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My November 2011 paper on the Humanities available in Norwegian

Posted on 19 December 2011

On November 22, I gave a paper on the value of the humanities at Forskningspolitisk seminar organized by Forskerforbundet in Oslo. All the papers from the seminar are now available online. I include the pdf of my own manuscript here: Moi_Verdien av humaniora November 2011. A short version of my own paper was published in Morgenbladet on December 2, 2011, under the title “Å lage det som er vanvittig vakkert” (“To make something insanely beautiful.”) You can download a pdf file here.

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Article on Knausgård’s Min kamp in Morgenbladet

Posted on 16 December 2011

My article on Karl Ove Knausgård’s Min kamp has just appeared in Morgenbladet (in Norwegian).  The full reference is: Toril Moi, “Skam og åpenhet,” Morgenbladet, 16 December 2011, pp. 44-45. The article will be available online in four weeks. But this link should take you to the full issue (promotional link valid in December 2011 only, doesn’t work on iPads). Just go to pp. 44-45 to read the article. If that doesn’t work, here is a pdf file with the text: Moi Skam og åpenhet.

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The Value of the Humanities

Posted on 22 November 2011

Toril Moi will speak about the value of the humanities at a seminar about research funding organized by Forskerforbundet (the Norwegian Association for Researchers) in Oslo on Tuesday 22 November. For more information about this seminar, which will begin with a talk by Tora Aasland, the current Minister for Knowledge, click here.

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A talk about Emperor and Galilean at the Ibsen Museum in Oslo

Posted on 20 November 2011

Toril Moi will give a talk (in Norwegian) on Emperor and Galilean at the Ibsen Museum in Oslo on Sunday 20 November at 2:00 p.m. The talk will be called “Tro uten kjærlighet” (“Faith without love”). She will focus on the relevance of Ibsen’s great 1873 play for our own time, not least in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011.

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The new Journal of Feminist Scholarship is now online

Posted on 16 November 2011

The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a new online journal. It aims ” to offer an open-access academic forum for the publication of innovative, peer-reviewed feminist scholarship across the disciplines and to encourage productive debates among scholars and activists interested in examining methodological directions and political contexts and ramifications of feminist inquiry.” The enterprising editors are Catherine Villanueva Gardner, Anna M. Klobucka, and Jeannette E. Riley at the University of Massachusetts. Here is a link to my own short piece in the inaugural issue’s round table on “Feminism and Feminist Scholarship Today.”

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Article about the humanities (in Norwegian)

Posted on 8 November 2011

I have uploaded my article about the different position of the humanities in Norway and in the United States. Click here to download a pdf file. This essay is written in Norwegian.

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Talking about Ibsen and Newfoundland on Canadian Radio

Posted on 7 November 2011

On Sunday 23 October, CBC’s radio program “The Sunday Edition” had a segment on Ibsen, which included an interview with a fascinating young Sudanese artist inspired by Ibsen’s Nora, and a conversation with Paula Dankert, from the National Theatre in Ottawa, and Toril Moi, and the experience of studying Ibsen on Fogo Island.  A link to the audio file (available as a pop-up from the page) can be found here.

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Simone de Beauvoir Symposium at Duke on Friday 24 September!

Posted on 22 September 2011

The long-awaited “Simone de Beauvoir Today” symposium is here! It is co-organized by PAL (Duke’s Center for Philosophy, Arts, and Literature) and Women’s Studies at Duke. We have had almost 100 registrations for it, way beyond expectations. For a pdf file of  the full program, click here: SdB Today 2011 Program. For a link to the program, click here.

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Sandra Laugier at Duke

Posted on 19 September 2011

The distinguished philosopher and feminist, Sandra Laugier, professor of philosophy of language at the Sorbonne, will be giving an informal talk on “Wittgenstein in France” at PAL, on Thursday. I am very much looking forward to welcoming her to Duke!

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Review of Anne B. Ragde’s latest novel (in Norwegian)

Posted on 11 September 2011

On my Norwegian pages, I have now put up a link to my brand new review of Anne B. Ragde’s new novel Jeg skal gjøre deg så lykkelig (I’ll make you so happy), published in Morgenbladet on September 9, 2011. The review is written in Norwegian.

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