252000-1773259200@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:Talk by Jil Muller - Olismo in Oliva Sabuco ed Elisabetta di Boemia DESCRIPTION:Dr. Jil Muller will give her talk in the seminar “La filosofia delle donne 2025-2026 Temi e concetti del pensiero filosofico femminile” at Università di Trento. \nAbstract of the Talk \nOliva Sabuco ed Elisabetta di Boemia adottano entrambe un approccio medico allo studio dell’essere umano inteso come un tutto unificato\, ma lo fanno partendo da presupposti filosofici nettamente diversi. Nella Nueva filosofía de la naturaleza del hombre (1587)\, Sabuco concepisce l’essere umano come un’unità integrata la cui salute e vita morale dipendono dall’armoniosa relazione tra corpo e anima. Tale unità\, tuttavia\, si fonda su una chiara separazione ontologica tra i due: l’anima e il corpo sono distinti per natura\, ma la loro interazione\, specialmente attraverso le passioni\, ha effetti fisiologici e psicologici diretti. Per Sabuco\, riconoscere questa distinzione è proprio ciò che permette di comprendere come gli stati mentali possano influenzare la salute del corpo e come le condizioni fisiche possano influire sull’anima\, preservando così una visione olistica senza far collassare i due in un’unica sostanza. Elisabetta di Boemia\, invece\, mette in discussione la coerenza stessa di tale separazione. Nella sua corrispondenza con Cartesio\, sfida notoriamente il dualismo cartesiano chiedendosi come una mente immateriale possa interagire causalmente con un corpo materiale. Per Elisabetta\, l’essere umano non può essere adeguatamente compreso se la mente e il corpo sono concepiti come sostanze radicalmente distinte\, poiché ciò rende la loro interazione oscura e filosoficamente insoddisfacente. Le sue riflessioni suggeriscono che una comprensione autentica dell’essere umano nel suo insieme richiede un ripensamento della natura dell’anima\, del corpo e del concetto stesso di causalità. \n  \nOliva Sabuco and Elisabeth of Bohemia both adopt a medical approach to the study of the human being as a unified whole\, but they do so starting from distinctly different philosophical assumptions. In Nueva filosofía de la naturaleza del hombre (1587)\, Sabuco conceives of the human being as an integrated unit whose health and moral life depend on the harmonious relationship between body and soul. This unity\, however\, is based on a clear ontological separation between the two: the soul and the body are distinct by nature\, but their interaction\, especially through the passions\, has direct physiological and psychological effects. For Sabuco\, recognising this distinction is precisely what allows us to understand how mental states can influence the health of the body and how physical conditions can affect the soul\, thus preserving a holistic view without collapsing the two into a single substance. Elisabeth of Bohemia\, on the other hand\, questions the very coherence of this separation. In her correspondence with Descartes\, she famously challenges Cartesian dualism by asking how an immaterial mind can interact causally with a material body. For Elisabeth\, human beings cannot be adequately understood if the mind and body are conceived as radically distinct substances\, as this makes their interaction obscure and philosophically unsatisfactory.His reflections suggest that a genuine understanding of the human being as a whole requires a rethinking of the nature of the soul\, the body\, and the very concept of causality. \n  URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/talk-by-jil-muller-la-filosofia-delle-donne-2025-2026-temi-e-concetti-del-pensiero-filosofico-femminile/ CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Locandina_pensiero-femminile_20260128_225441_0000.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260428T043000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260428T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20260224T100004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T103142Z UID:32754-1777350600-1777399200@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices | Lectures by Floris Verhaart & Margaret Matthews DESCRIPTION:The New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy network\, which is open to early-career researchers in the broadest sense\, is hosted by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Paderborn. The objective of New Voices is to establish a forum and network for international early-career researchers in the field of female philosophers\, scientists\, and writers in the history of philosophy\, and to promote their work. \nIn the Spring of 2026\, the New Voices Talk Series will once again embrace a spirit of collaboration. This joint project represents a partnership between three universities: the University of Paderborn\, the Saint Joseph University of Beirut\, and the University of Lorraine. The organizers are: Dr. Jil Muller; Dr. Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun; Dr. Daniel Fischer and Dr. Katia Raya. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration. \n_______ \nFloris Verhaart – Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer: Memoirist\, Translator\, and Religious Polemicist \nAfter being accused of treason and conspiracy\, a young widow was imprisoned by the Dutch army in Maastricht. With the help of an army officer and two of his soldiers\, she managed to escape and fled to Paris in 1704\, where she converted to Catholicism and became a writer and translator. The name of this widow was Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer (nom de plume: Mme Zoutelande). Among her original publications are a notoriously unreliable memoir (1710) and a renunciation of her former Protestant beliefs\, La Babylone démasquée (1727).  Her translations – translated from Dutch into French – include a selection of letters written by Anna Maria van Schurman (1607-78) on the relationship between medicine and divine providence (Lettres de la très fameuse demoiselle Anne-Marie Schurmans\, 1730) and a treatise on political theory with a distinctly republican flavour by Pieter de la Court (1618-85)\, the Memoires de Jean de Wit\, grand pensionnaire de Hollande (1709). Although this written output may seem like a mishmash of topics\, I will demonstrate how Lindenaer’s writings and translations across a range of genres and themes convey a coherent religious agenda aimed at defending Catholicism from Protestant polemicists and at commenting on contemporary tensions between Jansenists and their opponents within the Catholic church. Both in her translations and in her original writings\, Lindenaer makes clever use of the arguments and formulations of others to get her own points of view across to the reader. This helps her retain the intellectual modesty expected of women in the early modern period. After all\, she could claim she merely reported and conveyed other people’s ideas. I will therefore argue that Lindenaer was not just a religious author and translator who happened to be a woman; her gender is key to understanding her writings from a religious perspective. \nAbout the Speaker: Floris Verhaart is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Exeter. He is affiliated with the ERC/UKRI project Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe and has published on a wide range of aspects of early modern religious and intellectual culture\, such as ideas on religion and violence\, sexuality and gender\, university culture\, and the impact of the classical tradition. He is the author and (co)editor of five books\, including Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (Routledge\, 2022\, co-edited with Ian Campbell) and Classical Learning in Britain\, France\, and the Dutch Republic\, 1690-1750: Beyond the Ancients and the Moderns (OUP\, 2020). \nMargaret Matthews – Rhetoric\, Method\, and Genre in Gabrielle Suchon’s Treatise on Ethics and Politics \nIn this talk\, I discuss the genre\, methodology\, and mode of communication used by early modern philosopher Gabrielle Suchon in her Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693)\, and describe its relation to her feminism. I examine how Suchon adapts aspects of the theological genre and methods of Scholasticism\, redirecting them toward new ends\, namely\, an extended argument for the moral\, intellectual\, and spiritual equality of men and women. I show further how Suchon’s appropriation of Scholasticism renders her feminist project distinctive within her seventeenth-century context\, contrasting it with that of feminist writers in the querelle des femmes tradition (e.g.\, Marie de Gournay and Marguerite Buffet) and Cartesian feminists (e.g.\, François Poulain de la Barre and Mary Astell). When considering the rhetorical features of Suchon’s work\, scholars have often emphasized her efforts to communicate with a female audience and to cultivate generosity and solidarity in her female readers. Much less scholarly attention has been given to Suchon’s mode of communication with male audiences and her use of traditionally male-dominated genres\, such as Scholasticism\, to advance her feminist project. I show how Suchon draws on Scholastic methods and genres\, such as dialectic and the disputed question format\, as well as concepts within Thomistic natural law theory\, to reach a specific type of male reader\, namely one steeped in the Scholastic tradition. On one level\, her goal is to persuade this type of reader that concern with the elevation of women’s status is not only consistent with\, but also demanded by the Thomistic theoretical framework that he accepts. On another level\, by appropriating a traditionally male-dominated genre\, Suchon’s goal is to reclaim a position of epistemic authority that has been denied to her as a woman writer\, and to perform (through her own example) the very equality she seeks to prove. \nAbout the Speaker: Margaret Matthews is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Assumption University. Her research specialization is in Renaissance and Early Modern philosophy with an emphasis on the intersection of epistemology and social and political philosophy. She has published on topics such as Gabrielle Suchon’s epistemology and Marie de Gournay’s skepticism\, and she is currently working on a book project on the philosophy of Gabrielle Suchon. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-floris-verhaart-johanna-dorothea-lindenaer-memoirist-translator-and-religious-polemicist/ LOCATION:zoom CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Poster-New-Voices-1-1-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260505T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260505T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20260224T100840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T103212Z UID:32757-1777998600-1778004000@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices | Lectures by Elodie Pinel & Lila Braunschweig DESCRIPTION:The New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy network\, which is open to early-career researchers in the broadest sense\, is hosted by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Paderborn. The objective of New Voices is to establish a forum and network for international early-career researchers in the field of female philosophers\, scientists\, and writers in the history of philosophy\, and to promote their work. \nIn the Spring of 2026\, the New Voices Talk Series will once again embrace a spirit of collaboration. This joint project represents a partnership between three universities: the University of Paderborn\, the Saint Joseph University of Beirut\, and the University of Lorraine. The organizers are: Dr. Jil Muller; Dr. Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun; Dr. Daniel Fischer and Dr. Katia Raya. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration. \n_______ \nElodie Pinel – Vernacular Theology and Authority: Marguerite Porete\, Mechthild of Magdeburg\, Hadewijch of Antwerp \nThis paper examines the writing of Marguerite Porete\, Mechthild of Magdeburg\, and Hadewijch of Antwerp as a distinct mode of speculative discourse that can be understood\, following McDonnell\, as vernacular theology. Rather than denoting a merely linguistic choice\, “vernacular” here refers to a relocation of theological authority outside clerical\, scholastic\, and institutional frameworks\, into forms of expression rooted in lived experience and the rhetorical resources of lyric and narrative. Each of these writers develops a conceptual reflection on the soul’s union with God that is neither derivative of scholastic thought nor reducible to affective piety. Porete articulates a radical theology of dispossession of the will: the soul in Love becomes “without why\,” beyond virtue and rational effort. Hadewijch theorizes Minne as a demanding reciprocity between the soul and God\, where love is both ontological ground and ethical trial. Mechthild describes the divine as a dynamic “flowing light” that both consumes and renews the soul\, elaborated through intensely embodied imagery. In each case\, theological insight is embedded in poetic\, dialogical\, and visionary forms\, which are not ornamental but constitutive of meaning. These women write in vernacular languages—Old French\, Middle High German\, Middle Dutch—but more importantly\, they write in vernacular forms: song\, dialogue\, allegory\, visionary narrative. Such media allowed them to communicate theology as transformation\, not proposition. Their texts construct communities of reception independent of academic institutions: readers\, listeners\, fellow laywomen\, informal circles of devotion. Communication is therefore not simply transmission but negotiation of authority. By claiming the right to speak of God from lived experience\, they challenge clerical monopoly over theological discourse.This paper argues that the theological originality of these mystics lies precisely in this convergence of speculative rigor and vernacular expression. Their work demonstrates that the history of philosophy cannot be restricted to scholastic production\, and that forms of communication themselves shape what counts as legitimate knowledge. \nAbout the Speaker: Élodie Pinel is a lecturer in philosophy and a specialist in medieval French literature. Agrégée in both modern literature and philosophy\, she focuses on Marguerite Porete and the intellectual legacy of female mystics. She explores the intersections of theology\, literature\, and philosophy\, with a special interest in will\, language\, and freedom. She completed her PhD on Le Miroir des âmes simples at Université Paris Nanterre\, where she is affiliated with the research center CSLF (Centre des Sciences des Littératures en Langue Française). She is also active in public philosophy through podcasts and feminist publishing \nLila Braunschweig – A Voice of One’s Own: Philosophizing as Feminized Subjects (Impostor Syndrome & Authority) \nThis presentation offers an investigation into the complicated\, doubtful\, and sometimes painful relationship feminized subjects have with philosophical activity. Drawing on the analyses of French philosopher Michèle Le Doeuff regarding the place of women in philosophy\, as well as accounts from women philosophers\, I aim to identify some of the reasons behind what has been termed “feminine doubt” (Casselot 2018)\, commonly known today as impostor syndrome. I will argue that these doubts regarding one’s philosophical authority cannot solely be explained by the now well-known reasons\, such as the lack of female figures in the traditional canon of continental philosophy\, or the hostility of certain philosophical texts or contexts towards women\, whether they are philosophers or not.By linking Le Doeuff’s arguments with those of other Francophone and Anglophone Western feminist thinkers and writers\, I will demonstrate that these doubts may also stem from the unique relationship to knowledge and authority shaped by feminine socialization and its intersection with class and race. This\, in turn\, hinders feminized subjects from expressing and asserting their own unique voice. I will argue that philosophy\, and more broadly the ability to generate new ideas in the academic field\, requires an attitude of self-assertion\, as well as a capacity for disruption that is sometimes at odds with the attitudes of submission promoted by certain feminine norms and societal expectations for women in Western societies. Therefore\, the ability to assert oneself as a philosophizing subject not only requires “a room of one’s own” (Woolf\, 1929)\, but also the development of a voice of one’s own. Finally\, on a more personal note\, I will reflect on the remedies and practices that\, in a non-ideal world\, have helped me find my own voice as a theorist\, assert my viewpoint\, and assume a certain philosophical authority. In particular\, I will discuss the rich and transformative experience of creating and participating in a women-only writing group with young Francophone feminist scholars. \nAbout the Speaker: Lila Braunschweig is an assistant professor of French literature and culture and a research affiliate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICON) at Utrecht University. She holds a PhD in political science from Sciences Po (France). Before joining Utrecht\, she was a British Academy Newton international postdoctoral fellow at the University of Kent\, and a postdoctoral fellow in philosophy at the Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) in Montreal\, and the Chaire de recherche du Canada en éthique féministe at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivière. Previously\, she has also been a visiting researcher and international Fox fellow at Yale University (2019-2020). Her first book (Neutriser: emancipation par le neutre) was published in French by Les Liens qui Libèrent in 2021. Her second monograph (Vers la délicatesse. Une philosophie relationnelle de la liberté) will be published by Gallimard in 2026. Her work has also appeared in La Revue française de science politique\, Philosophiques\, Political Theory\, Recherches féministes\, the International Journal for Gender\, Sexuality and Law\, and Genre\, Sexualités\, Société. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-elodie-pinel-vernacular-theology-and-authority-marguerite-porete-mechthild-of-magdeburg-hadewijch-of-antwerp/ LOCATION:zoom CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Poster-New-Voices-1-1-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260512T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260512T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20260224T101817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T103243Z UID:32759-1778603400-1778608800@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices | Lectures by Elżbieta Filipow & Shamoni Sarkar DESCRIPTION:The New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy network\, which is open to early-career researchers in the broadest sense\, is hosted by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Paderborn. The objective of New Voices is to establish a forum and network for international early-career researchers in the field of female philosophers\, scientists\, and writers in the history of philosophy\, and to promote their work. \nIn the Spring of 2026\, the New Voices Talk Series will once again embrace a spirit of collaboration. This joint project represents a partnership between three universities: the University of Paderborn\, the Saint Joseph University of Beirut\, and the University of Lorraine. The organizers are: Dr. Jil Muller; Dr. Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun; Dr. Daniel Fischer and Dr. Katia Raya. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration. \n_______ \nElżbieta Filipow – Women’s Writing of Harriet Taylor Mill and its Various Modes of Self-expression \nHarriet Taylor Mill (1807–1857) was a long-time friend\, intellectual partner\, and\, eventually\, wife of John Stuart Mill (1806–1873) – one of the main representatives of utilitarianism and an advocate of feminism. My preliminary research has shown that Harriet Taylor Mill is an almost entirely absent figure in the field of literary studies. The aim of my presentation will be to highlight her contribution to the development of women’s writing\, aesthetics\, and literary self-reflection\, based on her essays in aesthetics\, literary criticism\, and poetry. Although the topic of Harriet Taylor Mill’s female writing is completely overlooked from the perspective of her contributions to social thought or feminist philosophy\, it is\, in my view\, worth taking a closer look at these insufficiently explored aspects of various modes of self-expression in her literary activity. Doing so may show her creative output in a different light: as that of a writer with a critical sensibility towards literary work and as a poet addressing themes linked to emotions arising from motherhood and marriage. Particularly\, this last element of her female voice inwriting may serve to complete her portrayal as a woman who attempted to reconcile her feminist beliefs with family life – a considerable challenge in the Victorian era. Ultimately\, I will argue that it is possible to demonstrate that Harriet Taylor Mill’s works represents an example of female writing as a form of self-reflection\, which ambivalently set for and against her own perception of the social issues related to gender inequality within the broader context of the role and place of women in Victorian society. \nAbout the Speaker: Elżbieta Filipow holds MA in sociology and BA in philosophy. Since 2022 she is working as a research assistant in the Department of Ethics at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw and she is principal investigator in the research project entitled ‘The Place of Equality in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism’ financed by the National Science Centre (Poland) and a research assistant in the project ‘Enlightenment-Era Pedagogical Reforms and Arguments against the Gendered Conception of Human Progress in Poland and Germany’ financed by National Agency of Academic Exchange (NAWA\, Poland). She is completing her doctoral dissertation in philosophy entitled ‘Perfectionism and Justice. The Equality of Women and Men in John Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism’. Since 2024 she is doctoral student in a Doctoral School in Sociological Science at the University of Bialystok (Poland). Her doctoral dissertation focuseson the contribution of Harriet Taylor Mill into the canon of sociological thought. In 2024 she was an Academic Visitor at the Faculty of Philosophy\, Oxford University and conducted research in The John Stuart Mill Library at Somerville College. \nShamoni Sarkar – Karoline von Günderrode: Fragmentation\, Philosophy\, and Early German Romanticism \nIn this paper\, I argue for a creative ethics grounded in fragmentation in the work of the early German romantic poet and philosopher Karoline von Günderrode. Scholarship on Günderrode is scant\, but commentators have emphasized\, among other themes\, her novel environmental ethics and Naturphilosophie\, as well as her original philosophy of gender and selfhood. However\, the larger hermeneutics of the early romantic fragment as a form of philosophical communication has not been sufficiently investigated in terms of her philosophical conception\, especially given her role as a woman on the fringes of the movement. With this in mind\, I provide a close reading of Günderrode’s essay-fragment “The Idea of the Earth” (Die Idee der Erde) and her lyric poem “The Kiss in the Dream” (Der Kuss im Traume) to show how her concept of the spiritual will\, life\, and dream-inspired creativity all depend on an underlying conception of fragmentation at the core of willing\, living\, and dreaming. We are confronted with fragmentation as both a threat as well as a sustenance of our collective life on earth and of our creative communication. Therefore\, writing in the fragment form is a direct expression of the pain of philosophizing and poeticizing from within a context of a world and a creative will that is consistently torn apart seemingly by its own volition. Günderrode’s work appeals to our imaginations to see and to use this pain to re-imagine the real rather than chase the ideal. Ideal unity functions more as a limit condition of this philosophical activity rather than as a destination. \nAbout the Speaker: Shamoni Sarkar obtained her PhD in Philosophy from the University of California\, Riverside in Fall 2025. Her dissertation argued for a conception of openness in community in Early German Romantic philosophy. This is facilitated by the process of reading and understanding the early romantic fragment– in which finitude and infinitude work themselves out together. From 2023-2024\, she was an associated doctoral fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin\, funded by an Einstein Stiftung grant. In the future\, she plans to focus more on women philosophers from the period\, and on investigating alternative forms of ‘philosophizing’ as a form of community creation. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-talk-by-elzbieta-filipow-shamoni-sarkar/ LOCATION:zoom CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Poster-New-Voices-1-1-scaled.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260519T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260519T180000 DTSTAMP:20260405T043527 CREATED:20260224T102358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260224T103315Z UID:32765-1779208200-1779213600@historyofwomenphilosophers.org SUMMARY:New Voices | Lectures by Maxim Demin & Patricia Guevara Wozniak DESCRIPTION:The New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy network\, which is open to early-career researchers in the broadest sense\, is hosted by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists in Paderborn. The objective of New Voices is to establish a forum and network for international early-career researchers in the field of female philosophers\, scientists\, and writers in the history of philosophy\, and to promote their work. \nIn the Spring of 2026\, the New Voices Talk Series will once again embrace a spirit of collaboration. This joint project represents a partnership between three universities: the University of Paderborn\, the Saint Joseph University of Beirut\, and the University of Lorraine. The organizers are: Dr. Jil Muller; Dr. Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun; Dr. Daniel Fischer and Dr. Katia Raya. \nEveryone is welcome to attend. Please register here and you will get the Zoom-Link after registration. \n_______ \nMaxim Demin – Philosophy\, God-Seeking\, and Developmental Psychology: Stolitsa and Volkovich in Late Imperial Russia \nThis presentation examines the philosophical project of two largely forgotten Russophone women thinkers\, Zinaida Stolitsa (1873–1956) and Vera Volkovich (1873–1962). As co-authors and lifelong partners\, they developed a distinctive body of work at the intersection of religious philosophy\, developmental psychology\, and pedagogical reform during the final decades of the Russian Empire. Their voices\, once publicly visible\, were later marginalized and silenced under Soviet rule.Stolitsa and Volkovich strategically used a wide range of media and communicative forms to articulate a female philosophical voice within the early twentieth-century God-Seeking movement. Their collaborative writings\, most notably the manifesto The Future in Our Hands (1909)\, combined speculative religious philosophy with emerging scientific approaches to child psychology. They published philosophical essays\, reviews\, and programmatic statements of their independent society\, and they also participated in international scholarly events in Geneva (1909) and The Hague (1912). These diverse communicative strategies enabled them to claim intellectual authority within discourses traditionally dominated by men. Their reworking of central theological and philosophical concepts\, particularly Stolitsa’s reinterpretation of Man-Godhood\, formulated partly in a one-sided polemic with figures such as Nikolai Berdiaev\, provided a conceptual foundation for their broader agenda of moral\, spiritual\, and national renewal. Their work also contributed to the early twentieth-century feminisation of pedagogical expertise\, placing women at the center of discussions on education and child development. The paper will highlight the paradoxical ideological constellation that shaped their project: an upper-class background combined with conservative moral views; openness to feminist concerns; aspirations for international intellectual exchange; and\, simultaneously\, elements of Russian imperial nationalism and cultural chauvinism on the eve of the First World War. The presentation will also draw on archival photographs and visual materials\, offering a tangible sense of their intellectual and social world. \nAbout the Speaker: Maxim Demin is a research fellow at the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany). His main interest is post-Hegelian philosophy and its intellectual development in German-speaking countries during the nineteenth century. Before moving to Bochum\, he taught for nearly a decade at the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE) in St. Petersburg and Moscow\, offering courses in critical thinking\, philosophy of science\, metaethics\, and moral psychology. His current project explores Russian philosophical and public debates on the emergence of studies of human and animal psychology and mental phenomena\, tracing the transfer of psychological knowledge from the early nineteenth century to the early Soviet regime. \nPatricia Guevara Wozniak – The Metaphysical Tenacity of Barbara Skarga – Metaphysics in Totalitarianism \nContrary to twentieth-century proclamations of the “death of metaphysics” and the erosion of truth\, Barbara Skarga persistently defended the metaphysical dimension of human existence. For Skarga\, metaphysicality constitutes the core of being; its eradication would entail a loss of humanity itself. Her philosophical stance gains particular significance when considered against the backdrop of totalitarian experience\, including her imprisonment in the Gulag. Skarga’s reflection on metaphysics centers on the notion of the source of being\, explored primarily through the categories of time\, evil\, and experience. In a series of philosophical essays\, she emphasizes both the difficulty and the ethical-intellectual value of seeking the origins of being. She critically engages classical conceptions of time—physical\, psychological\, and cosmological—while foregrounding lived temporality as structured by finitude. Her analysis of evil exposes philosophy’s enduring struggle to comprehend it: as privation of good\, corruption of human nature\, or an inescapable dimension of social violence\, paradoxically accompanied by utopian visions of moral redemption. Addressing experience as a source of being\, she enters into dialogue with thinkers such as Plotinus\, Husserl\, and Heidegger. After returning from the Gulag in 1955 and completing her studies\, Skarga joined the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences\, remaining associated with it throughout her career. Although her early academic choices were shaped by Adam Schaff’s centrally planned research agenda\, they ultimately became foundational to her intellectual development and to the formation of the Warsaw School of the History of Ideas. Skarga’s work can be divided into five stages: studies of Polish and French positivism; research on non-positivist currents in nineteenth-century French philosophy\, culminating in her engagement with Bergson; a metaphilosophical reflection on the methodology of the history of philosophy; a “post-critical” metaphysics informed by phenomenology and hermeneutics; and\, finally\, moral and civic essays affirming the durability of European values. Rather than offering rigid definitions\, Skarga reveals the plurality of meanings and historical configurations through which metaphysical questions persist. \nAbout the Speaker: Patricia Guevara Wozniak is a Doctor of Humanities in the field of philosophy\, editor\, academic lecturer\, and educator. A graduate of the Academy of Film and Television. She has collaborated with the Academy of Art and Design and with Pedagogium – the University of Social Sciences in Warsaw. She is currently a lecturer at Kozminski University. She is a beneficiary of the Culture in the Network program awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage and administered by the National Centre for Culture. She is the editor-in-chief of the nationwide monthly Remedium (remedium-psychologia.pl)\, funded by the Ministry of Health and administered by the National Centre for the Prevention of Addictions\, a professional magazine providing up-to-date information on modern methodologies of education and prevention. URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/new-voices-maxim-demin-patricia-guevara-wozniak/ LOCATION:zoom CATEGORIES:Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/wp-content/uploads/Poster-New-Voices-1-1-scaled.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR