Conference Program
A. Friday, February 18, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
Session A-1: Sartre, Camus, Freud and Aesthetics
LM 140
Chair/Commentator: Ruth Starkman ( University of San Francisco)
Marie Andree Charbonneau ( University of Moncton)
“Le Scenario Freud”
Christine Daigle ( Brock University)
“Sartrean Aesthetics in Nausea”
Benedict O’Donohoe ( University of Windsor)
“Sartre and Camus: Parallel Playwrights”
Ronald Aronson ( Wayne State University)
“Camus’s L’Impromptu des Philosophes. Camus’s Satirical Take on Sartre and Himself”
Session A-2: Philosophy and Politics in Beauvoir’s The Mandarins
LM 141
Chair/Commentator: Bill McBride ( Purdue University)
Sonia Kruks ( Oberlin College)
“ ‘Living on Rails’: Freedom, Constraint, and Political Judgment in The Mandarins”
Thomas Busch ( Villanova University)
“Simone de Beauvoir and Achieving Subjectivity”
Shannon Mussett ( Utah Valley State College)
“Personal Choice and the Seduction of the Absolute in Beauvoir’s Les Mandarins”
Session A-3: Racism and Racial Identity
LM 147
Chair/Commentator: Elizabeth Butterfield ( Salem State University)
Tom Martin ( Rhodes University)
“On Racisms”
Anika Mann ( Morgan State University)
“Reconstituting Group Constitution: The Politicization of Racial Group Formation in Sartre’s Critique”
B. Friday, February 18, 1:30-3:30
Session B-1: Book Session : Challenging Postmodernism: Philosophy and the Politics of Truth
LM 140
Chair: Ken Anderson ( Emory University)
Speaker: Steven Hendley ( Birmingham Southern College)
Speaker: Bill Martin ( DePaul University)
Respondent: David Detmer ( Purdue University Calumet)
Session B-2: The Ego, the Imaginary and the Other
LM 147
Chair: To be announced
Beata Starwarska ( University of Oregon)
“Obsession, Hallucination, and Consciousness”
Bruce Baugh ( University College of the Cariboo)
“Freedom, Fatalism, and the Other in Being and Nothingness and The Imaginary”
Session B-3: Sartre, Fanon, and Foucault
LM 141
Chair: Anika Mann ( Morgan State University)
George Ciccariello Maher ( University of California at Berkeley)
“The Debate on Humanism Reconsidered: Cesaire and Fanon on Situated Agency”
Matthew Eshleman ( Duquesne University)
“A Foucauldean Problem of Freedom: Towards a Sartrean Solution”
C: Friday, February 18, 3:45-5:45
Session C-1: Book Session : Sartre, Self-Formation and Masculinities
LM 140
Chair: Ron Aronson ( Wayne State University)
Speaker: Debra Berghoffen ( George Mason University)
Speaker: Thomas Flynn ( Emory University)
Respondent: Jean-Pierre Boule ( Nottingham Trent University)
Session C-2: Sartre, Einstein & Quantum Physics
LM 147
Chair: Naomi Rohatyn (Independent)
Richard Holmes ( University of Waterloo)
“Sartre’s Theory of Consciousness and Quantum Phenomena: An Analogy”
Dennis Rohatyn ( University of San Diego)
“Einstein and Sartre: Freedom, Nature, and Authenticity”
Session C-3: Sartre’s Early Phenomenology
LM 141
Chair: Forrest Williams ( University of Colorado)
Niel Rosen ( Catholic University of America)
“The Transcendence of the Ego and Recent Husserl Scholarship”
Stanley Konecky ( Hartwick College)
“Breaking Down the Walls Separating Phenomenology from Scientific Materialism: Sartre on Consciousness/Body Problem”
Friday, February 18, 5:45pm: Reception, LM 100
D. Saturday, February 19, 9-11:30am
Session D-1: Critical Theory and The Critique of Dialectical Reason
LM 140
Chair: Martin Matuštík ( Purdue University)
David Sherman ( University of Montana)
“Sartre’s Phenomenology and Critical Theory”
J.C. Berendzen ( Loyola University New Orleans)
“Sartre and the Communicative Paradigm in Critical Theory”
Arno Munster (Université de Picardie-Jules Verne/Amiens)
“Dialectic and Practice in Sartre’s Thought: An Analysis of The Critique of Dialectical Reason”
Session D-2: Bad Faith and Authenticity
LM 147
Chair: Patricia Huntington ( Purdue University)
Michelle Darnell ( Methodist College)
“Trying to Know Too Much: Bad Faith, Sadism, and Masochism”
Betty Cannon ( Colorado School of the Mines)
Authenticity, the Nature of Reality, and the Practice of Existential Psychotherapy”
Session D-3: Violence and Decolonization
LM 141
Chair: Ronald Sundstrom ( University of San Francisco)
Paige Arthur ( University of California at Berkeley)
“Decolonization and the Philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre: Moving Beyond the Preface to The Wretched of the Earth”
Ronald Santoni ( Denison University)
“The Bad Faith of Violence (And is Sartre in Bad Faith Regarding It?”
E. Saturday, February 19, 1:30-4:30
Session E-1: Sartre and Theatre: Theory and Practice
LM 140
Chair/Commentator: Adrian van den Hoven ( University of Windsor)
John Ireland ( University of Illinois Chicago)
“Sartre and Scarry: Bodies and Phantom Pain”
Dennis Gilbert ( Boston College)
“For a Sartrean Aesthetic of Theater”
Steve Martinot ( University of California, Berkeley)
“Skin for Sale: Race and Sartre’s Respectful Prostitute”
Session E-2: The Triangulations of Friendship: Sartre, Camus, and Beauvoir
LM 141
Chair/Commentator: Ronald Aronson ( Wayne State University)
Peter Gratton ( DePaul University)
“The Politics of (a) Friendship”
Ann Taylor (Diablo Valley College)
“Literary Friendships and Fictional Truths”
Bill Martin ( DePaul University)
“Friendship under World-Historical Pressure”
Session E-3: Consciousness and the Early Sartre
LM 147
Chair/Commentator: Matthew Eshleman ( Duquesne University)
Mark Rozahegy ( McGill University and Concordia University)
“Calculating as “Counting on…” in Heidegger, Gasset, and Sartre: An Investigation Concerning the Pre-reflective Self-relation”
Joel Krueger ( Purdue University)
“Concrete Consciousness: Sartre’s Relevance to Contemporary Philosophy of Mind”
Simon Glynn ( Florida Atlantic University),
“Sartre, Phenomenology and the Buddhist No-Self Theory”
Saturday, February 19, 5:00-6:30
LM 148 (Pacific Rim Room)
Keynote Address:
Introduction: Ronald Santoni, Denison University
Judith Butler, University of California at Berkeley
“Violence and Non-Violence: Shadows of Algiers”
Immediately followed by Banquet
LM 100
F. Sunday, February 20, 9:00-11:30am
Session F-1: Sartrean Ethics and Religion
LM 147
Chair: Anne Grenchus ( Villanova University)
Michael Michau ( Purdue University)
“A Religious Critique of Sartrean Ethics”
Yiwei Zheng ( St. Cloud State University)
“Sartre and Kierkegaard on Absurdity”
Tatjana Schonwalder (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen)
“How Consistent is Sartre’s Philosophy: Rereading the Relation Between Epistemological, Ontological, and Ethical Requirements”
Session F-2: Disclosure, Duality, and Immortality
LM 140
Chair: Dera Sipe ( Villanova University)
Kristana Arp ( Long Island University)
“Simone de Beauvoir’s Concept of Disclosure: Sartrean, Heideggerian or Husserlian?”
Eleanor Kaufman ( University of California, Los Angeles)
“Sartre, Badiou, and the Truth of the Two”
Craig Vasey ( Mary Washington College)
“Two Approaches to Immortality”
Session F-3: Sartre, Politics and Hope Now
LM 141
Chair: Joseph Berendzen ( Loyola University, New Orleans)
Christopher Harless ( Fordham University)
“Sartre’s Hope and the Function of Ethics”
Jonathan Judaken ( University of Memphis)
“Sartre on the Arab/Israeli Conflict”
Kevin Gray ( University of Toronto)
“Sartre and the Hungarian Revolution”
Sunday, February 20, 11: 45-1:00
Lunch/Business Meeting