The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists at Paderborn University, in cooperation with the German Academic Women's Association EV and the Colours University Alliance, will be holding a symposium on Friday, 28 June from 3 p.m. in the main conference room of Paderborn's historic town hall on the topic of ‘Women. Think. Europe.". All interested parties are cordially invited.
About the conference
Numerous women who were famous in their time and who are neither recognised by the public nor part of our educational tradition have shaped the history of Europe. In contrast to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Immanuel Kant, women such as Luise Erxleben or Elisabeth von Böhmen-Herford are not mentioned in any curriculum. The symposium ‘Women. Thinking. Europe’ presents some of these female intellectual greats in stimulating short lectures and discusses solutions for a broader perception. Prof Dr Dorothee M. Meister, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies, will moderate the event.
The programme
3 pm: Opening by Prof. Dr Ruth Edith Hagengruber, Director of the Centre for the History of Women Philosophers at Paderborn University and Vice President of the German Academic Women's Association (DAB)
Greetings from Dietrich Honervogt, Deputy Mayor of the City of Paderborn; Manuela Queitsch, President of the German Academic Women's Association; Renate Ortner, Chairwoman of the Paderborn local group, Dr Isabelle Leitloff, Head of the Implementation Office of the European University Alliance Colours at Paderborn University
3.30 pm: Women. Think. Europe. Making Europe's cultural capital visible!
Prof. Dr Ruth Hagengruber, University of Paderborn, Director of the Centre for Research into the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists (Center HWPS), Vice President of the DAB
3.55 pm: Women in Europe. Making visible the history of their ideas.
Dr Anne Nègre, Strasbourg, President of the Association of University Women of Europe
4.20 pm: A research institution for women philosophers and scientists
Prof. Dr Dr h.c. Klaus Mainzer, TUM Senior Excellence Faculty Technical University of Munich, Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker Centre, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; President European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
4.45: The initiative of the German Association of Women Academics to explore the ideas of women academics
Prof. Dr em. Anne Schlüter, former spokesperson and head of the Network for Women's and Gender Studies in NRW, and member of the DAB
5.10: Why I am donating a prize. The Elisabeth von Böhmen-Herford Prize for the History of Women Philosophers.
Prof Dr Ulrike Detmers, Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, owner of Mestemacher AG
5.15: The history of ideas of women and their place within the University of Paderborn
Prof. Dr Dorothee M. Meister, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the University of Paderborn and member of the DAB
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