Filipa Melo Lopes, University of Edinburgh, ‘What do incels want? Explaining Incel Violence Using Beauvoirian Otherness’.

Filipa Melo Lopes is Lecturer with research interests in Social and Political Philosophy and Feminist Philosophy. She has done work on social theory and ontology, the metaphysics of gender, philosophy of disability, as well as normative work in feminist politics and sexual ethics. Currently working on a project on Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex.

She has enduring interests in a broad set of topics in Political Philosophy (including political liberalism, multiculturalism and communitarianism debates, issues of culture, borders and territorial rights), in Philosophy of Race and Ethnicity, and in the history of Feminist Philosophy.

Wednesday 3 March 2021, 3pm via MS Teams.

Contact Suzanne Whitten suzanne.whitten@qub.ac.uk to register for the seminar.