UK Sartre Society conference 2026
Wednesday 1 July 2026 9:00 AM - Thursday 2 July 2026 6:00 PM (UTC+00)
Keynote Speakers:
– Professor Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
– Professor Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
– Professor Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
Selected Papers:
Hegel, Beauvoir, Antigone, and Individual Autonomy with Relation to Women
Juliana de Albuquerque (University College Cork)
Resisting Death: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Dying
Kiki Berk (Southern New Hampshire University)
Sartre on Imaginative Presence
Valerie Bernard (University of New Brunswick)
The Problem of the Hyle of the Image in Sartre’s Work from 1927 to 1940
Chloé Bousquet (University of Namur)
Existence, Alienation, and Liberation: A Sartrean Reading of Colonialism
Arturo Cardozo (Universidad del Atlántico)
A Beauvoirian View of Art as Disclosure
David Collins (Cambridge University)
Jean-Paul Sartre and Giacomo Leopardi: Rethinking the Origins of Existentialism
Luca Costa (Oxford University)
Fanon, Postcolonial Truth-Telling, and L’Histoire de Souleymane
Oscar Davis (Bond University) and Damian Cox (Bond University)
Failure and Freedom in Beauvoir’s Moral Philosophy
Daniela Dover (Rutgers University) and Jonathan Gingerich (University College London/Rutgers University)
Incels, Heterosex, and Gendered Becoming
Mary Edwards (Cardiff University)
The Dialectical Strategy for Fanon’s New Humanism
Richard J. Elliott (Birkbeck/Reading)
Theory as Practice and Practice as Theory in Sartre: Philosophy, Class Struggle, and Social Ontology
Zoé Grange-Marczak (École Normale Superieure Paris)
Hate Marches? The Role of Affect in Repressive Serialisation
Tris Hedges (University of Copenhagen)
Sartre Against Kant: The Existentialist Critique of The Moral Imperative
Francisca Hill (Universidad Diego Portales)
Temporal Realism and Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenological Ontology
Christos Kalpakidis (University of Bonn)
Afraid of the Other: A Sartrean Account of Social Anxiety
Wanda von Knobelsdorff (Oxford University)
The Practico-inert of Social Media: Envisioning Fused Groups
Mary Kourpa (VU Amsterdam)
Discrepant Voices in Simone de Beauvoir’s Old Age
Sonia Kruks (Oberlin College)
Habit in Later Life: Repetition without Stagnation in Simone de Beauvoir’s Old Age
Nga Chun Josh Law (University of Bristol)
The ‘Truth’ of the Body: Beauvoir and the Maternal Body in A Very Easy Death
Kathleen Lennon (University of Hull)
War, Freedom, Fragility: Reading Sartre at Wartime
Lior Levy (University of Melbourne)
A Sartrean Sense of Irreality
Jonathan Mitchell (Cardiff University)
The Zone of Non-Being and Sartrean Nothingness in Black Skin, White Masks
Olerato Kau Mogomotsi (University of Cape Town)
Existential Irreparability
Robin Pawlett-Howell (University of York)
Beauvoirian Situation against Sartrean Freedom: Islamic–Iranian Architecture as a Manifestation
Amir Shahhosseini Angas (University College Cork)
Dreaming as Fascinated Predictions: Bridging Sartre’s Phenomenology and Predictive Processing
Rasmus Sinn (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Sartre’s Theory of Modality
Joshua Tepley (Saint Anselm College)
From Labour to Violence: A Genealogy of Fanon’s Concept of Liberation
Aylin Yildirim (University of Oldenburg)
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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 evening of the first day of the conference. Full registrations close on 16th June. Other registrations close on 23rd June. Please give dietary preferences when registering.
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.
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– Professor Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
– Professor Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
– Professor Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
Selected Papers:
Hegel, Beauvoir, Antigone, and Individual Autonomy with Relation to Women
Juliana de Albuquerque (University College Cork)
Resisting Death: Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Dying
Kiki Berk (Southern New Hampshire University)
Sartre on Imaginative Presence
Valerie Bernard (University of New Brunswick)
The Problem of the Hyle of the Image in Sartre’s Work from 1927 to 1940
Chloé Bousquet (University of Namur)
Existence, Alienation, and Liberation: A Sartrean Reading of Colonialism
Arturo Cardozo (Universidad del Atlántico)
A Beauvoirian View of Art as Disclosure
David Collins (Cambridge University)
Jean-Paul Sartre and Giacomo Leopardi: Rethinking the Origins of Existentialism
Luca Costa (Oxford University)
Fanon, Postcolonial Truth-Telling, and L’Histoire de Souleymane
Oscar Davis (Bond University) and Damian Cox (Bond University)
Failure and Freedom in Beauvoir’s Moral Philosophy
Daniela Dover (Rutgers University) and Jonathan Gingerich (University College London/Rutgers University)
Incels, Heterosex, and Gendered Becoming
Mary Edwards (Cardiff University)
The Dialectical Strategy for Fanon’s New Humanism
Richard J. Elliott (Birkbeck/Reading)
Theory as Practice and Practice as Theory in Sartre: Philosophy, Class Struggle, and Social Ontology
Zoé Grange-Marczak (École Normale Superieure Paris)
Hate Marches? The Role of Affect in Repressive Serialisation
Tris Hedges (University of Copenhagen)
Sartre Against Kant: The Existentialist Critique of The Moral Imperative
Francisca Hill (Universidad Diego Portales)
Temporal Realism and Freedom in Sartre’s Phenomenological Ontology
Christos Kalpakidis (University of Bonn)
Afraid of the Other: A Sartrean Account of Social Anxiety
Wanda von Knobelsdorff (Oxford University)
The Practico-inert of Social Media: Envisioning Fused Groups
Mary Kourpa (VU Amsterdam)
Discrepant Voices in Simone de Beauvoir’s Old Age
Sonia Kruks (Oberlin College)
Habit in Later Life: Repetition without Stagnation in Simone de Beauvoir’s Old Age
Nga Chun Josh Law (University of Bristol)
The ‘Truth’ of the Body: Beauvoir and the Maternal Body in A Very Easy Death
Kathleen Lennon (University of Hull)
War, Freedom, Fragility: Reading Sartre at Wartime
Lior Levy (University of Melbourne)
A Sartrean Sense of Irreality
Jonathan Mitchell (Cardiff University)
The Zone of Non-Being and Sartrean Nothingness in Black Skin, White Masks
Olerato Kau Mogomotsi (University of Cape Town)
Existential Irreparability
Robin Pawlett-Howell (University of York)
Beauvoirian Situation against Sartrean Freedom: Islamic–Iranian Architecture as a Manifestation
Amir Shahhosseini Angas (University College Cork)
Dreaming as Fascinated Predictions: Bridging Sartre’s Phenomenology and Predictive Processing
Rasmus Sinn (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Sartre’s Theory of Modality
Joshua Tepley (Saint Anselm College)
From Labour to Violence: A Genealogy of Fanon’s Concept of Liberation
Aylin Yildirim (University of Oldenburg)
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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 evening of the first day of the conference. Full registrations close on 16th June. Other registrations close on 23rd June. Please give dietary preferences when registering.
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.
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