Venice International University announcement. Graduate Seminar led by: University of Padua, Italy; University of Exeter, United Kingdom; Boston College, USA.
Venice International University – VIU Graduate Seminar Announcement
Critical Phenomenology: Theory and Applications
June 2-6, 2025
https://www.univiu.org/study/graduate-seminars/critical-phenomenology
The Graduate Seminar is led by
University of Padua, Italy
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Boston College, USA
Phenomenology has gained significant traction in recent decades, particularly due to a scientific rehabilitation of the first-person perspective and the realization of the cultural and bodily conditionality of experience. Critical Phenomenology embosses the contemporary relevance of phenomenology, concentrating particularly on the interdisciplinary nature of critical discourse, encompassing philosophy, and social, political, and psychological sciences. It is an “ameliorative phenomenology” (Weiss, Murphy, and Salamon 2019), expands the conceptual framework and theoretical analyses of the tradition with the aim of denaturalizing the taken-for-granted assumptions and presuppositions that operate at the level of the natural attitude and integrates and revises concepts from classical and existentialist phenomenological traditions to create a more inclusive and intersectional phenomenological analysis.
The Graduate Seminar “Critical Phenomenology” is dedicated to an emerging branch of philosophy that engages with crucial global debates, focusing on pressing topics like health, gender, and discrimination, making it engaging to a community that extends beyond the ranks of philosophers.
Faculty
Andrea Altobrando, University of Padova (Scientific Coordinator)
Elena Billwiller, Università di Padova
Valentina Bortolami, University of Padova
Christine Daigle, Brock University
Luna Dolezal, University of Exeter
Rebecca Lynch, University of Exeter
Elisa Magrì, Boston College
Paddy McQueen, Swansea University
Elif Yavnik, Sabanci University
Topics
Phenomenology as description of phenomena
The function of description in the formation of critical attitudes
What is “critical” in phenomenology and Critical Phenomenology
Phenomenological relevance of socio-political dimensions (e.g., gender, race, ability)
Socio-political dimensions and first-person experiences
Identity, identities, and diversity
Embodiment, health, and illness
Phenomenology, embodiment, and shame
Phenomenology and emotions
Phenomenology and anthropology
Phenomenology and psychology
Embodiment and affect in health research
Methodological and epistemological aspects of Critical Phenomenology: tradition, pluralism, interdisciplinary.
For further information please visit the website https://www.univiu.org/study/graduate-seminars/critical-phenomenology or write to: [email protected]