Recording HERE.
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[FR] Il s'agit d'un événement bilingue (français/anglais)
[EN] This is a bilingual event (French/English)

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.

DATE AND TIME
December 15, 2023
9am (NYC) / 3pm (Paris) / 10pm (Manila)

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).

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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 the day 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: 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  

Thank you.

Gina Opiniano and Marine Rouch, 
for The International Simone de Beauvoir Society

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Our partners for this session are : 
- University of Santo Tomas Department of Philosophy
- Framespa, University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 

What's a partnership? A partnership aims at proposing the webinars to students of the universities that require the partnership. Feel free to ask more info about it!
 

Recording HERE.

Registration/Inscriptions : ICI/HERE

AVERTISSEMENT/INFORMATION

[FR] Il s'agit d'un événement bilingue : La présentation de Mickaëlle Provost se fera en français. La présentation d'Anne van Leeuwen, en anglais, sera accompagnée d'un PowerPoint en français. 
Les articles présentés ont été publiés dans Simone de Beauvoir Studies, vol. 32, n°2.

[EN] This is a bilingual event: Anne van Leeuwen's presentation will be in English. Mickaëlle Provost's presentation will be in French, with a PowerPoint in English. 
Their articles are published in Simone de Beauvoir Studies, vol.32, issue 2.

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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.

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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 the day 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: 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  

Thank you.

Gina Opiniano and Marine Rouch, 
for The International Simone de Beauvoir Society

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Our partners for this session are : 
- University of Santo Tomas Department of Philosophy
- Framespa, University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 

What's a partnership? A partnership aims at proposing the webinars to students of the universities that require the partnership. Feel free to ask more info about it!
 

RECORDING ONLINE

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. 

April 28, 2023
6pm (NYC) / 6am+1 (Manila) / 8am+1 (Sydney)

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.

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Join us! This is a free event and is open to the public. Please fill out and submit this form to complete your registration: https://forms.gle/EoJEgFPh7V1QGkog7
The Zoom link will be sent to your registered email address the day 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: 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

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Our partners for this session are : 
- University of Santo Tomas Department of Philosophy
- Framespa, University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès 

What's a partnership? A partnership aims at proposing the webinars to students of the universities that require the partnership. Feel free to ask more info about it!

RECORDING ONLINE.

REGISTRATION FORM HERE. 

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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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 the day 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: 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 

Thank you.

Gina Opiniano and Marine Rouch,
for The International Simone de Beauvoir Society

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Our partners for this session are :
- University of Santo Tomas Department of Philosophy
- Framespa, University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

What's a partnership? A partnership aims at proposing the webinars to students of the universities that require the partnership. Feel free to ask more info about it!