Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of the Indiscernible
PROGRAM Downloadable version Oct 22, 2024
ABSTRACTS Downloadable version Oct 22, 2024
Day 1. Monday, Oct 28. Formal Phenomenological Investigations
Breakfast 8 – 8:45 a.m. on-site Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center (SSPC), First Floor, Gumberg Library
Welcome address. Olga Louchakova-Schwartz and Jeff McCurry. 15 min. SSPC
Session 1-1. Foundations. 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Peter Costello
Mike Barber. “Religious Experience: Objects and Provinces of Meaning” [Plenary]
Martin Nitsche. “Phenomenological Topology of the Invisible” [Plenary]
Coffee Break SSPC
Session 1-2. Interpretation. 11:15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Felix O’Murchadha
Neal DeRoo. “How we experience that which is not the content of an experience.” [Plenary] *
Otniel A. Kish. “Transcendence in Jean-Luc Marion: Between Theology and Phenomenology”
Lunch 1:00 pm -2:15 pm SSPC
Session 1-3. Phenomenological Aesthetics. 2:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Martin Nitsche
Peter Costello. “Toward Liminal Metaphor: Husserl on Object, Eidos, and Intersubjectivity” [Plenary] *
Christos Sideras. “Emotions and Infinity: Experience without Objects” (Online)
Yue Jennifer Wang. “Merleau-Ponty and Hildegard’s Apophatic Aesthetics”
Coffee Break SSPC
Parallel Session 1-4-A. The Absences of Things. 4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Neal DeRoo
Jesse Goodman. “Among These Rocks: The Silence of Conversion in Kierkegaard and Eliot”
Mathew Coate. “‘Existence without Existents:’ on Levinas’s Concerns about Beauty as an Expression of the Sacred”
Parallel Session 1-4-B. The Limits of Phenomena. 4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Flex Space #1, Fifth Floor, Gumberg Library
Chair: Martin Fairbairn
Bob Kalivac Carroll. “The Object Conundrum: Beyond Ineffability in Nonobjective Abstract Visual Art”
Ian C. Edwards. “The Enigma of Ritual Space: Absence and the Negation of ‘Its’ Form”
Michel Atkinson III. “Post-Linguistic Acts and the Worshiped Invisible”
The Introduction to the Center and Phenomenology and Duquesne, with some review of archives. Jeffrey McCurry, Director of the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center. 6:00 p.m. – 6:30 p.m.
Reception 6:30 p.m. SSPC
Day 2. Tuesday Oct 29. Phenomenology and Metaphysics of Non-Objects
Breakfast 8 – 9 a.m. on-site SSPC
Session 2-1. Non-Objects and World. 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. SSPC
Chair: Michael Barber
Felix O’Murchadha. “Phenomenology and Metaphysics of World: On the Ontological Status of Horizon” [Plenary] *
Ronny Miron. “The Reality of the Invisible: The Phenomenology of Invisibility in H. Conrad-Martius’ Metaphysical Realism” [Plenary] *
Coffee Break SSPC
Session 2-2. Non-Objects and Physical Reality. 11:15 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Graham Harman. “The Origin of Non-Objects” (Online) [Plenary] *
Michel Bitbol. “A Physics With No Objects? Quantum Physics and Phenomenology” (Online) [Plenary] *
Lunch 1:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.
Parallel Session 2-3-A. Non-Objects and Social Reality. 2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Michael Barber
Juan de Jager. “Outsiders, Outliers, and Outcasts: Ethnographical and Sociological Considerations of the Scientific Backstage”(Online)
Dylan Skurka. “Deciphering Psychedelic Subjectivity: A Transcendental Phenomenological Approach” (Online)
Parallel Session 2-3-B. The Modes of Presentation. 2:45 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Flex Space #1, Fifth Floor, Gumberg Library
Chair: Neal DeRoo
Justin Pearl. “Intuitive Saturation and the Affect of Horror”
Peter A. Antich. “The Element as Non-Object”
Coffee Break
Session 2-4. Ontological Crossovers. 4:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Neal DeRoo
Charles A. Gillespie. “Phenomenological Closeness: Performative Relationality in Quantum Systems and Religious Experience” [Plenary] *
Ian McLaughlin (he/they). “Deriving the Spiritual from the Material: A Speculatively Realist Perspective”
Coffee Break SSPC
Parallel Session 2-5-A. Ontological Pluralism. 5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Don Borrett. “The Reality of the Invisible in the Phenomenology of Religious Experience Is Scientifically Tenable”
Bill Adams. “Naturalistic Nondual Nothingness”
Parallel Session 2-5-B. Word and Interpretation. 5:45 p.m. – 6:45 p.m. Flex Space #1, Fifth Floor, Gumberg Library
Chair: Felix O’Murchadha
Lawrence A. Whitney. “Relations Are Real Non-Objects: Semiotics and Religious Experience in the Phenomenology of C.S. Peirce”
Samuel R. Underwood. “From Experience to Action: Ricoeurian Reflections on the Phenomenology of Religious Experience”
Conference Dinner 7:30 p.m. Location TBA
Day 3. Wednesday Oct 30. Non-Objects and Perception
Breakfast 8 – 9 a.m. on-site SSPC
Session 3-1. Transcendencies. 9:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. SSPC
Chair: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz
Kengo Miazono. “Non-Sensory Religious Experience” (Online) [Plenary] *
Zahra Rashid. “Rūmī on Absence: A Sufi Phenomenology of Non-Objects” (Online)
Victoria Yakusha. “The End of the Reign of the Object and Interpretation” (Online)
Coffee Break SSPC
Session 3-2. Fulfilment, Intuition. 11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Felix O’Murchadha
Giulio Marchegiani. “On the Experience of the Non-Experienceable: Perspectives from a Phenomenological Epistemology and Ontology” (Online)
Mark Legg. “The Phenomenology of Wonder: An Existential, Feeling of Being” (Online)
Yael Canetti. “Sacred Architectural Spaces as Saturated Phenomena” (Online)
Lunch 12:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. SSPC
Session 3-3. Interiority and Flesh. 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. SSPC
Chair: Michael Barber
Simon Cunningham. “The Crush of Life’s Passion: Michel Henry’s Interiority as a Glimpse into the Nature of God”
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz. “Embodied Inwardness: The Foundation for Intuition of Non-Objects” [Plenary] *
Closing: Future Plans, Getting Involved. SSPC
All times are in Eastern Daylight Time.
* Talk will be streamed.