July 3-4, 2023
The program is out on the UK Sartre Society website. Feminism Today with Kate Kirkpatrick and Manon Garcia
April 11, at the American Library in Paris Registration: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kirkpatrick-garcia23/ The past decade has seen many significant moments in feminist history, amplified by the rise of social media. The consent revolution, from #MeToo to #Balancetonporc, led to a reevaluation of power dynamics in the workplace and in society at large. The Women’s March demonstrated the power of mass-mobilization, as well as its limits. Developments in queer studies have led to evolving notions of what womanhood means, complicating the contours of feminism and the groups it represents. Racial justice movements have brought the question of intersectionality to the forefront of feminist philosophies. As social life rapidly changes around us, Is a unified definition of feminism–as a set of principles, a practice, an approach to life–still possible? Was it ever? Join philosophers of feminism Kate Kirkatrick and Manon Garcia to discuss. Simone de Beauvoir: Living Philosophy with Kate Kirkpatrick and Marine Rouch
March 28th, at the American Library in Paris. Registration: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kirkpatrick-rouch23/ Nearly seventy-five years ago, Simone de Beauvoir published the monumental The Second Sex. An invaluable contribution to existential philosophy, the work laid the foundations for contemporary feminist thought. It led to the development of new disciplines, from gender studies to queer theory, all motivated by the central claim: that one is not born a woman, but rather becomes one. Who was the woman behind the text? How did her life feed into her philosophy, and in what ways were the two in contradiction? How did Simone de Beauvoir become herself? Join American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow and author of Becoming Beauvoir Kate Kirkpatrick and de Beauvoir expert Marine Rouch to discuss the biography of the woman who changed philosophy. |
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