Toril Moi will give a talk on Ibsen’s Emperor and Galilean at the National Theatre in London on Friday 22 July, 2011 at 5:30 p.m. The talk will take place just before the evening’s performance of the play. Click here for more information.
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22 July 2011
Platform talk at the National Theatre, London
27 April 2011
Hommage à Julia Kristeva, Paris
On April 27, Toril Moi will give one of three brief talks (in French) on the work of Julia Kristeva at Université Paris 7 – Denis Diderot. The panel has been convened by the University to celebrate the career of Julia Kristeva on the occasion of her retirement. You can download the program for the event as a pdf. file by clicking Prog_A5.
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11 April 2011
Julia Kristeva aujourd’hui
Julia Kristeva retires from her university post at the University of Paris-Diderot at the end of this academic year. On April 27, Paris-Diderot invites admirers of Kristeva’s work to a day of intellectual festivities to mark the occasion. I attach the program (in French). Click Kristeva 27 avril 2011 to download the pdf file.
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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.”
13 December 2010
The University of Costa Rica
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).
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27 October 2010
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Toril Moi will give two lectures, co-sponsored by the Unit for Criticism and the Scandinavian Program of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures:
Thursday October 28, at 8 p.m.”What Does It Mean to Claim that Sex, Gender and the Body are Socially Constructed?” (Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor).
Friday October 29, at 1 p.m. “Hedda’s Silences: Skepticism and Modernity in Hedda Gabler“, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building. A reception will follow.
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.
13 October 2010
Boston University
On Wednesday October 13, Toril Moi will give a lecture at Boston University, as part of the “Lectures in Criticism” series sponsored by the BU Humanities Foundation. The title of the talk is ”When It Makes Sense (or Not) to Claim that Sex, Gender, and the Body are Socially Constructed”. The talk will take place at 5:30 p.m. For more information, click here.
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