Posts Tagged ‘feminism’

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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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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26 June 2011

National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC

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.

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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.

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Article in The Independent (UK) about Women Writers

Posted on 13 May 2011

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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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>.

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