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20210715 Iaph-Booklet Webversion.Pdf History of Women Philosophers and Scientists historyofwomenphilosophers.org THE XVIIITH SYMPOSIUM OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS paderborn university, germany july 18-21, 2021 DEFINING THE FUTURE 2021 RETHINKING THE PAST PHILOSOPHY OF ECONOMICS ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY COVID-19 AND PHILOSOPHY Shohreh Bayat · Federica Giardini · Lisa Herzog Kateryna Karpenko · Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab · Yuko Murakami Julie A. Nelson · Caterina Pello · Gisele Secco · Mpho Tshivhase Xiao Wei · Dorota Dutsch · Cintia Martínez Velasco · Mary Ellen Waithe Herta Nagl-Docekal · Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir · Ruth Edith Hagengruber 1 WELCOME TO THE IAPH CONFERENCE AT THE CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS AND SCIENTISTS The International Association of Women Philosophers (IAPh) is an initiative to promote women’s research in philosophy and its history. Founded in Germany in 1976, it is now a global network for all women in philosophy. Given its strong tradition, IAPh covers all philosophical disciplines, including feminist philosophy as well as the history of women philosophers. After holding conferences in such venues as Monash University, Melbourne (2016) and Tsinghua University, Beijing (2018), the 18th world congress of IAPh will be hosted by the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (HWPS) at Paderborn University, Germany. As the director of the Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists and the Head of the Teaching and Research Area EcoTechGender, I feel very much honored to host this conference. Initially planned as the IAPH’ biannual symposia, this conference had to be postponed due to the Covid pandemic. As the pandemic is still a threat to many of us, it will take place as a hybrid event. In times of great global concern, rapid technological progress, climate change, and economic turmoil, we invite women’s contributions to present their ideas concerning the future, while taking a critical look back into the past. Women’s voices have been suppressed in the past few centuries in nearly all countries and cultures of the world, and to differing extents. To end this societal contradiction is a considerable challenge and it demands that women raise their voices. 2 Women, though excluded for too long, are nevertheless not without responsibility. Now is the time to present their ideas in the relevant fields related to the human condition and to contribute to shaping the future. With more than one hundred and sixty contributors from all parts of the world, from Israel and the Arab world, from China and the United States, Canada, Japan, Russia, India, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Uganda, Netherlands, Latvia, Turkey, Poland, Spain, Finland, Taiwan, Greece, Italy, France, United Kingdom and Germany and about twenty keynotes from China, Latin Amerika, Ukraine, South Africa, Japan, Iran, United States and more, we dare to take the first steps to a new understanding of how to shape this future such that it might shape a better world for all. As the conference organizer, I am indebted to the board of the IAPH for entrusting me with the Organization of this conference. I am grateful to the Center’s Team for its support in sharing with me the idea and work in promoting the ideas of women philosophers and granting me their support to organize this conference. I am especially grateful to Felix Grewe, scholar in the project EcoTechGender, and would like to thank him for his patience, skills and circumspection with which he has organized this conference. Last but not least, I am grateful to all the speakers who bring in their ideas, who take part, and demonstrate how this world can be united in thought, who care about the world we live in. I am also grateful to all the participants who share their time and their attention in listening to us all. Without them, nothing happens and nothing changes. Let’s take this conference as a first step towards enhancing the intellectual global power of women philosophers to shape the future by rethinking the past. Paderborn, July 2021 Ruth Edith Hagengruber 3 Table of Contents Keynote Speakers ................................................................................... 6 Elisabeth of Bohemia Prize 2021 ......................................................... 25 Program Main Room ............................................................................. 26 Economy Session Program Monday, July 19, 2021 .......................................................................... 28 Technology Session Monday, July 19, 2021 .......................................................................... 30 Technology Session Tuesday, July 20, 2021 .......................................................................... 32 Technology Session Wednesday, July 21, 2021 .................................................................... 34 Environment & Food Ethics Session Program Wednesday, July 21, 2021 .................................................................... 36 History 1 - Session Program Monday, July 19, 2021 .......................................................................... 38 History 1 - Session Program Tuesday, July 20, 2021 .......................................................................... 40 History 1 - Session Program Wednesday, July 21, 2021 .................................................................... 42 History 2 - Session Program Monday, July 19, 2021 .......................................................................... 44 History 2 - Session Program Tuesday, July 20, 2021 .......................................................................... 46 History 2 - Session Program Wednesday, July 21, 2021 .................................................................... 48 History 3 - Session Program Monday, July 19, 2021 .......................................................................... 50 History 3 - Session Program Tuesday, July 20, 2021 .......................................................................... 52 4 COVID-19 and Philosophy Session Program Monday, July 19, 2021 .......................................................................... 53 Workshop Feminist and Decolonial Strategies for the Teaching and Promotion of Philosophy ............................................... 54 Workshop Women in Early Phenomenology ......................................................... 55 Workshop Women in Early Phenomenology ......................................................... 56 Workshop German Idealism and Feminist Philosophy ........................................ 57 Workshop Die IAPh – Ihre Anfänge - in German................................................... 58 Workshop Diana Tietjens Meyers on Autonomy ................................................... 59 Workshop Latin American HWPS – in Spanish with English Powerpoints Emerging Women Philosophers Networks in Latin America .................................................................................... 60 Workshop Latin American HWPS – in Spanish with English Powerpoints Violencia y Género en México .............................................................. 61 Workshop Hacking Diotimas Eros (in German) .................................................... 62 Workshop Philosophy and the Problem of Superiorism ...................................... 64 Workshop Latin American HWPS – in Spanish with English Powerpoints Violencia y Género en México .............................................................. 65 Submitters ............................................................................................. 66 5 Keynote Speakers Shohreh Chess Referee, Women’s The impact of religion Page 8 Bayat right activist on women’s right London, UK Dorota Professor of Classics, Knowledge Bites: Wo- Page 8 Dutsch UC Santa Barbara, USA men Philosophers and the Greek Paideia Federica Professor of Philosophy, Ecology and Economy. Page 9 Giardini Università Roma Tre, Italy Feminist perspectives. Ruth E. Professor of Philosophy, Out of the Box – into Page 10 Hagengruber Paderborn University, the Green and the Blue. Director of the Center Drafting an Epistemo- HWPS, Germany logy of a Post Humanist Interrelatedness Lisa Herzog Professor of Philosophy Economic Knowledge, Page 12 University of Groningen, Democratic Knowledge Netherlands Kateryna Professor of Philosophy, Gender Injustice and Page 13 Karpenko Kharkiv National Medical ecological Issues University, Ukraine Elizabeth Associate Professor of Women in Writing the Page 14 Suzanne Philosophy, Doha Institute History of Contemporary Kassab for Graduate Studies, Arab Philosophy Qatar Cintia Professor of Philosophy, Chiasmic Identities Page 15 Martinez UNAM, Mexico and Femicide in Latin Velasco America: Reflections from a Decolonial and Marxist-Feminist Perspective Yuko Professor of Philosophy, “Education” to obscure Page 17 Murakami Rikkyo University, Japan academic women in Japan 6 Herta Nagl- Professor emerita of The beginnings: Page 18 Docekal Philosophy, University of a fragmented Vienna, Austria retrospective of a former speaker of IAPh Julie A. Nelson Professor emerita of Economic Theory and Page 19 economics, Moral Imaginationv University of Massachusetts, Boston, US Caterina Pellò Associate Lecturer in Women in the Pythago- Page 19 Philosophy, rean tradition: Perictio- St. Andrews College, UK ne on Philosophy and Science Gisele Secco Associate Professor of Form Computers to Page 20 Philosophy, Diagrams and Back: The Federal University
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