[Draft July 29, 2026]
All Sessions will be recorded
All times listed in Central Time (US). Sessions marked TZ-sensitive were scheduled with extra care for presenters joining from far outside North America.
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Day 1 Sat, Nov 14, 2026
8:30-9:05 AM CT
#2 Theopoetics at the Threshold of Phenomenology and Theology
Sema Cevirici Atilla
Bilecik Seyh Edebali University
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#4 Natural Light (Lumen Naturale) as Pre-Rational Awareness of My and the Others' Entangled Striving
Marian Baukrowitz
Freie Universitat Berlin / Univ. Oldenburg
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#36 Exploring Otherness in the Burnout Society: Friendship with Levinas and Byung Chul Han
Patrick Andre Mencias
Far Eastern University, Manila
Violence, Politics & Critical Theory
TZ-sensitive
9:05-9:10 AM CTBreak
9:10-9:45 AM CT
#13 From Apodictic Evidence to the Experience of Reality: Husserl's Fifth Cartesian Meditation
Marine de la Tour
University of Erfurt
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#7 Expansiveness, Embodied Alterity and the Gaudiya Vaisnava Religious Experience
Hrvoje Cargonja
University of Zagreb
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#21 The Other's Experience in a Transcendental Knowledge of the Madness and Future
Igor V. Gibelev
Independent Researcher
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
9:45-9:50 AM CTBreak
9:50-10:25 AM CT
#8 Inner Alterity in Religious Experience: Felt Presence, Agency Attribution, Self-Model
Pawel Czarkowski
Jagiellonian University
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#16 Husserl's Other Withstands Totality: Against Levinas's Critique of Empathy
Hedieh Eghtesadi
McMaster University
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#6 Embodying Evil: Kant's Radical Evil and Priestcraft in Husserl's Lifeworld
Keli Birchfield
Lawn Chair Philosophy Foundation
Violence, Politics & Critical Theory
10:25-11:10 AM CTBreak
11:10 AM-12:10 PM CT
Plenary
Felix O Murchadha - Desire, Estrangement and Identity: Eschatology and Fallenness
12:20-1:50 PM CT
Keynote
Michael Barber - The Question of the Ideology of Religious Experience and the Other
1:50-2:30 PM CTLunch
2:30-3:05 PM CT
#10 Hopeful Asymmetry - Shame, Ethical Paralysis, and Responsibility in Levinas
Jaeseok Choi
Boston College
Levinas & Ethics of the Other
#15 New Angels: The Otherness of the Angelic Gaze in Benjamin, Stein, and Heidegger
Freja Vaernskjold Dzougov
Aarhus University
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#23 Multilayered Other
Zura Gvenetadze
DePaul University
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
3:05-3:10 PM CTBreak
3:10-3:45 PM CT
#24 Otherness and the Sukkah of Being
Solvej Hartmann
Charles University Prague
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#5 Wounding Words - Being a Self in the Face of Verbal Violence
Maja Berseneva
National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Violence, Politics & Critical Theory
#27 The Socially Constituted Other: A Limit Concept for Husserlian Phenomenology
Kenneth Knies
Sacred Heart University
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
3:45-3:50 PM CTBreak
3:50-4:25 PM CT
#3 In the Presence of Saints: On the Phenomenon of Relics
Tareq Ayoub
Western University
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
Slot open
Slot open
4:30-6:00 PM CT
All attendees
Discussion Lodge
Day 2 Sun, Nov 15, 2026
8:30-9:05 AM CT
#11 Heaven, as well as Hell, is Other People: Sartre and Levinas
Matthew Coate
Kent State University
Levinas & Ethics of the Other
#33 The Otherness in the Categorical and Transcendental Beings: A Theological Source for Heidegger
Ana Lomadze
Ilia State University
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#26 Silence as Ethical Restraint: When Not-Speaking Sustains Responsibility
Corine Jansen
Independent Scholar
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
9:05-9:10 AM CTBreak
9:10-9:45 AM CT
#12 Before the Other: The Mutanna and the Event of Otherness
Frank Darwiche
Universite de Lorraine
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#22 The Other and the Role of the Observer according to Alfred Schutz
Maria Golebiewska
Polish Academy of Sciences
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#19 Jean-Luc Marion and Emmanuel Levinas on Anonymity and Naming
Yuval Gaon
Tel Aviv University
Levinas & Ethics of the Other
9:45-9:50 AM CTBreak
9:50-10:25 AM CT
#37 When the Dead Refuse Distance: Otherness, Digital Testimony, and Metaphysical Verification in Nigeria
Alapa Odugbo
Emory University
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#35 From "I" and "You" to "We": Henry and the "Community of the Living"
Anthony Masquelier
University of Lorraine
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
#14 The Institution as (Big) Other: A Phenomenological Incursion with a Psychoanalytic Twist
Andrei Dorobat
University of Bucharest
Violence, Politics & Critical Theory
10:25-11:10 AM CTBreak
11:10 AM-12:10 PM CT
Plenary
Naomi Janowitz - Fracturing Selves and Multiplying Others
12:20-1:50 PM CT
Keynote
Michael Staudigl - Barbarians, Cannibals, Terrorists: A Tropological Phenomenology of Otherness
1:50-2:30 PM CTLunch
2:30-3:05 PM CT
#29 The Unveiling of the Other in Solitude: John of the Cross's Dark Night and Husserl's Epoche
Allister Lee
University of Exeter
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#28 Every Other is (in) the Same: Derridean Divine Alterity and Its Critique of Levinas
Ella Lazar
University of Vienna
Levinas & Ethics of the Other
#40 Becoming One's Own Audience: Self-Witnessing and the Ambiguous Self
Priya Parikh
Independent Scholar
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
3:05-3:10 PM CTBreak
3:10-3:45 PM CT
#1 The Monstrous Other as a Challenge to the Integrity of the Self
Anna Alichniewicz
University of Lodz
Embodiment, Illness & Psychopathology
#30 "Older Than Presence": Entgegenwartigung, "Meontic" Unreality, and the Two Fates of Alterity
Christopher J. Lilly
St. John's College, Santa Fe
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#38 The Transcendence of Religious Experience and its Naturalistic and Cognitive Scientific Understandings
Takashi Okinaga
Teikyo University of Science, Tokyo
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
TZ-sensitive
3:45-3:50 PM CTBreak
3:50-4:25 PM CT
#18 Decolonizing the Name of God: A Levinasian Dialectic of Ethics and Politics
Christian Espano
Ateneo de Manila University
Violence, Politics & Critical Theory
TZ-sensitive
Slot open
Slot open
4:30-6:00 PM CT
All attendees
Discussion Lodge
Day 3 Sat, Nov 21, 2026
8:30-9:05 AM CT
#42 Alienation and the Other: A Levinasian Critique of the Subject
Bjorn Puhr
University of Vienna / Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne
Levinas & Ethics of the Other
#32 Levinas Against the State: A Decolonial Reading of Levinas' Talmudic Texts
Yonathan Busquila Listik
Leiden University
Violence, Politics & Critical Theory
#25 Merleau-Ponty on the Reciprocity of Chiasm of Ourselves and Others
Hyun Hochsmann
East China Normal University
Embodiment, Illness & Psychopathology
9:05-9:10 AM CTBreak
9:10-9:45 AM CT
#47 Voice and Alterity in Ideas 2
Timothy J Schatz
Villanova University
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#56 The Temporal Asymmetry of Alterity: Levinas and Waldenfels on Belated Responsibility
Attila Akos Toth
Eotvos Lorand University
Levinas & Ethics of the Other
#44 Encountering the Other Before Interpretation: Mystical Elements in Suhrawardi's Narratives
Saman Rezaei
University of Alberta
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
9:45-9:50 AM CTBreak
9:50-10:25 AM CT
#49 L'enfer, c'est les autres? Reflections on Sartre and Martin Buber
Konstantin Steuer
Independent Scholar
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
#34 Bernhard Waldenfels' Phenomenology of Violence: From Limits of Legitimation to Metamorphosis
Michal Maczuga
Jagiellonian University / Univ. of Vienna
Violence, Politics & Critical Theory
#31 Exhaustion and the Cost of Testimony: Otherness in ME/CFS and Long Covid
Marie Lippert
Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
Embodiment, Illness & Psychopathology
10:25-11:10 AM CTBreak
11:10 AM-12:10 PM CT
Plenary
Cezary Wozniak - Making Otherness into Non-Otherness
12:20-1:50 PM CT
Keynote
Joseph Rivera - Where to Experience the Other: A Critical Reading of Michel Henry
1:50-2:30 PM CTLunch
2:30-3:05 PM CT
#48 Rationality and Otherness in Religious Experiences: The Husserlian Approach
Juraj Sucker
University of Bonn
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#57 Totality and Infinity to Otherwise than Being: Separation and Transformation of Ethical Subjectivity in Levinas
Cita Ingrid van den Heuvel
Radboud University
Levinas & Ethics of the Other
#50 A Mystical Revelation as the Other in the Hermeneutical Relationship between Subject and Object
Sally Stocksdale
Towson University
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
3:05-3:10 PM CTBreak
3:10-3:45 PM CT
#51 Being-with-each-other in Dia-logue(s): Ethical Reflections about Our In(-)dividuality
Vanessa Schmitz
Charles University Prague / Universitat Tubingen
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
#20 Exposure to the Other: World-Disclosure and World-Shattering in the Phenomenology of the Homeworld
Rui Ge
University of Kentucky
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#43 Otherness in the Spiritual Experience of Bhakti
Poonam
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
TZ-sensitive
3:45-3:50 PM CTBreak
3:50-4:25 PM CT
#41 Self-Constitution and Alterity
Pritika Nehra
IISER Mohali, India
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
TZ-sensitive
Slot open
Slot open
4:30-6:00 PM CT
All attendees
Discussion Lodge
Day 4 Sun, Nov 22, 2026
8:30-9:05 AM CT
#46 Otherness as the Other, Otherness as the Self: Empathy and Shame in the Constitution of Otherness
Simone Santamato
Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Embodiment, Illness & Psychopathology
#54 When Expression Fails: Indication and the Emergence of Otherness
Shohei Suzuki
Tohoku University (currently Cologne)
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#61 From Autre to Autrui: Levinas on Absolute Alterity, Enjoyment, and the Face
Jiajie Zhang
KU Leuven
Levinas & Ethics of the Other
9:05-9:10 AM CTBreak
9:10-9:45 AM CT
#53 The Ideal of Forgiveness as Reconciliation with Transcendence in Relation to the Other
Andrzej Slowikowski
University of Warmia and Mazury
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
#59 Why Can't We Be Friends? Aristotle and Husserl on the Conditions of Friendship
Kyril Wolfe
Independent Researcher
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
#9 Digital Facades and Disembodied Encounters: Otherness in Dating App Experiences
Bartosz Chmielarski
Jagiellonian University
Technology & Digital Life
9:45-9:50 AM CTBreak
9:50-10:25 AM CT
#39 The Displacement of Otherness: Horizons of Visibility and Ethical Demand
Damla Ozcimen
Istanbul Bilgi University
Violence, Politics & Critical Theory
#52 In Love with the Mad Other: A Phenomenological Analysis of Love under Conditions of Mental Illness
Polina Sinitsa
Graduate Philosophy Student
Embodiment, Illness & Psychopathology
#55 Hierophantic Woman: An Eliadean Reading of Beauvoir's Account of Woman as the Other
Kayleigh Timmer
Stellenbosch University
Gender & Feminist Philosophy
10:25-11:10 AM CTBreak
(no Plenary scheduled Day 4 - open per original draft)
12:00-1:30 PM CT
Keynote
Peter Costello - Marked by the Other: A Reading of Husserl and Genesis
1:30-2:10 PM CTLunch
2:10-2:45 PM CT
#62 No Direct Other, Yet No World Without Others: Alterity in Kant
Xiaochen Zhao
Independent Scholar (Columbia PhD)
Husserlian Phenomenology & Foundations
#63 Personhood as Event: Levinas's Theory of Individuation and Its Difficulties
Jiang Zijing
Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Levinas & Ethics of the Other
#60 Title TBD
Rev. Paul Yoon
University of Pretoria (incoming)
Selfhood, Community & Dialogue
2:45-2:50 PM CTBreak
2:50-3:25 PM CT
#45 The Postphenomenological Self, the Cultural Other and the Artificial Third
Sharoni Risha Ray Sanyal
Presidency University, Kolkata
Technology & Digital Life
#58 Otherness for Hegel & Lacan: Constructing the Self through Desire
Ioana Welt
University of Bucharest
Violence, Politics & Critical Theory
#64 Immanent Alterity and the Question of the Other: Trika in Dialogue with Phenomenology
Nancy Yadav
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Religion, Theology & Mysticism
TZ-sensitive
3:30-5:00 PM CT
All attendees
Discussion Lodge