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The 16th Biennal Conference of the North Americain Sartre Society hosted by the University of
Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia, April 4-6 2008                                       Programm

Noémie Parant, (U. de Rouen, France) : L’analyse des relations à
l’oeuvre entre la phénoménologie française et la littérature.
Yan Hamel (Téléuniversité, Montréal, Qué, Can.) : Écrire à Manhattan.
Deux scènes du roman sartrien,
Rémi Robert (U. de Sherbrooke, Qué, Can.) - La séance a été présidé par Guillaume Seydoux (U. de Metz, France);
Joseph Dreiss & Emily Buttler (UMW, Fredericksburg, VA):
Perception and Nihilism. A Reexamination of the Philosophical Relationship between Giacometti’s Post-surrealist Art and Sartre’s early Writings,
Sophie Astier Vezon (U. de Paris I, France) : Sartre and painting,

 Heiner Wittmann,
 (Ernst Klett AG, Germany):
  > Art is an Appeal to Freedom
      Extraits
Session C-2: JEPSON 100 –
9:00-12:10 - Sartre and Aesthetics:
Chair:AIR: Dennis Gilbert
(Boston College, MA)
Thomas Flynn, Atlanta


Leider war meine Kamera nicht in Ordnung. w.
Keynote Address
David Drake :
Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir et communism.
(Université de Paris VII, France).
*introduced by William McBride (Purdue U., West Lafayette,
IN)
     

NASS TIME TABLE, UMW, FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA,
APRIL 4-6, 2008
1:45 Welcome: Nina Mikhalevsky, Provost, Professor of Philosophy,
University of Mary Washington

Session A-1: RED ROOM, WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER
2:00-3:3O-ANTISEMITISM, RACISM, ATHEISM:
*CHAIR: DAVID REVILL (Staffordshire U., Stafford, U.K.)
JONATHAN JUDAKEN (U. of Memphis, TN): Antisemite and Jew encore
une fois,
STEVE MARTINOT (Berkeley, CA): Deconstructing the invasion of Iraq.
Sartre and the structure of racialized identity,
RONALD ARONSON (Wayne St. U., Detroit, MI): Sartre and Camus on
atheism.

Session A-2: MEETING ROOM 1, WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER –
2:00-3:30 -LITTÉRATURE ET PHILOSOPHIE:

*PRÉS. GUILLAUME SEYDOUX (U. de Metz, France);
Y.HAMEL (Téléuniversité, Montréal, Qué, Can.) : Écrire à Manhattan.
Deux scènes du roman sartrien,
NOÉMIE PARANT (U. de Rouen, France) : L’analyse des relations à
l’oeuvre entre la phénoménologie française et la littérature.
RÉMI ROBERT (U. de Sherbrooke, Qué, Can.) : Le regard. Pur duel de
violence ou complicité? Commentaire: G.Seydoux.

Session B-1: RED ROOM, WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER
3:40-5:10 - SARTRE AND OTHERS:
*CHAIR: BRUCE BAUGH (Three Rivers U., Kamloops, B.C. Can.)
BASIL VASSILICOS (University of Leuven, Belgium): Phenomenological
Perspectives on the Suspension of Inclinations. Leibniz and Sartre,
ERIC SKIPPY SUND, (U. of Toledo, OH): The Difference of Time between
Bergson and Sartre,
SHAWN GORMAN (Harvard U., MA): Sartre and Bourdieu. On How to
Pick a Winner.

Session B-2: MEETING ROOM 1, WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER
3:40- 5:10 -SARTRE’S EARLY PHILOSOPHY AND Being and
Nothingness:
*CHAIR: RONALD SANTONI (Denison U., Denison, OH)
SARAH RICHMOND (UCL, London, U.K.): Magic in Sartre’s Early
Philosophy,
MATTHEW ESHLEMANN (U. of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC):
Sartre on Human Reality. That what is what is not and is not what is,
ROHIT DALVI (Brock U., St.Catherines, Ont., Can.): The Absent Pierre.
The Enigma of Nothingness in Being and Nothingness.

RECEPTIONS FROM 6 TO 8 PM.
N.B. 6:00-7:00 EXECUTIVE OF NASS:


EVENING APRIL 4, 2008 JEPSON HALL 100
7:15-9:30 –SHOWING of JOHN HUSTON’S MOVIE FREUD. THE
SECRET PASSION followed by a DISCUSSION that will focus on the
relationship of the movie to Sartre’s Freud Scenario and his own (negative)
comments about the production.
*CHAIR: CRAIG VASEY (UMW),
PARTICIPANTS: CHRISTINE DAIGLE (Brock U.), DENNIS GILBERT
(Boston College), ADRIAN VAN DEN HOVEN (U. of Windsor). (ALL
ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE IN THE
DISCUSSION).

SATURDAY MORNING APRIL 5, 2008
ALL SESSIONS IN JEPSON HALL
Session C-1: JEPSON 219-
9:00- 11:00 - BEYOND RECIPROCITY:
*CHAIR: PETER GRATTON (U. of San Diego, CA): Love and Solidarity.
The Hope Now of Sartre’s Politics,
ANN TAYLOR (Las Positas College, Livermore, CA): Saying Yes to
Being. Sartre’s Amor Fati,
CHRISTINA SMERICK (Greenville College, CA): The Failure of Hate,
ARSALAN MEMON (U of Memphis, TN): Antisemite and Muslim.

Session C-2: JEPSON 100 –
9:00-12:10 - SARTRE AND AESTHETICS:
*CHAIR: DENNIS GILBERT (Boston College, MA)
JOSEPH DREISS & EMILY BUTLER (UMW, Fredericksburg, VA):
Perception and Nihilism. A Reexamination of the Philosophical Relationship
between Giacometti’s Post-surrealist Art and Sartre’s early Writings,
SOPHIE ASTIER VEZON (U. de Paris I, France) : Sartre and painting,
HEINER WITTMANN (Editor, Ernst Klett AG, Germany): Art is an Appeal
to Freedom.

Session D-1: JEPSON 219-
11:10-12:10 -SARTRE AND OTHERS:
*CHAIR: RONALD ARONSON (Wayne State U.)
OLIVIER FERON (U.of Evora, Portugal): Contingency and Humanism.
Sartre between Heidegger and Blumenberg ,
FERDI MEMELLI (Purdue U., West Lafayette, IN): The Trace and The
Image.The Theatrical Cartesianism of Derrida and Sartre.
LUNCH: EAGLES’ NEST (SNACKBAR ON LOWER LEVEL OF
WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER) OR VARIOUS VENDORS AT THE
MULTICULTURAL FAIR ON BALL CICRLE.

SATURDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 5, 2008
– JEPSON 100 –
1:30 -2:20 - BUSINESS MEETING
1) Discussion and Approval of venue of the next NASS Meeting (Place
and time), > Mephis Tenessee

Session E-1: JEPSON 100 –
2:30- 4:30 - POSSIBILITY OF SHAME:

*CHAIR: GREGORY HOSKINS (Villanova U., PA)
GREGORY HOSKINS: Sartre on Group Identity and the Weight of History,
REBECCA GOLDNER (Villanova U., PA): Sartre on Recognition,
Responsibility and Shame,
DERA SIPE (Villanova U., PA): Falling into Shame (and out of Apathy).
Sartrean Shame as a “Revolutionary Sentiment,”
ELIZABETH BUTTERFIELD (Georgia Southern U., Statesboro, GA):
Beyond Hell is the Other: A Sartrean Framework for a positive Social
Philosophy.

Session E-2: JEPSON 201-
2:30- 4:00 -SARTRE AND SIMONE de BEAUVOIR:
*CHAIR: CHRISTINE DAIGLE (Brock U., Can)
DEBRA BERGOFFEN (George Mason U., Fairfax, VA): Between Sartre
and Beauvoir: Messianic Hope and the Appeal.
SONIA KRUKS (Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH): An Eye for an Eye.
Beauvoir’s Phenomenology of Revenge.
ISABELLE JOLY (Nancy II, France/ SPF Emploi, Brussels, Belgium) :
Simone de Beauvoir, philosophe contemporaine du corps.

Session E-3: JEPSON 219-
2:30- 4:00 -ONTOLOGY AND PHENOMENOLOGY:
*CHAIR: ADRIAN VAN DEN HOVEN (University of Windsor, Ont.,
Canada)
PAUL GYLLENHAMMER (St. John’s U., New York, NY): Shame as a
Condition of the Lived-Body. From Ontology to Social Critique,
KRISTANA ARP (Long Island U., NY): The Adventures of Temporality.
Sartre and the Origins of Time,
CAM CLAYTON (Brock U., Can): Melancholy and the Internal Negation of
the Past.

Session F-1: JEPSON 201 –
4:10-5:40 -SARTRE AND OTHERS:
*CHAIR: FARHANG ERFANI (American U., Washington, DC)
SIMONE MÜLLER (U. of Zürich, Switzerland) Sartre in Japan,
AMOL GHEEWALA (U. of Miami, FL) Human Freedom and agency in La
Nausée and Martin Scorcese’s Taxi Driver as illustrated by its protagonists:
Roquentin and Travis Bickle.

Session F-2: JEPSON 219-
4:10 –5:40 HAZEL BARNES’S TV LECTURES ON
EXISTENTIALISM
*CHAIR: JEFF LARSEN (U. of Colorado, Boulder, Col.):
SELF-ENCOUNTER WITH HAZEL BARNES. (Jeff Larsen will show and
then comment on DVD’s of Hazel Barnes’s TV lectures).

Session F-3: JEPSON 100 –
4:40- 5:40 -BOOK DISCUSSION: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AND ADORNO
*CHAIR: KEVIN GRAY (U. Laval, Qué., Can.)
DISCUSSANTS: THOMAS FLYNN (Emory U., Atlanta, GA) and BILL
MARTIN (DePaul U, Chicago, IL). RESPONDENT: DAVID SHERMAN
(U. of Montana)

SATURDAY EVENING
6:00 -6:45 -RECEPTION – FOYER AND PLAZA, JEPSON HALL

6:45 -7:45 -KEYNOTE ADDRESS- JEPSON 100-: DAVID DRAKE :
SARTRE & SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR AND COMMUNISM.
(Université de Paris VII, France).
*INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM McBRIDE (Purdue U., West Lafayette,
IN)
8:00 - DINNER – FACULTY STAFF DINING ROOM, SEACOBECK
HALL


SUNDAY APRIL 6, 2008
8:30 COFFEE
Session G-1: JEPSON 201-
9:00-10:30 – ONTOLOGY, BEING AND NOTHINGNESS AND BLACK
ORPHEUS:

*CHAIR: STEVEN HENDLEY (Birmingham Southern College,
Birmingham, AL)
JESSICA ELKAYAM (Villanova U., PA): On Love and Strife. The
Phenomenological Concept of Nothingness,
FARHANG ERFANI (American U., Washington, DC): The Question of
Exile in Being and Nothingness and Black Orpheus.

Session G-2: JEPSON 100 –
9:00-10:30 - CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BODY:

*CHAIR: KEN ANDERSON (Oxford College, Emory U., Atlanta, GA.),
STANLEY KONECKY (Hartwick U., N.Y.): Human Reality,
MICHELLE DARNELL (Fayette State U., Fayetteville, N.C.): Freedom,
Causality, Consciousness/Body and Avoiding the Conflation of Ontology
and Epistemology,
DAVID DETMER (Calumet. Purdue U., IN): Sartre’s Solution to the Mind-
Body Problem.

Session H-1: JEPSON 201 –
10:40-11:40 –SARTRE’S THEORY OF TRUTH & MUTUAL RECOGNITION:
*CHAIR: THOMAS FLYNN (Emory U., Atlanta, GA)
IAN RHOAD (New School for Social Research, N.Y.): Finding, Risking
and Giving the World. Sartre’s Theory of Truth,
T.STORM HETER (East Stroudsburg U., PA): Sartre’s Contribution to
Recent Views of Mutual Recognition.

Session H- 2: JEPSON 100-
10:40-11:40 – ON THE THEORY OF MOODS AND EMOTIONS,
GHOSTS AND MAGIC:

*CHAIR: DAVID DETMER (Calumet. Purdue U.)
CALEB HELDT (U. of Warwick, U.K.) Towards a Phenomenological
Theory of Moods and Emotions,
BRITTANY GNAU (Brock U.) Sartre on Ghosts and Magic.

13. April 2008