18th International Simone de Beauvoir Society Conference Simone de Beauvoir: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

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Cagliari, 23 – 26 June 2010 Galleria Comunale d’Arte

Centro Comunale d’Arte e Cultura “Il Ghetto”

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102 years have passed since her birth, 24 since her death, 61 since the publication of her masterpiece, The Second Sex, a work that changed forever the way in which the world looks at women. Yet Simone de Beauvoir, widely considered as the inspiration for modern feminism, still represents an essential reference for millions of women and men all over the world who have been influenced by both her theoretical and her narrative works and by the example of her own life. The 18th International conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, an association created in December 1981 in order to promote the study and diffusion of her ideas, is going to take place in Cagliari, capital of the island of Sardinia (Italy), from June 23rd to 26th, 2010. At the beginning of the second decade of the second millennium, the conference will highlight the multidisciplinary studies inspired by Beauvoir and the prospective impact of her works in the shaping of our future. The conference, entitled “Simone de Beauvoir: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, anticipates providing evidence of the extraordinary and undiminished relevance of this multifaceted figure both for a wide variety of academic fields and disciplines including literature, history, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, women’s studies and epistemology, and for the feminist struggle for gender equality. Organizers: Andrea Duranti, Matteo Tuveri Official website: http://sites.google.com/site/sdbconference2010/ Collaborations and Partnerships: Comune di Cagliari – Assessorato alla Cultura, Galleria Comunale d’Arte di Cagliari, Centro comunale d’Arte e Cultura “Il Ghetto”, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, Alliance Française Cagliari, Ambassade de France en Italie – Service Culturel.

June 23rd – Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Centro Comunale d’Arte e Cultura “Il Ghetto” MORNING 9:00 – 10:30 Registration of the conference participants and welcome coffee break 10:30 – 11:15 Greeting of the President of the Simone de Beauvoir Society (Prof. Yolanda Astarita Patterson) and welcome of the local authorities – official opening of the conference SESSION 1: Beauvoir as a writer 11:15 – 12:20 First panel: Critical approaches Chair: Helge Vidar Holm (University of Bergen, Norway) Papers:

- Annlaug Bjørsnøs (University of Trondheim, Norway) - Vivre / écrire le temps. Conceptions de la temporalité dans la narration de Simone de Beauvoir.

- Triantafyllia Kadoglou (University of West Macedonia, Greece) - Les diverses manifestations du non-dit significatif chez Simone de Beauvoir

- Liva Bodil Kalvik (University of Bergen, Norway) - «On ne naît pas femme, on le devient»: le devenir féminin dans Anne, ou quand prime le spirituel.

12:20 – 12:40 Coffee break 12:40 – 13:35 Second panel: Existentialism and writing Chair: Tove Pettersen (University of Oslo, Norway) Papers:

- Skye Cleary (Macquarie University, Australia) - Simone de Beauvoir today: loving existentially - Johanna Sjöstedt (University of Gotheburg, Sweden) - The concept of action in the philosophy of

Simone de Beauvoir - Delphine Nicolas-Pierre (Université Sorbonne-Paris IV, France) - L’ethos de l’écrivain chez Simone

de Beauvoir : ambiguïtés et contextualisation 13:35 – 15:20 Lunch ------ AFTERNOON SESSION 2: The Second Sex 15:20 – 16:45 Third panel: The reception of “The Second Sex” in three countries Chair: Liliane Lazar (Hofstra University, USA) Papers:

- Céline Leon (Grove City College, USA) - Réception américaine du Deuxième Sexe (1953) - Maria Menegaki & Loukia Efthymiou (University of Athens, Greece) - La réception de l’œuvre de

Simone de Beauvoir en Grèce : une histoire à multiples facettes - Maria Isabel Corbi Saez (University of Alicante, Spain) - Simone de Beauvoir et la critique

universitaire espagnole: aujourd’hui et demain?

16:45 – 17:05 Coffee break 17:05 – 17:50 Fourth panel: Rereading “The Second Sex” – Closure of the first day Chair: Maria Corona Corrias (University of Cagliari, Italy) Papers:

- Mimoza Pachuku (Central European University, Hungary) - The gendered implications of The Second Sex

- Gloria Sardara (independent researcher, Italy) - Libertà e reciprocità, una lettura del Secondo Sesso di Simone de Beauvoir

------ EVENING 19:00 – 21:00 - Centro Comunale d’Arte e Cultura “Il Ghetto” “La settima arte per Simone” (“The seventh Art for Simone”) Mini-film festival Memory and rebirth: Hommage to Hélène de Beauvoir and Carole Roussopoulos 1) “Des fleurs pour Simone de Beauvoir” (France, 2007) – Hommage to Carole Roussopoulos Director: Carole Roussopoulos. Language: French. Introduction: Elisabeth Euvrard, Vice-President of the Alliance Française - Cagliari (???) 2) Hommage to Hélène de Beauvoir

- Yolanda Astarita Patterson - Claudine Monteil

------ 21:30 Welcome dinner

June 24th – Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Centro Comunale d’Arte e Cultura “Il Ghetto” MORNING SESSION 3: Simone de Beauvoir: the woman before the myth 9:00 – 10:25 Fifth panel: Beauvoir before Beauvoir: the juvenile autobiographical writings Chair: Yolanda Astarita Patterson (San José State University, USA) Papers:

- Liliane Lazar (Hofstra University, USA) - Simone avant le Castor - Barbara Klaw (Northern Kentucky University, USA) - Troublesome Translations and Elusive

Allusions in Beauvoir's Diary of a Philosophy Student - Tove Pettersen (University of Oslo, Norway) - Simone de Beauvoir and The Meaning of Philosophy.

Reflections on Diary of a Philosophy student - Claire Guerin (St. John’s College, Oxford) - Simone de Beauvoir’s Cahiers de Jeunesse and

Mémoires d’une jeune fille rangée : The Production of a Literary Identity

10:25 – 10:45 Coffee break 10:45 – 11:30 Sixth panel: Beauvoir in love Chair: Barbara Klaw (Northern Kentucky University, USA) Papers:

- Jean-Pierre Boulé (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom) - Beauvoir, Sartre and Generous Passion

- Lise Gélinas (Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, Canada) - Simone de Beauvoir et Nelson Algren : une Sanseverina à Chicago?

11:30-11:50 Coffee break 11:50 – 12:55 Seventh panel: Simone and the others: crossed portraits Chair: Claudine Monteil (writer and feminist, France) Papers:

- Chiara Cretella (University of Bologna, Italy) - Le donne sadiane. Simone de Beauvoir e Angela Carter

- Fatma Kalpakli (University of Konya, Turkey) - Alternative Life-Styles in Jane Chambers’ Eye of the Gull

- Sabina Žnidaršič (University of Primorska, Slovenia) - Gender and Destiny, Angela Vode (1892-1985)

12:55 – 15:00 Lunch ------ AFTERNOON SESSION 4: Ethics and political engagement 15:00-16:25 Eigth panel: The ethics of ambiguity Chair: Céline Leon (Grove City College, USA) Papers:

- Christine Daigle (Brock University, Canada) - Ambiguous Living: Beauvoir’s Embodied Ethics and Politics

- Mariolina Graziosi (University of Milan, Italy) - Existential Ethics and the formation of the subject in contemporary society

- Magda Guadalupe Dos Santos (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brasil) - Beauvoir. Memoria e ricezione estetica.

- Laura Piccioni (University of Urbino, Italy) - Simone de Beauvoir, un’idea di morale

16:25 – 16:45 Coffee break

16:45-17:50 Ninth panel: From the theoretical elaboration to the political engagement – Closure of the second day Chair: Magda Guadalupe Dos Santos (Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais, Brasil) Papers:

- Claudine Monteil (writer and feminist, France) - Simone de Beauvoir's modernity and commitment in the 21st century

- Matteo Tuveri (writer and independent researcher, Italy) – 150 anni di donne italiane; ma chi sono? Dal Codice di famiglia del 1865 ai giorni nostri. Un'analisi beauvoiriana

- Nadia Santoro (University of Calabria, Italy) – Simone de Beauvoir: Il corpo della politica, la politica del corpo

------ EVENING 19:00 – 21:00 - Centro Comunale d’Arte e Cultura “Il Ghetto” “La settima arte per Simone” (“The seventh Art for Simone”) Mini-film festival "Portrait croise de Jean-Paul Sartre et de Simone de Beauvoir" (Canada, 1967). Interviewers: Madeilene Gobeil-Nöel / Claude Lanzmann; operator: Max Cacopardo. Language: French with English subtitles. Introduction: Madeilene Gobeil-Nöel

June 25th – Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Centro Comunale d’Arte e Cultura “Il Ghetto” SESSION 5: Beauvoir beyond Beauvoir MORNING 9:00-10:05 Tenth panel: Beauvoir and queer theory Chair: Patrizia Tancredi (feminist, Belgium) Papers:

- Laura Sarnelli (University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy) - La sfida di Antigone: da Simone de Beauvoir a Judith Butler

- Marina De Chiara (University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy) - Judith Butler rilegge Simone de Beauvoir

- Pablo Pérez Navarro (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)- On ne naît pas queer: From The Second Sex to Male Pregnancy

10:05-10:25 Coffee break 10:25-11:30 Eleventh panel: Beauvoir and Asia Chair: Annamaria Baldussi (University of Cagliari, Italy) Papers:

- Andrea Duranti (University of Cagliari, Italy) - The Orient par de Beauvoir: travel memories and anti-colonial issues

- Meng Li (University of Sydney, Australia) - A Beauvoirian Glimpse over Chinese Intellectual Women: Huang Beijia’s Novella in the 1980s

- Mauro Trentadue (University Uniecampus, Italy) - Memorie di cristallo - Ricordare, immaginare, agire, secondo Azar Nafisi e Simone de Beauvoir

11:30-11:50 Coffee break 11:50-13:15 Twelfth panel: Beauvoir and Africa Chair: Liliane Lazar (Hofstra University, USA) Papers:

- Eric Levéel (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) - Simone de Beauvoir en Afrique : le rendez-vous manqué

- Chet Fransch (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) - “From past to present: The [re]reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s “violence in marriage” within the changing political, social and economic climate of South Africa, c. 1949-2010”

- Caroline Messa (University of Limoges, Francia) - De Beauvoir à Beyala... Un féminisme universel ?

- Laurence Pilot-Darier-Bazière (San José State University, USA) - Au vif d’une conscience écorchée : Le corps féminin selon Bâ et Beauvoir

------ 13:15-15:45 Lunch ------ AFTERNOON

15:45-16:30 Thirteenth panel: Beauvoir and art, art and Beauvoir – Closure of the third day Chair: Jean-Pierre Boulé (Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom) Papers:

- Dominique Vanhoof (San José State University, USA) - La soif du savoir : « le fruit défendu » des femmes tel qu’il est représenté dans la peinture féminine.

- Silvye Blum-Reid (University of Florida, USA) – Transatlantic passages 16:30-17:00 Coffee break 17:00-18:00 Special presentation – Women and art: a gendered guided visit of the Galleria Comunale d’Arte of Cagliari in English and French (kindly provided by the Direction of the Galleria Comunale d’Arte) EVENING 19:00 – 21:00 - Centro Comunale d’Arte e Cultura “Il Ghetto” “La settima arte per Simone” (“The Seventh Art for Simone”) Mini-film festival "Dinner in Purgatory" (UK, 1994). Director: Kerry Kiernan. With: Yvonne Bonnamy, Edward Halsted, Elizabeth Jasicki, Chris Johnston, James Reynard Introduction: Andrea Duranti

June 26th – Galleria Comunale d’Arte SESSION 6: Contemporary perspectives on Simone de Beauvoir MORNING 9:00 – 10:05 Fourteenth panel: A current reading of “The Useless Mouths” Chair: Suzanne Fernandez (Alliance Française Cagliari – Italy) Papers:

- Evelyne Cudel (Michigan State University, USA) - Pour une nouvelle philosophie du théâtre contemporain : l’éthique au cœur de l’argumentation avec pour fondation Les Bouches Inutiles de Simone de Beauvoir

- Catherine Naji (libera ricercatrice, Ireland) - ‘The Useless Mouths’ Desiring - Tiphaine Martin (Université Paris 7-Denis Diderot, France) - Faim et politique : La nourriture dans

les récits de voyages autobiographiques beauvoiriens 10:05 – 10:25 Coffee Break 10:25 – 11:30 Fifteenth panel: Beauvoir and psychoanalysis Chair: Andrea Duranti (University of Cagliari) Papers:

- Henri De Serray (psychoanalist and independent researcher, France) – Le genre second - Eva Bahovec (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia) – Beauvoir after Freud - Mercedes López Jorge (Universidad de La Laguna, Spain) - Conflitti edipici con Simone de

Beauvoir: L’immanenza e la trascendenza 11:30-11:50 Coffee break 11:50-12:35 Sixteenth panel: The Beauvoirian thinking and the social sciences Chair: Margherita Sabrina Perra (University of Cagliari, Italy) Papers:

- Claudia Gather (Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin, Germany) - Women, the Second Sex: The concept of the Myth according to Simone de Beauvoir as a feminist framework to study how gender is constructed in everyday lives

- Mónica Tarducci (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Simone de Beauvoir, Anthropology and the Feminist Studies of Kinship

12:35-13:30 Closure of the conference and greetings to the participants ------ AFTERNOON 17:00 – 17:45 Guided tour of Cagliari with the “Trenino Cagliaritano” (tourist train)

EVENING 19:00 – 19:30 - Galleria Comunale d’Arte, Sala de “La madre dell’ucciso” La sedia vuota. Liturgia della parola per Alda Merini (“The empty chair. The liturgy of the Word for Alda Merini”) Poetical reading conceived and directed by Matteo Tuveri and Giulia Marini Reader: Giulia Marini “The reading will take place at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte di Cagliari, in the central hall of the ground floor, which hosts a great number of artworks by contemporary artists, here including the works by Francesco Ciusa. The reading, composed by several poems selected from the wide poetical production of Alda Merini, aims at offering to the audience the strength of the words of this woman poet, recently passed away, and at offering to the latter a homage not only through the reading of her works, but also through an imaginary dialogue between poetry and visual art, especially through the dialogue that the actress Giulia Marini will develop with three sculptures by Francesco Ciusa: La Tessitrice (“The weaver”), Il Bacio (“The kiss”) e La madre dell’’ucciso (“The mother of the murdered”); the Galleria Comunale hosts the original versions in gypsum made by the artist. The audience will be able to follow the actress through an ideal triangle composed by the three works, a triangle that will be recomposed by the words of Alda Merini. The reading was conceived as an actual Liturgy of the Word, with three focuses corresponding to the abovementioned works by Ciusa:

- Antiphon: Poesia – “Poetry” (artwork: La Tessitrice) - Liturgy of the Word: Amore – “Love” (artwork: Il Bacio) - Liturgy of the Eucharist: Dolore - “Sorrow” (artwork: La Madre dell’ucciso) - Concluding rite: La sedia vuota – “The empty chair”

The reading will be closed by the reading of a poem by Alda Merini beside an empty chair, symbol of the disappearance of the artist”.