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