Mary Wollstonecraft worked primarily on social and political philosophy, with an emphasis on republicanism, education and women’s rights. But she also touched on other topics: slavery, aesthetics, marriage, work, family, masculinity, virtue, reason, passions, theology and epistemology. The driving motivation for this workshop is not primarily to develop Wollstonecraft scholarship, but to show how the […]
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) is one of the more intriguing figures of scientific, artistic and commercial culture of the early modern period. Born in Frankfurt, and later based in Nuremberg, Wieuwerd and Amsterdam, her scientific interest in entomology eventually led her to Surinam, where, as in Europe, she studied the metamorphoses of insects in their […]
The Fourth Bi-Annual International Conference: Applications & Implications - Ethics and Metaphysics in Edith Stein’s Philosophy will be presented by the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein, in collaboration with the University of Portland (USA), and the McNerney-Hanson Endowed Chair in Ethics. Speakers: Sarah Borden Sharkey (Wheaton College), Michael F. […]
The Conference "Women, Authorship, and Identity in the Long Eighteenth Century: New Methodologies" presented by the University of Oxford, will take place at June 17th, 2017. The keynote will be delivered by Prof. Susanne Kord. Keynote Speaker: Professor Susanne Kord (Chair of German, University College London) We are delighted to invite proposals for papers offering […]
The workshop aims to celebrate the life and work of Tatjana Afanassjewa, both through discussions of her own contributions to the exploration of irreversibility as well as through presentations of new perspectives on this topic. Speakers: Jeremy Butterfield (University of Cambridge); James Fraser (University of Leeds); Leah Henderson (University of Groningen); Patricia Palacios (Munich Center […]
The University of Haifa (Israel) is pleased to host the 24th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society "Simone de Beauvoir’s Feminism(s)". Keynote speakers are Prof. Bauer, Prof. Bergoffen and Prof. Weiss. The influence of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought on Feminism and Feminist Theory is indisputable. Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is unanimously recognized as […]
This three-day conference is a sustained engagement with, and celebration of, the life work of Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero. It also marks the publication of her most recent text "Inclinations: A Critique od Rectitude" (Stanford University Press, 2016). Keynote speakers: Judith Butler University of California, Berkeley Adriana Cavarero Università degli Studi di Verona Bonnie […]
The title "Politics as Theology" of the 5th Annual International Summer School and Conference 2017 "Beyond Secular Faith", stems from a conviction that only a faith liberated from the conceptual restraints and ideological presuppositions imposed by secular culture - a faith centered radically on Christ - can offer a word of hope and reason to […]
Ruggero Sciuto (Oxford) is giving a talk on "Émilie Du Châtelet and the Three Leibnizian Versions of the Principle of Sufficient Reason" as part of the Research Colloquium "History of Women Philosophers" at the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (Paderborn University).