Cold Days, Hot Topics: Teaching program for Winter Semester 2026/27

Courses taught by Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber and Team

Last week, Paderborn University welcomed its new students during Orientation Week. We hope everyone had a great start, found their way around campus, and is ready for the semester ahead. Tomorrow, the first courses of the Winter Semester 2026/27 begin – and with them, a new teaching program by members of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.

Teaching and research in the History of Women Philosophers have been established at Paderborn University since 2005 through the work of Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber – long before the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists was founded. The aim remains clear: to bring visibility to the long and often overlooked tradition of women philosophers and to deepen our understanding of their contributions to the history of ideas.

This semester’s teaching program:

Lecturer	Course Title
Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber	Introduction to Philosophy, Politics and Economics
Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber	Research Colloquium
Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber	Philosophy, Politics, Economics
Prof. Dr. Ruth Hagengruber et al.	Philosophy Colloquium
Dr. Jil Muller	Order or Freedom? Political Theory and Religious Tolerance in Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
Dr. Maria Anna Robaszkiewicz	The Futures of Anthropocene: Earth in Crisis and the Experience of the World
Dr. Maria Anna Robaszkiewicz	Hannah Arendt and Political Phenomenology
Ana Paula Coelho Rodrigues	Women Philosophers on Love and Desire
Ana Paula Coelho Rodrigues	Religion in Global Perspective
Ana Paula Coelho Rodrigues	Philippa Foot on the Nature of Good
Ana Paula Coelho Rodrigues	What Is Philosophy?
Ana Paula Coelho Rodrigues	Fanaticism
Ana Paula Coelho Rodrigues	Sexuality and Power

We wish all students – and especially those beginning their studies this semester – a great start and all students and lecturers a successful Winter Semester 2026/27!

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