International Colloquium
December 1 – December 3

All sessions and the two keynote addresses will be held at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, McCune Conference Room, 6th floor, Humanities and Social Science Building, UCSB

Thursday, December 1:
Opening of Colloquium, 3:00-3:30 p.m.
“Opening Remarks”
David Marshall, Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, College of Letters and Science

Ernest Sturm & Catherine Nesci, Conference Organizers
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Session 1: “How Alive is Sartre Today?”
3:30-5:30 p.m.
Chair: Dominique Jullien, UCSB

1. George Cotkin (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo): "Sartre in America ."
2. Nadia Amara (Columbia University): "Jean-Paul Sartre: Between Engagement and Dedication."
3. Gerald Larson (Emeritus, UCSB): "The Contemporary Relevance of Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason."
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Opening Reception
6:00-8:00 p.m., Art Gallery, College of Creative Studies, UCSB
Sip and munch as you listen to the fabulous Rob Wallace Jazz Ensemble
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Friday, December 2
Welcome
by Chancellor Henry T. Yang
9:00 a.m.

Keynote Address: 9:15-10:15 a.m.
“Sartre's USA Adventures”
Introduction: Ronald Tobin, Associate Vice Chancellor, UCSB
Speaker: Annie Cohen-Solal (EHESS, Paris; Université de Caen-Basse Normandie)

Break and Refreshments

 Session 2 : “Depression before the Age of Prozac: Sartre's Nausea.”
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Chair: Dominic Thomas, UCLA
1. Suzanne Guerlac (UC Berkeley): "Nausea and the Adventure of Taking Time by the Tail."
2. Eric Duffy (Duquesne University): "Anguish and Nausea as Calls to Action."
3. Paul Sonnino (UCSB): "Antoine Roquentin, Historian? A Critical Look at Sartre's View of History in Nausea. "

Session 3: "Sartre versus Anti-Semitism".
2:00-5:00 p.m.
Chair: Peter Bloom, UCSB
Part I (2:00-3:30 )

1. Jonathan Judaken (U. of Memphis): "Race after Sartre."
2. Richard Hecht (UCSB):"Sartre's Phenomenology of Hatred."

Break and Refreshments

Part II (3:45 – 5:00 p.m.)
3. Emily Kugler (UC San Diego): “Denying the Self: Recognition and Objectification in Sartre's Réflexions sur la question juive.”
4. Bruce Kaplan ( Boston University ): “American Jewish Intellectual Reaction
to Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew.”
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Saturday, December 3
Keynote Address
9:00 – 10:00 am,
McCune Conference Room, IHC
“Sartre's Outlandish Vision of the Venetian Painter Tintoretto”
Introduction: Ernest Sturm, UCSB
Speaker: Michel Sicard (Université Paris-1 – Panthéon Sorbonne)
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Session 4: “Sartre's Widespread Heritage: Literary, Philosophical, and Cultural Issues”. 10:15 a.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Chair: Robert Rosen, UCLA

 Part I (10:15 a.m. – 11:45 noon)

1. Edmund J.Smyth (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK): "Sartre, the Nouveau Roman and Narrative Theory."
2. Martine Reid (Université Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines, France)
“He/She: Gender in Sartre's Fiction”
3. Amanda Crawley-Jackson (University of Sheffield, UK). “Ethics and Heroics in Jean-Paul Sartre's Morts sans sépulture and Romain Gary's Education européenne .”

Part II (1:15 – 2:45 p.m.)
4. Sune Liisberg (U. of Aarhus, Denmark): "The Being of Cognition: Sartre as a Corrective to Husserl."
5. Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA): "Sartre, Badiou, and the Truth of the Two."
6. Ahmet Suner (USC): "Signs, Images and Franconay's Lips: Notes on Sartre's Phenomenology of Imitation."

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 Ernest Sturm, Catherine Nesci
Department of French and Italian, UCSB
Co-Hosts