International Merleau-Ponty Circle Program
Affect / Emotion / Feeling
Thursday, September 12 - Saturday, September 14
All sessions will be held in the 12th Floor Lounge of the Lowenstein Building at Fordham's Lincoln Center campus in Manhattan (113 W 60th St., New York, NY 10023). The business lunch and banquet are off campus (addresses listed below).
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: James Morley, Ramapo College |
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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: Nancy Bart’s-Smith, Slippery Rock University |
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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” |
9:30 - 9:45 a.m. | Registration and coffee |
Session 9 - Feeling Beyond Humanism Moderator: Wayne Froman, George Mason University |
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9:45 - 10:30 a.m. | Marie-Eve, Morin, University of Alberta. “Merleau-Ponty’s ‘cautious anthropomorphism’” |
10:30 - 11:15 a.m. | Jay Worthy, University of Alberta: “Feelings of Adversity: Towards a Critical Humanism” |
11:15 - 11:30 a.m. | Break |
Session 10 - Art and Affect Moderator: Stephen Watson, Notre Dame |
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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. |