DAY 1
THE QUESTION OF THE IDEOLOGY OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE AND THE OTHER: ESSENCE, SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND VERSTEHEN
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ichael Barber received his PhD from Yale University in 1985. He is currently emeritus professor of philosophy at Saint Louis University. He has authored eight books, most recently Resilience and Responsiveness: Alfred Schutz’s Finite Provinces of Meaning (Springer 2024) and including The Participating Citizen: A Biography of Alfred Schutz (SUNY 2004). He has published over a hundred articles in the areas of phenomenology, the phenomenology of the social world, ethics, philosophy and race, philosophy of religious experience and on the work of Husserl, Schutz, Levinas, Gurwitsch, Dussel, and Habermas. He has edited several volumes, including Alfred Schutz: Schriften zur Literatur, vol 8 of Alfred Schutz Werkausgabe (UVK, 2013). Since 2009, he has served as editor of Schutzian Research, and he has held leadership positions in various phenomenological organizations, including SOPHERE.
DAY 2
BARBARIANS, CANNIBALS, RTERRORISTS: A TROPOLOGICAL PHENOMENOLOGY OF OTHERNESS
Michael Staudigl (*1971), Docent, Dr. habil., is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy, associated Researcher at the Research Center for Religion and Transformation at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at University of Vienna, Austria. Granted a variety of research fellowships, he worked in Freiburg, Prague, Louvain-la-Neuve and New York. From 2000-2002 he was as a scientific assistant at the psycho-traumatological ambulance ESRA, Vienna; from 2003-2010 Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna; from 2003-2006 he held an APART-fellowship of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. From 2007 onwards he directed several research grants funded by the FWF (Austrian Science Funds), most recently the bilateral project “The Return of Religion as a Challenge for Thought” (FWF I 2785 — with B. Klun, Slovenia) & the stand-alone project “Secularism and its Discontents: Toward a Phenomenology Religious Violence.”
DAY 3
WHERE TO EXPERIENCE THE OTHER: A CRITICAL READING OF MICHEL HENRY
Joseph Rivera is a tenured professor of philosophy of religion at Dublin City University. He is the author of three monographs, most recently Phenomenology and the Horizon of Experience (Routledge, 2022) and the editor of a collection of essays on the theological turn in phenomenology as well as several special issues in journals. Research on another monograph is underway, on worldhood and worldmaking.
DAY 4
MARKED BY THE OTHER: A READING OF HUSSERL AND GENESIS
Peter Costello is Professor of Philosophy at Providence College. He has published widely on Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty. He is the author of Layers in Husserl’s Phenomenology: On Meaning and Intersubjectivity (University of Toronto Press), co-editor of the Bloomsbury volume Phenomenology and the Arts (Bloomsbury) with Licia Carlson and co-editor two series with Bloomsbury, Philosophy of Childhood and Phenomenology of Religious Experience. Most recently, he is the author of two forthcoming commentaries: Hospitality in Husserl’s Ideas I-III and Responsibility in Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations (Bloomsbury). His interests in religious experience include hermeneutical approaches to Scripture and religious practice. At Providence College, Peter has taught courses in the philosophy, women’s studies, global studies, and public and community service departments. He is committed to undergraduate teaching, and he has held multiple undergraduate conferences in philosophy at Providence College and at Saint Peter’s College.