On the 27th to the 28th of October we are hosting the conference Voices from Ukraine: Women Philosophers and Scientists Against War and Ecocide. The conference is organized by Prof. Dr. Kateryna Karpenko, Director of the Center for Gender Education of  National Medical University (KHNMU) & Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber, Director of the internationally acting Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists.

Kateryna Karpenko defended her dissertation “The Gender dimension of the ecological communication” in 2006 at Kharkiv V.N. Karazin National University. She is a Doctor of Philosophy Science (2007), Professor (2008). She is a Head of the Department of Philosophy (2018), Director of the Centre for Gender Education (2012). She published more than 200 works: monograph “Nature and Woman: Ecofeminist Perspectives in Ukraine” (2006, in Ukrainian). She took part in more than 100 International conferences in Ukraine, Germany, Great Britain, USA, China, Estonia, Hungary, Austria, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Macedonia.

In 2021 she held a talk on Gender Injustice and Ecological Issues. She also published a paper in Women philosophers on economics, technology, environment, and gender history: Shaping the Future, Rethinking the Past.

Representatives of the ecological economy usually claim that the contemporary ecological situation is primarily a consequence of productive consumer activity (Floro 2021; Raworth 2017). In this context, it makes sense to turn to gender analysis, which rejects homogenization, averaging, and inequality in the distribution of natural resources as a cause of gender injustice. Therefore, it is correct to say that the contemporary ecological situation is the result of the consumerism of the modern male-oriented Western civilization.

Karpenko, K. (2023). Gender Justice & Ecological Issues. In R. E. Hagengruber (Hrsg.) ,Women philosophers on economics, technology, environment, and gender history: Shaping the Future, Rethinking the Past (S.57-69). de Gruyter.

If you want to learn more on Voices from Ukraine: Women Philosophers and Scientists Against War and Ecocide, you can register for the conference here:  contact@historyofwomenphilosophers.org with the subject “VoFUkr Registration” and the format of Participation: participate online or in-person

.