Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Mariia Galkina, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris. Mariia Galkina 'Towards a phenomenology of environmental shame' Abstract: This contribution aims to study the phenomenon of environmental shame and its role in awakening of ecological consciousness. It starts with the problem of asymmetry of human p...
Jul 03, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 157
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Paul Tuppeny, University of the Arts, London (Chelsea College of Art). Paul Tuppeny '“I didn't want their past to be a mark on them.”(R. Rauschenberg): A Sculptor's Investigation into the Phenomena of Objective Age' Abstract: It is in the nature of the world to be a place of constant change and tran...
Jul 02, 2024•19 min•Season 6Ep. 156
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Adam Takacs, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. Adam Takacs 'Ageing Being: Temporality, Corporeality, and Shared World' Abstract: “The objective world is incapable of sustaining time”, writes Maurice Merleau-Ponty in the Phenomenology of Perception, and almost the entire phenomenological tradition s...
Jul 01, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 155
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Gage Krause, Fordham University. Gage Krause 'Desynchronization, Alienation, and the Social World in Grief' Abstract: Recent phenomenological approaches to grief have, understandably, focused primarily on the relationship between the griever and the deceased, describing grief as an experience of dif...
Jun 10, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 154
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Ronja Griep, University of Cambridge. Ronja Griep 'When Does Bodily Shame Turn Unjust? The Case of Menstrual Shame' Abstract: A concern with menstrual shame has occupied policymakers, educators, and charity workers abroad for decades (ActionAid 2021, Amnesty International 2019). Increasingly, the ‘f...
Jun 07, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 153
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Oskar Otto Frohn. Oskar Otto Frohn - 'Shame and Depression – A Phenomenological Qualitative Exploration of Shame in Depression' Abstract: The individual suffering from depression is prone and susceptible to normative, precise, rigid ways of being, and expectations in social and societal spheres indu...
Jun 06, 2024•21 min•Season 6Ep. 152
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Emily Hughes, University of York. Emily Hughes '"Heavier, and less mine": grief and the modification of bodily experience' Abstract: This paper gives a phenomenological analysis of the impact of grief upon bodily experience. In the first half of the paper I will provide an analysis of responses to Q...
Jun 05, 2024•18 min•Season 6Ep. 151
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Pat McConville, Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University. Pat McConville 'Phenomenology and Artificial Hearts: Three scales of temporal change' Abstract: Heart failure is a widespread and increasingly common disease. Its symptoms can be dramatic and debilitating. Serious heart failure is also incu...
Jun 04, 2024•17 min•Season 6Ep. 150
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Penelope Lusk, University of Pennsylvania. Penelope Lusk '“It said the quiet part out loud”: Reshaping Shame in the #MedBikini Twitter Movement' Abstract: Becoming-a-physician through medical education is a process often mediated by shame (Bynum); that shame is not always as explicit or discriminato...
Jun 03, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 149
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Janna van Grunsven, Delft University of Technology. Janna van Grunsven 'Reimagining Embodied Well-Being: Quasi-Cartesianism, Crip Technoscience & 4E Cognition' Abstract: The aim of my paper is to show that insights from the field of embodied, embedded, extended and enactive cognition can be used...
May 28, 2024•24 min•Season 6Ep. 148
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Michael Greer, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Michael Greer 'On Oscillating Between Fatness and Thinness in a Fatphobic World: Weight-Cycling, Apprehensive Perception, and the Body You Might Have' Abstract: Content note: diet culture, eating disorders, fatphobia Diets ostensibly function as reactions ag...
May 27, 2024•24 min•Season 6Ep. 147
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Bence Marosan, Budapest Business School. Pazmany Peter Catholic University. Bence Marosan 'Towards a Phenomenological Theory of Animal Emotions. A Husserlian Perspective' Abstract: Edmund Husserl and other classical authors of phenomenology (such as Heidegger, Scheler, Plessner, and others) consider...
May 24, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 146
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Joe MacDonagh, Technological University Dublin. Joe MacDonagh 'Daseinic elements of the ethicality of nursing practice' Abstract: This paper will examine the ethical basis of nursing using the prism of Heidegger's idea of dasein. It will look at how, in the nursing ‘moment' between a nurse and their...
May 23, 2024•19 min•Season 6Ep. 145
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Tristan Hedges, University of Copenhagen. Tristan Hedges 'Towards a phenomenology of discrimination' Abstract: As I walk down the corridor, I barely slow my pace, extend my arm, and am then thrown by the wholly unanticipated experience of my body crashing into the unbudging door. I typified the door...
May 22, 2024•23 min•Season 6Ep. 144
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Charlotte Knowles, University of Groningen and Filipa Melo Lopes, University of Edinburgh. Knowles & Melo Lopes - 'How to Dress Like a Feminist' Abstract: From Mary Wollstonecraft to Sandra Bartky, feminist philosophers have historically denounced women’s attention to clothes as a form of compli...
May 21, 2024•26 min•Season 6Ep. 143
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Matthew Pritchard, University of Oxford and Phil Tovey, Independent UK. Pritchard & Tovey - 'Ecophenomenological Perspectives on Human Augmentation' Abstract: Just as the Anthropocene marked a geological epoch that, for the first time, would be attributed to actions according of a single species...
May 19, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 142
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Maxim Miroshnichenko, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University. Maxim Miroshnichenko 'The Painful Incorporation: Hybrid Intercorporeality in the Case of Dialysis and Chronic Kidney Disease' Abstract: I am going to collide two approaches to technology in disability and chronic kidney dise...
May 17, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 141
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Liesbeth Schoonheim, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Liesbeth Schoonheim 'Posters, protests, and reclaiming the streets' Abstract: Street protests create spaces of appearance (Arendt) that galvanize public support for hitherto hidden forms of precarity and oppression. Put in these terms, street prot...
May 16, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 140
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Eugenia Stefanello, University of Padova. Eugenia Stefanello 'Empathy, Narrative Medicine, and (Mis)Representation of Illness: A Phenomenological Perspective' Abstract: It is often argued that mutual understanding is crucial in clinical encounters. In particular, narrative medicine proponents strong...
May 15, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 139
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Joshua Bergamin, University of Vienna. Joshua Bergamin 'When is ‘my truth' true? Interpreting lived experience in phenomenological interviews' Abstract: Many topics and methodologies for investigating subjectivity that have become widespread in the social sciences – for example, an emphasis on ‘live...
May 14, 2024•20 min•Season 6Ep. 138
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Tom Hey, Lancaster University. Tom Hey 'A Phenomenological Approach to Bulimia' Abstract: Bulimia has been medically and socially constructed as an illness afflicting affluent, young, white women, which is to be cured through weight gain and the resumption of a ‘normal' relationship with food. This ...
May 13, 2024•17 min•Season 6Ep. 137
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Ida Djursaa, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, London. Ida Djursaa 'Towards a Critical Phenomenology of the Erotic' Abstract: This paper seeks to advance a phenomenological notion of sexuality as a modality of bodily sensibility through the lens of Merleau-Ponty...
May 10, 2024•22 min•Season 6Ep. 136
Season 6 continues with another presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. This episode features a presentation from Kira Meyer, Kiel University. Kira Meyer 'Ecophenomenology as a Contribution to Transformation' Abstract: Engaged phenomenology does not only have the potential to transform socio-political realities and power relations between human beings, but also those between man and nature. Currently, anthropoc...
May 09, 2024•21 min•Season 6Ep. 135
Season 6 continues with another keynote presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. ‘Is Heidegger’s Other Thinking necessarily an Ecological Thinking? Reflections on the Absence of Nature and the Destiny of Technology’ This year saw the 50th anniversary of The Limits of Growth, the publication by the Club of Rome, which for many was the trigger of the birth of climate activism. The message was that action on global...
May 08, 2024•48 min•Season 6Ep. 134
Season 6 continues with another keynote presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality. ‘Varieties of incorporation: beyond the blind man’s cane’ In post-phenomenology and other disciplines, “incorporation” refers to the assimilation or integration of tools into the body. In Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty had already discussed examples of tool-incorporation—including, famously, the example of the blind man ...
May 07, 2024•47 min•Season 6Ep. 133
The BSP Podcast Season 6 begins with the first keynote speaker from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II. 'Fanon and an Engaged Phenomenology of Affect: Touching the wounds of colonial duration' Surrounding Frantz Fanon's work is a persistent, and at times reductive, debate on method: phenomenological, psychoanalytic, psychiatric, Merleau-Pontian, Sartrean, afropessimist, or decolonial. What is often forgotten is that the originality of Fanon's philosophy comes from the multiplic...
May 06, 2024•55 min•Season 6Ep. 132
Season five of our podcast concludes with another presentation from our 2020 annual conference: ‘Engaged Phenomenology’ Online. This episode features a presentation from Marieke Borren, Faculty of Humanities, Open University Netherlands. ABSTRACT: Within critical race theory, phenomenological scholarship is unique in focusing on the racialized body. Based on the work of Fanon and Merleau-Ponty (even if the latter does not address racial difference), phenomenologists have recently developed rich ...
Nov 27, 2021•30 min•Season 5Ep. 131
This episode of Season 5 of the BSP Podcast features Ondra Kvapil, École Normale Supérieure de Paris / Charles University in Prague. The presentation is taken from our 2020 annual conference: ‘Engaged Phenomenology’ Online. ABSTRACT: My paper will focus on Sartre’s meditations on death. Sartre formulates them as a critique of Heidegger – and the majority of commentators adopt his approach. I will however claim it more fruitful to read Sartre’s conclusions in the light of Husserl’s analyses of de...
Nov 20, 2021•25 min•Season 5Ep. 130
Season five of our podcast continues with another presentation from our 2020 annual conference: ‘Engaged Phenomenology’ Online. This episode features a presentation from Sam McAuliffe, Monash University ABSTRACT: Hermeneutic-phenomenology as a method of inquiry is increasingly finding its way into music studies, and the performing arts more generally. Indeed, with respect to music studies there is no shortage of projects where hermeneutic-phenomenology is employed as a means to better understand...
Nov 13, 2021•23 min•Season 5Ep. 129
This episode of Season 5 of the BSP Podcast features Adriano Lotito, Milano-Bicocca University. The presentation is taken from our 2020 annual conference: ‘Engaged Phenomenology’ Online. ABSTRACT: This contribution focuses on the Tran Duc Thao’s work, Phenomenology and Dialectical Materialism, that is fundamental to post-war French thought, having influenced thinkers as Lyotard and Derrida amongst others and representing the first systematic attempt to synthesize Marxism and phenomenology. First...
Nov 06, 2021•27 min•Season 5Ep. 128
