Solidarity and Social Justice: The Political Life and Writings of Simone de Beauvoir
The University of Wisconsin, Superior is pleased to host
the 23rd Simone de Beauvoir Society Conference
Cosponsors: UWS Department of Social Inquiry, UWS Continuing Education
For more information contact: Dr Sarah LaChance Adams
This conference aims to consider Beauvoir’s political engagements- in action and thought- as providing philosophical and political resources for thinking, living, and enacting solidarity and social justice. Beauvoir’s very life and work might complicate how we understand the political domain, what social justice is, and what it means to realize solidarity. Indeed, her theoretical and literary writings, and her memoirs all indicate that political subjects are fundamentally ambiguous. Papers that engage, evaluate, and challenge the explicit and implicit political work and action of Beauvoir and papers that engage Beauvoir’s work in relation to contemporary political action and struggles for solidarity are desired, but all will be considered. We welcome work from a variety of perspectives- historical, philosophical, literary, comparative analyses, among others.
Provisional Keynote speaker: Sonia Kruks, Robert S. Danforth Professor of Politics at Oberlin College, author of Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity (2012)
To submit a proposal for a paper, please send an abstract of no more than 800 words, your contact details and institutional affiliation if any to the conference organizer Sarah LaChance Adams [log in to unmask].
Paper submission deadline April 1, 2016
Conference website: http://www.cvent.com/events/solidarity-and-social-justice-the-political-life-and-writings-of-simone-de-beauvoir/event-summary-d37d6eff578f456b988f11066b120e9b.aspx
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