2026 Pacific APA

4/8/2026 – 4/12/2026

For program, dates and times, see APA meeting program

Please register in advance with APA and SoPheRe, questions: olouch@ucdavis.edu

Meeting will be online

Session 1

April 9, Thursday Morning 10:00-11:50 am

Chair Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

1. Edith Stein on Religious Experience

    Melina Garibovic, North Central College Illinois

    2. Embodied Inwardness as Foundation of Religious Experience

    Olga Louchakova-Schwartz, UC Davis and GTU Berkeley

    3. Husserl and Kierkegaard on the phenomenology of selfhood, self-givenness, and divine-givenness

    Rui GE, Boston College

    4. Synthesis of Self-awareness in Embodied Phenomenology

      Gigla Gonashvili, Bergische Universität Wuppertal

      Session 2

      April 10, Friday, Morning 10:00-11:50 am

      Chair Olga Louchakova-Schwartz

      1. Phenomenology, Mindfulness, and Theravāda Buddhism: A New Approach

          Patrick Fahey, Boston College

          2. Prayers as Self-Consciousness in Lanza Del Vasto

            Antonino Drago, University “Federico II” of Naples Italy

            3. The Grammar of Possession: Rhythm, Revelation, and Eidetic Variation in Apollonian Practice

              M. Kemal Isik, Sakarya University, Turkey

              4.Precognition and Synchronicity through the Lens of Husserlian Transcendental Phenomenology

              Julia Yusupova, California Institute of Integral Studies


              CFP

              Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience at the Pacific APA (2026)

              Topic: Inner Awareness vs. Inwardness: Meditation, Religious Experience, and Altered States

              CFP text

              The Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience invites submissions of abstracts (300–500 words, not including references) for its group meeting at the Pacific APA (online,  April 8–12, 2026). Accepted submissions will be given a 25-minute presentation time, with up to 15 minutes for Q&A.   The topic of the panel should be approached within the frame of classical and contemporary phenomenology (e.g., Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Schutz, Gurwitsch, Hopp, D.W. Smith, and others), postfoundational phenomenology (e.g., Mensch, Salis), and post-Brentanian scholarship. 

              To submit, please fill out the following form by September 29.  If your abstract contains characters or equations not easily expressible in the abstract text box below, please indicate this in that field, attach your abstract as a PDF, and email it to ols@sophere.org. Send questions to Olga Louchakova-Schwartz at ols@sophere.org, olouch@ucdavis.edu

              Name(s) of Presenter(s)

              Affiliated group sessions at the Pacific APA are scheduled for the following (Pacific) times on April 9-12:
              – 8 – 10 am
              – 10 am – 12 pm
              – 12 – 2 pm
              – 2 – 4 pm, and
              – 4 – 6 pm.
              State any preference below for the date of your presentation (but note that there is no guarantee that the conference organizers will be able to honor such preferences).

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