Experience and Non-Objects: Towards a Phenomenology of the Indiscernible
Workshop Schedule, Draft Sept 7, 2024
Day 1 Monday Oct 28. Formal Phenomenological Investigations
Breakfast 8-8:45 am on-site
Welcome address Olga Louchakova-Schwartz and Jeff McCurry 15 min
Session 1-1. Foundations. 9:00 am– 11:00 pm
Mike Barber. “Religious Experience: Objects and Provinces of Meaning” [plenary]
Martin Nitsche. “Phenomenological Topology of the Invisible” [plenary]
Coffee Break
Session 1-2. Interpretation. 11:15 am – 1:00 pm.
Neal DeRoo. “How we experience that which is not the content of an experience.” [plenary]
Otniel A. Kish. “Transcendence in Jean-Luc Marion: Holiness as a Formalized Phenomenological Relation”
Lunch 1:00 pm -2:15 pm
Session 1-3. Phenomenological Aesthetics. 2:15 pm – 4:15 pm
Peter Costello. “Toward Liminal Metaphor: Husserl on the Invisible Visibility of Intersubjectivity, Eidos and the Divine” [plenary]
Yue Jennifer Wang. “Merleau-Ponty and Hildegard’s Apophatic Aesthetics”
Michel Atkinson III, Post-Linguistic Acts and the Worshiped Invisible
Coffee Break
Parallel Session 1-4-A. The Limits of Phenomena. 4:30 pm-5:30 pm
Bob Kalivac Carroll. “The Object Conundrum: Beyond Ineffability in Nonobjective Abstract Visual Art”
Christos Sideras. “Emotions and Infinity: Experience without Objects”
Parallel Session 1-4-B. The Absences of Things. 4:30 pm-6:00 pm
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”
Ian C. Edwards. The Enigma of Ritual Space: Absence and the Negation of ‘Its’ Form
Reception
Day 2 Tuesday Oct 29. Phenomenology and Metaphysics of Non-Objects
Breakfast on-site 8-9 am
Session 2-1. Non-Objects and World. 9:00 am- 11:00 am
Felix O’Murchadha. “Phenomenology and Metaphysics of World: On the Ontological Status of Horizon” [Plenary]
Ronny Miron. “The Phenomenology of Invisibility in H. Conrad-Martius’ Metaphysical Realism” [Plenary]
Coffee Break
Session 2-2. Non-Objects and Physical Reality. 11:15 am – 1:15 pm
Graham Harman. “The Origin of Non-Objects” (Online) [Plenary]
Michel Bitbol. “Breaking and Redirecting the Intentional Ray: Non-Objects in Quantum Physics” (Online) [Plenary]
Lunch 1:15 pm -2:45 pm
Parallel Session 2-3-A. Non-Objects and Social Reality. 2:45 pm-3:45 pm
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 pm- 3:45 pm
Yael Canetti. “Sacred Architectural Spaces as Saturated Phenomena”
Peter A. Antich. “The Element as Non-Object”
Coffee Break
Session 2-4. Ontological Crossovers. 4:00 pm-5:30 pm
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
Parallel Session 2-5-A. Ontological Pluralism. 5:45 pm – 6:45 PM
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 pm – 6:45 pm
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 PM
Day 3 Wednesday Oct 30. Non-Objects and Perception
Breakfast on-site 8 am-9 am
Session 3-1. Transcendencies. 9:00 am- 11:00 am
Kengo Miazono. “Non-Sensory Religious Experience” (online) (13 hours ahead of Pittsbrgh). -4:15 [plenary] online
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
Session 3-2. Fulfilment, Intuition. 11:15 am- 12:45 am
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)
Justin Pearl. “Intuitive Saturation and the Affect of Horror”
Lunch 12:45pm -2:00 pm
Session 3-3. Interiority and Flesh. 2:00 pm- 4:00 pm
Simon Cunningham. “The Crush of Life’s Passion: Michel Henry’s Interiority as a Glimpse into the Nature of God”
Olga Louchakova-Schwartz. “Not Objects but Relationships: Resources from Categorial Intuition” [Plenary]
Closing: Future Plans, Getting Involved
Board Member contest, APA groups chairing, research and grants development, book series, open access, media. Are we getting paradigmatic, or not yet?