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Keynote Addresses
Beauvoir and the Greeks: Tragedy, Philosophy, History
Meryl Altman (DePauw University)
The Other of the I: Deleuze and Sartre on the Transcendental Field
Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Selected Presentations
Pictures of Parenthood and Childhood in Sartrean Existentialism
Ciro Adinolfi (Catholic Institute of Toulouse)
Sartre's and Beauvoir's Divergent Philosophies of Death
Kiki Berk (Southern New Hampshire University)
Reapproaching Sartre:
New Developments in the Reception of Sartre's Thinking
Alfred Betschart (independent scholar)
Reading Simone de Beauvoir's Old Age in the 21st Century:
Is this Critical Essay Still Relevant?
Marlene Bichet (independent scholar)
Ambiguity, Freedom, and Virtue:
Reading Simone de Beauvoir as a Virtue Ethicist
David Collins (University of Oxford)
Sartre's Theology-Proof Ontology
Matthew C. Eshleman (UNC Wilmington)
Thinking Shyness Through Sartre
Darren Gillies (independent scholar)
Old Age and the Question of Authenticity
Sonia Kruks (Oberlin College)
Complicity in Ones Oppression as an Ethical Fault
Filipa Melo Lopes (University of Edinburgh)
On l'état cadavérique de l'âme:
Medical Discourse and the Representation of Subjectivity in Le Mur
Louise Mai (Sorbonne Université)
Exalting Black Thought:
Jean-Paul Sartre's Commitment to Black Existence and Black Liberation
LaRose T. Parris (Lehman College, City University of New York)
Lived Value and the Experiential Self:
An Alternative Account of Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness
Robin Pawlett-Howell (University of York)
Dismantling Fused Groups:
A Sartrean Account of Political Solidarity
Maria Russo (Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan)
and Francesco Tava (University of the West of England)
Writing and Reading Existentially:
Sartrean Littérature Engagée as a Framework for Literary Theory and Criticism
Danielle Cervantes Stephens (San Diego State University)
Sartre's Simple Indeterminism
Joshua Tepley (St Anselm College)
Identifying with the Reflected Object:
Theoretical Relevance of the Mirror Theme in Huis clos
Simone Villani (Università degli Studi di Padova)
