CFP: North American Sartre Society, 28th Meeting, Extended Abstract Deadline August 5th

The 28th Meeting of the North American Sartre Society will take place on November 3-5th, 2023 at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.  

Keynote Speakers: 

Betsy Bowman and Bob Stone 

Betsy Bowman is president and research associate at the Center for Global Justice in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. 

Bob Stone is professor emeritus of philosophy at the C. W. Post Center of Long Island University

Both are long time, founding members of NASS and authors of the new book Reading Sartre's Second Ethics: Morality, History, and Integral Humanity.

Our conference theme is Sartre’s second ethics. We invite proposals on all themes related to Sartre’s later ethics, including, but not limited to: community ethics, the “We” and ethics, relations with others, beyond Existentialism is a Humanism, Marxism and ethics, anarchism and ethics, integral humanity, group praxis, moral invention, ethics and history. 

We invite proposals from any area of Sartre studies and from any disciplinary background. In the spirit of Sartre’s eclectic thinking, we encourage proposals that address philosophy, literature, theater, aesthetics, psychology, politics, intellectual history, art, music, and other disciplines. Aiming to foster diverse and pluralistic approaches, we understand Sartre Studies broadly to indicate work in the existentialist tradition, including work emerging from thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, Angela Davis, Albert Camus, Anna Julia Cooper, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lewis R. Gordon, Frederick Douglass, Kathryn Sophia Belle, Steve Biko, Naomi Zack, Chabani Manganyi, Emilio Uranga, Jorge Portilla, W.E.B. Du Bois, Aimé Césaire, Keiji Nishitani, Azzedine Haddour, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel, Emmanuel Levinas, Sara Ahmed, danielle davis, bell hooks, Kamau Brathwaite, Nathalie Etoke, Achille Mbembe, Suzanne Césaire, James Baldwin and others.

In an effort to be accessible, we will offer a limited number of Zoom sessions.  Please indicate in your proposal if you wish to be considered for a Zoom session. 

 A limited number of stipends will be provided for graduate students and underemployed scholars.  Please indicate in your proposal if you wish to be considered for a stipend.

 Information on lodging and travel will be forthcoming.

The submission process:

●       The submission deadline is July 15th

●       We are accepting abstracts of 300-500 words. Reading time for papers is 20-25 minutes.

●       We will accept proposals for both individual papers and panel proposals. Please indicate if you are interested in the teaching existentialism session.

●       English or French is acceptable.

●       Please submit your abstract (or any questions) by email to NASS President, Kimberly Engels, [email protected]

●       Graduate students are encouraged to submit.

●       All proposals will be forwarded to the program committee for review.

Contacts: 

Kimberly Engels, NASS President: [email protected]

 Kiki Berk, NASS Co-President [email protected]

Matthew Eschleman, Conference Host: [email protected]

Damon Boria, NASS Past President: [email protected]

T Storm Heter, NASS Executive Board Member [email protected]

Elizabeth Butterfield, NASS Executive Board Member: [email protected]

 Eddie O’Byrn, NASS Member at Large:  [email protected]

Jake Jackson, NASS Member at Large: [email protected]

LaRose Parris, NASS Member at Large: [email protected]

A Shahid Stover, NASS Member at Large: [email protected]

 NASS Webpage: https://www.northamericansartresociety.org

NASS Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/SartreSociety/

 Sartre Studies International https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/sartre-studies/sartre-studies-overview.xml