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
2023	47	Merleau-Ponty and Embodiment: Between the Cognitive, Aesthetic, and Socio-Political	Deakin University	Helen Ngo and Jack Reynolds
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