Roundtable Discussion

Sabrina Ebbersmeyer is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Section of Philosophy at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, where she directs the ERC-Advanced Grant project Women in the Nordic Enlightenment and founded the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Women in the History of Philosophy (INSPIRE). She specialises in Renaissance and Early Modern philosophy, with a focus on theories of the passions and of the mind, moral philosophy, and feminist historiography. Her publications include Shaping Women Philosophers. Studies on the Archaeology of the Female Intellectual Identity (Brill 2025).

Monika Kirloskar-Steinbach holds the chair “Diversifying Philosophy” at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Trained in social and political philosophy, she focuses on doing philosophy from a world-philosophical perspective in her current research. Her books Freedom to Know: Creating Community with Ambedkar, Du Bois, Iqbal, Ramabai and Tagore (Edinburgh University Press 2025) and The Practical Guide to World Philosophies: Selves, World and Ways of Knowing (with Leah Kalmanson; Bloomsbury 2021) have resulted from this research. Kirloskar-Steinbach serves as the chief editor of the Journal of World Philosophies and the book series Bloomsbury Introductions to World Philosophies and Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies.

Mariken Teeuwen is senior researcher at Huygens Institute for the History and Culture of the Netherlands and professor by special appointment at the Institute for History at Leiden University for the Culture of Writing in the Middle Ages. She is a manuscript scholar with a special interest how makers and users of manuscripts added annotations in their books in the medieval Latin West.

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