BSP Podcast

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Maya Mukamel   Abstract: In this research, we employed a phenomenological inquiry into our embodied histories to develop an account of our collective experiences of institutional racism in the fields of psychology, counselling, and psychotherapy in th UK. We appr...

Season 9 concludes with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Mariah Partida   Abstract: My presentation will take a critical-phenomenological approach to examining the intertwining of the physical and psychological pain caused by prolonged solitary confinement. Amending classical phenomenology’s focus on the transcendental...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from James Costello   Abstract: The psychotherapist’s “in the moment” relationship with the otherness of their client is the most central aspect of the therapeutic encounter. The real problems are the present problems, and so the therapist must seek contact with the c...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Mauro Senatore   Abstract: In his Freiburg lectures on passive syntheses (Hua XI), Husserl evokes a catastrophic scenario concerning consciousness and the world as a limit-case of standard perceptual experience. He supposes that, although problematic uncertainty...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Kylie Erfani   Abstract: This essay explores the philosophical significance of nausea through a novel analysis of the similarities between Jean-Paul Sartre’s and Emmanuel Levinas’ phenomenologies. Sartre and Levinas agree that nausea can teach us deep existential...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Srijan Uzir   Abstract: In the late text Le Toucher - Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida engages with the French reception of Husserl’s Ideas II, focusing particularly on the constitution of the “corps propre” (Leib) and, in this context, dedicating an important cha...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Oda Davanger   Abstract: The paper, “Tracing Inscriptions: Can Signs be Embodied?” analyzes the linguistic implications of what it means to theorize bodies as inscripted, particularly in relation to intentionality. In critical phenomenology, the notion of embodie...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Adam Takacs   Abstract: The traditional phenomenological approach to the body is premised on a constitutive analysis of touch and movement. On this basis, it is possible to trace the configuration that entangles the affective experience of the “lived body” with t...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Paul Tuppeny   Abstract: Our world is, by its nature, a place of change; trees grow, fruit ripens and skin wrinkles; every state of being is finite and all opportunity is fleeting. Intrinsic to the perceptual apparatus through which we know this place, it seems,...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Andrejs Balodis   Abstract: The paper will explore the concept of body memory and its application in the context of phenomenologically oriented medical humanities. Recent phenomenological research indicates that body memory plays a significant role in shaping emb...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Dan Degerman   Abstract: This paper articulates the sense of silence as a historically constituted, embodied capacity to skillfully grasp and deploy silence, using mania as a breakdown case.   Silence is ubiquitous. We are surrounded by the silences of objects, s...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from David Ventura   Abstract: Despite seldom referring to the European phenomenological tradition in his varied studies of Caribbean subjectivity, Édouard Glissant’s work has often been read as phenomenological. Even Glissant’s most perceptive readers seemingly take...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Haotian Wu   Abstract: Can film do phenomenology? The short answer is ‘Yes’. As Heidegger (2001: 59) writes, ‘any exhibiting of an entity as it shows itself in itself, may be called “phenomenology” with formal justification.’ In essence, ‘phenomenology is to “let...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Daniele Nuccilli   Abstract: In Die neue Wissenschaft vom Recht II, Husserl’s former student Wilhelm Schapp states that, “the history of humanity is the history of its works” and for this reason the relations between self, work, value, and production can be consi...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Philip Tovey   Abstract: Breverton Pond, situated on the southern edge of Exmoor in Somerset England, is commonly cited as the source of the River Tone - its origins. Rivers often have disputed origins. A second stream, rising in Elworthy, 2.6 miles West, contend...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Bence Marosan   Abstract: We, humans, are living in a world, shared with non-human beings. Throughout our entire history, we, humans, prevailingly lived according to an anthropocentric paradigm, and we related to non-humans essentially as potential resources, obs...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a presentation from Andréa Delestrade   Abstract: Is there a possibility to think the ecological crisis through the logic of History, or is the Modern concept of ‘History’ rather driven to its end? I examine Chakrabarty’s and Merleau-Ponty’s strategies to end ‘History’ in their refl...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a keynote presentation from Dr Niall Keane   Abstract: 'Self and Other. From Temporality to History'   This talk will examine the self-other relation in phenomenological terms, looking at how a phenomenological examination of the distinct experiences of the world, both my own and th...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a keynote presentation from Prof. Darian Meacham   Abstract: In 1988 the French Philosopher André Gorz published Métamorphoses du travail: Critique de la raison économique. In this book, through an engagement with Critical theory, Marxism and to a lesser extent phenomenology, Gorz s...

Season 9 continues with a recording from our 2024 annual conference, Embodiment and History.   This episode features a keynote presentation from Prof. Michela Summa   Abstract: Various forms of engaging with history play a crucial role in shaping personal and collective identities. Rituals, anniversaries, family celebrations, monuments, and street names are all examples of how history is embedded...

Season 9 continues with a presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality.   This episode features a presentation from Abel Franco   Abstract: We both perceive and evaluate aesthetically spaces with our body, in particular by (experiencing ourselves) occupying and moving in them. Unlike simply being in a space, the experi...

Season 9 continues with a presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality.   This episode features a presentation from Michal Lipták   Abstract: Adorno always maintained that "new music"—his term for mostly atonal, avant-garde music—was not just yet another musical school within the history of music which would gradually...

Season 9 continues with a presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality.   This episode features a presentation from Anna Petronella Foultier   Abstract: In Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau-Ponty introduces the notion of “anthropological spatiality” – various spatial levels related to the manner that we project the...

Season 9 continues with a presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality.   This episode features a presentation from Jodie Russell   Abstract: In this talk, I will explore the implications that our interpretive capacities have for experiences of mental disorder. The traditional view, as I call it, describes mental disor...

Season 9 continues with a presentation from our 2022 annual conference, Engaged Phenomenology II: Explorations of Embodiment, Emotions, and Spatiality.   This episode features a presentation from Andrew Turk   Abstract: This presentation discusses more than twenty years of transdisciplinary research with geographers, linguists, philosophers and collaborators from other disciplines.  This research...