The British Society for Phenomenology invites the submission of expressions of interest to present an online course during 2025.
Feel passionate about your work in phenomenology? Want to share an aspect of it with others both in your discipline and the wider domain? Would you like to present a themed online course of around four sessions hosted and promoted by the BSP?
If the answer is ‘yes’ to these three questions: then please read on…
Call for Expressions of Interest in Presenting a BSP Online Course in 2025
We are looking for expert philosophers and practitioners in phenomenology who want to create a convivial, inclusive, accessible course for others in the field. Submissions are welcome from both seasoned academics and practitioners, as well as postgraduate researchers immersed in their studies. We welcome perspectives from the European / Continental, Anglo-American / Analytic, and all other philosophical traditions.
BSP Online Courses have been running for a couple of years now, and generally focus upon phenomenological thinkers or topics. We have had Dr Mette Lebech (Maynooth University) on Edith Stein; Julia Mühl-Sawatzki and Dr. Daniel Neumann (Paderborn University) on Early Women Phenomenologists; Dr Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere (KU Leuven) on Phenomenology as a Queer Method; and Dr Bence Peter Marosan (Budapest Business University) on Phenomenological Metaphysics.
Going forwards, we are especially on the look-out for practitioners who wish to share their insights and experience with phenomenological perspectives from outside and parallel to academia. We are happy for courses to be on specific ideas or concepts (the erotic, shame, pregnancy); themes and histories (embodiment, existentialism, religion, art); a specific thinker (Sartre, Levinas, Arendt, Bloch); or close readings of one specific text (say, Heidegger’s Origin of the Work of Art).
The British Society for Phenomenology is a not-for-profit organisation set up with the intention of promoting research and awareness in the field of phenomenology and other cognate arms of philosophical thought and practice. One of the ways the society accomplishes these aims is through its events. As well as our annual conference and international symposium, we also host tri-yearly online courses. These courses are intended to offer a focused insight in an aspect of the phenomenology for a diverse audience spanning specialists to interested interdisciplinarians. They offer the opportunity for a presenter to both spotlight a subject and their work on that area, as well as foster dialogue for new insights for all involved.
Most usually, each short course lasts a total of six hours. The sessions will be 1.5 hours and are held once a week on Zoom, for four consecutive weeks. This will include a lecture and time for discussion / Q&A. Reading materials or any other course materials can be provided in advance if helpful, but are not necessary.
Of course, we are also open to suggestions for other online formats. For example, we recently convened a collaboration with the Iranian Society for Phenomenology with six sessions by six academics over six consecutive days. And we have a one session workshop planned for a future date too.
Subjects can come from any domain, be that the history and theory of phenomenology (perception, the body, emotion and affect, ethics existentialism, religion, technology) or the phenomenology of history and theory (historical memory, collective responsibility, post-conflict trauma, transitional justice, responsibility for the future). We welcome topics such as embodiment and normativity (gender, sexuality, race and racialisation, age, disability, colonial legacy, norms and movements, resistance and hesitation) from domains such as medicine, physiotherapy, maternity, disability, end-of-life care, the environment, law, economics, politics and international relations, science and technology.
Is there something we have forgotten?
If you have an idea for a course, or wish help developing an idea, please get in touch with the BSP Chair of Online Courses, Zoe Waters (Newcastle University) at [email protected].
We are looking forward to hearing your ideas…