Sartre, Existentialism, and Political Thought

UK Sartre Society annual conference 2014

Friday 19th September

Les Salons, Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT


Keynote Speaker:
Ronald Aronson (Wayne State University)


Registration on the day only:
£20, or £10 concessions and UKSS members.


provisional schedule


10.00 arrival and coffee

10.40-11.20
Emotions, Self-Deception, And (Political) Value
Daniel Vanello (Warwick)

11.20-12.00
Sartre and Love:
an extrapolation of a bilateral theory of emotional attachment
Oliver Downing (Liverpool)

12.00-12.40
On Translating Being and Nothingness
Sarah Richmond (UCL)

12.40  AGM and elections

-- lunch --

2.00-3.00
Keynote Address
Surviving the Neoliberal Maelstrom: A Sartrean Phenomenology of Social Hope
Ronald Aronson (Wayne State)

-- coffee --

3.30-4.10
Existentialism is not a Humanism:
Nothingness, perversion and the non-humanist conception of man in early Sartre
David Mitchell (Liverpool)

4.10-4.50
From a Phenomenological to a Materialist Body:
Embodiment in Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason
Cas McMenamin (Kingston)

4.50-5.30
Practical and Rational Freedom: the politics of private life
Sebastian Cupido (HvA)

5.30-7.00
wine reception

UK Sartre Society, Dr Jonathan Webber:[email protected]