The Third International Women in Pragmatism Conference

The Third International Women in Pragmatism Conference

24-25 September 2026

Wrocław University of Science and Technology, Poland

ul. Wybrzeże Stanisława Wyspiańskiego 27, Wrocław

building A-1, room 307

The conference programme of the Third International Women in Pragmatism Conference is now available:

23 September, Wednesday

19:00 – Preconference Dinner (everyone pays for themselves)

24 September, Thursday

8:45 – Registration

9:00 – Welcome

Agnieszka Hensoldt

Karolina Jaklewicz, Vice-Rector for Community Development and Integration

Monika Małek-Orłowska, Head Deputy of the Department of Science, Technology and Society Studies

9:30-10:30 Keynote Address I, chair: Agnieszka Hensoldt

Núria Sara Miras Boronat

“Gender Mainstreaming: How Feminist Public Policies Improve Academia”

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee Break (sponsored by SAAP)

10:45 – 11:45 Session 1, chair: Agnieszka Hensoldt

Maura Striano

“Women’s contribute to peace as a right for all”

Federica Castelli

“Newer ideals, shared streets: Jane Addams on urban proximity, social differences, and democratic Peace”

11:45 – 12:00 Coffee Break (sponsored by SAAP)

12:00 – 13:15 Session 2, chair: Agnieszka Hensoldt

Núria Sara Miras Boronat (and Michela Bella)

“Early Social Psychologists and the Woman Question”

Juliana Acosta Lopez de Mesa

“Toward a Normativity of Care: A Proposal from Peircean Pragmatism and Jane Addams’s Meliorism”

13:15 – 15:00 Lunch Break (sponsored by SAAP)

15:00 – 16:45 Session 3, chair: Urszula Lisowska

Maria Regina Brioschi

“Common sense and mother sense: Peirce and Welby on the social genesis of meaning”

Paula de Dios Gonzalez

“Susan Haack’s Foundherentism: an Analytic Theory with Pragmatist Roots”

Katarzyna Żebrowska

“Interspecies (in)injustice in practice: exploitation beyond species boundaries in early biomedical research on humans and nonhumans”

16:45-17:15 Coffee Break (sponsored by SAAP)

17:15 – 18:15 Mentoring Session coordinated by Ager Perez Casanovas

19:00 – Dinner (everyone pays for themselves)

25 September, Friday

9:00 – 10:00 Keynote Address II, chair: Juliana Acosta Lopez de Mesa

Chiara Ambrosio

“Feminist Science and the Sympathetic Imagination”

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break (sponsored by SAAP)

10:15 – 11:30 Session 4, chair: Juliana Acosta Lopez de Mesa

Urszula Lisowska

“Situated Knowledges and Arendtian Objectivity: Thinking Based on Relating”

Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi

“Linguistic Guilt”

11:30-11:45 Coffee Break (sponsored by SAAP)

11:45 – 13:00 Session 5, chair: Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi

Dorota Koczanowicz

“Eating for the Climate: Art, Food, and Environmental Responsibility”

Irie Browning

“To be seen by the sunrise: Dewey’s aesthetic experience and the agency of non-living beings”

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch Break (sponsored by SAAP)

14:30 – 15:45 Session 6, chair: Chiara Ambrosio

Ager Perez Casanovas

“Reimagining Democracy Through Crip Time: Future Paths for a Disability Justice-informed Healthcare Activism in Spain”

Maria Miraglia

“Educating to Effective Care through the Community of Philosophical Inquiry: Considering Ann Margaret Sharp’s Perspective”

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break (sponsored by SAAP)

16:15 – 17:00 final discussion, plans for the future, conclusion in the lecture room 

or 

17:00 – 18:00  final discussion, plans for the future, conclusion during a boat tour on the Odra River (depends on our preferences and weather conditions)