2024 Religion and Politics Lecture announced
The 2024 Religion and Politics Lecture at the Centre for the Study of Religion and Politics (CSRP) of the University of St Andrews, Scotland, will be delivered by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick on Thursday 14th March 2024, 11.15am in St Mary’s College Hall. Title of the lecture: ‘“There must be religion for women as for the people”: Beauvoir on Marx, Women, and Religion’.
Kate Kirkpatrick is a philosopher based in Oxford, where she is Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics at Regent’s Park College.
She is author of Sartre on Sin (OUP, 2017), Sartre and Theology (Bloomsbury, 2017), and the internationally acclaimed biography Becoming Beauvoir: A Life (Bloomsbury, 2019), which was selected as one of the best books of 2019 by the Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, and The Telegraph, and has been translated into over a dozen languages. In 2021 she was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her current project, a philosophical commentary on Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex.