Spring 2017

Phenomenological Research Seminar
Program / Spring semester 2017
Place: Topelia E107, Unioninkatu 38
Time: Fridays at 10:15-12:00

10.2.
Minna-Kerttu Vienola: “Husserl’s reduction interpreted as phenomenological and eidetic reductions”

17.2.
Sanna Tirkkonen: “Emotional trauma as limit-experience”

24.2.
Martta Heikkilä:  “On Artwork and its Boundaries: The Deconstructive View”

3.3.
Sara Heinämaa: “Love and Admiration (Wonder): Fundaments of the Self-Other Relations”

10.3.
Irina Poleshchuk: “Temporalization of mother-child relation: experience of pain”

17.3.
Petra Nyman-Salonen: “Embodied dialogue – bodily mirroring as a form of direct perception”

24.3.
Olli Aho: “Kaksi lähtökohtaa ruumiillisen resonanssin käsitteeseen”

31.3.
Prof. Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania): “The Spatialisation of the World”

7.4.
Mirja Hartimo: “Conceptual Engineering, Besinnung and Phenomenological Criticism”

21.4.
Joona Taipale: “The Dynamics of Addiction”

5.5.
Lauri Myllynmaa: “Towards the Concrete: The Possibility of Metaphysical Experience in Henri Bergson’s Philosophy”

12.5.
Liisa Bourgeot: “Gustav Shpet’s Phenomenology of Meaning (in the Context of Husserl’s Revisions of the Logical Investigations)”

19.5.
No meeting – conference in Helsinki: Normativity in Phenomenology and Beyond (May 18-19). More information to follow.

 

If you want to join in, please contact Sanna Tirkkonen (sanna.tirkkonen[at]helsinki.fi).

 

Fall 2016

2.9. Petri Berndtson: “Phenomenological ontology of breathing”

16.9. Erika Ruonakoski: “Freedom and transcendence: Human specificity in Beauvoir’s ethical essays”

23.9. Joona Taipale: “Group identification and social identity”

30.9. Olli Aho: “Habituality and movement improvisation”

7.10. Donnchadh O’Conaill: “Phenomenology, objectivity and the explanatory gap”

14.10. Hermanni Yli-Tepsa: “Merleau-Ponty’s conception of primal affectivity in Phenomenology of Perception”

21.10. Harri Mäcklin: “Continuity and aesthetic experience”

28.10. Julius Telivuo: “Deleuze on technology”

4.11. Fredrik Westerlund: “Shame and ethics”

11.11. Sara Heinämaa: “Merleau-Ponty’s new phenomenology: Double sensation as paradigm of being”

18.11. Timo Miettinen: “Experience and history”

25.11. Jaakko Vuori: “Is depression really a mood? On emotional experience in depression”

2.12. Simo Pulkkinen: “Husserl and consciousness”

9.12. Anniina Leiviskä: “Kasvatusfilosofia” (in Finnish only)

16.12. Juho Hotanen: “Differentiation and institution: Generality and temporality in the later Merleau-Ponty”

 

 

 

Past programs

Spring 2016

12.2.
Patrick Martin: “Literature and Textuality: Examining Gadamer’s Phenomenological Analysis of the Text”

19.2.
Joona Taipale: “Affect regulation and the infant-caregiver dyad”

26.2.
Harri Mäcklin: “Modulations of Givenness: Introductory Remarks”

4.3.
Risto Tiihonen: “The groundwork of Husserl’s theory of social and communicative acts”

11.3.
Sanna Tirkkonen: “Foucault and the concept of experience”

18.3.
Simo Pulkkinen: “Historicity, Contextuality, Typicality – Husserl’s Genetic Theory of Constution”

1.4.
Giuseppina Mazzei: “A phenomenology of the unexpected. Event and sense of existence in the philosophy of madness of Henri Maldiney”

8.4.
Hermanni Yli-Tepsa: “Merleau-Ponty and the question of primal affectivity”

15.4.
Jaakko Vuori: “Self-experience in depression”

29.4.
Jussi Backman: “Encountering Finitude: On the Hermeneutical Concept of Experience”

13.5.
Martta Heikkilä: “Mimesis and Deconstruction”

20.5.
Donnchadh O’Conaill: “Subjectivity and Mineness”

 

 

Fall 2015

4.9.
Simo Pulkkinen: “Husserl and the pregivenness of the world”

11.9.
Fredrik Westerlund: “The Sources of Morality: Historical Values and the Other Person”

18.9.
Shinji Hamauzu (Osaka University): “Intersubjectivity of Aging – Reading Beauvoir’s ‘The Coming of Age'”

25.9.
Juho Hotanen: “Merleau-Ponty and Institution”

2.10.
Sara Heinämaa: “Threat, Limit and Culture: Phenomenological Insights into Human Death”

9.10.
Joona Taipale: “Empathy and social visibility”

23.10.
Olli Aho: “Ruumiillinen resonanssi ja affektiivisuus” (text only in Finnish)

30.10.
Harri Mäcklin: “Approaching the Ontology of Art After Metaphysics”

13.11. Timo Miettinen: TBA

20.11.
Hanna Lukkari: TBA

27.11.
Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen: “Experiences of the Appearing: Arendt and the concreteness of the temporal world”

4.12.
Petra Nyman-Salonen: “The body in psychotherapy”

11.12.
Petri Berndtson: “Respiration and the Merleau-Pontian Flesh”

 

Spring 2015

 

16.1.
Sara Heinämaa: TBA

23.1.
Risto Tiihonen: TBA

30.1.
Simo Pulkkinen: TBA

February

6.2.

13.2.

20.2.

27.2.
Hermanni Yli-Tepsa: TBA

March

6.3.
Petri Berndtson: TBA

13.3.

20.3.
Julius Telivuo: Deleuzean Perspectives on Science

27.3.

April

3.4.
Pitkäperjantai / Good Friday

10.4.
Jaakko Vuori: TBA

17.4.
Timo Miettinen: Governing with Ideas: On the Phenomenological Roots of the Ordoliberal Tradition

24.4.
NoSP in Södertörn

May

1.5.
Vappu

8.5.
Joona Taipale: TBA

15.5.
No session

22.5.
Jussi Backman: TBA

29.5.
Mia-Leena Tiili: TBA

 

Autumn 2014

5.9.
Sara Heinämaa: Hermeneutics and feminist philosophy

12.9.
Joona Taipale: TBA

19.9.

26.9.
Anniina Leiviskä: TBA

3.10.
Sami Santanen: Kosketuksen ulottuvuuksia (in Finnish)

10.10.

17.10.
Hermanni Yli-Tepsa: TBA

24.10.
SPEP (No session)

31.10.

7.11.
Simo Pulkkinen: TBA

14.11.
Julius Telivuo: TBA (Deleuze & Spinoza)

21.11.
Martta Heikkilä:On the Concept of Form: Philosophy and Art

28.11.
Jussi A. Saarinen: The Oceanic Feeling A Case Study in Existential Feeling

5.12.
Ulrika Björk: Crisis and Judgment: Hannah Arendt on the Breakdown of ‘Europe’

12.12.
Jaakko Vuori: TBA

19.12.
Jussi Backman: The Metaphysics of Creativity: A Historical Critique

 

Spring 2014

17.1 Olli Aho: Object of kinaesthetic empathy – experiencing liveliness of less-vital and non-living objects

24.1. Hermanni Yli-Tepsa: Melody and self — Merleau-Ponty’s characterization of perception as a transcendental instance and the question concerning specificity of life

31.1. Simo Pulkkinen: Towards a Phenomenology of Genesis

7.2. Erika Ruonakoski: Lemmikkien rakastamisesta: Pitäisikö eläinrakkaita ihmisiä vihata?

14.2. Sara Heinämaa: Phenomenology of embodiment and sexual difference

21.2. Jussi Backman: TBA

28.2. Tua Korhonen: Joys of virtuous (and ecological?) living: Plato’s Laws

7.3. (Venue undecided)

14.3. (Venue undecided)

21.3. Juho Hotanen: TBA

28.3. Pajari Räsänen: TBA

4.4. Irina Poleshchuk: TBA

11.4. Hektor Yan King Tak: ‘A rich conception of the surface’: On Feng Zikai and the ethical status of animals

18.4. Good Friday – no session

25.4. Nordic Society for Phenomenology – no session

2.5. (Post-vappu? Enough people?)

9.5. Simo Pulkkinen: TBA

16.5. Joni Puranen: Husserl, Zahavi & Nancy – on the subjectivity of experience

23.5. Risto Tiihonen: TBA