Below are the number, year, topic, location, and director of each of the IMPC’s past conferences. Click on the conference topic to access each conference’s respective program, or download our spreadsheet comprising the title and author of every paper presented to the IMPC. (The spreadsheet lets you easily search, filter, and sort paper titles in various ways; see the instructions at the top of the Papers worksheet.)
Year | Conf # | Topic | Location | Director |
2022 | 46 | Fits and Misfits: Rethinking Disability, Debility, and the World with Merleau-Ponty | Georgetown University | Joel Michael Reynolds |
2021 | 45 | Critical Phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty’s Open Futures | University of Western Ontario | Helen Fielding |
2019 | 44 | Affect / Emotion / Feeling | Fordham University | Shiloh Whitney |
2018 | 43 | The Normal and the Abnormal | University of Tennessee, Chattanooga | Talia Welsh |
2017 | 42 | The Significance of Place | University of New Mexico | Ann V. Murphy |
2016 | 41 | Merleau-Ponty: Doing Philosophy from the Outside | Brock University | Rajiv Kaushik |
2015 | 40 | The Twenty-First Century Body: Thinking Merleau-Ponty In and Out of Time | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Jennifer McWeeny |
2014 | 39 | Adversity and Creation | University of Geneva | Stefan Kristensen |
2013 | 38 | Movement in History, Art and Being | Duquesne University | Fred Evans |
2012 | 37 | Self & Others, Silence & Solitude | Fordham University | Ann V. Murphy |
2011 | 36 | Flesh, Truth, Sacred Life | Concordia College | Susan M. O’Shaughnessy |
2010 | 35 | Merleau-Ponty and Depth | University of North Carolina, Asheville | Duane H. Davis |
2009 | 34 | The Experience and Expression of Space | Mississippi State University | Rachel McCann |
2008 | 33 | Time, Memory, and Self: Remembering Merleau-Ponty at 100 | Ryerson University | Kym Maclaren |
2007 | 32 | Passivity | University of Memphis | Leonard Lawlor, Bryan Bannon |
2006 | 31 | Body and Institution | George Mason University | Wayne Froman |
2005 | 30 | The Child and the Animal | University of Oregon | Ted Toadvine, Beata Stawarska |
2004 | 29 | Expression, Language, Art | Muhlenberg College | Lawrence Hass |
2003 | 28 | Life | University of Western Ontario | Helen Fielding |
2002 | 27 | Ecology | Missouri Botanical Garden | William Hamrick |
2001 | 26 | Merleau-Ponty’s Political Philosophy | University of North Carolina, Asheville | Duane H. Davis |
2000 | 25 | Merleau-Ponty, Feminism, and Intersubjectivity | George Washington University | Gail Weiss |
1999 | 24 | Merleau-Ponty, Mind and Body | University of Wales | James Morley |
1998 | 23 | Ethical Bodies | Salisbury State University | James Hatley |
1997 | 22 | The Concept of Nature | Seattle University | Patrick Burke, James Risser |
1996 | 21 | Merleau-Ponty, Perception, and the History of Philosophy | University of Memphis | Leonard Lawlor, Ted Toadvine |
1995 | 20 | Merleau-Ponty, Language, and Contemporary Thought | Duquesne University | Fred Evans, Chris Nagel |
1994 | 19 | [No Topic] | Berry College | Michael Smith |
1993 | 18 | [No Topic] | Muhlenberg College | Lawrence Hass |
1992 | 17 | [No Topic] | Saint Joseph College | James Morley |
1991 | 16 | [No Topic] | University of Colorado at Colorado Springs | Dorothea Olkowski |
1990 | 15 | [No Topic] | Penn State University | Veronique M. Foti |
1989 | 14 | [No Topic] | Canisius College | Shaun Gallagher |
1988 | 13 | [No Topic] | Villanova University | Thomas W. Busch |
1987 | 12 | [No Topic] | University of Rhode Island | Galen A. Johnson |
1986 | 11 | [No Topic] | University of Notre Dame | Stephen Watson |
1985 | 10 | [No Topic] | Southern Illinois University | Richard L. Lanigan |
1984 | 9 | [No Topic] | Concordia University | Dennis O’Connor |
1983 | 8 | [No Topic] | The New School | Veronique M. Foti, Allen S. Weiss |
1982 | 7 | [No Topic] | Binghamton University | M. C. Dillon |
1981 | 6 | [No Topic] | Colgate University | Anne Freire Ashbaugh |
1980 | 5 | [No Topic] | Penn State University | Alphonso Lingis, Keith Hoeller, Joseph Kockelmans |
1979 | 4 | [No Topic] | SUNY Stony Brook | Hugh J. Silverman |
1978 | 3 | [No Topic] | Duquesne University | Lester Embree |
1977 | 2 | [No Topic] | Ohio University | Algis Mickunas |
1976 | 1 | [No Topic] | University of Akron | James H. Buchanan |