Past Talks

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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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.

Past Talks

Cavell Conference at Harvard

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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.