The International Simone de Beauvoir Society is pleased to announce that the
27th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society will take place April 16-18, 2020 at John Carroll University in Cleveland.
Entitled Rereading
Beauvoir in the Twenty-first Century, the conference aims to bring together international scholars working on Beauvoirian Studies 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 invite scholarly
work that discusses the significance of Beauvoir’s multifarious writings in relation to different time periods: past, present and future. Papers engaging Beauvoir as a philosopher, novelist, writer, memorialist, feminist, theorist and/or an activist are all
welcome. In addition, we would like to have papers representative of 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. Deniz
Durmuş ([log in to unmask]) by December
1st, 2019. For further details about the conference and the location, please visit the International Simone de Beauvoir Society’s webpage: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/