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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Dear colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">I have the pleasure to invite you to the online workshop
<b>The Power of Women. A Challenge for Democracy. </b>Organized by Giulia Sissa UCLA, Cattedra De Sanctis Professor at ETHZ and Collegium Helveticum Senior Fellow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">10. December 2021, 16:00 - 19:45<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Participation via Zoom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><a href="https://ethz.zoom.us/j/65464702515?pwd=VWlUZE84azYwcDA2RmN3NVBOdVd3Zz09"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Zoom-Link</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">:
<a href="https://ethz.zoom.us/j/65464702515?pwd=VWlUZE84azYwcDA2RmN3NVBOdVd3Zz09">
https://ethz.zoom.us/j/65464702515?pwd=VWlUZE84azYwcDA2RmN3NVBOdVd3Zz09</a> <br>
Meeting-ID: 654 6470 2515<br>
Passwort: 040702<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">In 2020, the <i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Haut Conseil pour l’Égalité entre Femmes et Hommes</span></i> published
a report on the state of sexism in France. The picture that emerges seems to have come out of the library of an antiquarian. Women experience their scarcity in positions of high responsibility as an intrusion into a supportive ‚fratriarcal‘ universe. Under
these conditions, they are led to doubt their legitimacy. We listen and ask ourselves: what can women do? This question challenges us to rethink the very notion of ‚power‘. Power is not only domination. The word ‚power‘ expresses first of all possibility and
capacity. The ‘possible’ as a right to do, to say, to decide implies the questioning of another subjective modality: am I able to do, to say, to decide? The subordination of right to ability, is essential in the history of gender difference. For in this history,
women have not simply been excluded from places of power: they have been considered unable to exercise power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">This workshop sheds light on intellectual history and its banal way of thinking: in doubting women, we are on safe ground, on the side of Aristotle,
both in ancient Greece and in the premodern world that the Aristotelian tradition has intellectually shaped. This tradition of interconnected knowledge has formed a true paradigm. Natural Law – namely the principle that Nature teaches us norms and precepts,
first of all in the domain of sexuality, gender and marriage –, is its touchstone. But the turning point in the cultural history of gender is the Enlightenment. It was the attribution to all human beings of a truly “common sense”, susceptible of flourishing
through education, that created the conditions of possibility for a paradigm shift: “The rights of human beings result solely from the fact that they are sentient beings, susceptible of acquiring moral ideas, and of reasoning on these ideas. Thus, women having
these same qualities, have necessarily equal rights“ (Nicolas de Condorcet).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Speakers and program</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">16:00 Welcoming remarks <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">16:15 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><a href="https://www.qu.edu/faculty-and-staff/thornton-lockwood/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Thornton
Lockwood</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">, Quinnipiac University<br>
<i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Women can be powerful in the ancient world. The case of Artemisia, queen of Halicarnassus.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">16:45 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><a href="https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/contributeur/romain-brethes"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Romain
Brethes</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">, Sciences Politiques, Paris<br>
<i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Men can be soft in the ancient world. The case of the novel.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">17:15 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><a href="https://www.hist.uzh.ch/de/fachbereiche/altegeschichte/erc-professur/team/straumann.html"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Benjamin
Straumann</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">, Universität Zurich<br>
<i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Keeping women out of politics. </span></i></span><i><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">Meritocracy
and gender.</span></i><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">17:45 Break<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">18:00 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><a href="https://pro.univ-lille.fr/guyonne-leduc/"><span lang="FR-CH" style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Guyonne
Leduc</span></a></span><span lang="FR-CH" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">, Université de Lille<br>
<i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Poulain de la Barre’s « De l’égalité des deux sexes » (1673) in England (1677-1780) and back to France (1749-1753) incognito“.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">18:30 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><a href="https://history.ucla.edu/faculty/anthony-pagden"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Anthony
Pagden</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">, UCLA<br>
<i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">A civilizing presence. Women in the Enlightenment.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">19:00 </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"><a href="https://polisci.ucla.edu/person/giulia-sissa/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none">Giulia
Sissa</span></a></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">,</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH"> UCLA,
De Sanctis Professor at ETHZ and Senior Fellow<br>
<i><span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">What women can be. A challenge for democracy.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DE-CH">19:30 Concluding remarks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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