Conferences and Events
“New Approaches to the Early Modern Survey” The APA/AAPT Teaching Hub, Pacific Division APA meeting, April 17-20, 2019, Vancouver, BCThe APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) invite proposals for a session on new approaches to teaching early modern survey courses. This session will be held at the Teaching Hub at the 2019 Pacific Division meeting of the APA, which runs April 17-20, 2019, in Vancouver, BC.
With an aim of sharing and inspiring teaching that rethinks the standard canon that students typically encounter in early modern philosophy courses, we are seeking a variety of presentations on interesting or innovative approaches to teaching the early modern survey in ways that incorporate lesser-known philosophers and texts of the period. Specific ideas about course content are especially encouraged. As well, discussions about pedagogical approaches to that content are also welcome at this session. Format: Presentations should be 20 minutes in length. Approximately 20 minutes of additional time will be available to each presenter for activities and/or discussion with the audience. We appreciate proposals that are creative and interactive. Submissions: Proposals of no more than 500 words, prepared for anonymous review, should be sent to Susan Mills at [email protected]. Since we are interested in ensuring representation of a range of voices and teaching experiences and welcome submissions from those who have taught in various types of educational institutions, please include in your proposal a brief account of your experiences with non-standard approaches to early modern philosophy. Supporting material, such as syllabi, handouts, or a CV, may also be included in addition to your proposal submission. Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2018 Notification to presenters: October 1, 2018 (expected) Questions about this session should be directed to Susan Mills at [email protected]. The AAPT-APA Teaching Hub is a series of interactive workshops and conversations designed specifically for philosophers and created to celebrate teaching within the context of the APA divisional meetings. Jointly organized by the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) and the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT), the Teaching Hub aims to offer a range of high-quality and inclusive development opportunities that address the teaching of philosophy at all levels, pre-college through graduate school. For general information about the AAPT-APA Teaching Hub, including the calls for proposals for the various sessions at all three 2019 APA meetings (Eastern, Central, and Pacific), please visit the AAPT website and the CTP webpage. For specific information about the Teaching Hub at the 2019 Pacific Division meeting in Vancouver, BC, please contact Ian Smith at [email protected]. |
Past Events
June 4, 2018, New Narratives at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, Canada As part of the CPA annual meetings at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal, we've organized a symposium on Renaissance and Early Modern Women. Speakers include: Allauren Forbes, Kelin Emmett, Charlotte Sabourin, Sandra Plastina, and Marguerite Deslauriers. Discussion will be facilitated by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro. For more information, consult the CPA website The session will run from 2-5:30pm.
May 18-20, 2018. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) Life and Legacy, Philosophy, Politics and Religion in Seventeenth Century Europe. Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn, Germany. An international conference in celebration of Elisabeth's 400th birthday. For more information see the conference website.
April 26th-28th, 2018, Émilie Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. In 2009, Isabelle Bour and Judith Zinsser published a partial translation of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics. Since 2014, faculty and students at the University of Notre Dame have worked to complete the translation. This conference celebrates the completion of the project.The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching. For more information see the conference website.
February 23, 2018, Bridging the gender gap through time: how women philosophers of the past contributed to today's thought, King's College, London Call for abstracts by 30 September 2017. Women have had a far deeper and more extensive influence on the history than is commonly realized. Far from confining their interests to questions of gender and domestic matters, women have been writing on all aspects of philosophy for as long as such a discipline can be identified. The purpose of this conference is both to raise awareness of the rich historical tradition of women’s philosophy as well as to help make the connection with current social, moral, political and philosophical debate by bringing neglected women writers, past and present, into dialogue with today’s discourses. For information see the conference webpage or contact Sandrine Berges at [email protected]
October 20-21, 2017, Women Intellectuals in 18th Century Germany, Western University, London, ON This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars with the principal aim of detailing the rich philosophical contributions by German women intellectuals in this period. At a time when contributions by women in the history of philosophy (such as Émilie du Châtelet, Margaret Cavendish, and Anne Conway) are generating unprecedented scholarly interest, this conference will shed light on the distinctive but no less important contributions of women to the philosophical scene in Germany and thereby bring more general scholarly attention to the philosophical works and legacy of women in this period. More information can be found here. Organizer and contact: Corey Dyck
August 31 2017, Wollapalooza! at the APSA in San Francisco This mini-conference will bring the most recent currents of Wollstonecraft scholarship into broader dialogue with major trends of contemporary political science and political theory: concepts and theories of legitimacy, political inclusion and exclusion, civil and human rights, marriage, family, gender, citizenship, and democracy. For more information please see the mini-conference webpage.
March 13-14, 2017, Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy: Philosophy of/and Education. Mansfield College, Oxford, UK. The educational reforms of the early modern period had a substantial impact on philosophy, not only through the ways in which future philosophers were educated -- for instance, Descartes's education in the new Jesuit paradigm -- but also in informing philosophical discussion about learning and education, including about just in what learning consists, who is capable of learning, the best methods of learning, educational institutions, tools for both theoretical and moral education, and other topics. This seminar aims to encourage discussions around this largely unexplored central philosophical theme of the period. Full program can be found here. Attendance is free and all are welcome but registration is requested. Please see website for information.
February 17-18, 2017, Rethinking Philosophy's Past 1300-1800. Columbia University, NYC. The Philosophy Department and Center for Science and Society at Columbia University invite you to “Rethinking Philosophy’s Past, 1300-1800” (February 17-18). Distinguished historians will share recent scholarship on women and other understudied figures in the history of philosophy to encourage more accurate accounts of philosophy’s past and more inclusive teaching. Sessions rethink standard stories and offer practical ideas about to incorporate understudied figures in our philosophy courses, both historical and non-historical. Free and open to the public. You can find the poster here
November 4-6, 2016: Early Modern Works by and about Women: Genre and Method. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Organized by Marguerite Deslauriers. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to examine (1) the methods of women writing in the Renaissance and Early Modern period, and of men writing pro-woman works at the same time, and (2) the genre that women chose for their work and that men chose for articulating pro-woman positions. The workshop also aims to build an exchange among scholars working in different traditions and different disciplines to enrich scholarship. For more information see the program.
October 21-22, 2016: Third Carinthian Workshop on Topics from Early Modern Philosophy to Kant. Institute of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Organized by Ursala Renz and Bernhard Ritter. The Third Carinthian EMP-Kant Workshop focusses on the role of women philosophers in the early modern period until Kant. The Third Carinthian Workshop wishes to encourage a philosophical exchange centred on the figure of Maria von Herbert, as well as on other women philosophers of the period. For more information see the program.
August 22-26, 2016: Summer School in the History of Feminist Thought.The international summer school "Feminist thinking in historical perspective" will be held at the University of Jyväskylä. The school is part of a larger Gender and Philosophy Summer School Programme funded by an Erasmus+ grant. You find more information here. Please encourage your students to apply. The application deadline is 15 April. We accept students from everywhere and provide free tuition and accommodations for all accepted students. In addition there are some travel grants available for students enrolled at European universities.
July 7-10, 2016 Women and Philosophy: History, Values, Knowledge: Monash University, Australia. Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers. Conference organized by Karen Green and Jacqueline Broad. For more information check out the conference website and the association
June 1-3, 2016 Exploring the Philosophy of Emilie du Chatelet. Columbia University, Centre for Science and Society. Émilie du Châtelet contributed significantly to eighteenth-century science and philosophy, although the full importance of her contributions has not been appreciated. This conference brings together prominent international scholars to offer a thorough evaluation of Châtelet’s ideas and contributions.For more information see the program
April 23, 2016 Reconsidering the Philosophical Canon Duquesne Women in Philosophy invite philosophical papers on the question of reconsidering the philosophical canon. Keynote Speaker is Penelope Deutscher, Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University. For more information check out Feminist Philosophers
April 14-17, 2016, New Narratives in Philosophy Conference at Duke. Hosted at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University Durham, NC, USA. Co-Directed by Andrew Janiak and Marcy Lascano. For more information check out the Feminist History of Philosophy post and the conference poster.
April 7-9, 2016. 2016 Locke Workshop. CUNY Graduate Centre, New York. The program includes a number of papers on women philosophers associated with Locke. For more information see the program.
March 21-23, 2016. Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Religion and Science at Groningen
University of Groningen, Netherlands. For more information contact Emily Thomas and see also the Feminist History of Philosophy post.
October 23-25, 2015 History of Philosophy of Education at University of Pennsylvania.
A workshop organized by Karen Detlefsen (Penn) connecting current philosophical discussions regarding equal opportunity in education with recent work on discussions of equality, autonomy and education in the Early Modern Period. Workshop participants include Derrick Darby (Michigan), Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill), Lisa Shapiro (SFU), Jeppe von Platz (Suffolk (US)), Martina Reuter (Jyvaskyla), Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam). There will also be at least two sessions in which students will present works-in-progress. Students from Penn, McGill and SFU, among others will have opportunities to interact and develop projects together. You can see the programme here.
October 5, 2015: Women in Early Analytic Philosophy at Ghent University, Belgium. Organized by Eric Schliesser and Maria van der Schaar. For more information see the program
September 2015: Panel at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association on Women and Republicanism in the Eighteenth Century, with Sandrine Berges (Bilkent) and Alan Coffee (KCL)
.
June 4, 2018, New Narratives at the Canadian Philosophical Association, Montreal, Canada As part of the CPA annual meetings at the Universite de Quebec a Montreal, we've organized a symposium on Renaissance and Early Modern Women. Speakers include: Allauren Forbes, Kelin Emmett, Charlotte Sabourin, Sandra Plastina, and Marguerite Deslauriers. Discussion will be facilitated by Karen Detlefsen and Lisa Shapiro. For more information, consult the CPA website The session will run from 2-5:30pm.
May 18-20, 2018. Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia (1618-1680) Life and Legacy, Philosophy, Politics and Religion in Seventeenth Century Europe. Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists, Paderborn, Germany. An international conference in celebration of Elisabeth's 400th birthday. For more information see the conference website.
April 26th-28th, 2018, Émilie Du Châtelet's Foundations of Physics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. In 2009, Isabelle Bour and Judith Zinsser published a partial translation of Émilie Du Châtelet’s Foundations of Physics. Since 2014, faculty and students at the University of Notre Dame have worked to complete the translation. This conference celebrates the completion of the project.The conference will feature talks, presentations, and discussions of the text, its philosophical and historical context and significance, and ways of incorporating Du Châtelet’s philosophy into undergraduate teaching. For more information see the conference website.
February 23, 2018, Bridging the gender gap through time: how women philosophers of the past contributed to today's thought, King's College, London Call for abstracts by 30 September 2017. Women have had a far deeper and more extensive influence on the history than is commonly realized. Far from confining their interests to questions of gender and domestic matters, women have been writing on all aspects of philosophy for as long as such a discipline can be identified. The purpose of this conference is both to raise awareness of the rich historical tradition of women’s philosophy as well as to help make the connection with current social, moral, political and philosophical debate by bringing neglected women writers, past and present, into dialogue with today’s discourses. For information see the conference webpage or contact Sandrine Berges at [email protected]
October 20-21, 2017, Women Intellectuals in 18th Century Germany, Western University, London, ON This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars with the principal aim of detailing the rich philosophical contributions by German women intellectuals in this period. At a time when contributions by women in the history of philosophy (such as Émilie du Châtelet, Margaret Cavendish, and Anne Conway) are generating unprecedented scholarly interest, this conference will shed light on the distinctive but no less important contributions of women to the philosophical scene in Germany and thereby bring more general scholarly attention to the philosophical works and legacy of women in this period. More information can be found here. Organizer and contact: Corey Dyck
August 31 2017, Wollapalooza! at the APSA in San Francisco This mini-conference will bring the most recent currents of Wollstonecraft scholarship into broader dialogue with major trends of contemporary political science and political theory: concepts and theories of legitimacy, political inclusion and exclusion, civil and human rights, marriage, family, gender, citizenship, and democracy. For more information please see the mini-conference webpage.
March 13-14, 2017, Oxford Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy: Philosophy of/and Education. Mansfield College, Oxford, UK. The educational reforms of the early modern period had a substantial impact on philosophy, not only through the ways in which future philosophers were educated -- for instance, Descartes's education in the new Jesuit paradigm -- but also in informing philosophical discussion about learning and education, including about just in what learning consists, who is capable of learning, the best methods of learning, educational institutions, tools for both theoretical and moral education, and other topics. This seminar aims to encourage discussions around this largely unexplored central philosophical theme of the period. Full program can be found here. Attendance is free and all are welcome but registration is requested. Please see website for information.
February 17-18, 2017, Rethinking Philosophy's Past 1300-1800. Columbia University, NYC. The Philosophy Department and Center for Science and Society at Columbia University invite you to “Rethinking Philosophy’s Past, 1300-1800” (February 17-18). Distinguished historians will share recent scholarship on women and other understudied figures in the history of philosophy to encourage more accurate accounts of philosophy’s past and more inclusive teaching. Sessions rethink standard stories and offer practical ideas about to incorporate understudied figures in our philosophy courses, both historical and non-historical. Free and open to the public. You can find the poster here
November 4-6, 2016: Early Modern Works by and about Women: Genre and Method. McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Organized by Marguerite Deslauriers. This interdisciplinary workshop aims to examine (1) the methods of women writing in the Renaissance and Early Modern period, and of men writing pro-woman works at the same time, and (2) the genre that women chose for their work and that men chose for articulating pro-woman positions. The workshop also aims to build an exchange among scholars working in different traditions and different disciplines to enrich scholarship. For more information see the program.
October 21-22, 2016: Third Carinthian Workshop on Topics from Early Modern Philosophy to Kant. Institute of Philosophy, University of Klagenfurt, Austria. Organized by Ursala Renz and Bernhard Ritter. The Third Carinthian EMP-Kant Workshop focusses on the role of women philosophers in the early modern period until Kant. The Third Carinthian Workshop wishes to encourage a philosophical exchange centred on the figure of Maria von Herbert, as well as on other women philosophers of the period. For more information see the program.
August 22-26, 2016: Summer School in the History of Feminist Thought.The international summer school "Feminist thinking in historical perspective" will be held at the University of Jyväskylä. The school is part of a larger Gender and Philosophy Summer School Programme funded by an Erasmus+ grant. You find more information here. Please encourage your students to apply. The application deadline is 15 April. We accept students from everywhere and provide free tuition and accommodations for all accepted students. In addition there are some travel grants available for students enrolled at European universities.
July 7-10, 2016 Women and Philosophy: History, Values, Knowledge: Monash University, Australia. Symposium of the International Association of Women Philosophers. Conference organized by Karen Green and Jacqueline Broad. For more information check out the conference website and the association
June 1-3, 2016 Exploring the Philosophy of Emilie du Chatelet. Columbia University, Centre for Science and Society. Émilie du Châtelet contributed significantly to eighteenth-century science and philosophy, although the full importance of her contributions has not been appreciated. This conference brings together prominent international scholars to offer a thorough evaluation of Châtelet’s ideas and contributions.For more information see the program
April 23, 2016 Reconsidering the Philosophical Canon Duquesne Women in Philosophy invite philosophical papers on the question of reconsidering the philosophical canon. Keynote Speaker is Penelope Deutscher, Professor of Philosophy, Northwestern University. For more information check out Feminist Philosophers
April 14-17, 2016, New Narratives in Philosophy Conference at Duke. Hosted at the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University Durham, NC, USA. Co-Directed by Andrew Janiak and Marcy Lascano. For more information check out the Feminist History of Philosophy post and the conference poster.
April 7-9, 2016. 2016 Locke Workshop. CUNY Graduate Centre, New York. The program includes a number of papers on women philosophers associated with Locke. For more information see the program.
March 21-23, 2016. Early Modern Women on Metaphysics, Religion and Science at Groningen
University of Groningen, Netherlands. For more information contact Emily Thomas and see also the Feminist History of Philosophy post.
October 23-25, 2015 History of Philosophy of Education at University of Pennsylvania.
A workshop organized by Karen Detlefsen (Penn) connecting current philosophical discussions regarding equal opportunity in education with recent work on discussions of equality, autonomy and education in the Early Modern Period. Workshop participants include Derrick Darby (Michigan), Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill), Lisa Shapiro (SFU), Jeppe von Platz (Suffolk (US)), Martina Reuter (Jyvaskyla), Eric Schliesser (Amsterdam). There will also be at least two sessions in which students will present works-in-progress. Students from Penn, McGill and SFU, among others will have opportunities to interact and develop projects together. You can see the programme here.
October 5, 2015: Women in Early Analytic Philosophy at Ghent University, Belgium. Organized by Eric Schliesser and Maria van der Schaar. For more information see the program
September 2015: Panel at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association on Women and Republicanism in the Eighteenth Century, with Sandrine Berges (Bilkent) and Alan Coffee (KCL)
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