We are delighted to invite you to the second session of The Beauvoir Webinar Series 2024!
Description below.
DATE AND TIME
May 21, 2024
10am (NYC) / 4pm (Paris) / 10pm (Manila)
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."
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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
beauvoirwebinarseries@gmail.comTo 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!
