I have finally caught up with my own columns! Four columns from 2013 have now been uploaded. They deal with Camilla Collett, Sonia Sotomayor, Hilary Mantel, and Sheryl Sandberg, respectively. All in Norwegian, I am afraid.
tagged with feminism , Norwegian literature , women writers
On Friday 25 January at 18:00 I will give a talk about Camilla Collett’s novel Amtmandens Døttre at Oslo’s Literature House, and discuss Camilla Collett with Cathrine Sandnes, editor of Samtiden.
tagged with feminism , Norwegian literature , women writers
On Monday 21st January, my little booklet called Språk og oppmerksomhet [Language and Attention] will be published by Aschehoug Publishers in Oslo. The booklet is part of a series called Stemmer [Voices], consisting of 12 booklets written by women, to mark the centenary of Norwegian women’s right to vote. The series will be launch at the publishers at 19:00.
tagged with feminism , humanities , women writers
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
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.
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.
From June 27 to July 1, Toril Moi will teach one of the Summer Institutes in Literary Study at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina. The Institute will focus on Doris Lessing’s novel The Golden Notebook.
tagged with feminism , Lessing , women writers
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
I am quoted in Arifa Akbar’s very interesting essay in The Independent (UK), Friday 13th May, 2011, about women writers and feminism today. The essay is a response to Granta‘s forthcoming issue The F Word. Click here to see the link to the essay. For my own essay on how feminism became the F word, click here and scroll down the page a bit.
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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>.