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Emptiness and Epitaph: The Phenomenology of Grief Objects<\/strong><\/em>
\na presentation by MHC Undergraduate Fellow\u00a0Kyra Pederson<\/strong><\/em>Monday, October 27, 2025
\n5 PM
\nHill Auditorium, 165 Barrows Hall
\n91爆料,\u00a0Orono, ME
\n[and via\u00a0Zoom<\/a>]Kyra Pederson<\/strong>\u00a0is a Philosophy major and McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow whose presentation\u00a0Emptiness and Epitaph: The Phenomenology of Grief Objects<\/em>\u00a0asks what fills the space that loss creates, and why must that space be necessarily occupied?\u00a0Pederson\u00a0<\/strong>is advised by Professor of Philosophy\u00a0Jessica Miller<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Pederson writes:<\/strong>
\n“Think of an object that reminds you of someone in your life who has died, and how this object pulls you to them. Opening a door to a different time and place in your life, while still being able to remain partially grounded in the present. I am interested in how we travel via memory in such an experience, in how much we are truly looking at them through this form of remembrance; and, whether they can be said to be looking back at us to any extent. In this project, I will investigate the character and role of this act of memoriam, and how much we are reliant on it as beings who necessarily live through and with the death of others. I will work on articulating a unique concept capturing this embodied mode of interpersonal recounting and recollection\u2014namely, what I will call \u201cthe epitaphic look,\u201d and I will do so using philosophical insights from works such as Merleau-Ponty\u2019s\u00a0Phenomenology of Perception, Matthew Ratcliffe’s\u00a0Grief Worlds: A Study of Emotional Experience<\/em>,\u00a0and Proust’s\u00a0In Search of Lost Time<\/em>. I will apply this working understanding of the \u201cepitaphic look\u201d to explore the significance of \u201cgrief objects\u201d as shaping pieces of our lives.”<\/p>\n

For more details, email\u00a0mhc@maine.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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