BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 RDATE:20180311T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 RDATE:20181104T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180322T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180322T163000 LOCATION:Miller Hall GEO:45.450858;-122.668265 SUMMARY:The Philosopher's Body: Simone de Beauvoir and the Sex of Violenc e. Presentation with Historian Sandrine Sanos DESCRIPTION:The Philosopher's Body: Simone de Beauvoir and the Sex of Vio lencePresentation with Sandrine Sanos \, \;Associate Professor of Mod ern European History\, Texas A&\;M University Corpus Christi \;Thu rsday\, March 22\, 2018 \; \; \; \; \; \; &# 160\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;  60\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;  0\; \;Miller 102Light refreshments.download the flyer (PFD) \; & #160\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; &# 160\; \; We mostly know Beauvoir today as a feminist icon. But the s tory of her life is the story of her complicated relationship to the worl d\, to the ways she felt she could act in the world\, and to the importan ce of reflecting on and theorizing one's relation to others and to the wo rld. Her relationship to politics was complicated and\, in fact\, had bee n shaped in the crucible of twentieth-century's most devastating conflict s\, from World War Two\, to the Franco-Algerian War\, and the Vietnam War . Much of her life involved a gradual awakening to politics and political activism that led her to become the publicly involved feminist intellect ual of the 1970s. In the 1950s and 1960s\, she wrote about the violence o f war\, torture\, and persecution. In her writings\, bodies are not abstr act and violence against bodies was\, for her\, always at the same time a violence against one's self and identity.Beauvoir's denunciation of stat e violence takes the shape of a focus on empathy with those who bodies ar e being tortured and violated. This philosophically-inflected politics of "embodied empathy" provides the foundations for her political and ethica l call against oppression\, persecution\, and violence. \; \;Sa ndrine Sanos is a cultural and intellectual historian of 20th c. France. Her research focuses on the ways gender and sexuality shape and are shape d by politics and on questions of aesthetics and violence. Her first book \, The Aesthetics of Hate: Far-Right Intellectuals\, Antisemitism and Gen der in 1930s France (Stanford\, 2012) analyzes the obsession with virilit y that structured far-right racialized visions of Frenchness. In 2016\, s he published a historical biography\, Simone de Beauvoir: Creating a Femi nist Existence in the World (Oxford\, 2016)\, and is now working on a new project\, The Horror of History: Violence\, Displacement\, and Gender in Cold War France\, which examines how writers\, intellectuals\, and artis ts theorized the sex of violence in a postwar moment consumed by wars of decolonization. \; Light refreshments \;Co-sponsored by Gend er Studies and French \; X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Presentation w ith Sandrine Sanos \, \;Associate Professor of Modern Europe an History\, Texas A&\;M University Corpus Christi \;
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We m ostly know Beauvoir today as a feminist icon. But the story of her life i s the story of her complicated relationship to the world\, to the ways sh e felt she could act in the world\, and to the importance of reflecting o n and theorizing one's relation to others and to the world. Her relations hip to politics was complicated and\, in fact\, had been shaped in the cr ucible of twentieth-century's most devastating conflicts\, from World War Two\, to the Franco-Algerian War\, and the Vietnam War. Much of her life involved a gradual awakening to politics and political activism that led her to become the publicly involved feminist intellectual of the 1970s. In the 1950s and 1960s\, she wrote about the violence of war\, torture\, and persecution. In her writings\, bodies are not abstract and violence a gainst bodies was\, for her\, always at the same time a violence against one's self and identity.Beauvoir's denunciation of state violence takes t he shape of a focus on empathy with those who bodies are being tortured a nd violated. This philosophically-inflected politics of "embodied empathy " provides the foundations for her political and ethical call against opp ression\, persecution\, and violence.
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Sandrine Sanos is a cultural and intellectual historian of 20th c. France. Her research focuses on the ways gender and sexuality shape and are shaped by politics and on questions o f aesthetics and violence. Her first book\, The Aesthetics of Hate: F ar-Right Intellectuals\, Antisemitism and Gender in 1930s France (St anford\, 2012) analyzes the obsession with virility that structured far-r ight racialized visions of Frenchness. In 2016\, she published a historic al biography\, Simone de Beauvoir: Creating a Feminist Existence in t he World (Oxford\, 2016)\, and is now working on a new project\, The Horror of History: Violence\, Displacement\, and Gender in Cold War France\, which examines how writers\, intellectuals\, and artists th eorized the sex of violence in a postwar moment consumed by wars of decol onization.
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