News and Events

Recent and forthcoming lectures and events

• Oct 1-3, 2014. 64th Congress of Phenomenology
 jointly convened by
 The World Phenomenology Institute and  
International Society of Phenomenology
 and Sciences of Life (Macerata, Italy) and the 
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
 (Milan, Italy): The Symphony of Sentience, in Cosmos and Life: in Memoriam Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
• August 7, 2014. American Psychological Association, 122nd Annual Convention, Washington:  "Egological, non-egological and embodied self-transcendence: What it can teach us about the mind, religious concepts, and the brain," in the Symposium" Thinking about Possibility, Potential and Change:  The Concept of Transcendence in the Western Intellectual Tradition" with Mark Freeman - College of the Holy Cross, Robert Bishop -Wheaton College, Frank Richardson – The University of Texas at Austin,  Brent Slife – Brigham Young University, Jim Nelson – Valparaiso University. 
• June 21, 2014. Association for the Study of Esotericism, 
Fifth International Conference, Esoteric Practices: Theories, Representations, and Methods, Colgate University, Syracuse, NY. "Climbing the Ladder of Spiritual Ascent: Phenomenology of Introspective Practices and the Genesis of Religious Ideas"
• July 8, 2014. Association for Clinical Pastoral Education, Midsummer Conference, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley: Prayer of the Heart: Contemplative Introspection and Transformation in Clinical Pastoral Education
• May 30, 2014.  Society of Consciousness Studies, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco: "From the Ladder of Spiritual Ascent to Neuroquantology: How Religious Experience Turns into Scientific Idea"
• May 4, 2013. The Muhyiddin Ibn 'Arabi Society (scroll down for podcasts) "Being Fully Human"
Ibn 'Arabi & Rumi Conference, Graduate Theological Union,
 Berkeley, USA: "Shihāb al-Dīn Suhrawardī and Muḥy al-Dīn ibn ‘Arabī: A Hitherto Neglected Comparison"
• March 19, 2013. La Facultad de Fillogia, University of Salamanca, Spain: "Suhrawardi's Nur Mujarrad, Husserl's Reduction, and Neoplatonic "Immaterial Light": A Crucial Interpretive Error in the Translations of Suhrawardī's Corpus"
• Aug 29, 2013. IAPR 2013 Congress, Lausanne, Switzerland, International Association for the Psychology of Religion, Institute for Social Sciences of Contemporary Religions, University of Lausanne Institute of Psychology University of Lausanne, Swiss Association for the Psychology of Religion:  "The Hesychastic Prayer of the Heart: Experience of Praying and the Dense Array Encephalography" in the panel "Psychology of prayer: A matter of the mind, a matter of the heart" with Aryeh Lazar, Ariel University, Izrael,  Klearchos Stamatoulakis – University of Sheffield, Greece,  Kevin Ladd­ – Indiana University South Bend, USA     
• Aug 6, 2013. XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life, Athens: "A phenomenological approach to comparison: Suhrawardī’s nūr mujarrad and Husserl’s reduction"
• Aug 7, 2013. XXIII World Congress of Philosophy, Philosophy as Inquiry and Way of Life, Athens: "Dia– Log(os): Genesis of Communicological Virtues in the Phenomenology of Life, with the reference to the Advaita Vedānta of Ādi Śaṇkara"
• March 28, 2013. Università degli Studi di Macerata,  Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Umane, International Society for Phenomenology and the Sciences of Life, Seminario Avanzato di Storia della filosofia contemporanea: Dia-Log(os): Genesis of Communicative virtues in the Phenomenology of Life. Seminar III. Post-Metaphysical Dialogue, Theme:«About communicative being in post-metaphysical times/Dell'essere che si comunica nel tempo della Post-metafisica», with Yan Chunyou & Lin Guowang –University of Peking, Anna Arfelli Galli, Benedetta Giovanola, Francesco Totaro, Daniela Verducci – Università di Macerata, Francesco Alfieri - Università di Bari, Martin Schwartz ­ University of California at Berkeley.
• August 4-8, 2012. Neurophenomenology as Heuristics in the Shaping of the Self. American Psychological Association, 120th annual convention, Orlando, Florida
• August 4-8, 2012
• June 15, 2012. Phenomenological Method in the Study of Esotericism: Part 1: Lebenswelt. Paper presented at the 
Fourth International Conference Esotericism, Religion, and Culture, June 14-17, 2012, Association for the Study of Esotericism, UC Davis.
• July 29, 2012. World Institute for the Advanced Phenomenological Research, İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi, The 61st International Congress of Phenomenology: Method and intuition in Tymieniecka's Phenomenology of Life.