Upcoming events in and around Palatine, Illinois, United States

31 Mar

CFP: Philosophy of Breakups

HybridConceptual Foundations of Conflict Project, University of Southern California

Topics: Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

1 Apr

CFP: JIS Symposium 2026: The Future of Democracy: Renewing Ordered Liberty

OnlineInstitute for Interdisciplinary Research

JIS Annual Symposia

Topics: General

8 Apr

Talk: Remaking Liberalism

OnlineDavid H. Kellogg Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Virginia Tech

2026 PPE Distinguished Public Lecture

Topics: General

8 Apr

Conference: Pacific APA - Democracy at the Crossroads: Concerned Philosophers for Peace

OnlineConcerned Philosophers for Peace

Topics: Value Theory

8 Apr

Conference: Nietzsche on Love & Asceticism (2026 NANS @ P-APA)

OnlineAmerican Philosophical Association

North American Nietzsche Society (2026 Pacific Meeting of the American Philosophical Association

Topics: 19th Century Philosophy

8 Apr

Conference: Philosophy of Time Society at the 2026 Pacific APA

OnlineAPA Pacific Division

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics

8 Apr

Conference: North American Society for Social Philosophy at the 2026 APA Pacific

OnlineNorth American Society for Social Philosophy

Topics: Value Theory

8 Apr

Conference: SoPheRE at APA Pacific 2026

OnlineSociety for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Conferences, Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Religion, Continental Philosophy

9 Apr

Conference: Philosophy of Physics Society at the Pacific APA (2026)

OnlinePhilosophy of Physics Society

Topics: Philosophy of Physical Science

9 Apr

Conference: ISEE at the Pacific APA Climate Hub

OnlinePhilosophers for Sustainability, ISEE, Pacific APA

Topics: General

10 Apr

Conference: Duquesne Philosophy Graduate Conference 2026

HybridDepartment of Philosophy and The Simon Silverman Phenomenology Centre, Duquesne University

Topics: General

10 Apr

Conference: Education, Culture, and Society

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, Villanova University

30th Annual Villanova Philosophy Graduate Student Conference

Topics: General

11 Apr

Conference: APA Pacific Public Session: Being Trans in Philosophy Zine Reading + Launch Party

OnlineAPA Pacific Division

Topics: Philosophical Traditions, Miscellaneous, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

15 Apr

Conference: Mind-at-Large

OnlineUniversity of Exeter

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Mind

16 Apr

Conference: Thinking About God: Historical Perspectives

HybridSchool of Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophical Traditions

17 Apr

HybridDepartment of Philosophy and Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University

Monash University Philosophy and Bioethics Seminar Series

Fabio Tollon (University of Edinburgh)

Topics: General

17 Apr

Conference: Great Lakes Philosophy Conference: "Against the Current: Resistance in an Age of Suppression"

OnlineDepartment of Philosophy, Siena Heights University

2026 Great Lakes Philosophy Conference

Topics: General

17 Apr

Conference: Theory and Practice after the Practice Turn – Where Social Theory and Empirical Philosophy meet

OnlineNormative Orders, Goethe University of Frankfurt

Topics: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, General Philosophy of Science

17 Apr

Conference: 1st UChicago WAMIP Philosophy Graduate Conference: Practical Philosophy & Philosophy’s Practicalities

The Department of Philosophy , University of Chicago

Topics: Meta-Ethics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

18 Apr

Conference: East Tennessee Rural Biomedical Ethics Conference

OnlineDepartment of Philosophy and Religious Studies, East Tennessee State University

Topics: General

23 Apr

Conference: Simone Weil: Roots, Exile, and Migration

HybridTexas A&M University

American Weil Society Annual Colloquy

Topics: General

24 Apr

Conference: The Digital Worlds Workshop

OnlineUniversity of North Dakota, Grand Forks

Topics: Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Computing and Information, Aesthetics

24 Apr

Talk: Online Bayle Seminar 2026 : Education and Pedagogy in the Philosopher of Rotterdam

Online/

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

25 Apr

Conference: UTD Seventh Annual Undergraduate Philosophy Conference

HybridUniversity of Texas at Dallas

Topics: General

28 Apr

Conference: Female Voices, Media, and Modes of Communication in Theology and Philosophy

OnlineCenter for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Online Talk Series

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Miscellaneous, M&E, Miscellaneous, Philosophical Traditions, Miscellaneous

28 Apr

Talk: Talk 1: Johanna Dorothea Lindenaer: Memoirist, Translator, and Religious Polemicist. Talk 2: Rhetoric, Method, and Genre in Gabrielle Suchon’s Treatise on Ethics and Politics

OnlineCenter for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Online Talk Series

Floris Verhaart

Margaret Matthews (Assumption University)

Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun (Saint Joseph University of Beirut)

Jil Muller (Paderborn University)

Katia Raya Rami

Topics: General

1 May

Hybrid

Monash University Philosophy and Bioethics Seminar Series

A. C. Grayling (Oxford University (DPhil))

Topics: General

1 May

CFP: The Aftermath of Being and Time (1927-1932)/ Die Nachwirkungen von Sein und Zeit (1927-1932)

Online The European Centre for Heidegger Studies

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophical Traditions

1 May

CFP: The Twentieth Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America

HybridDepartment of Philosophy, University of California, Riverside

Leibniz Society of North America Annual Conferences

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy

2 May

Conference: Rotman Graduate Student Conference 2026: Philosophical Issues in the Life Sciences

HybridRotman Institute of Philosophy, University of Western Ontario

Rotman Graduate Student’s Conference

Topics: General Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science

4 May

Conference: 6th International Conference on Philosophy of Mind: Artificial Intelligence (6ICPH)

HybridInstitute of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Porto

Topics: General

5 May

Conference: North American Spinoza Society's Junior Scholar Workshop

OnlineNorth American Spinoza Society

Topics: General

5 May

Talk: Talk 3: Vernacular Theology and Authority: Marguerite Porete, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch of Antwerp. Talk 4: A Voice of One’s Own: Philosophizing as Feminized Subjects (Impostor Syndrome & Authority)

OnlineCenter for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Online Talk Series

Lila Braunschweig

Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun (Saint Joseph University of Beirut)

Katia Raya Rami

Jil Muller (Paderborn University)

Topics: General

8 May

Conference: Treasuring Old and New in Social Theology: from Rerum novarum to the Present Pontificate

HybridFaculty of Roman Catholic Theology, University of Bucharest

Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

9 May

Conference: 1st Annual University of Chicago Graduate Student Conference

The Department of Philosophy , University of Chicago

Topics: General

11 May

Conference: THE CRITICISM CULTURE AND MORALITY OF TOLERANCE IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT -5 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

HybridFaculty of Divinity, Muş Alparslan University

THE CRITICISM CULTURE AND MORALITY OF TOLERANCE IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT

Topics: Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion

11 May

Conference: 1st UFFS International Congress on Neurophilosophy: Neurophilosophy, after 40 years

OnlineDepartment of Philosophy, Federal University of Fronteira Sul

Topics: Metaphilosophy, Philosophy of Mind, General Philosophy of Science

11 May

Conference: Process Philosophy in Under-explored traditions in philosophical history

OnlinePhilosophy, Decoloniality Research Group, University of Pretoria & The Conversational Society of Philosophy, University of Calabar, Nigeria.

Topics: General

12 May

Talk: Talk 5: Women’s Writing of Harriet Taylor Mill and its Various Modes of Self-Expression. Talk 6: Karoline von Günderrode: Fragmentation, Philosophy, and Early German Romanticism

OnlineCenter for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Online Talk Series

Elżbieta Filipow (University of Warsaw)

Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun (Saint Joseph University of Beirut)

Jil Muller (Paderborn University)

Katia Raya Rami

Topics: General

13 May

Conference: Indigenous Philosophy in Conversation with V.F. Cordova

HybridWilliam H. Miller III Department of Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University

Topics: Philosophy of the Americas

13 May

Conference: Early Career Workshop

OnlineStockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace

Topics: Value Theory

15 May

HybridDepartment of Philosophy and Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University

Monash University Philosophy and Bioethics Seminar Series

Margot Strohminger (Australian Catholic University)

Topics: General

15 May

Conference: Tackling speciesism and anthropocentrism in higher education

OnlineUniversity of York

Topics: Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

18 May

Talk: Blindness and Insight in Sirk's Magnificent Obsession

John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

Committee on Social Thought Colloquium

Nicholas Stang (University of Toronto, St. George)

Topics: General

19 May

Talk: Talk 7: Philosophy, God-Seeking, and Developmental Psychology: Stolitsa and Volkovich in Late Imperial Russia. Talk 8: The Metaphysical Tenacity of Barbara Skarga – Metaphysics in Totalitarianism

OnlineCenter for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists

Online Talk Series

Patricia Guevara Wozniak

Jil Muller (Paderborn University)

Katia Raya Rami

Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun (Saint Joseph University of Beirut)

Topics: General

20 May

Conference: Book Manuscript Workshop: How is Metaphysics Possible? A Critique of Analytic Reason

University of Chicago

Topics: General

21 May

Conference: 30th Annual IAEP Conference (Virtual)

OnlineInternational Association for Environmental Philosophy

Topics: Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of the Americas, Applied Ethics

22 May

Conference: The Aftermath of Being and Time (1927-1932)/ Die Nachwirkungen von Sein und Zeit (1927-1932)

Online The European Centre for Heidegger Studies

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophical Traditions

22 May

Conference: Woman and Human Progress in the Enlightenment

OnlineFaculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw

Topics: 17th/18th Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality, Social and Political Philosophy

22 May

Conference: Kant's Third Critique and Its Legacy

University of Chicago

Topics: History of Western Philosophy