Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026: Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene

Call for applications.

Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026: Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene

The theme for the Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026 is climate philosophy in the anthropocene. Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities, eco-politics, climate justice, climate affects, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by climate change. Climate philosophy also rethinks climate, partly in response to global heating, as world in the phenomenological sense and as history and habitat of life on earth. The Capitalocene references the Anthropocene dominated by colonial capitalism and its uneven and ongoing histories. In the first week, we will question, in discussion with phenomenology and climate science, how the temporal framing of climate change is narrated. The second week moves the focus to space by exploring, principally in conversation with deconstruction and French philosophy more broadly, how climate change alters the sense of world beyond globalization. The final week’s course draws on eco-marxism, bio-politics, and eco-feminism to propose a fundamental rethinking of the political at the end of the world.

The Collegium runs from July 6th to 24th, 2026, preceded by the participants' conference on July 4th and 5th. The deadline to apply is February 15th, 2026, and we welcome applications from within philosophy and related disciplines concerned with the overarching theme. 

Further details of the topic and the lecturers, abstracts for each of the three courses, and application forms are available on the website at

https://collegiumphaenomenologicum.org/ 

For all enquiries contact:

Matthias Fritsch (director) [email protected]

Rebecca van der Post (graduate assistant) [email protected]