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María Pía Lara
Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
María Pía Lara is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. She has been a professor there since 1985.
She is a member of group of academics recognized by the SNI (CONACYT), with the level III, its highest rank. Her books include: Beyond the Public Sphere: Film and the Feminist Imaginary (2021); The Disclosure of Politics (2013); Narrating Evil (2007), and Moral Textures: Feminist Narratives in the Public Sphere (1998). She is currently working on the second part the book Beyond the Public Sphere tentatively called “The Historical Construction of Feminists Social Imaginaries” . She has also edited Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives (2000). Her books have been translated into several languages.
She has written many articles and collective books about the thought of Conceptual history, narratives, feminism, pragmatism, and Critical Theory.
She is one of the co-directors of the annual Colloquium “Philosophy and Social Sciences”, which takes place at the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. She is member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Thesis Eleven, Constellations, Social Imaginaries, and Signos. She has been a Visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research (2013/2014, 2009/2010, 2001-2002), at the University of Cagliari (2008), at the Institute of Social Sciences of University of Western Australia (2005); at the Institute for Research of Women and Gender, Stanford University (1998-1999), and at the Institut für Hermeneutik at the Freie Universität in Berlin (1994-1995).
Fanny Söderbäck
Södertörn University
Fanny Söderbäck is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Södertörn University (Sweden) and the co-founder and co-director of the Kristeva Circle. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research and has held positions at Siena College and DePaul University. She is the author of Revolutionary Time: On Time and Difference in Kristeva and Irigaray (SUNY Press, 2019). She has edited Feminist Readings of Antigone (SUNY Press, 2010) and is a co-editor of the volume Undutiful Daughters: New Directions in Feminist Thought and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). She is currently working on a book project on Italian feminist philosopher Adriana Cavarero, in which she puts her work into conversation with queer and trans theories as well as Latinx, Black, and decolonial feminisms to re-envision selfhood and human relations through the framework of singularity.
Eva Von Rodecker
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Eva von Redecker writes political philosophy and literary essays; her book on new forms of protest, Revolution für das Leben, appeared in 2020 in German and is being translated into French, Korean, Spanish, Greek, and Czech. Eva has taught at Humboldt-University, Berlin, Goethe Universität Frankfurt and the New School, New York and her work concerns theories of property, social change and (un)freedom. In 2020/21, she held a Marie-Skłodowska-Curie fellowship at the University of Verona which investigated the connection between authoritarianism and possessive individualism, building on the notion of „phantom possession“ proposed in „Ownership‘s Shadow“ (Critical Times 3:1, 2020). Eva‘s earlier PhD work on social change resulted in the monograph Praxis and Revolution (Columbia UP, 2021). Her new book on “freedom to stay” will appear in May.