The Value of the Humanities

Toril Moi will speak about the value of the humanities at a seminar about research funding organized by Forskerforbundet (the Norwegian Association for Researchers) in Oslo on Tuesday 22 November. For more information about this seminar, which will begin with a talk by Tora Aasland, the current Minister for Knowledge, click here.

A talk about Emperor and Galilean at the Ibsen Museum in Oslo

Toril Moi will give a talk (in Norwegian) on Emperor and Galilean at the Ibsen Museum in Oslo on Sunday 20 November at 2:00 p.m. The talk will be called “Tro uten kjærlighet” (“Faith without love”). She will focus on the relevance of Ibsen’s great 1873 play for our own time, not least in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Norway on 22 July 2011.

The new Journal of Feminist Scholarship is now online

The Journal of Feminist Scholarship is a new online journal. It aims ” to offer an open-access academic forum for the publication of innovative, peer-reviewed feminist scholarship across the disciplines and to encourage productive debates among scholars and activists interested in examining methodological directions and political contexts and ramifications of feminist inquiry.” The enterprising editors are Catherine Villanueva Gardner, Anna M. Klobucka, and Jeannette E. Riley at the University of Massachusetts. Here is a link to my own short piece in the inaugural issue’s round table on “Feminism and Feminist Scholarship Today.”