Discussion avec les gagnantes du prix Patterson 2021//Discussion with the winners of the Patterson Prize 2021

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.