2016

SCTIW hosted a panel at the Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference in Salt Lake City, UT, October 20th, 2016. The Panel, "Islam and Psychoanalysis," included the following presentations: "Psycho-Sexuality in the Sufism of Rabi‘a al-Adawiyya," Claudia Yaghoobi (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill); "History, Negation, Revolution: Freud with Ali Shari’ati," Nathan Gorelick (Utah Valley University); "Repression and Iranian Cultural Memory," Nasrin Rahimieh (University of California, Irivine); and "Fethi Benslama’s Recent Interventions," Elisabeth Weber (University of California, Santa Barbara). Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Babson College) served as the Discussant and the panel was presided over by Lucian Stone (University of North Dakota).

2015

SCTIW hosted a panel at the Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference in Atlanta, GA, October 8-10, 2015. The Panel, "Palestine & Palestinians: Continental Philosophy and Beyond," included the following presentations: "Of Barricades, Walls, Checkpoints, Outposts, and Settlements: Philosophy, the Palestinian Question, and Public Discourse," Lucian Stone (University of North Dakota); "The Inaugural Act of Popular Sovereignty: 10 Theses on Sovereignty," Ariella Azoulay (Brown University); and "The Gaza Wars: Palestinians as Homines Sacri," Zahi Zalloua (Whitman College). The panel was presided over by Lucian Stone (University of North Dakota).

2014

SCTIW hosted a panel at the Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference in New Orleans, LA, October 23-25, 2014. The panel, "Borderlines: Réda Bensmaïa, Continental Philosophy, and Postcolonialism," included the following presentations: "The Postcolonial Remains: Bensmaïa with Deleuze and Laruelle after the Postmodern and Postsecular," Anthony Paul Smith (La Salle University); "Writings of the Buried Alive: The Textual-Manic Intersection of Bensmaïa and Hedayat," Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Babson College); "The Exemption from Sense: Barthes, Nancy, Bensmaïa," Bryan Lueck (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville); and "Experimenting: Language to Come," Mahmut Mutman (Istanbul Şehir University). Prof. Réda Bensmaïa (Brown University) responded to the papers. The panel was presided over by Lucian Stone (University of North Dakota).

2013

SCTIW hosted a panel at the Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference, October 24-26, 2013, in Eugene, OR. The panel, "New Critical Theories from the Middle East and Islamicate World," included the following presentations: "The Will to Extremity: Acidic Subjectivities of the Middle East and the West," Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Babson College); "Catachresis and the Rhetoric of Secular Islam," Ruth Mas (University of Colorado); "Post-Modern Islam: Between Power and Resistance," Arshin Adib-Moghaddam (University of London); "Islam from the Care of the Self to Biopolitics," Mahmut Mutman (Istanbul Şehir University); and "Decolonial Horizons: Towards a Genealogy of Critical Muslim Studies," S. Sayyid (University of Leeds), with comments made by Discussants: Alia Al-Saji (McGill University), Bryan Lueck (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville), and Jason Wirth (Seattle University). The panel was presided over by Lucian Stone (University of North Dakota).



2011

SCTIW hosted a panel at the Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference, October 19-23, 2011, in Philadelphia, PA. The panel, "New Orientalism and Post-Orientalism," included the following presentations: "Doppelgangers, Contortion Artists, and Citizens of Nowhereland: New and Post Orientalism" Lucian Stone (University of North Dakota); "Otherworldly Thoughts: New Configurations of the Postmodern and the Postcolonial," Alina Gharabegian (New Jersey City University); Turning Her Back on the Camera: Feminine Refusal in New Iranian Cinema," Christopher Cunningham (New Jersey City University); "On the Harmony of Witnessing and Incompleteness," Janet L. Borgerson (Rochester Institute of Technology); "Islam and Postmodernism: Questioning Modernities," Corey McCall (Elmira College); and "The Barbarian, The Enemy: Epistemic War and the East-West Challenge," Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (New Jersey City University), with comments made by Respondent Ian Almond (Georgia State University).