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DESCRIPTION:<p>Dear All\,</p>\n<p>Although submissions to our conference are officially closed\, unforeseen circumstances required us to transfer the SoPheRE Conference on Otherness to an online format. While we regret not being able to meet everyone in person this year\, this transition also creates an opportunity to broaden the scope of our discussions and accept a limited number of additional papers.</p>\n<p>We therefore invite new abstract submissions (maximum 500 words)\, formatted for anonymous review. Abstracts must be written in English and sent toconference2026@sophere.org.</p>\n<p>We will review submissions on a rolling basis and aim to communicate decisions within approximately one week of receipt. The submission period will remain open until our online capacity is full or till the end of September\, at which time we will need to finalize the conference program.</p>\n<p>The original Call for Papers can be found here:</p>\n<p>Keynote speakers:</p>\n<p>Michael Barber (Saint Louis University): &ldquo\;The Question of the Ideology of Religious Experience and the Other: Essence\, Social Science\, and Verstehen&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>Peter Costello (Providence College): &ldquo\;Marked By the Other: A Reading of Husserl and Genesis&rdquo\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Joseph Rivera (Dublin City University): &ldquo\;Where to Experience the Other: A Critical Reading of Michel Henry&rdquo\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Michael Staudigl (University of Vienna): &ldquo\;Barbarians\, Cannibals\, Terrorists: A Tropological Phenomenology of Otherness&rdquo\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>We welcome additional submissions on Otherness in religion\, including\, but not limited to\, questions such as:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do we encounter Otherness in organized religious communities\, New Age movements\, and non-dual spiritual traditions?</li>\n<li>What can be done to overcome age-old hostilities between different churches and denominations? How does Otherness affect religious rituals and rites?</li>\n<li>How can we phenomenologically reconcile&mdash\;or should we reconcile&mdash\;the diversity of soteriologies\, conceptions of life after death\, forms of religious experience\, and varieties of mysticism?</li>\n<li>Does Otherness play a role in the constitution of religious beliefs\, or are such beliefs primarily shaped by already established doctrinal frameworks?</li>\n<li>What is the role of Otherness in catholicity\, in the transmission of religious forms\, and in processes of religious syncretism?</li>\n<li>Does Otherness participate in the constitution of limit-experiences?</li>\n<li>How does the constitution of human Otherness differ from that of Divine Otherness? How do different conceptions of reality across religious traditions affect these distinctions?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>With regard to Otherness in social and societal contexts\, we welcome phenomenological reflections on both contemporary and historical issues. We are particularly interested in contributions that apply phenomenological methods to the understanding of social diversity\, conflict\, migration\, exclusion\, inclusion\, and related topics.</p>\n<p>We look forward to receiving your submissions.</p>\n<p>The Organizers: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (UC Davis)\, Martin Nitsche (Czech Academy of Sciences)\, Mary Shahanan (Atlantis Technological University)\, Tareq Ayoub (Western University Canada).</p>
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Dear All\,</p>\n<p>Although submissions to our conference are officially closed\, unforeseen circumstances required us to transfer the SoPheRE Conference on Otherness to an online format. While we regret not being able to meet everyone in person this year\, this transition also creates an opportunity to broaden the scope of our discussions and accept a limited number of additional papers.</p>\n<p>We therefore invite new abstract submissions (maximum 500 words)\, formatted for anonymous review. Abstracts must be written in English and sent toconference2026@sophere.org.</p>\n<p>We will review submissions on a rolling basis and aim to communicate decisions within approximately one week of receipt. The submission period will remain open until our online capacity is full or till the end of September\, at which time we will need to finalize the conference program.</p>\n<p>The original Call for Papers can be found here:</p>\n<p>Keynote speakers:</p>\n<p>Michael Barber (Saint Louis University): &ldquo\;The Question of the Ideology of Religious Experience and the Other: Essence\, Social Science\, and Verstehen&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>Peter Costello (Providence College): &ldquo\;Marked By the Other: A Reading of Husserl and Genesis&rdquo\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Joseph Rivera (Dublin City University): &ldquo\;Where to Experience the Other: A Critical Reading of Michel Henry&rdquo\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Michael Staudigl (University of Vienna): &ldquo\;Barbarians\, Cannibals\, Terrorists: A Tropological Phenomenology of Otherness&rdquo\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>We welcome additional submissions on Otherness in religion\, including\, but not limited to\, questions such as:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do we encounter Otherness in organized religious communities\, New Age movements\, and non-dual spiritual traditions?</li>\n<li>What can be done to overcome age-old hostilities between different churches and denominations? How does Otherness affect religious rituals and rites?</li>\n<li>How can we phenomenologically reconcile&mdash\;or should we reconcile&mdash\;the diversity of soteriologies\, conceptions of life after death\, forms of religious experience\, and varieties of mysticism?</li>\n<li>Does Otherness play a role in the constitution of religious beliefs\, or are such beliefs primarily shaped by already established doctrinal frameworks?</li>\n<li>What is the role of Otherness in catholicity\, in the transmission of religious forms\, and in processes of religious syncretism?</li>\n<li>Does Otherness participate in the constitution of limit-experiences?</li>\n<li>How does the constitution of human Otherness differ from that of Divine Otherness? How do different conceptions of reality across religious traditions affect these distinctions?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>With regard to Otherness in social and societal contexts\, we welcome phenomenological reflections on both contemporary and historical issues. We are particularly interested in contributions that apply phenomenological methods to the understanding of social diversity\, conflict\, migration\, exclusion\, inclusion\, and related topics.</p>\n<p>We look forward to receiving your submissions.</p>\n<p>The Organizers: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (UC Davis)\, Martin Nitsche (Czech Academy of Sciences)\, Mary Shahanan (Atlantis Technological University)\, Tareq Ayoub (Western University Canada).</p>
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DESCRIPTION:Otherness\n<p>Conference of the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience</p>\n\nNovember 17-19\, 2026\n<p>Universit&eacute\; catholique de Louvain&nbsp\;(UC Louvain\, Louvain-la-Neuve\, Belgium)</p>\n\n<p>https://sophere.org/upcoming-conferences/</a></p>\n\n\n<p><strong>Call for Papers</strong></p>\n\n<p>The Other is distinct from the Self\, regardless of whether the Other is accessible to the Self or not&ndash\;as something that enables self-reflection and revelation through the distance it provides to the Self. &nbsp\;In this way\, the Other plays a crucial and multifaceted role within the phenomenological tradition. On one hand\, the Other is set in a position counteracting the Self\, while still remaining an essential part of the constitution of the Self. &nbsp\;As Husserl showed in&nbsp\;<em>Cartesian Meditations\,&nbsp\;</em>&nbsp\;eliminating the Other from one&rsquo\;s experience would make the constitution of experience impossible.&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p><em>Empathy</em>&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;<em>pairing</em>&nbsp\;are always at play in the constitution of the&nbsp\;<em>alter ego.&nbsp\;</em>Even within mere perception\, the alter ego is operating\, and therein\, the intersubjective sphere is essential both for the constitution of the Self\, and to perceive an object as the Self. The Self cannot be understood without intersubjectivity\, but\, on the other hand\, it is through the sense of alienness (<em>Fremdheit</em>) and inaccessibility of the Other\, a teleological structure of striving comes into play. Not only is the experience of the Other alien and foreign\, but it also initiates a change of perspective in how one sees oneself and the world through setting a teleological regulative idea to be strived for. The experience of the Other enables one to view oneself in a completely new light. This new understanding of the Self\, in turn\, opens up a new horizon\, changing the way everything appears. In short\, the Other serves as the means for self-reflection and revelation of the structure of experience itself. The phenomenology of Otherness is important for the studies of the Lifeworld\, the Homeworld\, and the Alienworld\, as well as in the concept of the halo\, in understanding indigenous religious experience\, in the cultural approaches such as the etic vs. emic\, or in the problem of historical Otherness as means to reconstruct historical personality.</p>\n\n<p>We welcome various phenomenologies of Otherness: here\, the Other may refer to a human or a non-human subject\, to the Divine Person\, to any Otherness. We are interested in how the phenomenological understanding of the Other applies to contemporary forms of the Self\, e.g.\, in Girard&rsquo\;s mimesis or Lopes Corvo&rsquo\;s psychoanalytic concept of self-envy. From classical approaches in phenomenology\, such as those of Husserl\, Levinas\, Ricoeur\, or Schutz\, &nbsp\;to our contemporaries\, such as Waldenfels and Steinbock\, development of their thoughts from concrete forms of experience to situated and generalizable structures of Otherness can be covered.</p>\n\n<p>The abstracts must demonstrate familiarity with operative or theory-building concepts in phenomenology\, and use the framework of phenomenology with sources from within the phenomenological tradition. Possible themes regarding Otherness could be\, but are not restricted to: What role does the Other play in uncovering the structure of self-constitution? Is it possible to understand the absolute alterity\, or is a common ground necessary? Is &lsquo\;overcoming&rsquo\; Otherness even a fruitful task\, and what will this task reveal? How can a singular\, united world be referenced\, when all testimonies stem from individual perspectives? What is the difference between the Other and an object? Does the sphere of primordiality play an essential role for the research of Otherness? How does one understand the Other from an etic or emic standpoint ? Does Otherness within spirituality differ from pragmatic Otherness? How does one interpret first-person authority and Otherness in cases of cultural transfer?</p>\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong>Please send abstracts (of max. 500 words) formatted for anonymous reviewing. The abstracts must be written in English and sent to&nbsp\;conference2026@sophere.org</a>\, and please cc to Miyuki Ono (miyuki.ono@student.kuleuven.be</a>)\, &nbsp\;by May 15\, 2026. We will get back to you on whether your abstract has been accepted by June 5\, 2026. If you do not receive an email by this date\, please reach out to us. In addition\, we intend to publish a volume containing a number of papers from the conference.</p>\n\n<p>Organizers: Sylvain Camilleri\, the main contact&nbsp\;&nbsp\;(sylvain.camilleri@uclouvain.be</a>)</p>\n\n<p>Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (olouch@ucdavis.edu</a>)</p>\n<p>Martin Nitsche (nitsche@flu.cas.cz</a>)</p>\n<p>Miyuki Ono (miyuki.ono@student.kuleuven.be</a>)</p>\n
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