Dr. Amalia Cerrito (University of Trento): Female seeds, powers, and bodies: Albert the Great and the vegetal sexuality The 13th-century Dominican master Albert the Great extensively discusses vegetal sexuality. While animals reproduce through the mating of female and male individuals, plants lack a sexual distinction, reproducing through seeds that contain all necessary conditions for plant […]

On the 2. August at  09.20-09.40 in CU009, Geologia e Mineralogia, Aula 14 our Fellow Michele Vagnetti will present a paper on Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy: Wilma Papst’s Reception of Frege. More information on the Center activities at the FISP 2024 can be found here.

2. August 13.00-19.00, CU002 Giurisprudenza, Aula “Francesco Calasso”: Ruth Edith Hagengruber: Biopolitics: Erasing the Voices of Women Philosophers. The talk is part of an invited session hosted by Riccardo Pozzo. In the 1990s, feminist critics pointed out that Foucault’s implicit androcentrism blinds this theory to the question of women: the categories of the philosophical field of biopolitics are […]

2. August 17.00-19.00, CU001 Rettorato, Aula Organi Collegiali: Ruth Edith Hagengruber: Adding Voices to the Philosophy Curriculum. The talk is part of an invited session hosted by Floris Velema. Teaching Hypotheses with Émilie Du Châtelet by Ruth Edith Hagengruber  Abstract The philosopher Emilie du Chatelet (1706-1749) was one of the most successful writers on philosophy and […]

3. AUGUST 17.00-19.00, CAMPUS SAPIENZA, AULA MAGNA: SYMPOSIUM ON WOMEN IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Chair: Ruth Edith Hagengruber Thanks to the president of the FISP, Luca Scarantino, and his board. For the first time in the history of FISP, and indeed for the first time in the entire history of FISP, this history of […]