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:
30 presentations on the latest in Sartre scholarship.
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)