| 8:30 – 9 a.m. | Registration and coffee |
| 9 – 9:15 a.m. | Opening remarks: Shiloh Whitney, Conference Director |
| Session 1 – Organic Affectivity and Animality Moderator: Emilia Angelova, Concordia University |
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| 9:15 – 10 a.m. | Hermanni Yli-Tepsa, University of Jyväskylä: “How to feel like our eyes: tracing the theme of instinctive affectivity in Phenomenology of Perception” |
| 10 – 10:45 a.m. | Sarah DiMaggio, Vanderbilt University: “Flesh and Blood: Reimagining Kinship” |
| 10:45 – 11 a.m. | Break |
| Session 2 – Passivity Moderator: Philip Walsh, Fordham University |
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| 11 – 11:45 a.m. | David Morris, Concordia University: “The Transcendentality of Passivity: Affective Being and the Contingency of Phenomenology as Institution” |
| 11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Rajiv Kaushik, Brock University “Merleau-Ponty on Passivity and the Limit of Philosophical Critique” |
| 12:30 – 2 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| Session 3 – Theorizing Emotion 1: Outside-in, Inside-Outside Moderator: Duane H. Davis, University of North Carolina at Asheville |
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| 2 – 2:45 p.m. | Ed Casey, Stonybrook University: “Bringing Edge to Bear: Vindicating Merleau-Ponty’s Nascent Ideas on Emotion” |
| 2:45 – 3:30 p.m. | Ondřej Švec, Charles University Prague: “Acting out one’s emotion” |
| 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Break |
| Session 4 – Theorizing Emotion 2: Intersubjective Dimensions Moderator: April Flakne, New College of Florida |
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| 3:45 – 4:30 p.m. | Jan Halák, Palacky University Olomouc: “On the diacritical value of expression with regard to emotion” |
| 4:30 – 5:15 p.m. | Corinne Lajoie, Penn State University: “The equilibrium of sense: Levels of embodiment and the (dis)orientations of love” Winner of the M. C. Dillon Award for best graduate essay |
| 5:15 – 5:45 p.m. | Snack Break (light refreshments provided) |
| Thursday Keynote Introduction: Shiloh Whitney, Fordham University |
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| 5:45 – 7:15 p.m. | Alia Al-Saji, McGill University “The Affective Flesh of Colonial Duration” |
| 8:30 – 9 a.m. | Registration and coffee |
| Session 5 – Affective Pathologies and Empathy Moderator: Lisa Käll, Stockholm University |
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| 9 – 9:45 a.m. | Ståle Finke, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim: “Structuring Affective Pathology: Merleau-Ponty and Psychoanalysis” |
| 9:45 – 10:30 a.m. | Catherine Fullarton, Emory University: “Empathy, Perspective, Parallax” |
| 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| Session 6 – Eating and Breathing Moderator: Ann Murphy, University of New Mexico |
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| 10:45 – 11:30 a.m. | Whitney Ronshagen, Emory University: “Visceral Relations: On Eating, Affect, and Sharing the World” |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Amie Leigh Zimmer, University of Oregon: “Rethinking Chronic Breathlessness Beyond Symptom and Syndrome” |
| 12:15 – 2 p.m. | Lunch Break (and graduate student Mentoring Session in Lowenstein 810) |
| Session 7 – Critical Phenomenologies 1: Work and Freedom Moderator: Whitney Howell, La Salle University |
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| 2 – 2:45 p.m. | Talia Welsh, University of Tennessee Chattanooga: “Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Work and Its Discontents” |
| 2:45 – 3:30 p.m. | Laura McMahon, Eastern Michigan University: “The ‘Great Phantom’: Merleau-Ponty on Habitus, Freedom, and Political Transformation” |
| 3:30 – 3:45 p.m. | Break |
| Session 8 – Critical Phenomenologies 2: The “I Can” Moderator: Cheryl Emerson, SUNY Buffalo |
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| 3:45 – 4:30 p.m. | Kym Maclaren, Ryerson University: “Criminalization and the Self-Constituting Dynamics of Distrust” |
| 4:30 – 5:15 p.m. | Joel Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell and Lauren Guilmette, Elon University: “Rethinking the Ableism of Affect Theory with Merleau-Ponty” |
| 5:15 – 5:45 p.m. | Snack Break (light refreshments provided) |
| Friday Keynote Introduction: Shiloh Whitney, Fordham University |
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| 5:45 – 7:15 p.m. | Matthew Ratcliffe, York University “Towards a Phenomenology of Grief: Insights from Merleau-Ponty” |
| 8:30 – 9 a.m. | Registration and coffee |
| Session 9 – Feeling Beyond Humanism Moderator: Wayne Froman, George Mason University |
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| 9 – 9:45 a.m. | Marie-Eve, Morin, University of Alberta. “Merleau-Ponty’s ‘cautious anthropomorphism’” |
| 9:45 – 10:30 a.m. | Jay Worthy, University of Alberta: “Feelings of Adversity: Towards a Critical Humanism” |
| 10:30 – 10:45 a.m. | Break |
| Session 10 – Art and Affect Moderator: Stephen Watson, Notre Dame |
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| 10:45 – 11:30 a.m. | Veronique Foti, Pennsylvania State University. “Body, Animality, and Cosmos in the Art of Kiki Smith” |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. | Rebecca Longtin, State University of New York New Paltz: “From Stone to Flesh: Affect and the Poetic Ambiguity of the Body” |
| 12:15 – 2:15 p.m. | Lunch Break (and Business Lunch at Rosa Mexicano, 61 Columbus Ave) |
| Session 11 – Voice and Silence Moderator: Gail Weiss, George Washington University |
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| 2:15 – 3 p.m. | Susan, Bredlau, Emory University. “Losing One’s Voice: Merleau-Ponty and the Lived Space of Conversation” |
| 3 – 3:45 p.m. | Martina, Ferrari, University of Oregon. “The Laboring of Deep Silence: ‘Conceptless Opening(s),’ the Suspension of the Familiar, and the Dismemberment of the Ego” |
| 3:45 – 4 p.m. | Break |
| Session 12 – Affectivity and Language Moderator: Galen Johnson, University of Rhode Island |
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| 4 – 4:45 p.m. | Silvana de Souza Ramos, University of São Paulo. “Merleau-Ponty and the Prose of Dora’s World” |
| 4:45 – 5:30 p.m. | Katie Emery Brown, University of California Berkeley. “Queer Silence in Merleau-Ponty’s Gesture” |
| Banquet | |
| 7 – 10 p.m. | At Salam, 104 W 13th St. |
Fordham Natural Law Colloquium
5:30-6:00 check in, 6:00-7:50 program
Location: Fordham Law School, Bateman 2-01B
Contact Michael Baur and Ben Zipursky for more information.
Contact John Drummond for more information.
Th 1/25/24: Kate Manne
Th 2/1/24: Scott Shapiro
Th 2/8/24: Ekow Yankah
Th 2/15/24: Tommie Shelby
Th 2/22/24 Gideon Rosen
Th 2/29/24: Sabeel Rahman
Th 3/7/24: Amy Sepinwall
Th 3/14/24: Erik Encarnacion
Th 3/21/24: Seyla Benhabib
Th 4/4/24: Amalia Amaya
Th 4/11/24: Debbie Hellman
Th 4/18/24: Mala Chatterjee
Th 4/25/24: Liam Murphy
Contact Aditi Bagchi: https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/aditi-bagchi/
Th 1/25/24: Kate Manne
Th 2/1/24: Scott Shapiro
Th 2/8/24: Ekow Yankah
Th 2/15/24: Tommie Shelby
Th 2/22/24 Gideon Rosen
Th 2/29/24: Sabeel Rahman
Th 3/7/24: Amy Sepinwall
Th 3/14/24: Erik Encarnacion
Th 3/21/24: Seyla Benhabib
Th 4/4/24: Amalia Amaya
Th 4/11/24: Debbie Hellman
Th 4/18/24: Mala Chatterjee
Th 4/25/24: Liam Murphy
Contact Aditi Bagchi: https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/aditi-bagchi/
Th 1/25/24: Kate Manne
Th 2/1/24: Scott Shapiro
Th 2/8/24: Ekow Yankah
Th 2/15/24: Tommie Shelby
Th 2/22/24 Gideon Rosen
Th 2/29/24: Sabeel Rahman
Th 3/7/24: Amy Sepinwall
Th 3/14/24: Erik Encarnacion
Th 3/21/24: Seyla Benhabib
Th 4/4/24: Amalia Amaya
Th 4/11/24: Debbie Hellman
Th 4/18/24: Mala Chatterjee
Th 4/25/24: Liam Murphy
Contact Aditi Bagchi: https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/aditi-bagchi/
Th 1/25/24: Kate Manne
Th 2/1/24: Scott Shapiro
Th 2/8/24: Ekow Yankah
Th 2/15/24: Tommie Shelby
Th 2/22/24 Gideon Rosen
Th 2/29/24: Sabeel Rahman
Th 3/7/24: Amy Sepinwall
Th 3/14/24: Erik Encarnacion
Th 3/21/24: Seyla Benhabib
Th 4/4/24: Amalia Amaya
Th 4/11/24: Debbie Hellman
Th 4/18/24: Mala Chatterjee
Th 4/25/24: Liam Murphy
Contact Aditi Bagchi: https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/aditi-bagchi/
Th 1/25/24: Kate Manne
Th 2/1/24: Scott Shapiro
Th 2/8/24: Ekow Yankah
Th 2/15/24: Tommie Shelby
Th 2/22/24 Gideon Rosen
Th 2/29/24: Sabeel Rahman
Th 3/7/24: Amy Sepinwall
Th 3/14/24: Erik Encarnacion
Th 3/21/24: Seyla Benhabib
Th 4/4/24: Amalia Amaya
Th 4/11/24: Debbie Hellman
Th 4/18/24: Mala Chatterjee
Th 4/25/24: Liam Murphy
Contact Aditi Bagchi: https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/aditi-bagchi/
Th 1/25/24: Kate Manne
Th 2/1/24: Scott Shapiro
Th 2/8/24: Ekow Yankah
Th 2/15/24: Tommie Shelby
Th 2/22/24 Gideon Rosen
Th 2/29/24: Sabeel Rahman
Th 3/7/24: Amy Sepinwall
Th 3/14/24: Erik Encarnacion
Th 3/21/24: Seyla Benhabib
Th 4/4/24: Amalia Amaya
Th 4/11/24: Debbie Hellman
Th 4/18/24: Mala Chatterjee
Th 4/25/24: Liam Murphy
Contact Aditi Bagchi: https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/aditi-bagchi/
Th 1/25/24: Kate Manne
Th 2/1/24: Scott Shapiro
Th 2/8/24: Ekow Yankah
Th 2/15/24: Tommie Shelby
Th 2/22/24 Gideon Rosen
Th 2/29/24: Sabeel Rahman
Th 3/7/24: Amy Sepinwall
Th 3/14/24: Erik Encarnacion
Th 3/21/24: Seyla Benhabib
Th 4/4/24: Amalia Amaya
Th 4/11/24: Debbie Hellman
Th 4/18/24: Mala Chatterjee
Th 4/25/24: Liam Murphy
Contact Aditi Bagchi: https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-law/faculty/directory/full-time/aditi-bagchi/