Past Activities
Fourth session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2021
The International Simone de Beauvoir Society
in partnership with the UST Department of Philosophy
and
Framespa, University of Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
presents the 4th session and last session of the Beauvoir Webinar Series 2021 to be held on November 19, 2021 (Friday) at 8:30 pm (Philippine time). The session will be a discussion dedicated to the special issue of Simone de Beauvoir Studies: "Translating and Reading The Second Sex Globally", guest-edited by Sylvie Chaperon and Marine Rouch. The guests for this session will be the editors and authors of the special issue. Join us in this interesting discourse on the receptions and translations of The Second Sex! This is a free event and is open to the public.
The session will also be streamed on the Facebook pages of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society: https://www.facebook.com/SdBSociety1 and the UST Department of Philosophy. For inquiries about the webinar, send an email to beauvoirwebinarseries@gmail.com Recordings of the previous sessions: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/webinar-videos.html TIME ZONES: 1:30pm (Paris, Praha) / 2:30pm (Helsinki) / 8:30pm (Manila) / 11:30pm (Sydney) / 6:30am (Mexico) / 7:30am (New York) ABOUT THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Since its publication in France in 1949, The Second Sex has been translated into dozens of languages, each time in a particular editorial, intellectual and feminist context. Each translation has given rise to different transformations and adaptations, which have then been critically received and appropriated by a various range of readers (from intellectuals to “ordinary” individuals). This issue explores different cultural receptions of Beauvoir’s magnum opus and linguistic decisions made in the course of translating one of the most important books of the twentieth century into multiple languages. Articles discuss Beauvoir’s impact in Mexico, Bolivia, the former Czechoslovakia, and Iran, as well as controversies surrounding the two English translations of Le Deuxième Sexe. Readers will also find special interviews with Michèle Le Doeuff and Margaret A. Simons, two pioneers of Beauvoir studies in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as an image of Beauvoir's famous sentence, written in her own hand: “on ne naît pas femme, on le devient.”
Table of Contents: https://brill.com/view/journals/sdbs/sdbs-overview.xml THE SESSION GUESTS: - Jennifer McWeeny, Editor-in-Chief of Simone de Beauvoir Studies - Sylvie Chaperon and Marine Rouch, Guest Editors of the special issue - Hortensia Moreno Esparza and Ana Gabriela Buquet Corleto, authors of the article on Mexico - Verushka Alvizuri, author of the article on Bolivia - Dagmar Pichová, author of the article on Czechoslovakia - Chahla Chafiq, author of the article on Iran - Alice Caffarel-Cayron, author of the article on the translation of the famous sentence - Michèle Le Doeuff, about her interview - Margaret A. Simons and Erika Ruonakoski, about the interview of M. A. Simons At the moment, 3 translators of the book will also participate in the conversation: Sheila Malovany-Chevallier and Constance Borde (English), Monica Singh (Hindi).
TO GET THE SPECIAL ISSUE: Become a member of The International Simone de Beauvoir Society and receive the journal! More on our website: https://beauvoir.weebly.com/membership-and-donations.html
