The annual fall conference of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle features the M. C. Dillon Memorial Lecture, an honor and monetary award for the best graduate student submission. Recipients of the M.C. Dillon Memorial Lecture award will have their papers published in Chiasmi International: Trilingual Studies concerning the Thought of Merleau-Ponty.
| Year | Conf # | Author | Title | Conference Location |
| 2025 | 49 | Gael Caignard | “Institution et ouverture de l’histoire : Merleau-Ponty lecteur de Lucien Febvre” | University of Maine |
| 2024 | 48 | Key MacFarlane | “Revolutionary Depth” | Villanova University |
| 2023 | 47 | Benjamin Décarie-Daigneault | “The crooked finger of Chauvet-Pont d’Arc: A Merleau-Pontian account of parietal art” | Deakin University |
| 2022 | 46 | Gaia Ferrari | “Entangled Embodiments: Merleau-Ponty’s Method for Grounding a Phenomenology of Disability” | Georgetown University |
| 2021 | 45 | Corinne Lajoie | “Crip Disorientations and the Complexity of Belonging” | University of Western Ontario |
| 2019 | 44 | Corinne Lajoie | “The equilibrium of sense: Levels of embodiment and (dis)orientations of love” | Fordham University |
| 2018 | 43 | Rawb Leon-Carlyle | “Wild Red: Synesthesia, Deuteranomaly, and Euclidean Color Space” | University of Tennessee, Chattanooga |
| 2017 | 42 | Martina Ferrari | Poietic Transspatiality: Merleau-Ponty, Normativity, and the Latent Sens of Nature | University of New Mexico |
| 2016 | 41 | Joel Reynolds | “On Being Outside the (Normate) Body: Merleau-Ponty’s Aveugle and Crip Phenomenology” | Brock University |
| 2015 | 40 | Martina Ferrari | “The Immemorial Time of Gender: Merleau-Ponty’s Polymorphic Matrix of Original Past” | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| 2014 | 39 | Anna Caterina Dalmasso | “L’artiste et l’adversité: Hasard et création chez Merleau-Ponty” | University of Geneva |
| 2013 | 38 | Laura McMahon | “The Phantom Organic and the Psychoanalysis of Nature” |
Duquesne University |
| 2012 | 37 | David Peña-Guzman | “Pathetic Normativity: Merleau-Ponty and Canguilhem’s Philosophy of Norms” | Fordham University |
| 2011 | 36 | Keith Whitmoyer | “Merleau-Ponty and the Permanent Dissonance of Being: The Temporal Extension of the Transcendental Field in Phenomenology of Perception” | Concordia College |
| 2010 | 35 | Shiloh Whitney | “A New Conception of Intentionality: Pure Depth as Affective Orientation” | University of North Carolina, Asheville |
| 2009 | 34 | Bryan E. Norwood | “Consciousness at the Limits of Phenomenology: Rethinking Architectural Phenomenology with Merleau-Ponty and Deleuze” | Mississippi State University |
| 2008 | 33 | Emma Jones | “On the Life that is ‘Never Simply Mine’: Anonymity and Alterity in Merleau-Ponty and Irigaray” | Ryerson University |
| 2007 | 32 | Matthew Goodwin | “Art and the Deflagration of Being: Setting Passivity Afire” | University of Memphis |
| 2006 | 31 | Caterina Rea | “Corporeal Ipseity between Natural Finitude and Institution: The Enigma of Human Living according to Merleau-Ponty and Castoriadis” | George Mason University |