CFP: Ethnographilosophy

ETHNOGRAPHILOSOPHY   June 15-16, 2025, Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany.

Organizers: Deborah Mühlebach (FU Berlin), Quill Kukla (Georgetown University/Leibniz Universität Hannover), and Antoine Louette (FU Berlin)  

How can or should philosophers incorporate their own or others' ethnographic work into their philosophical research? Does socially engaged philosophy need ethnography? What ethnographic methods can philosophers use? What creative syntheses of philosophy and ethnography are already happening? What are the distinctive ethical and epistemological issues raised by ethnographic research? Should or could there be different uses of ethnography in different subfields of philosophy, e.g. political theory vs. epistemology? This workshop will explore the meeting points between philosophy and ethnography. All topics that bring together these two disciplines are welcome. 

Invited speakers include Shelbi Meissner (University of Maryland), Lisa Guenther (Queen’s University), and Bernardo Zacka (MIT)  This workshop is supported by a DFG Emmy Noether grant on "Critical Agency” (www.criticalagency.de).  

Submissions are welcome for 30-minute presentations. Please submit a 500-word abstract and a one-paragraph bio that addresses your stage of academic career and your interest in both philosophy and ethnography, in one pdf file, to [email protected] by December 1, 2025.