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Welcome to the NASS 2008 Wiki. I'm no wizard on this stuff, but I understand the basics enough to be able to set this up as a space where you can post, share, and find information about the April 4-6 2008 NASS conference at University of Mary Washington.







You can post questions about Fredericksburg, travel, etc., here for me to answer, so everyone can see a FAQ list as it builds. Or you can email me at cvasey@umw.edu --Craig

1. A question about travel from Washington, DC to Fredericksburg: There appear to be two rail lines, Amtrack and a Virginia line. Do both depart from the same King Street station in Washington? Is is just as easy to use one as the other?That is: is it just as easy to get tickets, to both lines arrive at the same station in Fredericksburg, are both equally fast? Thanks, Bruce Baugh

Jan 26 2008. Bruce: The VRE (Virginia Rail Express) is a commuter train, which only runs from DC to Fbrg between 3PM and 7PM, and only runs from Fbrg to DC between 5 AM and 8 AM. Here is the link: http://www.vre.org/service/schedule.htm You'll find a schedule there that shows both VRE and Amtrak times; "Alexandria" is the King St Station.
The Amtrak will be faster, because it does not stop at every station the way the VRE trains do; they all arrive at the same station in Fbrg (which is probably not even a $10 taxi ride to the hotel). The Amtrak url is: http://www.amtrak.com. If you look up Washington, it will only show Union Station, downtown; if you want King Street, you have to look up Alexandria VA.

2. Craig, another travel question. I will be flying into DC (American) and then renting a car. Is one airport closer to Fredericksburg than the other? Also, is one hotel more preferable than the other? Thanks, Dennis Gilbert.
Jan 29, 2008 Dennis: National airport is the closest. But arriving and driving after 3 PM can mean a two hour drive unless one has three people in the car and gets in the HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes. One hour is the standard time. Richmond is a few miles further away, but a much surer bet in terms of traffic flow: again, an hour. Dulles is west of DC, and the drive is about an hour and a half. Depending on time of day, it is wiser to stay west of the DC beltway (495), heading toward Manassas, and connecting to 95south at route 234. The hotels: the Quality Inn's a little cheaper, but same quality. It is also a little easier to drive back and forth to --just because of the way the traffic lights work on route 3. BW has a pool.

3. Parking: On the map of the campus in the next section, you will note a parking deck, #43, which can be reached from Route 1 (on the left end of the map). The top level of the parking deck is for visitors; you can park there for free.

4. Shuttle from the hotels to the campus: I have two University vans reserved for the weekend, and student volunteers, so we should be able to handle shuttle needs for those without cars. It would be useful to have a sense of how many people, for example, expect to need a ride from the hotel to the campus on Friday between 12 and 2. And if we have several arriving by train at the same time Thursday or Friday, we might be able to make arrangements to meet them at the Fbrg station. So, please think about posting your arrival information, or emailing it to me at cvasey@umw.edu.









Link to Google map for Fredericksburg: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Fredericksburg,

Link to a map of the Campus: http://www.umw.edu/disability/resources/maps/documents/Campusmapcolor1-29-07_001.pdf

Buildings in which NASS will meet are numbered 29, 30 and 40 on the key.




We're in Fredericksburg VA, just two miles east of Interstate 95 at Exit 130. It's an hour by car (depending on traffic/ time of day) from Washington and from Richmond, so you have three airports to choose from: National, Dulles, and Richmond.
From National, there is pretty quick access to Amtrak. You have to take the Metro one stop to the King Street Station, to get the train to Fredericksburg. From Dulles, you don't have this advantage; you'll either rent a car, take a taxi (for about $100), or take a SuperShuttle? or Airport Shuttle (http://www.theairportshuttle.com) to National (there might be an option to take it to Union Station in DC itself), to get the train.

What prompts me to create this site is really the possibility of alleviating your travel arrangements by providing a place where you can let others know when and where you are arriving, in case you want to exchange cell phone numbers and arrange to meet and share a taxi, shuttle or rental car.




Hi all!

Sonia Kruks will be arriving at National Friday at Noon. If anyone else will be there and wants to share a cab, please email me about it: cvasey@umw.edu














If you'll post your arrival time here we can try to arrange to have a shuttle van at the train station.
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I've heard from Bruce, Sophie, and Noemi that they'll be on the train from National Airport, April 3, arriving at 7 PM in Fbrg; and maybe two others as well. So I will plan to be at the Fbrg station for that train.__ --March 28, Craig




The two best choices are both on Route 3, between I 95 and the university. These are in shopping plazas that look just like anywhere else in the USA. You'll find KFC, Shoneys, Friendlys, 7-11, etc.

“Best Western Fredericksburg” (not “Best Western Central Plaza,” which is on the other side of 95) 540 371 5050
2205 Plank Rd, 22401 conference rate: $74 plus tax
to get the conference rate, call by March 1 (call as soon as possible, so they don't run out of rooms) and mention NASS

“Quality Inn” 540 371 0330
2310 William Street conference rate $69 plus tax
also mention NASS

These are equally nice hotels, and though the mailing addresses say they are on different streets, they are both on the same road, Route 3, just east of 95 at exit 130.

updated Feb 25:
Here are a couple of other hotels in town you can try. I can't get you the same price as at Quality or Best Western, but they are in the older part of town, and you can walk from them in about 20 minutes:

Richard Johnston Inn 540 899 7606 711 Caroline St www.therichardjohnstoninn.com

Kenmore Inn 540 371 7622 1200 Princess Anne St www.kenmoreinn.com

Inn at the Old Silk Mill 540 372 5666 1707 Princess Anne St www.fci1.com



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NASS TIME TABLE, UMW, FREDERICKSBURG, VIRGINIA

APRIL 4-6, 2008

Friday, APRIL 4, 2008

12:00-2:00 REGISTRATION
in
GREAT HALL, WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER

1:45 Welcome: Nina Mikhalevsky, Provost, Professor of Philosophy, University of Mary Washington


Session A-1: RED ROOM, WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER
2:00-3:00-ANTISEMITISM, RACISM, ATHEISM:

• CHAIR: DAVID REVILL (Staffordshire U., Stafford, U.K.)

JONATHAN JUDAKEN (U. of Memphis, TN): Antisemite and Jew encore une fois,


Session A-2: MEETING ROOM 1, WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER –
2:00-3:30 -LITTÉRATURE ET PHILOSOPHIE:

• PRÉS. GUILLAUME SEYDOUX (U. de Metz, France);

Yan HAMEL (Téléuniversité, Montréal, Qué, Can.) : Écrire à Manhattan. Deux scènes du roman sartrien,
NOÉMIE PARANT (U. de Rouen, France) : L’analyse des relations à l’oeuvre entre la phénoménologie française et la littérature.
RÉMI ROBERT (U. de Sherbrooke, Qué., Can.) : Le regard. Pur duel de violence ou complicité? Commentaire: G. Seydoux.

Session B-1: RED ROOM, WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER
3:40-5:10 - SARTRE AND OTHERS:

• CHAIR: BRUCE BAUGH (Thompson Rivers U., Kamloops, B.C., Can.)

BASIL VASSILICOS (K.U. Leuven, Belgium): Phenomenological Perspectives on the Suspension of Inclinations. Leibniz and Sartre,
ERIC SKIPPY SUND, (U. of Toledo, OH): The Difference of Time between Bergson and Sartre,
SHAWN GORMAN (Harvard U., MA): Sartre and Bourdieu. On How to Pick a Winner.

Session B-2: MEETING ROOM 1, WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER
3:40- 5:10 -SARTRE’S EARLY PHILOSOPHY AND Being and Nothingness:

• CHAIR: RONALD SANTONI (Denison U., Denison, OH)

SARAH RICHMOND (UCL, London, U.K.): Magic in Sartre’s Early Philosophy,
MATTHEW ESHLEMAN (U. of North Carolina, Wilmington, NC): Sartre on Human Reality: That which is what it is not and is not what it is,
ROHIT DALVI (Brock U., St.Catharines, Ont., Can.): The Absent Pierre. The Enigma of Nothingness in Being and Nothingness.

DINNER AVAILABLE AT SEACOBECK DINING HALL- BEST CHOICE IF YOU WANT TO ATTEND THE EVENING SESSION. OTHERWISE, A LIST OF RESTAURANTS IN TOWN IS PROVIDED. APRIL 4 IS A “FIRST FRIDAY”: ART GALLERIES IN TOWN HOST RECEPTIONS FROM 6 TO 8 PM.
N.B. 6:00-7:00 EXECUTIVE OF NASS:
MEETING OVER DINNER IN SEACOBECK DINING HALL (A. VAN DEN HOVEN, C. DAIGLE, R. SANTONI, J. JUDAKEN, M. DARNELL, E. BUTTERFIELD, Y. ZHENG, F. ERFANI, J. PARIS):
Agenda: 1) Discussion of venue of next NASS meeting (time and place),
2) New executive: nominations to the AGM,
3) New program committee: nominations to the AGM,
4) Other Business.





EVENING APRIL 4, 2008 JEPSON HALL 100

7:15-9:30 –SHOWING of JOHN HUSTON’S MOVIE FREUD. THE SECRET PASSION followed by a DISCUSSION that will focus on the relationship of the movie to Sartre’s Freud Scenario and his own (negative) comments about the production.

• CHAIR: CRAIG VASEY (UMW, VA)

PARTICIPANTS: CHRISTINE DAIGLE (Brock U., Ont., Can.), DENNIS GILBERT (Boston College, MA), ADRIAN VAN DEN HOVEN (U. of Windsor, Ont., Can.). (ALL ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE IN THE DISCUSSION).




SATURDAY MORNING APRIL 5, 2008
ALL SESSIONS IN JEPSON HALL

8:30 COFFEE IN FOYER

Session C-1: JEPSON 219-
9:00- 11:00 - BEYOND RECIPROCITY:

• CHAIR: PETER GRATTON (U. of San Diego, CA): Love and Solidarity. The Hope Now of Sartre’s Politics,

ANN TAYLOR (Las Positas College, Livermore, CA): Saying Yes to Being. Sartre’s Amor Fati,
CHRISTINA SMERICK (Greenville College, CA): The Failure of Hate,
ARSALAN MEMON (U of Memphis, TN): Antisemite and Muslim.


Session C-2: JEPSON 100 –
9:00-12:10 - SARTRE AND AESTHETICS:

• CHAIR: DENNIS GILBERT (Boston College, MA)

JOSEPH DREISS & EMILY BUTLER (UMW, Fredericksburg, VA): Perception and Nihilism. A Reexamination of the Philosophical Relationship between Giacometti’s Post-surrealist Art and Sartre’s early Writings,
CORY NOVICK (American U., Washington, DC): The Parasite and the Petrified: Aesthetic Consciousness in existentialist Psycho-Fiction?,
SOPHIE ASTIER VEZON (U. de Paris I, France): Sartre and painting,
HEINER WITTMANN (Editor, Ernst Klett AG, Germany): Art is an Appeal to Freedom.


Session D-1: JEPSON 219-
11:10-12:10 -SARTRE AND OTHERS:

• CHAIR: RONALD ARONSON (Wayne State U., MI)

OLIVIER FERON (U.of Evora, Portugal): Contingency and Humanism. Sartre between Heidegger and Blumenberg ,
FERDI MEMELLI (Purdue U., West Lafayette, IN): The Trace and The Image.The Theatrical Cartesianism of Derrida and Sartre.


LUNCH: EAGLES’ NEST (SNACKBAR ON LOWER LEVEL OF WOODARD CAMPUS CENTER) OR VARIOUS VENDORS AT THE MULTICULTURAL FAIR ON BALL CICRLE.


SATURDAY AFTERNOON APRIL 5, 2008

– JEPSON 100 –
1:30 -2:20 - BUSINESS MEETING

1) Discussion and Approval of venue of the next NASS Meeting (Place and time),
2) Discussion and Approval of Program Committee for next NASS Meeting,
3) Discussion and Approval of Financial Report,
4) Report by the Executive Editors of Sartre Studies International,
5) Discussion and Approval of new executive of NASS,
6) Other Business.

Session E-1: JEPSON 100 –
2:30- 4:30 - POSSIBILITY OF SHAME:

• CHAIR: GREGORY HOSKINS (Villanova U., PA)

GREGORY HOSKINS (Villanova U., PA): Sartre on Group Identity and the Weight of History,
REBECCA GOLDNER (Villanova U., PA): Sartre on Recognition, Responsibility and Shame,
DERA SIPE (Villanova U., PA): Falling into Shame (and out of Apathy). Sartrean Shame as a “Revolutionary Sentiment,”
ELIZABETH BUTTERFIELD (Georgia Southern U., Statesboro, GA): Beyond Hell is the Other: A Sartrean Framework for a positive Social Philosophy.

Session E-2: JEPSON 313-
2:30- 4:30 -SARTRE AND SIMONE de BEAUVOIR:

• CHAIR: CHRISTINE DAIGLE (Brock U., Ont., Can.)

DEBRA BERGOFFEN (George Mason U., Fairfax, VA): Between Sartre and Beauvoir: Messianic Hope and the Appeal.
SONIA KRUKS (Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH): An Eye for an Eye. Beauvoir’s Phenomenology of Revenge.


Session E-3: JEPSON 219-
2:30- 4:30 -ONTOLOGY AND PHENOMENOLOGY:

• CHAIR: ADRIAN VAN DEN HOVEN (University of Windsor, Ont., Canada)

PAUL GYLLENHAMMER (St. John’s U., NY): Shame as a Condition of the Lived-Body?. From Ontology to Social Critique,
KRISTANA ARP (Long Island U., NY): The Adventures of Temporality. Sartre and the Origins of Time,
CAM CLAYTON (Brock U., Ont., Can): Melancholy and the Internal Negation of the Past.


Session F-1: JEPSON 313–
4:40-5:40 -SARTRE AND OTHERS:

• CHAIR: FARHANG ERFANI (American U., Washington, DC)

SIMONE MÜLLER (U. of Zürich, Switzerland) Why Sartre? Some Thoughts on Sartre’s Impact on Post-War? Japan,
AMOL GHEEWALA (U. of Miami, FL) Human Freedom and agency in La Nausée and Martin Scorcese’s Taxi Driver as illustrated by its protagonists: Roquentin and Travis Bickle.


Session F-2: JEPSON 219-
4:40–5:40 HAZEL BARNES’S TV LECTURES ON EXISTENTIALISM

• CHAIR: JEFF LARSEN (U. of Colorado, Boulder, CO):

SELF-ENCOUNTER WITH HAZEL BARNES. (Jeff Larsen will show and then comment on DVD’s of Hazel Barnes’s TV lectures).

Session F-3: JEPSON 100 –
4:40- 6:00

-BOOK DISCUSSION: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE AND ADORNO

• CHAIR: KEVIN GRAY (U. Laval, Qué., Can.)

DISCUSSANTS: THOMAS FLYNN (Emory U., Atlanta, GA) and BILL MARTIN (DePaul U, Chicago, IL). RESPONDENT: DAVID SHERMAN (U. of Montana, MT)






SATURDAY EVENING

6:00 -6:45 -RECEPTION – FOYER AND PLAZA, JEPSON HALL

6:45 -7:45 -KEYNOTE ADDRESS- JEPSON 100-: DAVID DRAKE : SARTRE, BEAUVOIR AND COMMUNISM. (Université de Paris VII, France).

• INTRODUCED BY WILLIAM McBRIDE (Purdue U., West Lafayette, IN)

8:00 - DINNER – FACULTY STAFF DINING ROOM, SEACOBECK HALL


SUNDAY APRIL 6, 2008

8:30 COFFEE

Session G-1: JEPSON 219-
9:00-10:30 – ONTOLOGY, BEING AND NOTHINGNESS AND BLACK ORPHEUS:

• CHAIR: MURUNGI (Towson U, MD)

RONALD ARONSON (Wayne St. U., MI): Sartre and Camus on Atheism
JESSICA ELKAYAM (Villanova U., PA): On Love and Strife. The Phenomenological Concept of Nothingness,
FARHANG ERFANI (American U., Washington, DC): The Question of Exile in Being and Nothingness and Black Orpheus.

Session G-2: JEPSON 100 –
9:00-10:30 - CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE BODY:

• CHAIR: KEN ANDERSON (Oxford College, Emory U., Atlanta, GA.),

STANLEY KONECKY (Hartwick U., NY): Human Reality,
MICHELLE DARNELL (Fayette State U., Fayetteville, NC): Freedom, Causality, Consciousness/Body and Avoiding the Conflation of Ontology and Epistemology,
DAVID DETMER (Calumet. Purdue U., IN): Sartre’s Solution to the Mind-Body? Problem.


Session H-1: JEPSON 219 –
10:40-11:40 –SARTRE’S THEORY OF TRUTH & MUTUAL RECOGNITION:

• CHAIR: THOMAS FLYNN (Emory U., GA)

IAN RHOAD (New School for Social Research, NY): Finding, Risking and Giving the World. Sartre’s Theory of Truth,
T.STORM HETER (East Stroudsburg U., PA): Sartre’s Contribution to Recent Views of Mutual Recognition.

Session H- 2: JEPSON 100-
10:40-11:40 – ON THE THEORY OF MOODS AND EMOTIONS, GHOSTS AND MAGIC:

• CHAIR: DAVID DETMER (Calumet. Purdue U., IN)

CALEB HELDT (U. of Warwick, U.K.) Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Moods and Emotions,
BRITTANY GNAU (Brock U., Ont., Can.) Sartre on Ghosts and Magic.