His pen stirred people around the globe. As witness and voice of his time, he wrote in the name of individual and collective freedom. The Twentieth Century could arguably be called “the Age of Jean-Paul Sartre” (1905-1980).
To commemorate Sartre's centennial, the University of California at Santa Barbara is holding a celebration to acknowledge the legacy of the great Existentialist philosopher.
The celebration will feature a library display showcasing original Sartre manuscripts, a colloquium of renowned international figures, a staged reading of Sartre's play No Exit (“Hell is other people”), and a jazz concert starring two hot local ensembles and a globetrotting French trumpeter.
This unique event, to take place at the UCSB campus and the Karpeles Manuscript Museum, has been organized by the Department of French and Italian, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and co-sponsored by the Chancellor and many other offices at UCSB: the College of Letters and Science and its Division of Humanities and Fine Arts; the College of Creative Studies; the Comparative Literature Program; the Department of Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies; and the Departments of Black Studies, Dramatic Art, English, History, History of Art and Architecture, Music, Philosophy and Religious Studies; and the
the Series in Contemporary Literature.
The French Cultural Services in Los Angeles & New York
are also co-sponsors of this event
We thank Pierre Wiaz for his wonderful caricature of Sartre
and his gracious authorization to use it.
Many thanks to Matt Harnarck for designing our site header.
