Centre for Gender Studies (European Humanities University) and Culture, Philosophy and Arts Research Institute

Feminism and Philosophy: rethinking Simone de Beauvoir
International  Conference

June 18 - 19, 2009 (Vilnius, Lithuania)

PROGRAM

June 17, Wednesday
18.00 - Conference Art Program – Opening of the exhibition:  Incarnations
Location: “ Kairė-dešinė“, Latako g. 3

June 18, Thursday  
Location:    French Cultural Center, Didžioji g.1
9.15 – 10.00 - registration
10.00 – 10.15 – Opening and introductions (Pascal Hance, Audronė Žukauskaitė, Almira Ousmanova)
10.15 – 11.15 – Keynote 1: Geneviève  Fraisse, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Le privilège de Simone de Beauvoir

11.15 – 11.30 – Coffee break

11.30 – 12.30 – Keynote 2: Mary Hawkesworth, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA  
The Politics of Extinction: Feminist Knowledge Production and Its Erasure

12.30 – 13.30  Session 1: The clashes of theories: feminism and philosophy
Chair:  Tatiana Shchyttsova 
Audronė Žukauskaitė, Culture, Philosophy, and Arts Research Institute, Lithuania, Vilnius
Becoming-Woman and Post-Feminist Strategies
Olga Zaytseva, University of New Mexico, the USA
The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir: Feminist Phenomenology’s Contribution to the Standpoint Theory

13.30 – 15.00 – Lunch

15.00 – 16.30 – Session 2: Alter/Ego: the  concept of ‘otherness’ in feminist philosophy
Chair:  Mary Hawkesworth  
Linda Fisher, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
The Other Without and the Other Within: The Alterity of Aging and the Aged in Beauvoir’s “The Coming of Age”
Tatiana Shchyttsova, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania 
The Adult – Child Relation and Decentration of the Subject
Tamar Tskhadadze, S. Tsereteli Institute of Philosophy, Tbilisi, Georgia
The Problem of Speaking for Others: Different Problems of Various Differences?

16.30 – 16.45 – Coffee break

16.45 – 17.45 Session 3:  Feminist Interpretations of Love
Chair: Audronė Žukauskaitė  
Ieva Lapinska, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, University of Latvia, Riga
Love as Limitation: Between Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray
Almira  Ousmanova, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania
Women and Revolution: towards the Marxist theory of Love?

18.00 –     Round-table  discussion in French Cultural Center  Héritages de Beauvoir : Le féminisme aujourd’hui (with  Geneviève Fraisse (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)  and  Pierre Bras (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA))

20.00 – Reception (French Cultural Center, by invitation)

June 19, Friday
Location:  Europa City hotel. Jasinskio, 14. West conference room
9.30 – 11.00 Session 4: Remembering  Simone de Beauvoir: the reception of  Simone de Beauvoir’s ideas in Eastern Europe
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