Phenomenology
at the Borders
A joint conference of The Society of Phenomenology and the Human Sciences
(SPHS) and The Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American
Phenomenologists (ICNAP)
May 20 – 23, 2024
Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
There will be no refunds for withdrawals the week before the conference!
First joint annual meeting of ICNAP and SPHS
We are excited to welcome scholars and phenomenologists from all over the world to this historic, first joint meeting of The Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP) and The Society of Phenomenology and the Human Science (SPHS). We look forward to a stimulating and invigorating conference, and the opportunity to reconnect with old friends and colleagues, as well as make and forge new friendships and relationships.
The conference will be held May 20-23, 2024 at Duquesne University. Please feel welcome to look at or download the program below.
Keynote Speakers
Mariana Ortega
Perilous Border Crossings and Aesthetic Unsettlement
Mariana Ortega is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her main scholarly interests are women of color feminisms, particularly Latina feminisms; philosophies of race; aesthetics; and phenomenology. She is the author of In-Between: Latina Feminist Phenomenology, Multiplicity, and the Self (SUNY, 2016).
Brock Bahler
A Phenomenology of Religio-Racial Habituation: A Merleau-Pontian Approach
Brock Bahler is Teaching Professor and director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. His scholarship emphasises the philosophy of religion, Christian and Jewish philosophies, critical race theory, and embodied cognition. He is the author of Childlike Peace in Merleau-Ponty and Levinas: Intersubjectivity as Dialectical Spiral (Lexington,
2016).
Nigel Gibson
Fanon at the Borders
Nigel Gibson is Professor in the Marlboro Institute for Liberal Arts and Interdisciplinary studies at Emerson College. An expert in the fields of Africana philosophies and thought, postcolonialism, and African studies, he is also especially recognized as a preeminent scholar of Frantz Fanon’s work. Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) is a recent publication cowritten with Roberto Beneduce.
Jackie Martinez
Borders Lived Intersubjectively and Communicatively: Accountability in a World of Human Beings
Jackie Martinez is Professor of Communication in the School of Applied Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. Their scholarly interest wrestles with culture as it manifests in communicative experience, particularly how intercultural, intergroup, and interpersonal relations structure possibilities for human expression and perception
within contexts of power. Among their many publications is Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000).
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