Monday 25/11 16:00 – 18:00 Medicalization of Female Sexual Desire HIW Kardinaal Mercierzaal You’re all welcome on this lecture given by Jacob Stegenga from the University of Cambridge. Medicalization of Female Sexual Desire fits in the serie ‘Understanding health beyond the medical gaze’. Medicalisation is a social phenomenon in which conditions that were once under legal, religious, personal or other jurisdictions are brought into the domain of medical authority. Low sexual desire in females has been medicalised, pathologised as a disease, and intervened upon with a range of pharmaceuticals. There are two polarised positions on the medicalisation of low female sexual desire: I call these the mainstream view and the critical view. In the full version of the paper I assess important arguments from both positions; here I focus on the arguments for the critical view. Dividing the two positions are opposing models of the aetiology of low female sexual desire. I conclude by suggesting that the balance of arguments supports a modest defence of the critical view regarding the medicalisation of low female sexual desire. For more information and registration contact gert.meyers@kuleuven.be   Tuesday 26/11 21:00 – 00:00 Fakbar Definitely come to our weekly fakbarevening at the Lounge!   […]

Tuesday 19/11 12:30 – 14:00 Philosophy and the world out there HIW Room S 01.14 ‘Human races don’t exist, but …’ Human races don’t exist. That is what biologists and anthropologists tell us. But what exactly do they mean when they say that races don’t exist? In any case, not everyone is convinced. Many philosophers and scientists continue to believe that races do exist. In this talk, I will explain that the remaining debate about the reality of race for the most part turns on philosophical issues about the meaning of ‘race’ and of ‘reality’, rather than on disagreement about the biological facts. It is important to understand this, since the arguments that are given for the existence of race are often misunderstood when they make their way to the outside world. With these series of talks a space is created to reflect on the reciprocal connections between philosophy and the contemporary society and to help foster discussions between students and academic staff across the Institute’s research centres. The speaker of this second edition of Philosophy and the world out there is Olivier Lemeire. You can find more information on the website of the Institue: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/en/news-events/events/philosophy-and-the-world-out-there 21:00 – 00:00 Fakbar […]