The annual fall conference of the International Merleau-Ponty Circle features the M. C. Dillon Memorial Lecture, an honor and monetary award of $500 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 |
| 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 |