Events
Explore our calendar of upcoming events to connect with the latest in phenomenological research and dialogues.
April 9, 2025
Martin Vestergaard Kristiansen
Aarhus University
Martin Kristiansen has researched mental illness from the patient’s own perspective for a number of years and has published a number of research articles on the phenomenology of social anxiety. Currently, he works psychodynamically with affective disorders in psychiatric settings.
November 18th 2024
Heath Williams
Notre Dame University
Dr. Williams is an accomplished PhD in Philosophy with extensive research and teaching experience across a range of specialities. His research focus on intersubjectivity and empathy, the philosophy of the human person, the philosophy of cognitive science and psychology, analytic philosophy of mind and Edmund Husserl. Confident at developing curriculum, delivering innovative course content and engaging with students in an accessible manner to enhance their understanding of key philosophical concepts. Heath has extensively published across well-regarded journals and confident at presenting in both local and international forums. He is a luminary of our time.
April 9, 2024
Susi Ferrarello
Associate Professor, Cal State
Susi Ferrarello is associate professor at California State University, East Bay. Among her books are Husserl’s Ethics and Practical Intentionality (Bloomsbury 2015), Phenomenology of Sex, Love and Intimacy (Routledge 2018), Human Emotions and the Origin of Bioethics (Routledge 2021), and The Ethics of Love (Routledge 2022). In the process of publication is Phenomenology of Pregnancy and Early Motherhood. She writes for Psychology Today and works also as a philosophical counselor.
April 20, 2024
Veronica Cibotaru
Associate Researcher
Dr. Cibotaru is a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven and an associate researcher of the Husserl Archives from Paris.
April 9, 2024
Mara Grinfelde
Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher
Dr. Grinfelde is interested in phenomenology of the body, nature of illness and the clinical encounter. Currently She is working on a Postdoctoral research project “Healing at a distance: phenomenological analysis of patient experience of clinical encounter in telemedicine”, where she combines qualitative interview with insights from philosophical phenomenology.
April 4, 2024
Allan Koster
Senior Researcher
Allan Køster is trained as a philosopher with a PhD in psychology. He is a Senior Researcher at the Danish National Center for Grief. His research focuses broadly on the existential dimensions of human suffering. He has written extensively on grief and bereavement from an existential and phenomenological perspective, seeking to shed light on the tacit and unarticulated aspects of grief experiences. Recently, he served as the co-editor of “Cultural, Existential, and Phenomenological Dimensions of Grief Experience” (Routledge, 2021), and he is currently working on a book titled “The World of Grief: Death, Loss, and Consolation”.
March 24, 2024
Anthony Fernandez
Assistant Professor
Prof. Fernandez’s research concerns classical and contemporary phenomenology, focusing especially on applications of phenomenology outside of philosophy, including in psychiatry, psychology, nursing, and rehabilitation therapy. His current projects are on the integration of philosophical phenomenology and qualitative research methods. In particular, Fernandez is refining approaches that integrate phenomenological concepts—such as embodiment, selfhood, or affectivity—into the design of empirical qualitative studies, which can be used to investigate experience and subjectivity across the human and social sciences.
February 4, 2024
James Morley
Professor, Ramapo College
Since 2014 Prof. Morley has served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Phenomenological Psychology. He is the past president of the Interdisciplinary Coalition of North American Phenomenologists (ICNAP) and he serves on various editorial review boards. Morley specializes in the philosophical psychology of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty and other continental thinkers. Morely also has broad interdisciplinary and eclectic interests. His research publications apply continental thought to qualitative research methodology and more specifically to topics such as: trauma (personal and collective), social theory, imagination, and Asian thought.
