 [Version française ci-dessous] [En] For this third session of 2025, we are delighted to welcome Janine Jones, guest editor of Simone de Beauvoir Studies' Vol. 34, issue 2: Sites of Coercion: Plantation, Colony, Metropole. Janine Jones (University of North Carolina Greensboro Greensboro, NC, USA), will be in conversation with two authors who participated in the special issue: Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts Boston, MA USA) and Françoise Vergès (University College London Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation London UK). Date and Time September 9, 2025 8am (NYC) / / 1pm (London) / 2pm (Paris) / 8pm (Manila) The Special issue Details about the special issue: https://brill.com/view/journals/sdbs/34/2/sdbs.34.issue-2.xml To get access to the special issue: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html *Join us! This is a free event and is open to the public. Please fill out and submit this form to complete your registration. The Zoom link will be sent to your registered email address a few hours before the event. **The session will also be streamed on the Facebook page of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society: https://www.facebook.com/SdBSociety1 and then posted on our Youtube Channel (if the participants agree): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZSTeeTu4Ez05Ori4r2DSlQ ***For inquiries about the webinar, send an email to [email protected] / To become a member of the Society and receive the journal: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html  [Fr] Pour cette troisième session de 2025, nous recevons Janine Jones, éditrice invitée de Simone de Beauvoir Studies (Vol. 34, issue 2) : Lieux de coercition: la plantation, la colonie, le métropole.
Janine Jones (University of North Carolina Greensboro Greensboro, NC, USA), sera en conversation avec deux des auteurices du numéro : Mickaella Perina (University of Massachusetts Boston, MA USA) et Françoise Vergès (University College London Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation London UK). Date et horaire 9 septembre 2025 8h (NYC) / / 13h (London) / 14h (Paris) / 20h (Manila) Le numéro spécial Contenu du numéro spécial : https://brill.com/view/journals/sdbs/34/2/sdbs.34.issue-2.xml Accès au numéro spécial : https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html *Rejoignez-nous ! Cet événement est gratuit et ouvert au public. Veuillez remplir et soumettre ce formulaire pour compléter votre inscription. Le lien Zoom sera envoyé à l'adresse électronique que vous avez enregistrée la veille de l'événement. **La session sera également diffusée sur la page Facebook de la Société Internationale Simone de Beauvoir : https://www.facebook.com/SdBSociety1 et ensuite sur notre chaîne Youtube (si accord des participantes) : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZSTeeTu4Ez05Ori4r2DSlQ ***Pour toute question concernant le webinaire, envoyez un courriel à [email protected] Pour devenir membre de la Société et recevoir le journal : https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html
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 [En] For this second session of 2025, we are delighted to welcome Megan Burke, author of Becoming a Woman. Simone de Beauvoir and The Politics of Trans Existence (Polity Books 2025). Megan will be in conversation with philosophers Ellie Anderson (Pomona College, USA) and Perry Zurn (American University, USA).
Participants: Megan Burke is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Sonoma State University (USA). They are a longtime member of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society and previously served as its first Coordinator of Communications. Megan is interested in the meanings, structures, and norms of gender, race, sexuality, class, and nationality, and has authored When Time Warps The Lived Experience of Gender, Race, and Sexual Violence (University of Minnesota Press, 2019) and Becoming a Woman. Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Trans Existence (Polity Books 2025) is their latest book. Ellie Anderson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Pomona College (USA). Her research focuses on relational theories of selfhood, the philosophy of love, and sexual ethics. She is currently completing a monograph on the phenomenology of selfhood and a series of articles on sexual ethics and love, as well as preparing a book critically analyzing self-care and self-objectification in contemporary life. Ellie is also co-host of Overthink podcast and YouTube channel. Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies, the Honors Program, and the Antiracist Research and Policy Center. He researches primarily in political philosophy, critical theory, trans theory and lgtbq+ studies, and collaborates in psychology and network neuroscience. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (2021) and How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University (2025), as well as the co-author of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (2022). He is also the co-editor of Trans Philosophy (2024), Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge (2020), and Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (2016), as well as the co-editor and co-translator of Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980 (2021). The book (presentation from the editor) : "This highly engaging analysis of the contemporary global social and political landscape of trans antagonisms draws specific attention to gender-critical mobilizations of Simone de Beauvoir's account of becoming a woman in The Second Sex to advance and justify trans-exclusionary positions. Through a careful examination and application of Beauvoir's philosophical and political commitments, Becoming a Woman compellingly explores the significance of her notion of becoming not only as affirmative of trans women, but also as an ethical demand to affirm trans possibilities. More than a reply to gender-critical readings of Beauvoir, this book develops an original, Beauvoirian ethics of gender affirmation that shows why we ought to challenge trans exclusion and anti-trans movements." For this first session of 2025, we are delighted to welcome Lori Jo Marso, author of Feminism and the Cinema of Experience (Duke University Press 2025).
She will be in conversation with feminist scholar Adèle Cassigneul (ENSAD Limoges) and cultural studies Professor Kelli Fuery (Chapman University). Participants: Lori Jo Marso is Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, Professor of Political Science, and Director of American Studies at Union College (USA). She is member of the Board of Directors of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society. Lori Jo Marso has authored several books among which areFeminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women (Routledge 2006; 2025)and Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter (Duke University Press 2017). She is coeditor of Politics, Theory, and Film: Critical Encounters with Lars von Trier (OUP 2016) and W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender (Duke University Press 2007). Feminism and the Cinema of Experience is her latest one. Adèle Cassigneul is a feminist scholar teaching at École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Limoges (France). She holds a PhD in British Literature from the University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France) and specializes in 20th and 21st century English literature, visual culture and queer and gender studies. She published several articles, poems, critical essays. She is also the author of several books including Voir, observer, penser. Virgina Woolf et la photo-cinématographie (PUM 2018) and Woolf, à l'oblique (Peregrines 2025), released the same day as this webinar. She is also the co-creator of Outsider, a journal of creative critique in literature and visual arts. Kelli Fuery is a cultural studies and visual cultures Professor at Chapman University (USA). She is the author of several books including New Media: Culture and Image (Bloomsbury 2009), The Gift and Visual Culture: Doubles, Disruption and Exchange (VDM Verlag 2008), Wilfred Bion, Thinking and Emotional Experience with Moving Images (Routledge 2018), and Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film-Phenomenology (Edinburgh University Press 2022). Her research explores why we mediate the world around us in the ways that we do, examining how our inner worlds influence the social and cultural contexts which influence our choices. The book (presentation from the editor) : "From popular films like Greta Gerwig’s Barbie (2023) to Chantal Akerman’s avant-garde classic Jeanne Dielman (1975), feminist cinema can provoke discomfort. Ambivalence, stasis, horror, cringe—these and other affects refuse the resolution of feeling good or bad, leaving viewers questioning and disoriented. In Feminism and the Cinema of Experience, Lori Jo Marso examines how filmmakers scramble our senses to open up space for encountering and examining the political conditions of patriarchy, racism, and existential anxiety. Building on Akerman’s cinematic lexicon and Simone de Beauvoir’s phenomenological attention to the lives of girls and women, Marso analyzes film and television by directors ranging from Akerman, Gerwig, Mati Diop, Catherine Breillat, and Joey Soloway to Emerald Fennell, Michaela Coel, Audrey Diwan, Alice Diop, and Julia Ducournau. Through their innovative and intentional uses of camera, sound, editing, and new forms of narrative, these directors use discomfort in order to invite viewers to feel like feminists and to sense the possibility of freedom." https://www.dukeupress.edu/feminism-and-the-cinema-of-experience [FR] Pour cette dernière session de 2024, nous recevons Marie-Anne Casselot et Cécile Gagnon, autrices de Existantes. Pour une philosophie féministe incarnée (les éditions du remue ménage, 2024).
Elles seront en conversation avec la philosophe Mickaëlle Provost, que nous avions reçue en janvier à l'occasion de la parution de son essai, L'Expérience de l'oppression. Une phénoménologie du sexisme et du racisme (PUF 2023) * [EN] For this final session of 2024, we welcome Marie-Anne Casselot and Cécile Gagnon, authors of Existantes. Pour une philosophie féministe incarnée (les éditions du remue ménage, 2024). They will be in conversation with philosopher Mickaëlle Provost, whom we hostel in January on the occasion of the publication of her essay, L'Expérience de l'oppression. Une phénoménologie du sexisme et du racisme (PUF 2023). Note to our anglophone audience: The session will be mainly in French. However, we will provide a presentation of the book in English as the authors present their work. We will also make sure that the conversation is easily accessible to all. Les participantes / Participants: Cécile Gagnon est chargée de cours et doctorante en philosophie à l’Université de Montréal. Ses recherches s'inscrivent en philosophie féministe et éthique critique du care et s'intéressent, entre autres, à la question de la charge mentale. Elle a publié de nombreux articles dans diverses revues académiques. Marie-Anne Casselot est docteure en philosophie à l’Université Laval. Sa thèse s'intéresse à la façon dont les sujets incarnés occupent l'espace en fonction de leur genre. Elle a codirigé l’ouvrage Faire partie du monde: réflexions écoféministes (Remue-ménage, 2017) et a publié de nombreux articles académiques. Mickaëlle Provost est docteure en philosophie de l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Elle a co-dirigé avec Marie Garreau Expériences vécues du genre et de la race. Pour une phénoménologie critique (2022). Elle est actuellement en post-doctorat à au centre Prospéro. Ses recherches portent sur les effets subjectifs de l’oppression à travers l’étude du féminisme africain-américain de la seconde moitié du 19ème siècle et début du 20ème, en particulier l’étude de l’œuvre d’Anna Julia Cooper. The book (presentation from the editor) : "Remettre à l’ordre du jour des sujets traditionnellement boudés par la philosophie occidentale: voilà le mandat que se donne cet essai écrit à quatre mains par des philosophes féministes. Elles y dévoilent les dynamiques de domination à l’œuvre dans les concepts classiques tels que la raison, la justice ou l’autonomie, et remettent en question le prétendu sujet universel. Explorant une philosophie du quotidien, ancrée dans l’expérience sensible, les autrices tracent de multiples chemins vers une autre subjectivité politique. Ainsi se construit une pensée à la fois critique, vulnérable et incarnée, qui fait écho aux grandes idées qui traversent un champ en pleine effervescence. Plusieurs théoriciennes sont ici présentées, notamment Simone de Beauvoir, Judith Butler, Elsa Dorlin, Kristie Dotson, Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, Emilie Hache, Patricia Hill Collins, Monique Wittig et Iris Marion Young." https://www.editions-rm.ca/livres/existantes/#tab-description We are delighted to invite you to the second session of The Beauvoir Webinar Series 2024!
We are hosting philosophers Kathryn Sophia Belle, Sabine Broeck and Qrescent Mali Mason to discuss Kathryn's book, Beauvoir and Belle. A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex (OUP 2024). The participants: Kathryn Sophia Belle is former Associate Professor of Philosophy and affiliate faculty in African American Studies as well as Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University. Her primary research and teaching interests lie in Africana/African American Philosophy, Black Feminist Philosophy, Continental philosophy (especially Existentialism), and Critical Philosophy of Race. She published articles on race, assimilation, feminism, intersectionality, and sex and sexuality in contemporary hip-hop. She is author of Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question (Indiana University Press, 2014) and she co-edited an anthology titled Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2010). Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex (Oxford University Press) is her most recent book. Sabine Broeck is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bremen. Her primary research and teaching interests are American studies, Gender Studies and Transatlantic Diaspora Studies. She is the author of Gender and the Abjection of Blackness (State university of NY press, 2018) and White Amenesia - Black Memory ? Women's Writing and History (Peter Lang, 1999) and co-edited several books such as Audre Lorde's Transnational Legacies (University of Massachussetts Press, 2015) and Black Knowledges / Black Struggles. Essays in Critical Epistemology (Liverpool University Press, 2015). Qrescent Mali Mason is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College and former President of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society. Her doctoral thesis, “An Ethical Disposition Toward the Erotic: The Early Autobiographical Writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Black Feminist Philosophy,” is an important contribution to the field in that it links draws parallels from Beauvoir's autobiographical work to key themes in the Black feminist writings of Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and Patricia Hill Collins on the erotic. She has published several articles in existentialism, phenomenology, feminist philosophy and critical race philosophy. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled Intersectional Ambiguity: Simone de Beauvoir, Women of Color Feminisms, and The Difference Difference Makes. The book (presentation from the editor) : "Kathryn Sophia Belle centers feminist frameworks, discourses, and vocabularies of Black women and other Women of Color that existed prior to and have continued to exist after The Second Sex. She centers and amplifies the voices of Black women and other Women of Color, such as Lorraine Hansberry, Angela Davis, Chikwenye Ogunyemi, Deborah King, Oyèrónké Oywùmí, Mariana Ortega, Kathy Glass, bell hooks, Kyoo Lee, Stephanie Rivera Berruz, Patricia Hill Collins, and Alia Al-Saji. Special attention is also given to Claudia Jones and Audre Lorde, both of whom implicitly and indirectly engage with The Second Sex. Beauvoir and Belle demonstrates the myriad ways in which these frameworks both expose and surpass the limits of The Second Sex. Belle argues against the frameworks of oppression used by Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex, a foundational text of white feminist philosophy. She frames Beauvoir's analogies as limitations, and shows how Beauvoir either does not engage with Black women and other Women of Color-or engages with them in problematic ways. Belle explores how Black and other Women of Color have critically written and talked about The Second Sex, and in so doing exposes the ways in which the existing Beauvoir scholarship has mostly ignored these engagements, thereby replicating Beauvoir's exclusions."  La session n'a pas été enregistrée.
About the participants: Mickaëlle Provost est docteure en philosophie de l'université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Ses recherches portent sur les incidences subjectives de l'oppression, l'existentialisme et le féminisme africain-américain. Elle a co-dirigé avec Marie Garreau Expériences vécues du genre et de la race. Pour une phénoménologie critique (2022). Elle est actuellement en post-doctorat à au centre Prospéro. Ses recherches portent sur les effets subjectifs de l’oppression à travers l’étude du féminisme africain-américain de la seconde moitié du 19ème siècle et début du 20ème, en particulier l’étude de l’œuvre d’Anna Julia Cooper. Hourya Bentouhami est maîtresse de conférence en philosophie à l'université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès. Ses travaux portent sur la non-violence dans une perspective féministe et anti-raciste. Elle a publié plusieurs ouvrages parmi lesquels Le Dépôt des armes : non-violence et désobéissance civile (PUF 2009) et Race, cultures, identités : une approche féministe et postcoloniale (PUF 2015). Jennifer McWeeny is a Professor of Philosophy at Emerson College. Her research and teaching interests are in philosophies of gender and race, phenomenology, decolonial studies, feminist theory, and philosophy of mind. She has co-edited books on interdisciplinary and cross-cultural philosophies: Feminist Philosophy of Mind (2022), Speaking Face to Face: The Visionary Philosophy of María Lugones (2019), and Asian and Feminist Philosophies in Dialogue: Liberating Traditions (2014). For this last session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2023, we are hosting Sylvie Chaperon and Emily Anne Parker. Their conversation on Beauvoir's account of bodies and sexualities will be moderated by Katja Čičigoj.
Content of the session: 1- Conversation: Sylvie Chaperon, Emily Anne Parker and Katja Čičigo 2 - 20 minutes Q/A About the participants: Sylvie Chaperon is a Professor of Gender history at the university of Toulouse Jean Jaurès. Her research interests include Beauvoir, sexology, feminism and sexualities. She recently co-published a book on clitoris: Idées sur le clitoris. Anatomie politique et historique d'un organe méconnu (2022).Her article, "Outcry over the Second Sex" is is one of the first studies of the French reception of the Beauvoir's book. It was translated into English and published in Simone de Beauvoir Studies 32(1). Emily Anne Parker is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Towson University. She specializes in Contemporary French Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy and Theory, Environmental Philosophy, and Social and Political Philosophy. She is the author of Elemental Difference and the Climate of the Body (2021) and co-editor of Differences: Rereading Beauvoir and Irigaray (2017). She is currently editing and introducing along with several other scholars a new translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity. Katja Čičigoj is a research and teaching assistant at the Institute of Philosophy, Klagenfurt/Celovec University, and a PhD candidate in philosophy at Paderborn University. She has published on Simone de Beauvoir, Deleuze and Guattari, feminist materialisms, and Shulamith Firestone. She has translated Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex into Slovene (2019) and is currently editing a volume on feminist utopias of care and reproduction (out in 2023) and co-editing a special issue of Feminist Encounters on feminist techno-imaginaries (out in 2025). For this 3rd session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2023, we are hosting the Patterson Prize 2021 winners, Mickaëlle Provost and Anne van Leeuwen who will each present their article:
- Mickaëlle Provost, "Un existentialisme transatlantique : penser la pluralité des oppressions à partir de Simone de Beauvoir" - Anne van Leeuwen, "Useless Mouths: Value, Women's Work, and the Struggle against Exploitation" The event will be introduced by Jennifer McWeeny and Claudia Bouliane, respectively Editor-in-Chief and Assistant Editor of Simone de Beauvoir Studies. DATE AND TIME May 11, 2023 10am (NYC) /4pm (Paris) / 10pm (Manila) Content of the session: 1 - Introduction by Jennifer McWeeny and Claudia Bouliane 2 - Presentations by Mickaëlle Provost and Anne van Leeuwen 3 - Discussion: we will create two separate virtual "reading rooms" , one for each of the author, that you can join in order to discuss in a more informal and convivial way with the authors About the participants: Mickaëlle Provost received her doctorate from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in September 2022. She is a postdoctoral fellow in Philosophy at the University of Dalhousie University. Her work focuses on the phenomenology of sexist and racist oppression through the cross-reading of Simone de Beauvoir and Frantz Fanon and on the articulation between discursive norms, language and lived experience. Anne van Leeuwen is Associate Professor of philosophy at James Madison University. Her research is in 19th and 20th century continental philosophy. She is particularly interested in issues related to symbolic and material structures of domination and exploitation. She has published several articles on Beauvoir. Jennifer McWeeny is Associate Professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her research emerges at the intersections of the philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and philosophies of gender and race. She is the editor in chief of the award-winning multidisciplinary journal Simone de Beauvoir Studies. Claudia Bouliane is Assistant Professor of French at the University of Ottawa. She has published a book, L’Adolescent dans la foule: Aragon, Nizan et Sartre, in 2018. Her current research project focuses on literary representations of the "Thirty Glorious Years of Tourism" (1950-1980). She has also published numerous articles. She is the Assistant editor of Simone de Beauvoir studies. The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is happy to present the second session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2023!
Toril Moi and Ashley Scheu will have a conversation on Beauvoir as a Literary Theorist. Their conversation will be moderated by Marguerite Lacaze. About the participants: Toril Moi is a James B. Duke Professor of Literature and Romance Studies, Professor of English, Philosophy and Theatre Studies, and the Director of the Center for Philosophy, Arts and Literature at Duke University. Among her groundbreaking publications are numerous works on Simone de Beauvoir and feminist and literary theory : Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual (1993) and What is a Woman? And Other Essays (1999). Ashley Scheu is an Assistant Professor of French at Eckerd College (USA). She received her Ph.D in French from Duke University in 2011. Her dissertation examined the contribution of Simone de Beauvoir to philosophical literature. Her teaching and research interests are in French language, French literature, philosophy, French existentialism, feminism and women writers. Marguerite Lacaze is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland (Australia). Her research interests include European philosophy, feminist philosophy, moral psychology, especially the emotions, and aesthetics, including philosophy and film.She is currently working on a project on Beauvoir and cinema. She is the Book Review Editor of the journal Simone de Beauvoir Studies. The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is happy to present the 1st session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2023!
We are welcoming Raphaella Elaine Miranda, Aya Nakamura, and Erl Rose Ramirez. Their conversation will be moderated by Marella Ada Bolaños. March 21, 2023 10am (London) /11am (Paris) / 6pm (Manila) / 7pm (Tokyo) Presentation of the session: For this session, Marella Ada Bolaños will be in conversation with three scholars interested in the reception of Beauvoir's philosophy and feminism in Asia. About the participants: Raphaella Elaine Miranda (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines) is a Graduate Student in philosophy and is interested in Adorno and Beauvoir's philosophy. Aya Nakamura (University Lumière Lyon 2, France) has just obtained a PhD degree in literature from the Université Lumière Lyon 2 with a thesis titled "Devenir écrivaine de 1945 à 1970: étude comparée de trois postures auctoriales féminines (Beauvoir, Leduc, Aury)". She has also studied in Japan and published articles on Beauvoir in Japanese. Erl Rose Ramirez (Silliman University, Philippines) is a philosophy instructor at Silliman University and is interested in Beauvoir's philosophy. Marella Ada Mancenido-Bolaños (University of Santo Tomas, Philippines) is the Chairperson and a faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Letters, University of Santo Tomas. |
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