[SydPhil] Call for Registrations: Two-day international workshop 'The alterity and excess of the relationscape' (Macquarie University 11th and 12th of December 2025)

[Emily Hughes]

You are warmly invited to register to attend a two-day international
workshop titled: *The alterity and excess of the relationscape*, which has
been organised around Erin Manning’s visit to Australia. Please see
the workshop
website <https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/8FKDCYW8NocpNmv6AS0fouxtiKQ?domain=sites.google.com> for
information, including the schedule. To register directly, please
visit the registration
page
<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/nw7uCZY1Nqi8DAwoQUjhquBHJ8V?domain=docs.google.com>.
This event is in person only.



Date:          11th and 12th of December 2025


Location:    330+331 Function Room, 17 Wally’s Walk (Michael Kirby
Building)

Macquarie University, Wallumatta (North Ryde), Wallumattagal Campus



Confirmed Speakers: Erin Manning, Claire Colebrook, Chloe Anastasia, Lorna
Collins, Mads Dengso, J-P Deranty, Joe Hughes, Linda Luke,  Annie
Sandrussi, Jason Tuckwell, Marilyn Stendera and Emily Hughes.


Theme: Throughout a series of works, philosopher, cultural theorist, and
artist Erin Manning develops an interpretation of immediate embodied
experience as being enmeshed in the *relationscape*: the interconnected
field of affective intensities and sensory perceptions that exists prior to
the differentiation of self and other, subject and object. Resonant with
the *pre-personal* in Merleau-Ponty and the *pre-individual* in Simondon,
the relationscape constitutes the anonymous excess or ‘more than’ within
lived experience that gives rise to a process of individuation.  While the
intertwining forces and movements of the relational field underpins all
embodied experience, its pre-reflective ambiguity often eludes our attempts
to grasp, represent or understand it. In a striking interpretation of
neurodivergence, Manning suggests that Autistic perception is uniquely
attuned toward the relationscape, as it exists prior to its neurotypical
‘chunking’ of subject and object, and thus to the alterity and excess that
is intrinsic to human existence.



Organised around Erin Manning’s visit to Australia, the aim of this
workshop is to bring together emerging and leading scholars working in the
traditions of phenomenology, process philosophy, psychoanalysis,
post-structuralism, literature and aesthetics to theorise pre-reflective
embodied experience as enmeshed in the pre-individual



This workshop is organised by Emily Hughes (emily.hughes at mq.edu.au) and
Marilyn Stendera (mstendera at uow.edu.au) and is funded in part by Hughes’s
ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) project ‘A lone or lonely
life: Lived experiences of Loneliness in Autistic Women’ (DE250100368).



*Dr Emily Hughes *(she/her)

ARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (DECRA) Fellow in Philosophy

School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts

Michael Kirby Building, 17 Wally's Walk

Level 2, Room 233

Macquarie University – Wallumattagal Campus, Dharug Country

NSW 2109 Australia

E: emily.hughes at mq.edu.au

W: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/F_7TC1WLPxcBkx0EqIpiXuVA2mD?domain=researchers.mq.edu.au



*I acknowledge that Macquarie University stands on the land of the Dharug
Nation, land that was never ceded. I pay my respects to the Dharug
people, the Wallumattagal clan, and their Elders past and present. Always
was, always will be, Aboriginal land.*