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Day 8 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld HAD to be philosopher Clara Zetkin!
Zetkin rethought women's role in socialism, insisting on working women's inclusion in feminism. She also originated International Women's Day!
#herstory #IWD #womeninphilosophy #IWD2026
Day 7 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: American philosopher and educator Susan E. Blow
Blow rethought American education by using Hegel (yes, Hegel) to advocate for American kindergartens. Opposing industrialized schooling, she insisted on play as a crucial to all children’s education.
#herstory
I'll quote from Louise Dupin's _Work on Women_ that is sitting on my desk: "The traits that distinguish men from women seem in no way to be the source of a difference in merit, intelligence, insight , nor in any other quality." (trans. Rebecca Wilkin and Angela Hunter)
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Recognizing today is International Women's Day!
I am celebrating the momentum of recognition of the women philosophers of the past through @ennhistphil.bsky.social.
One small part of work towards a more equal and just society!
Day 6 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: Hungarian feminist Rosika Schwimmer!
A radical #pacifist & refugee, Schwimmer rethought American citizenship by refusing to swear to take up arms to defend the country. She took her case to the US Supreme Court & lost in 1929. She died stateless
#womenshistory
Day 5 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher and historian Anna Julia Cooper!
Cooper rethought 19th century ideas of progress to define race and foreground women. To quote bell hooks: “one of the first black activists to urge black women to articulate their own experiences.”
#blackhistory
Day 4 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: philosopher, logician, and psychologist Christine Ladd-Franklin!
Ladd-Franklin rethought thought (!) by asking how mathematics & #logic are related. She rethought color by combining #psychology & evolutionary science into a theory of perception.
#WomeninSTEM
Day 3 of #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld: theorist, novelist & reformer Frances Ellen Watkins Harper!
In "Our Greatest Want," Harper rethought #Tocqueville's theory of public opinion & the story of Moses to argue for a multiracial, democratic society.
H/t Prof. Marcia Robinson! #blackhistory #herstory
Thrilled to build on this post--Zitkala-Ša was my next pick for #WomenWhoRethoughtTheWorld.
Zitkala-Ša, a Yankton Dakota Sioux, rethought the relation between colonizing teacher & indigenous pupil, refusing to call the culture attempting to kill her own a "civilization."
#herstory #nativeamerican
Catching up with #WomensHistoryMonth
#philsky
New🎙️episode:
Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst) talks about the effects of slavery on enslaved people and the role of those effects in 18th-century antislavery arguments, drawing on voices shaped by lived experience of enslavement and racism #philsky
Listen: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html
Text only: Philosophy’s Future, Past and Present Call for Panel Proposals Proposal due date: 15 April 2026 Notification by end of May 2026 Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (ENN) has been working to reconceive history of philosophy with the idea that doing so can help to change the standards of practice in philosophy, making it more inclusive and diverse. We have not been alone in this work. Our concluding conference, being planned for 7-9 October 2027 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, aims to bring together an array of groups to share with one another the fruits of various efforts to transform the history of philosophy and to provide the occasion to imagine together philosophy’s future, asking: How might we tell the stories of philosophy’s past in the future? How can these stories affect how we do philosophy now and in the future? Amid ongoing shifts in the discipline, in the academic environment, and in our broader cultural and political landscapes, are these questions still the right ones? Efforts to retrieve the work of neglected and marginalized philosophers and philosophies of the past, and to sustain their presence in the discipline have been redoubled in recent years. This conference aims to bring together scholars of Africana and Black philosophy, women philosophers in European traditions, Indigenous philosophy, Latin-American philosophy, as well as non-canonical figures in different traditions, to discuss a rich set of philosophical questions and methodological issues highlighted by this work. The conference will be bilingual (English and French) and the format will include a combination of plenary sessions, with thematic panels and keynote speakers, and parallel sessions with papers selected through a general call for abstracts. We will also build in time for informal conversations and for mentoring of early career researchers. At this time, we welcome proposals for panels. The proposed panels should be anchored in (at least…
We are particularly interested in panels engaging with methodological questions such as: • What counts as a philosophical genre? How do theatre, poetry, liturgy, correspondence, polemics, pamphlets, material culture, or musical practices challenge how we think about philosophy? • How ought we to evaluate the philosophical robustness of a text, especially those currently outside the canon? • How should we consider philosophical periods? Given that prevailing periodizations are anchored in European temporal markers—Antiquity, Medieval, Early Modern, Enlightenment—how might alternative temporal frameworks open new methodological and interpretive possibilities? • How should we consider philosophical geography? How do our narratives shift when we look beyond Europe—not merely by “adding” non-Western traditions (or by labeling the “non-Western”), but by rethinking the global conditions of intellectual exchange, influence, and parallel development? • Who counts as a philosopher? How might we rethink the criteria by which certain figures are valorized as philosophers while others remain systematically excluded? • What new themes or philosophical problems become central when we shift the criteria by which individuals are recognized as philosophers? • What becomes possible when we dislodge philosophy from its conventional anchors? Calls for abstracts will come later (likely in Fall 2026). While speakers will not receive honoraria, funding will be available to help to defray travel expenses
Call for *Panels*:
Final ENN Conference: Philosophy's Future, Past and Present (Montréal, Oct 7–9, 2027)
Bilingual (EN/FR) conference
Deadline: April 15
(Call for papers coming later.)
www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/announcements
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Also available on Spotify:
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New podcast episode
Sabrina Ebbersmeyer talks about women, philosophy, and ingenium in the 17th–18th centuries—focusing on Anna Maria van Schurman and Elisabeth of Bohemia—and why women philosophers matter in today’s curriculum.
Listen here: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html
#philsky
I'm looking for suggestions of what to cover in a special series of interviews when I reach my 500th podcast episode: things I should have covered in past series, but missed out!
More explanation here:
www.historyofphilosophy.net/suggestions-...
Thanks in advance!
#philsky #philosophy
Postdoc opportunity:
ERC Research Associate in History of Philosophy (48 months)
University College Dublin
Project BMoral (18th-century British moral philosophy & women philosophers)
Start: Sept 1, 2026
Deadline: Feb 10, 2026
Details & apply: my.corehr.com/pls/coreport...
#philsky #philjobs
Postdoc position in History of Philosophy/Women in the Nordic Enlightenment
PI: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer
University of Copenhagen
30 months | Start: May 1, 2026
Deadline: Feb 15, 2026
Details & application:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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The JHP will select up to six participants for five days of intensive classes. Travel, housing, and food are covered up to $2,000.
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Conditions: PhD in the topic area of the seminar received no earlier than January 1, 2021 and no later than January 1, 2026. AOS in the area relevant to the seminar and a good reading knowledge of the necessary language(s) is required
Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The 2026 JHP Summer Seminar:
Julia Jorati (UMass Amherst) will lead a week-long seminar on Early Modern Debates About Slavery, June 14–19, 2026.
Great opportunity for early-career scholars in early modern philosophy.
Apply by Feb. 1, 2026.
Info: jhp.wisc.edu/summersemina...
#philsky
Only a few days left to apply for these postdoc fellowships with our project.
And happy holiday season/university break to all who celebrate and who are done grading! 😉✨
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Dans environ 2 semaines à Lyon (France):
Enseigner les invisibles : Quel corpus de philosophie moderne dans les salles de classe?
Jeudi 18 décembre et vendredi 19 décembre, Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3.
Info et alt-text disponibles ici:
www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/workshops.html
Looking for something to read for the rest of this Thanksgiving weekend, if you're in the US? Or for a cozy, regular weekend, in the rest of the Northern hemisphere? Or for a warm weekend outside for those in the Southern hemisphere? Or...?
You get the drill... 😉
Check out this new open access journal!
journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...
It has taken a long time to bring into being, but it has some excellent articles, some original new translations, along with interesting discussions of those translations.
#philsky
Volume I of the Journal for New Narratives in the History of Philosophy now published!
journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/nn...
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And one week left to submit an abstract to this event in Montreal:
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In two days!
Don't forget to register if you'd like to attend. (It's an online event.)
See you soon!
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Online event: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/seminars.html
Margo ECHENBERG - Negotiating rumor and fame: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz's responses to her public image
Margherita GIORDANO - Can a woman be a philosopher? The relationship between women and philosophy in Sophie Mereau's works
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In under a week: the 3rd session of And Philosophy Created Woman / And Woman Created Philosophy
Nov 26, 17h30 CET / 11h30 EDT
Talks by Margo Echenberg (McGill) & Margherita Giordano (Torino & Copenhagen).
More info + registration:
www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/seminars.html
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Season 5 of the ENN Podcast is here!
Jacinta Shrimpton speaks with Anna Ezekiel on Karoline von Günderrode: her metaphysics, politics, and ideas on self, friendship & gender.
Listen here: www.newnarrativesinphilosophy.net/podcast.html
(Also on Podbean, Spotify, iTunes)
#WomenPhilosophers #PhilSky