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Violette Leduc Wounded at Birth: The Bastard, the Insult, the Writer

Presenter: 
Kaliane Ung, Visiting Assistant Professor of French
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/09/2019 - 13:30 to 15:00

This talk on French writer Violette Leduc examines her particular take on the insult from the perspective of sociology and gender studies, and will ask the following question: how does Violette Leduc overcome her feeling of illegitimacy as a woman writer? I investigate the so-called “tarnation” that Leduc places at the heart of a bastard’s existence. In her works, the “wound” (blessure) is inherited from the “womb” (utérus) and is linked to a female existence.

Location: 
501 Cathedral of Learning

From Abdication to Independence

Subtitle: 
Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Love as Emancipatory Analysis
Presenter: 
Dr. Manon Garcia, Harvard University
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 02/12/2020 - 17:00 to 18:30

Dr. Manon Garcia (Harvard) will deliver the lecture to commemorate the memory of Professor Philip Watts and the 70th anniversary of the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex:"

"From Abdication to Independence: Beauvoir's Philosophy of Love as Emancipatory Analysis", Wednesday, February 12, 2020, 5-6:30 pm, 602 CL

Join us for the Watts lecture in French studies. Dr. Manon Garcia (Harvard) will deliver the lecture to commemorate the memory of Prof. Phil Watts and the 70th anniversary of the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex. All are welcome!

Location: 
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning

What is a Woman?

Subtitle: 
Beauvoir’s Understanding of Sex as Situation
Presenter: 
Dr. Manon Garcia, Harvard University
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Thu, 02/13/2020 - 14:30 to 15:45

To commemorate the 70th anniversary of the publication of Simone de Beauvoir's ground-breaking The Second Sex, Dr. Manon Garcia (Harvard) will offer a lecture for undergraduates titled 'What is a Woman?: Beauvoir’s Understanding of Sex as Situation.' All students are welcome! Talk in English!

Dr. Garcia (Harvard) recently published the well-received book On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient (“One is not born, but rather becomes, submissive”) (Flammarion, October 2018), which is part of a recent reconsideration of the legacy of Simone de Beauvoir.

Location: 
Humanities Center, 602 Cathedral of Learning

A Stroke of Good Luck: 1989 and the Beginning of the End of Apartheid in South Africa

Presenter: 
John Stoner, Department of History and University Center for International Studies
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Date: 
Wed, 10/23/2019 - 14:00 to 15:30

1989 doesn’t usually resonate in the chronology of significant anti-apartheid activism. Yet, that year saw the rise to power of FW de Klerk in South Africa and progress (albeit halting) towards the release of Nelson Mandela and other activists of the liberation struggle from prison, the unbanning of political organizations, and the negotiated dismantling of the apartheid state.

Location: 
4130 Posvar Hall

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