Huntington specializes in continental philosophy, phenomenology, existential thought with a focus on race, decoloniality, and East-Asian traditions. She avidly engages in comparative (East-West) philosophy with an emphasis on Buddhism and aims to globalize as well as decolonize philosophy. See the biography for a fuller statement.
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
Book Review Editor, Frontiers of Philosophy in China 中国哲学前沿. August 2017 to present.
Recent publications & Scholarly Activities (Selected):
Creolizing Phenomenoloy: Black, Latina, Queer, Feminist, and East-Asian Interventions, co-authored with Lisa M. Anderson and Jacqueline M. Martinez. Under contract. Creolizing the Canon Series, eds. Jane Anna Gordon and Neil Roberts. (Rowman and Littlefield, under contact, projected publication Dec 2022).
“Decolonial Love and the Future of Bhutan,” Bhutan and the Philosophy of Gross National Happiness, ed. Bret Davis, Brian Schroeder, and Jason Wirth. Submitted and under review.
"Heidegger and Zhuangzi: The Transformative Art of the Phenomenological Reduction," Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology, ed. David Chai (London: Bloomsbury, 2020), 197-218.
“Globalizing Feminism: Taking Refuge in the Liberated Mind.” Review essay of two books: Buddhism beyond Gender: Liberation from Attachment to Identity, by Rita Gross (Shambhala Publications, 2018), and Women and Buddhist Philosophy: Engaging Zen Master Kim Iryop, by Jin Y. Park (University of Hawaii Press, 2017). Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 35.2 (Spring 2020), 355-360. Doi 10.1017/hyp.2020.
"A Buddhist Response to Kwok-ying LAU’s Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding.” Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy Vol 1 (3 Jan 2019): 1-10. Huntington, P. Dao (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11712-018-9645-3
“A Huayan Critique of Heidegger: The Quest for a Non-Obstructed Mitdasein.” Journal of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, Vol. 1 (2018): 1-18.
"Place as Refuge: Exploring the Poetical Legacy of Matsuo Bashō (松尾 芭蕉)." Frontiers of Philosophy in China 12.4 (2017): 572-590.
“Asymmetrical Reciprocity and Practical Agency: Contemporary Dilemmas of Feminist Theory in Benhabib, Young, and Kristeva.” Political Phenomenology: Essays in Memory of Petee Jung, eds. Lester Embree and Hwa Yol Jung. (Springer: Contributions to Phenomenology, a series of the Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 2016), 353-78.
“Challenging the Colonial Contract: The Zapatistas’ Insurgent Imagination.” Rethinking Marxism 12.3 (Fall 2000): 58-80. Reprinted in New Critical Theory: Essays on Liberation, eds. Willliam S. Wilkerson and Jeffrey R. Paris (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001), 105-31.
“Introduction I – History of the Feminist Reception of Heidegger and A Guide to Heidegger’s Thought.” Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger, eds. Nancy J. Holland and Patricia Huntington (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2001), 1-42.
"Heidegger's Reading of Kierkegaard Revisited: From Ontological Abstraction to Ethical Concretion," in Kierkegaard in Post/Modernity, eds. Martin J. Matuštík and Merold Westphal, for the Studies in Continental Thought series, gen. ed. John Sallis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), 43-65.
Selected Conference Presentations & Activitites
2021
Attended the Black Lives Matter Conference online, Caribbean Philosophical Association, June 18-19, 2021. https://caribbeanphilosophy.org
Application accepted and participated the Caribbean Philosophical Association Summer school online, May 25-June 1, 2021. Daily presentations, discussion, and working groups. https://caribbeanphilosophy.org/past-summer-schools/project-one-atk23
Commentator on the Black History Month Distinguished Lecture by Lewis Gordon, “Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization.” School of Social Transformation, ASU, February 23, 2021.
Webinar on whiteness in Mexico, “Hacer una puerta donde no la hay: sesiones sobre blanquedad en México y las Américas," Universidad de Guadalajara, Oct 2020 through Jan 2021 (received a constancia), and continued in the annex program from February to May 2021.
Attendee, International conference (one-day), “What After Eurocentrism? Phenomenology and Intercultural Philosophy,” Chinese University of Hong Kong, June 25, 2021.
2020
“Decolonizing the Curriculum.” Zoom seminar meeting of the Pacific Association for Continental Philosophy.
Sept 25.
Attended online conference on Fanon at 95, Caribbean Philosophical Association, July 1-20, 2020.
http://www.caribbeanphilosophicalassociation.org/fanon-at-95.html
“Superando El Ego Colonial: La Vida Interconectada” (“Overcoming the Colonial Ego: Interconnected Life.” Public talk in Spanish. Museo Histórico de San Miguel, March 12, 2020.
Chair of panel “Multiplicitous Selves, La Malinche and Love in Latinx Communities.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, March 5-7, 2020.
“Zen and the No(n)-Place of Psychic Borderlands.” Invited presentation, Coastal Zen Conference, University of San Francisco. Feb 6-9, 2020.
2019
“Fluidity, World-Traveling, and Free and Easy Wandering.” Pacific Tradition for Continental Philosophy, Seattle University, Sept. 11-16, 2019.
2018
"Dōgen Embodied: Zen and the Metaphorics of Enlightened Praxis." Buddhist Philosophy Section, The World Congress of Philosophy. Beijing, August 14, 2018.
"The Aesthetics of Learning to Be Human." The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy. he World Congress of Philosophy. Beijing, August 19, 2018.
2017
Panel organizer and paper presentation, "Philosophies of Action and Practice: Eastern Alternatives to the Anxious West," with Jin Y. Park (American University) and David Chai (Chinese University of Hong Kong), The Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, 49th Annual Conference, Peking University, Beijing, June 9-12.
"On Kwok-Ying Lau's Phenomenology and Intercultural Understanding: A Buddhist Engagement," invited. Author Meets Critics Session on Lau. The Society for Asian andComparative Philosophy, Peking University, Beijing, June 9-12.
"Politics on the Edge," panelist, Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Seattle, April 12-15.
"The Quest for Non-Obstructed Mitdasein: A Buddhist Correction to Heidegger." Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle (CCPC), Arizona State University West, March 30–April 2.
2016
“Place as Refuge: Exploring Bashō’s Poetical Legacy,” Eleventh East-West Philosophers’ Conference, University of Hawaii Manoa, May 24-31, 2016.
“Exploring Karma in Colonial Displacement Through Dōgen and the Ālaya-vijñāna,” Continental and Comparative Philosophy Circle, Co-sponsored by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taipei-Guólì Táiwān Dàxué 國立臺 灣大學 (Táidà 台大), March 24-26, 2016.
“The Time of Awakening: Dogen and Yogacara,” presentation to Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, March 22, 2016.
2015
“Critical Theory East and West,” presentation to faculty and students in Humanities, Chiangmai University, June 9, 2015.
“The Time of Karmic Transmission: Aspects of Dógen and Yogácára,” presentation at the Continental and Comparative Philosophy Circle (CCPC), Co-sponsored by the Institute of Philosophy, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 14-17, 2015.
2014
Academic Exchange by Invitation, with faculty and administrators at the Royal University, the National Institute of Traditional Medicine, the Royal Institute of Management, Chubachu Primary School, Athang Training Academy, Tashichhodzong Monastery, Center for Bhutan Studies, Tango University of Buddhist Studies. Meeting with Chairman of the Monastic Executive Committee and administrators from Dzongkha Development Committee, His Holiness Gyeltse Tenzin Rabgay Rinpoche, and the Ven. Gembo Dorji, Secretary General of the Central Monastic Body of Bhutan. Sponsored by Dr. Jason Wirth, Seattle University and Kosho Itagaki of the Pacific Northwest Zen Center, Thimphu and Paro, Bhutan, Dec. 11–20, 2014.
2013
Invited public paper presentation, “Trauma of Gifted Children” with a poetry reading from Loneliness and Lament, Transgenerational Suffering: Historical Violence and Repair, University of Alaska, Juneau, April 5-10.
Discussant, public panel, Transgenerational Suffering: Historical Violence and Repair, a dialogue with Native American perspectives, University of Alaska Honors Symposium, April 5-10.
Prison lecture, “Critical Theory,” Lemon Correctional Facility, Juneau, Alaska, April 6.
2011
International keynote address: "Transgenerational Trauma and Spiritual Loneliness: A Post-Secular Perspective." Nordic Summer University (NSU), Sweden, July 31 - August 7.
Keynote address: "Forgivness." Seventh Annual Philosophy and Religious Studies Undergraduate Conference, California State University Bakersfield, April 30.
Paper presentation, "Mending: The Hard Work of Repair in a Broken World." SPEP or Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Philadelphia, Oct 21-23.
International paper presentation: “The Feminine Face of God: Receptive, Not Powerless.” The Future of God: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Gonzaga University, Firenze, Italy, February 23-25.
2010
Paper presentation, “Complexities of Forgiveness: Early Trauma in Mother-Daughter Genealogies.” New Approaches to Trauma: Briding Theory and Practice. New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, Arizona State University, October 7-9.
International paper presentation: “Redemptive Suffering and Forgiveness: Traumatic Mother-Daughter Relations.” Gender Session at the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture Conference, University of Oxford, September 23-26.
International paper presentation: “Buddhist Compassion and Otherness in Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . Spring.” Film and Religion Session at the International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture Conference, University of Oxford, September 23-26.
Additional Publications:
Books
Huntington, P. (2009). Loneliness and Lament. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
Huntington, P. (1998). Ecstatic Subjects, Utopia, and Recognition. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.
Huntington, P. & Holland, N. (Eds.). (2001). Feminist Interpretations of Martin Heidegger. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Articles & Chapters
Huntington P. (2012). "Mending: The Hard Work of Repair in a Broken World." The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 26:2 (2012): 411-22.
Huntington P. (2010). “On Witnessing and Love: A Dialogue with Caputo.” A Postmodern Phenomenology of the Cross, eds. Mark Zlomslic and Neal DeRoo. Postmodern Ethics Series (Wipf and Stock Publishers), 197-223.
Huntington, P. (2008). “Primordial Attunement, Hardening, and Bearing: A Heideggerian Exploration of Child Rearing.” Rethinking Facticity, eds. Eric Sean Nelson and Françoise Raffoul. (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press), 317-43.
Huntington, P.J. (2007). "Suffering and strife: For what can we hope?" International Kierkegaard Commentary, 17, 95-118.
Huntington, P. (2007). “Listening to Zapatismo: A Reflection on Spiritual Deracination.” Radical Philosophy Review Vol. 10. 1: 55-78.
Huntington, P.J. (2006). "Loneliness and innocence: A Kierkegaardian reflection on the paradox of self-realization." Continental Philosophy Review, 39, 415-433.
