Independant Simone de Beauvoir scholars, in collaboration with the University of Santo Tomas Department of Philosophy, invite you to the 1st session of the Simone de Beauvoir Webinar Series!

This first session of the series will be opened by Dr. Jennifer McWeeny, and Dr. Claudia Bouliane, the Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Editor, respectively of the academic journal Simone de Beauvoir Studies and members of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society.

This webinar is dedicated to how Beauvoir was read by her thousands of readers from around the world. Their letters are kept at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and for this session, two scholars who have been working on them will share their insights.

The historian Dr. Judith Coffin, the first academic to publish a groundbreaking paper in 2008, recently published a book at Cornell University Press titled Sex, Love and Letters: Writing Simone de Beauvoir (2020). Dr. Coffin paved the way for the research of Ms. Marine Rouch who is currently writing her dissertation on the influence of Beauvoir’s work on «ordinary» women. Dr. Coffin and Ms. Rouch will engage in a conversation about their common interest in the letters. Their conversation will be followed by Dr. Marella Ada Bolaños' response to the conversation.

Join us in this interesting discourse on Beauvoir and her readers. This is a free event and is open to the public. Please register via the Google link below. The Zoom link will be sent to your registered email address prior the event.
Registration link: https://docs.google.com/.../1FAIpQLScy3jsOSI1.../viewform...

​For inquiries about the webinar, send an email to [email protected]
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