Archive
New Directions in Scholarship on Women and Gender in Greek Antiquity
April 5, 2024
A panel jointly hosted by the Ancient Philosophy Society, the Canadian Colloquium for Ancient Philosophy and the Society for Women of Ideas.
This session featured a moderated panel discussion on new scholarship on women and gender in Greek antiquity to coincide with the spring 2024 publication of the Routledge Handbook of Women and Ancient Greek Philosophy. The panel focused on recent and emerging cross-disciplinary scholarship aimed at broadening the philosophical canon, enriching historical narratives of philosophy in the Western tradition, and bringing fresh insights to the receptions of Greek antiquity.
February 9, 2024
Rosa Luxemburg Symposium
A day of talks and discussion on the work of Rosa Luxemburg with a group of international scholars, held at Toronto Metropolitan University:
Amy Allen, Penn State University Ankica Čakardić, University of Zagreb Christian Lotz, Michigan State University Jeta Mulaj, Toronto Metropolitan University
Decolonial Feminism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans
December 8, 2023
A virtual roundtable discussion on decolonial feminism in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Four participants discuss their current research, common interests and the need for regional and international dialogue: Elife Krasniqi, University of Graz; Nita Luci, University of Prishtina; Madina Tlostanova, Linköping University; and Adriana Zaharijević, University of Belgrade. Moderated by Jeta Mulaj, Toronto Metropolitan University.
Singular and Typical: The Autobiographer’s We/I Conundrum
October 5, 2023
A virtual lecture and discussion on Edith Stein’s remarkable work, Life in a Jewish Family, given by Joyce Avrech Berkman, Professor of History Emerita at the University of Massachusetts, and moderated by Antonio Calcagno, King’s University College at Western University
A panel discussion on the life and work of 20th-century German phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius. Joined by panelists Simona Bertolini (University of Parma), Irene Breuer (University of Wuppertal), Ronny Miron (Bar-Ilan University), and moderated by Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College at Western University).
Hedwig Conrad-Martius: Questions of Being and Phenomenology
April 19, 2023
The Arendt on Earth Project: A Panel Discussion
December 9, 2022
The Society for Women of Ideas invited the Arendt on Earth Project Director, Lexi Neame, and three of the workshop participants, Benjamin Lazier, Peg Birmingham, and Linda Zerilli, for a virtual panel discussion to share what new avenues of thought the project workshops have provoked.
ARENDT ON EARTH was a workshop series held from 2019-2022 at Northwestern University in Chicago (and virtually). It took the elusive concept of “earth” in Arendt’s thought as a provocation to “think what we are doing” in the face of multiple, interconnected crises: climate change; the boundlessness of modern production and consumption; the rule of instrumentality over science; fears of technology out of control; the “defactualization” of the world; and the crises of power and freedom that face democratic peoples and polities today. (Summarized from arendtonearth.com).
Ancient Women Philosophers: Recovered Ideas and New Perspectives
October 21, 2022
Our first event in the Roundtable series A Mind of Her Own, focused on recovering and promoting the work of women philosophers throughout history. Five ancient philosophy specialists were invited to discuss their contributions to a forthcoming volume co-edited by Caterina Pellò and Katharine R. O’Reilly Ancient Women Philosophers: Recovered Ideas and New Perspectives (Cambridge University Press):
Brian Black (Lancaster University), Anna Christensen (Central College), Katharine R. O’Reilly (Toronto Metropolitan University), Caterina Pellò (University of Nottingham), Rosemary Twomey (Queens College CUNY). Moderated by Diane Enns (Toronto Metropolitan University).
María Zambrano: A Life of Ideas, Literature, and Politics
March 19, 2022
A panel discussion on the life and work of the twentieth-century Spanish philosopher María Zambrano. Joined by panelists Karolina Enquist Källgren (Stockholm University), Hugo Moreno (Lewis and Clark College), and Anna Maria Pezzella (Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican City), with moderator Antonio Calcagno (King’s University College at Western University).
Lorraine Hansberry: Between Art and Politics
February 3, 2022
A conversation between Soyica Diggs Colbert and SWI organizing committee member, Brian Phillips, on the life and vision of Lorraine Hansberry.
About the speaker: Soyica Diggs Colbert is the Interim Dean of Georgetown College at Georgetown University and Idol Family Professor of African American Studies and Performing Arts.
November 19-20, 2021
What Would Arendt Say?
The inaugural conference of the Society for Women of Ideas brought together nine Arendt scholars to reflect on what Arendt might say regarding:
the crisis of representative democracy
dignity under conditions of negative solidarity
the protean universe of social media
deportation of Black Britons
refugees and climate change
poetry and who we are
the loss of the private
post-truth
the life and death necessity of thinking