Eleventh Biennial Meeting of
the
North American Sartre
Society
Wilfred Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario
September 15-17
Friday
12
:00 - 1:00
Registration
1:00
- 3:30
Concurrent
Sessions
1)
Sartre
Intersecting Marx
Chair: Judith Ellis, Wayne State University
A) Elizabeth Bowman, "Enduring Group Praxis in
Sartre's Phenomenology of Ensembles"
B) Sonia Kruks, Oberlin College, "Spaces of Freedom: Arendt and Sartre
on Spontaneity"
C) Matthew Ally, Temple
University, “On the Materiality of Morality: Sartre writes Marx’s Moral
Theory?”
2) The Critique (First Session)
Chair: Constance Mui, Loyola University, New Orleans
A) Bruce Baugh, The University College of the
Cariboo, British Columbia, "The elusiveness of history: from the Cahiers pour une morale to the Critique of Dialectical Reason"
B) Robert Bernasconi,
University of Memphis, “Sartre contre lui-meme: Sartre’s Critique as Self-Critique”
C)
Kevin Boileau, “Sartre’s Suppressed Ontology”
Commentator: James Marsh, Fordham University
4:00
- 6:30
Concurrent
Sessions
1)
Sartre,
Beauvoir and Marcuse
Chair:
A) Bill Martin, DePaul University, “Sartre and
Marcuse and the Project of Existential Marxism”
B) Martin Beck Matustik, Purdue University,
"The Scarcity of Hope: Untimely Sartrean-Marcusean Meditations."
C)
Cynthia Willett, Emory University, “A Dialectic of Eros and Freedom”
2)
The
Critique (Second Session)
Chair: John Duncan, University of King's College
A) Mark Raymond Brown, University of Ottawa, “An
Examination of ‘Scarcity’ in Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectial Reason”
Commentator: Jean-Pierre Reed, University of
California
B) Stacy Keltner, University of Memphis, “Historical
Writing and Marked Subjects: Re‑reading Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason”
Commentator: Jean-Pierre Reed, University of
California
C) Beth Butterfield, Emory University, “Sartre and
Dilthey on Objective Spirit”
Commentator: Ronald Aronson, Wayne State University,
6:30
Reception
Saturday
9:00
- 11:30
Concurrent
Sessions
1)
Sartre
and Husserl
Chair: Craig
Vassey, Mary Washington College
A) Beata Stawarska, University of Louvain, Belgium,
“Memory and Subjectivity: Sartre in Dialogue with Husserl”
B) Niel Rosen, “Sartre and
Husserl on the Status of the Ego”
C) Alia Al‑Saji, Emory University ,“Between Husserl and Bergson: Sartre on the
Emotions”
Commentator: Richard Holmes, University of Waterloo,
Ontario
2)
Themes
in the Early Sartre
Chair: Donald Stewart,
University of Guelph
A)
Webber, Jonathan, “Sartre and Self-Awareness”
Commentator: Constance Mui, Loyola University, New
Orleans
B) Claude Giroux, Montreal, “Le statut central de la
conversion dans la première morale de Sartre"
Commentator: Irene Pages, University of Guelph
C) Yiwei Zheng, St. Cloud State University,
Minnesota, "On Sartre's Radical Conversion: Do We Abandon the Project of
Trying To Be God in Authenticity?"
Commentator: Mark Maller, Columbia College
3)
Freedom
and Ethics
Chair: Jay Lampert, University of Guelph
A) T. Storm Heter,
University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, “Sartre and Intellectual
Commitment”
B)
Ronald E. Santoni, Denison University, "Violence in Sartre's
Notebooks and in the Critique:
Ambivalent Discussions?"
C)
David Turpin, Purdue University, “Freedom and Intuition in Sartre”
Commentator: David Detmer, Purdue University Calumet
11:30
- 1:00
Lunch
1:00
- 2:00
Business
Meeting
2:15
- 4:45
Concurrent
Sessions
1)
The
Look and the Other
Chair: Angelo Thomas Montante, Glendale Community
College, California
A) Joseph Catalano, Kean College of New Jersey, “The
Look: From the Family Idiot to Being and Nothingness”
B) Mika Elior (with Haim Gordon), Ben Gurion
University of the Negrev, Israel, “Facing the Oppressive Look: A Sartrean
Approach to Women’s Freedom”
C) Adrian Mirvisch, California State University,
Chico, “Friendship in Sartre and Aristotle”
Commentator: Linda Bell, Georgia State University
2)
Sartre
and Philosophy of Mind
Chair: David Jopling, York University
A) Stanley Konecky,
Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York, “Physicalist
Explanation/Existentialist Description: In the Way of Jean-Paul Sartre”
B) David Reisman, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, “Domesticating Sartre: Morris and McCulloch”
C) Jon Weidenbaum, University of Buffalo, “Sartre,
Merleau-Ponty, Freedom and Embodiment; the Question of Ontology as Prior to
Data in Existentialist Phenomenology”
Commentator: Peter McInerney, Oberlin College
3)
Sartre
and Politics
Chair: Walter Skakoon, Univesity of Windsor
A) Joseph Berendzen, Villanova University, “What is
Political Writing?: Sartre and Merleau-Ponty on Literature and the Expression
of Meaning”
B) Ronald Aronson, Wayne State University, Detroit,
“Camus/Sartre: The Story of a Relationship”
C) Farhang Erfani, Villanova University, “Freedom
and Oppression: Sartre and Sayed on the Body”
Commentator: Richard Gull, University of Michigan
5:00
- 6:00
Keynote
Address
Introduction: Hazel Barnes,
University of Colorado at Boulder
Michel Rybalka,
"Specters of Sartre"
6:30
Banquet
Sunday
9:00
- 10:45
Concurrent
Sessions
1)
Sartre,
Literature, Autobiography
Chair: Mireille Truong, University of Guelph
A) Jorge Calderon, Université McGill, Montreal,
“Récupérer ou bien contrer? Simone de Beauvoir et Jean-Paul Sartre face au
project littéraire de Nathalie Sarraute”
B) Anne-Marie Picard, The University of Western
Ontario, "Reading Oedipus: Poulou's family romance and the book"
Commentator:
Adrian van den Hoven, University of Windsor
2)
Sartre
and Contemporary French Philosophy
Chair: Matt Eshleman, Duquesne University
A) Ken Anderson, Oxford College, Georgia, "The
Child in Sartre and Levinas: the Future in the Other"
Commentator: Steven Hendley,
Birmingham-Southern College
B) Mark Rozahegy, Concordia University, Montreal,
“Sartre and Rhizomatics: Deleuze and Guattari’s Appropriation of Sartre’s
Theory of Having”
Commentator: Thomas Flynn,
Emory University
11:00
- 12:00
The
Recent French Revival of Interest in Sartre: Panel Discussion with …
Elizabeth Bowman
William
McBride, Purdue University
Michel Rybalka