Opening Ceremony

Celebration – 10 Years Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Welcome Address by the President of Paderborn University

Welcome Address and Retrospective on 10 Years of the Center by the Director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Prof. Dr. Ruth E. Hagengruber

Welcome Address by the Former Federal Minister Svenja Schulze (tbc)

Welcome Address by a Representative of Colours University Alliance

Awarding Ceremony of the Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize

Official Signing of two Memoranda of Understanding, one with the University of the Philippines Diliman and one with the Islamic University of Science & Technology, India

Welcome Address and Introduction to the Summer School by Dr. Jil Muller

Lunch

History of Medicine

14.00-14.40: Julia Lerius, Embodied Knowledge: Vision, Medicine, and Authority in Hildegard of Bingen; Rethinking Knowledge Beyond Scholastic Epistemology

14.45-15.00: Luca Esfehanian, Images of Nature and Healing: Applying Hildegard of Bingen’s viriditas to natural spaces in Konrad Fleck’s Flore und Blanscheflur

15.00-15.15: Finn Salinus, Halthy Nutrition in Oliva Sabuco

Radical Feminism

14.00-14.40: Luka Borsic and Ivana Skuhala Karasman, From Helene Druskowitz to Valerie Solanas

14.50-15.20: Tatiana Levina, Caring for the Truth: Lina Tumanova’s Philosophy and Human Rights Activism in the Late USSR

Theology or Religion

14.00-14.40: Katrin König, Faith Seeking Experience. The Question of Divine Presence in Female Perspectives

14.40-14.55: Veronica Fernandes, Sor Juna Inés de la Cruz’ defense of women’s right to study

15.00-15.30:Viridiana Platas Benítez, Immerse in Divinity: the lost and found voices of Sor Francisca Josefa del Castillo and Sor Jerónima Nava

Break

History of Medicine

15.35-16.15: Jil Muller, The Cold Female Body in Oliva Sabuco: Motherhood, Semen and Milk

16.20-17.00: Fabrizio Bigotti  (CSMBR), Giovanni Marinelli on Women’s Illnesses

EcoTechGender

15.35-16.15: Ma Theresa Payongayong, EcoTechGender and the Politics of Women’s Space

16.15-16.30: Sofia Sivaglieri, Through and Beyond the Lockean Paradigm: A Comparative Genealogy of the Lived Body through the Thought of Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Iris Marion Young

16.30-17.00: Meng Tian, Pussy Panic and the Question of Theoretical Legitimacy in Animal Studies: Adams, Haraway, and Gruen

17.00-17.30: Violeta Milicevic, Explaining What, to Whom, How, When and Why? Purposes of XAI in Predictive Policing

Theology or Religion

15.35-16.05: Judith Margaretha Damian, The Engagement of Jewish “Salonières” with Religious Topics and Identity in Light of Multidimensional Inequalities

16.05-16.45: Aurélien Chukurian, The Principles of Conway in light of its theological scope

Break

Émilie Du Châtelet

10.15-10.55: Pierpaolo Betti, The Sources of Du Châtelet’s Institutions de physique

10.55-11.35: Clara Carus, Du Châtelet’s Metaphysics: The Knowable and Unknowable

11.40-12.10: Jan Forsman, Metaphysics Under a Watchful Eye: Émilie Du Châtelet’s “On Freedom” and Voltaire’s Traité de Metaphysique

Politics, Economics, Society

10.15-10.55: Federica Giardini, Gender and Economics: Regimes of Visibility, Regimes of Value

10.55-11.10: Maria Fiammetta Maccario, Economic dependence and female citizenship in post-Partition Pakistan: Fatima Jinnah and women’s technical education

11.10-11.40: Sowmya Ayyar, Feminine Epistemologies of Diplomacy in Indic Traditions: Reading Avvaiyar as a Diplomatic Theorist

11.40-12.10: Dany Kanjirathingal Shaju, Booker Laureate to “Anti-Antioanl”: Arundhati Roy and the Gendered Politics of Intellectual Legitimacy

12.10-12.25: Ron Joshua Imperial, Barangay Arbitration as a Moral and Political Discourse: Seyla Benhabib in Dialogue with Katarungang Pambarangay

Culture and Arts

10.15-10.45: Lena Frömmel, The first female composer! – Again?

10.45-11.15: Michela D’Agostino, Archival Absence and the Construction of Knowledge: Women Artists, Classification, and Exclusion in Early Nineteenth-Century Rome

11.15-11.30: Theodora Anna Spai, Dance as Embodied Poetry: Isadora Duncan’s Vision of Empowered Femininity and Self-Expressive Humanity

11.30-12.00: Francesca Maria Villani, Sounding Thought: The Musical Condition of Cixous’s Feminist Philosophy

12.00-12.15: Matilde Sciortino, Susanne K. Langer between Philosophy of Art, Philosophy of Mind, and Cognitive Science

Lunch

Émilie Du Châtelet

14.00-14.40: Ana Rodrigues, Embodiment and Rational Agency in Du Châtelet’s Moral Theory

14.40-15.10: Kenneth Novis, Du Châtelet and Spinoza: A Fiction to Command the Emotions

Politics, Economics, Society

14.00-14.15: Anna Eleni Tzeraki and Chatzakou Despoina, Rachel Fanny Antonina Lee: Political Thought and Feminist Agency in the Age of Revolutions

14.15-14.45: Nadia De Sario, Re-Production in the Wallmapu: The Telluric Revolution of Moira Ivana Millán in the ancestral Mapuche Territory

14.45-15.25: Gabriele Schimmenti, Women Philosophers and Emancipation in Nineteenth Century Germany

Culture and Arts

Break

Antiquity

15.35-16.15: Chelsea Harry, An Alternate Origin Story: Sappho of Lesvos and Ancient Greek Philosophy

16.15-16.55: Kris Mclain, Theorizing Power: Ancient Greco-Roman Women Philosophers on the Maintenance of the State

16.55-17.25: Ashwini Ramesh Sharma, Domestic Life as Philosophy: A Comparative Dialogue between Theano and Bahinabai Chaoudhari

Politics, Economics, Society

15.35-15.50: Marie Šebková,  Real People and Abstract Structures: Dorothy Emmet’s Notion of Institutional Man

15.50-16.20: Aybüke Mete, “Has Somebody Invented Old Women Yet?”: Gender and Aging through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Selected Essays

16.20-17.00: Pedro Pricladnitzky, Press and Political Power: Women Writers, Education, and Suffrage in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

17.00-17.15: Carolyn Maria Los, The Packhorse Library Project: Women’s initiative and Alternative Narratives during the Great Depression

Digital Projects

Keynote (room: L3 204)  Kateryna Karpenko, Ecofeminism in the context of the challenges of artificial intelligence

Break

Ecofeminism

10.15-12.00: Aristi Trendel ; Theodora Tsimpouki, Feminist Ecocriticism: From Mary Shelley to Han Kang (BIP Program)

12.00-12.15: Foteini Eleni Kotsaina, Good Sister/Bad Sister: The Deconstructed Feminine in Sharp Objects

12.15-12.30: Alexander Woitinas, Feminism and the Fairy Tale: Deconstructing Patriarchal Narratives in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

Early Modern Period

10.15-10.55: Juliette Morice, The concept of freedom in Gabrielle Suchon’s feminism

10.55-11.10: Lene G. Vos, A Life of One’s Own: Suchon and Astell on Women’s Liberty between Solitude and Community

11.10-11.25: Zachary H. Roberts, The Problem of Parthood in Margaret Cavendish’s Materialist Monism

11.30-12.10: David Harmon, Images and imagination in Anne Conway’s Vitalistic Inversion of Mechanical Philosophy

Sexuality

10.15-10.55: Aurélie Knufer, A queer history of philosophy? Methodological reflections based on the work of Mary Wollstonecraft 

10.55-11.25: Aylin Akyar, The Intellectual Dialectic Between Mary Shelley and Lord Byron

11.25-11.55: Yanan Qizhi, Sex and Gender in Early Modern Dreaming: German and Chinese Sources Compared

12.00-12.15: Georgia Karakatsani, The Shape of the Wound: Gender, Trauma and Narrative Distance in Interview with the Vampire

Lunch

Ecofeminism

14.00-14.15: Chrysa Kalimeri, Earth and Femininity: Healing Wounds Through Nature in Art

14.15-14.30: Edo Huskovic, Marija Josheska, Sadije Asanova, Environmental ethics and environmental protection

14.30-15.10: Anastasia Guidi, Anne Conway in Brazil: vitalist ontologies, ecofeminism and successor science to keep the forest standing

15.10-15.25: Bora Lumani,  Margaret Atwood: Shaping Modern Dystopian Narrative

Early Modern Period

14.00-14.30: Carmen Gerns, Elisabeth of the Palatinate’s Correspondence with René Descartes: Between Technologies of the Self and Technologies of Domination

14.30-15.00: Abel dos Santos Beserra, Voices Between Classical Rationalism and the Contemporary: Elisabeth of Bohemia and the Question of the Body

15.00-15.30: Mamedova Mayya, Virtue Theory of Damaris Masham: How to Be a Virtuous Cognisant?

Sexuality

14.00-14.40: Kristin Käuper, Two Sides of the Same Coin? A Conceptual Analysis of Asexuality and Aromanticism

14.45-15.00: Eleni Magdalini Lytra, Shamed Female Sexuality: from Tradition and Myth to Revision and Reclamation

15.00-15.15: Elina Rohleder, Not a Service Like Any Other: A Critical Engagement with Martha Nussbaum’s Account of Prostitution

Break

Ecofeminism

15.35-15.50: Stamatia Kapetanou, Shirley Jackson: An Exploration of Gender through Horror

15.50-16.05: Maria Gerdt, Feminist Perspectives on Responsibility in Contemporary Military Conflicts

16.05-16.35: Tetiana Gardashuk, Ukrainian Women in Wartime: Between Essentialism and Ecological Citizenship

16.35-17.05: Massih Zekavat, Woman, Life, Freedom: Hoda Hadadi’s Multimodal Resistance to Heteropatriarchy in Iranian Children’s Literature

Early Modern Period

15.35-16.05: Marina Aguilar, Poetic Form and the Democratization of Philosophy in the Spanish Enlightenment: María de Camporredondo and Benito Jerónimo Feijoo

16.10-16.50: Björn Freter, Polite Insurrection. Johanna Charlotte Unzer’s Outline of Worldly Wisdom for Women

Middle Ages

15.35-16.15: Elodie Pinel, Mystics Women as Philosophers: Revisiting the History of Middle Ages Philosophy

16.15-16.45: Clara Romani, Prophecy as a Mode of Expression: The Prophetesses of Late Medieval France

16.45-17.15: Laura Carolina Durán, The Mystical Journey: Four 13th-Century Women in Four Cities

Keynote (room: L3 204)  Priyanka Jha, Dissent as Survival and Resistance in Global Populist Cultures: Herstory of Women’s Voices and Grammars in Indian Academia

Break

Global Culture

10.15-10.55: Namita Herzl,  Philosophies of Women Beyond the Canon

10.55-11.25: Mounira Balghouthi, Gender Beyond the West: Translation, Hermeneutics, and the Rewriting of Women in Arab Thought

11.25-11.55: Zafar Iqbal, Zeb-un-Nisā’s Epistemology of Bātin : Rethinking Agency in theHistory of Non-Western Women Philosophers

11.55-12.25: Aya Masmoudi, Dreaming Through Borders: Fatema Mernissi’s Feminist Reconfiguration of Cultural Power Relations between East and West

Science

10.15-10.55: Andrea Reichenberger, Hidden Voices and Gendered Spaces in the History and Philosophy of Science

10.55-11.10: Jan Poll, Uncovering Hidden Voices: Grete Hermann’s Critique of von Neumann and her Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

11.10-11.40: Christina Makri, Women, Memory, and the Politics of Forgetting: From Persephone to Brenda Milner

11.40-12.10: Laida Arbizu Aguirre, Whose Konwledge Counts? Gendered Epistemic Authority and Science Denial

12.10-12.25: Jahmine Rafaralahy, Marie Curie and the recognition of women in science

Teaching

10.15-10.55: Daniela Zumpf, Simone de Beauvoir’s essay “An eye for an eye” in secondary school philosophy classes

10.55-11.25: Elle Lepoutre, Learning to think by doing – philosophy with twelve-year-olds

11.30-12.00: Louise Beaujean, Poetry and Philosophy in school

Lunch

Global Culture

14.00-14.40: Rutte Andrade,  African Women’s Agency and Epistemic Sovereignty: Philosophical Foundations of Batuku and Tina

14.40-15.10: Ossai Onyinyechi Gift, Negotiating Patriarchal Traditions: Married Women, Cultural Control, and Everyday Resistance in Southeastern Nigeria

15.10-15.25: Nmesoma Michael Okeke, Recovering Hidden Voices: Women’s Epistemic Agency in Precolonial Igbo Intellectual Traditions

Science

14.00- 14.30: Monosree Chakraborty, Credited to Others: Lovelace, Ayrton, and the Philosophy of Stolen Intellectual Labor

14.30-15.00: Igor Larionov, Magda Arnold’s Impact on the Theory of Emotions and the Ethics of Virtue

15.00-15.30: Ties van Gemert, E.M. Whetnall on Analysis in Philosophy: Vagueness, Psychologism, and the Ultimate

Phenomenology

14.00-14.40: Julia Mühl, Gerda Walther – Between Social Determinism and Free Will

14.40-15.10: Anna Mammen Koyickal, Simulation without Being: A Steinian Critique of Digital Personhood

15.10-15.25: Rieke Marie Borys, Feminism as a social media trend- how “microfeminism” slowly changes the way we view the world

Break

Global Culture

15.35-15.50: Sofia Kulikova, Negotiating Socialist Internationalism: Southern African Women Activists and Gendered Visions of the Future in the 1960s

15.50-16.30: Abosede Ipadeola, African Storytelling as Philosophical/Feminist Practice

16.30-16.45: Eleni Ainalaki-Papastavrou, Re-Searching Our Mothers Gardens: Revisiting Alice Walker and Black Women’s Creativity

Science

15.35-16.05: Michela Bella, Feminist history of psychology and pragmatist feminism

16.05- 16.45: Michele Vagnetti, Wilma Papst on Frege

16.45-17.00: Andrea Zhang, The “Harvard Computers”

17.00-17.30: Kailyn Smith, Theoretical Physics and Theories of Lament

Phenomenology

15.35-15.50: Kelly Dinneen, Before the Zetetic Turn: Twentieth-Century Women on the Epistemology of Attention

16.00-16.40: Antonio Calcagno, The Negation and Background of the I and Their Constitutive Possibilities in Gerda Walther’s Phenomenology

Keynote (room: L3 204)  Ronny Miron, Between Encroachment and Appearance: The Phenomenology of Distance and Distance-lessness in Hedwig Conrad-Martius

Break

Global Culture

10.15-10.45: Ingrid Mae H. De Jesus, From Confucian Equality to Radical Refusal: A Genealogy of South Korean Feminist Thought

10.45-11.00: Zhang Wenxia, Korean fiction by women writers

11.00-11.30: Tinni Goswami, Gender and Religion: Understanding Women, Empowerment, and Society in Colonial Bengal—The Life of Sarada Devi

Women Writers and Rolemodels

10.15-10.45: Fiorella Giaculli, An Unconventional Taxonomy: Life and Politics in Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium

10.45-11.15: Mihaela Drăgoi, The societal Architecture of Care

11.15-11.30: Pause

11.30-12.00: Markia Liapi, The Greek Writer Pinelopi Delta

12.00-12.30: Lina Schilling, The IAPh-Archiv as Fundament for the History of Women Philosophers

Women in Medicine

10.15-10.45: Varsha Upadhyay, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Post-Colonial Public Health: Social and Moral Imaginaries for Modern India (1930s-1960s)

10.50-11.20: Vanessa Sabbatini, Women in medicine in the Marche region (1900–1960): stories of obstacles and recognition

11.30-11.45: Marina Antoniou, Examples of Female Infanticide in North American, Spanish and Greek Rural Literature

Lunch

Fare Well and end Libori Summer School 2026*

Special Mandatory Program for our registered ERASMUS and UPB Students only:

Field Study Heinz Nixdorf Museums Forum