Phenomenology and Revelation
Conference 2023
August 16-19, 2023
Immaculate Conception Conference Center
Huntington, Long Island, New York
accessible on the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) from JFK Airport (via AirTran), LaGuardia Airport (via Q70 bus + Subway E line), Penn Station, or Grand Central
Cost: $400 (covering 3 nights lodging and all meals)
For information, please contact: gschwandtner@fordham.edu.
Plenary Speakers
Jeffrey Bloechl (Boston College)
Neal deRoo (Institute for Christian Studies)
Cassandra Falke (University of Trømso)
Kevin Hart (University of Virginia)
Robyn Horner (Australian Catholic University)
Tamsin Jones (Trinity College)
Anthony Steinbock (SUNY Stony Brook)
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Wednesday, August 16, 2023
5:30pm
6:30pm – 7:00pm
Dinner (for those who have arrived by then)
Opening and Welcome
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Plenary Talk #1
Kevin Hart (University of Virginia)
“‘Mystical Revelation’: On and Around L'Abandon à la Providence divine”
Moderator: Hannah Lyn Venable (University of Mary)
8:30pm
Light Reception
Thursday, August 17, 2023
7:45am – 8:45am Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am
Plenary Talk #2
Cassandra Falke (University of Tromsø)
“What We Will Be: Revelation and Being Beloved”
Moderator: Chad Maxson (Olivet Nazarene University)
10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am – 1:00pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session #1A: Moderator: David de la Fuente (Fordham University)
Stephen Lewis (Franciscan University of Steubenville)
“Trinitarian Phenomenality and the Contestation of Christian Phenomenology”
Connor Ritchie (Villanova University)
“Jean-Luc Marion and John Scottus Eriugena on the Incomprehensibility of Revelation”
Thomas Breedlove (Baylor University)
“Are ‘the least of these’ phenomena of divine revelation?”
Paper Session #1B: Moderator: Domenic Marano (Villanova University)
Sarah Horton (Institut catholique de Paris)
“After Revelation: Discernment, Debate, and the Risk of Faith”
Casey Spinks (Baylor University)
“Silence as a Criterion for a Phenomenology of Revelation”
Nikolaas Cassidy-Deketelaere (KU Leuven)
“Kenosis and Transcendence: Jean-Yves Lacoste and Søren Kierkegaard on the Phenomenality of God”
1:00pm
Lunch
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session #2A: Moderator: Randolph Dible (New School for Social Research)
Jonathan Scruggs (Duquesne University)
“Radical Phenomenology: Henry, Marion, and the 'Last Reduction'"
Jeronimo Ayesta (Boston College)
“Mysticism and Corporality: A Phenomenological Account of Teresa of Avila’s Transverberation”
Jesse Hill (McMaster Divinity College)
“Worshipping the God Who Sees: Revelatory Phenomena and Christian Liturgy”
Paper Session #2B: Moderator: David Mau (University of Aberdeen)
Kadir Filiz (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
“Which Revelation Matters for Phenomenology?”
Veronica Cibotaru (KU Leuven)
“A Phenomenology of Interreligious Space?”
Mansooreh Khalilizand (University of Freiburg)
“Allah’s Speech and its Manifold Manifestations: Ontology of Quranic Truth According to Ṣadr al-Dīn Šīrāzī”
5:30pm
Dinner
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Plenary Talk #3
Anthony Steinbock (Stony Brook University)
“Vocations and the Proper Name”
Moderator: Bruno Cassarà (Fordham University)
Friday, August 18, 2023
7:45am – 8:45am Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am
Plenary Talk #4
Jeffrey Bloechl (Boston College)
"Theocrypsis and Phenomenology"
Moderator: Jorge Luis Roggero (Salvador University)
10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am – 1:00pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session #3A: Moderator: Abigail Rogers (Duke University)
Jack Louis Pappas (Fordham University)
“Traversals: Maurice Blondel and Erich Przywara at the Crossroads of Phenomenology and Theological Metaphysics”
Joseph Terry (Kingsborough Community College)
“The Theotokion Matrix between Phenomenology and Revelation”
Evrim Kutlu (University of Cologne)
“Max Scheler's Transformation from Phenomenological Philosopher of Religion to Panentheistic Metaphysician”
Paper Session #3B: Moderator: Matthew Zavislan (New School of Social Research)
Kyle Barbour (University of Guelph)
“A Revelation that Cannot Reveal: A Hegelian Critique of Jean-Luc Marion’s Phenomenology of Revelation”
Robert Woźniak (Krakow Pontifical University of John Paul II)
“Divine Revelation and Human Autonomous Self. Notes Toward a Phenomenology of Becoming Fully Human”
Biv Click (Villanova University)
“The Materiality of the Divine: An Adornian Critique of Revelation in Marion”
1:00pm
Lunch
3:00pm – 5:00pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session #4A: Moderator: Alexander Riedel (Yale University)
Sónia da Silva Monteiro (Fordham University)
“A Phenomenological Investigation of the Revelatory Meanings of the Experience of Forgiveness”
Frank Della Torre (Baylor University)
“Toward a Sacramental Phenomenology: Rereading Barth on Divine Revelation”
James Powell (University of Saskatchewan)
“From Parable to Providence: Experiencing the Economic Trinity in Hart and Agamben”
Paper Session #4B: Moderator: Otniel Kish (Durham University)
Stephen Artner (Boston College)
“Exodus 3:14 and the End of Metaphysics”
Samuel Underwood (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
“Ricœur and the Poetry of Revelation”
Darren Dahl (Briercrest College and Seminary)
“The Light of the Word: Gadamer and the Language of Revelation”
5:30pm
Dinner
7:00pm – 8:30pm
Plenary Talk #5
Tamsin Jones (Trinity College)
"Revelation and Practices of Reception"
Moderator: Andreas Gonçalves Lind (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)
Saturday, August 19, 2023
7:45am – 8:45am Breakfast
9:00am – 10:30am
Plenary Talk #6
Neal DeRoo (Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto)
"Thinking Revelation as Spiritual Expression"
Moderator: Charles Gillespie (Sacred Heart University)
10:30am – 11:00am
Coffee Break
11:00am – 1:00pm
Parallel Paper Sessions
Paper Session #5A: Moderator: Lily Spirtos (Loyola Marymount University)
Trevor Williams (Villanova University)
“The Space of Finitude: Emmanuel Falque on the Chaotic Interpretation of Khôra”
Huaiyuan “Susanna” Zhang (Pennsylvania State University)
“From Lighting the Night to Lighting the Light: Levinas and the Temporality of Revelation”
Charles Driker-Ohren (Stony Brook University)
“Prophetic Experience: From Responsibility to Community in Emmanuel Levinas”
Paper Session #5B: Moderator: Theoren Tolsma (University of Alberta)
Sergiu Sava (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca)
“What can Revelation do for Phenomenology: So much givenness, so much reduction”
Joshua Taccolini (St. Louis University)
“The Little Way of My Self’s Revelation”
Brady DeHoust (Texas A&M University)
“Revelation in Language: Saturation, Testimony, and Translation”
1:00pm
Lunch
2:15pm – 3:45pm
Plenary Talk #7
Robyn Horner (Australian Catholic University)
"Jesus Wept: ReReading John 11"
Moderator: William Woody (Boston College)
4:00pm
Departure
For questions, please contact: gschwandtner@fordham.edu