'Monthly Phenomenology' Series 25-26
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Description: This series of talks gathers together scholars interested in phenomenology and its relation to contemporary issues in philosophy, especially in the philosophy of mind. It establishes a forum of discussion where people can meet on a regular basis and present their work-in-progress or recent publications. The topics addressed will stretch from the history of early phenomenology to the systematic application of phenomenological insights in recent debates in analytic philosophy.
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Organisation: All talks are by invitation only. The talks will take place once a month on a Friday from October to May. Time: 10:15am ET, 3:15pm GMT/GMT+1, 4:15pm CET. Talks last 90 minutes, including a 45 minutes Q&A.
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Participation: Talks are held on zoom. To participate, please send an email to hamid.taieb@hu-berlin.de with the heading "Registration Monthly Phenomenology". A zoom link will be sent to you the day preceding each talk.
**Programme - Autumn 2025 - Spring 2026 **
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**First talk**
Francesca Forlè (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele)
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Embodied Affectivity. A Phenomenological Account of the Connection between Affective Phenomena and Bodily Expressions
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Friday, 24 October 2025
10:15am ET, 3:15pm GMT+1, 4:15pm CET
Abstract: In this talk, I will deal with the relationship between affective experiences and bodily expressions. In contemporary embodied constitution theories of affectivity (Kruger 2020, Overgaard 2012), bodily expressions are argued to be constitutive parts of affective phenomena. Proponents of these theories often criticize the idea that bodily expressions are merely caused by the expressed affective experiences, but then they have the problem of accommodating the intuition that an affective experience somehow brings about its bodily expressions. Here, I will propose a way out of this issue, maintaining that we can accommodate this intuition without giving up the embodied constitution account of affective experiences. To do so, I will introduce the idea of a motivational connection between affective experiences and their bodily expressions (Husserl 1952, Stein 1917), also showing how such a connection can adequately account for crucial aspects of the phenomenon of bodily expressivity.
**Upcoming talks**
James Kinkaid (Bilkent University)
Husserlian Idealism and the Identity Theory of Truth
28 November 2025
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Maryam Ebrahimi Dinani (University of Neuchâtel)
Adolf Reinach's Theory of Social Acts: Illuminating Debates on Joint and Collective Intentionality
5 December 2025
Pascale Roure (Yildiz Technical University)
Phenomenology in Turkey
16 January 2026
Benoit Guilielmo (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
Exploring the Essence of Bullshit through Early Phenomenology (Kolnai and Hildebrand)
20 February 2026
Lorenza D'Angelo (Pompeu Fabra University)
Pleasure, Pain and Introspection
6 March 2026
Mohammed Saleh Zarepour (University of Manchester)
The Flying Man and the Transparency of (Self-)Knowledge
3 April 2026
Sebastian Watzl (University of Oslo)
Attention Norms and Frames. On the Social Organisation of Experience
8 May 2026
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Convenors:
Guillaume Fréchette (University of Geneva)
Marta Jorba (University Pompeu Fabra)
Alessandro Salice (University College Cork)
Hamid Taieb (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Íngrid Vendrell-Ferran (Philipps-Universität Marburg)
Organized on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research