Becoming Oneself: The Problem of Gendered Complicity
Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities and the Department of Philosophy
Tuesday 23rd June 2015
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX
Main Building Room 612
9.30am – 5.30pm
9.30am – 10am: Registration
10am – 10.30am: Susan James (Birkbeck College): Welcome and Introduction
10.30 – 12.15pm: Charlotte Knowles (Birkbeck College): Falling and Fleeing: A Heideggerean Analysis of Complicity
Response: Sacha Golob (Kings College London)
12.15 – 1.15pm: Lunch
1.15pm – 3pm: Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck College): Mothering Freedom: Some Thoughts on Natality and the New Visual Culture of Childbirth
Response: Ruth Cain (University of Kent)
3 – 3.15pm: Break
3.15 – 5pm: Nancy Bauer (Tufts University): Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and DestinyResponse: Clare Chambers (University of Cambridge)
5 – 5.30pm: Alison Stone (University of Lancaster)
Closing Remarks and Discussion