Cfp: 17th Biennial Conference, North American Sartre Society, University of Memphis, November 19-21, 2009.

At this year’s conference we will be celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason as well as 25 years of NASS. Our keynote speaker will be Robert J. C. Young, a leading postcolonial theorist and one of the few who has recognized the centrality of Sartre to postcolonialism. Among his many works, some devoted to Fanon, is the introduction for the English translation of Colonialisme et néocolonialisme, as well as the chapter on Sartre in his White Mythologies. Papers in any area of Sartrean scholarship are welcome (philosophy, literature, psychology, politics, literature, intellectual history, etc.). Reading time for a paper should be 25-30 minutes (to be followed by an optional commentary and 10 minutes of discussion). In addition to individual papers, we would be most interested in receiving suggestions for panel topics that address any aspect of Sartre’s work; its relationship to the work of other authors. Of special interest for the occasion would be papers that address Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason or any aspect of Sartre’s relation to postcolonialism. Visit the conference homepage here: http://sartresociety.org/2009/03/05/cfp-17th-biennial-conference-of-the-north-american-sartre-society/.