Please join us for 

Women in the History of Philosophy

 

A Workshop presented by the University of Pennsylvania

and Villanova University in the Greater Philadelphia

Philosophy Consortium’s conference series

 

12-13 September 2014

University of Pennsylvania

Cohen Hall 402

 

 

 

Friday, 12 September, 2014

 

 

3:00-5:00: KEYNOTE, in conjunction with Penn Philosophy Colloquium Series

 

Lisa Shapiro (Simon Fraser University)

Gabrielle Suchon's 'Neutralist':

The Status of Women and the Invention of Autonomy

 

 

 

Saturday, 13 September, 2014

 

 

MORNING CHAIR: Christia Mercer (Columbia University)

 

 

9:30-10:45: Marcy P. Lascano (California State University Long Beach)

Monism and Individuation in Cavendish and Conway

 

 

10:45-11: BREAK

 

 

11-12:15: Daniel Fryer (University of Pennsylvania)

Margaret Cavendish on Religious Toleration

 

 

12:15-1:15: LUNCH

 

 

AFTERNOON CHAIR: Andrew Janiak (Duke University)

 

 

1:15-2:30: Carlos Santana (University of Pennsylvania)

'Two opposite things placed near each other, are the better discerned': Philosophical readings of Cavendish's literary output

 

 

2:30-2:45: BREAK

 

 

2:45-4:00: Sandrine Berges (Bilkent University)

Sophie de Grouchy on the cost of domination in the Letters on Sympathy and two anonymous articles in Le Républicain.

 

 

4:00-4:15: BREAK

 

 

4:15-4:30: Helen Hattab (University of Houston)

Update on Early Modern and Medieval Philosophy for Women Researchers project

 

4:30-5:30: ROUNDTABLE discussion on teaching women in the history of philosophy

 

Moderator: Marguerite Deslauriers (McGill University)

Karen Detlefsen (University of Pennsylvania)

Nabeel Hamid (University of Pennsylvania)

Julie Klein (Villanova University)

Michaela Manson (Simon Fraser University)

 

Much gratitude to our sponsors: The Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium; Department of Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania; Villanova Department of Philosophy and the Augustinian Chair; the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada; Simon Fraser University; the Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Program and The Alice Paul Center, University of Pennsylvania; Department of History at the University of Pennsylvania; Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania; The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania; and The Political Philosophy Colloquium Fund.