[SydPhil] Registrations open: Workshop 'Grief at the Margins' - 7 Dec - Macquarie

[Marilyn Stendera]

Apologies for cross-posting!

You are warmly invited to a workshop on 'Grief at the Margins' at Macquarie University on the 7th of December. You can find more information below and on the workshop website here.<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/RYziCnx1jnixO3k3XU9fQ8sJQFeX?domain=sites.google.com>

The workshop will be in-person only. All are welcome and attendance is free, but registration is required; please register online here<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/seKVCoV1kpf8qPQPDSzhqVspW2T2?domain=sites.google.com>.

* Date: Monday the 7th of December 2026

* Location: 17WW G10, Ground Floor, 17 Wally’s Walk (Michael Kirby Building), Macquarie University, Wallumatta (North Ryde), Wallumattagal Campus

* Confirmed Speakers include Kym MacLaren, Louise Richardson-Self, Becky Millar and Marilyn Stendera. More TBC.

Theme: Grief matters to everyone. It is a fundamental, universal experience in response to bereavement and non-bereavement losses. Yet, in spite of philosophical grief research gaining momentum in recent years, and making a distinctive contribution by providing novel arguments as well as conceptual and phenomenological analyses, the experiences of many people remain neglected. Existing philosophical work has focused on the universality, rather than the diversity of grief experiences. The guiding assumption of this research is often that grief is unified, characterised by essential features shared across individuals and communities. This assumption has led to a major gap in knowledge hindering progress in our philosophical understanding of grief: It systematically ignores a wide range of grief experiences that are in principle disintegrated and disunified, and, in so doing, compounds feelings of isolation and disconnection of those that suffer them.

The first of the three workshops funded by the ARC Discovery Project ‘Grief at the Margins: Conceptualising the Diversity of Loss’ (DP260100985 Fabry, Hughes, Stendera and Millar), this event will bring together leading and emerging scholars working in the philosophy of grief. It will explore the heterogeneous ways in which grief can manifest in lived experience – relationally, temporally, and spatially – and consider some of the implications this heterogeneity may have for questions of identity, possibility, narratability, and significance in grief.

Contact: Emily Hughes (emily.hughes at mq.edu.au) and Marilyn Stendera (mstendera at uow.edu.au)


Marilyn Stendera (she/her)
Lecturer  - Philosophy | Head of Students

School of Creative Arts and Humanities | Faculty of Arts, Society and Business
Rm 1069, Building 19 | University of Wollongong NSW 2522
T: +61 2 4239 4633 | Zoom meeting link: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/yKqQCp81lrtyMO7O9HYi2WsGcENH?domain=uow-au.zoom.us

I live and work on Dharawal Country; I pay my respects to the Traditional Custodians of this land, and to Elders past, present, and emerging. Always was, always will be; sovereignty was never ceded.

Latest work:
Synthetic temporalities: Phenomenological perspectives on epistemic agency, time, and AI<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/uatLCq71mwfR0kVk1TEsK2sEorIW?domain=link.springer.com>
'Phenomenology is blue': The synaesthetic dynamics of Being-in-the-world <https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/iWPtCr81nyt6VnWnrSjt6Os4qupX?domain=link.springer.com>
Marking time: griefbots, world-time and the phenomenology of bereavement <https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/BfxLCvl1rKi4NLRLEf5ulqsQNV8E?domain=link.springer.com>

Deputy Chair - Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy: ascp.org.au<https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/U8-sCwV1vMfP8V2VvfxCGpsJMaiH?domain=ascp.org.au>