PHENOMENOLOGICAL

CROSSINGS13th ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NORDIC SOCIETY FOR PHENOMENOLOGY

Södertörn University, StockholmApril 23-25th, 2015

For information and registration, please contact: gustav.strandberg@sh.seWebpage: https://nordicsocietyforphenomenology.wordpress.com

CBEESCENTRE FOR BALTIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES

Organizing committee

Professor Hans RuinProfessor Fredrik Svenaeus Associate Professor Charlotta WeigeltConference Secretary, Gustav StrandbergConference Secretary, Anna-Karin Selberg

DirectionsSödertörn University is located kilometers south of central Stockholm. The fastest way to reach it is by commuter train (pendeltåg). The ride takes approximately minutes. Commuter train stations are marked by “J” in the public transport system and trains leave from, among other stations, the Central Station in Stockholm city and “Stockholm South”, located in the southern part of the city. To get to the university take a train that is headed for “Södertälje C” and get off at Flemingsberg. The walk from the station to the university is less than five minutes.

DinnerThe conference dinner will be held at restaurant Hasselbacken, on the island Djurgården, close to the city centre (address: Hazeliusbacken ). In order to get there one can take tram number , headed towards “Djurgården, Waldemarsudde”, which leaves from Sergels torg, close to the Central Station. Djurgården can also be reached by ferry. In that case, take the subway to “Slussen” and follow the signs to the ferry quay.

Welcome to the 13th Annual Conferenceof The Nordic Society for Phenomenology

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MD building

ME building

F-building

Library

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FLEMINGSBERG TRAIN STATION

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Södertörn University Campus

BUS STOP SÖDERTÖRNS HÖGSKOLA

BUS STOP BLICKAGÅNGEN

TaxiThe taxi stop is at

Alfred Nobels allé 5

MB building

MA building

AUDITORIUM

MC building

PROGRAMME Thursday, April 23

13.00–13.15

13.15–14.30

15.00–16.45 Parallel panel sessions:

Panel Session 1, MA 755

Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Chair: Jonna BornemarkPrepared comments by Jason Wesley Alvis

Ezra Delahaye: The Witness: Heidegger and the Phenomen -ology of Religious Knowledge

Michael Staudigl: MakingTranscendence Together. Toward a Social Phenomen -ology of Religious Experience

Jeffrey McCurry: A Phenomen -ology of Light and Miracle: The Religious in the Poetry ofAdam Zagajewski and the Fiction of W.G. Sebald

Panel Session 2, MA 756

Inhabiting the Body

Chair: Johan Sehlberg

Maren Wehrle: Normative Embodiment. The Role of theBody in Foucault’s Genealogy.A Phenomenological Re-Reading

Stefan Schmidt: Phenomen -ology and Geography – howplaces live on in our bodies

Ingvild Thorsen: Body inSculpture

Panel Session 3, MA 767

Husserl: Time, Perception and the Transcendental

Chair: Nicolas Smith

Philipp Schmidt: MakingSense of the Infinite Regress.Husserl’s Time-analysis and the Self

Genki Uemura: (A Husserlian Version of) The Double FactorTheory of Perceptual Experience

Sophie Loidolt: Transcendental Philosophy and Idealism in Phenomenology

14.30–15.00 Coffee Break

12.00–13.00 Registration and coffee (MB 416)

Welcome address by Hans Ruin, President of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology

Keynote session, Martin Hägglund: Burying the Dead in a Secular AgeChair: Hans Ruin. Prepared comments by Marcia Sá Cavalcante SchubackMB 416

Panel Session 4, MA 777

Seductive Transgressions: Feminist Phenomenologywith Beauvoir, Nietzsche,Sade, and Freud

Chair: Ulrika Björk

Johanna Sjöstedt: ReadingBeauvoir with Nietzschethrough Heidegger

Anna-Petronella Foultier:Sexuality and Otherness inBeauvoir’s Reading of Sade

Ulrika Björk: “On this pointyou’re more masculine than feminine.” Beauvoir and Freudon Seduction and Subjection

16.45–17.00 Break

17.00–18.15 Keynote session, Lanei Rodemeyer: Husserl and Queer TheoryChair: Fredrik Svenaeus. Prepared comments by Nicholas SmithMB 416

18.30 Reception at Södertörn University

PROGRAMME Friday, April 24

9.30–11.00

11.00–11.30 Coffee Break

Nordic–Japanese Joint Session. Chair: Charlotta Weigelt. MB 416

Tsuyoshi Kurata: From Phenomenology to Social Ontology

Eva Schwarz: The Ambiguity of Plurality – a Phenomenological Analysis of Toddler’s Intersubjective Relations

11.30–13.15 Parallel panel sessions:

Panel Session 1, MA 755

Phenomenology and Medicine

Chair: Fredrik Svenaeus

Anthony Fernandez: On thePossibility of a Behavioral Phenomenology

Martin Gunnarson: Inter-corp oral Exchanges in Haemo-dialysis Care: Bodily, Spatio-temporal and HistoricalDimensions of Patient Inter-action

Marjolein de Boer: Our Body.A Phenomenological Perspec-tive on Intersubjectivity in Breast Cancer

Lisa Guntram: Giving, Re -ceiv ing, Sharing in Live UterusTransplantation from the Perspective of Donors, Recipi-ents, Partners, and ProspectiveRecipients

Panel Session 2, MA 756

Phenomenology and Decon-struction: On the Legacy ofDerrida

Chair: Hans Ruin

Hans Herlof Grelland: ”Il n’y apas de hors mathématiques”Derrida’s Deconstruction ofHusserl and the Foundation of Modern Physics

Björn Sjöstrand: Derrida andthe Technological

Johan Blomberg: Language,Sedimentation and Deconstruc-tion

Panel Session 3, MA 767

Phenomenology and Literature

Chair: Marcia Sá CavalcanteSchuback

James Risser: On the Pheno-menon of Silence in the Workof (poetic) Language

Raoul Frauenfelder: The Ideaof Literature and Poetry in Merleau-Ponty: Starting fromthe “Recherches sur l’usage littéraire du langage”

Choong-Su Han: Experienceand Respiration in Heidegger’sPhilosophy

Jessica Wiskus: On Rhythmand Time-Consciousness:Reading Augustine’s ”Confessions” through Music

Panel Session 4, MA 777

Empathy: Being towards the Other

Chair: Carl Cederberg

Joona Taipale: Anonymousand Unique Others: Empathyand Typification

Gediminas Karoblis: Husserl -ian Meditations on EmphaticEncounters: from passing eachother in the corridor to dancingArgentine tango

Thomas Szanto: Empathy, Direct Perception and Disjunc -tivism

13.15–14.15 Lunch

14.15–16.00 Parallel panel sessions:

Panel Session 1, MA 755

Phenomenology and Medicine

Chair: Fredrik Svenaeus

Per Nortvedt: Is Empathy Morally Neutral?

Tsutomu Ben Yagi:The Enigma of Health and Ki (気): Hermeneutics of Health and Oriental Medicine

Tatiana Shchyttsova: Pheno-menological Reduction in theExistential Therapy: Towardsthe Heuristics of the Asym -metric Relations

Panel Session 2, MA 756

Phenomenology and Decon-struction: On the Legacy ofDerrida

Chair: Hans Ruin

Bernhard Obsieger: Presenceas Absence: Derrida’s Inter -pretation of Retention

Susanna Lindberg: Derrida’sQuasi-Technique

Guillermo Ferrer: Derrida andHusserl on the Irrevocability ofthe Past

Panel Session 3, MA 767

Literature and PhilosophyToday

Chair: Marcia Sá CavalcanteSchuback

Roundtable discussion withChristopher Fynsk, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Cecilia Sjöholm and Sven-Olov Wallenstein

Panel Session 4, MA 777

Exteriorizing Heidegger

Chair: Krystof Kasprzak

Tracy Colony: Transformations:Malabou on Heidegger andChange

Yuko Ishihara: ‘Topologicalsubjectivity’: Lask, Heideggerand Nishida

Anna-Karin Selberg: Place of Freedom and Rooms of Entanglement in Heidegger’sThought

Facundo Vega: ExtraordinaryMatters: Heidegger, the Political, Today

16.00–16.15 Break

16.15–17.30 Keynote session, Lewis Gordon: Phenomenology North and SouthChair: Cecilia Sjöholm. Prepared comments by Johanna OksalaMB 416

17.30–18.30 NoSP Business Meeting (MB 416)

PROGRAMME Saturday, April 25

9.30–10.45

10.45–11.15 Coffee Break

Keynote session, Christopher Fynsk: Derrida’s LibraryChair: Marcia Sá Cavalcante. Prepared comments by Björn ThorsteinssonMA 624

11.15–13.00 Parallel panel sessions:

Panel Session 1, MA 755

Phenomenological Readings in theHistory of Philosophy

Chair: Charlotta Weigelt

Jussi Backman: Towards a Phenmen-ological Genealogy of the Metaphysicsof Sight: Seeing, Hearing, and Think -ing in Heraclitus and Parmenides

Thomas Sheehan: Heidegger’s Phenomenological Revolution: His reading of Aristotle,1921-27

Liam Sprod: Spatial Disruptions andTemporal Amplifications: The effect of Heidegger’s Turn to Place on hisReading of Kant

Book Panel, MA 756

Dan Zahavi, ”Self &Other: Exploring Subjectivity, Empathy,and Shame”

Chair: Hans Ruin

Participating scholars:Dan Zahavi, Sara Heinämaa, Fredrik Svenaeus and Hans Ruin

Panel Session 3, MA 767

Husserl: Thinking Language

Chair: Erik Bryngelsson

Veronica Cibotaru: Phenomen -ology of Meaning in Logical In-vestigations: Across LanguageBoundaries?

Risto Tiihonen: The Transcen-dental Pragmatics of Disagree-ment. Language and Object ivityin Husserl and Brandom

Simone Aurora: A ForgottenSource in the History of Linguistics: Husserl’s Logical Investigations

Panel Session 4, MA 777

Merleau-Ponty and the Chiasm of Intentionality

Chair: Lovisa Håkansson

Petri Berndtson: The Chiasmof Thinking and Breathing: A Possibility of New Philosophyas a Project of Cultivation ofBreathing

Stephen Watson: “Philosophyis also an Architecture ofSigns”: Merleau-Ponty and Cavaillès

Emre San: The Question of the Ground of Intentionality

13.00–14.00 Lunch

14.00–15.45 Parallel panel sessions:

Panel Session 1, MA 755

Phenomenology and Post-ColonialThought

Chair: Cecilia Sjöholm

Madina Tlostanova: Homo Altermo-dernus and Homo Transmodernus –Can there be a Dialogue?

Johannes Servan: Critical Self-distan-cing and the Distant Others – MoralEpistemological Considerations on theSignificance of Social Distance andMigration

Florentien Verhage: Unsaying Silencein a Singing World: The ConstitutivePower of the Unheard Voice

Nicholas Smith: Decolonial Transform-ations – Phenomen ology on the Move

Book Panel, MA 756

Jenny Slatman, ”Our Strange Body:Philosophical Reflec-tions on Identity and Medical Interventions”

Chair: Fredrik Svenaeus

Participating scholars:Jenny Slatman, Jenny Gunnarson, Jennifer Bullington and Lanei Rodemeyer

Panel Session 3, MA 767

Intentionality and the External

Chair: Søren Overgaard

Corijn van Mazijk: Contentand Vehicle Externalism in Husserl’s Phenomenology

Ståle Finke: Discontinuities of Presence – The Dreyfus-McDowell debate and Merleau-Ponty

Daniel Vanello: Presence andAbsence in the Phenomenologyof Affect

Panel Session 4, MA 777

Affectivity and the Intersubjective

Chair: Ramona Rat

Eddo Evink: Subject and Responsibility in Levinas andPatočkaAlessandro Salice:Kurt Stavenhagen’s Theory ofCollective Intentionality

Holly Havens: ‘Loneliness andFriendship’

15.45–16.00 Break

16.00–17.30 Joint Session: Young Nordic Scholars. Chair: Hans Ruin. MB 416

Johanna Oksala: Affective Labor and Feminist Politics

Timo Miettinen: Phenomenology and Political Idealism: Husserl and the Ordoliberal Tradition

19.00 Conference dinner at Hasselbacken