In this intensive weeklong seminar, we will work through a range of primary source materials by non-canonical authors, both women and men, to be included in a new teaching anthology (edited by Shapiro and Lascano) with an eye to interpreting texts, identifying philosophical themes within those texts, and devising creative ways to incorporate those texts […]
Prof. Dr. Hans Rainer Sepp gives a talk on "Hedwig Conrad-Martius on Reality" as part of the colloquium Paderborner Kolloquium zur Philosophie SS 18.
The International Commission on Science and Literature DHST/IUHPST, the Commission on Women and Gender Studies DHST/IUHPST, the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn University, the School of Humanities of the Hellenic Open University, the Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation, and the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University […]
In this 2 day Master Class, Prof. Elizabeth Minnich will discuss the philosophy of Hannah Arendt, with special emphasis on Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on The Banality of Evil. This serves as the background for Minnich’s latest book, The Evil of Banality: On The Life and Death Importance of Thinking (2017). This work presents elaborates the concept of […]
Elizabeth Minnich is Distinguished Fellow at the Association of American Colleges & Universities. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research in 1977. Her dissertation, “Philosophy, Democracy and Communication: A Study of John Dewey As Political Philosopher,” was supervised by Hannah Arendt and Richard Bernstein. She was Hannah Arendt’s teaching assistant in 1969-70, […]
Lecturer: Maria von Welser Location: L1.201, Paderborn University Guest Speakers: Nahid Shahalimi, Lea Ackermann, Berta Travieso, Godula Kosack Research was carried out in Afghanistan, India, Eastern Congo, and in international refugee camps in Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, and on the Greek island of Lesbos. The result was a UN list titled: Countries in which it is the greatest danger to be […]
Lecturers: Luka Borsic, Ivana Skuhala Karasman Location: L3.204, Paderborn University Socialist Feminism professes that a complete emancipation of women is achieved through the abolition of economic and cultural sources of women's oppression. This, according to some, represents the synthesis of the arguments of Marxist feminism about capitalism as a source of oppression of women and the […]
Lecturers: Mary Ellen Waithe and Dorothy Rogers Location: L2.201, Paderborn University This course explores the ideas of two women in the early idealist philosophical movement in the United States: Marietta Kies (1853-1899) and Lucia Ames Mead (1856-1936). Kies developed a theory of altruism in public/political life and was a member of the Christian Socialist movement. Ames […]
Lecturers: Ronny Miron, Antonio Calcagno, Rodney Parker Location: L2.202, Paderborn University Discussions of the self and subjectivity are a commonplace in phenomenological writings. The elaboration of the I as the focal point of experience is central to phenomenological research. In the Fourth Cartesian Meditation, Husserl argues that the phenomenology of “self-constitution coincides with phenomenology as whole.” […]
Lecturers: Hartmut Hecht, Ruth Hagengruber, Andrea Reichenberger and Dieter Suisky Location: L1.202 , Paderborn University After the study of space and time in “Du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Newton” we are now moving on to explore “Du Châtelet Between Leibniz and Kant.” This course will focus on Du Châtelet and the Eberhard-Kant Controversy, including the problems […]
Location: L2.202 , Paderborn University Dorothy Rogers is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religion at Montclair State University (Montclair, New Jersey). She is also the coordinator of MSU's program in Jewish American Studies. Her publications include: "The Other Philosophy Club: America's First Academic Women Philosophers," Hypatia 24:2 (2009) "Marietta Kies: Idealist and Altruist (1853-1899)," in […]
Location: L2.202, Paderborn University Antonio Calcagno is Professor of Philosophy at King's University College (London, Ontario), and co-director of the Centre for Advanced Research in European Philosophy (CAREP). His publications include: "On the Vulnerability of a Community: Edith Stein and Gerda Walther," Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 49 (2018) "A Place for the Role of Community […]
Location: L2.202 , Paderborn University Robyn Arianrhod is Adjunct Research Associate in the School of Mathematical Sciences at Monash University (Melbourne, Australia). Her publications include: Seduced by Logic: Émilie Du Châtelet, Mary Somerville and the Newtonian Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2012) Einstein's Heroes: Imagining the World Through the Language of Mathematics (Oxford University Press, 2006) All interested parties […]
Location: L2.202 , Paderborn University Luka Boršić is Assistant Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb (Croatia) and lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology, Zagreb Campus. His publications include: Lexicon of outstanding women in Croatia from XI till XX century (with Ivana Skuhala Karasman), (Naklada Jurcic, 2015) “Isotta Nogarola – The Beginning of […]
Location: L2.202 , Paderborn University Maria von Welser is a journalist and humanitarian who has dedicated her life to reporting on the living conditions of women in developing nations around the globe. She is also served as a member of the executive board of UNICEF Germany. All interested parties are welcome to attend! General information: Libori Summer […]
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