Opening and Welcome

Plenary Talk #1

Hent de Vries (New York University)

"Struggle and Contemplation"

Moderator: Cassandra Falke (UiT-Arctic University of Norway)

Reception/Dinner

Breakfast Available in Bepler Commons

Parallel Paper Sessions 1A and 1B

Session 1A

Nicholas Case (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas)

"A Place for Space: A Phenomenological Reading of John Henry Newman and a Grounding for Religious Plausibility”

Neal DeRoo (Institute for Christian Studies)

"Spirituality and the Transcendental Method of Phenomenology of Religion"

Moderator: William C. Woody, S.J. (Boston College)

Session 1B

Isaiah Blickenstaff (Loyola Marymount University)

"Silence, Releasement, and the Visibly Concealed God: An Investigation into the Ontology of the Practice of Eucharistic Adoration"

Lukas Metz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

"Iconicity and Thingness: An Exploration of the Intermediary Character of Pan-Sacramental Embeddings"

Moderator: Cory Stockwell (University of Minnesota)

Coffee Break

Parallel Paper Sessions 2A and 2B

Session 2A

Rebecca Reichenberg (UCLouvain/Albert-Ludwigs-Universität of Freiburg)

"On the Muscles of the Will and the Gaze of Love: Simone Weil's Reflections on Spiritual Desire"

Michael J. Regier (University of Sheffield)

"Experiencing Spirituality (Inter)Personally: Affectivity and the Manifestation of an Intersubjective Spirituality"

Moderator: Andrea Strickmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)

Session 2B (Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience)

Michael Barber (Saint Louis University)

"Phenomenology of Religious Experience: Finite Provinces of Meaning and Levels of Theory"

Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (University of California, Davis)

"The Self, Ideal or Embodied? Reversibility of Flesh in the Hesychastic Prayer of the Heart and Ātma-Vicāra of Sri Ramana Maharshi"

Moderator: Kyril Wolfe (Franciscan University of Steubenville)

Lunch

Parallel Paper Sessions 3A and 3B

Session 3A

Jesse D. Hill (McMaster Divinity College)

"'The Lord Bless You and Keep You': Corporeality, Finitude, and Intersubjectivity in Christian Benedictions"

Manon Sicard (Catholic Institute of Toulouse)

"Art and Liturgy"

Jack Nuelle (Loyola University Chicago)

"Non-Experienced Memory: Lacoste, Chrétien, and Liturgical Remembrance"

Moderator: Cory Stockwell (University of Minnesota)

Session 3B

William C. Woody, S.J. (Boston College)

"Of These Sins I Cannot Bear: Phenomenological Accounts of Healing and Repentance"

Harris B. Bechtol (Texas A&M University, San Antonio)

“Mourning as an Act of Faith”

Jacob Levi (Connecticut College/Université de Lille)

“Scholem, Derrida, and the Impossible Performativity of Lament”

Moderator: Isobel-Marie Johnston (Arizona State University)

Dinner

Plenary Talk #2

Sarah Hammerschlag (University of Chicago)

"Heidegger, Weil, and Kafka after the War: Susan Taubes and Literature as Spiritual Practice"

Moderator: Alex Riedel (Fordham University)

Breakfast Available in Bepler Commons

Parallel Paper Sessions 4A, 4B, and 4C

Session 4A

Casey Spinks (University of Texas at Austin)

"The End of Silence: Kierkegaard, Zen, and Ascetic Stillness"

Kelby Uebelhor (Fordham University)

"An Ethical Analysis of the Phenomenology of Guilt, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Kierkegaard’s Spheres of Existence"

Moderator: Cassandra Falke (UiT-Arctic University of Norway)

Session 4B

Chad A. Maxson (Olivet Nazarene University)

"Liturgical Permeability: Navigating Competing Spirits in White American Evangelicalism"

Ellen Davydov (Duquesne University)

"Reading Hagiographies as a Potentially Transformative Experience – Phantasy at Work"

Moderator: Jesse D. Hill (McMaster Divinity College)

Session 4C (Keating 120)

Shreyoshi Ghoshray (Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies)

"Religion and Sacred Material Culture: Rethinking Spirituality through Phenomenology"

Paul Slama (Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung)

"Anxiety and Community in Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and Walter Benjamin's Capitalism as Religion"

Moderator: Alex Riedel (Fordham University)

Coffee Break

Parallel Paper Sessions 5A and 5B

Session 5A

Poonam (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

"Metaphysics of Body in Female Religious Experience: A Study of Select Indian Women Bhakti Saints"

Joshua Taccolini (Saint Louis University)

"Theosis by Kenosis: Maximus Confessor and Thérèse of Lisieux on Becoming God"

Moderator: Belinda Hartmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)

Session 5B

Samuel Underwood (Memorial University of Newfoundland)

"The Ritual Gives Rise to Thought: Fieldnotes on a Confucian-Ricoeurian Encounter"

David de la Fuente (Fordham University)

"Ignatian Spirituality and a Hermeneutic Phenomenology of Grace: Reading the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola with Ricoeur and Marion"

Moderator: Bryan Williams (Fordham University)

Lunch

Parallel Paper Sessions 6A and 6B

Session 6A

Dominic Nnaemeka Ekweariri (University of Münster)

"Liturgical Practices as Hermeneutical Spaces of Potential Transformation"

Angelika Wimmer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

"Persons and Bodies: The Eucharist and Ontological Perspectives on Christ’s Real Presence"

Bruno Cassarà (Fordham University)

"Spiraling Horizontality: The Hermeneutic Role of Spiritual Practices"

Moderator: Julia Ji (St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary)

Session 6B

Eugene Kelly (New York Institute of Technology)

"The Phenomenology of Religious Experience and the Knowledge of God in Max Scheler"

Dr. Evrim Kutlu (Universität zu Köln)

"Max Scheler's Understanding of Humility and Reverence and Their Significance for the Relationship between Human, World and God - With an Outlook on Current Ecological Problems"

Timothy B. Jaeger (Stony Brook University)

"Seen and Unseen: Tracing the Experience of God through Reinach’s Realist Phenomenology of Religion"

Moderator: Abigail Rogers (Duke University)

Dinner

Plenary Talk #3

Anthony J. Godzieba (Villanova University)

"Vulnerasti cor meum: Desire, Dissonance, Epiphany"

Moderator: Thomas Schärtl-Trendel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

Breakfast Available in Bepler Commons

Parallel Paper Sessions 7A and 7B

Session 7A

Simon Cunningham (University of Nottingham)

"The Manifestation of Essence: Resolving the World of Michel Henry"

Dante J. Clementi (University of St. Andrews)

"Prayer, Confessional Self-Narratives, and Moral Formation: Coetzee and Murdoch"

Connor Ritchie (Villanova University)

"Theopoetics as Spiritual Practice: Richard Kearney and Eriugena on Theopoiesis"

Moderator: Alex Altonji (Fordham University)

Session 7B

Thomas Breedlove (Duke University)
"Receptacles of Grief and Joy: Emptiness and Infinitude in Gregory of Nyssa and Jean-Louis Chrétien"

Luke Roberts (Villanova University)

"Between Theory and Practice: Contemplation as Spiritual Exercise in Maximus the Confessor"

Paola Pruett-Vergara (Villanova University)

"One Christ, Loving Ourselves: An Augustinian Vision of the Unity of Liturgical Assemblies"

Moderator: Isobel-Marie Johnston (Arizona State University)

Coffee Break

Closing Session

Thomas Schärtl-Trendel (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

"Revelation and Performing Faith"

Moderator: Shannon McAlister (Fordham University)

Departure