Posts Tagged ‘beauvoir’

8 March 2011

The Elizabeth Fallaize Memorial Lecture, Oxford

On March 8, 2011 Toril Moi will give the Elizabeth Fallaize Memorial Lecture in the Faculty of Modern Languages at Oxford University. Elizabeth Fallaize was a dear friend, and a much missed Beauvoir scholar.

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10 February 2011

University of Florida, Gainesville

On February 10-11, 2011 Toril Moi will be the keynote speaker at the Simone de Beauvoir conference organized by the University of Florida’s Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research. The tentative title of her paper is “‘The Taste of Another Life”: Beauvoir Between Philosophy and Literature.”

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4 November 2010

New York University

On November 4th Toril Moi will probably lead a seminar on the new translation of The Second Sex, and also, probably, give a lecture at NYU. More information will be posted later.

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14 October 2010

Cavell Conference at Harvard

Toril Moi will participate in the Cavell conference at Harvard, organized by Bernie Rhie (Williams) and Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore). The conference is co-sponsored by PAL.  She hopes to write a paper about the concept of the Other in Beauvoir, Cavell and Lévinas for the occasion. The conference begins with an event at the Humanities Center at Harvard in the evening of October 14, and continues with presentation and discussion of papers on October 15 and 16. For more information, click here. Click cavell-friday-and-saturday-6 and cavell-thursday-5 to download the posters.

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29 June 2010

The University of Nottingham

Toril Moi will give the HSRRC Annual Lecture at the University of Nottingham (UK) at 5 p. m. on Tuesday 29 June, 2010, in the Arts Centre Lecture Theatre. The title of her lecture will be “What Does It Mean to Claim that  Sex, Gender and the Body Are Socially Constructed?”

On Wednesday 30th June she will lead a seminar on the new translation of The Second Sex, in the French Department at the University of Nottingham. The seminar will take place from 10 a.m. to 12 noon. Place TBA.

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The Translation of The Second Sex, yet again

Posted on 21 June 2010

On June 20, The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article by Carlin Romano on the new translation of The Second Sex. Mostly about my views on the translation. For a pdf file of the text, please go to “Essays”.

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The New Translation of The Second Sex

Posted on 1 May 2010

I have uploaded my London Review of Books review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex under “Other Writing”. The pdf file contains all the letters to the editor as well. My own reply to the translators is included in the file, somewhere in the middle of the letters. You will also find my essay on the old translation of The Second Sex there, for comparison.

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The New Translation of The Second Sex

Posted on 6 February 2010

Toril Moi’s review of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex is now available on the website of the London Review of Books.


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The Norwegian Non-Fiction Canon

Posted on 24 September 2009

The preface I wrote specially for  my own Norwegian translation of Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman (Simone de Beauvoir: en intellektuell kvinne blir til) made it on to the list of the 45 best non-fiction texts in Norway, selected by the national organization for teachers of Norwegian (LNU). The jury’s list was published in March 2009. See the list in Sakprosakanon for skolen.

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Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman in French

Posted on 13 September 2009

Toril Moi’s book Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, 2nd ed. will be published in French by Flammarion Philosophie in 2010.

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