22nd Annual Meeting of the North American Sartre Society

Hosted by University of North Caroline Wilmington

November 4-6, 2016

FRIDAY, NOV. 4

12:00-1:30     Registration

1:30-1:45       Welcome

2:00-3:45       Session One

4:00-5:45       Session Two

(6:30-9:00)    Reception, Holiday Inn

SATURDAY, NOV. 5

8:15-8:55       Coffee and Bagels

9:00-10:45     Session Three

11:00-12:45   Session Four

1:00-2:15       Lunch Break

2:30-4:15       Session Five

4:30-5:45       Session Six

6:00-7:00       Keynote

(Time TBA)    Reception

SUNDAY, NOV. 6

8:15-8:55       Coffee and Bagels

9:00-9:45       General Business Meeting

10:00-12:00   Session Seven

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FRIDAY, NOV. 4

12:00-1:30    Registration: Bear Hall, Main Entrance Lobby

1:30-1:45       Welcome: Bear Hall 106

2:00-3:45 – SESSION ONE

 1A. Freedom, Determinism, and Agency: Bear Hall 200

·      Moderator: Dane Sawyer, University of LaVerne

·      “Existentialism is a Pedagogy: An Existential Approach to Teaching Agency,” Edward O’Byrn, Pennsylvania State University

·      “Sartre’s Incompatibilism,” Joshua Tepley, Saint Anselm College

·      “Being and Nothingness in Somethingness: Sartre’s Freedom in Situation.  Can Being Be Doing Not Done?” Peter Jones, Independent Scholar

1B. Authenticity, Bad Faith, and Self-Deception: Bear Hall 208

·      Moderator: Jake Jackson, Temple University

·      “Correcting for Practices: Existentialism and Social Development,” Daniel Garro, Temple University / Rider University

·      “The Authentic Person’s Limited Bad Faith,” Sarah Horton, Boston College

·      “Self-deception and Intentionality: A Sartrean Alternative,” Maiya Jordan, McGill University

1C. New Approaches to the Critique of Dialectical Reason: Bear Hall 219

·      Moderator: Matthew Ally, City University of New York

·      “The Practico-Inert and our Possibilities: Social and Historical Subjectivity,” Kimberly Engels, Marquette University

·      “The Specter of the Sartrean Subject in Derrida and the Deconstructive Space of the Practico-Inert,” Matthew Fellows, University of Utah

·      “Toward a Hypo-logical Reading of Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason,” Austin Smidt, University of Dundee

4:00-5:45 – SESSION TWO

2A. Literature as Praxis: Bear Hall 200

·      Moderator: Craig Vasey, University of Mary Washington

·      “The Form and Logic of What is Literature,” Ian Rhoad, The New School for Social Research

·      “Literature and Imagination,” Cameron Bassiri, American University

·      “‘Names by themselves may be empty, but the act of naming…”: Sartrean Speech Acts,” Kevin Spencer,  Duke University

2B. Political Philosophy I: Earthly Engagements: Sartrean Interventions on the Planetary Crisis: Bear Hall 208

·      Moderator: Austin Smidt, University of Dundee

·      “Of Farmers, Forests, and Folly: Ecologies of Destruction and Deliverance in Critique of Dialectical Reason,” Matthew Ally, City University of New York

·      “The Serialized Individual in the Anthropocene, or, Lessons from and for Sartre’s Social Theory in a Time of Ecological Ruin,” Damon Boria, Our Lady of the Lake College

·      Commentary: Ron Aronson, Wayne State University

2C. Le Conflit, la Solidarité, et la Politique: Bear Hall 219

·      Moderator: John Ireland, University of Illinois Chicago

·      “Le Tribunal Russell: Sartre en surveillant les génocides à l'Amérique Latine,” Andrea M. Motta Arciniega, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

·      “Sartre, joueur de Cassandre,” Hiroaki Seki, University of Tokyo

SATURDAY, NOV. 5

8:15-8:55       Coffee and Bagels: Main Entrance Bear Hall

9:00-10:45 – SESSION THREE

3A. Political Philosophy II: Existentialism and Social Engagement: Bear Hall 200

·      Moderator: Damon Boria, Our Lady of the Lake College

·      “Sartre’s Anarchist Political Philosophy – A Draft for a Diverse Society?” Alfred Betschart, Independent Scholar

·      “‘There is much here that the theologian can use.’ Existentialist Themes in the Vietnam Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Peter Huff, University of Mary

·      “Sartre on Voting Rights and the Complicit Relation between the Colonized and the Colonizers,” Nathalie Nya, John Carroll University

3B. Nihilism, Absurdity, and Optimism in Sartrean Existentialism: Bear Hall 208

·      Moderator: Matt Sayball, University of North Carolina Wilmington

·      “Sartre on Death and the Absurdity of Life,” Kiki Berk, Southern New Hampshire University

·      “A Nihilistic Defense of ‘Existentialism is a Humanism,’” Devin Shaw, University of Ottawa

·      “Sartre’s Optimistic Existentialism,” Eric Hamm, Lynn University

3C. Is Everything Permitted? Reflections on Sartrean Ethics: Bear Hall 219

·      Moderator: Stanley Konecky, Hartwick College

·      “‘Everything is Permitted’: Sartre and the Charge of Ethical Subjectivism,” Dylan Bailey, University of South Florida

·      “Existentialism and Dostoevsky’s Thesis,” Stephen Sullivan, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

·      “Sartre on the Perils of Being Moral,” Chris McCord, Kirkwood Community College

11:00-12:45 – SESSION FOUR

4A. Psychoanalysis, Psychotheraphy, and Emotions: Bear Hall 200

·      Moderator: Kimberly Engels, Marquette University

·      “Psychoanalytic Fantasy and the Sartrean Imaginary,” Gregory Trotter, Marquette University

·      “Existential Psychotherapy and the Therapeutics of Activism,” Rebecca Greenslade, Psychotherapist

·      “Sartre against Wallowing: Emotions and Moody Responsibility,” Jake Jackson, Temple University

4B. Political Philosophy III: Torture, Terrorism, and the Middle East: Bear Hall 208

·      Moderator: Sam Murrell, University of North Carolina Wilmington

·      “Tortured Logic,” David Detmer, Purdue University Northwest

·      “Counter-violence and Terrorism. Is liberation without freedom possible?  A Sartrean Argument against Islamic Fundamentalism,” Maria Russo, San Raffaele University Milan

·      “Existentialism and the Collapse of Values in the Middle East,” Hamid Andishan, University of Ottawa

4C. Sartre as Dramatist: Bear Hall 219

·      Moderator: Tom Schmid, University of North Carolina Wilmington

·      “The Image and the Act: Sartre on Dramatic Theater,” Lior Levy, University of Haifa

·      “‘One is not born a dramatist’: The Genesis of Sartre’s Theatrical Career in Writings to, with, and by Beauvoir,” Dennis Gilbert, University of Massachusetts, Boston

2:30-4:15 – SESSION FIVE

5A. Political Philosophy IV: Sartrean Approaches to Race and Gender: Bear Hall 200

·      Moderator: Florentina Andreescu, University of North Carolina Wilmington

·      “Existentialism and the Concept of Ignorance: Towards a Sartrean Agnotology,” Blake Scott, University of Windsor

·      “The Politics of Being and the Politics of Shame,” Paul Gyllenhammer, St. John’s University     

·      “The Form of the Content: Sartre, Walker, Existence, and Negation,” Michelle Dacus Carr, Red Carr Communications, Inc.

5B. The Critique of Dialectical Reason and Post-War Politics: Bear Hall 208

·      Moderator: Don Habibi, University of North Carolina Wilmington

·      “When Past is Prologue: Absurdity and Contingency in Sartre’s Dialectical Phenomenology,” Andrew Dobbyn, SUNY Stony Brook

·      “Sartre on Subjectivity and Non-Knowledge: A Bridge between Existentialism and Marxism,” Curtis Sommerlatte, Concordia University

·      “Existentialism in Post-War Austria,” Juliane Werner, Universitaet Wien

5C. Biography and Literature: Bear Hall 219

·      Moderator: Dennis Gilbert, University of Massachusetts Boston

·      “Biography Good, Autobiography Bad: Reflections on a Fundamental Sartrean Paradox,” John Ireland, University of Illinois Chicago

·      “Sartre on Baudelaire: the Dandy Imagination,” Noel Sauer, Marquette University

·      “She heard the silence moving: Notes Toward Reading Clarice Lispector as (an) Existentialist,” Thomas Mann, University of Memphis

4:30-5:45 – SESSION SIX

6A. Book Session: The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre, by Noreen Khawaja: Bear Hall 200

·      Moderator: TBD

·      Elizabeth Butterfield, Georgia Southern University

·      Matthew Eshleman, University of North Carolina at Wilmington

·      Author’s Response: Noreen Khawaja

6B. Meditation, Consciousness, and the Ego: Bear Hall 208

·      Moderator: Craig Vasey, University of Mary Washington

·      “Samadhi and Sati: What Meditation Reveals About Consciousness,” Dane Sawyer, University of LaVerne

·      “The Elusive Boundary between Consciousness and Ego in Sartre’s Transcendence of the Ego,” Marco Dozzi, Mcgill University

6:00-7:00 – KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Cameron Hall (Auditorium): Room 105

Sarah Bakewell, “How to stop worrying and enjoy Sartre”

After Keynote Ends: Saturday Evening Reception in Auditorium Lobby

SUNDAY, NOV. 6

8:15-8:55       Coffee and Bagels

9:00-9:45       General Business Meeting: Bear Hall 219

10:00-12:00  – SESSION SEVEN

7A. Round Table Discussion on “It is Right to Rebel”: Bear Hall 200

·      Moderator: Adrian van den Hoven, University of Windsor

·      “It is Right to Rebel. The Three-way Discussion in its Political, Philosophical, and Economic Context,” Adrian van den Hoven, University of Windsor

·      “Age and Ethics in ‘It is Right to Rebel,’” William McBride, Purdue University

·      “A Left to the Left of the Communist Party,” Craig Vasey, University of Mary Washington

·      “Mao, Sartre and the Alternative to the Stalinist Model: It is Right to Rebel,” Bill Martin, DePaul University

7B. Sartrean Approaches to the Body: Bear Hall 208

·      Moderator: TBD

·      “Disability and the Truth of Innocence,” Ken Anderson, Oxford College of Emory University

·      “An Abbreviated Analysis of Sartre’s Phenomenological Essay on Ontology,” Stanley Konecky, Hartwick College

·      “Existentialism and Listening,” Craig Matarrese, Minnesota State University

·      “Existentialist Ears,” T Storm Heter, East Stroudsburg University