Phenomenology and its Worlds: Critical and Applied Phenomenologies The 25th Annual Villanova Philosophy Conference

Keynote Addresses by Alia Al-Saji (McGill University) and Megan Craig (Stony Brook University)

March 27-28, 2020 at Villanova University, Villanova, PA

CFP: https://philevents.org/event/show/75690

We invite submissions broadly related to the theme of this conference or one of the following questions:

  • Is world best understood as singular or plural?
  • What are the conditions of world making and unmaking?
  • How are bodies and worlds implicated?
  • What are phenomenological tools and strategies for structural transformation?
  • How is phenomenology related to materialism?
  • What is critical phenomenology?
  • How does phenomenology contribute to other disciplines? (e.g. disability studies, art, psychoanalysis, religion/theology, decolonial theory, and the sciences)

We will be accepting abstracts/summaries up to 800 words, full papers up to 3000 words, and panel proposals for review. Presentations should not exceed 20 mins. For panel proposals, please submit an abstract for the whole panel along with separate abstracts for each of the papers. This conference primarily targets graduate students.

We also invite submissions of artwork and performance pieces. Please submit a description of the artwork/performance and how it contributes to the conference theme.

Please prepare paper submissions for anonymous review and email them, or any questions, to villanovaphilosophy@gmail.com.

Deadline for submissions: December 15th, 2019 at 11:59 PM EST

Sponsored by the Philosophy Graduate Student Union at Villanova University.