Marianne Le Nabat, Author at Public Seminar

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Judith Butler On Trump

An Interview

May 11, 2017 • by Marianne Le Nabat

We invite our readers to enjoy this interview with Public Seminar editor Judith Butler at Cultural Anthropology. Butler discusses whether President Trump can be called a fascist, the significance of his election, and how he can be resisted.

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Is Abortion Candy?

Abortion is not a vice and every attempt to legislate it is a failure

November 30, 2016 • by Marianne Le Nabat

Abortion worked its way into this past election, just like it did with every other election for the past few decades. Clinton said she believes in upholding Roe v Wade; Trump still wants to overturn it (but considers the question of marriage equality “settled”). In a series of debates that ...

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How to Effectively Ban Abortion

On the Polish Black Monday Strike and its Consequences

October 6, 2016 • by Marianne Le Nabat

This week saw a massive mobilization of women in Poland (and elsewhere) against a proposed total abortion ban in the country. On Monday, women refused en masse to go to work or school, striking both economically and socially, in order to stop the proposal, which would have refused abortion to ...

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A Burkini Removed and Secularism Exposed

August 26, 2016 • by Marianne Le Nabat

France has apparently overturned its “burkini ban.” This happened after images surfaced of French police forcing a woman to undress on a beach. It’s worth pausing to consider what secularism even means at this point. Secularism, at the level of the state, means setting public institutions and laws on a universalist footing ...

A Burkini Removed and Secularism Exposed

Education

Refuge and Exile: Illuminating an Academic Contradiction

March 5, 2014 • by Marianne Le Nabat

This is the prepared text of a presentation to the General Seminar commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the University in Exile. I would like to begin my remarks by saying that my own experience at the NSSR has been extremely positive on an intellectual level. When I arrived to the philosophy ...