HST 101, Registration Required

Or via live-stream

8:30-9:00

Registration (Sandra Boakye, Lehigh University)

Breakfast available

9:00-9:15

Introductory remarks

9:15-10:45

Panel: Temporality

Cal Nelson, Thought without Action, Presence without Time: The Unraveling of Being-in-the-World in ADHD’s Executive Dysfunction

Kefu Zhu, Trapped in the Scroll: Short-Video Recommender System Engagement from a Phenomenological and Buddhist Perspective

Sophia Spangler, Someday My [Fix] Will Come: Temporal Ruptures, Feminine Existence, and a Phenomenology of Addiction

Moderator: Sandra Boakye, Lehigh University

10:45-11

Coffee break

11-12:15

Panel: Autotheory and Memoir

Noah Gounoue, Black, White, Gaslight – Affective Investments and their significance

Abigail Gosselin, Meaning-Making as a Foundation for Well-Being in People with Psychotic Illness:

A Subjectively Axiotic Theory of Well-Being

Wendy C Nielsen, Audre Lorde’s Phenomenology of Self-Care Remedies

Moderator: E.J. Rovella, Lehigh University

12:15-1:00

Lunch

1:00-2:15 

Keynote Address: Radical Bodily Doubt

Havi Carel, PhD

Professor of Philosophy, University of Bristol

Moderator: Ally Peabody Smith, Lehigh University

• Abstract: In this talk I traverse the notion I developed in 2013, of bodily doubt, to suggest a new form of such doubt, which I call radical. Bodily doubt is a bodily feeling mirroring intellectual doubt: it is a feeling of hesitation and doubt, revealing that our sense of bodily certainty and trust are not epistemically grounded. Bodily doubt is composed of a i. Loss of trust; ii. loss of continuity; and iii. loss of faith in one's body. Radical bodily doubt is an extreme and rare form of doubt experienced in liminal bodily states, such as end of life or major trauma necessitating intensive hospital care. Primarily, it is not a state in which certainty about a particular bodily function, such as balance, vision, or digestion is lost, but a complete collapse of all certainty, continuity and faith. It is a breakdown not of one or some bodily functions (characterising bodily doubt) but a collapse of all tacit beliefs previously held secure by one's bodily certainty.

2:15-3:15 

Poster Session

Robyn Gaier, What is Lost in Loneliness?

Jackie Massuda, Perceptions of the Mental Wellbeing Impacts Associated with Taking Breaks at a Hospital Farm among Hospital Workers

Max Schaefer, A Phenomenology of the Implicit: Focusing on Dis-orderly Flourshing with Gendlin and Ahmed

Jeff Wasch, A Grad-Student Dropout Story: Achievement Society and the Myth of the Mental Health Day

Nate Whelan-Jackson, Frameworks of Mental Health and Vacillations in Self-Understanding

Nathan Ross, Learning Blockages within the Healthcare Industry

3:15-4:15

Roundtable Discussion: Mental Health Community Partners

Sara Martinez, The Mindful Child Initiative

Austin Duncan, Disability Community-Building

Connor Moriarty, Reset Outdoors

Moderator: Fathima Wakeel, Lehigh University

4:30-6

Reception for all registered attendees

HST 101, Registration Required

Or via live-stream

8:30-9:00

Registration (Aastha Singh, Lehigh University)

Breakfast available

9:00-10:15

Panel: Selfhood and Self-Understanding

Melissa Rees, Core to who I am: Disability and Phenomenological Ownership

Tristana Martin Rubio, Ageist Lifeworlds and the Politics of Wellbeing in Old Age

Amy Garnder and Joshua Evan Caine-Welch, Ontological Technology and Multiplicitous Selves

Moderator: Christina Graham, Lehigh University

10:15-10:30

Coffee Break

10:30-12pm

Panel: Relationality and Caretaking

Roshni Patel, A Buddhist Phenomenology of the Pain in Seeing Suffering

Lida Holst, “It has forever changed me”: Social work practice in low-barrier homeless shelters

Thomas Byrne, Confronting Mortality: A Phenomenological Study of Mental Health in Advanced-Stage Cancer Patients

Mariah Menaker, Experiencing Poor Connection: Embodied relationship and the virtual world

Moderator: Aastha Singh, Lehigh University

12-1:30pm

Wellness activity and lunch break

Featuring teaching artist from Lehigh University Art Galleries

1:30-2:45

Panel: Intersections with 'Creativity'

Tiffany Montoya, To Whither or Flourish: What we can learn from Marx and Plants about Living a Good Life

Laure Barillas, “There is nothing I can do”: Powerlessness and Mental Health

Allyson Morgan and Alyson Wright, Phenomenologically Understanding Our Experience as Co-

Moderator: Tracy Nichols, Lehigh University

3-4

Networking break

4-5:15

Keynote Address: The Phenomenology of Disorientation

Matthew Ratcliffe, PhD

Professor of Philosophy, University of York

Moderator: Ellie Anderson, Pomona College

• Abstract: The term disorientation refers to a seemingly disparate range of experiences, raising the question of what—if anything—they might share in common. In this paper, I propose that there is a unity to disorientation. All of these experiences are disturbances of orientation, an aspect of experience that is all-enveloping but also essentially singular. Thus, although disorientation experiences vary in focus, intensity, depth, and duration, they are alterations of the same underlying phenomenological structure. Central to orientation, I suggest, is a pre-reflective, practical, bodily attitude towards uncertainty and indeterminacy.

5:15

Closing remarks

6-8 Speaker's Dinner at Wonder Kitchen