We’re excited to announce the full, provisional line-up for this year’s UK Sartre Society (UKSS) conference taking place in Oxford, UK on Tuesday 18 July 2017. If you haven’t done so already, don’t forget to book your place now!
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After Existentialism: UKSS 2017 CFP
Mark the date and get your thinking caps on… the UK Sartre Society 2017 call for papers is out now! The 2017 conference topic is After Existentialism and the conference will be held at Maison Française d’Oxford, Oxford, UK on Tuesday 18 July 2017.
The conference keynote is Professor Christina Howells (Oxford). Christina is author of Mortal Subjects: Passions of the Soul in Late Twentieth-Century French Thought (2011), Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethics (1998), and Sartre: The Necessity of Freedom (1988), editor of French Women Philosophers: A Contemporary Reader (2004) and The Cambridge Companion to Sartre (1992), and coeditor of Stiegler and Technics (2013).
Call For Abstracts
How have the central ideas of Beauvoir and Sartre been taken up, modified, and extended in subsequent philosophical and theoretical writings? To what extent can major works of philosophy and theory published from the immediate post-war period up to the present day be understood as continuations of existentialist ideas, despite perhaps being framed in opposition to existentialism or expounded entirely without reference to existentialism? And how might new readings of French existentialist works help to refine the ideas in these more recent works and to resolve problems that can be raised in objection to them?
We invite abstracts of papers addressing these questions in relation to phenomenology and philosophical psychology, moral and political philosophy, feminism and race theory, literary and aesthetic theory, and any other strands of French existentialism.
Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. Please bear in mind that each selected paper will be scheduled 30 minutes for presentation plus some time for questions.
Abstracts should be fully prepared for anonymous review and emailed as Word document attachments to: uksartresocietyconference [at] gmail.com
The closing date for submissions is 31st January 2017.
Picture credit: Sartre by http://www.flickr.com/people/69061470@N05 – http://www.flickr.com/photos/government_press_office/6470403371/, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=37461801 and de Beauvoir by MILNER MOSHE [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
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Existentialism & The Body: Recordings Out Now!
As many of you are aware we try to openly license and share on YouTube as many recordings of conference sessions as possible. I’m pleased to announce that recordings from this year’s conference are now available! Unfortunately due to technical issues we weren’t able to capture all sessions but the excellent papers captured here reflect what was an great conference.
And of course don’t forget to check out recordings of previous conferences and other playlists that we’ve put together for your viewing pleasure… as always, feedback welcome!
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Existentialism & the Body: 1 July 2016
A big thanks to everyone who participated in Friday’s conference – we had a great day with excellent papers and no shortage of discussion!
Recordings of selected papers will be available shortly. In the meantime, here are some pictures from the event for your perusal…
Katherine Morris (Oxford)
Conference venue: St Peter’s College
Matt Eshleman (UNC Wilmington)
Maria Russo (San Raffaele, Milan)
Dorfman Centre
Fiona Vera Gray (Durham)
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North American Sartre Society CFP out now!
Fellow Sartreans and friends, the North American Sartre Society (NASS), have announced the call for papers for their 4-6 November meeting. The conference will be held at University North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) and the theme is “Existentialism and Engagement: The History and Future of Existentialism.” The conference’s keynote speaker will be Sarah Bakewell.
“The North American Sartre Society invites proposals for its twenty-second conference, to be hosted by Matthew Eshleman at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, November 4-6, 2016. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Russell Tribunal, the theme of our 2016 conference will be “Existentialism and Engagement: The History and Future of Existentialism.”
We invite proposals which address the legacy and future of existentialism and politics, reflecting on the history of existentialism in the public sphere, including its role in art, journalism, theater, social movements, music, the academy, and electoral politics. We also encourage participants to address questions such as: What is the future of Sartre scholarship? Will existentialism have a home outside of the academy?
As always, we also welcome papers in any area of Sartre scholarship (philosophy, literature, theater, psychology, politics, intellectual history, Sartre and other writers, etc.) Proposals need not address the conference theme. The North American Sartre Society encourages diverse and pluralistic approaches to Sartre Studies.
Reading time for a paper should be 20-25 minutes maximum. In addition to individual papers, we welcome suggestions for panel topics.
Proposals may be submitted in either English or French. Graduate students are also encouraged to submit proposals. We hope to provide a limited number of stipends for graduate students to help defray the costs of travel and lodging. In order to be considered for a stipend, graduate students must contact us to apply.
All those whose papers are accepted are required to become members of the North American Sartre Society (if they are not already) in order to present a paper at the conference. DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF ABSTRACTS: July 31, 2016.
Please E-MAIL an abstract (1-2 pages) as an attachment to Elizabeth Butterfield: ebutterfield[at]georgiasouthern.edu.
For panel submissions, please submit an abstract for the whole panel as well as abstracts for each individual paper. All proposals will be forwarded to the Program Committee for blind review.” (Source)
This is a great conference and opportunity so don’t delay… submit your abstract today!
NASS 2015
Matt Eshleman and Storm T. Heter (NASS 2015)
Around Bethlehem, PA
Photos: NASS 2015 at East Stroudsburg University, Bethlehem, PA by Beck Pitt and licensed under CC BY 2.0.
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Existentialism and the Body: 1 July 2016
We were inundated with excellent submissions for this year’s conference and would like to extend a big thank you to everyone who submitted an abstract. We’re now pleased to announce the line-up for this year’s conference Existentialism and the Body which will take place on Friday 1 July 2016 at St Peter’s College, Oxford.
Existentialism and the Body
The Dialectics of (In)visibility and the Lived Experience of Race
Danielle Petherbridge (Columbia and UCD)
The Ageing Body
Kathleen Lennon (Hull)
Violence and Generosity: Meeting the Other’s Body in Cahiers pour une Morale
Maria Russo (San Raffaele, Milan)
Women’s Bodies and Consent to Submission in Beauvoir’s The Second Sex
Manon Garcia (Panthéon-Sorbonne and Tufts)
‘It’s All Part of Growing Up’: Beauvoirian Bodies and Intrusion
Fiona Vera Gray (Durham)
What You Think (About Sartre’s Approach to the Philosophy of Mind) is What You Get
Matthew Eshleman (UNC Wilmington)
Keynote
Living Bodies
Katherine Morris (Oxford)
Spaces are limited … so please register to participate and guarantee your place. We look forward to seeing you in a couple of months!
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Existentialism, Race and Gender conference: Session Videos Out Now!
Missed Friday’s conference? Were there but wishing you could hear a talk again? Could only come to part of the conference and didn’t catch all the sessions?
Well, don’t worry, we’re pleased to announce that ALL session recordings are now available on YouTube for your viewing/listening pleasure!
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Existentialism, Race and Gender: Thank you!
Lewis Gordon
Dinesh Napal
Kathleen Lennon
Yoav Di-Capua
Roberto Vitelli
Michael Wiedorn
Phew! What a weekend…
A massive thanks to everyone who made it to London for our conference on Existentialism, Race and Gender on Friday at UCL (and a big shout out if you participated in the Rethinking Existentialism workshop on Fanon yesterday too!) We hope you enjoyed the past few days as much as we all did!
We had a fantastic selection of speakers and talks. But don’t worry if you weren’t able to make it, or could only come for part of the day. We recorded all of Friday’s sessions and the afternoon sessions of the Fanon workshop. These will be made available shortly.
In the meantime, all feedback welcome and if you blogged about either conference or have photos etc. you’d like to share, we’d love to hear from you.
Thanks again for participating and see you next year!
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Line Up Confirmed! Existentialism, Race & Gender: UK Sartre Society, 18 September 2015
The UK Sartre Society are excited to announce the line-up for our 2015 meeting on Friday 18 September! The theme of this year’s conference is “Existentialism, Race and Gender.”
The conference will be followed on Saturday 19 September by a one-day workshop on Frantz Fanon, somewhere in London, organised by the AHRC project Rethinking Existentialism.
More details, including registration information, to follow shortly. We look forward to seeing you all in September!
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Friday 18 September : 10.30-19.00
Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU
Keynote Speaker
Lewis Gordon (Connecticut)
author of What Fanon Said, Existentia Africana,
Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism, and editor of Existence in Black.
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)
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Catch Up on Our Conference Sessions!
Didn’t manage to make it to last year’s conference? Enjoy a particular session but wish you could hear it again? Never fear, you can now revisit our 2013 and 2014 conference with today’s release of eight recordings!
- Watch last year’s keynote Ron Aronson (Wayne State) on Surviving the Neoliberal Maelstrom: A Sartrean Phenomenology of Social Hope or listen to Jon Webber (Cardiff) on The Root of the Disagreement between Camus and Sartre
- Hear Andrea Walsh (Michigan State) on Freedom and Fetishism in Sartre’s Search for a Method or review David Mitchell’s (Liverpool) talk on Existentialism is not a Humanism: Nothingness, Perversion and the Non-Humanist Conception of Man in Early Sartre
- Listen to Benedict O’Donohoe (Sussex) on Roquentin and the Autodidact, or the Critique of Humanism in La Nausée or Oliver Downing (Liverpool) on Sartre and Love…
- Check out Elizabeth Benjamin (Birmingham) on Étranger à moi-même: Sartre, Camus, and Avant-Garde Alterity or listen to Sebastian Cupido (HvA) on Practical and Rational Freedom…
We are aiming to record future conference sessions so will be adding to our YouTube channel playlist intermittently.
The recordings are all openly licensed (CC-BY 4.0) and available for reuse with appropriate attribution. You can find out more about Creative Commons licensing here.
Thanks to all the speakers for agreeing to have their sessions recorded. We hope you enjoy listening and watching the recordings and if you have feedback, we’d love to hear from you!
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