Calendar – Blog of Noah Greenstein

April 2019 – March 2022

Thursday, September 12 Schedule
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
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
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
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
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
5:45 – 7:15 p.m.	Alia Al-Saji, McGill University “The Affective Flesh of Colonial Duration”

Friday, September 13 Schedule
8:30 – 9 a.m.	Registration and coffee
Session 5 – Affective Pathologies and Empathy Moderator: Lisa Käll, Stockholm University
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
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
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
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
5:45 – 7:15 p.m.	Matthew Ratcliffe, York University “Towards a Phenomenology of Grief: Insights from Merleau-Ponty”

Saturday, September 14 Schedule
8:30 – 9 a.m.	Registration and coffee
Session 9 – Feeling Beyond Humanism Moderator: Wayne Froman, George Mason University
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
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
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
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.