The Kristeva Circle

We are pleased to announce that the next annual meeting of The Kristeva Circle will be held at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, on October 23-24, 2026. 

The Kristeva Circle meeting is an international conference that advances scholarship on, or influenced by, philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist Julia Kristeva. The two-day conference will host a variety of speakers from the United States and abroad. 

In its 11th iteration, the theme of the 2026 conference will broadly focus on embodiment. However, given the tenant of the work of this year’s two keynote speakers we encourage submissions that address the work of Julia Kristeva in relation to disability, gender, sexuality, and race.

We are delighted to share that we have two keynote speakers confirmed for this year’s conference. They are as follows: 

• David Marriott is the Charles T. Winship Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He works broadly on Comparative Francophone Caribbean Literature and Literary theory, psychoanalysis, Black cultural theory and philosophies of race, literary and visual cultures of modernism. 
• Melinda C. Hall is Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Hall’s research specialties are philosophy of disability, Continental philosophy, and bioethics. 

We are seeking abstracts that develop the work of Julia Kristeva, with preference given to submissions that address embodiment broadly construed, and more specifically disability, gender, sexuality, and/or race.

Please submit abstracts of 500 words, prepared for anonymous review, by April 30, 2026, to [email protected]. In a separate document, include a short author bio with contact info. For more information on the conference, please write to the local host, Elisabeth Paquette, at [email protected].