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After Existentialism: UK Sartre Society conferenceTuesday 18th July 2017Maison Française, Oxford9.00am - 5.00pmKeynote Speaker: Prof. Christina Howells (Oxford)Submitted Papers: The Second Sex: from idealism to materialism and back, Katja Čičigoj (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen) Mindfulness after Existentialism – Through the Mind’s Eye, Ruth Kitchen (EHESS Paris) Seriality and the Crisis of Democracy. Taking Sartre into Democratic Theory, Matthias Lievens (KU Leuven) The Body is a Situation: Beauvoir outside the Sex-Gender Distinction, Emma Jane McNicol (Monash) The Existential Subject and Freedom in Learning: a Dialogue with Sartre, Miranda Matthews (Goldsmiths, University of London) Sartre's Theory of the Author-Reader Relationship, Marieke Mueller (University of Paris Nanterre) The Critique of Presence: Sartre’s Influence on Derrida, Gavin Rae (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Untenable Positions: Existentialism and the Case against the Unconscious Mind, Ian Scrannage (South Gloucestershire and Stroud College) Alain Badiou: A Student of Sartre, Chingshun Sheu (National Taiwan Normal University) Authenticity Beyond Existentialism: A Socio-Existential Approach, Kyle Shuttleworth (Queens University Belfast) Existentialism and Political Failure: Lessons for Today, Michael Sigrist (George Washington University) Sartre’s Conceptions of Agency and Its Value for the Philosophy of History, Sina Talachian (Kings College London) Inauthenticity and Violence: The Case of Antisemitism, Dror Yinon (Bar-Ilan University)Registration fees:Standard registration: £40.UK Sartre Society members and Sartre Studies International subscribers: £30.Students and unwaged registrants who are not members or subscribers: £30.Students and unwaged registrants who are members or subscribers: £20.Registration deadline: Friday 30th JuneOnline registration: http://uksartresociety2017.bpt.meFeatured Image Credits: Paris, St-Germain-des-Prés, Café de Flore, September 6, 2007 | © Courtesy of Wally Gobetz.