Join us for this year’s UK Sartre Society Conference via Zoom! We are delighted to announce the following line-up for our conference, taking place 14 and 15 July 2021:
Keynote Address
The Feel of the Past: Sartre on Memory and Imagination
Professor Kathleen Lennon (University of Hull)
Selected Talks
Sartre and the Aesthetic Object
– Lucy Barry
Imagining the Real Hitler
– Manu Braganca
Imaginary and Conflict in Post-War French Political Thought
– Emmanuel Charreau
Sartre’s Imaginary Selves
– Mary Edwards
Imaginary Adventures
– Simon Gusman
Imagination and Niche Construction: the Evolutionary Entanglement of Sentience and the World
– Justin Leuba
Imagining the Imaginary: Visualisation in Fantastic Literature
– Srinandini Mukherjee
The Magic of Images: From Primitive Symbolism to Concrete Imagination
– Fabio Tommy Pellizzer
Translation Imagination and Imaginary
– Riccardo Raimondo
The Image of Domination: The Political Stakes of the Sartrean Theory of Imagination
– Fabio Recchia
Sartre on Baudelaire: the Dandy Imagination
– Noel Sauer
Beyond the Ability to Imagine: Finitude and the Limits of Human Imagination in Simone de Beauvoir’s L’Invitée
– Ashley Scheu
Standard registration fee is £10.
Registration is free for members of UK Sartre Society, members of North American Sartre Society, subscribers to Sartre Studies International, students, and unwaged people.
Registration is now open! https://ukss2021.bpt.me
You can also download a schedule of sessions (PDF) here: https://bit.ly/UKSS2021schedule
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