READING SARTRE: on Phenomenology and Existentialism
Two-day conference on the philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre of the 1930s and 1940s
20–21 September 2010
École Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, Paris
Monday 20 September: Salle des Actes
10.00-11.00
Welcome – Jonathan Webber (conference organiser)
Imagination in Non-Representational Painting – Andreas Elpidorou (Boston)
11.30-13.00
The Transcendental Dimension of Sartre’s Philosophy – Sebastian Gardner (UCL)
Magic in Sartre’s Early Philosophy – Sarah Richmond (UCL)
14.30-16.00
A Sartrean Critique of Introspection – Anthony Hatzimoysis (Athens)
Pre-Reflective Self-Consciousness and the Autobiographical Ego – Kenneth Williford (Texas Arlington)
16.30-18.00
Shame and the Exposed Self – Dan Zahavi (Copenhagen)
The Graceful, the Ungraceful, and the Disgraceful – Katherine J. Morris (Oxford)
Tuesday 21 September: Salle des Résistants
9.30-11.00
The Ethics of Authenticity – Christine Daigle (Brock)
Being Colonized – Azzedine Haddour (UCL)
11.30-13.00
What Is It Like To Be Free? – Matthew C. Eshleman (North Carolina Wilmington)
Alienation, Objectification, and the Primacy of Virtue – Alan Thomas (Tilburg)
14.30-16.00
The Significance of Context in Illustrative Examples – Andrew Leak (UCL)
Bad Faith and the Other – Jonathan Webber (Cardiff)
Further Details
Conference language is English.
To register, download the registration form and email me at the address on the bottom to check whether there are still places: <registration form>
Speakers will present their chapters of Reading Sartre: on Phenomenology and Existentialism, on sale at Amazon and all good bookshops.
Conference will be preceded by a reading group at the École Normale Supérieure, discussing three papers from the book. Meetings will be at 3.30pm on 8 September (Hatzimoysis), 15 September (Thomas), and 17 September (Morris).
Reading group venue: Salle séminaire, Département d'études cognitives, École Normale Supérieure, 29 rue d'Ulm, Paris. <map>
Conference and reading group form part of the AHRC Reading Sartre project based at Cardiff University.
