Conference arranged by the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge in the research project "Existential Philosophy in Medicine and Health Care". Keynote speakers: Kevin Aho , Rasmus Dyring, Sara Heinämaa, and Kirsten Jacobson

Final conference program The Phenomenology of Chronic Illness and Ageing 17-18 of November 2022

Keynote speakers: Kevin Aho Florida Gulf Coast University, Rasmus Dyring Aarhus University, Sara Heinämaa University of Jyväskylä, Kirsten Jacobson University of Maine

Arranged by the Centre for Studies in Practical Knowledge, Södertörn University

Venue: House F, Floor 11, at Campus Flemingsberg

The conference is free of charge including the reception (but not lunches). The number of participants is limited so it is necessary to register in advance, if you wish to attend, please send an e-mail to the secretary: martin.gunnarson@sh.se

Thursday 17th of November:

10.00 Doors open to F11, pick up your name tag and other conference material

10.30-12.00 Introduction followed by Plenary Session, room 1, chair Fredrik Svenaeus (FS):

Kirsten Jacobson: Horizons of aging: Shifting experiences of being a subject and being an object

12.00-13.00 Lunch break

13.00-14.30

Parallel Session A, room 1, chair Jonna Lappalainen (JL):

Bjørn Hofmann: The illness-argument for making aging a disease

Fredrik Svenaeus: The phenomenology of frailty: Existentialism and old-age vulnerability

Emily Hughes: The transformative role of the past in old age

Parallel Session B, room 2, chair Martin Gunnarson (MG):

Ragna Winniewski: Relational and affective self: An embodied and meaning-centred account of dementia

Erik Norman Dzwiza-Ohlsen: The moving body in dementia diseases – a lifeworld account

Kristin Zeiler, Anna Segernäs and Martin Gunnarson: Entering the grey zone of ageing between health and disease: A critical phenomenological account

14.30-15.00 Coffee Break

15.00-16.30

Parallel Session C, room 1, chair FS:

Eleanor Byrne: Emotion regulation and chronic illness

Nanna Halldorsdottir: Listening to fatigue: A phenomenological exploration of the many phases of fatigue among ME/CFS patients in Iceland

Rosa Maria Lupo: “I am ill but I am not my illness”: For a phenomenology of illness

Parallel Session D, room 2, chair JL:

Søren Harnow Klausen: Phenomenology of aging and the life course: Beyond the first-person perspective

Jessie Stanier: Prudence, prediction and promise: The existential predicament of anticipating transitions at older age

Mara Neikena and Arturs Poksans: Experiencing ageing as fearful: Digitalization of elderly life in Latvia

16.30-17.00 Visit to Art Space, New Exhibition at Södertörn

17.00-18.00

Plenary Session, Room 1, chair MG:

Rasmus Dyring: ”Older than being”: Theses on generation and aging

18.00-20.00 Reception in F11 Lounge

Friday 18th of November:

10.00-11.00

Plenary Session, room 1, chair JL:

Sara Heinämaa: A phenomenology of aging: Event, metamorphosis, and crisis

11.00-11.30 Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

Parallel Session E, room 1, chair JL:

Agathe Camus: Chronic living and ordinary life

Marjolein de Boer: Becuming oneself as one connects with another: An empirical phenomenological study about sexuality in menopause

Victoria Paul: The concept of relational dignity in chronic illness

Parallel Session F, room 2, chair MG:

Maria Luisa Perez Cavana: “Always too late” versus “Never too late”: Exploring lived experiences of unexceptional older language learners

Leif Sunesson and Inger Berndtsson: The phenomenology of echolocation and ageing

Paul Stronge: “Foreseeing the present” of free fall? Experiencing ageing in a time of climate breakdown

13.00-14.00 Lunch Break

14.00-15.00

Parallel Session G, room 1, chair MG:

Jonna Lappalainen: ”He had counted on history to justify his life”: Beauvoir’s literary portrayal of ageing as lived experience

Gunnar Karlsson and Jakob Ulenius: A phenomenological study of aging

Parallel Session H, room 2, chair FS:

Hans-Georg Eilenberger: “I am surrounded by illness and death”: Phenomenological perspectives on old age and mortality

Sidney Kabinoff: Terminal inauthenticity and autonomy: A different bioethical framework for medically assisted death

15.15-16.30 Plenary Session and Final Words, room 1, chair FS:

Kevin Aho: On becoming nothing: Existential reflections on death and dying in advanced old age (via videolink)

For inquiries regarding attendance, how to get to the conference venue and other practicalities, please contact the conference secretary: martin.gunnarson@sh.se