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Thursday 1 June
 
10:00 Welcome: Wollstonecraft in the world Sandrine Bergès (Bilkent).
 
10:40-11:30 Patrick Fessenbecker (Bilkent)  "What do you have to do to get read philosophically?  On Wollstonecraft and philosophical readings of the history of philosophy."
Respondent Zacharus Gudmunsen.
Chair: Banu Helvacioğlu
 
11:40-12:30 Alan Coffee (KCL) “Wollstonecraft’s Idea of Independence as Relational Social Freedom”
Respondent: Bill Wringe
Chair: Rina Tzinmann
 
13:40-14:30: Laura Brace (Leicester) "The Unhappy Marriage of Gender and Slavery: Wives as Slaves, Wives and Slaves"
 Respondent: Gizem Kavas
Chair: Istvan Aranyosi

​14:40-15:30 Roberta Wedge "Mary the life, Wollstonecraft the legacy. Engaging with undergrads online and neighbourhood groups on the ground."
Chair: Tuğba Sevinç
 
15:40-16:30 Zübeyde Karadağ Thorpe (Hacettepe)"Turkish Women from Late Ottoman Empire to Early Turkish Republic"
Respondent: Saniye Vantansever
Chair: Ayşe Çellikol
 
16:40-18:30 Keynote: Sarah Hutton (York) Becoming a feminist philosopher: Mary Wollstonecraft and the history of philosophy'. 
Chair: Alan Coffee
 
Friday 2 June
 
10:40- 11:30 Özlem Duva (Dokuz Eylül) Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity with Mary Wollstonecraft"
Respondent: Sena Yalçın
Chair: David Butcher
 
11:40- 12:30 Burcu Gürkan (Independent scholars) Swimsuits and Chocolate Chip Cookies: Women's Bodies, Self-Knowledge, and Moments of Erasure.
Respondent: Mustafa Yıldız
Chair: Will Day
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13:40-14:30 Saniye Vatansever  (Işık and Yediteipe) and Bensu Arican (Bilkent) : Presentation of SWIP-TR
 
14:40-15:30 Lucas Thorpe (Boğazici): "Is virtue relative? A problem with Wollstonecraft's argument against 'sexual virtues'."
Respondent: Sandrine Berges 
Chair: Heather Yeung
 
15:40-16:30 Gözde Yıldırım (Boğaziçi) Is Wollstonecraft’s Republican Freedom from Domination Justified? – A Kantian Answer.
Respondent: David M. Kovacs
Chair:Tuğba Sevinç

16:40 - 18:30 Keynote: Hatice Nur Erkızan (Muğla) The Psychology of Capabilities: A journey from Wollstonecraft to Nussbaum.
Chair: Sandrine Berges.

Saturday 3 June

19:30 - 21:00 : debate on Republicanism and the Family at the Holiday Cave Hotel in Göreme, Cappadocia.
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