gender and sexuality

Symposium on La Reine-Garçon

Event poster for the opera La Reine-Garcon, showing a queen in robes, her back turned, in a winter forest surrounding
Event Date:
Jan
18
Sat
2025
9:15 am - 5:00 pm

The Canadian Opera Company (COC) will be mounting the Canadian composer Julien Bilodeau’s new opera, La Reine-Garçon, with a libretto by Michel Marc Bouchard. This one-day symposium will explore how La Reine-Garçon is grounded in Cartesian philosophy and contemporary theories of gender and performance.

Continental Philosophy Group Talk (Emilia Angelova, Concordia)

Emilia Angelova
Image: concordia.ca
Event Date:
Mar
23
Fri
2018
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Prof. Angelova’s research is in 20th century continental philosophy, with a particular focus on Heidegger, Nancy, Derrida, and French feminist theory in relation to 19th century philosophy, specifically Kant and Hegel. Her interests involve themes such as temporality, selfhood, freedom, affect, gender and sexuality, and the imagination.