Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy Workshop:
Moral, Social, and Political Philosophy
McGill University, Montreal (Canada), 6–8 June 2025
Organized by Marguerite Deslauriers
Registration is required. Places are limited.
To register, please contact [email protected]
All talks and lunch will take place at:
McGill University
527 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
New Music Building/Elizabeth Wirth
Room A832-A833
Program (subject to change):
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
1:00 - 2:30 pm - Keynote address by Christia Mercer: "Conciliatory Eclecticism and Modern Philosophy"
2:30 - 2:45 pm - break
2:45 - 4:45 pm - Ancient Women Philosophers (panel):
5:00 - 6:30 pm - Keynote address by Alessandro Mulieri: "Serfs, Slaves and Despots: Conceptualizing the Politics of Natural Slavery in Late Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy"
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
10:00 am - 12:00 pm - Methodology and Feminism (panel):
1:30 - 3:00 pm - Biographies (panel):
3:30 - 5:00 pm - Africana Philosophy (panel):
SUNDAY, JUNE 8
10:00 am - 12:00 pm - L'égalité des sexes/Equality of the Sexes (table ronde/panel)
1:30 - 3:00 pm - Marriage (panel)
3:30 - 5:00 pm - Keynote address by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: "Better Angry than Sad? On Anger as a Political Emotion and Gender Stereotypes in Early Modern Philosophy"
The full, bilingual version of the program in PDF format is also available below:
Registration is required. Places are limited.
To register, please contact [email protected]
All talks and lunch will take place at:
McGill University
527 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
New Music Building/Elizabeth Wirth
Room A832-A833
Program (subject to change):
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
1:00 - 2:30 pm - Keynote address by Christia Mercer: "Conciliatory Eclecticism and Modern Philosophy"
2:30 - 2:45 pm - break
2:45 - 4:45 pm - Ancient Women Philosophers (panel):
- Isabelle Chouinard - Comment fabriquer une philosophe antique ? Le cas d’Hipparchia de Maronée
- Katharine O'Reilly - Methodological Progress in Recovering Ancient Women Philosophers
- Ann-Pang White - Methodological Challenges in Reconstructing Ban Zhao (c. 45–117 CE) — the First Chinese Woman Philosopher
5:00 - 6:30 pm - Keynote address by Alessandro Mulieri: "Serfs, Slaves and Despots: Conceptualizing the Politics of Natural Slavery in Late Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy"
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
10:00 am - 12:00 pm - Methodology and Feminism (panel):
- James Mackey - The Limits of Contextualism: How Analytic Methods Can Help Contextualists Expand the History of Philosophy
- Michaela Manson - Recovering the Philosophy of Friendship: Methodological Challenges for Interpreting an Anonymous 17th Century Manuscript:
- Daniel Seggie - Reading Astell: “Protofeminism” and Feminist Criteria
1:30 - 3:00 pm - Biographies (panel):
- Lina Davy - Les dictionnaires biographiques : un outil négligé permettant de reconnaitre et analyser la présence des femmes philosophes dans l’Ancien Régime.
- Yidi Wu - Liu Xiang (79–8 BCE): The Categorized Biographies of Women
3:30 - 5:00 pm - Africana Philosophy (panel):
- Jill Graper Hernandez - Centering Narratives to Recover Lost African American Female Voices in Philosophy of Religion
- Kwesi Thomas - Du Bois’ Partial Spectator
SUNDAY, JUNE 8
10:00 am - 12:00 pm - L'égalité des sexes/Equality of the Sexes (table ronde/panel)
- Markus Gwodog - Le Plaisir Sexuel Feminin Est-Il Un Droit Humain? Une Perspective Sur la Question de L’Egalite Dans Les Hatatas de Zera Yacob et Walda Heywat
- Sandrine Roux - L’égalité en question : la philosophie morale de Gabrielle Suchon
- Natalia Zorilla Sirlin - Rethinking the Canon of Early Modern Political Thought: Poulain de la Barre’s Political Philosophy
1:30 - 3:00 pm - Marriage (panel)
- Allauren Forbes - Marriage as Microcosm: Anglo-American Women Philosophers’ Political Theorizing
- Mary Jo MacDonald - Marriage as Slavery: Oroonoko in Early English Feminism
3:30 - 5:00 pm - Keynote address by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer: "Better Angry than Sad? On Anger as a Political Emotion and Gender Stereotypes in Early Modern Philosophy"
The full, bilingual version of the program in PDF format is also available below:
Call for Abstracts: McGill University Workshop: New Narratives in Moral, Social and Political Philosophy June 6-8, 2025. Deadline December 15, 2024
The Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (ENN) project invites proposals for papers on neglected figures or themes in the history of moral, social, and political philosophy, to be presented at a workshop to be held at McGill University, June 6-8, 2025.
The aim of the ENN project is to develop new narratives in the history of philosophy, by recovering the work of women and other neglected figures, as well as neglected themes and debates of some interest or importance.
Keynote speakers:
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
Alessandro Mulieri
Panel on methodological challenges in recovering the thought of ancient women philosophers, with:
Sara Brill
Isabelle Chouinard
Katharine O’Reilly
Ann Pang-White
We invite proposals on neglected figures, themes, or debates connected to the history of moral, social, and political philosophy in any period from antiquity to the early twentieth century. We would be especially interested in proposals that address:
- methodological issues confronted in recovering unrecognized work
- issues of genre and the scope of moral, social, and political philosophy
- suggestions for reconfiguring or expanding accounts of the history of philosophy
We welcome submissions in French or English; the workshop will be bilingual, with informal translation provided for those who require it. Submissions from early career researchers and advanced PhD students are especially encouraged. Funding for travel and accommodation will be provided for 6-8 authors of accepted submissions.
Submission instructions: please email an abstract (300-500 words) and a short CV to [email protected] by 15 December 2024.
Scientific committee: Geneviève Barrette, Marguerite Deslauriers, Louis Doulas, Ariel Melamedoff, Grégoire René, Lisa Shapiro, Hasana Sharp, Natalia Zorrilla
This seminar is a part of the Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy Partnership project, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partner institutions. In December 2024, the workshop will be preceded by a smaller ENN seminar on ethical, social, and political philosophy at partner institution Monash University. Participants in that seminar are welcome to submit proposals for the workshop at McGill.
The aim of the ENN project is to develop new narratives in the history of philosophy, by recovering the work of women and other neglected figures, as well as neglected themes and debates of some interest or importance.
Keynote speakers:
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
Alessandro Mulieri
Panel on methodological challenges in recovering the thought of ancient women philosophers, with:
Sara Brill
Isabelle Chouinard
Katharine O’Reilly
Ann Pang-White
We invite proposals on neglected figures, themes, or debates connected to the history of moral, social, and political philosophy in any period from antiquity to the early twentieth century. We would be especially interested in proposals that address:
- methodological issues confronted in recovering unrecognized work
- issues of genre and the scope of moral, social, and political philosophy
- suggestions for reconfiguring or expanding accounts of the history of philosophy
We welcome submissions in French or English; the workshop will be bilingual, with informal translation provided for those who require it. Submissions from early career researchers and advanced PhD students are especially encouraged. Funding for travel and accommodation will be provided for 6-8 authors of accepted submissions.
Submission instructions: please email an abstract (300-500 words) and a short CV to [email protected] by 15 December 2024.
Scientific committee: Geneviève Barrette, Marguerite Deslauriers, Louis Doulas, Ariel Melamedoff, Grégoire René, Lisa Shapiro, Hasana Sharp, Natalia Zorrilla
This seminar is a part of the Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy Partnership project, supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and partner institutions. In December 2024, the workshop will be preceded by a smaller ENN seminar on ethical, social, and political philosophy at partner institution Monash University. Participants in that seminar are welcome to submit proposals for the workshop at McGill.
Education, Virtue, and Citizenship
University of Jyväskylä, 4–5 March 2024
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4 March 2024
9.00 Tea and Coffee 9.30 Welcome and introduction Elad Carmel (Jyväskylä) 9.45 Session I Private Virtue, Public Virtue: What Is the Purpose of a Philosophical Education for Women? Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin (Jean Moulin-Lyon 3) Discussant: Manuel Vasquez Villavicencio (McMaster) 10.45 Coffee break 11.00 Session II Education, Citizenship and Dignity in the Thought of Mary Wollstonecraft Samuel Harrison (Cambridge) Discussant: Jacqueline Broad (Monash) Masham’s Theory of Education Patricia Sheridan (Guelph) Discussant: Mary Jo MacDonald (Jyväskylä) 13.00 Lunch break 14.00 Session III Educating for Labour Across the British Plantation World: Industrial Education in Jamaica and Mauritius Bethan Holt (Glasgow) Discussant: Lisa Shapiro (McGill) ‘Good News’ for the Oppressed? Exploring the Spiritual, Political, and Interreligious Dimensions of Howard Thurman’s Philosophy Aizaiah Yong (Claremont School of Theology) Discussant: Elad Carmel (Jyväskylä) 16.00 Coffee break 16.30 Session IV Rejecting Three Objections to Courage as a Civic Virtue Dušan Rebolj (UCL) Discussant: Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill/Jyväskylä) 19.00 Conference dinner |
5 March 2024
9.00 Session I ‘If It Is the Men Who Make the Laws, It Is the Women Who Make the Morals’: Education and the Civic Republicanism of French Revolutionary Women Nicolai von Eggers (Copenhagen) Discussant: Cesare Cuttica (Paris 8/Helsinki) Opinions, Republican Citizenship, and Women’s Virtues: Rousseau on the Gendered Division of Labour in Emile Ke Xia (Warwick) Discussant: Cesare Cuttica (Paris 8/Helsinki) 11.00 Coffee break 11.30 Session II NÍSIA FLORESTA: Reason as the Principle of Equality—Elements of the querelles des femmes in 19th Century Brazil Pedro Pricladnitzky and Beatriz Salgado Cardoso de Oliveira (UNIOESTE) Discussant: Jacqueline Broad (Monash) 12.30 Lunch break 13.30 Session III Giuseppa Barbapiccola’s I Principi della filosofia (1722): Women’s Learning, Cartesianism, and the History of Philosophy Thomas Ashby (EUI) Discussant: Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill/Jyväskylä) Race, Gender, and Enlightenment in Prussian Königsberg, 1774–1807 Ingrid Schreiber (Oxford) Discussant: Martina Reuter (Jyväskylä) 15.30 Coffee break 16.00 Session IV Ibn Khaldūn: Virtue, Education and Religion Luca Lissoni (San Marino) Discussant: Jari Kaukua (Jyväskylä) |
October 10, 2023, Western University
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Location: Stevenson Hall 1140, Western University
14:00-14:15 – Welcome 14:15-15:15 – Johannes Steizinger (McMaster), “Creativity and Gender Images: Dohm Contra Nietzsche 15:15-16:15 – Katie Brennan (Western), “The Necessity of Hypocrisy: Hedwig Dohm’s Feminist Epistemology of Self-Realization” 16:15-16:45 – Coffee/Tea 16:45-17:45 – Lydia Moland (Colby), “Yet Another Nietzschean Feminist: Helene Stöcker on Philosophizing with a Hammer” 17:45-18:45 – Sandra Shapshay (CUNY Grad Center), “Beyond Women’s Selflessness: Dohm, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche on Compassion” 19:30 – Group Dinner (Location TBD) |
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8-9 mars 2023, Paris Nanterre
Colloque « Epistémologie et métaphysique : Pour de nouveaux récits en histoire de la philosophie » Conway, Cavendish, Du Châtelet, Shepherd An allegory of learning (c.1565), Parrasio Micheli
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8 mars 2023
8h 30 Accueil des participants
9h Introduction « Epistémologie et métaphysique : pourquoi de nouveaux récits ? » (A.L. Rey, Université Paris Nanterre)
Session Anne Conway (présidence : Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin, Université Lyon III)
9h30 : Sarah Hutton (University of York) : « A propos des monades. Revisiter un débat sur Conway »
10h15 : Raphaël Pierres (Université Panthéon Sorbonne) : « Figures de la vie selon Anne Conway »
11h pause
11h15 : Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto) : « Conway contre le dualisme: comment comprendre la distinction entre la matière et l'esprit? »
12h : Nan Lin (Université Paris Nanterre) : « L'individu et le corps dans les Principles d'Anne Conway »
12h45-14h15 pause déjeuner
Session Margaret Cavendish (présidence : Maria Susana Seguin, Université de Montpellier)
14h15 : Line Cottegnies (Université Paris Sorbonne) : « Margaret Cavendish’s Critique of Robert Hooke in The Blazing World »
15h : Justin Begley (University of Basel) : « Knowing Matter in Margaret Cavendish’s Natural Philosophy »
15h45-16h pause
16h Julia Borcherding (Cambridge University) : « Nature’s Poetry and Humanity’s Artifice »
16h45 Dinh-Vinh Colomban (Université Paris Nanterre) : « Margaret Cavendish et la Royal Society : la certitude de la connaissance en question »
Fin de la session : 17h30
18h-19h30 : Lancement de la Société Emilie du Châtelet. Interventions des membres du CA; Présentation du site EDC (manuscrits inédits, textes disponibles, état des éditions critiques en cours, bibliographie raisonnée, etc), présentation des projets (financements de thèse, organisation de conférences, prix EDC).
19h30 : Cocktail de lancement
9 mars 2023 :
9h : Accueil des participants
Session Emilie du Châtelet (présidence : Véronique Le Ru, Université de Reims)
9h30 : Clara Carus (Paderborn Universität) : « Simple Beings in Du Châtelet »
10h15 : Katherine Brading (Duke University) : « Du Châtelet on the epistemology and metaphysics of motion »
11h-11h15 pause
11h15-12h : Andrew Janiak (Duke University) : « The new metaphysics in Emilie du Châtelet »
12h-12h45 : Ruth Hagengruber (Paderborn Universität) : « Du Châtelet and Kant »
12h45-14h : pause déjeuner
Session Mary Shepherd (présidence : Anne-Lise Rey, Université Paris Nanterre)
14h : Claire Etchegaray (Université Paris Nanterre) : « Mary Shepherd's Realistic Arguments on Perception »
14h45 : Jeffrey Mc Donough (Harvard University) : « Les miracles chez Shepherd et Hume »
15h30-15h45 Pause
15h45 : Keota Fields (University of Massachusetts) : "Mary Shepherd's Paradox of Non-Existence"
16h30 : Philippe Hamou (Université Paris Sorbonne) : « La perception visuelle selon Mary Shepherd »
17h15 : fin des travaux.
Colloque organisé avec le soutien de la Commission Recherche de l'Université de Paris Nanterre, le laboratoire Ireph, l'UFR Phillia, le Master de Philosophie à distance, le programme Extending New Narratives in Philosophy.
8h 30 Accueil des participants
9h Introduction « Epistémologie et métaphysique : pourquoi de nouveaux récits ? » (A.L. Rey, Université Paris Nanterre)
Session Anne Conway (présidence : Marie-Frédérique Pellegrin, Université Lyon III)
9h30 : Sarah Hutton (University of York) : « A propos des monades. Revisiter un débat sur Conway »
10h15 : Raphaël Pierres (Université Panthéon Sorbonne) : « Figures de la vie selon Anne Conway »
11h pause
11h15 : Marleen Rozemond (University of Toronto) : « Conway contre le dualisme: comment comprendre la distinction entre la matière et l'esprit? »
12h : Nan Lin (Université Paris Nanterre) : « L'individu et le corps dans les Principles d'Anne Conway »
12h45-14h15 pause déjeuner
Session Margaret Cavendish (présidence : Maria Susana Seguin, Université de Montpellier)
14h15 : Line Cottegnies (Université Paris Sorbonne) : « Margaret Cavendish’s Critique of Robert Hooke in The Blazing World »
15h : Justin Begley (University of Basel) : « Knowing Matter in Margaret Cavendish’s Natural Philosophy »
15h45-16h pause
16h Julia Borcherding (Cambridge University) : « Nature’s Poetry and Humanity’s Artifice »
16h45 Dinh-Vinh Colomban (Université Paris Nanterre) : « Margaret Cavendish et la Royal Society : la certitude de la connaissance en question »
Fin de la session : 17h30
18h-19h30 : Lancement de la Société Emilie du Châtelet. Interventions des membres du CA; Présentation du site EDC (manuscrits inédits, textes disponibles, état des éditions critiques en cours, bibliographie raisonnée, etc), présentation des projets (financements de thèse, organisation de conférences, prix EDC).
19h30 : Cocktail de lancement
9 mars 2023 :
9h : Accueil des participants
Session Emilie du Châtelet (présidence : Véronique Le Ru, Université de Reims)
9h30 : Clara Carus (Paderborn Universität) : « Simple Beings in Du Châtelet »
10h15 : Katherine Brading (Duke University) : « Du Châtelet on the epistemology and metaphysics of motion »
11h-11h15 pause
11h15-12h : Andrew Janiak (Duke University) : « The new metaphysics in Emilie du Châtelet »
12h-12h45 : Ruth Hagengruber (Paderborn Universität) : « Du Châtelet and Kant »
12h45-14h : pause déjeuner
Session Mary Shepherd (présidence : Anne-Lise Rey, Université Paris Nanterre)
14h : Claire Etchegaray (Université Paris Nanterre) : « Mary Shepherd's Realistic Arguments on Perception »
14h45 : Jeffrey Mc Donough (Harvard University) : « Les miracles chez Shepherd et Hume »
15h30-15h45 Pause
15h45 : Keota Fields (University of Massachusetts) : "Mary Shepherd's Paradox of Non-Existence"
16h30 : Philippe Hamou (Université Paris Sorbonne) : « La perception visuelle selon Mary Shepherd »
17h15 : fin des travaux.
Colloque organisé avec le soutien de la Commission Recherche de l'Université de Paris Nanterre, le laboratoire Ireph, l'UFR Phillia, le Master de Philosophie à distance, le programme Extending New Narratives in Philosophy.