Nina Sophie Weiss is a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy working on the topic of touch. Her research aims to develop a critical philosophical pradigm of touch, examining embodied practices of subjectivation and world-making through the integration of phenomenology, political philosophy, and affect theory. She received her M.A. at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris after completing her B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Vienna, including an exchange at the University of Sydney. Her master's thesis explored the phenomenon of touch in the works of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Emmanuel Levinas, critically engaging with feminist theories. With interdisciplinary interests in neuroscience, history and yoga, as well as previous political involvement in NGOs such as the Malaysian Women's Aid Organization (WAO), she actively seeks to engage in multidisciplinary research projects that transcend conventional disciplinary and national boundaries.

Project : Touching : Between immanence and transcendence