Let op: de Academische lezing door Maren Wehrle is verplaatst, de nieuwe datum volgt z.s.m.!
Please note: the Academic lecture by Maren Wehrle has been rescheduled, the new date will follow as soon as possible!
Common People?
On the genesis and critique of lived and represented normality
Maren Wehrle (EUR)
April 29, 3.30-5PM
Hybrid (Nijmegen/Online)
Organized by SWIP-NL and The Center for Contemporary European Philosophy (CCEP) at Radboud University Nijmegen
This is a hybrid event open to researchers, students, and others interested in philosophy
Location: Radboud University Erasmusgebouw, E.2.12, Erasmusplein 1, Nijmegen.
Online via https://hu-berlin.zoom-x.de/j/65275873945?pwd=V1Z4NmxGRENPclc3SnY0VkVZZ00zQT09
For questions, please contact Liesbeth Schoonheim at liesbeth.schoonheim@hu-berlin.de
Abstract:
Normality is actually just another term for taken-for-grantedness. The fact that this longed-for or dreaded normality has come into focus in societal debates in recent years is a sign of the disquiet surrounding this normality. While some yearn for a supposedly lost normality, others see it as a dangerous normation that excludes everything and everyone that does not conform to the norm. But how does that which we experience as normal actually develop or change, and why should this normality be subjected to criticism?
In my talk, I want to demonstrate what a genetic phenomenological investigation of normality can contribute to societal debates as well as to an understanding of individual and intersubjective experience. To this end, I want to introduce the distinction between a lived and represented (discursive) normality, which, I argue, is associated with two different levels of normativity.
The interrelation of lived and represented normality will be examined through example analyses and a focus on embodied experience. The following questions are guiding: What is the phenomenological difference between a necessary and longed-for normality of world and self-experience, and a normation in which prevailing norms and power relations inscribe themselves directly or indirectly into bodies to make experiences like the body ‘normal’? To what extent can normality and the underlying norms be described as enabling on the one hand, and limiting and excluding on the other?
Bio:
Maren Wehrle is Associate Professor in Practical Philosophy at Erasmus School of Philosophy. She obtained a Master degree in Philosophy, German Literature and Historical Anthropology at the University of Freiburg, Germany (2006). In 2011 she received a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Freiburg with a dissertation entitled ‘Horizonte der Aufmerksamkeit. Entwurf einer dynamischen Konzeption der Aufmerksamkeit aus phänomenologischer und kognitionspsychologischer Sicht‘. From 2012 until 2017 she worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Higher Institute of Philosophy (Center of Phenomenological and Continental Philosophy: Husserl Archives) of KU Leuven, Belgium. Her areas of specializations are Phenomenology, Philosophical and Historical Anthropology, Feminist Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology. Wehrle has authored many articles on topics like embodiment, habit, normality, attention, and normativity. She has written a monograph on Attention in Phenomenology and Cognitive Psychology, ‘Horizonte der Aufmerksamkeit‘ (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2013), and recently an ‘Introduction to the Method of Phenomenology’ (‘Phänomenologie. Eine Einführung’. In Methoden der Philosophie. Springer 2022). Together with other colleagues she edited (with M. Ubiali) the volume ‘Feeling and Value, Willing and Action’ (Phaenomenologica: Springer 2015), a handbook on Edmund Husserl (together with S. Luft), ‘Husserl Handbuch. Leben-Werk-Wirkung’ (Metzler: Stuttgart 2018), and recently the transdisciplinary volume ‘Access and Mediation. Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Attention’ (with Diego D’Angelo and Elizaveta Solomonova).
Met genoegen presenteren wij de longlist voor de Hypatiaprijs 2024. De tweejaarlijkse prijs voor het beste en meest prikkelende en actuele filosofieboek geschreven door een vrouw. Met het instellen van deze prijs willen we vrouwen in de filosofie in Nederland en Vlaanderen een podium bieden.
De Hypatia-prijs is vernoemd naar de Griekse filosofe Hypatia (ca 355-415). Zij was befaamd om haar wiskundige en astronomische kennis. Tegenwoordig fungeert ze als symbool van feminisme.
Longlist:
Sanne Bloemink, Pijn (Pluim)
Janneke de Bijl, Als, dan. Een logische roman (Nijgh & Van Ditmar)
Martha Claeys, Trots (Boom)
Lisa Doeland, Apocalypsofie (Ten Have)
Marian Donner, De grote weigering (Prometheus)
Joke Hermsen, Onder een andere hemel (Prometheus)
Marli Huijer, De toekomst van het sterven (Pluim)
Inger Kuin, Diogenes (Athenaeum)
Eva Meijer, Verwar het niet met afwezigheid (Cossee)
Ingrid Robeyns, Limitarisme (De Bezige Bij)
Miriam Rasch, Autonomie, een zelfhulpgids (Prometheus)
Jenny Slatman, Nieuwe lichamelijkheid (Noordboek)
Hanna Vandenbussche, Noch engel, noch beest (Houtekiet)
De jury van de Hypatia-prijs bestaat uit Tinneke Beeckman, Grace Ndjako, Khadija al Mourabit, Anne Polkamp en Annemie Halsema (voorzitter).
De uitreiking vindt plaats op zaterdagmiddag 18 mei in Perdu, Kloverniersburgwal 86 in Amsterdam.
Voor meer informatie kijk op www.swip-filosofie.nl, of neem contact op met hypatiaprijsswip@gmail.com.
Per 1 september gaat de SWIP-leesgroep van start met een nieuw boek: Martha Nussbaum, The Cosmopolitan Tradition (2019). Nederlandse vertaling, De kosmopolitische traditie (2022).
In dit boek gaat Nussbaum in op de vraag welke relevantie de kosmopolitische traditie heeft voor de huidige internationale betrekkingen waarin vragen spelen over ongelijkheid in mensenrechten en in de materiële omstandigheden waarin mensen leven. Zij bespreekt het stoïcijnse begrip van wereldburgerschap en het belang en rol van de nationale staat. Filosofen met wie zij in gesprek gaat zijn o.a. Cicero, Hugo de Groot en Adam Smith. Tot slot voert zij een pleidooi voor de capability approach.
De leesgroep vergadert eens per maand op een vrijdagmiddag aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Iedereen die colleges filosofie heeft gevolgd op universitair niveau is van harte welkom.
Aanmelding en meer informatie: Loes Derksen, l.d.derksen@vu.nl.
Binnenkort start er weer een nieuwe editie van de SWIP-leesgroep onder leiding van Loes Derksen. Het boek dat gelezen wordt is De vrouw als zondebok van de Italiaans-Amerikaanse feministe en activiste Silvia Federici.
De leesgroep komt eens per maand op een vrijdagmiddag bij elkaar aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Startdatum: eind mei. Voor aanmelden en informatie kun je contact opnemen met Loes Derksen, l.d.derksen@vu.nl.
Hypatia Lecture 2023 with Dianna Taylor, Tammie Schoots, Seunghyun Song, and Liesbeth Schoonheim (moderator)
When: May 20, 3-6 PM (General Assembly: 1.30-2.30 PM)
Where: Perdu, Kloveniersburgwal 86, 1012 CZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
The biannual Hypatia Lecture, organized by SWIP-NL, showcases groundbreaking work in philosophy and feminism. This year’s lecture takes place on May 20 in Amsterdam, and focuses on gender-based violence. The keynote by Dianna Taylor will be followed by responses by Tammie Schoots and Seunghyun Song. The event is open to all interested, and no registration is needed. Prior to the lecture, SWIP-NL will hold its annual General Assembly (members only).
Hypatia. Beeld: Hylkje Ehrenburg.
Program:
13.00: Doors open
13.30-14.30: General Assembly SWIP-NL (in Dutch: members only)
14.30-15.00: Break
15.00-17.00: Lecture by Dianna Taylor, “Gender-based Sexual Violation: Its Manifestations, Its Effects, and How It Can Be Resisted.” Followed by responses by Tammie Schoots and Seunghyun Song; moderation by Liesbeth Schoonheim
17.00: Drinks
18.00: End
Abstract:
Dianna Taylor – Gender-based Sexual Violation: Its Manifestations, Its Effects, and How It Can Be Resisted
Several recent reports by federal agencies in the United States reveal pervasive and increasing rates of sexual violence against women and girls. This talk presents the reality such data portrays, as well as the lack of societal outcry in the face of it, as worthy of outrage but not surprising. Through analyzing specific forms of gender-based sexual violation, including sexual harassment, rape and sexual assault, and reproductive oppression, I show that women are deemed inferior and subordinated on the basis of their sexed and sexualized embodiment. Embodied sexual violation and the sexual humiliation such violation produces will, therefore, continue to be the most effective ways of maintaining oppressive gendered relations of power. It also follows that embodied practices which oppose women’s reduction to mere sexualized and sexually humiliated bodies will most effectively counter women’s oppression, and the talk concludes by exploring specific forms these resistant counter-practices might take.
About the speakers:
Dianna Taylor is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. She is author of Sexual Violence and Humiliation: A Foucauldian-Feminist Perspective (Routledge, 2020) editor of Michel Foucault: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2010), and co-editor of Feminist Politics: Identity, Difference, Agency (Rowman and Littlefield, 2007) and Feminism and the Final Foucault (University of Illinois, 2004). Her current research analyzes rage and counter-violence as feminist resources for resisting and preventing sexual violence and the sexual humiliation such violence produces.
Tammie Schoots is a writer and freelance journalist. She regularly writes for literary platform De Reactor and magazine Linda Meiden. She made a name for herself with personal essays in which she reflects on her own transidentity. Mostly recently, she contributed to the collection of essays on gender related violence called Voorbij de Verbijstering. She is also a regular guest on Radio 1 and BNR Newsradio, where she comments on the news. She studied Philosophy and European Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Seunghyun Song is assistant professor at Tilburg University. Before coming to Tilburg, she was at KU Leuven, where she held FWO junior postdoc mandate. She also completed her PhD at KU Leuven prior to her postdoc there. Her main area of expertise is in linguistic justice and intergenerational justice. While her interest lies in issues of reparative justice, historical injustice, and structural injustice approach, she is also invested in the field of social epistemology, especially on epistemic injustice and reparation, and lived experiences of marginalisation.
Op vrijdagmiddag 17 februari 2023 houdt Jana Cattien (politieke en sociale filosofie, UvA) op uitnodiging van SWIP een academische lezing: Getting Something Off your Chest: Feminist Consciousness-Raising, Therapy & Catharsis. De lezing wordt gehouden op de VU in Amsterdam.
Tussen januari en april 2023 lezen we het boek van Mirjam Slob, De lege hemel. Over eenzaamheid. Wij vergaderen eens per maand op een vrijdagmiddag aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Voor het leesrooster en de locatie kun je contact opnemen met Loes Derksen, l.d.derksen@vu.nl
Iedereen die colleges filosofie in het verleden heeft gevolgd is van harte welkom.
De Hypatiaprijs wordt iedere twee jaar uitgereikt aan het beste Nederlandstalige filosofieboek geschreven door een vrouw.
Winnaar 2022: Tinneke Beeckman, Machiavelli’s lef
Winnaar 2020: Monica Meijsing, Waar was ik toen ik er niet was?
Winnaar 2018: Eva Meijer, De soldaat was een dolfijn