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CANCELED – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès

Decolonizing Feminism – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès

On the occasion of the publication in the Czech edition of Un féminisme décolonial (La Fabrique, 2019) by Karolinum, CEFRES, the French Institute in Prague and Charles University invite you to a Great Interview with the author Françoise Vergès.

When: Wednesday, March 12, 2025, 6 pm
Location: French Institute in Prague, Štěpánská 35, Prague 1
Language: French with simultaneous Czech interpretation
Moderator: Chiara Mengozzi (CEFRES / Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

Who cleans up the world? With this question, Françoise Vergès introduces a Decolonial feminism, taking as her starting point the underpaid, underestimated work that women, the majority of them racialised, do everyday all over the world, to make a society work. This feminism sees itself as the only one with a true understanding of women’s rights. Françoise Vergès defends an anti-racist and anti-capitalist feminism. Continue reading CANCELED – Grand Entretien with Françoise Vergès →

Revision of the Experience of Failure in Growth Societies, and Its Hegelian Basis

Revision of the Experience of Failure in Growth Societies, and Its Hegelian Basis

4th session of CEFRES in-house seminar
Through the presentation of works in progress, CEFRES’s Seminar aims at raising and discussing issues about methods, approaches or concepts, in a multidisciplinary spirit, allowing everyone to confront her or his own perspectives with the research presented.

Location: CEFRES Library
Date: Tuesday, 3rd December, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.
Language: English
Contact / To register: cefres[@]cefres.cz

It wll be hosted by:
Josefína Formanová (Faculty of Arts, Charles University)

Chair: Ivan LANDA (Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences)

The following text will accompany our discussion:
Wiliiam DESMOND: “Philosophy and Failure” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 1988, New Series, vol. 2. No. 4 (1988)

Abstract:

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