Speakers

Luna Dolezal is Associate Professor in Philosophy and Medical Humanities at the University of Exeter where she leads the Shame and Medicine Project and the Scenes of Shame and Stigma in COVID-19 project. She is author of The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism and the Socially Shaped Body (Lexington Books, 2015) and co-editor of the books Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters (SUNY Press, 2017) and New Feminist Perspectives on Embodiment (Palgrave, 2018).

Philippe Van Haute is professor of philosophical Anthropology at Radboud University (The Netherlands) and extra-ordinary professor of philosophy at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). He is a member of the Belgian School for Psychoanalysis of which he was president from 2006-2009. He published mainly on the relation between psychoanalysis and philosophy. In the last years he focused his research on the work of Sigmund Freud. He recently published (with Herman Westerink) Reading Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. From Pleasure to Object (History of Psychoanalysis series, Routledge, 2021).

Delia Popa is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Villanova University. Her first book was on Emmanuel Levinas: Les aventures de l’économie subjective et son ouverture à l’altérité (2007). She is also the author of Apparence et réalité. Phénoménologie et psychologie de l’imagination (2012) and co-editor of Person, Community and Identity (2003), La portée pratique de la phénoménologie. Normativité, critique sociale et psychopathologie (2014), Approches phénoménologiques de l’inconscient (2015) et Describing the Unconscious. Phenomenological Perspectives on the Subject of Psychoanalysis (2020). Her current research is about the problem of being stranger to a community, the relationship between imaginative creativity and political responsibility, and the phenomenology of gesture.

Manu Sharma is a Prae-Doc researcher with the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy. Prior to this they completed their Masters in philosophy from Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Their interest lies at the intersections of phenomenology, decolonial theory and psychopathology. For their PhD project, they are working on investigating affective landscapes, especially experiences of suffering and pain through phenomenology with a focus on how historical, cultural situatedness can implicate the discourse.

Maren Wehrle, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her areas of specializations are Phenomenology, Philosophical and Historical Anthropology, Feminist Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology. Wehrle has authored a monography on Attention in Phenomenology and Cognitive Psychology, ‘Horizonte der Aufmerksamkeit‘ (München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 2013), and edited a handbook on Edmund Husserl (together with S. Luft), ‘Husserl Handbuch. Leben-Werk-Wirkung’ (Metzler: Stuttgart 2018). She published many Journal articles and book chapters on the topics of embodiment, habit, normality, and normativity, see for example, ‘Being a body and having a body. The twofold temporality of embodied intentionality.’ Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 19 (2020): 499–521; or ‘’There’s a crack in anything.’ Fragile Normality: Husserl’s Account of Normality Revisited.’ Phainomenon: Journal of Phenomenological Philosophy 28 (2018): 4