Distinguished Lecture organised by Critical and Cultural Theory, School of Culture and Education, Södertörn University.

Drawing insights from the work of Simone de Beauvoir, the lecture considers what it means to become old and why we so often fear old age.

Lecturer: Sonia Kruks, Danforth Professor of Politics Emerita at Oberlin College, USA. Professor Sonia Kruks is a political philosopher who is best known for her scholarly work on the political and social ideas of the French existentialists. She has also published extensively on feminist theory.

Mingling after the lecture takes place outside room MA648.