JFFP Special Issue on Julia Kristeva

The Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy has published a special issue on the recent work of Julia Kristeva. Check out the table of contents below! The issue is available open-access on the JFFP website here

Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy
Vol 21, No 1 (2013)
Table of Contents
http://www.jffp.org/ojs/index.php/jffp/issue/view/57

Co-editors:

Scott Davidson
Oklahoma City University

John Drabinski
Amherst College

Kris Sealey
Fairfield University

Forum
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Stockholm: Going Beyond the Human through Dance (1-12)
        Julia Kristeva

Kristeva’s Sadomasochistic Subject and the Sublimation of Violence (13-26)
        Kelly Oliver

Julia Kristeva and the Politics of Life (27-42)
        Sarah K. Hansen

Narrative Ethics and Vulnerability:  Kristeva and Ricoeur on Interdependence
(43-59)
        Elizabeth Purcell

On Kristeva's Fiction (60-82)
        Benigno Trigo

Julia Kristeva's Voyage in the Thérèsian Continent: The Malady of Love and
the Enigma of an Incarnated, Shareable, Smiling Imaginary (83-104)
        Maria Margaroni

Kristeva's Thérèse:  Mysticism and Modernism (105-115)
        Carol Mastrangelo Bové


Roundtable
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Julia Kristeva’s The Severed Head (116-119)
        Pleshette DeArmitt

Kenosis, Economy, Inscription (120-126)
        Elaine Miller

Keeping it Intimate: A Meditation on the Power of Horror (127-131)
        Sara Beardsworth


Articles
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Hume's Correlationism: On Meillassoux, Necessity and Belief (132-160)
        Paul O'Mahoney


Review Essays
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Review Essay: Daniel W. Smith, Essays on Deleuze (161-172)
        Kenneth Noe

Review Essay:  Ann Murphy, Violence and the Philosophical Imaginary
(173-182)
        Erinn Gilson

Review Essay: Suzanne Césaire, The Great Camouflage: Writings of Dissent
(1941-1945) (183-192)
        Chike Jeffers


Reviews
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Book Review: Julia Kristeva, The Severed Head: Capital Visions (193-195)
        Matthew R McLennan

Book Review: Tamsin Jones, A Genealogy of Marion's Philosophy of Religion:
Apparent Darkness (196-198)
        N. N. Trakakis

Book Review: Benoît Peeters, Derrida: A Biography (199-204)
        John Thomas Brittingham

Kristeva at the 2013 Chicago Humanities Festival

Julia Kristeva is one of the featured speakers at the 2013 Chicago Humanities Festival. This year's theme is Animal: What Makes Us Human. Explore the CHF website for more information about the festival.

2013 Simone de Beauvoir Prize

The 2013 Simone de Beauvoir Prize has been awarded to Malala Yousafzai, a Pakastani student, activist, and blogger who survived an assasination attempt in October 2012. More information about Yousafzai can be found here. The Simone de Beauvoir Prize was founded by Julia Kristeva in 2008. Previous recipients include: Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Taslima Nasreen, Ai Xiaoming and Jianmei Guo, and the One Million Signatures organization.

Call for Papers: Kristeva at the MLA

Please consider submitting a paper for a Kristeva panel at the South Central Modern Language Association in New Orleans, October 3-5, 2013. The session is part of the Women in French Sessions of the conference. 250-300 word abstracts (in French or English) should be sent to panel organizer Irene Ivantcheva-Merjanska (ivantcii@mail.uc.edu) by February 28, 2013. The theme of the panel is New Approaches to Interpreting Julia Kristeva: Theorician of literature, linguist, psychoanalyst, and novelist/Nouvelles approaches à l’égard de Julia Kristeva: théoricienne de la littérature, linguiste, psychanalyste et romancière. 
  

Kristeva Circle at the APA

The Kristeva Circle will host a panel entitled "Julia Kristeva Today" at the Eastern Division meeting of the American Philosophical Association December 27-30, 2012. The panel will take place on Saturday December 29th 1:30-4:30 with papers from Rebecca Tuvel, Pleshette DeArmitt, and Noelle McAfee. If you are attending the Eastern APA, please join us!

SATURDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 29th
GIX - 9.  Society for the Philosophy of Creativity & Kristeva Circle
 1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Topic: Julia Kristeva Today
Chair: Sarah Hansen (Drexel University)
Speakers: Pleshette DeArmitt (University of Memphis)
"Kristeva’s Radical Revaluation of (Woman’s) Work"
Noëlle McAfee (Emory University)               
“The Interiorization of Mortality: the Unconscious and Kristeva's Death Drive"
Rebecca Tuvel (Vanderbilt University)
"The Oedible Kristeva: Finding Resources for An Animal Ethics in Colette"