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2026
Special Issue of Contemporary Pragmatism: The Critical Shusterman
A special issue of Contemporary Pragmatism (23:3, 2026) has been published, devoted to Richard Shusterman’s book The Critical Shusterman. The issue brings together eight essays exploring and critically engaging with different dimensions of Shusterman’s philosophy as presented in the book, with an introduction by the journal’s editor, Christopher Voparil.
Coffee Colloquium Plus
We are pleased to invite you to the first Coffee Colloquium Plus, a new addition to the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture’s long-running Coffee Colloquium. For this special event, Clifton L. Granby, PhD, Associate Professor at Yale Divinity School, will discuss his new book "The Racial Politics of Listening: Deference, Power, and Relationality", followed by a discussion moderated by Richard Shusterman.
Join us on November 5 at 5 PM in SO 112. The event is free and open to the public.
Faculty Fellows Program Call for Applications: 2026–2027 at the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture (FAU).
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites applications for the 2026–2027 Faculty Fellows Program. The Center will award up to four Faculty Fellowships (to FAU Arts & Letters faculty) to support faculty research and creative activity that engages the interdisciplinary study of the body-mind-culture nexus through the Center’s framework and continuing agenda. For more details click here.
One Month Left to Submit Abstracts
The conference "Bodies of Culture: Somaesthetic Explorations" welcomes contributions from the humanities, social sciences, medical humanities, and the arts that explore the body through a somaesthetic lens and will be held at Florida Atlantic University on November 6–7, 2026.
Abstract submission deadline: August 18, 2026.
For the full call for papers, submission guidelines, and conference details, please click here.
Publication of a New Book on Somaesthetics
Published by Bloomsbury, "Richard Shusterman's Somaesthetics" by Alexander Kremer argues that Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics, which originates in pragmatism, is not only an aesthetics but, first of all, it is a philosophy.
New Issue of the Journal of Somaesthetics
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2026): Somaesthetics of Noise recognizes noise as a somatic phenomenon that extends beyond the auditory, affecting us in most realms of experience. The essays and interviews gathered in the new volume approach noise in an expansive somaesthetic sense.
Former Visiting Scholar Mark Tschaepe Awarded Yale Fellowship
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture is pleased to congratulate former Visiting Scholar Mark Tschaepe on receiving the Charles J. Cole Fellowship at the Lewis Walpole Library.
The fellowship supports a one-month residency and research at Yale, where Tschaepe will pursue a project exploring the somaesthetics of fashion and embodied self-fashioning. We are delighted to see his continued contributions to somaesthetic research and wish him a productive fellowship.
Center Fellow Receives New Appointment
The Center is happy to announce that its recent graduating student fellow, T. J. Bonnet accepted a position Professor of Humanities at Florida State College at Jacksonville and will start teaching there in the Fall Semester 2026.
Center Founder Recognized in Top 2% of Scientists
According to Elsevier’s Scopus database and Stanford University, Dr. Shusterman has accomplished a high degree of excellence in publishing and citations. Awardees of this designation show extraordinary influence in scholarly output. The announcement can be read here and the full list of FAU recipients can be viewed here.