Affectivity and Embodiment: Philosophical Analyses of Experiential Aberrations and Abnormalities

International Research Meeting, Thursday 23, February 2017

Venue: The House of Sciences and Letters, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki

Organizers: Subjectivity, Historicity, Communality (SHC) and
Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Jyväskylä

All are welcome!

Program

09:45–10.00 Opening words by Sara Heinämaa and Jussi Saarinen

10:00–11:30 Matthew Ratcliffe (U of Vienna): Merleau-Ponty on Grief and Phantom Limbs
11:30–12:15 Jussi Saarinen (U of Jyväskylä): Reconsidering Existential Feeling
12:15–13:30 Lunch
13:30–14:15 Sara Heinämaa (U of Jyväskylä): Varieties of Presence: Heidegger’s and Husserl’s Accounts of the Useful and the Valuable

14:15–14:45 Jaakko Vuori (U of Jyväskylä): Existential Feeling and Bodily Self-Reference
14:45–15:15 Coffee
15:15–15:45 Sanna Tirkkonen (U of Helsinki): Emotional Trauma as Limit-Experience – Slowly Towards Retrospective Fictionalization
15:45–16:30 Joona Taipale (U of Jyväskylä): Interoceptive Affectivity and Human Interaction

16:30–17:15 Fredrik Westerlund (U of Helsinki/U of Jyväskylä): To See Oneself as Seen by Others: On the Personal and Interpersonal Character of Shame

Contact: Jussi Saarinen
University teacher / Post-doctoral researcher
jussi.a.saarinen@jyu.fi