Spiritual Equality in Early Modern Europe: Gender, Religion, and Philosophy
The workshop aims to explore the role of religion in early modern (approx. 1600-1800) debates concerning equality between the sexes.
Although some early modern philosophers actively reverted to religion to defend a status quo that limited women’s rights and liberty to education and work, many women writers used religion to argue for the opposite: That God had created all equal and that political society ought to reflect such spiritual equality. In this workshop, we endeavour to explore the various ways in which spiritual equality was conceptualised and used as an argument for establishing equality in society.
The workshop is open to everyone. To register, please write to martinarndal@hum.ku.dk.
Programme
14 November 2024 (room: KUA2 14-4-80)
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09:00 |
Welcome and Coffee |
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09:30-11:00 |
Session 1: Spiritual Equality and Nordic Lutheran Orthodoxy |
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9:30 |
Panelist 1: Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen (Theology, Aarhus University) |
More Modern than Modernity. Martin Luther on Gender and Equality |
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9:45 |
Panellist 2: Erik Sporon Fiedler (Religious Studies, University of Copenhagen) |
The Duty of Household Care |
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10:00 |
Panellist 3: Christine Svinth-Værge Põder (Theology, University of Copenhagen) |
Spiritual equality at the time of the Reformation with a focus on Germany |
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10:15 |
Comments by the panellists + discussion of panel contribution |
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11:15 |
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Coffee Break |
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11:30-13:00 |
Session 2: Spiritual Equality and the European Context |
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11:30 |
Panelist 1: Juliane Engelhardt (History, University of Copenhagen) |
Exegetical strategies among Protestant dissenters |
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11:45 |
Panelist 2: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Philosophy, University of Copenhagen) |
Reconsidering Eve: Isotta Nogarola (1418-1466) and Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652) on Genesis 3 and women’s nature |
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12:00 |
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Comments by the panellists + discussion of panel contributions |
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13:00 |
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Lunch |
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14:30-16:30 |
Session 3: Women Writing Spiritual Equality |
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14:30 |
Panellist 1: Jelena Bundalovic (Philosophy, University of Copenhagen) |
Exploring Wisdoms’ Biblical Roots in Birgitte Thott’s ‘Dedication to Women’ (1658) |
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14:45 |
Panellist 2: Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Philosophy, University of Copenhagen) |
Claiming conformity or subversion? On the function of the biblical references in chapter 46 of Birgitte Thott’s Treatise ‘On the path to a happy life’ (ca. 1659) |
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15:00 |
Panellist 3: Martin Fog Arndal (Philosophy, University of Copenhagen) |
Dorothe Engelbretsdatter (1634-1716) and the Feminist ‘imago Dei’ |
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15:15 |
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Comments by the panellists + discussion of panel contributions |
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19:00-21:00 |
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Working dinner and planning future collaborations |
15 November 2024 (South Campus, room 14-4-80)
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09:30-10:30 |
Session 4: Reading Session on Spiritual Equality |
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09:30 |
Martin Fog Arndal (Philosophy, University of Copenhagen) |
Presentation of Chia Longman, ‘The Feminism Conundrum’ |
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09:45 |
Discussion of Langman’s text |
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10:30 |
Coffee Break |
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11:00-13:00 |
Session 5: Trajectory (Impact of Historical Debates on Contemporary Discussions) |
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11:00 |
Panellist 1: Mette Birkedal Bruun (Theology, University of Copenhagen) |
Early Modern Spiritual Equality: Lessons for Today? |
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11:15 |
Panellist 2: Anne Hege Grung (Theology, University of Oslo) |
The past is no longer what it used to be: Religious gender models and their ambiguous political use |
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11:30 |
Comments by the panellists + discussion of panel contributions |
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12:30 |
Concluding discussion |
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13:00-14:00 |
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Lunch (optional) |
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