Camus Society Conference: London

This year our conference will be held in person 

21st & 22nd October 2022

If you are a member of the Society and would like to attend simply email at least 24hrs prior to the event, citing your unique membership number, and we’ll do our best to accommodate you. All the talks will be made available for download after the conference. A link to these recordings will be posted shortly after the conference.

Registration for both days £60.00 (Society members £30.00)

To hear talks from last year’s conference as well as other great Camus related material visit Albert Camus Radio.

Conference Abstracts

ALBERT CAMUS SOCIETY US-UK 2022 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Friday 21st October – ‘Quintessential Works’

Panel #1: The Myth of Sisyphus
10:00-10:45: Simon Lea ‘Untangling the questions raised in The Myth of Sisyphus’
10:45-11:00: Break
11:00-11:45: Denise Schaeffer ‘Camus versus de Beauvoir on Ambiguity and the Absurd’
11:45-12:45: Q&A #1
12:45-14:45: Lunch

Panel #2: The Fall
15:00-15:45: David Hoinski ‘In Denial: The Dialectic of Innocence, Guilt, and Forgiveness in Camus’s The Fall’
15.45-16:00: Break
16:00-16:45: David Langwallner ‘Albert Camus’s The Fall. (1956) Quintessential Lawyer for Our Time’?
16.45-17:45: Q&A #2

Saturday 22nd October – ‘Social Aspects and Other Fictions’

Panel #1: Camus’s Social Aspects
10:00-10:45: Eric Berg ‘A Defense of Camus’ Invisible Arabs in The Plague by way of Steven Leuthold’s Indigenous Aesthetics’
10:45-11:00: Break
11:00-11:45: David Platten ‘A Diet of Roots and Thistles. Poverty and Oblivion in Misère de la Kabylie (1939) and Le Premier Homme (1960)’
11:45-12:45: Q&A #1
12:45-14:45: Lunch

Panel #2: Camus’s Other Fictions
15:00-15:45: Erik Noonan ‘The Ambiguity of Drama in Camus’
15.45-16:00: Break
16:00-16:45: Peter Francev ‘Gushing Over Nature, or Janine’s Sexual Exhibitionism’
16.45-17:45: Q&A #2