Speaker:
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Program

9th of September, 2024

12:15pm

Get together (brief lunch at University Mensa, Seezeit)

1:15pm

Christian Meyer (University of Konstanz), Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel) & Clemens Eisenmann (University of Konstanz & Siegen)

Introduction

1:30pm

Co-/Con-/Common-Sensoriality in Interaction: Reading phenomenology (See reading list below)

3:00pm

Coffee break

3:30pm - 4:30pm

Chaoping Liang (Radolfzell)

Expert workshop: Linilife, 7stars (self-)massage, and TCM

4:45pm - 6:15pm

Clemens Eisenmann & Moritz Werle (University of Konstanz & Siegen)

Doing physical therapy (data session)

7:00pm

Dinner (tbd)

10th of September, 2024

9:30am

Clemens Eisenmann & Philippe Sormani (University of Siegen & ZHdK)

Tutorial Problems #1: Inverting lenses and studying the body

10:30am

Coffee break

11:00am

Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel)

Title (tbd) e.g. Skilled embodied ways of doing and sensing

12:30pm

Lunch (Asia Bistro, Arche at the University)

1:30pm - 2:30pm

Lorenza Mondada

Title (tbd) e.g. Data Session

2:45pm - 3:15pm

Concluding discussion

For participation please contact: clemens.eisenmann@uni-konstanz.de

Abstract

Phenomenology has played a crucial role in the development of Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EM/CA). When Garfinkel spoke of “misreading” phenomenological authors, such as Merleau-Ponty and Gurwitsch, he implied to transpose their findings into the vicissitudes of actual social practices and to read them as instructions for doing empirical research. Cooperative practices in and across social interaction are therefore at the center of our approach to “sensing bodies” in P-01’s research on the sociology of perception, (technical) mediation, and multi-sensoriality. In this sense, the workshop will cover and combine: a) discussions of our collaborative reading on phenomenology; b) Garfinkel’s “tutorial problems” (such as inverting lenses) from the archive; c) empirical data sessions on tasting and physical therapy; with d) an expert practitioners’ workshop on (self-)massage, TCM, and body therapy, who will guide the participants into practices of sensing bodies with the help of a wooden object (7-star). Food and tasting practices zero in on sensing objects, whilst physical therapy is predominantly concerned with sensing other bodies. However, practices of self-massage relate to sensing one’s own body mediated via a physical object. The workshop will thus chart a first path of connection between the three work-packages of P01: tutorial archive, physical therapy, and a variety of tasting situations. This also contributes to theory discussions on the mediation of cooperative sensing practices in the third funding phase of the CRC more broadly.

Reading list:

Dahlstrom, Dan (2008): “The intentionality of Passive Experience: Husserl and A Contemporary Debate.” New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy VII (2007): 1-18.

Meyer, Christian (2021): "Co-sensoriality, con-sensoriality, and common-sensoriality: The complexities of sensorialities in interaction." Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality

4 (3): doi.org/10.7146/si.v4i3.128153.

Moran, Dermot (2022): “Husserl on Habit, Horizons, and Background.” In: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition: 168-181.

Noë, Alva (2004): Action in Perception. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

Vassiliou, Fotine (2017): “Perceptual Constitution in Husserl’s Phenomenology: The Primacy of tactual intentionality. In: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy.

Donn, Welton (1982): “Husserl's Genetic Phenomenology of Perception.” Research in Phenomenology 12: 59-83.

Zahavi, Dan (23 Apr 2024): “I, You, and We: Beyond Individualism and Collectivism”, Australasian Philosophical Review, 10.1080/24740500.2024.2302443