Notice Board The Notice Board seeks to publicise all matters relating to Sartre scholarship, but more specifically higher degrees (in progress or completed), seminars and conference papers. We are also pleased to publish conference reports. Another important feature of the Notice Board is its record of publications. All information should be sent to: John Gillespie, School of Languages and Literature, University of Ulster, Cromore Road, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, UK; e-mail: [email protected]. His phone number is 00 44 28 70 324636. OR Michel Rybalka, 1 place Pierre Loti, 64310 Ascain, France; e-mail: [email protected]. His phone number is 00 33 5 59 54 01 04 Internet Sites The new internet site www.jpsartre.org, is in the process of construction. It is a French site, but other languages may be used. The creation of Michel Rybalka, in assocation with the Groupe d’Etudes Sartriennes (GES), based in Paris, it has sections on Sartre societies, on conferences and other activities, news about Sartre studies, a bibliography of recent books, theses and articles, internet links and an information exchange facility. SARTRE SOCIETIES AND NEWS OF CONFERENCES United Kingdom Andrew Leak has resigned as President of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies, although he continues as one of the UK editors of Sartre Studies International. David Drake, [email protected], who stood down as Secretary, has replaced him as President. Benedict O’Donohoe (School of European Studies, Frenchay Campus, UWE, Bristol BS16 1QY, benedict.o’[email protected], is the new Secretary. Sartre Studies International, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2003 – 105 – Notice Board The 11th Annual Conference of the UK Society for Sartrean Studies (UKSSS) will take place at the Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, London on Saturday 18th October 2003. North America Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics A symposium, Existentialist Thinkers and Ethics was held at Concordia University on November 22, 2002. The following papers were delivered: • ‘A Nietzschean Solution to Ethical Relativism’, David Goldberg (Westminster College) • ‘L’exception comme renforcement de la norme éthique: les figures d’Abraham et de Job dans la pensée éthique de Kierkegaard’; Dominic Desroches (Université de Montréal) • ‘The Politics of Authentic Existence’ (Martin Heidegger), Todd Lavin (Clarion U. of Pennsylvania) • ‘L’éthique de la mesure: Camus et Rousseau’, Philip Knee (Université Laval) • ‘Sartre on Atheism, Freedom, and Morality’, Glenn Braddock (CUNY) • ‘Yes! She Is An Ethicist: Arendt, Responsibility, and Existentialism’, Stephen Schulman (Marquette University) • The keynote address ‘Surpassing Existentialist Ethics with Jean- Paul Sartre’, was given by Thomas C. Anderson (Marquette University) and • Kristana Arp (Long Island U.), Anna Alexander (Simone de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University) and Laura Hengehold (Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland) participated in a Round table: ‘Simone de Beauvoir’s Contribution to Existentialist Ethics’. La Société Sartre du Canda/The Sartre Society of Canada La Société Sartre du Canada/The Sartre Society of Canada has decided to change its name and to enlarge its sphere of interests. It is becoming La Société de Théorie et de Culture Existentialistes et Phénoménologiques (TCEP) / Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC), and, while still reserving a session for Sartre Studies, it is asking for contributions on other authors. The TCEP will meet at the University of Dalhousie and King’s College Halifax as part of the Canadian Social and Human Sciences Congress – 106 – Notice Board on 28th and 29th May 2003. Contact: John Duncan, University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2A1 [email protected] North American Sartre Society/La Société Sartrienne de l’Amérique du Nord The Thirteenth Meeting of the North-American Sartre Society/La Société Sartrienne de l’Amérique du Nord will take place from 12th–14th September 2003 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana. Contact: Ken Anderson, Philosophy Dept., Oxford College of Emory University, Oxford, GA 30054. France Conferences of the Groupe d’Etudes Sartriennes and the Simome de Beauvoir Society, June 2003 The Annual Conference of the GES will take place on 21st and 22nd June 2003 at the Sorbonne. On Saturday 21st June the GES will join forces with the Simone de Beauvoir Society around the theme ‘De Beauvoir à Sartre, de Sartre à Beauvoir’. Julia Kristeva and Bernard-Henri Lévy are expected to take part. A large part of the programme on Sunday 22 June will be devoted to L’Etre et le Néant. Simone de Beauvoir Society In addition, the Beauvoir Society will meet on 19th and 20th June at the Maison de l’Europe, 35–37, rue des Francs-Bourgeois, 75004 Paris, and at the Sorbonne on 22nd June. On the morning of 20th June there will be contributions from Françoise d’Eaubonne, Claire Etcherelli, Gisèle Halimi, etc., while the relationship between Sartre and de Beauvoir will be considered in the afternoon. Contact: Dr. Liliane Lazar, 37 Hill Lane, Roslyn Heights, NY 11577, e-mail: [email protected] Sartre Centenary The full programme of both conferences will appear on the www.jpsartre.org site. This site will also co-ordinate the activities planned to mark the centenary of the birth of Sartre in 2005. Already planned: a meeting of all the Sartre Societies in Paris for a day together on 21st June 2005, along with a programme specific to each society around that date; a significant exhibition ‘Sartre et son temps’, at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Tolbiac, from March to June 2005; – a ten-day residential conference on Sartre at – 107 – Notice Board Cerisy from 20–30th July 2005; a series of publications and special numbers of newspapers and journals and so on. Etudes Sartriennes The next number of Etudes sartriennes will be devoted to L’Etre et le Néant, on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of its publication. All proposals should be sent to Juliette Simont ([email protected]), 129 avenue Jupiter, B 1190 Bruxelles. Sartre Seminar A philosophy seminar on Sartre will start in October 2003 at the ENS-Lettres et Sciences humaines de Lyon, directed by Bernard Besnier. The first year will be devoted to a reading of L’Imaginaire, with sessions parallel to those of the phenomenology seminar on the ideas of Husserl. Contact: [email protected] Sartre and Levinas A conference on Sartre and Levinas will take place at the Collège International de Philosophie, Paris, in 2003, jointly organised by Ph. Cabestan, J.-F. Noudelmann et F.-D. Sebbah. Belgium The Groupe belge d’études sartriennes (Groupe de contact F.N.R.S.) is organising a study day devoted to La Critique de la raison dialectique on 25th April 2003 at the University of Liège. All aspects will be considered including: its place in Sartre’s philosophy, in particular in relation to the development of an ethics; its place in the history of twentieth century Marxist thought; the relationship between the dialectic and political action; and its relation to political philosophy and the contemporary world. Contact: Florence Caeymaex, Chargée de recherches F.N.R.S., Faculté de philosophie et lettres, Université de Liège, Place du XX août 7–9, A1, 4000 Liège (Belgique), +324 366 55 90, [email protected] Italy ‘Sartre a Napoli’, a range of activities took place in Naples from 25th–27th April 2002, with the participation of the Gruppo di Studi Sartriani from Rome. The play Morti senza sepultura, translated by Pina Catanzariti, was performed in a production by Marcello Cava, and an exhibition of photographs on the theme ‘Sartre and Italy’ was on display. – 108 – Notice Board ‘Progetto Sartre, Anno 1’, a range of activities directed by Paolo Bignamini, was organised in Milan in 2002–2003. The play Le Mani sporche was performed on 19th November, then from 21st November to 22nd December 2002 by the Teatro Arsenale at la Salla Ratti de Legnano, in a translation by Vittorio Sermonti adapted by Paolo Bignamini and Annig Raimondi. A discussion on the play took place on 22nd November; on 12th December, a round table discussion, ‘Attualità di Sartre’, was held in the Università degli Studi di Milano, with Mauro Carbone and Renaud Barbaras; in February 2003, the film Le Mani sporche by Elio Petri, with Marcello Mastroianni and Giuliana Di Sio, was shown; in February-March, an “installation” inspired by La Nausée was exhibited at the Centre Culturel Français de Milan. NEWS Camus and Sartre In an article published in Le Monde (3 Decembre 2002, p. 32), Pierre Birnbaum maintains that Camus has, once again, become a central figure in intellectual debate and quotes Samantha Novello: ‘With Camus “la pensée de la limite” implies a relative truth that is the foundation of all democracy. He then quotes Jean Daniel: ‘To- day we are witnessing the return of morality and this return is part of a Camusian destiny, that’s to say a life without God, against history and aware of the reality of evil. This has given rise to a certain uneasiness among those who, like François Noudelmann, see the glorification of Camus as a ‘way of settling old scores with Sartre and, even more with the Marxist domination of the 50s’. Noudelmann adds: ‘Most of all it is important not to push Camus into an ideological position that would make him a consensual figure of bourgeois wisdom. After all he has something of the ‘révolté’ who cannot commit himself fully to formal democracy. He remains divided, anxious and he should not serve to legitimise a certain kind of return to the moral order…’ Pascal Quignard and Sartre The thought of Pascal Quignard, who won the prix Goncourt in November 2002, appears, to a large extent, to be derived from Bataille and to be at the opposite extreme from Sartrean existentialism.