The North American Sartre Society invites proposals for its twenty-sixth meeting. Embodiment is a central theme in existential thought. We invite participants to reflect on the human body and the ontological, psychological, ethical, political, sociological, and phenomenological implications of Sartre’s view that the body is part of the facticity of the “for-itself.” We invite proposals from any area of Sartre studies and from any disciplinary background. In the spirit of Sartre’s eclectic thinking, we encourage proposals that address philosophy, literature, theater, aesthetics, psychology, politics, intellectual history, art, music, and other disciplines. Our keynote speaker is LaRose T. Parris, author of Being Apart: Theoretical and Existential Resistance in Africana Literature (University of Virginia Press, 2015). Aiming to foster diverse and pluralistic approaches, we understand Sartre Studies broadly to indicate work in the existentialist tradition, including work emerging from thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Frantz Fanon, Richard Wright, Angela Davis, Albert Camus, Anna Julia Cooper, Harriet Ann Jacobs, Lewis R. Gordon, Frederick Douglass, Kathryn Sophia Belle, Steve Biko, Naomi Zack, Chabani Manganyi, Emilio Uranga, Jorge Portilla, W.E.B. Du Bois, Aimé Césaire, Keiji Nishitani, Azzedine Haddour, Martin Buber, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Gabriel Marcel, Emmanuel Levinas, Sara Ahmed, danielle davis, bell hooks, Kamau Brathwaite, Nathalie Etoke, Achille Mbembe, Suzanne Césaire, James Baldwin and others.
The submission process:
● The submission deadline is August 31st.
● We are accepting abstracts of 300-500 words. Reading time for papers is 15 minutes.
● English or French is acceptable.
● Please submit your abstract (or any questions) by email to NASS President, Kimberly Engels, kengels@molloy.edu
● Regarding those who had an abstract accepted for the canceled 2020 conference, we are asking you to resubmit.
● Graduate students are encouraged to submit.
● All proposals will be forwarded to the program committee for review.