We’re delighted to announce this year’s UK Sartre Society conference programme. Join us Maison Française d’Oxford on 8-9 July 2024 for our largest conference to date, featuring: 30 presentations on the latest in Sartre scholarship. Keynote Speakers Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia) and Joseph Schear (Oxford). Book Symposium: Mary Edwards, Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis. Don’t miss out! Find out more and register today: https://ukss2024.bpt.me Selected Papers Freedom and Imagination. Orhan Aslan (Middle East Technical) The (Im)possibility of Authentic Subjectivity. Katharina Balk (Ru ..read more

The UK Sartre Society is delighted to announce our annual conference for 2024 will take place on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 July 2024 at Maison Française d’Oxford. Our keynote speakers: Professor Souleymane Bachir Diagne (Columbia) Professor Joseph Schear (Oxford) We invite abstracts on any aspects of the works of Beauvoir or Sartre.  Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. Please ensure your abstract makes clear what your line of argument will be. Please bear in mind that each selected paper will be scheduled 20 minutes for presentation plus some time for questions. All talks at the c ..read more

We’re delighted to announce that the programme for our 2023 conference is now available. Join us the Maison Française d’Oxford on Monday 3 and Tuesday 4 July 2023. This year features a stellar line-up of speakers including two keynotes: Professor Annie Cohen-Solal on Who is Still Afraid of Sartre? and Professor François Noudelmann on Thinking as Performance in Sartre’s Practice of Philosophy. The conference programme also includes 15 presentations and a Rethinking Existentialism book symposium. Don’t miss it! Review the full programme and book your place. Image credit: Simone de Bea ..read more

This year’s conference — After Existentialism, with keynote speaker Professor Christina Howells — was our first with parallel sessions. This meant a total of 13 talks (yes, I know that’s an odd number) before the keynote and a lot of difficult decisions for delegates. I was very impressed with the ones I heard — two on existentialism and psychotherapy, two on the construction of gender, two on authenticity and inauthenticity, and one on the phenomenology of reading, finishing with an excellent keynote address arguing that Peter Sloterdijk’s superficially existentialist philosophy is, on c ..read more

We’ve an all star line up for this year’s UK Sartre Society conference and it’s now just over one week to go! After Existentialism will take place on Tuesday 18 July 2017 in Oxford, UK and we’re delighted that Christina Howells is able to join us as our keynote speaker. A slightly revised timetable for the conference is now available. You can review the conference abstracts here.    Look forward to seeing you in Oxford!   ..read more

We’re excited to announce the full, provisional line-up for this year’s UK Sartre Society (UKSS) conference taking place in Oxford, UK on Tuesday 18 July 2017. If you haven’t done so already, don’t forget to book your place now! Download a PDF of the schedule ..read more