3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria - Full Programme
Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the Lived Experience of Illness and Care
June 8-12, 2026
Palazzo Mauri in Spoleto (PG)
Monday June 8
Registration and Welcome Kit
9.00-10.00
Institutional greetings in English and Italian from the City of Spoleto authorities
9.30-10.30
Introduction to the PhenoLab Summer School by Dr. Francesca Brencio (in Italian) with a welcome address to the international audience
10.00 3rd PhenoLab Summer School
(open only to enrolled participants, and keynote and selected speakers)
10.00-11.00
10.00 3rd PhenoLab Summer School
(open only to enrolled participants, and keynote and selected speakers)
10.00-11.00
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Matthew Broome (University of Birmingham, UK)
Tethered to the machine: phenomenology and intensive care
11.00-11.30
Tethered to the machine: phenomenology and intensive care
11.00-11.30
Coffee break at the Botanical Garden, located at the ground floor of Palazzo Mauri
11.30-12.15
Prof. Dr. Colette Smart (University of Victoria, Canada)
The burden of normality: existential challenges in re-asserting the self following rapid resolution of complex trauma
12.15-13.00
12.15-13.00
Veronica Fantini (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Drawing the line between normality and pathology. Using phenomenology to reframe dissociation and dissociative disorders
13.00-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.15
Prof. Yianna Liatsos (University of Limerick, Ireland)
Terminal: Relating the Self Before the End
15.15-16.00
Dr. Pablo Andreu (IBAT College Dublin & Atlantic Technological University, Ireland) Being Gone: A Heideggerian Phenomenology of Mind-Wandering and Traumatic Dislocation
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-17.15
Dr. Joanne Chung-yan WUN (University of Cologne, Germany)
Trauma and the Art of Gelassenheit – Confronting a Lived-Experience of the Abyssal Lack of Meaning
17.15-18.15
Keynote: Dr. Francesca Brencio (University of Birmingham, UK and Director of the PhenoLab)
A phenomenological inquiry into metaphors in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
9.30-10.30
A phenomenological inquiry into metaphors in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders
Tuesday 9 June
9.30-10.30
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Magnus Englander (Malmo University, Sweden)
Reflection-in-Interaction: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of the Medical Humanities
Reflection-in-Interaction: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of the Medical Humanities
10.30-11.15
Grace Qamar Elemy (University of Haifa, Israel) (ONLINE)
Navigating Between Compassionate Care to Mechanistic Service: A Grounded Theory Study of Moral Distress
Navigating Between Compassionate Care to Mechanistic Service: A Grounded Theory Study of Moral Distress
11.15-11.45 Coffee break at the Botanical Garden, located at the ground floor of Palazzo Mauri
11.45-12.30
Ha-Young Lee (KU Leuven, Belgium)
The Alien within Oneself: Phenomenology of Pathological Guilt with Husserl and Waldenfels
The Alien within Oneself: Phenomenology of Pathological Guilt with Husserl and Waldenfels
12.30-13.15
Emma Maciejewska (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland)
Bridging the Gap in Psychopathology: Phenomenology and Cognitive Science in Explanations of Thought Insertion
Bridging the Gap in Psychopathology: Phenomenology and Cognitive Science in Explanations of Thought Insertion
13.15-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.15
Prof. Kayoko Ueda (Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare, Japan)
Transforming Professional Perspective through Phenomenological Research Workshop: A Training Model for Medical Social Workers to Access Clients’ Existential Meaning
15.15-16.00
Transforming Professional Perspective through Phenomenological Research Workshop: A Training Model for Medical Social Workers to Access Clients’ Existential Meaning
15.15-16.00
Alice Hilder Jarvis (University of Cambridge, UK)
The hermeneutic function of diagnosis: lessons from gender dysphoria
The hermeneutic function of diagnosis: lessons from gender dysphoria
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-17.30
Keynote: Dr. David Crepaz‑Keay (The Mental Health Foundation, London UK)
Living with voices: what learned from conversations with phenomenologists
9.30-10.30
Living with voices: what learned from conversations with phenomenologists
Wednesday June 10
9.30-10.30
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Guilherme Messas (Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo, Brazil)
The (n)ever-changing person: A dialectical-phenomenological perspective on personalisation in mental health
The (n)ever-changing person: A dialectical-phenomenological perspective on personalisation in mental health
10.30-11.15
Dr Nina de Boer (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Experiencing complexity: Reconceptualizing experiential knowledge in mental health care
Experiencing complexity: Reconceptualizing experiential knowledge in mental health care
11.15-11.45 Coffee break at the Botanical Garden, located at the ground floor of Palazzo Mauri
11.45-12.30
Dr. Nicola Ramazzotto (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Intentionality, Temporality, and Language: For a Phenomenology of Pain(s)
12.30-13.15
Intentionality, Temporality, and Language: For a Phenomenology of Pain(s)
12.30-13.15
Dr Laura Jane Nanni (UCD, Ireland)
Between the Lived Experience of Childbirth and the Medical Event of Parturition: Subjectivity, the Porous Self, and the Biomedical Model of Care
Between the Lived Experience of Childbirth and the Medical Event of Parturition: Subjectivity, the Porous Self, and the Biomedical Model of Care
13.15-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.15
Dr. Māra Grīnfelde (Riga Stradins University, Latvia)
Digital Care: A Phenomenologically Grounded Analysis of Embodied Care Relationships in At-Home Digital Baby-Tracking
15.15-16.00
Digital Care: A Phenomenologically Grounded Analysis of Embodied Care Relationships in At-Home Digital Baby-Tracking
15.15-16.00
Colleen Hanson (University of California, Los Angeles USA)
Metaphysics of Pregnancy and the Lived Body
Metaphysics of Pregnancy and the Lived Body
16.00-16.30 Break
16.30-17.30
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Susi Ferrarello (California State University, East Bay – USA)
A Quiet Tradition: Toward Phenomenological Bioethics
A Quiet Tradition: Toward Phenomenological Bioethics
Thursday June 11
9.30-10.30 Keynote: Prof. Dr. Havi Carel (University of Bristol, UK)
Radical bodily doubt in intensive care
10.30-11.15
Radical bodily doubt in intensive care
10.30-11.15
Dr. David Foreman (King’s College London, UK) and Prof. Dov Gabbay (King’s College London, UK)
Diagnoses as Regimes of Attention
11.15-11.45 Coffee break at the Botanical Garden, located at the ground floor of Palazzo Mauri
11.45-12.30
Diagnoses as Regimes of Attention
11.15-11.45 Coffee break at the Botanical Garden, located at the ground floor of Palazzo Mauri
11.45-12.30
Dr Martyn Sampson (University of Birmingham, UK)
Diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and becoming better: An investigation into epistemic injustice and mental health
12.30-13.15
Diagnosis, misdiagnosis, and becoming better: An investigation into epistemic injustice and mental health
12.30-13.15
Prof. Esdras Cabus Moreira (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil)
The Mental Health Interview and the Peculiar Position of Psychiatry in Medical Practice
13.15-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.30:
The Mental Health Interview and the Peculiar Position of Psychiatry in Medical Practice
13.15-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.30:
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg University, Germany)
The insatiable self. On the phenomenology of narcissism
15.30-16.15:
The insatiable self. On the phenomenology of narcissism
15.30-16.15:
Yasminh Quak (Department of Medical Oncology, Amsterdam - Cancer Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Cancer in Everyday Life: A pilot study exploring the aesthetic affordances of music among patients living with advanced cancer
16.15-17.00
Cancer in Everyday Life: A pilot study exploring the aesthetic affordances of music among patients living with advanced cancer
16.15-17.00
Dr. Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen (University of Toronto, Canada)
Psychopathy and Clinical Stigma: Characterological Judgment, Lived Experience, and Epistemic Injustice
Psychopathy and Clinical Stigma: Characterological Judgment, Lived Experience, and Epistemic Injustice
17-17.30 Break
17.30-18.30
17.30-18.30
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Ashok Handa (S. Catherine College, University of Oxford, UK)
The role of Values-Based Practice in personalized mental health care
The role of Values-Based Practice in personalized mental health care
Friday June 12
9.30-10.30
Keynote: Prof. Dr. Rene’ Rosfort (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Suffering Freedom: Lived Experience or Living Experience?
10.30-11.15
Suffering Freedom: Lived Experience or Living Experience?
10.30-11.15
Philippine Borregaard (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
The Flesh of the Body Image. A Phenomenological Approach to Anorexia Nervosa
11.15-11.45 Coffee break at the Botanical Garden, located at the ground floor of Palazzo Mauri
11.45-12.30
The Flesh of the Body Image. A Phenomenological Approach to Anorexia Nervosa
11.15-11.45 Coffee break at the Botanical Garden, located at the ground floor of Palazzo Mauri
11.45-12.30
Niveditha A P (University of Calicut, India) (ONLINE)
Embodiment and habit: rethinking rehabilitation medicine through Merleau-Ponty
12.30-13.15
Embodiment and habit: rethinking rehabilitation medicine through Merleau-Ponty
12.30-13.15
Clara Thorndahl (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
The Speaking Body: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Body as a Communicative Tool in Anorexia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder
13.15-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.15
The Speaking Body: A Phenomenological Investigation of the Body as a Communicative Tool in Anorexia Nervosa and Binge Eating Disorder
13.15-14.30 Lunch break
14.30-15.15
Binglin LYU (City University of Hong Kong - CityU)
Sonic Materiality and Embodied Care: Podcasts as Auditory Transitional Spaces in the Phenomenology of Mental Suffering
15.15-16.15
Sonic Materiality and Embodied Care: Podcasts as Auditory Transitional Spaces in the Phenomenology of Mental Suffering
15.15-16.15
Keynote: Dr. Lorna Collins (FHEA, FRSPH - UK) and Dr. Roxana Baiasu (University of Birmingham, UK)
Sense Making and Empathy in Medicine: Reflections and Implications from Ethics and Phenomenology
16.15-16.30
Sense Making and Empathy in Medicine: Reflections and Implications from Ethics and Phenomenology
16.15-16.30
Dr. Francesca Brencio (University of Birmingham, UK and Director of the PhenoLab)
Closing remarks
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