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April 4, 2024 · 7:33 am

UK Sartre Society Conference 2024: Programme

We’re delighted to announce this year’s UK Sartre Society conference programme. Join us Maison Française d’Oxford on 8-9 July 2024 for our largest conference to date, featuring:

Don’t miss out! Find out more and register today: https://ukss2024.bpt.me

Selected Papers

  • Freedom and Imagination. Orhan Aslan (Middle East Technical)
  • The (Im)possibility of Authentic Subjectivity. Katharina Balk (Ruhr Bochum)
  • Beauvoir and Sartre on Old Age. Kiki Berk (Southern New Hampshire)
  • Sartre’s Reading in his Formative Years 1922 to 1929. Alfred Betschart (independent)
  • The Textual Play of Freedom: Derrida and Sartre. Samuel Buchoul (Cambridge)
  • Independence Begins in the Purse: The Primacy of Economics in Beauvoirs Concept of Situation. Thomas Chesworth (Birmingham)
  • Representative Matters. A Critique of Sartres Phenomenology of Physical Images. Federico Fantelli (Fribourg)
  • Marxism and Nationalism in Sartre: The Case of Anti-colonialism. Zoe Grange-Marczak (École Normale Supérieure)
  • Sartre on Being with Others: Language as Boundary and Opportunity. Svantje Guinebert (Leipzig)
  • The Style of Seriality: Social Kinds in Beauvoir and Sartre. Tris Hedges (Copenhagen)
  • Simone de Beauvoir and Finitude in Un Mort très douce and Mia Hansen-Løve’s Un Beau Matin. Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
  • A Sartrean Conception of a Healthy Body: Either a Transparent Consciousness or an Opaque Thing? Nga Chun, Josh Law (Bristol)
  • Liberalisation Is Not Democratisation: Sartre, The Democrat. Alinafe Luka (Sussex)
  • Sartre’s Break with Heidegger in L’Être et le néant. Elad Magomedov (KU Leuven)
  • Feminist Pessimism Throughout the Years: The Influence of Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy and Late Style on Annie Ernaux. Sophia Millman (Princeton)
  • Sartre on Perception and Imagination as Radically Distinct Consciousnesses. Jonathan Mitchell (Cardiff)
  • An Existentialist or Marxist Ethics? Beauvoir’s Historical Materialist Critique of Consequentialism. Donovan Miyasaki (Wright State)
  • Sartre on Disposition, Freedom & Intersubjectivity. Allonzo Murríel Perez (independent)
  • When Love Goes Wrong: Beauvoir on Love, Authenticity, and the Break-up. Colette Olive (Cambridge)
  • The Existentialist Scène de Ménage: Sartre and Beauvoir on Free Couple. Thomas Payre (Cardiff)
  • Reflections on the European Question. Elisa Reato (Paris Nanterre)
  • Practice and Submission: Sartre’s Conception of the Subject after the Humanism Dispute with Foucault. Mathias Richter (Colorado Boulder)
  • From Idiot to Genius: Sartres Progressive-Regressive Method Applied to Gustave Flaubert. Thaís de Sá Oliveira (Beira Interior, Nucafe) and Alexandre Trzan-Ávila (Évora, Nucafe)
  • Praxis as Transnaturalisation: Sartre and Echeverría in dialogue. Andrés Saenz de Sicilia (Northeastern University London)
  • Sartre’s Ego as Dramaturgical Practical Identity. Asia Sakchatchawan (Oxford)
  • Blonde Precedes Blonde: An Existentialist Phenomenology of Cinematic Imagination. David Sorfa (Edinburgh)
  • Sartre and Cultural Restitution: From History’s Objects to Subjects of Their Own History. Lauren Stephens (Liverpool)
  • Sartre on the Inexplicability of Beings. Joshua Tepley (St Anselm)
  • Sartre and Bourdieu through Flaubert. Tommaso Testolin (Padova)
  • Unveiling Mystifications: Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy in America Day by Day. Julien Tribotté (Johns Hopkins)

Don’t miss out! Find out more and register today: https://ukss2024.bpt.me

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November 17, 2023 · 5:46 pm

UK Sartre Society Conference 2024: CFP out now!

The UK Sartre Society is delighted to announce our annual conference for 2024 will take place on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 July 2024 at Maison Française d’Oxford.

Our keynote speakers:

We invite abstracts on any aspects of the works of Beauvoir or Sartre. 

Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. Please ensure your abstract makes clear what your line of argument will be. Please bear in mind that each selected paper will be scheduled 20 minutes for presentation plus some time for questions. All talks at the conference will be presented in English, so abstracts should be in English.

Abstracts must be submitted through our online submission system. This is a simple text system, so abstracts cannot include footnotes or text formatting. Please prepare your abstract in a simple text editor, then paste it into our form.

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so should not include any information that would identify their authors.

The abstract submission system will close at midnight (UK time) on Wednesday 31 January 2024.

We plan to communicate our decisions by the end of Thursday 29 February, then announce the line-up and open registration in late March or early April.

Submit your abstract here

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June 26, 2023 · 1:43 pm

UK Sartre Society Conference 2023: Programme

We’re delighted to announce that the programme for our 2023 conference is now available. Join us the Maison Française d’Oxford on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 July 2023.

This year features a stellar line-up of speakers including two keynotes: Professor Annie Cohen-Solal on Who is Still Afraid of Sartre? and Professor François Noudelmann on Thinking as Performance in Sartre’s Practice of Philosophy. The conference programme also includes 15 presentations and a Rethinking Existentialism book symposium. Don’t miss it!

Review the full programme and book your place.

Image credit: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in Beijing, 1955 by Liu Dongao/Xinhua. Public Domain (see also)

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February 15, 2023 · 11:02 am

UK Sartre Society Conference 2023 CFP out now!

The UK Sartre Society is pleased to announce that our 2023 conference will take place at the Maison Française d’Oxford on Monday 3rd and Tuesday 4th July.

Keynote Address:

Thinking as Performance in Sartre’s Practice of Philosophy
– Professor François Noudelmann (New York University)

We invite abstracts on any aspects of the works of Beauvoir or Sartre. 

Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. Please bear in mind that each selected paper will be scheduled 25 minutes for presentation plus some time for questions.

All talks at the conference will be presented in English, so abstracts should be in English.

Abstracts must be submitted through our online submission system. This is a simple text system, so abstracts cannot include footnotes or text formatting. Please prepare your abstract in a simple text editor, then paste it into our form.

Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so should not include any information that would identify their authors.

The abstract submission system will close at midnight (UK time) on Friday 24th March.

We plan to communicate our decisions in April, then announce the line-up and open registration in early May.

Please submit your abstract here: https://bit.ly/UKSSabstracts2023

Image credit: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre in Beijing, 1955 by Liu Dongao/Xinhua. Public Domain (see also)

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June 12, 2021 · 5:32 pm

Imagination & The Imaginary: 14 & 15 July 2021 (Online)

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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June 16, 2019 · 8:50 am

Out Now! Updated UK Sartre Society Conference 2019 Programme

There’s now less than a month until our UK Sartre Society conference! This year we’ve got a great line-up of papers focused on de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex plus keynote speaker Dr Manon Garcia on From Abdication to Independence: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Love as an Emancipatory Analysis. We’ll be at Maison Française d’Oxford from 13.00 on Tuesday 2 July until 18.00 on Wednesday 3 July 2019… so come and join us!

Registration closes on 25 June 2019 so if you haven’t registered yet, you can do so here.

You can also download the latest version of the programme.

 

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February 10, 2019 · 10:01 am

UK Sartre Society 2019 CFP: Now Accepting Submissions!

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We’re pleased to announce that the 2019 conference of the UK Sartre Society will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir’s hugely influential work The Second Sex.

The conference will be held at the Maison Française d’Oxford on Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd July.

Our keynote speaker is Dr Manon Garcia of the University of Chicago, author of the highly acclaimed new book On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient (Flammarion, 2018).

Call For Abstracts

We invite abstracts for papers on any question relating to The Second Sex, especially its reception and influence across the academic disciplines and in public life, its relation to Beauvoir’s life and other works, its relation to other works of existentialism, and the contributions that a renewed attention to this classic work can make to philosophical, ethical, social, and political debates today.

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.

All talks at the conference will be presented in English, so abstracts should also be in English.

Abstracts must be submitted through our new online submission system. This is a simple text system, so abstracts cannot include bold, italics, or footnotes. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so should not include any information that would identify their authors.

The submission system is now open: https://goo.gl/forms/bw2rW3HzvDoSMaB63 and will close at the end of Friday 15 March 2018. We hope to announce the selected papers by the end of March.

Picture credit: Simone de Beauvoir is by aeneastudio and licensed CC BY 4.0 2.0  

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January 14, 2019 · 9:26 pm

UK Sartre Society 2019 CFP Out Now!

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We’re pleased to announce that the 2019 conference of the UK Sartre Society will celebrate the 70th anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir’s hugely influential work The Second Sex.

The conference will be held at the Maison Française d’Oxford on Tuesday 2nd and Wednesday 3rd July.

Our keynote speaker is Dr Manon Garcia of the University of Chicago, author of the highly acclaimed new book On ne naît pas soumise, on le devient (Flammarion, 2018).

Call For Abstracts

We invite abstracts for papers on any question relating to The Second Sex, especially its reception and influence across the academic disciplines and in public life, its relation to Beauvoir’s life and other works, its relation to other works of existentialism, and the contributions that a renewed attention to this classic work can make to philosophical, ethical, social, and political debates today.

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.

All talks at the conference will be presented in English, so abstracts should also be in English.

Abstracts must be submitted through our new online submission system. This is a simple text system, so abstracts cannot include bold, italics, or footnotes. Abstracts will be reviewed anonymously, so should not include any information that would identify their authors.

The submission system will open on Friday 1st March and close at the end of Friday 15th March. We hope to announce the selected papers by the end of March.

The submission system will be available through our website: https://uksartresociety.com/

Picture credit: Simone de Beauvoir is by aeneastudio and licensed CC BY 4.0 2.0  

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August 8, 2017 · 8:12 pm

(After) After Existentialism: UK Sartre Society Conference 2017

This year’s conference — After Existentialism, with keynote speaker Professor Christina Howells — was our first with parallel sessions. This meant a total of 13 talks (yes, I know that’s an odd number) before the keynote and a lot of difficult decisions for delegates.
I was very impressed with the ones I heard — two on existentialism and psychotherapy, two on the construction of gender, two on authenticity and inauthenticity, and one on the phenomenology of reading, finishing with an excellent keynote address arguing that Peter Sloterdijk’s superficially existentialist philosophy is, on closer consideration, profoundly anti-Sartrean.

We are very grateful to Maison Française d’Oxford for the use of their excellent building and for providing such great coffee, and to their regular caterers for a superb lunch. We were lucky with the weather, so the beautiful garden was a bonus. We hope to return to this venue in future years.

Jon Webber, President of UK Sartre Society 

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July 10, 2017 · 4:15 pm

One week to go! UK Sartre Society Conference 2017

We’ve an all star line up for this year’s UK Sartre Society conference and it’s now just over one week to go! After Existentialism will take place on Tuesday 18 July 2017 in Oxford, UK and we’re delighted that Christina Howells is able to join us as our keynote speaker.

A slightly revised timetable for the conference is now available.

You can review the conference abstracts here. 

 

Look forward to seeing you in Oxford!

 

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