The Edinburgh Philosophy and Phenomenology Group (@EdEpipheny)
After taking over from from Dr Lilith Lee in 2020, I have organised EPiPHENy, an online reading group for students and staff on the broad topic of phenomenology and philosophy. Past readings have included Heidegger’s Being and Time, Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, Guenther’s Solitary Confinement: Social Deaths and Its Afterlives, Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible, von Uexküll’s A Foray into the Worlds of Animals and Humans: With A Theory of Meaning, Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method. This semester we are reading Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology. Please get in touch if you would like to take part.
The Medicalised Body, University of Edinburgh, Hybrid, May 11&12, 2023
The intention behind this conference is to begin generating critical discussions about medicine within the department of philosophy at Edinburgh, with the additional goal of creating interdisciplinary links between departments inside and outside the school of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences as well as with our academic partners at other institutions. The focus of the conference is a phenomenological approach to the body in medicine, and what this means for research and society at large. Phenomenology is already a strength of the department at Edinburgh, which hosts the Edinburgh Philosophy and Phenomenology group (EPiPHENy), and therefore the natural place to start these discussions. Keynotes for this conference are:
- Dr Lucy Osler, University of Cardiff, title TBD
- Prof Havi Carel, University of Bristol, “Illness as lived: Contingency, Mortality, and Human Limits”
- Prof Luna Dolezal, University of Exeter, “The Phenomenology of the Remote Body in Medicine: Considering Shame in Telemedicine“
- Prof Yochai Ataria, Tel Hai College, “Body Disownership in Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder”
In addition to this, we will have 8 shorter form presentations from Early Career Researchers and medical practitioners to highlight the important emerging threads of research in the field:
- Cathrin Fischer and Prof Luna Dolezal (Cathrin Fischer presenting), University of Exeter, “Losing the Body-as-Home? Nostalgia, Embodiment and the Phenomenology of Illness”
- Dr Luis de Miranda, Uppsala University, “Sense-Making Interviews Looking at Elements of Philosophical Health in Lives with Spinal Cord Injury”
- Pat McConville, Monash University, “Cure or Constraint?: Artificial hearts and bodily doubt”
- Dr Andrea Ford, University of Edinburgh, “Attunement: a phenomenological approach to consent and cyclical bodies”
- Wren Wilson, University of Edinburgh, “Discursive Disclosures: Narratives of Sharing HIV Status via Networks of Care”
- Dr Joe Holloway, University of Exeter, “Self, Self & Other: Medicalised Depictions of Conjoinment”
- Dr Alma Karin Barner, University of Salzburg, “I imagine myself in your body: A case evaluation of the usefulness and limitations of imagination for medical ethics”
Please register here for details on attending in either format.
As much as possible, we will be following the BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme for conferences and seminars.
This conference is jointly funded by the Student Staff Initiative Fund from the University of Edinburgh and the Scots Philosophical Association. Any enquiries should be directed to Jodie Russell at s1402420@ed.ac.uk
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