Registration is now open for the three day ‘De Beauvoir: New Perspectives for the 21st Century’ conference, 2-4 June, 2021.
De Beauvoir: New Perspectives for the 21st Century
June 2-4, KU Leuven (online)
Organizational committee: Ashika Singh (KU Leuven), Julia Jansen (KU Leuven), Karen Vintges (UvA), Liesbeth Schoonheim (KU Leuven)
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WEDNESDAY June 2
15.00-15.30: Introduction by the organizers
15.30-16.30: Keynote: Jennifer McWeeny: How Does Your Mind Grasp Your Body? Recovering Phenomenological Figures in The Second Sex
Response: Tessel Veneboer
Break
16:45-18:15: Panel 1
Heli Mahkonen: Love: Patriarchal oppression or emancipatory potential? Aspects of feminist love critique
Dianna Taylor: Counter-violence: A Beauvoirian Response to Sexual Violence?
Break
18:30-20:00: Panel 2
Filipa Melo Lopes: What do incels want? Explaining Incel Violence Using Beauvoirian Otherness
Adam Kjellgren: Feminist Perspectives on Myth: The Case of Simone de Beauvoir
Break
20.30-22.00: Cultural event, in collaboration with 30CC, with a.o. Ruud Welten and Kathleen Gyssels
THURSDAY June 3
15.00-15.15: Welcome Back
15:15-16:45: Panel 3
Dana Miranda: An Ambiguous Repossession
Mickaelle Provost: A Transatlantic Existentialism: Simone de Beauvoir, Richard Wright and the Phenomenology of Racial Oppression
Break
17:00-18:30: Panel 4
Sonia Kruks: Old Age and Intersectionality: Beauvoir and Beyond
Kate Kirkpatrick: Epectant Anxiety in The Second Sex
Break
18:45-20:00: Panel 5
Dana Rognlie: Repeating Her Autonomy: Beauvoir, Kierkegaard, and Women’s Liberation in the Twenty-First Century
Elaine Stavro: Rethinking radical democratic agency: Simone de Beauvoir’s approach to fugitive and coalitional politics
FRIDAY June 4
15:00-15:15: Welcome Back
15:15-16:45: Panel 6
Catherine Raissiguier: Beauvoir, Bardot, and Burqinis: Making Sense of Modern France
Ana Maskalan: “I Didn’t Ask for It”. Women of Former Yugoslavia Vs. The Invisibility of Rape
Break
17:00-18:30: Keynote: Qrescent Mali Mason: title t.b.a.
Response: Daan Van Cauwenberge
18.30-19.30: Round table