Dr. Nicole des Bouvrie, Visiting scholar to the Baha’i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland
Abstract: The history of (Western) philosophy has been dominated by male thinkers. What does this mean for our understanding of thinking and the structures through which we understand reality and the world around us? Is it possible to find a way for those excluded from power to decide what is normal and what is mad, for minorities, for women, to define what it means to think and be? Or is being a woman always going to be defined through an essential lack of something? In other words, is a thinking woman always an oxymoron?
About the speaker: Dr. Nicole des Bouvrie is a visiting scholar to the Baha’i Chair for World Peace at the University of Maryland. After she finished her PhD in Philosophy, Art and Critical Theory at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, she has worked as a freelance philosopher and as a post-doc researcher at Fudan University, Shanghai, China. She wrote her dissertation about the “Necessity of the Impossible”, thinking about radical change and how the prevalent epistemic structures of power are limiting reality and the possibilities of change.
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