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The recording of the session is on our Youtube Channel!
TIME ZONES: 1:30pm (Paris, Praha) / 2:30pm (Helsinki) / 8:30pm (Manila) / 11:30pm (Sydney) / 6:30am (Mexico) / 7:30am (New York) Registration Form: https://forms.gle/TLsfuSdTV32prnDQ8 The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is happy to present the 4th session and last session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2021! The session will be a discussion dedicated to the special issue of Simone de Beauvoir Studies: "Translating and Reading the Second Sex Globally", guest-edited by Sylvie Chaperon and Marine Rouch. The editors and authors will be there to present their articles and will be happy to have a conversation about them. ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Since its publication in France in 1949, The Second Sex has been translated into dozens of languages, each time in a particular editorial, intellectual and feminist context. Each translation has given rise to different transformations and adaptations, which have then been critically received and appropriated by a various range of readers (from intellectuals to “ordinary” inviduals). This issue explores different cultural receptions of Beauvoir’s magnum opus and linguistic decisions made in the course of translating one of the most important books of the twentieth century into multiple languages. Articles discuss Beauvoir’s impact in Mexico, Bolivia, the former Czechoslovakia, and Iran, as well as controversies surrounding the two English translations of Le Deuxième Sexe. Readers will also find special interviews with Michèle Le Doeuff and Margaret A. Simons, two pioneers of Beauvoir studies in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as an image of Beauvoir's famous sentence, written in her own hand: “on ne naît pas femme, on le devient.” Table of Contents: https://brill.com/view/journals/sdbs/sdbs-overview.xml TO GET THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Become a member of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society and receive the journal! More on our website: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html THE SESSION: Our guests are: - Jennifer McWeeny, Editor-in-Chief of Simone de Beauvoir Studies - Sylvie Chaperon and Marine Rouch, Guest Editors of the special issue - Hortensia Moreno Esparza and Ana Gabriela Buquet Corleto, authors of the article on Mexico - Verushka Alvizuri, author of the article on Bolivia - Dagmar Pichová, author of the article on Czechoslovakia - Chahla Chafiq, author of the article on Iran - Alice Caffarel-Cayron, author of the article on the translation of the famous sentence - Michèle Le Doeuff, about her interview - Margaret A. Simons and Erika Ruonakoski, about the interview of M. A. Simons At the moment, 3 translators of the book will also participate in the conversation: Sheila Malovany-Chevallier and Constance Borde (English), Monica Singh (Hindi). Join us in this interesting discourse on the receptions and translations of The Second Sex! 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 post on our Youtube Channel. For inquiries about the webinar, send an email to [email protected] Recordings of the previous sessions: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/webinar-videos.html *** 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 making the webinars more visible, that way they can be proposed to students of the universities that require the partnership. Feel free to ask more info about it!
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Brill is offering a discount code if you wish to purchase the book before the event:   UPDATE: The recording of the session is now on YOUTUBE!
The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is happy to present the third session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series. TIMES: New York: 8:30 am / London (1:30pm) / Paris (2:30 pm) / Manila (9:30pm) The session is a book discussion dedicated to Meryl Altman's newest book: Beauvoir in Time (Brill, 2020) If you wish to purchase the book, use this discount code on brill.com: 71314 ABOUT THE BOOK: Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing that Beauvoir is still good to think with today. (from editor) ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Meryl Altman studied Literature at Swarthmore and Columbia (Ph.D. 1988) and taught at DePauw University in Indiana. She has published on modernist American poetry and fiction, the history of sexuality, Sappho and classical reception, migrant domestic labor, and Beauvoir. Meryl is a long-time member of the International Simone de Beauvoir Society. She is Secretary-Treasurer of the Society. THE SESSION: Meryl Altman will discuss her book with two special guests. - Dr Sonia Kruks is a political philosopher currently at Durham University (UK). She is best known for her scholarly work on the political and social ideas of the French existentialists. She has also published extensively on feminist theory. She is a long-time specialist of Simone de Beauvoir and has published groundbreaking books and articles on Beauvoir. - Dr Judith G. Coffin is an Associate Professor in History at the University of Austin, Texas. She recently published a groundbreaking book on Beauvoir and her readers. She is a specialist of women and gender history. Join us in this interesting discourse on Meryl Altman's book. 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/VcT9KuqruavVkutW8 The Zoom link will be sent to your registered email address prior the event. The session will also be streamed on the Facebook page of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society: https://www.facebook.com/SdBSociety1 The recording will then be posted on Youtube. For inquiries about the webinar, send an email to [email protected] Thank you. Dr. Gina Opiniano and Marine Rouch, for The International Simone de Beauvoir Society 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 making the webinars more visible, that way they can be proposed to students of the universities that require the partnership. Feel free to ask more info about it!  The recording is now on Youtube!
The session was opened by Dr. Gina Opiniano and her students' videos. She invited the President of the Society, Dr. Qrescent Mali Mason, to introduce this session and present the International Simone de Beauvoir Society. Our President invite you to read her letter, recently published in Simone de Beauvoir Studies. Marine Rouch, communication coordinator, then presented how you can follow the Society's activities. The rest of the session was dedicated to "Beauvoir, Sexism & Racism". Two speakers brilliantly shared their views on this topic: - Dr. Kathryn Sophia Belle presented a talk titled "Beauvoir and Belle: Critical Engagements with Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex". Kathryn is an American Philosopher and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. Her areas of interest include Black Feminism, Black feminist philosophy and critical theory of race. She wrote groundbreaking articles on Beauvoir and race. Kathryn kindly shared her work with us. You can read one her article HERE. - Mickaëlle Provost talked about "America Day by Day and the Phenomenology of Racial Oppression". She is a French PhD Candidate in Philosophy. She is currently working on the analogy racism/sexism from a comparison between R. Wright and Beauvoir. Her PhD dissertation is titled "Une Phénoménologie des résistances : de l'expérience de l'oppression à l'expérimentation" ("A Phenomenology of Resistance: From the Experience of Oppression to Experimentation"). Mickaëlle kindly shared the references of her talk. The session was moderated by Dr. T Storm Heter, Professor of Philosophy at East Stroudsburg University, PA. He is a specialist of Existentialism and is currently writing a book on "The Problem of White Listening". He also recently wrote a piece on Beauvoir's "white problem". The session was concluded by Dr. Noelle Leslie Dela Cruz's inspiring response to the talks. Noelle is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at De La Salle University (Manila, The Philippines) and her areas of interest include Beauvoir, race, phenomenology and feminism. Noelle kindly shared with us her wonderful piece.  Uptade: The recording is now on Youtube! HERE
The first session of our Webinar Series took place on October 16th and gathered 130 participants (300 registrants). We are delighted by this huge interest in Beauvoir and in this project. Thank you! This first session the series was 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. More about the journal: HERE The rest of the webinar was 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 have shared their insights. The historian Dr. Judith Coffin, the first academic to publish a groundbreaking paper in 2010, 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, Communication Coordinator of the SdB Society, who is currently writing her PhD dissertation on the influence of Beauvoir's work on "ordinary" women (see her research blog). Dr. Coffin and Ms. Rouch engages in a fascinating conversation about their common interest in the letters. Their conversation was followed by Dr. Marella Ada Bolaños' response to the conversation. The session was brilliantly moderated by Dr. Gina Opiniano, head of the projet. --- If you wish to buy Dr. Coffin's book, Cornell University Press offers you this discount code: CS09FLYER (combinedacademic.co.u) If you wish to contribute to Marine Rouch's research blog (about Beauvoir and more widely, gender studies), please see the call for contributions: https://lirecrire.hypotheses.org/pour-contribuer-to-contribute |
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