Dr. Pichová is giving a guest lecture in the seminar Radical Feminism (led by Ana Rodrigues).
The lecture will take place on campus in room E2.316.
Interested guests are welcome! However, due to limited room capacity, prior registration is requested: please email to ana.rodrigues@uni-paderborn.de
Dr. Pichová will present the life and work of two Czech women philosophers, Anna Pammrová (1860–1945) and Albína Dratvová (1892–1969).
Albína Dratvová was among the first women to graduate from Charles University in Prague. She was the first Czech woman philosopher to pursue an academic career, publish a philosophical monograph, and earn her habilitation in philosophy. Dratvová was also deeply engaged with psychology and ethical issues. In Smutek vzdělanců (The Sadness of Scholars, 1940), she explored the nature and causes of the distinct melancholy experienced by scholars as a consequence of their intellectual work.
Anna Pammrová spent most of her life in seclusion in the forest, living in extremely modest conditions. Despite her unconventional and largely self-directed education, she acquired extensive knowledge of foreign languages and translated philosophical texts into Czech. Her interests spanned Ancient Indian wisdom, theosophy, and the philosophy of Tolstoy, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche.
Dagmar Pichová argues that studying their work is valuable not only as a case study of Central European women philosophers but also for its broader intellectual contributions. Pammrová’s thought can be examined through the lens of contemporary ecofeminism, while Dratvová developed a complex perspective on the status and role of scholars in modern society.