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UK Sartre Society Conference 2025

Maison française d'Oxford
Oxford United Kingdom

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9.30am on Monday 7th July to 6.00pm on Tuesday 8th July

Keynote Speakers

Dr Betty Cannon (Boulder Psychotherapy Institute) - via Zoom
Dr Kate Kirkpatrick (Oxford)

Selected Papers

The Torment of Sisyphus and a Woman's Biological Destiny:
Beauvoir's Analysis of The Married Woman
Kriedge Chlaire C. Alba (Santo Tomas)

Simone de Beauvoir on the End of the World
Kiki Berk (Southern New Hampshire)

The Difficulty of Thinking Perpetually on Oneself:
Iris Murdoch, Jean Paul Sartre, and French Exit
Lucy Bolton (Cambridge)

Reading Sartre's Typhus toward an Eco-Existentialism
Damon Boria (Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, Baton Rouge)

Sartre and the Ideal of Romantic Unity:
Understanding Conflict in Intimate Relations
Chris Burdett (Cardiff)

Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thought Across Existentialism, Marxism, and Feminism:
The Genealogy of the Concept of Situation, 1940-1949
Anna Ceschi (Cambridge)

Ambiguous Lesbians:
Beauvoirian Anti-Essentialism in Monique Wittig's One is Not Born a Woman
Thomas Chesworth (Birmingham)

Existentialist Themes in Australian Indigenous Filmmaking:
Samson and Delilah, Sweet Country
Damian Cox and Oscar Davis (Bond)

The Self-Conscious Subject in Simone de Beauvoir's and Assia Djebar's First Novels
Meaghan Emery (Vermont)

Barred from the Scene:
How Bokeh in Photography Inhibits Imaginative Participation
Darren Gillies (independent)

Sign, Symbol, and Image in Sartre and in Quantum Theory
Hans Herlof Grelland (Agder)

The Comedy of the In-itself-for-itself
Thom Hamer (Cardiff)

Objectification, Negotiation, and Relational Subjects
Matthew A. Hoffman (Indiana)

Beauvoir and Sartre on Freedom and Adverse Childhood Experiences
Deniz Hric (John Carroll)

Sartre and Marx on the Indeterminacy of Being Human
Christos Kalpakidis (Bonn)

Sartre and Zahavi on Minimal Self
Daniil Koloskov (Hradec Králové)

Varieties of Oppression in Beauvoir's Thinking:
Appropriation and Aversion
Sonia Kruks (Oberlin)

L'Avenir and Simone de Beauvoir on Freedom and Happiness
Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)

Towards a Secure Metaethical Grounding for an Existentialist Ethic
Tomás Lally (independent)

A Sartrean Sense of Irreality
Jonathan Mitchell (Cardiff)

Solving as Absolving:
Self-Honesty in Beauvoir's Ethics
Clara Moreton (Essex)

The Myth of Atlas: On the Ontology of Responsibility
or the Counterpart of Negation in Being and Nothingness
Lucas Gonçalves Palmier de Almeida (Fluminense)

Sartre in the City:
Literature or Picture?
Thomas Payré (Cardiff)

Voluntative Realism and Magic Consciousness:
Late Scheler and Early Sartre on Emotions and Resistance
Raphael Röchter (Köln)

Could Anxiety be a Form of Bad Faith?
Thaís de Sá Oliveira (Beira Interior, NUCAFE)

Sense of Power and Payback:
A Sartrean Perspective on Vengeful Emotion
Philipp Schmidt-Boddy (Heidelberg)

Dreaming as Fascinated Predictions:
Bridging Sartre's Phenomenology and Predictive Processing
Rasmus Sinn and Marc Borner (Goethe Frankfurt)

Greeks-in-Fusion:
Sartre, Châtelet, and the Greek City-State
Henry Somers-Hall (Royal Holloway)

Whit Stillmans Cinema and the Absurdity of Bourgeois Nothingness
David Sorfa (Edinburgh)

We Should Act Like Artists
Simone de Beauvoir's Artist as Ethical Ideal
Lauren Stephens (Liverpool)

Forced Birth and Sexual Violence:
A Beauvoirian Analysis
Dianna Taylor (John Carroll)

Three Objections to Sartre's Metaphysics
Joshua Tepley (St Anselm)

Spectral Baudelaire of Jean Paul Sartre
Olga Zyminkowska (Adam Mickiewicz)

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Selected papers will be in two parallel streams. Keynotes will be plenary.

All registrations include lunches and refreshments on both days. Full registrations include conference dinner on the Monday evening. Full registrations close on 18th June. Other registrations close on 4th July. Please give dietary preferences when registering.

We are trialling a new registration fee system this year. Please only select a 'self-funded' fee if you cannot reclaim your expenses back from your university or other source of funding.

Membership entitles you to the members' discount (only on self-funded registration) and adds you to our members' mailing list.

You can become a member of the UK Sartre Society either by subscribing to our journal Sartre Studies International or by setting up a £10 standing order for 1st August. Either way, please email uksartresociety@gmail.com to tell us you've done it!

Conference registration does not include accommodation. We recommend booking via http://www.universityrooms.com

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Registration Options

Date

Jul 07, 2025 9:00 AM

Admission Level	Price	Quantity
Full Registration	£150.00
please use if you can have expenses covered; includes conference dinner
Conference Only	£100.00
please use if you can have expenses covered ; does not include conference dinner
Self-funded Full Registration	£100.00
please use only if you cannot have expenses covered ; includes conference dinner
Self-funded Conference Only	£50.00
please use only if you cannot have expenses covered ; does not include conference dinner
Self-funded Full Registraton M	£90.00
with discount for UKSS/NASS members or SSI subscriber
Self-funded Conference Only M	£40.00
with discount for UKSS/ NASS members or SSI subscribers