Camus Society Conference: Krakow

This year our conference will be held in person 

16th & 17th November 2023

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 $50 USD

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 2023 CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Thursday 16th November

Paper Panel #1: Camus and Philosophers

10.00-10.30: From “Sophrosyne” (σωφροσύνη) to “La Mesure” and Back. (Angelika Małek and Maciej Kałuża)
10.30-11.00: Sisyphus with Fife and Drum: Imagining Sisyphus Happy. (Simon Lea)
11.00-11.30: Discussion #1
11.30-11.45: Break #1
11.45-12.15: Camus, Beauvoir and the Ethics of the Absurd’s Ambiguity. (Peter Francev)
12.15-12.45: Differently Alienated in Paris: Camus and Baldwin. (Kimberly Baltzer-Jaray)

12.45-13.00: Discussion #2

13.00-15.00: Lunch Break

Paper Panel #2: Camus and His Work

15.00-15.30: Meursault… (George Heffernan)
15.30-16.00: Hope and Tragedy in Camus’s The Misunderstanding (Denise Schaeffer)
16.00-16.45: Discussion #3
16.45-17.00: Closing Remarks

Friday 17th November

Paper Panel #1: Camus and Afterlives

10.00-10.30: Dr Rieux is No Hero of The Plague. (Eric Berg)
10.30-11.00: Stranger Things. Meursault in Comix Mode. (David Platten)
11.00-11.30: Discussion #1
11.15-11.30: Break #1

Paper Panel #2: Camus and Contemporary Culture

11.30-12.00: Albert Camus and Peter Kropotkin: An Unexplored Connection. (Dominik Kulcsár)
12.00-12.30: Camus as a Mystical Predictor of Our Day and Age. (David Langwallner)
12.30-13.00: Discussion #1

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-15.30: Albert Camus and Error Theory. (Matt Waldschlagel)
15.30-16.00: Discussion #2
16.00-18.00: Closing Remarks