Dear all, This term's first Women in Philosophy talk is on Monday 6th Feb, from 12-1 in the Faculty of Philosophy's Board Room. Everyone is welcome, and tea and coffee will be available from 11:45.
Professor Anne Phillips (LSE) will discuss 'Gender and Modernity': Notions of modernity are thoroughly gendered, They are also typically modelled on the parochial experience of one small part of the world, projecting what Dipesh Chakrabarty terms a ‘first in Europe, then elsewhere’ version of history that takes Europe and America as the repository of all that is progressive and advanced, and consigns the rest of the world ‘to an imaginary waiting room of history’. This is a hierarchical exercise that ought to awaken our suspicion. But even in pursuing that suspicion, few would want to dismiss all that has come to be associated even with the most self-congratulatory vision of ‘the modern’. However simplistic the binaries of traditional and modern, anyone committed to gender equality is going to find herself ranged against much of what passes for tradition: what else does feminism mean, if not challenging a good deal of what has come to be taken as the norm? How then to disentangle the positive aspects of a modernist discourse from its tendency to install a hierarchy of Europe over the rest of the world? How to affirm the centrality of gender equality and women’s rights without in the process endorsing the arrogance of Euromodernity? After the talk we'll have lunch at the Granta with the speaker, and all who attended the talk are welcome to join. If you'd like to join us for lunch, please email Jess ([email protected]). Best wishes, Jess, Elina, Laura, and Cate _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
