I have now posted information on the talks I will be giving in Norway in May and June. Click here for more information.
Michael McCreary wins Duke’s Bascom Headen Palmer Prize for the best senior thesis on a literary subject
Posted on 24 April 2012
I am thrilled to announce that Michael McCreary, a philosophy major at Duke, has won Duke’s Bascom Headen Palmer Prize for the best senior thesis on a literary subject for 2012. Michael’s thesis, which I had the great pleasure and honor to direct, is entitled “‘They are Shut’: Confessing the Truth of Skepticism and Acknowledging the Possibility for Tragedy. A Reading of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations with Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground.‘” This is an exceptionally well written and thoughtful investigation of what Dostoevsky’s text can tell us about the attractions of skepticism, and of why the philosophy of Cavell, Wittgenstein, and Austin can help us to see this. I am proud to be associated with such excellent work. I believe this is the first time in recent memory that a Philosophy major wins this award at Duke.
tagged with cavell , Duke , literature and philosophy , olp , wittgenstein
Book in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize
Posted on 25 March 2012
Women, Genre, and Circumstance: Essays in Memory of Elizabeth Fallaize, edited by Margaret Atack, Diana Holmes, Diana Knight and Judith Still, will be published in April by the British publisher Legenda. I have a new essay on Beauvoir’s short story “The Woman Destroyed” (“La Femme rompue”) in the volume. There is also an essay by Elizabeth Fallaize, which has never been published in English before. Click the link to see all the details. I am moved to see so many friends and colleagues coming together to honor Elizabeth’s memory.
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Wittgenstein in Sogn in the Beautiful Month of May!
Posted on 28 February 2012
I am delighted to be participating in a Wittgenstein seminar at Walaker Hotel in Sogn, from May 11-13. The seminar includes a trip to the site of Wittgenstein’s cabin, which I have never seen. I am honored to find myself in the company of Knut Olav Åmås and Kjartan Fløgstad. (This whole event will take place in Norwegian.)
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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.”
tagged with feminism , feminist theory
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.
tagged with humanities , norway