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Please join the French-Speaking Worlds: Then and Now for a talk entitled "Philosophy of a rape trial: The Pelicot trial and French sexual politics" by Manon Garcia (French philosopher, specializing in feminist philosophy).

Abtstract
In the fall 2024, France was both shocked and absorbed by the Pelicot trial: in Avignon, Dominique Pelicot was on trial for drugging and raping his wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and for inviting at least 80 men to rape her with him while she was unconscious. This trial of Dominique Pelicot and fifty of his accomplices could have gone unnoticed, but Gisèle Pelicot decided to waive her right to have the trial held behind closed doors and to make public what she had been through, in the hope that “shame would change sides”. I went to the trial and tried to use my feminist philosophy tools to analyze what was going on there from the point of view of sexual politics. In this talk, I will focus on how philosophical concepts of submission and consent can be mobilized to understand something of this trial.

is a junior professor of practical philosophy at Freie Universität in Berlin. Her primary research is in political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and moral philosophy. She also works on 20th-century French philosophy and philosophy of social sciences, especially economics. 

Garcia is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure de Paris and holds a Masters in Economics and Public Policy (Sciences Po/Polytechnique/ENSAE), having passed the ������é�����پ��Dz� in philosophy. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2017. Since then, she has held positions as an Edmond J. Safra Post-Doctoral Fellow-in-Residence at Harvard University, a Harper-Schmidt Fellow and a Collegiate Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago, and a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Before joining the faculty at Freie Universität in Berlin, she was an assistant professor of philosophy at Yale University.

Hosted by the French-Speaking Worlds: Then and Now Research Group, sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages Research Unit and co-sponsored by the , , Philosophy & Literature Workshop, , and the .

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