This two-day conference examines contemporary and historical phenomenological approaches to the body and embodiment and offers alternative accounts that engage with or criticize the phenomenological approach.

The conference will be held on Thursday, March 26, from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.; and Friday, March 27, from 12:00 to 7:00 p.m. at 6 East 16th Street, room 906/913. Admission is free; but seating is limited and reservations are required by emailing: nssrphilconference@gmail.com .

Conference Program Day 1

10:15 a.m.: Opening Remarks

10:30–11:45 a.m.: Avram Blaker (Temple University), “Higher than Facts, Lower than Essence: Ambiguity, the Body, and Objectivity in Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenology” with response by Matt Congdon

12:00–1:15 p.m.: Frances Bottenberg (Stony Brook University), “The Case Against Disembodying Descartes” with response by Joshua Pineda

3:00-4:15 p.m.: Maxwell Tremblay (The New School for Social Research), “Coherence and Collectivity: Fanon and the Limits of the Individual” with response by Bill Remley

4:30–5:45 p.m.: Michael Brownstein (Penn State University), “Does Scholarly Knowledge Ruin Bodily Knowledge? On the Relationship between Embodied Understanding and Social Theory” with response by Mark Theunissen

6:00–8:00 p.m.: Hubert L. Dreyfus (UC Berkeley), “The Myth of the Pervasiveness of the Mental”

Conference Program Day 2

12:00–1:15 p.m.: Michael Butera (Virginia Tech), “A Phenomenology of Sensory Loss: The Late-Deafened” with response by Anna Strelis

1:30–2:45 p.m.: Alisa Mandrigin (University of Edinburgh),
“Body as Subject and Object”
Response: Janna van Grunsven

3:30–4:45 p.m.: Gabriel Gottlieb (The New School for Social Research)
“Eye, Mind, Body: Fichte on Human Embodiment”
Response: Karen Ng

5:00–7:00 p.m.: Jay M. Bernstein (The New School for Social Research)
“Rape: Notes Towards a Moral Ontology of the Body”