CFP: Spring 2026 Tulane German Philosophy Workshop Series

Call for Abstracts: Spring 2026 Tulane German Philosophy Workshop Series

The third annual workshop series of the Tulane German Philosophy Workshop will continue in the spring of 2026 at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Workshops are held on select Friday afternoons during Tulane University’s academic semester. The workshop series is organized locally by Jeffrey Patrick Colgan and Nicolas Day and sponsored by Richard Velkley (Tulane Department of Philosophy) and Oliver Sensen (Tulane Department of Philosophy). The main workshop series venue will be at the Tulane University campus.

The workshop meetings are to be held in-person; very strong preference will be given to submitted talks that are able to be presented in-person. There might be a limited number of time slots available for those who need to present a paper remotely by video. Participants who wish to use this option should indicate this in their cover sheet.

Call for Abstracts

The Tulane German Philosophy Workshop is based out of Tulane University’s Philosophy and Germanic & Slavic Studies departments. It is aimed at promoting the discussion of scholarship about the German philosophical tradition and the establishment of relations between philosophers and departments that focus on the German philosophical tradition. It welcomes scholars interested in the many ways to engage with this rich tradition and the specific projects and concerns of its many representatives—from Leibniz to Wittgenstein, Kant to Gadamer, Hegel to Habermas—as well as the reception of this tradition. Successful past talks have included “Hegel, Kant, and the Hypocrisy of Practical Faith,” “The Kiss of Conscience: Nietzsche's Ambivalent Moral Psychology,” and “Max Weber and the Puzzles of Charismatic Leadership.” Tulane German Philosophy Workshop invites submissions for its Spring 2026 semester workshop series. Paper submissions that relate to the German philosophical tradition, broadly understood, are welcome.

Submission Deadline

The submission deadline is November 14th, 2025. [Note: the organizers appreciate the truncated timeline of this CFA and welcome talks that have been given before.]

Submission Instructions

Authors are requested to submit abstracts electronically according to the following guidelines.

Abstracts (500-750 words) do not need to be prepared for blind review but should be put into PDF file format and sent as an email attachment to tulanegermanphil [at] gmail.com. The subject line of the submission email should include the key-phrase “TGPW submission Spring 2026,” and the body text of the email message serves as a cover page for the submission by including:

1.        Return email address

2.        Author’s name

3.        Affiliation and position (i.e., whether graduate student or faculty)

4.        Paper title

5.        Whether you will need to present remotely if your paper is accepted.

Time allowed for presentation is 1 hour with between 45 minutes to 1 hour for discussion.