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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.
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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/
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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.
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SUMMARY:Talk | „Europa neu denken. Du Châtelet und Leibniz“ by Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber
DESCRIPTION:Abstract: \nNationale Händel bestimmten die Wissenschaft seit jeher und Leibniz und Newton stehen exemplarisch dafür. Émilie Du Châtelet\, eine in Europa ausnehmend gut vernetzte Philosophin und Wissenschaftlerin\, formuliert im Geiste der Aufklärung eine Idee von Wissenschaft\, die Grenzen nationaler und epistemologischer Territorien überschreitet. 40 Jahre vor Kant formuliert sie ihre „kopernikanische Wende“ und überwindet damit die Grenzen der rationalen und empirischen Erkenntnistheorie. Ihre Leistungen sind eng mit ihrer Rezeption der Leibniz’schen Philosophie verbunden. \nSpeaker: \nProf. Dr. Hagengruber ist Leiterin des Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists an der Universität Paderborn. Sie ist Herausgeberin und Mitherausgeberin zahlreicher Publikationsreihen zu Philosophinnen\, darunter die internationale Reihe Women in the History of Philosophy and Science (Springer)\, das Journal for the History of Women Philosophers (Brill) sowie die Women Philosophers World Heritage Collection (De Gruyter). Seit 2025 ist sie Präsidentin der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Philosophie. \n\n\nFür eine Teilnahme via Zoom melden Sie sich bitte via leibnizf@uni.muenster.de an; den Link verschicken wir an dem Tag der Veranstaltung.\n\nOrganisiert von: Dr. Laura Herrera Castillo\, Philosophisches Seminar / Leibniz-Forschungsstelle Münster.\n_____________\n\nAbstract: \nNational disputes have shaped science throughout history\, and Leibniz and Newton stand as exemplary figures in this regard. Émilie Du Châtelet\, a philosopher and scientist exceptionally well connected across Europe\, formulated in the spirit of the Enlightenment an idea of science that transcends the boundaries of national and epistemological territories. Forty years before Kant\, she articulated her own “Copernican revolution\,” thereby overcoming the limits of rationalist and empiricist epistemology. Her achievements are closely connected to her reception of Leibnizian philosophy. \nSpeaker: \nProf. Dr. Hagengruber is Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at the Universität Paderborn. She is editor and co-editor of numerous publication series on women philosophers\, including the international series Women in the History of Philosophy and Science (Springer)\, the Journal for the History of Women Philosophers(Brill)\, and the Women Philosophers World Heritage Collection (De Gruyter). Since 2025\, she has served as President of the German Society for Philosophy. \nTo participate via Zoom\, please register at leibnizf@uni.muenster.de; the link will be sent on the day of the event. \nOrganized by: Dr. Laura Herrera Castillo\, Department of Philosophy / Leibniz Research Center Münster.
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SUMMARY:Conference | The Origins of Totalitarianism Today: From the Crises of Democracy to New Beginnings
DESCRIPTION:Invitation:\n\n\nWe warmly welcome you to the conference The Origins of Totalitarianism Today. From the Crises of Democracy to New Beginnings. This event commemorates the 75th Anniversary of publication of Hannah Arendt’s seminal study of totalitarianism with contributions of excellent international Arendt scholars. We want to discuss the relevance of The Origins for the current political landscape and its significance for understanding the crises of democracy\, the resurgence of authoritarian politics\, and the fragility of democratic institutions worldwide. \nWe are looking forward to seeing you there\, Maria Robaszkiewicz and Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen (organizers) \nDates: May 28 – 30\, 2026\nVenue: Paderborn University\, Germany\nFor more information\, see our conference website.\n\n\nFor registration\, please write to us at theoriginstodayconference@gmail.com.\n\n_______ \nAt a moment in which conspiracy theories\, ideological polarization\, loneliness\, statelessness\, mass superfluity\, and the crisis of human rights increasingly shape political realities\, Arendt’s reflections on “total domination” appear strikingly contemporary. The conference invites an interdisciplinary engagement with the continuing relevance of The Origins of Totalitarianism and explores how Arendt’s analysis can help us better understand both familiar and emerging forms of anti-democratic politics today. \nBringing together scholars from different fields and international institutions\, the conference seeks not only to revisit Arendt’s diagnosis of totalitarianism\, but also to reflect on possibilities for democratic renewal and new political beginnings in the present. \nThe conference is associated with the forthcoming edited volume Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism at 75(Cambridge University Press\, 2027)\, edited by the organizers Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen (University of Jyväskylä) and Maria Robaszkiewicz (Paderborn University).
URL:https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/event/conference-the-origins-of-totalitarianism-today-from-the-crises-of-democracy-to-new-beginnings/
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