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.
Posts Tagged ‘beauvoir’
Nancy Bauer reviews the new translation of The Second Sex
Posted on 18 August 2011
Click here to read Nancy Bauer’s fine review of the new translation of The Second Sex, published in the electronic journal Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews on August 14, 2011. Click here to find a number of reviews of the new English texts, including my own.
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“Filosofi og hjertesorg”
Posted on 11 June 2011
I have just added a pdf file with the Norwegian text of this article, published in Morgenbladet on 10 June 2011. This is a very abbreviated version of the lecture I gave at Litteraturhuset in Oslo on 7 June 2011. You will find the essay here.
tagged with beauvoir , feminism , literature and philosophy
“The Adventure of Reading” now published
Posted on 12 April 2011
My new paper “The Adventure of Reading: Literature and Philosophy, Cavell and Beauvoir” has now been published in Literature and Theology, 2011. <doi: 10.1093/litthe/frr014> . For a free access link to a pdf of the paper, please click here.
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31 March 2011
The University of Chicago
On March 31, Toril Moi will give a lecture at the University of Chicago, entitled “‘To make them other, and face them’: Literature, Philosophy and Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Woman Destroyed.’” – The lecture is organized by the Center for Gender Studies, and will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Room 110 in The Classics Building (1010 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL).
Here is a brief description of the talk: In her memoirs, Beauvoir famously complained that both the critics and her women readers had misread “The Woman Destroyed.” The critics hated it, since they took it to be a sentimental romance for women (the story was serialized in Elle in the fall of 1967). The readers of Elle loved it, much for the same reason. Toril Moi will reconsider the reception and ask what it can tell us about a more satisfying way of reading this short story. By comparing “The Woman Destroyed” to Beauvoir’s well received first novel, She Came to Stay (L’Invitée, 1943), she will bring out the philosophical and feminist interest of this underestimated text.
If anyone wants to do background reading for the lecture, they should read Simone de Beauvoir’s short story “The Woman Destroyed” (“La Femme rompue”) in the volume of the same title. Those who are really interested in Beauvoir’s fiction should also read L’Invitée (translated as She Came to Stay).
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14 March 2011
The University of Bergen, Norway
On March 14, Toril Moi will give a talk entitled “The Concept of the Other: What Can We Learn from Simone de Beauvoir?” (in Norwegian), and participate in a round table discussion about the relevance of Simone de Beauvoir today, at a conference called “Hva er feministisk filosofi?” (What is feminist philosophy?) organized by Bergensnettverket for kvinner i filosofi (The Bergen Network for Women in Philosophy). For more information, contact Professor Vigdis Songe-Møller: <vigdis.songe-moller@fof.uib.no>.
8 March 2011
The Elizabeth Fallaize Memorial Lecture, Oxford
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.”
4 November 2010
New York University
On November 4th at 2:00 p.m. Toril Moi will lead a seminar on the new translation of The Second Sex at NYU. The seminar will take place in the Maison Française (16, Washington Mews, NY, NY 1003 Tel. (212) 998-8750).
On November 5 at 4:00 p.m. Toril Moi will give a lecture entitled “Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Other: Reading Beauvoir with Cavell”. It will take place in the “Great Room” on the ground floor in 19, University Place (across the street from the Maison Française).
tagged with beauvoir , cavell , lectures , olp , translation
14 October 2010
Cavell Conference at Harvard
Toril Moi will participate in the conference “Stanley Cavell and Literary Studies” at Harvard, organized by Bernie Rhie (Williams) and Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore). The conference is co-sponsored by PAL. She will present a paper entitled “Literature, Philosophy, and the Question of the Other: Reading Beauvoir with Cavell.” The conference begins with a celebration of the publication of Cavell’s autobiography Little Did I Know in Boylston Hall, at 6:30 p.m. on October 14, and continues with presentation and discussion of papers on October 15 and 16. For more information, click here.