A HUN-REN BTK Filozófiai Intézet meghív mindenkit Luka Boršić és Ivana Skuhala Karasman Breaking barriers: the unconventional life of dr. sc. Elza Kučera című szemináriumára. Az előadás és az utána következő diszkusszió angol nyelven fog zajlani.
Időpont: 2025. február 4. kedd, 14:00
Helyszín: BTK Filozófiai Intézet, 1097 Budapest, Tóth Kálmán u. 4., 7. emelet, Trapéz terem (B.7.16)
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Summary:
Elza Kučera (1883–1972) holds the distinction of achieving four significant “firsts” in Croatia: she was the first Croatian-born woman to receive a PhD in philosophy, the first Croatian experimental psychologist, the first Croatian woman employed as a public servant, and the first Croatian woman librarian. Kučera earned her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Zurich in 1909. Nonetheless, her primary scholarly interest lay in psychology. Consequently, the majority of her scientific contributions occupy a space at the intersection of philosophy and psychology. Beyond these disciplines, Kučera also pursued a career as a librarian, contributing to the field of library science through her published works. She was bilingual in Croatian and German, and was fluent in Hungarian and French.
This presentation is organized into three parts. In the first part, Luka Boršić and Ivana Skuhala Karasman will provide an overview of Kučera's life and career. In the second part, Luka Boršić will explore Kučera's contributions as a philosopher and librarian, while Ivana Skuhala Karasman will, in the final section, discuss her work as a psychologist and her advocacy for women's rights.
The lecturers:
Luka Boršić obtained his first Ph.D. in Ancient Philosophy, with an emphasis on classical languages, from the Internationale Akademie für Philosophie in 2001. He earned his second Ph.D. in the History of Philosophy, focusing on Renaissance anti-Aristotelianism, from the University of Zagreb in 2010. His main research areas include Ancient Philosophy, Renaissance Philosophy, the birth of modern science, and Gender Philosophy, particularly the history of women philosophers. He is currently the Director and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. In 2019, he was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University in New York. He has been the Principal Investigator of the research project Croatian Women Philosophers in the European Context, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation, Croatian Women Philosophers, funded by the NextGenerationEU fund and the Principal Investigator of the Croatian part of the Weave Czech-Croatian project Natura historiae, historia naturae: Unveiling Nature's Historicity through Early Modern Analyses of Continuity, Time, and Human History. He is the author or co-author of five books and over forty articles and book chapters.
Ivana Skuhala Karasman studied Philosophy and Croatology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb and in 2011, she defended her Ph.D. thesis, titled Prediction in Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy (in the Works of H. Dalmatin, F. Grisogono, G. Raguseus). She is currently a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb. She is also the head of the Department of the Croatian Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and serves as Principal Investigator of the project New Topics in Croatian Philosophy from 1874 to 1945. She is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Contributions to the Research of Croatian Philosophical Heritage. She has published five books and more than fifty articles and book chapters. Over the past five years, her main focus has been Gender Philosophy, specifically the history of Croatian women philosophers.
