UK Sartre Society - 15th Annual Conference 19th September 2008

15th Annual Conference 19th September 2008



CONFERENCE PROGRAMME (provisional) 15th Annual Conference of the UK Sartre Society Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 (nearest tube: South Kensington) Friday 19 September 2008 9.15–9.45 Registration/coffee 9.45–11.45 Deborah Evans: Sartre and Beauvoir: One Philosophy? Sartre and Beauvoir on Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and the Question of the ‘Look’ Marcella Arieli: “Le dévoilement de l’être” in Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre Paul Wallace: Simone de Beauvoir’s Method in her Book Old Age and its Relation to Sartre’s Comments on Method in The Problem of Method 11.45-12.00 COFFEE 12.00-13.00 Keynote Lecture: Professor Ingrid Galster (University of Paderborn): Genesis, Theory and Practice of Commitment in Sartre and Beauvoir 13.00–14.30 LUNCH (own arrangements) 14.30–16.30 Eric Tremault: Sartre’s “Alternative” conception of Phenomena in Being and Nothingness Andreas Elpidorou: Over-Intellectualizing our Aesthetic Experiences: Sartre on Imagination and Non-Representational Art John Gillespie: Sartre and God: A Spiritual Journey? 16.30-17.00 TEA 17.00–18.00 AGM of UKSS ENTRANCE: £20 (free to Members of the Institut Français; concessions [students, retired, unwaged] £10) The organisers – Ben O’Donohoe (President: b.o-donohoe@sussex.ac.uk) and Angela Kershaw (Secretary: a.m.kershaw@aston.ac.uk ) – gratefully acknowledge the material and moral support of the Institut Français, London. CALL FOR PAPERS UK SARTRE CONFERENCE 2008 This is a call for papers for the annual one-day conference of the UK Sartre Society (UKSS), which will be held in Central London, on Friday 19 September 2008 (TBC). We welcome papers (lasting about 30 minutes) on any aspect of Sartre's life or work: literature, theatre, cinema, philosophy, psychoanalysis, biography and autobiography, journalism and the media, politics, etc, as well as on comparative themes: Sartre in relation to his influences, contemporaries or successors. Given that 2008 is the centenary of Simone de Beauvoir’s birth, we shall be particularly pleased to receive proposals linking de Beauvoir and her work with Sartre and his. Please send proposals for papers (one side of A4 maximum) by 30 June 2008 to the conference organisers: Dr Benedict O’Donohoe, President of UKSS, Deputy Director, Sussex Language Institute, University of Sussex, BN1 9SH Email: b.o-donohoe@sussex.ac.uk Dr Angela Kershaw, Secretary of UKSS, Senior Lecturer, Aston University, Aston Triangle, Birmingham,B4 7ET Email: a.m.kershaw@aston.ac.uk


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