CFP: The 25th International Simone de Beauvoir Conference: "Simone de Beauvoir Today"

The 25th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society will take place October 11-13, 2018 at l’Université Paris-Diderot in Paris and is co-organized by The International Simone de Beauvoir Society and The Jury for the Prix Simone de Beauvoir for Women’s Freedom. 

 2018 marks the 110th anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir’s (1908-1986) birth, the publication of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade edition of her autobiographical works as well as the 10th year anniversary for the Prix Simone de Beauvoir. The winner of the prize, the Turkish journalist and writer Asli Erdogan expressed that Beauvoir’s writings and activism has always been an inspiration for her and stated “We should never give up being the voice of the oppressed.” This statement shows us the continuing relevance and radicality of Beauvoir’s thought in today’s political climate. 

The conference, entitled “Simone de Beauvoir Today,” anticipates harboring scholarly work and discussions showing the significance, relevance and radicality of Beauvoir’s multifaceted writings and activism. Given that Beauvoir was a philosopher, novelist, writer, memorialist, feminist, theorist and an activist, we invite papers reflecting on her different scholarly work and activist political involvement from a wide variety of academic fields, disciplines, and approaches including but not limited to literature, history, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, women’s studies, sexuality studies, critical race theory, queer theory, translation studies, comparative analyses, and feminist theory. We welcome a broad range of perspectives such as historical, literary, and comparative analyses of Beauvoir's life and works and of the impact of her ideas on her own time; surveys of relevant contemporary issues; and examination of new research orientations such as “queer theory,” “critical race theory,” “postcolonial and decolonial theories,’ “post-feminism,” and current efforts to redefine and reshape the agenda of the women's movement.
 
To submit a proposal for a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 350 words in English and a short Curriculum Vitae which includes your contact details and institutional affiliation, if any, to Dr. Tove Pettersen ([email protected]) by March 31, 2018.