• Instituut voor Wijsbegeerte | Leiden | bijzonder hoogleraar | 2021-09-01 - present

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Socrates professor Philosophical Anthropology and the Foundations of Humanism (Institute for Philosophy, Leiden University)

Director Graduate School Humanities (VU)

Associate professor (VU)

Specialisation: Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Feminist Philosophy

My research project is entitled: ‘Hermeneutics of the gendered, racialized and ageing body’. I want to philosophically understand what embodied factors such as gender, race and age imply, both in terms of a person’s personal identity and in terms of being socially situated and signified. My sources are in the field of (critical) phenomenology, hermeneutics, feminist philosophy. I have published on the philosophy of Irigaray, Butler and Ricoeur.

Recent publications include:

A. Dufourcq, A. Halsema, K. Smiet, K. Vintges (Eds.), Purple Brains. Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy. Radboud University Press, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373

M. de Boer & A. Halsema, Mimicking Myths of Menopause. A critical phenomenological perspective on ageing and femininity in fiction TV shows. Philosophy and Social Criticism. Online first, feb. 2024. Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01914537241232586

H.-G. Eilenberger & A. Halsema, Editor’s Introduction/Présentation du numéro. Simone de Beauvoir Studies, special issue “Old Age in the Wake of Simone de Beauvoir” 33 (2), 2023, 1–18. Link: https://brill.com/view/journals/sdbs/33/2/article-p191_1.xml

H.-G. Eilenberger, A. Halsema, L. Schuitmaker, Becoming a 'vulnerable senior' in the days of COVID-19, Puncta. Journal of Critical Phenomenology.  2022, Vol 5(1), 37-57

Monographs:

Luce Irigaray and Horizontal Transcendence, Amsterdam: SWP, 2010

Dialectiek van de seksuele differentie. De filosofie van Luce Irigaray, Amsterdam: Boom, 1998

Edited volumes:

A. Dufourcq, A. Halsema, K.Smiet, K. Vintges (Eds.) Purple Brains. Feminisms at the Limits of Philosophy. Radboud University Press, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.54195/HSOV8373

A. Halsema, K. Kwastek and R. van den Oever (Eds.), Bodies That Still Matter. Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler. Amsterdam University Press, 2021

A. Halsema & F. Henriques (Eds.), Feminist Explorations of Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Rowman & Littlefield/Lexington Books, 2016

C. Ceton, I. van der Burg, A.Halsema, V. Vasterling, K, Vintges (red.), Vrouwelijke filosofen – een historisch overzicht. Amsterdam: Atlas, 2012

Contemporary Continental Philosophy (Ba 1 Philosophy)

Theorizing Gender and Intersectionality (minor Gender and Diversity)

Coordination Multidisciplinary Minor Gender and Diversity