Welcome to the on-line presence of the Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM). In these pages you will fiind current information concerning coming events, publications, membership, and history.
SPM encourages philosophical diversity. Members represent a wide variety of perspectives: analytic and linguistic analysis, feminist, Marxism, pragmatism, post-colonial theory, semiotic, and other contemporary approaches, as well as the full range of phenomenological opinion. Only questions of media theory and practice are constant in SPM activities and publications. Publications are peer-reviewed for acceptance and publication.
SPM is a non-profit international society. Of the thirteen past SPM conferences, five have been held outside of the United States, eight in three states in the USA. Participants include members from Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Macedonia, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and eighteen states in the USA. Conference acceptance is by a peer-reviiew host committee.
SPM sponsors special work projects. In the past, the OUTIS Project on Deception held five working conferences (Krakow, Buenos Aires, Helsinki, and twice in San Diego) that resulted in an anthology of selected essays.
Currently , SPM sponsors three on-line research projects:
Pictures that Speak: Orality, Literacy, and Hypertext
New Media and Narrativity
New Media Art and E-Literature
Information on these projects can be found at:
Philosophy and New Media
http://philosophyofnewmedia.com
SPM cooperates with like-minded organizations. SPM is a founding member of the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations (OPO) and maintains a warm relationship with the Circulo latinoamericano de fenomenologia (CLAFEN). SPM is particularly interested in bringing the work of Latin American phenomenologists to the attention of North American and European thinkers.
Reduced membership and registration fees for members from developing nations, the unemployed and underemployed, and doctoral students is a SPM policy.
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Annual membership in the Society for Phenomenology and Media includes conference updates, participation in special projects, and the annual publication, Glimpse. Membership is required for participation in the SPM Annural Conference and all other events. The annual membership fee is $75 (US).
Membership does not include the conference registration fee. If you also intend to attend the annual SPM Conference, please use the "conference registration" tab at the top of this page. You may also choose to pay the membership and registration fees at the same time. Do that on the "conference registration" tab.
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CONFERENCE THEME: Media: Technology, Epistemology, Ontology, and Ideology
WHEN: February 16-19, 2012
WHERE: National Universiity, San Diego, California
APPLICATION DEADLINE: December 1, 2011
The Society for Phenomenology invites proposals for conference papers and three-person panels for its 14th Annual International Conference.
While phenomenological approaches have always formed a core at SPM conferences, all perspectives on media are welcome. The Society is especially interested in attracting divergent views from feminist, new historicist, analytic, linguistic, Marxist, semiological, structuralist and post-structuralist, post-colonial, and other perspectives. The Society also seeks research in topics of interest in popular culture, cultural studies, and gender studies as they are connected to media.
SPM conferences have been held in San Diego, California; Puebla, Mexico; Krakow, Poland; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Provo, Utah; Helsinki, Finland; Monmouth, Oregon; Arlington, Virginia; and Furtwangen and Freiburg, Germany. Speakers have included Anna-Terera Tymieniecka, Vivian Sobchack, Lester Embree, J. N. Mohanty, Bina Gupta, Mauricio Beauchot, Antonio Zirion, Barry Smith, John Durham Peters, Julia Iribarne, Paul Majkut, and Holger Zaborowski.
Direct questions and Submit title and 250-word abstract to:
Ms. Gabriela Romani, SPM Coordinator
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Society for Phenomenology and Media
February 16, 17 and 18, 2012
GENERAL INFORMATION AND REGISTRATION
Information on the conference hotel and registration are provided bellow. If you have any other questions, please address them to Gabriela Romani, SPM Coordinator, at:
After your have been notified that your paper or panel has been accepted to the conference by the Host Committee, complete the registration below. Upon registration, you will receive a letter of acceptance.
Registration before December 1, 2011: Registration fee: $75; Annual Membership fee: $75. Total: $150 (USA). Registration after December 1, 2011: Registration fee: $100; Annual Membership fee: $100. Total: $200 (USA). All conference participants must be SPM members. Send total payment to the Conference Co-coordinator. Use the PayPal link at the top of this page or send a certified check to:
Dr. Melinda Campbell, Conference Co-coordinator
343 Kolmar
La Jolla, California 92037
USA
CONFERENCE HOTEL
The Conference Hotel is the Doubletree Del Mar. Conference rates are available. When registering, use the conference identification: National University. The conference rate is $145/night.
The Doubletree Del Mar Hotel provides shuttles to and from the conference each day as well as shuttles to Del Mar on Friday (February 17) and La Jolla on Saturday (February 18). These shuttles have been arranged.
If you would like to share a room with another participant, let us know. If others are interested, we will give you their e-mail addresses and you may make the registration at the hotel on your own.
NON-CONFERENCE HOTEL
Another hotel, the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines, is located a few blocks from the conference, so no shuttles are needed. It is considerably more expensive. It is not a conference hotel, therefore there are no conference rates. It is $195/night.
Coffee and cookies will be available at the conference.
Tentative Hotel Shuttle Schedule to and from conference:
Thursday, February 16:
TO: 7:30, 8:00, 8:30
FROM: 5:00, 5:30, 6:60
Reception: 4:00-5:30
Evening on your own
Shuttle to Del Mar 7:00 (to be arranged with hotel)
Friday, February 17:
FROM: 3:45, 4:15
Shuttle to La Jolla:
6:30 (to be arranged with hotel)
A walking tour of the Torrey Pines State Park for those who want will take start at 3:00. It lasted about 1 hour. Be sure to bring walking shoes. For those not interested in this walk, a shuttle will be available to take you back to the hotel at 3:00.
At 6:30, a shuttle will take whoever wants to La Jolla where participants are own their own. Be sure to arrange the pick up time and place with the driver for the return to the hotel.
Some participants may prefer to visit Gaslamp Square, which is located in the heart of San Diego next to the bay. There are many restaurants and musical venues. There is no hotel shuttle to Gaslamp Square and taxis can be expensive. It is suggested that conference participants arrange among themselves to share a taxi and divide the costs. Taxis can be arranged by the hotel.
Saturday, February 18:
Conference Dinner
Conference Shuttles
FROM: 5:45, 6:15, 6:45
San Diego
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
THURSDAY,
February 16
Hotel to Conference Shuttle
7:50, 8:00, 8:10, 8:20 AM
Coffee: 8:30-9:00
Room 123
Welcome: Paul Majkut. Conference Host
Welcome: NU Provost Eileen Heveron
Welcome: SPM President:
Alberto Carillo Canan
Keynote: Disclosures of Worlds:
Photography Betweeen Art and Technology
Marc van den Bossche
Introduction: Paul Majkut
9:00-10:20
Plenary Panel 1
A Range of Thought
10:30-11:50
Moderator: Matti Itkonen
1.Crocker, Stephen
Being Anonymous, Anonymous Being
2.Majkut, Paul
Movies of the Mind: Radio Drama, Embodiment, and Visual vs. Oral/Aural Culture
3.Harvey, Sophia Siddique
Mapping Synesthetic Moments in Be With Me (Eric Khoo, 2005)
Lunch: 12-1:30 (on your own; the university cafeteria is most convenient)
Thursday Afternoon
Focus Panel 2
Internet Questions
1:30-3:00
Moderator: Mindaugas Briedis
1.Jacobson-Konefall, Jessica
Facebook and Fetishism:
The Digital Image as Fantasy,
Disavowal, and Reification
2.Miconi, Andrea
Network as New Paradigm;
or, Why Does Everybody Use Google?
3. Santus, Sharon
The First Amendment vs. The World Wide Web:
As Internet Hate Speech Grows During an Economic Crisis, Should Government Regulate Content?
Focus Panel 3
Media, Design, and Society
Room 220
Moderator: Alberto Carillo Canan
1.Pereira, Jr., Romualdo Alves
The Genesis of Information in Phenomenological Epoche
2.Lucas, Michael
Representing Presence:
Interrogating the Real in Beginning Design
3.Miguel Ángel García González
Social Movements and Cybernetic
Plenary Panel 4
Film and Theory
3:30-5:00
Moderator: Melinda Campbell
1.Elerding, Carolyn
Phenomenology and the Digital:
Malick's The Tree of Life
2.Lora, Gerardo de la Fuente
Two Phenomena that Define
the Experience of Life Today
3. Rose , Deidre
A Mile in Your Shoes:
Manufacturing Empathy(or Something like It?) In Virtual Learning Environments
Reception
5:00-7:00
Conference to Hotel Shuttle
5:30, 6:00, 7:00 PM
Hotel Shuttle to La Jolla
6:30, 6:45, 7:00, 7:15 PM
Return to Hotel:
8:45, 9:00, 9:15, 9:30
(Or: conference participants may wish to arrange to share a taxi to the Gaslamp Quarter downtown San Diego)
FRIDAY,
February 17
Plenary Panel 5
Exploring Online Education
Moderator: Shoji Nagataki
1.Irwin, Stacey
Seeing As an Online Educator
2.Whitesel, Cynthia
Teaching Identity
in the Mirror of Technology
3.Adams, Catherine
Learning Management Systems
as Ontological and Epistemological Spaces
Plenary Panel 6
TV
10:30-12:00
Moderator: Luis Acebal
1.Matei, Alexandru
Romanian Television between 1967 and 1972 and Its Attempts to Present Ideology at the Beginning of Ceausescus Regime
2.Li Tian
Korean and American TV Dramas
in Chinese TV Drama Market
3.Stigler, E.
The Real You: Fat, Normalization,
and Mastery on MTV
Lunch: 12-1:30 (on your own; university cafeteria is most convenient)
Friday Afternoon
Focus Panel 7
Entertainment Media Revisited
1:30-2:50
Moderator: Deidre Rose
1.Churilla, Emily
Id like to Ask a Personal Question:
Virtual Bodies, Queer Disorientations, and Dragon Age: Origins
2.Itkonen, Matti
The Festive Spread --
Its Laying and Its Writing Revisited:
A Philosophical Study of Food Culture
3.Babich, Babette
The Hallelujah Effect:
kd lang, Nina Simone, and Leonard Cohen
Focus Panel 8
Politics and Media
Moderator: Polona Tratnik
1.Trógolo, Marta G. and Alejandra Fernández
Network Declosure of Capitalist Monotheism: An Endless Ideological Fallback?
2.Cameron, Gregory
The Everyday Consequences of
Revolutionary New Technology
3. Stowers, Gwen
The Media, Border Politics, and Chaos
Focus Panel 9
Ontology and Epistemology
of the Biotechnological Media
3:00-4:20
Moderator: Stephen Crocker
1.Tratnik, Polona
Ontology, and the Ideology of Biotechnological Mediation in Body and Life
2.Vrear, Monika
Flusser's Contribution to the Epistemology of Biotechnological Media
3.Pandilovski, Melentie
The Role of (Bio)Technology in the Transformation of Society
Focus Panel 10
Images, Place, and Film
Moderator: Cynthia Whitesel
1.Alvis, Jason Wesley
Taking Kant to the Picture Show:
Cinema as the Mediary between Kant's Philosophy and Fine Art
2.Bowyer, Amber Rae
Dialectical Materialism
and the Domain of the Image
3.Marcus, Hadas
Place-based Phenomenology
and Environmental Crisis
Conference to Hotel Shuttle: 5:00, 5:05, 5:10, 5:20 PM
Hotel Shuttle to Del Mar: 6:30, 6:45, 7:00, 7:15 PM
Return to Hotel: 8:45, 9:00, 9:15, 9:30
(Or: conference participants may wish to arrange to share a taxi to the Gaslamp Quarterdowntown San Diego)
SATURDAY,
February 18
Coffee
8:30-9:00
Plenary Panel 11
National Film
(Room) 10:30-12:00
1.Morari, Codrua
Perception as Style:
The Cinema of Claire Denis
2.Ohiagu, Oby Pauline
Film Portrayal and the Perception
of Women in Nigeria
3. Bhat, K. S.
Colonialism, Modernity and Culture: Historicizing Yakshagana
Focus Panel 12
Narrativity in Film and On-line Media
Moderator: Saara Jantunnen
1. Reynaldo Thompson (with Alberto Carrillo, May Zindel, Gerardo Rivas)
Media, Illusion, and Virtual Reality
2. Alberto Carrillo (with Lydia Elizalde, May Zindel, Gerardo Rivas)
Is There Metonymy in Film? Metz and the Rhetorical Figures in Cinema
3. Cohen, Deborah Elizabeth
Cross Cultural Narrative: Learning About Other Lives through Digital Storytelling
Focus Panel 13
I'm awake, what more do you want?
Sleep, Passivity and Failure
Moderator: Tracy Powell
1.
Halberstam, Judith (Jack)
Passivity, Protest and Going Gaga
2.Heyes, Cressida J.
A Feminist Phenomenology of Unconsciousness?
3.Jones, Meredith
Sleeping Beauty:
Agency, Hospitality and Alterity
Plenary Panel 14
The Uses of Media
Moderator: Gwen Stowers
1.Powell, Tracy
A Change in National Identity: Who am I?
2.Willis, Jessica
Gender, Technology and Embodiments
of Girlhood in Early 21st Century
Popular Culture
3.Tesfaye, Hailemichael
The Policy versus Practice
on the Rights of Women in Ethiopia
Lunch: 12:00-1:30 (on your own; across the street: Hilton Hotel or Torrey Pines Golf Course)
Saturday Afternoon
Focus Panel 15
Society and Media
Moderator: Miguel Garcia
1.Jones, Allen
OCCUPY and the Anxieties
of the Corporate Media
2.Viik, Tõnu
Culturally Mediated Meaning-formation in Everyday Life: A Phenomenological Analysis
3.Jantunen, Saara, Aki-Mauri Huhtinen
The Worlds of Service:
Military Recruitment from Reality
to the Virtual and Back
Focus Panel 16
Images
Moderator: Melentie Pandilovski
1. Acebal, Luis
The Double Entendre of Images
2. Campbell, Melinda
Epistemic Error and Experiential Evidence
3. Kranc, Stanley C.
Picturing Technology:
Artifacts as Cultural Instruments
Plenary Panel 17
Theoretical Considerations
3:00-4:30
Moderator: Stacy Irwin
1.Nagataki, Shoji and Satoru Hirose
Mediated Minds
2.Liberati, Nicola
Between Leib and Technology:
A Phenomenology of
the Living Body's Constitution
3.Briedis, Mindaugas
Transcendental Reflections on Medical Imaging: Phenomenology and the Future of CAD (Computer-aided Detection)
4:40, 4:50, 5:00, 5:10 PM
6:30-9:30 PM
Conference Dinner (Doubletree Hotel)
Board of Directors
Luis Acebal is an Associate Professor at National University. He has lectured at universities in Argentina and Uruguay and served as a Fulbright scholar at Universidad Nacional Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina. He is interested in the application of literary theory to digital production.
Marc Van den Bossche is a Professor of Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Free University of Brussels), Belgium. As a philosopher he seeks working tools in hermeneutics, phenomenology and pragmatism.
Mélanie Bourdaa teaches at the Université Bordeaux 3, Laboratoire MICA (Mediations Information Communication and Arts). Research interests include reception studies, television and Internet interactivity, audience participation, and genre in television.
Gregory Cameron teaches Cultural Studies and Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. Present research is devoted to developing Husserlian phenomenological approaches to social and political questions.
Alberto José Luis Carrillo Canán is Professor of Philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. His areas of research are cognitive science, the history of science, media theory, aesthetics, and the philosophy of technology.
Kurt Cline is an Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Taipei University of Technology. Research Interests: shamanic praxis, poetry and poetics, legerdemain, gnosticism, hermeticism, romanticism, modernism, cultural studies, consciousness studies, experimental film and theater.
Stephen Crocker is Associate Professor of Sociology and Humanities at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada. He has written on the phenomenology of time and anticipation, the evolution of the plane in painting, and on mediation and media in the work of Deleuze, Bergson, Serres, Agamben and McLuhan.
Yoni Van Den Eede is attached to the Philosophy Department of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) as a Ph.D. fellow of the Research Foundation-Flanders (FWO). He is currently working on a doctoral thesis concerning the philosophy of technology, focusing on the common usage of digital and informational media.
Hans-Helmuth Gander is a Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Husserl Archive at the University of Freiburg. His work focuses on phenomenological and hermeneutical research. His research interests are in political philosophy, the philosophy of history, aesthetics, and anthropology.
Miguel A. García teaches digital media at Hochschule Furtwangen University and is actively involved in research on web aesthetics and practice, the philosophical foundations of Internet experience, and the interface of technology, art, and digital production.
Jean-Yves Heurtebise is an Associate Member of the Research Center on Epistemology and Ergology at Aix-Marseille University, Provence, where he works on the epistemology of life sciences. As a member of the Research Center of Art and Language at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, he works on the aesthetics of visual experience from an inter-cultural perspective.
Aki Huhtinen is general staff officer at the National Defense University, Finland, and information warfare docent at the Department of Social and Moral Philosophy, the University of Helsinki. He specializes in the question of information warfare and military ethics.
Matti Itkonen teaches at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. He holds doctorates in philosophy (PhD) and education (PhD, education), with theses on the poetry of Eeva-Liisa Manner and the philosophy of education. His numerous publications focus on cultural philosophy, educational philosophy, and especially questions that discuss Finnish national ethos.
Stacey ONeal Irwin teaches at Millersville University, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Department of Communication and Theatre. Her research interests include hermeneutic phenomenology, postphenomenology, new media, semiotics, human studies, and technology and pedagogy.
Lars Lundsten teaches at Arcada University of Applied Sciences, Finland, and is one of the founders and first board members of SPM. His research interests are social ontology and narrative epistemology. He works within the realist phenomenology tradition, influenced by the Husserl, Reinach and Ingarden.
Paul Majkut, Chairman of the SPM Board of Directors, is a Professor in Literature and Philosophy at National University. Research interests include transcendental deception, medieval manuscripts and early emblem books, Shakespeare in silent film, and cognitive limits of the Internet. He has been awarded two Fulbright teaching grants (Argentina, Finland) and two National Endowment for the Humanities grants (Cambridge, Oxford).
Shoji Nagataki teaches at Chukyo University, Department of International Liberal Studies. His research interests are in phenomenology, the philosophy of embodiment, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science.
Janez Strehovec is an Associate Professor of New Media and principal researcher of the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Research interests include aesthetics, new media art, technoculture, the theory of electronic literature, and Internet studies.
Friedrich A. Uehlein teaches in the Department of Philosophy, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. Research interests include ancient Greek philosophy, metaphysical undercurrents in British philosophy, the philosophy of subjectivity, and aesthetics.
Randall Dana Ulveland is a Professor at Western Oregon University. He teaches courses in educational foundations, technology and media, and philosophy. His research interests focus on phenomenological analysies of corporeality within educational and technological environments.
May Zindel teaches art and art theory at Unarte University. Her art has been exhibited in Mexico, the USA, Cuba and Chile, and includes paintings, photography, art objects and videos. She is an advisor for the Department of Arts and Culture, Puebla.
Acebal, van den Bossche, Bourdaa, Cameron, Carrillo Canán
Cline, Crocker, van den Eede, Gander, García
Heurtebise, Huhtinen, Itkonen, Irwin, Lundsen
Majkut, Nagataki , Strehovec, Uehlein, Ulveland, Zindel
President
Alberto José Luis Carrillo Canán received his Ph.D. in 1994 at the Freie Universität in Berlin. From 1994 to 1997, he taught courses at the philosophical Institute of the FU-Berlin. In 1998, he accepted a post as professor of philosophy at the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico. His main areas of research are history of science, aesthetics, and philosophy of technology. He has written on a wide range of topics, including film, devoted his time to film theory and aesthetics and has focused his studies on the moving image. He is also a member of Sistema Nacional de Investigadores on the highest level.
Vice President
Matti Itkonen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, holds doctorates both in philosophy (Ph.D.) and education (Ed.D.), with theses on the poetry of Eeva-Liisa Manner and the philosophy of education. He has a number of publications in the fields of cultural philosophy, educational philosophy and literary studies. Philosophical influences: Henri Bergson, Franz Brentano, Edmund Husserl, Søren Kierkegaard, Roman Ingarden, Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Heidegger, Alfred Schutz, Simone de Beauvoir, J. Hollo, J. E. Salomaa, Erik Ahlman, Eino Krohn, Lauri Rauhala, Lauri Olavi Routila, Juha Varto.
Secretary
Gregory Cameron teaches Cultural Studies and Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario. He completed a Ph.D. in Social and Political Thought at York University on the role of myth in ancient Greece. His present research is devoted to developing Husserlian phenomenological approaches to social and political questions. He has published on ideology and on the concept of economics and is presently working on the political potential of the internet.
Chair, SPM Board
Paul Majkut teaches literature and philosophy, specializing in medieval illuminated manuscripts, early emblem books, ethics, and political philosophy. Current research areas: Shakespeare in silent film, the seven deadly sins, media transition, and empathy and ethics. In his career as journalist, he won awards from the Los Angeles Press Club, the Southern California Press Club, the San Diego Press Club, the Society of Journalists, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
Mónica E. Alarcón Dávila
Mindaugas Briedis
Melinda Campbell
Advisory Board
Mónica E. Alarcón Dávila is an independent scholar in the field of philosophy and is founding member of Body, an artistic research group. She is currently assistant lecturer at the Hochschule Furtwangen, Faculty of Digital Media, and is working on several interdisciplinary and multicultural projects focusing on the question of the constitution of identity in a multicultural society. Her special fields of interest are phenomenology of dance, phenomenology of the body, artistic research, interculturality, and media.
Mindaugas Briedis completed his Ph.D. in Philosophy at Vilnius University. He currently teaches at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University in the Department of Philosophy and Political Science. He is the managing editor of Santalka , a journal of philosophy and philology. He is interested in classical phenomenology, the philosophy of medicine, media theory, the philosophy of religion, and moral philosophy. In 2008, the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences recognized him in the category of young scholar.
Melinda Campbell teaches at National University, San Diego. She received her doctoral degree in philosophy from the University of California, Davis in 1993, where she specialized in metaphysics, epistemology, and aesthetics. Her dissertation was in the area of color ontology and argued the case for the "subjective realism" of color. Professor Campbell's publications include an article co-written with William Hirstein, Aesthetics & the Experience of Beauty, which appears in the 2009 edition of the Elsevier Encyclopedia of Consciousness.
Gerardo de la Fuente is professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and lectures in aesthetics and arts at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla. His most recent book is To Love in Foreign Lands: An Essay on Economy Seduction in Modern Societies. His research interests are the philosophy and aesthetics of new media, the philosophy of economics, and the contemporary experience of the self in the Latin American everyday life.
Saara Jantunen studied English language and culture in the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and English philology in the University of Helsinki. At the moment, she is preparing her doctoral dissertation on strategic communication in the Finnish National Defense University, where she majors in leadership. Her research interests are language and identity, ideology and analysis of evaluation in the framework of functional language theory, and the application of these in military studies.
Sebastian Luft is associate professor of philosophy at Marquette University. He studied in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Wuppertal and Stony Brook and has worked and taught at the Catholic University of Louvain, Emory University, University of Graz, University of Puerto Rico, and the University of Freiburg. His research focuses on phenomenology, especially Husserl, and the transcendental philosophy of Kant, especially Neo-Kantianism. He has published numerous articles, two books, several editions and translations on these topics.
Melentie Pandilovski directs the Video Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg, Canada. He received his PhD in Cultural Studies from the Euro-Balkan Institute in Skopje, Macedonia. He is engaged in phenomenological research on new art and culture. His numerous publications on art and technology have been translated into Italian, Green, English, German, Russian, French, and Serbo-Croatian. He is the former director of the Contemporary Art Center in Skopje, Macedonia, and the Experimental Art Foundation in Adelaide, Australia.
Tracy Powell has a doctorate in Educational Psychology from Simon Fraser University. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Western Oregon University where she teaches for both the Department of Psychology and the School of Education. Current philosophical interests include consciousness, identity formation, and the lived experience of "being" in the moment.
Dennis Skocz, a former SPM President (2007-2009), received his Ph.D. from Duquesne University. His research and teaching focuses on phenomenology and contemporary continental philosophy, particularly the thought of Husserl and Heidegger. Thematic interests include science, technology, media, and environment. A retired career diplomat, he now works as a consultant in strategic planning and professional development.
Gwen Stowers teaches courses on second language development and critical pedagogy in the Department of Education at National University in San Diego. She lives in Tijuana, Mexico and has been a border dweller for many years. Her major interest is the border issues and how they affect education, particularly in these times of chaos.
Polona Tratnik is a research associate at the University of Primorska, Science and Research Centre, and teaches courses in cultural studies, philosophy of culture, and media at the Faculty of Humanities in Koper, Slovenia. She is the President of Slovenian Society of Aesthetics and the author of In Vitro: Live Beyond Body and Art , Transart: Culture and Art in Global Conditions , and The End of Art: Genealogy of Modern Discourse: from Hegel to Danto .
Marta Graciela Trógolo teaches at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste in Chaco, Argentina. She directs Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Sociocultural Issues, at the Institutional Research Project of the University. Her primary teaching is in the area of the philosophical foundations of social, economic, and political experience. Publications include Construcción ideológica de un prototipo identitario: el universo gauchesco (Ideological Construction of a Prototypical Identity: The Universal Gaucho).
Jarmo Valkola, Ph.D., currently works as Professor of Film History, Theory and Aesthetics at Tallinn University, Estonia. He is Docent at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (Motion Pictures, TV, and Production Design), the University of Lapland, Finland (Media Science), and the University of Jyväskylä, Finland (Art Education). He has written numerous books and articles on Cinema, Art, and Aesthetics. Among his latest books are: Theory and Aesthetics of Documentary (2002), Visual Communication and Dimensions of Editing (2003), Cognition and Visuality (2004), and Towards a Philosophy of the Image (2006).
Maren Wehrle is currently working as a research assistant at the Husserl Archive, University of Freiburg. She is now completing her doctorate in philosophy. Her areas of specializations are phenomenology, the philosophy of psychology/cognitive science, and historical anthropology. In her dissertation, she developes a dynamic transdisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of attention. Her recent publications can be found in Husserl Studies (26) and Alter: Revue de phénoménologie (18) 2010.
Cynthia H. Whitesel has a doctorate in Education Policy Studies and Curriculum Theory. Her research interests are distance learning, teaching with technology, virtual presence, and Appalachian music. She teaches Communication Studies and Professional Writing at the University of Maryland in Adelphi, Maryland, and is Course Chair for Advanced Business Communication. She authored The Online Guide to Writing and Research in 2002. She is President of Friends of the State Line Serpentine Barrens, a non-profit conservation organization dedicated to preserving the globally rare State Line Serpentine Barrens.
Gerardo de la Fuente
Saara Jantunnen
Sebastian Luft
Melentie Pandilovski
Tracy Powell
Dennis Skocz
Gwen Stowers
Polona Tratnik
Marta Graciela Trógolo
Jarmo Valkola
Maren Wehrle
Cynthia H. Whitesel
Outis Project on Deception
Books
Back numbers of Glimpse, Outis, Phenomeology and Media, and Deception may be ordered directly from SPM. Contact:
Glimpse: Annual Publication of SPM
Conferences
1999 First International Conference National University, San Diego, California, and Universidad Iberoamericana, Tijuana, Mexico Host: Paul Majkut Keynote: Anna-Teresa-Tymienieska, The World Phenomenology Institute: "Reality and Its Similie"
2000 Second International Conference National University, San Diego, California
Host: Paul Majkut Keynote: Vivian Sobchack, University of California, Los Angeles:
"Nostalgia for a Digital Object: Regrets on the Quickening of Quicktime" Report: Lester Embree: "The Mother of all Phenomenological Websites: Development of <www,phenomenologiycenter.org>"
2001 Third International Conference National University, San Diego, California.
Host: Paul Majkut Keynoters: J. N. Mohanty: "Notes of Husserl:; Bina Gupta, University of Missouri-Columbia: "If Journalists were Vedantins"
2002 Fourth International Conference Universdidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico Host: Alberto Canan Carrillo Keynoter: Maricio Beauchot, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico: "Verdad y Otredad en Emmanuel Levinas como Raices de la Communicacion"; Report: Antonio Zirion, Instituto de El Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico: "The Status of Phenomenology in Contemporary Latin America"
2003 Fifth International Conference Arcata Polytechnical Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Host: Lars Lundsten Keynote: Barry Smith, University of Buffalo:
Medicine and Phenomenology
2004 Sixth International Conference Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Host: Kay Egan Keynote: John Durham Peters, University of Iowa:
The Voice and Modern Media
2005 Seventh International Conference Oregon Western University, Monmouth, Oregon.
Host: Randall Dana Ulveland Seminar Conference
2006 Eighth International Conference National University, San Diego, California
Host: Paul Majkut Keynote: Julia Iribarne, National Academy of Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina: "We are Subhuman: Responsibility and Media through Sartres Nausea"
2007 Ninth International Conference National University, San Diego, California
Host: Paul Majkut Seminar Conference
2008 Tenth Iternational Conference Universdidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico
Host: Alberto Canan Carrillo Seminar Conference
2009 Eleventh International Conference Arlington, Virginia
Host: Dennis Skocz Seminar Conference
2010 Twelfth International Conference Universdidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla, Mexico Co-Hosts: Alberto Canan Carrillo, May Zindel Seminar Conference
2011 Thirteenth International Conference University of Freiburg, Germany
Host: Miguel A. García Seminar Conferenece
The Society for Phenomenology and Media (SPM) was formed in 1998 and held its first conference in San Diego, February, 1999. The idea for the creation of the Society came from Paul Majkut. Though not a strict phenomenologist, he was friendly to the approach after studying Husserl under V. J. McGill. McGill, along with Dorion Cairns and Marvin Farber, studied with Husserl in the 1920s. McGill, a former President of the American Philosophical Association, did not consider himself a phenomenologist. Majkut 's interests were confined to transcendental phenomenology and the naturalist and dialectical materialist of his teacher.
Although Majkut believed that Husserls work would remain the central theoretical lens of the society, this was not to be the case. The first SPM conference was decidedly catholic, with papers inspired not only by Husserl, but Merleau-Ponty, Ingarden, Heidegger, and others. Philosophical diversity was encouraged and came from a wide variety of perspectives: analytic and linguistic analysis, feminist, Marxism, pragmatism, post-colonial theory, semiotic, and other contemporary approaches, as well as the range of phenomenological opinion. Only questions of media theory and practice remained constant.
The society has two publications: Glimpse , at first a publication of conference proceedings, but since 2009 a peer-reviewed jounral, and Outis, a conference proceedings of the SPM Project on Deception.
From its inception, the society has been helped by Professor Lester Embree and the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology (CARP). Embrees advice and encouragement have left a permanent mark on SPM, specifically a democratic organizational structure that encourages open-mindedness and toleration of divergent philosophical approaches within the phenomenological movement.
In its early years, SPM formed a close relationship with the Circulo Latinoamericano Fenomenologia (CLAFEN), especially in the persons of Prof. Rosemary Rizo-Patron of the Pontical University of Peru and Antonio Zirion of UNAM, and continued with the invitation of Julia Iribarne.
In 2003, SPM became a founding member of the Organization of Phenomenological Organizations (OPO) at its first conference in Prague, the Czech Republic, and was represented by Prof. Majkut, who also represented SPM st the second meeting in Lima, Peru.
At its inception, the directors of the society decided that a number of papers accepted for presentation at its conferences would be reserved for those working towards a doctorate. It was also decided that as an international organization annual conferences would be held in rotation in the Euroean Union, North America (Canada and the United States), and Latin America. SPM is particularly interested in bringing the work of Latin American phenomenologists to the attention of North American and European thinkers.
Reduced membership and registration fees for members from developing nations and doctoral students were established and a small amount of the societys revenues was set aside for stipends for those with financial difficulties.
Althusser Glossary
Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology
Círculo Latinoamericano de Fenomenología
Electronic Literature
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
Flusser Studies
McLuhan's Philosophy of Media
Foucault Society
Gnovis
