June 2-6, 2025
Call For Application: December 2, 2024 – February 2, 2025
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.
Who can apply?
This Graduate Seminar is offered to advanced Master, PhD students and junior researchers in Humanities (Philosophy, Medical Humanities, Gender Studies, Critical Theory), Political Sciences, Social Sciences, and Health Sciences.
Fees & grant support
Students from the VIU member institutions will pay no participation fees. Grant support is also available to support, partially or fully, the costs of international travel and accommodation.
The participation fee for students of non-member institutions is Eur 1.150 (incl. VAT). The fee is inclusive of tuition, course materials, accommodation, lunches, social events, and taxes.
Students from non-member institutions are not eligible for VIU grant support.
VIU Alumni are eligible for a reduced fee.
Applicants must submit the (1) application form, (2) a letter of motivation – which should include a short bio and a brief description of the candidate’s research project, (3) a curriculum vitae, and (4) a photo.
For further information please download the brochure and the program or write to: summerschools@univiu.org
