Programme

Thursday 22 November 2018   

09:15-09:30

Welcome 

09:30-10:15

Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Copenhagen): Criticizing patriarchy: The radical thought of Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652) 

10:15-11:00

Gianni Paganini (Vercelli): How radical can a radical philosopher be? The case of Thomas Hobbes on gender relations 

11:00-11:30

Coffee break 

11:30-12:15

Sarah Hutton (York): What Radicalism for which Enlightenment? Women, Philosophy and Religion c.1650-1750 

12:15-13:00 

Juliane Engelhardt (Copenhagen): Radical Religious Women 

13:00-14:45

Lunch break 

14:45-15:30

Inger Leemans (Amsterdam): Philopater’s Sister. The Hidden Women of Dutch Radical Philosophy 

15:30-16:15

Susana Seguin (Montpellier): Can we talk about a feminine clandestine philosophy? Madame Du Châtelet and her ‘Examens de la Bible’

16:15-16:45

Coffee 

16:45-17:30

Stefanie Ertz (Paderborn): Mme Du Châtelet’s notes on Toussaint’s ‘Les moeurs’. Presentation and discussion 

 Friday, 23 November 2018 

9:30-10:15

Ana Rodrigues (Paderborn): Du Châtelet’s Critical Adaptation of Mandeville’s ‘Fable of the Bees’ 

10:15-11:00

Lena Halldenius (Lund): The Radical Republicanism of Mary Wollstonecraft 

11:00-11:30

Coffee break 

11:30-12:15

Martin Fog Arndal (Copenhagen): The Other Side of the Radical Enlightenment: Radical Equality and Liberty in Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft

12:15-13:30

Lunch 

13:30-14:15

Christian Benne (Copenhagen): Male Gaze? Friedrich Schlegel’s letter to Dorothea, ‘On Philosophy’ 

General discussion