Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center Annual Symposium
Each year, the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center holds a Symposium on a specific theme, featuring internationally renowned scholars in phenomenology.
Past Symposia
Volume 1: Phenomenology: Descriptive or Hermeneutic
Volume 2: Phenomenology - Meaning - Psychotherapy
Volume 3: Phenomenology of Temporality: Time and Language
Volume 4: Psychiatry and Phenomenology
Volume 5: Phenomenology and the Numinous (out of print)
Volume 6: Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis
Volume 7: Heidegger: A Centenary Appraisal
Volume 8: Phenomenology and Lacanian Psychoanalysis (out of print)
Volume 9: Ethics and Responsibility in the Phenomenological Tradition
Volume 10: The Husserlian Foundation of Phenomenological Psychology
Volume 11: Phenomenology and Feminism (not published)
Volume 12: The Interpersonal Phenomenology of R.D. Laing
Volume 13: Phenomenology: Past and Future
Volume 14: Phenomenology and Narrative Psychology
Volume 15: Levinas: The Face of the Other
Volume 16: Metabletics: J.H. van den Berg's Historical Phenomenology
Volume 17: Confluences: Phenomenology and Postmodernity, Environment, Race, Gender
Volume 18: The Philosophy of Edith Stein
Volume 19: The Phenomenology of Childhood
Volume 20: The Phenomenology of the Body
Volume 21: The Phenomenology of Hope
Volume 22: Daseinsanalysis
Volume 23: Phenomenology and Ecology
Volume 24: Paul Ricoeur and Phenomenology
Volume 25: Phenomenology and Critical Theory
Volume 26: Phenomenology and Post-humanism
Volume 27: Phenomenology and the Theological Turn
Volume 28: Phenomenology, Cognition, and Neuroscience
Volume 29: Music and Phenomenology
Dennis Schmidt - The Musical Idiom and the Movement of Life
Judith Lockhead - Music Places
Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback - Rhythm and Existence
John Sallis - The Place of Music: On Heterogeneity in the Arts
Volume 30: Phenomenology and Its Critics
Leonard Lawlor - Phenomenology of the End
Paola Marrati - Humans, Animals, and Ghosts: Derrida on Democracy
Claire Colebrook - Heidegger, Deleuze, and Cartesian Evil
Bruno Bosteels - World and Event
Volume 31: Merleau-Ponty Into the Future
Laura Doyle - Les Écarts Géopolitiques
Galen Johnson - On the Origin of Truth in Art
Gail Weiss - The Normal, the Natural, and the Normative
David Abram - Matter and Agency
Volume 32: Phenomenology and the African & Africana Worlds
Tsenay Serequeberhan - Continental and African Philosophy: A Thematic Encounter
Elias Bongmba - Phenomenology of the Face: African Perspectives
Kathryn T. Gines - Black Looks: Objectification, Subjectivity and "Looking Back"
Volume 33: Experiencing Disaster
David Loy - The Best Disaster Ever
Jane Anna Gordon - Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age
Debra Bergoffen - The Living Death of Statelessness
Kevin Hart - "The *Absolute* Event of History:" The Shoah and the Outside
Volume 34: Contemplation and Beyond: Phenomenology, Neuroscience and the Spiritual
Iain McGilchrist - The Power of No: On the Apophatic Path to God
Volume 35: Life, Death, and Play: Philosophy in Literature, Sport and Psychoanalysis
Simon Critchley - Working-Class Ballet - A Poetics of Football
Volume 36: Memory, Mind and Being Human: Phenomenology and Psychiatry Today
Thomas Fuchs -
Body Memory and the Unconscious
The Human 'As-If' Function and its Loss in Schizophrenia
Thinking too Much. The Psychopathology of Hyperreflexivity
Volume 37: John Sallis: A Celebration of His Work
Dennis Schmidt
Session leader: Walter Brogan
Sara Brill - "Philosophy and Monstrosity: An Ode to Artemis"
Shane Ewegen - "‘Shaggy, lustful, partly animal': John Sallis on the Platonic Socrates"
Claudia Baracchi - "Boundless Images: John Sallis and the Ancient Gods"
Session Leader: Jeffrey Powell
James Risser - "Interpreting the ‘Sense' of Art"
Alejandro Vallega - "Visions, Painting and Thought's Twisting-Free from the Primacy of the Visible"
Bernard Freydberg - "Force of Imagination as Critical Turning Point: Sallis and the Future of Philosophy"
Session Leader: David F. Krell
Drew Hyland - "On Translating John Sallis"
Daniela Vallega-Neu - "John Sallis' Liminal Phenomenology"
Peg Birmingham - "John Sallis: On Sensibility and the Imagination"
Contemporary Philosophy on Nature & the Elemental
Session Leader: Charles Scott
Michael Naas - "Beneath the Earth and in the Heavens: John Sallis in His Elements"
Miguel de Beistegui - "Stretchings of Imagination"
Jason Wirth - "Elemental Ecology: Reading John Sallis in an Age of Earth Crisis"