Advance registration for our annual UK Sartre Society conference and an updated schedule are now available.
Don’t forget that the conference will be followed on Saturday 19 September by a one-day workshop on Frantz Fanon at UCL organised by the AHRC project Rethinking Existentialism.
We look forward to seeing you in London next month!
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Existentialism, Race, and Gender
UK Sartre Society conference 2015
Friday 18 September 2015
10.00 – 19.00
Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU
Keynote Address
Race and Gender from the Standpoint of Sartre’s Philosophical Anthropology
Professor Lewis Gordon (Connecticut)
Submitted Papers
Okonkwo and Frantz: Suicide in the thought of Achebe and Fanon
Dinesh Napal (Warwick)
Wilful Inauthenticity in the Francophone Caribbean: Re-reading a Bad Faith Narrative
Michael Wiedorn (Georgia Tech)
Adult Male-to-Female Transsexualism: A Clinical Existential-Phenomenological Inquiry
Roberto Vitelli (Naples Federico II)
25 Years of Gender Trouble: Judith Butler and the Sartrean Imaginary
Kathleen Lennon (Hull)
Jean-Paul Sartre and the Arab World: A Reconsideration
Yoav Di-Capua (Texas Austin)
Registration costs until 10 September: £30 standard; £20 student/unwaged.
Registration costs from 10 September onwards: £35 standard; £25 student/unwaged.
UK Sartre Society members are entitled to a £10 discount on their ticket.
Registration price includes afternoon tea or coffee. Delegates are to make their own arrangements for lunch.
There will be a drinks reception sponsored by the AHRC project Rethinking Existentialism.
Places are limited and you can register here.
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