Principal investigator:

Natalie Depraz (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8100-7308) is a full professor at University of Paris Nanterre and member of Husserl Archive in Paris. She authored numerous books and articles, on a large variety of phenomenological problems, the most important being related to embodiment and intersubjectivity, attention and emotions. Her works include: Transcendance et incarnation (Vrin, 1995), Lucidité du corps (Kluwer, 2001), On Becoming Aware: An Experiential Pragmatics (Benjamins Press, 2003, with Francisco Varela and Pierre Vermersch), Le corps glorieux. Phénoménologie pratique de la Philocalie des Pères du désert et des Pères de l’Église (Peeters, 2008), Attention et vigilance (PUF, 2014), Le sujet de la surprise (Zeta Books, 2018). She coordinated the Emphiline EMCO-ANR Research Program (2012–2015) “Surprise at the core of Emotions: An Extended Vector of Cognition” (Husserl-Archives/ENS/CNRS) and the Adochronicq Normandy GRR ERIAC Research Program (2014–2019): “Teenagers facing chronic diseases (diabetes, anorexia, schizophrenia). Medecine and Philosophy”.

Researchers:

Cristian Ciocan (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5372-6409) is member of the Doctoral School in Philosophy of the University of Bucharest, and scientific researcher (CS I) at the Institute of the University of Bucharest (ICUB). He defended his Habilitation at the University of Bucharest in 2015, having a PhD at the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne (2009) and a PhD at the University of Bucharest (2006). He is President of the Central and East European Society for Phenomenology (CEESP), Vice-President of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica. He was Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University “Albert-Ludwig” in Freiburg im Breisgau (2007–2008), of the New Europe College (2009–2010), and Principal Investigator in the following research projects: “The Body In-Between. An Interdisciplinary Approach to an Integral Theory of Corporeal Phenomena”, “Phenomenological Approaches to the Anthropological Difference”, “The Structures of Conflict: A Phenomenological Approach to Violence” and “Imagistic violence. A phenomenological approach”.

Cătălina Condruz (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1285-6194) is researcher at the Institute for Philosophy “Alexandru Dragomir” Bucharest. In her PhD dissertation defended in 2021 at the University of Bucharest, she reconstructed the philosophical framework of intersubjectivity within Marion’s phenomenology of givenness, taking as point of departure the notion of counter-intentionality. During her second year of PhD, she was involved in Erasmus programme and spent a semester at University of Rouen (France), working under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Natalie Depraz, having the opportunity to do a short clinical training offered by Psychiatric Hospital of Rouvray, which provided her with a fundamental basis for her scientific research needs and aims. She worked as Research Assistant within the research projects “The Structures of Conflict: A Phenomenological Approach to Violence” (2017–2019) and “‘I was there.’ Laying the Foundations for a Comprehensive Phenomenology of Testimony” (2020–2022).

Daniela Dumbravă (https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3115-0442) is PhD candidate in Religious Studies at the University “1 December 1918” Alba Iulia (started in 2019), holding a PhD in Early Modern History (University of Florence, 2008). Actually, she is Member of the Institute for the History of Religions (Romanian Academy) and Temporary Research Assistant at the European University of Rome, Primary Education Sciences, Italy. She develops interests in religious anthropology and history of religions, most recently encompassing phenomenology. In recent years, she has developed research missions in Beirut, focusing on the topic of Religions & Resilience. Together with Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban, she has published the volumes In-cognita: Ioan Petru Culianu’s Approaches to Religion (Zeta Books, Bucharest, 2022) and André Scrima. Expérience spirituelle et langage théologique. Actes du colloque de Roma, 29-30 octobre 2008 (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 306, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Rome, 2019).

Dragoș Duicu (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6611-2238) is Associate Professor at the Institut catholique de Toulouse and member of the editorial board of the journal Recherches philosophiques. He defended his PhD at the University of Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne in 2013 and was post-doctoral fellow at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He is a research fellow of the CERES research laboratory (unité de recherche) – Culture, éthique, religion et société. 

Christian Ferencz-Flatz (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1277-2839) is researcher at the “Alexandru Dragomir” Institute for Philosophy and at the Institute for Research in the Humanities of the University of Bucharest. He currently teaches at the National University of Theatre and Film “I. L. Caragiale” and is the Book-Review Editor of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica. He defended his Habilitation at Babeș-Bolyai University in 2020, and his PhD dissertation at the University of Bucharest in 2008. He was Research Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at the University of Cologne (2016–2017), at the Institute for Research in the Humanities (University of Bucharest 2015) and of the New Europe College (2008–2009). He was Principal Investigator in the following research projects: “Habitus, Memory, Sediment: Facets of a Phenomenological Approach to Tradition”, “Continental Philosophy as a Rigorous Science. Elements of Empirical Research in Early Phenomenology and Critical Theory”, and “Structures of Bodily Interaction. Phenomenological Contributions to Gesture Studies”.

Maria Gyemant (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8569-2496) is currently teaching philosophy in Angers in Classes Préparatoires while pursuing her research as an associated member of the Husserl Archives in Paris, and as a member of the editorial board of the journal Alter. After her PhD at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonneon intentionality and the unconscious in Husserl and Freud (2012), she continued her work on the relation between consciousness and the unconscious refocusing the aim on the dynamics of emotion as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liège between 2011–2013 and at the Husserl Archives in Paris, where she worked under the direction of Natalie Depraz on the ANR Emphiline project between 2014–2015.

Chris Octavian Ionita (https://orcid.org/0009-0006-5635-167X) is a PhD student in philosophy at the University of Bucharest. His main academic interest is the philosophical question of negativity and its relationship to the notion of phenomenality. Attention to the ontological question of non-being is a constant concern of his research: already during his bachelor studies in Turin, when he examined the negative theology of John Scotus Eriugena; then during his master studies in Bucharest, when he investigated the connection between Heidegger’s thought and the problem of nihilism; finally, during his research internships in Rome and Tübingen, when he deepened the meontological implications of Heidegger’s philosophy in relation to Aristotle and the pre-Socratics. He is currently working on the first Romanian translation of the Italian philosopher Emanuele Severino thanks to a scholarship from the Romanian Centre for Humanistic Research in Venice.

Ovidiu Stanciu (https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7643-716X) is Assistant Professor of philosophy at the Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile, and Research Associate at the Husserl Archives in Paris. He is a former student of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris. He holds an MA in Contemporary Philosophy (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2008) and a PhD in Philosophy (Université de Bourgogne / Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 2015), with a thesis on “the problem of metaphysics in Heidegger and Patočka”. He was previously University Lecturer in Philosophy at the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences Po), Paris, and at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

Claudia Șerban (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6588-5781) is Associate Professor at the University of Toulouse “Jean Jaurès”, member of the Archives Husserl de Paris (CNRS), of the Institut für Transzendentalphilosophie und Phänomenologie (University of Wuppertal, Germany), and of the Fonds Michel Henry (Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), being also one of the members of the editorial board of the journals Philosophie and Alter. She defended her PhD thesis at the University of Paris IV Sorbonne in 2013 and was fellow of Fondation Thiers (2012–2015). She was member in the ANR Emphiline project “Surprise within the spontaneity of emotions, a vector of expanded cognition” (2012–2015), coordinated by Natalie Depraz.

Nicolae Turcan (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8240-3676) is Associate Professor at Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), Faculty of Orthodox Theology. His areas of interest include the dialog between theology and phenomenology, the continental philosophy of religion, history of philosophy, Christian apologetics, Eastern Orthodox dogmatics, metaphysics, phenomenology and postmodernism. He has a PhD in Theology (2015, “1 December 1918” University, Alba-Iulia, Romania) and a PhD in Philosophy (2006, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania). He is the editor of Diakrisis Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy and member of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology.

Vasile Visotchi (https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0858-8713) is a PhD student in Philosophy at the University of Bucharest, working on Heidegger and the notion of voice. During his MA studies (2020-2022) at the Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj, he worked on Meister Eckhart and the phenomenology of conversion. With an interest in the history of phenomenology, he translated into Romanian the essay of Gustav Shpet, The Consciousness and its Owner. Currently, he is a member of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology and the Editorial Assistant of the journal Studia Phaenomenologica.