History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

XX IAPh Symposium
2025-08-01 - 2025-08-05 | University of Tokyo, aculty of Law & Letters Bldg.2, Hongo Campus, Tokyo, Japan
XX. Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh)
The XX. Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) takes place from August 1-5, 2025 at the University of Tokyo. The XX. Symposium is organized by:
Prof. Dr. Noburu Notomi, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Prof. Dr. Yuko Murakami, Rikkyo University (Japan)
IAPh Secretary Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber, Paderborn University/Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (Germany)
IAPh Speaker Prof. Dr. Cris Sánchez, Complutense University Madrid (Spain)
The IAPh invites everbody to register for participation at this outstanding event. More information about the program and links to the venue can be found here.

Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize 2025
2025-08-04 17:00 - 18:00 (Asia/Tokyo)
Since 2018, this prize is sponsored by Professor Dr. Ulrike Detmers and awarded in cooperation with Professor Dr. Ruth Hagengruber, the director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. “The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists is pleased and proud to join with Professor Detmers in awarding a prize that explicitly honors scholars whose work best acknowledges the contributions of women philosophers in history,” says Professor Dr. Ruth Hagengruber.
The Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize is intended to acknowledge an internationally known scholar whose work best preserves the memory of women in philosophy. “The awareness that women have contributed to the philosophical tradition is not very common. But it is important to celebrate our knowledge that women of past centuries were active philosophers who raised their voices and have been heard in former times,” explains Professor Ruth Hagengruber.
The prize is awarded to an outstanding contemporary philosopher in memory of Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680). She was the eldest daughter of Prince Friedrich V. of the Palatinate and his wife Elisabeth Stuart, a granddaughter of Maria Stuart. In her time Elisabeth of Bohemia was also a well-known European intellectual and pupil of Descartes. “I have been fighting for many years to ensure that women get the place in society that they deserve,” says Professor Ulrike Detmers. “It is important to raise awareness about women in the history of philosophy and thereby to revitalize the relevance of the philosophical discipline.”
The Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize will be awarded this year within the XX. IAPh Symposium at the University of Tokyo.
The Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize is awarded by this years award comittee consists of:
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Detmers – Professor of Business Administration | University for Applied Sciences Bielefeld | Entrepreneur | Donor of the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize
Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber – University of Paderborn | President of the German Society for Philosophy
Prof. Dr. Yuko Murakami – Rikkyo University, Japan
More Informations can be found at the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize – Main Page.

EcoTechGender. Women Philosophers on Economics, Ecology and Technology
2025-08-05 09:00 - 11:30
EcoTechGender. Women Philosophers on Economics, Ecology and Technology
Panel within the XX. IAPh Symposium.
Panel Contributor:
Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko (Kharkiv National Medical University) – Women and digital technologies in wartime
Prof. Dr. Asha Mukherjee (Visva-Bharati University) – Eco-tech gender: Search for more Objectivity?
Dr. Ingrid Becker (University of Sankt Gallen/Ruhr-University Bochum) – Giving between inexhaustibility and exhaustibility
Prof Dr. Prijanka Iha (Banaras Hindu University) – Ecological Underpinnings in the Gendered Philosophies from India
Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber (Paderborn University) – Time is money. A proposal for a new kind of economic calculation
More information can be found here.

Ruth E. Hagengruber: Time is money. A proposal for a new kind of economic calculation
2025-08-05 09:00 - 11:30
On August 5, 2025 Prof. Dr. Ruth Edith Hagengruber gives her talk on Time is money. A proposal for a new kind of economic calculation. The talk is part of the Panel EcoTechGender. Women Philosophers on Economics, Ecology and Technology of the XX. IAPh Symposia.
More information about the panel and the conference can be found here.
