Notice Board The Notice Board seeks to publicise all matters relating to Sartre scholarship, most importantly publications, but also higher degrees (in progress or completed), forthcoming seminars and conferences. We are also pleased to publish conference reports and other Sartre news. All information should be sent to: John Gillespie, School of Modern Languages, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, UK E-mail: [email protected] Tel: 00 44 (0)28 70 124578 Internet sites The UK Society for Sartre Studies website, www.sartreuk.org, has sections on News, New Publications, Bibliography, On-line Resources, Sartre Links, Conferences and Events, Sartre Studies International, the Sartre Centenary and other archival material. It aspires to being an important research resource and a primary port of call for all Sartre scholars and researchers. The Bibliography is searchable, has over 1,000 entries dating from 1999, and is regularly updated. The French Internet site, www.ges-sartre.fr, is the site of the Groupe d’Etudes Sartriennes (GES), based in Paris. It has sections on Etudes Sartriennes, Sartre societies, conferences and other activities, news about Sartre studies, a bibliography of recent books, theses and articles, details of useful Internet links and an information exchange facility. Michel Rybalka retains the site www.jpsartre.org. Sartre Studies International Volume 19, Issue 1, 2013: 103–117 doi:10.3167/ssi.2013.190107 ISSN 1357-1559 (Print), ISSN 1558-5476 (Online) Notice Board SARTRE SOCIETIES UK Sartre Society UK Sartre Society Annual Conference 2012 The 19th Annual Conference of the UK Sartre Society on ‘Sartre and Ethics’ was held at the Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 (whose support we gratefully acknowledge), on Friday 14 September 2012, organised by John Gillespie and Jonathan Webber. The following papers were presented: Paul Wallace (Independent scholar): ‘The Opening Pages of Sartre’s Notebooks for an Ethics’ Patrick Engel (Basel): ‘Sartre and Negativist Ethics’ Annalisa Marinelli (Bari Aldo Moro): ‘Ethics Between Liberty and Alterity: Sartre’s Point of View’ Alfred Betschart (Independent scholar): ‘Ethics in Practice: the Dialectic of Authenticity and Consequentialism’ Daniel Herbert (Sheffi eld): ‘Sartre on Hegel’s Dialectic of Mastery and Servitude’ Christian Skirke (Amsterdam): ‘Shame as Fellow Feeling’ Ruth Kitchen (Leeds): ‘Legacy of Shame: Occupation, Ambiguity, and Abortion in Beauvoir and Sartre’ Patrick ffrench (KCL): ‘Catastrophe, Proximity, Adherence: Sartre on Cinema in Les Mots’ UK Sartre Society Annual Conference 2013 Call for Papers The Annual Conference of the UK Sartre Society will be held at the Institut Français in London on Friday 20 September 2013. As 2013 is the centenary of Camus’ birth, the theme of this year’s conference is Sartre and Camus. Prospective contributors are reminded that it is also the 75th anniversary of Sartre’s La Nausée. We welcome abstracts of proposed conference papers on the conference theme. Papers can address questions of biography, history, literature, philosophy or politics. The proposed papers should take no more than 30 minutes to present. Abstracts should be no more than 500 words. Please e-mail paper abstracts by 15 March 2013 to the Secretary of the UK Sartre – 104 – Notice Board Society, Dr Jonathan Webber: [email protected]. The selection will be announced by 15 April. The North American Sartre Society 19th Biennial Conference of the North American Sartre Society The 19th Biennial Conference of the North American Sartre Society was held at Texas A&M University in College Station from 28–30 November 2012, organised by Yan Hamel and Claire Katz. The following papers were presented during this excellent and wide- ranging conference: Joshua Tepley (Saint Anselm College): ‘Using Sartre to Understand Heidegger’ Manuela Hackel (Freie Universität, Berlin): ‘The Concept of Choice in Kierkegaard and Sartre’ Robert Vaughan (University of New Mexico): ‘Imagination and Originary Negation: Investigating Sartre’s Phenomenology in Light of Derrida’s Challenges to Husserl’ Noemie Mayer (Université Libre de Bruxelles): ‘Baudelaire et Mallarmé de Jean-Paul Sartre ou la captivité affective’ Solange M. Guénoun (University of Connecticut): ‘Jean Amery, critique de Sartre et Flaubert dans Charles Bovary, médecin de campagne: portrait d’un homme simple (1978)’ Elizabeth Butterfi eld (Georgia Southern University): ‘Sartre’s Conception of the Human in the 1964 Rome Lecture’ Nicole Lucey (SUNY at Buffalo): ‘Sartre on Torture: A Dramatic Undertaking’ Kimberly Engels (Marquette University): ‘The Pledged Group of Medicine: A Sartrean Approach to Conscientious Objection in Healthcare’ Book Session: ‘Situating Existentialism: Key Texts in Context’ Jonathan Judaken (University of Memphis) Thomas Flynn (Emory University) William McBride (Purdue University) Sandrine Sanos (Ici Berlin) – 105 – Notice Board Olas Carayannis (Stony Brook University): ‘Paths Not Taken: Sartre, Normativity, and Language’ Erik Nakjavani (University of Pittsburgh): ‘The Sartrean Concept of Imaginative Consciousness and the Possibility of Its Linguistic Hermeneutics’ Diane Perpich (Clemson University): ‘Existentialism and Social Ontology: Sartre, Freedom, and the Other’ Adrian van den Hoven (University of Windsor): ‘The Changing Fate of “the Modern Woman”: Sartre’s The Respectful Prostitute and Camus’s Stage Adaptation of Réquiem pour une nonne viewed in the light of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina and Faulkner’s novels Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (which Camus adapted for the stage)’ Craig Vasey (University of Mary Washington): ‘Understanding the Second Sex in Sartre’s Troubled Sleep’ Bill Martin (DePaul University): ‘“The Nerve of Practical Unity is Freedom”: The Question of “Cartesian Marxism” Revisited’ Chris Turner (DePaul University): ‘The Return of Stolen Praxis: Reading Counter-fi nality in Sartre under the Spell of Adorno’ Greg Trotter (Loyola University of Chicago): ‘Communication through Alterity: Social Media as an Indirect Gathering’ André Duhamel (Université de Sherbrooke): ‘Éthique et situation: Sartre et Dewey’ Timur Uçan (Université Bordeaux III): ‘Les conceptions de l’espace logique chez Sartre et Wittgenstein’ Djamel Benkrid (Université Paris VIII): ‘La question de l’être dans la pensée de Sartre et Heidegger: une convergence/ divergence’ Ronald Aronson (Wayne State University): ‘Philosophical Sources of the American New Left: Marcuse, Camus, and Sartre’ [read for him in his absence] Damon Boria (Indiana University Northwest): ‘Pricking us into Revolt? Assessing Sartre’s Hope for Literature in Consideration of Vonnegut and DeLillo’ Gautier Dassonneville (ULG/Lille 3): ‘Pour une herméneutique de la possession. Entre ontologie phénoménologique et psychanalyse existentielle’ – 106 – Notice Board Christophe Perrin (Université catholique de Louvain): ‘Du poêle au divan: analyses cartésiennes et psychanalyse sartrienne’ Book session: ‘America according to Sartre/L’Amérique selon Sartre’ Yan Hamel (TELUQ, Montréal) John Ireland (University of Illinois at Chicago) Wesley Gunter (New York University): ‘Sartre’s Eighteenth Century: A Model for Engagement’ Peter Jones (Independent scholar): ‘Nonfi ction vs. Fiction: To What Extent are Nausea and The Stranger Biographies of Mental Disorders?’ Brian Robertson (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): ‘Lacan on the Question of Anxiety’s Relationship to Sexual Desire’ Yasemin Sari (University of Alberta): ‘Sartre and Bergson: Becoming Freedom’ Jean-François Hamel (Université du Québec à Montréal): ‘Lire pour son époque: les contretemps de la lecture engagée’ Alexis Chabot (Sciences Po, Paris): ‘Sartre et le fantôme du père’ Keynote speaker Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook University): ‘Don Quijote’s Existentialist Children’ David Seltzer (Pennsylvania State University): ‘Sartre and the Kingdom of Ends’ John H. Gillespie (University of Ulster): ‘Sartre and the Death of God’ Matthew C. Eshleman (University of North Carolina): ‘Why wasn’t Being and Nothingness titled Matter and Consciousness?’ Frédéric Seyler (DePaul University): ‘Se choisir dans la liberté absolue ou être choisi par la vie absolue: Sartre confronté à Michel Henry (et vice-versa)’ Francesco Caddeo (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3): ‘Sartre et Foucault: l’occasion de rapprocher leurs pensées’ Nao Sawada (Université Rikkyo, Tokyo): ‘La question des minorités: ‘Sartre et les homosexuels’ – 107 – Notice Board Call for Papers: The 20th Conference of the North American Sartre Society, The University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 4–6 October 2013 The North American Sartre Society is issuing a call for papers on the occasion of its twentieth conference, hosted by Adrian van den Hoven, at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, 4–6 October 2013. They welcome papers in any area of Sartrean scholarship (philosophy, literature, theatre, psychology, politics, intellectual history, Sartre and other writers, etc.). Reading time for a paper should be 25–30 minutes maximum. In addition to individual papers, we welcome suggestions for panel topics. Graduate students are encouraged to submit suggestions for papers. They hope to provide a limited number of stipends for graduate students to help defray the cost of travel and lodging. Any graduate student whose paper has been accepted must, however, apply for these stipends. While topics on any of Sartre’s many activities are welcome, one of the themes they are promoting this year is Sartre’s relationship