[PHILOS-L] 3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria - call for papers
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Hi everyone,
I am happy to share that the call for papers for the 3rd PhenoLab Summer School has been published: 3rd PhenoLab Summer School in Umbria (Italy)
Title: Phenomenology and Medicine. Exploring the Lived Experience of Illness and Care
When: June 8-12, 2026
Venue: Palazzo Mauri in Spoleto (PG)
Keynote Speakers (in alphabetic order):
- Dr. Roxana Baiasu, University of Birmingham (UK)
- Dr. Francesca Brencio, University of Birmingham (UK)
- Prof. Dr. Matthew Broome, University of Birmingham (UK)
- Prof. Dr. Havi Carel, University of Bristol (UK)
- Dr. Lorna Collins, Expert by experience (UK)
- Dr. David Crepaz‑Keay, FRSPH, The Mental Health Foundation, London (UK)
- Prof. Dr. Magnus Englander, Malmö University (Sweden)
- Prof. Dr. Susi Ferrarello, California State University (East Bay) (USA)
- Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs, Heidelberg University Hospital (Germany)
- Prof. Dr. Ashok Handa, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (UK)
- Prof. Dr. Guilherme Messas, Santa Casa de São Paulo Hospital (Brasil)
- Prof. Dr. René Rosfort, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
We welcome contributions that engage with these themes and questions including, but not limited to:
• Lived experience of illness: the phenomenology of pain, suffering, and chronic illness; transformations of bodily experience and self-understanding through illness; temporal disruptions and biographical interruptions; the loss and recovery of agency and capacity.
• Embodiment and medical practice: the lived body versus the objective body in clinical encounters; intercorporeality in the therapeutic relationship; touch, presence, and attunement in caregiving; technologies and their effects on embodied experience.
• Clinical phenomenology: applications of phenomenological methods in psychiatry, nursing, and primary care; phenomenological psychopathology and its relevance to diagnosis and treatment; descriptive approaches to understanding mental illness and distress.
• Care and relationality: the phenomenology of caring and being cared for; vulnerability, dependency, and human dignity; home care, hospitalization, and institutional spaces; family caregiving and professional care relationships.
• Ethical and existential dimensions: meaning-making in the face of illness and mortality; dignity, autonomy, and quality of life from phenomenological perspectives; end-of-life care and the experience of dying; disability and alternative modes of being-in-the-world.
• Methodological contributions: phenomenological research methods in health sciences; qualitative approaches to studying patient experience; bridging phenomenology and empirical research; challenges and innovations in phenomenological informed methodology.
We encourage contributions from philosophers, healthcare practitioners, sociologists, social workers, scholars from medical humanities, PhD scholars working at the intersection of phenomenology and medicine. We welcome both theoretical papers and empirically informed studies that draw on phenomenological frameworks.
We invite authors to submit two separate files:
· One file, with their short bio and affiliation;
· Another one with 1000 words abstract
DEADLINE: February 15, 2026
Notification of acceptance will be communicated to the authors by email by April 15, 2026
Contributions for oral presentations are requested to be sent by email to in...@phenolab.academy specifying in the subject CALL FOR PAPERS – PHENOLAB SUMMER SCHOOL
• Lived experience of illness: the phenomenology of pain, suffering, and chronic illness; transformations of bodily experience and self-understanding through illness; temporal disruptions and biographical interruptions; the loss and recovery of agency and capacity.
• Embodiment and medical practice: the lived body versus the objective body in clinical encounters; intercorporeality in the therapeutic relationship; touch, presence, and attunement in caregiving; technologies and their effects on embodied experience.
• Clinical phenomenology: applications of phenomenological methods in psychiatry, nursing, and primary care; phenomenological psychopathology and its relevance to diagnosis and treatment; descriptive approaches to understanding mental illness and distress.
• Care and relationality: the phenomenology of caring and being cared for; vulnerability, dependency, and human dignity; home care, hospitalization, and institutional spaces; family caregiving and professional care relationships.
• Ethical and existential dimensions: meaning-making in the face of illness and mortality; dignity, autonomy, and quality of life from phenomenological perspectives; end-of-life care and the experience of dying; disability and alternative modes of being-in-the-world.
• Methodological contributions: phenomenological research methods in health sciences; qualitative approaches to studying patient experience; bridging phenomenology and empirical research; challenges and innovations in phenomenological informed methodology.
We encourage contributions from philosophers, healthcare practitioners, sociologists, social workers, scholars from medical humanities, PhD scholars working at the intersection of phenomenology and medicine. We welcome both theoretical papers and empirically informed studies that draw on phenomenological frameworks.
We invite authors to submit two separate files:
· One file, with their short bio and affiliation;
· Another one with 1000 words abstract
DEADLINE: February 15, 2026
Notification of acceptance will be communicated to the authors by email by April 15, 2026
Contributions for oral presentations are requested to be sent by email to in...@phenolab.academy specifying in the subject CALL FOR PAPERS – PHENOLAB SUMMER SCHOOL
Kind Regards,
Francesca Brencio
Dr. Francesca Brencio
Teaching Fellow in Mental Health
Deputy Director Undergraduate Studies (Access, Participation and Careers)
Institute for Mental Health, School of Psychology
University of Birmingham (UK)
Director of the PhenoLab. A Theoretical Laboratory in Phenomenology and Mental Health
Website: PhenoLab Academy
Recent publications:
Books
- F. Brencio, R. De Biase (2026) (eds.), Metaphors in action. Humanities, Medicine and the Digital world, Springer Nature, Cham, ISBN: 978-3-032-12212-4, https://link.springer.com/book/9783032122124
- F. Brencio (2024), (ed.) Phenomenology, Neuroscience and Clinical Practice. Transdisciplinary Experiences, Springer Nature, Cham, ISBN: 9783031662638, https://link.springer.com/book/9783031662638
Articles
- S. Ferrarello, F. Brencio, V. Bizzari, M. Englander (2025), Editorial, in Phenomenological Psychopathology: Who, What and How? An analysis of key figures, advancements and challenges, Special Issue of "Frontiers in Psychology", Frontiers Volume 16, doi: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1644046/abstract
- F. Brencio (2025). Silenziati. Il ruolo degli “esperti per esperienza” in salute mentale, in “Iride”, a cura di F. Carlassara e R. Lanfredini, 1/2025, pp. 55-70, doi: 10.1414/117280 https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1414/117280
Book Chapters
- S. Ferrarello, F. Brencio (2025), Husserl, Heidegger, and Jaspers. Emergent Perspectives and Advancements, in L. Hoffmann, D. Hocoy, E. De Robertis (eds.), APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology, vol. I, American Psychological Association Press (ISBN 978-1-4338-4328-0), APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology
- N. Ghigi, F. Brencio, V. Bizzari, M. Sannipoli, (2025) Applying phenomenology in education sciences. The case of special educational needs, in M. Brinkmann, J. Türstig and M. Weber-Spanknebel (eds.), Realities. Phenomenological and Pedagogical Perspectives, Springer-Nature, Cham, pp. 283-311, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47518-5_15
- S. Ferrarello, F. Brencio (2025), Husserl, Heidegger, and Jaspers. Emergent Perspectives and Advancements, in L. Hoffmann, D. Hocoy, E. De Robertis (eds.), APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology, vol. I, American Psychological Association Press (ISBN 978-1-4338-4328-0), APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology APA Handbook of Humanistic and Existential Psychology
- N. Ghigi, F. Brencio, V. Bizzari, M. Sannipoli, (2025) Applying phenomenology in education sciences. The case of special educational needs, in M. Brinkmann, J. Türstig and M. Weber-Spanknebel (eds.), Realities. Phenomenological and Pedagogical Perspectives, Springer-Nature, Cham, pp. 283-311, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-47518-5_15
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