CFP: The following are call for papers for Beauvoir scholarship.
International Simone de Beauvoir Society at the Modern Language Association
"Simone de Beauvoir's Fiction: Question of Privilege"
We're looking for papers discussing how Beauvoir's novels address intersectionalities of identity and oppression, social class and social justice, consumer culture, situated histories, and/or how she speaks to us today. Please send a 300-word abstract and your cv to Meryl Altman, maltman@depauw.edu, by March 10.
Presenters must be members of the Society, but it is easy to join (or renew) here.
Existentialism and Political Thought
UK Sartre Society conference 2018
Maison Française d'Oxford
Friday 6th July
The keynote speaker this year is Professor Sonia Kruks (Oberlin), author of Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford UniversityPress, 2012), Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics (Cornell University Press, 2001), The Political Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty (Harvester, 1981), and numerous landmark papers on the existential and political philosophies of Beauvoir, Fanon, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre.
Call For Abstracts
What can today's political debates learn from a renewed attention to the classic works of French existentialism? In what ways should current political theory be informed by the literary and theoretical works of Beauvoir, Fanon, Sartre, and other existentialist writers? How well do those works stand up to critical political scrutiny today?
We invite abstracts of papers addressing these questions or any other aspect of the connection between political thought and French existentialism.
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. Please bear in mind that each selected paper will be scheduled 30 minutes for presentation plus some time for questions.
Abstracts must be submitted through our new online submission system. This is a simple text system, so abstracts cannot include bold, italics, or footnotes. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so should not include any information that would identify their authors.
The submission system will open on Thursday 1st March and close at 5pm GMT on Friday 16th March. It will be available at: http://uksartresociety.com
"Simone de Beauvoir's Fiction: Question of Privilege"
We're looking for papers discussing how Beauvoir's novels address intersectionalities of identity and oppression, social class and social justice, consumer culture, situated histories, and/or how she speaks to us today. Please send a 300-word abstract and your cv to Meryl Altman, maltman@depauw.edu, by March 10.
Presenters must be members of the Society, but it is easy to join (or renew) here.
Existentialism and Political Thought
UK Sartre Society conference 2018
Maison Française d'Oxford
Friday 6th July
The keynote speaker this year is Professor Sonia Kruks (Oberlin), author of Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (Oxford UniversityPress, 2012), Retrieving Experience: Subjectivity and Recognition in Feminist Politics (Cornell University Press, 2001), The Political Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty (Harvester, 1981), and numerous landmark papers on the existential and political philosophies of Beauvoir, Fanon, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty, and Sartre.
Call For Abstracts
What can today's political debates learn from a renewed attention to the classic works of French existentialism? In what ways should current political theory be informed by the literary and theoretical works of Beauvoir, Fanon, Sartre, and other existentialist writers? How well do those works stand up to critical political scrutiny today?
We invite abstracts of papers addressing these questions or any other aspect of the connection between political thought and French existentialism.
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. Please bear in mind that each selected paper will be scheduled 30 minutes for presentation plus some time for questions.
Abstracts must be submitted through our new online submission system. This is a simple text system, so abstracts cannot include bold, italics, or footnotes. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so should not include any information that would identify their authors.
The submission system will open on Thursday 1st March and close at 5pm GMT on Friday 16th March. It will be available at: http://uksartresociety.com
