What features\, if any\, do the multifarious philosophical traditions that have flourished in the United States and other countries in the Americas share with each other? Are any of these features endogenous to the Americas rather than mere rearticulations of ideas arising from the migratory inflow characteristic of these continents? How have distinctively American ideas (&lsquo\;American philosophy&rsquo\;) evolved in dialogue with those that originated elsewhere but took root and flourished in the Americas (&lsquo\;philosophy in the Americas&rsquo\;)? Can we come to a better understanding of present trends in American academic philosophy by shedding light on this dialectic?
\nThe 11th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference at Boston University (April 3&ndash\;4\, 2026) will explore the historical emergence\, present situation\, and future prospects of the philosophical traditions that originated in or gained prominence across the American continents. We welcome submissions on any of these themes \; from a range of approaches\, including\, but not limited \; to\, papers that engage with contemporary philosophical literature\, papers that take a historical or interpretative approach\, and papers that use sociological\, anthropological\, and political frameworks to address our topic. Priority may be given to papers that draw connections between past traditions and contemporary forms of American philosophy.
\nThe traditions encompassed by &ldquo\;American philosophy&rdquo\; include transcendentalism and pragmatism most notably\, but also lesser known movements such as process philosophy\, Boston Personalism\, the Hyperion Group\, the Pittsburgh School\, and contributions to the &ldquo\;aretaic turn&rdquo\; in ethics. These traditions were formed within a distinctive American life-world and shaped further by the international community of scholars gathered in American universities. Yet the dominant philosophical current since the mid-20th century in the American academe - known as &lsquo\;analytic&rsquo\; philosophy - originated chiefly in the works of British and German-speaking thinkers. This tradition has since then developed within the United States into myriad rival strains led by figures such as W. V. Quine\, Richard Rorty\, Hilary Putnam\, and Stanley Cavell. How have contemporary academic\, intellectual\, and sociological trends in American philosophy been conditioned by these histories? How uniform has the &lsquo\;analytic turn&rsquo\; been across the United States\, Mexico\, Brazil\, and other countries in the Americas? And how have philosophical currents in the Americas influenced philosophical trends in other parts of the world? We also invite analyses of \; how political and social movements have influenced the development of philosophy departments in universities across the Americas. \;
\nWe envision an interdisciplinary conference that includes presentations on particular thinkers and movements from the history of American philosophy\, contemporary movements in American philosophy (professional and otherwise)\, and the relationship between the two\, while also welcoming historical\, sociological\, anthropological\, and political approaches to our topic. We invite graduate students affiliated with any institution or department to submit papers on themes such as - but not limited to:
\nAmerican pragmatism\, transcendentalism\, and their legacies in 20th- and 21st- century academic philosophy.
\n20th-century schools of philosophy in the U.S. (e.g.\, traditions associated with the University of Pittsburgh\,the University of Chicago\, Harvard University\, and Boston Personalism).
\nLatin American philosophy and its dialogues with U.S. traditions.
\nAmerican variations on analytic philosophy\, phenomenology\, critical theory\, and other traditions that originated elsewhere but flourished in the U.S.
\nCross-regional influence among North\, Central\, and South America.
\nThe roles of religious institutions\, movements\, and thinkers in philosophical developments across \; the Americas.
\nMigration and diaspora (European\, African\, Indigenous\, and other) in the formation of philosophical communities and agendas in the Americas.
\nThe causes and consequences of the &lsquo\;professionalization&rsquo\; of philosophy and American academia since the mid-20th century.
\nThe responses of philosophers and philosophy departments to major political events (e.g. the Cold War\, civil rights movements\, and recent political polarization).
\nWe are pleased to announce our two keynote speakers: Sander Verhaegh (Tilburg University) and Jacoby Carter (Boston College). \;
\nSubmission Guidelines: please submit papers suitable for a 45-minute presentation including Q&\;A (roughly 6000 to 8000 words) to bu.phil.gradconference@gmail.com by December 28\, 2025 on any of the themes mentioned above. We will notify you about your acceptance in mid-to-late January\, 2026. If you are unsure about whether your paper topic would fit the conference theme\, please feel free to reach out to us at the same email address. \;
\nWe aim to provide all speakers with local accommodation and cover their travel expenses. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Alexa Yiqing Li;CN=Paolo Degiorgi;CN=Caroline B. Wall;CN=Eleanor Oser;CN=Alexander Dickison: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260407T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260407T230000 SUMMARY:Making Kin as Practice of Care: Habitable Bodies or Unexpected Alliances between Ecology\, Technology and Feminism UID:20260404T000129Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:R. Marquês de Ávila e Bolama\, Covilhã\, Portugal\, 6201-001 DESCRIPTION:Making kin is first and foremost a gesture rather than a concept. Donna Haraway \; presents it as a gesture that reacts to a world organized by rigid separations: nature and \; culture\, feminine and masculine\, human and machine\, organism and technique. To \; make kin is to learn how to live together under the epistemological horizontality of \; habitable bodies in damaged landscapes\, accepting interdependence as an ontological \; and political condition. It is not a matter of restoring a lost nature\, nor of celebrating \; technology as a promise of salvation\, but of weaving possible relations within wounded \; worlds. This proposal emerges from the recognition of the most recent narcissistic \; wound in the human imaginary: technology.
\nAfter Copernicus\, Darwin and Freud&mdash\;who \; unsettled anthropocentric pride by demonstrating that the Earth is not the center of the \; universe\, that human beings are not isolated divine creations but part of animal \; evolution\, and that we do not exercise full control over our own mind\, being also \; governed by the unconscious&mdash\;technoscience\, particularly the digital and artificial \; intelligence\, once again displaces the human from the center by challenging its cognitive\, \; ontological\, and moral exceptionalism. For Donna Haraway\, this wound should neither \; be denied nor healed\, but inhabited through a profound reconfiguration of how agency\, \; responsibility\, kinship\, space\, and time are conceived in a shared and fragmented world \; composed of human and non-human cultural entities. Making kin therefore entails \; rethinking and reinhabiting bodies\, beginning by questioning which bodies are \; recognized and how they appear. Bodies that are sites of passage\, traversed by regimes \; of gender\, race\, class\, and species\; bodies exposed to toxicities\, extraction\, and \; infrastructures\; bodies amplified\, monitored\, and reconfigured by technologies. Bodies \; that are also habitats of resistance\, care\, and the invention of new ways of dwelling. The \; pressing question is not only how to survive\, nor even how to live\, but how to render \; bodies habitable. In this sense\, this congress seeks to bring together philosophical and \; interdisciplinary reflections that explore the unexpected alliances between ecology\, \; technology and feminism\, interrogating the conditions of possibility for habitable bodies \; within contemporary ecological techniques. In doing so\, it aims to contribute to \; imagining futures in which making kin is not merely a concept\, but an urgent ethical and \; political praxis.
\nThis way\, researchers are invited to submit presentation proposals within the \; three main strands of the congress&mdash\;feminism\, ecology and technology&mdash\;placing them in \; dialogue through perspectives such as ecofeminism\, transhumanism\, new materialisms\, \; the ethics of care\, decolonial thought\, among others. Theoretical\, critical\, or situated \; approaches from philosophy and related fields are welcome\, exploring\, among other \; possibilities:
\n➢ Contemporary transformations of the categories of subject\, agency and community \; in light of posthumanism\, new materialisms\, and relational metaphysics\;
\n➢ Practices of care\, hospitality and kinship as ethical and political questions\, analyzed \; from the perspectives of care ethics\, applied ethics\, bioethics and contemporary \; political philosophy\;
\n➢ The reconfiguration of the body as a site of experience\, agency and vulnerability\, \; considering dialogues between phenomenology\, philosophy of embodiment\, gender \; studies and philosophy of technology\;
\n➢ Interdependencies between humans\, non-humans and technologies and their \; epistemological implications\, addressed through the lens of philosophy of science\, \; feminist epistemology and technoscience studies\;
\n➢ Questions of justice\, responsibility and vulnerability in wounded ecologies\, \; examined from the optic of political philosophy\, critical theory\, postcolonial theory \; and environmental ethics\;
\n➢ Critiques of traditional hierarchies (nature/culture\, human/non-human\, \; masculine/feminine) and the exploration of alternative models of kinship and \; coexistence\, drawing on metaphysics\, ontology\, social philosophy and posthuman \; theories\;
\n➢ Reflections on technology\, artificial intelligence\, biotechnology and digitalities as \; forces that displace the subject\, transform agency and redefine modes of inhabiting\, \; from the perspectives of philosophy of technology\, critical cybernetics and AI \; studies\;
\n➢ The construction of shared worlds\, kinships and interdependencies through visual \; and performing arts and cinema\, considered in light of philosophy of art\, relational \; aesthetics\, and philosophy of film\;
\n➢ The role of language\, narrative and symbolic representation in mediating bodies\, \; technologies and ecologies\, investigated through philosophy of language\, narrative \; theory\, critical semiotics\, and philosophy of communication.
\nProposals must be submitted in English\, Portuguese\, Spanish\, French\, or \; Italian to \;makingkin@outlook.pt \;by April 7\, 2026. They should include an abstract \; (up to 300 words) and a brief biographical note (up to 150 words). Presentations should \; not exceed 20 minutes. The results will be announced on 7 May 2026. This International Congress is organized within the framework of PRAXIS &ndash\; Center for \; Philosophy\, Politics and Culture\, University of Beira Interior (Covilhã\;\, Portugal).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260409T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260409T234500 SUMMARY:Time Work: Debt\, inheritance\, and intergenerational practice UID:20260404T000130Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Riga LOCATION:Minhauzen Unda\, Ainažu iela 74\, Saulkrasti\, Latvia DESCRIPTION:Call for Participation:\n\nTIME WORK.Let&rsquo\;s call it &ldquo\;time work&rdquo\;: Those practices that negotiate the relations between the living and the dead. Time work is not merely conducted by archivists and historians\, but by grave diggers and undertakers\, documentary filmmakers and memoirists\, knowledge bearers\, politicians\, war journalists\, practitioners of living traditions\, speakers of dead languages\, as well as by any and all who keep something &ndash\; a story\, a trinket\, an heirloom\, a song &ndash\; holding onto it to remember. Time work is not easily done without feeling\; It is driven by the weight of mattering\, it is attention called by the fact that now &ndash\; this\, &lsquo\;our&rsquo\; now &ndash\; is in-part composed by the shadows of what and who came before. Time work is haunting work\, it whispers of recurrences (&ldquo\;this happened before&rdquo\;)\, and implicitly describes the present as a thing pushed to the surface of existence by the collective force of innumerable spent lives\, over centuries\, over millennia.
\n\nIn the summer 2026 Studies in Remoteness symposium\, we explore the ways that time work might destabilize the remoteness of history &ndash\; its absence\, distance\, and neglect. How might we describe the work that transforms time into a weighted force that accumulates\, persists\, and can be carried forward\, often across generations? Through what actions is one accountable to the past? What does it mean to hold or carry an inheritance? In what ways are people indebted to those who came before\, and how might the living &ldquo\;pay the debts&rdquo\; that have accumulated over generations? What kinds of temporalities do different approaches to time work produce\, and what social relations are then enabled or foreclosed? Through these questions\, the symposium reflects on the entanglement of debt and history\, exploring debt as an enduring paradigm that variously informs intergenerational relations\, systems of oppression\, and historical justice.
\n\nWe particularly invite proposals that engage with voices and worldviews often marginalized or erased in dominant knowledge systems.
\n\nThat place of bad debt\, the invaluable thing
Economy is one of the technologies that captures time. Timework (or Zeitarbeit) is also a term for wage labour. Since the early 20th century\, Taylorism maximized the efficiency of labouring bodies\, in part\, by transforming work into monotonous\, repeatable tasks. In &ldquo\;Time\, Work-Discipline\, and Industrial Capitalism&rdquo\; (1967)\, E.P. Thompson analysed the industrial imposition of precise\, clock-based time measurements on human labour. In models of industrial labour\, debt accrues around &ldquo\;wasted time&rdquo\;.
Within time-as-economy\, time work can also be rendered into the kind of labour that expedites and standardizes\, and thus administrates of the past as the debts and inheritances of the present. But what does it mean to account for history as countable value? In The Undercommons (2013)\, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten provide a model for thinking about remoteness as an anti-efficient site of refuge within the economic capture of time where the &ldquo\;debtor seeks refuge among other debtors\,&rdquo\; engaging in practices that work in time to accumulate indebtedness without resolution. They write that\, &ldquo\;[t]his refuge\, this place of bad debt\, is what we call the fugitive public&rdquo\;. Harney and Moten draw from a history of debt wielded a tool of oppression to argue that refuge from debt informs black study and other practices of fugitive planning that first emerged among self-liberated slaves\, or maroon communities. And yet\,
\n\n[t]o creditors it is just a place where something is wrong\, though that something wrong &ndash\; the invaluable thing\, the thing that has no value &ndash\; is desired. Creditors seek to demolish that place\, that project\, in order to save the ones who live there from themselves and their lives.
\n\nExtractive states\, corporations\, and developers claim that communities are indebted to them for progress delivered and infrastructures that too often devalue precisely what is invaluable to those communities. While the economising of the past as debt informs important reparations processes\, heritage work\, and protections\, remoteness can also point us in another direction &ndash\; following in the footsteps of the fugitive. \;
\n\nHistorical Remoteness: Marooned and unmoored
At the seaside fishing village of Saulkrasti\, Latvia\, the ruins of the 1960s modernist catering establishment Restaurant Vārava stands marooned amidst the trees in a seaside forest. World War II refugees from Pskov and Leningrad\, who settled around Saulkrasti after Germans had driven them out of their homes\, are shown in photographs digging trenches for the Nazis in that same forest in 1944. An EU-funded project on Baltic military heritage has identified a German WWII bunker in a farmer&rsquo\;s field\, built with timber cut by refugee hands. Excavations flooded the bunker with groundwater and were reversed.
Saulkrasti&rsquo\;s ruins are perhaps not so monumental as Latvia&rsquo\;s famous Karosta Northern Forts\, falling into the sea\, but they speak just as eloquently to histories of loss\, survival\, forced migration\, fascism\, war\, and economic struggle within Europe&rsquo\;s Baltic &ldquo\;peripheries&rdquo\;. Like many communities along the North Sea and Baltic Rim\, Saulkrasti has been historically shaped by movements over water and its beach has since time immemorial provided a thoroughfare for fish\, trade\, language\, culture\, violence\, exchange\, and upheaval.
How can our time work engage with Saulkrasti as a place where time work is already going on? Hosted within the Nordic Summer University\, a mobile institution which holds symposia for interdisciplinary research at different sites throughout the Nordic and Baltic regions\, Studies in Remoteness invites proposals from all fields to our summer 2026 symposium\, and explicitly encourages practice-based and community-inclusive research that takes up the challenge of engaging directly with the site and the seaside\, and thus to thoughts that slip into the water with the maroon to contemplate and critique historical narratives of moorage\, abandonment\, and the uncertainty of being unmoored. What poetic and material threads connect Saulkrasti and Latvian histories to wider emotional and material legacies of remoteness as they flow across time and partake in the patterns of dependency\, exploitation\, and exclusion structured by legal and economic systems? We are particularly interested in work that draws the site into relations with the long and layered histories of the Baltic rim through ruptures and disruptions and in pasts that remain present &ndash\; not as something stable or settled &ndash\; but as partial\, affective\, and unresolved.
HOW TO APPLY
\nApril 9\, deadline for proposals from those applying for NSU scholarship
May 1\, deadline for proposals from those with secured funding (institutional\, self-funded\, etc.)
May 15\, deadline for non-presenting participant applications*
June 1\, last day for registration and payment
*Non-presenting participants are very welcome\, but we are at this time unable to support their attendance with scholarship or grant funding.
The Studies in Remoteness summer 2026 session &ldquo\;Time Work&rdquo\; will be structured into a series of thematic days based on participant proposals. Applicants are invited to envision research presentations\, speaker panels\, short workshops\, performances\, experiments\, roundtables\, and reading and/or discussion sessions. Applications should include :
[a] an abstract of the proposed contribution\;
[b] bio(s) of the presenter(s)\;
[c] statement describing financial need (or institutional support)
&ndash\; 1-3 pages total please!
Email applications to:
lindsey.drury@fu-berlin.de
helenahildur@gmail.com
Who can apply?
Studies in Remoteness is dedicated to fostering an intellectually rigorous and practice-inclusive context equally open to researchers\, educators\, artists\, curators\, architects\, community leaders and elders\, activists\, students\, among others. The project aims to create meeting grounds for collaborative and community-based research work that critically and productively inquires infrastructure\, visibility\, performativity\, and historicity. The Nordic Summer University offers ECTS points to students.
We welcome proposals on topics\, including\, for example:
\n\nCall for Contributions
\nPhilosophy in Technology Conference &ndash\; 5th Edition: AI\, Human Uniqueness\, and Emerging Forms of Agency.
10&ndash\;11 April 2026
We invite contributions to the 5th edition of the annual event &ndash\; Philosophy in Technology Conference. The overall objective of this conference is to reflect on the role of philosophy in technology and engineering. We seek studies of salient philosophical dimensions or underpinnings of technology that demonstrate how philosophical insights shed new light on what technology does or overlooks\, and how technology is influenced by underlying philosophical assumptions.
\nThe central topic of the 2026 conference is the evolution of AI toward human-like capacities. Artificial Intelligence (AI) has evolved dramatically since its inception\, from simple computational systems to advanced machine learning models capable of mimicking human behavior. At the same time\, philosophical\, ethical\, and social implications concerning the nature of humanity\, agency\, and cognition have come to the forefront. We propose to explore two interconnected themes: the evolution of AI concepts toward human-like agents and the potential transformation or reduction of human uniqueness as AI systems advance.
\nThe conference draws on a multidisciplinary approach\, combining insights from AI research\, philosophy of mind\, cognitive science\, ethics\, and social theory. Key concepts from philosophy of technology\, posthumanism\, philosophy of mind\, and machine ethics will be central to the analysis. Beyond these perspectives\, the conference also invites participants to rethink the role of philosophy itself and the possibilities for philosophical inquiry in the context of emerging technologies.
\nProposed topics may:
\nPresentation Formats
\nIn addition to standard 20-minute presentations followed by discussion\, the conference will feature a dedicated Flash Presentation &\; Poster Forum.
\nFlash presentations will consist of a 5-minute focused research talk\, designed to present a clearly articulated thesis\, conceptual framework\, or emerging research problem. Each flash talk will be accompanied by a poster (printed or digital)\, enabling extended discussion during a structured poster session.
\nThis format aims to:
\nParticipants are invited to indicate in their submission whether they wish to be considered for a standard presentation or for the Flash Presentation &\; Poster Forum.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nPresentation proposals should be between 500 and 600 words (including references -APA7 ) and submitted in PDF format. Together with the presentation proposal\, please send a short CV (approximately 150words).
\nIn the subject line\, please write:
&ldquo\;Presentation Proposal: 5th PinT Conference.&rdquo\;
Proposals should be sent to:
philosophyintechnology[at]gmail.com
Conference participation is free of charge.
\nConference Format
\nThe workshop will take place:
\nThe language of the event is English.
\nFor more information\, please visit the conference homepage:
https://sites.google.com/pwr.edu.pl/pint-2026/main
Important Dates
\nThe workshop is organized by:
Wrocław University of Science and Technology\;
Pontifical University of John Paul II\;
Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (Commission on Philosophy of Science).
Any questions regarding the workshop may be sent to Łukasz Mściławski:
philosophyintechnology[at]gmail.com
CALL FOR PAPERS
\nWarwick Annual Continental Philosophy Conference (WCPC)
\nTracing Genealogy
\n\;
\nEvent Type: Graduate Conference (On-site)
\nLocation: University of Warwick\, United Kingdom
\nConference Dates: 29th&ndash\;30th June 2026
\nTopic Areas: Continental Philosophy\; Genealogy\; Nietzsche\; Foucault
\nConference Details
\nWithin Continental philosophy\, genealogy is most associated with Nietzsche&rsquo\;s critical historicisations and/or psychologisations of our moral practices and beliefs&mdash\;and with Foucault&rsquo\;s subsequent &lsquo\;histories of the present&rsquo\; investigations into the contingent development of contemporary institutions and the discourses surrounding them. However\, the notion of genealogy is not confined to the Nietzschean tradition. David Hume&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;experimental&rsquo\; enquiries into the origins of our religious and causal beliefs&mdash\;offering more traditional debunking arguments&mdash\;are also increasingly considered to come under its methodological umbrella.
\nConversely\, Bernard Williams\, drawing on Locke and Hobbes\, develops a vindicatory form of genealogy that seeks to legitimate our existing ethical virtues by uncovering the genuine moral and political needs they address. More recently\, Julian Ratcliffe has labelled a strand of contemporary Anglophone work&mdash\;associated with figures such as Brandom\, Dutilh Novaes\, and Queloz&mdash\;rationalising genealogy. This approach seeks to uncover normative commitments latent within existing conceptual resources\, thereby connecting genealogy to themes of Hegelian reconciliation and Carnapian conceptual engineering.
\nThe conference aims to bring together work that examines genealogical approaches and the fundamental questions they raise about critique\, normativity\, historical explanation\, and philosophical method\, highlighting their continuing importance across Continental and Anglophone philosophy.
\nTo support these aims\, the conference will provide a constructive and supportive environment for detailed philosophical feedback. Presenters will deliver a 30-minute paper\, followed by a 5-minute response and a 25-minute open discussion. We aim to arrange faculty respondents for all graduate speakers.
\nThe term &lsquo\;graduate conference&rsquo\; is intended in a broad sense. We also welcome submissions by researchers who obtained their PhD in recent years.
\nKeynote Speakers
\nAlexander Prescott-Couch (University of Oxford)
\nCatarina Dutilh Novaes (VU Amsterdam)
\nIndicative Questions
\nIndicative questions applicants might consider include (but are not limited to):
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How does genealogy diverge from (or relate to) philosophical hermeneutics?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; To what extent does the so-called &lsquo\;genetic fallacy&rsquo\; limit genealogy&rsquo\;s critical force?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Can the concept of genealogy be applied to thinkers beyond those conventionally classified as genealogists\, &mdash\;e.g. Marx\, Heidegger&mdash\;who\, although not explicitly employing the notion\, advance plausibly genealogical (as well as quasi- or pseudo-genealogical) arguments?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What could speculative histories of our future\, as opposed to our past or present\, yield for philosophical enquiry?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What methodological criteria\, if any\, distinguish successful genealogies from merely historical or rhetorical narratives?
\nWe particularly welcome submissions which place the Anglophone and Continental traditions into dialogue. To this end\, we also welcome submissions relating to the topic of history in philosophy more broadly&mdash\;although applicants explicitly engaging with genealogy will be prioritised.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nYour submission should include:
\n1. \; \; \; \; \; \; A fully anonymised paper suitable for a 30-minute presentation (max. 3\,500 words\, excluding bibliography and/or abstract).
\n2. \; \; \; \; \; \; A \;separate cover sheet \;containing:
\no \; \; Name
\no \; \; Institutional affiliation
\no \; \; Contact information
\no \; \; Paper title
\no \; \; Brief biographical note \;(max. \;300 words).
\nPlease send all documents to the WCPC committee at wcpc@warwick.ac.uk. Please use &lsquo\;Submission: Tracing Genealogy&rsquo\; in the subject line and title your submitted paper as follows: \;WCPC_short_title \;(e.g.: \;WCPC_Nietzsche&rsquo\;s_Genealogies). Submissions that are nearly complete drafts are also welcome and will be given equal consideration.
\nSubmission &\; Notification Timeline
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Submission deadline: 18:00 (GMT) on 15th April 2026
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Acceptance notification: 15th May 2026
\n\;
\nTravel Bursary
\nSubject to funding\, a limited number of partial travel bursaries may be available. \;Applicants from junior\, non-traditional\, or underrepresented backgrounds are encouraged to indicate this in their cover sheets and will be given priority for support.
\nEnquiry &\; Detailed Instructions
\nFor any enquiries\, please contact: wcpc@warwick.ac.uk.
\nFor further information and detailed instructions\, please visit our website: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/philosophy/research/activities/postkantian/events/wcpc/
\nOrganising Committee
\nRozemin Keshvani (Lead Organiser)
\nKeyu Qiu (Lead Organiser)
\nOscar Crocker
\nShifan Zhou
\nSam Ronalds
\nAdditional Information
\nThe WCPC is an annual event within The Centre for Research in Post-Kantian European Philosophy (University of Warwick). The organising committee adheres to the BPA and SWIP guidelines \;on equality\, diversity\, accessibility\, and environmental sustainability.
ORGANIZER;CN=Rozemin Keshvani;CN=Keyu Qiu;CN=Oscar Crocker;CN=Shifan Zhou;CN=Sam Ronalds: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260415T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260415T230000 SUMMARY:Call for Papers: "Philosophy of Translation" (2-2026) UID:20260404T000133Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Philosophy of Translation \;invites submissions for its 2026 second issue (Autumn-Winter). As a newly established international journal dedicated to the philosophical dimensions of translation in all its forms&mdash\;linguistic\, cognitive\, political\, ethical\, technological\, aesthetic and cultural&mdash\;we welcome contributions that explore translation not merely as a linguistic or practical activity\, but as a fundamental mode of thought\, a form of mediation\, and a condition for understanding across differences.
\nThis Call for Papers &ndash\; as the first call announced by the newly founded journal &ndash\; seeks to reach and engage international scholars from philosophy\, translation studies\, linguistics\, cognitive science\, literary and cultural studies\, semiotics\, anthropology\, and related fields\, in line with one of the main goals of Philosophy of Translation\, i.e.\, to \; provide a platform for transdisciplinary philosophical reflections on translation.
\n(For more details on the journal&rsquo\;s Aims&\;Scopes \;seehttps://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpht20/about-this-journal#journal-metrics)
\n\;For this issue we particularly encourage contributions engaging with one or more of the following thematic areas:
\n1. Philosophy of Translation
\nHow can philosophical problems be approached through the lens of translation?
\nHow can philosophical concepts support\, transform\, or deconstruct foundational assumptions in translation theory?
\nHow might &ldquo\;philosophies of translation\,&rdquo\; grounded in different linguistic and cultural worlds\, be conceptualised\, articulated\, and compared?
\n2. Ontological and Epistemological Foundations
\nWhat ontological and epistemological commitments underlie existing theories of translation?
\nHow does translation shape meaning\, knowledge\, interpretive understanding\, and is translation a mode of knowledge production in its own right?
\nWhat is the ontological status of an &ldquo\;original&rdquo\; text in relation to its translation?
\n3. Translation\, Cognition\, and the Philosophy of Mind
\nWhat can translational activity reveal about the mind\, body\, and their embeddedness in the world?
\nHow do phenomenological\, enactivist\, or embodied accounts illuminate the lived experience of translating and understanding?
\nIn what sense is translation a cognitive\, affective\, or sensorimotor process?
\n4. Translation in the History of Philosophy
\nHow have philosophical ideas historically circulated\, transformed\, or been constituted through acts of translation?
\nCan philosophical thinkers be reinterpreted through their own translational practices or through the translations of their works?
\nWhat novel insights in the history of philosophy emerge when it is read through the prism of translated concepts?
\n5. Political and Ethical Questions
\nHow do political and ethical considerations shape key concepts such as fidelity\, freedom\, authorship\, originality\, responsibility\, violence\, or justice?
\nWhat &ldquo\;politics of translation&rdquo\; might be required in contemporary societies?
\nHow should we understand translation as a form of labour&mdash\; material\, cognitive\, social\, or symbolic?
\n6. Technology\, AI\, and Translation
\nWhat are the philosophical implications of machine translation\, neural architectures\, and large language models?
\nHow do automation and human&ndash\;machine interaction reshape translational agency\, expertise\, and epistemic responsibility?
\nWhat new concepts are needed to understand AI-supported translation practices?
We particularly encourage translators of philosophical works to reflect on above questions and send their theoretical contributions grounded in their translational experience. \;
Manuscripts should be submitted via the official web site: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpht20
\nResearch articles should be between 7\,000 to 9\,000 words (excluding the abstract\, tables\, references\, figure or table captions\, and endnotes) with bilingual \;abstracts written in English and another language.
\nPlease note that this journal welcomes manuscripts in all languages.
\nInstruction for authors: \;https://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?show=instructions&\;journalCode=rpht20 \;
\n\;Deadline: Apr 15\, 2026
\nFor any inquiries\, please contact the editorial team at: \;Aleksandar.Trklja@uibk.ac.at
sasa.hrnjez@unifi.it
Call for Papers
\nInternational Association of the Philosophy of Sport Conference
\nSeptember 1 &ndash\; 4\, 2026\, University of Sã\;o Paulo\, Sã\;o Paulo\, Brazil
\nThe \;International Association for the Philosophy of Sport \;invites the submission of abstracts to be considered for presentation at the 53rd annual \;IAPS \;meeting on September 1 &ndash\; 4\, 2026 \;and essays for the \;2026 \;R. Scott Kretchmar Student Essay Award. The conference will be held at the University of Sã\;o Paulo\, Sã\;o Paulo\, Brazil and will be hosted by Soraia Chung Saura and Ana Zimmermann. Please visit the conference website for more information.
\nAbstracts are welcome on any area of philosophy of sport (broadly construed)\, including metaphysics\, epistemology\, aesthetics\, and ethics\, and from any theoretical approach\, including analytic philosophy and critical theory. While \;IAPS \;recognizes\, values\, and encourages interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies\, acceptance is contingent on the philosophical content of the project. Emerging scholars are encouraged to submit works in progress. You may also submit suggestions for roundtable discussions or workshops. \;
\nThe deadline for abstract submission is \;April 1\, 2026. Contributors will be notified about the status of their abstracts by May 24\, 2026. \;
\nConference Requirements: All conference presenters shall register for and attend the conference to have their paper included on the conference program. Presenters must also be members of IAPS (either student or full). New members may register for IAPS membership at the following \;www.iaps.net/join-iaps/
\nThe abstract submission site can be found here: http://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/5f65893d-de85-4d72-833a-d228e77e442f
\nThe student essay submission site can be found here: http://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/24d8ad7f-efe3-4b51-a860-2c68db93d15b
\nPlease direct any questions to the IAPS Conference Chair\, Colleen English (iaps.confchair@gmail.com).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260417T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260418T170000 SUMMARY:ON SEEKING A COMMUNITY OF TASTE UID:20260404T000135Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Auburn University\, Auburn\, United States DESCRIPTION:In 1965\, Simone de Beauvoir wrote that the art of &lsquo\;literature is the privileged site of inter-subjectivity&rsquo\;. \;Just a few years later\, writing in the \;British Journal of Aesthetics\, R. K. Elliott affirmed that &lsquo\;we are required to assume the possibility of a universal community of taste and to do what is in our power to bring it into being&rsquo\;. In a related Kantian tradition\, but across the ocean\, in New York\, Hannah Arendt argued that \;only in aesthetics &lsquo\;did [Kant] consider men in the plural\, as living in a community&rsquo\;. \;
\nThis is not a work of the past\, or merely a 20th-century conviction. \;The idea of a community that holds together by members&rsquo\; attachment to art and beauty has been the focus of attention in the last few years in academic writings on aesthetics as much as it has been in the 20th \;century. On the face of it\, this is because the notion of a community that holds together on aesthetic terms is intuitively appealing. \;Yet\, there is also much to debate. Therefore\, \;with support from the \;American Society for Aesthetics\, a \;2-day workshop at Auburn University will consider the nature \;and importance \;of \;aesthetic \;community. Some \;of \;the questions to be explored \;at the workshop \;are:
\nWhat is needed to sustain a community of taste? Is agreement in taste required? Is taste the right conceptual focus with respect to aesthetic community\, or is it outdated and limited? What is the potential for diversity within aesthetic communities? \;How can aesthetic modes of presentation and activity constitute meaningful relationships? How do aesthetic communities simultaneously both include and exclude\, and what is the aesthetic and ethical significance of these functions? How should we think about the public nature of aesthetic and artistic objects of attention and their potential to give us access to reality\, including the reality of other minds? What are the intersecting and differing roles of reasons and norms for conversations within aesthetic communities? What is the role of art and beauty in destabilizing community? \;Broadly\, what is good\, problematic\, or unclear in various appeals to aesthetic community?
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260420T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260420T090000 SUMMARY:Algorithmic Bias\, Phallicism & Counter-Insurgency: Understanding the Racialized Male Target UID:20260404T000136Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Algorithmic Bias\, Phallicism &\; Counter-Insurgency: Understanding the Racialized Male Target
\nHosted by the Clay-Gilmore Institute for Philosophy\, Technology\, and Counterinsurgency (CG-IPTC) in collaboration with the Algorithmic Bias Project in Canada &\; Centre for Ethics\, University of Toronto
\nWorkshop (in-person &\; online): Summer 2026
\nConference (University of Toronto): Winter 2027
\nEdited Anthology (same title): 2027&ndash\;2028
\nOverview
\nThe Clay-Gilmore Institute for Philosophy\, Technology\, and Counterinsurgency (CG-IPTC)\, in collaboration with the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto\, invites abstract submissions for an interdisciplinary workshop and subsequent international conference addressing how racism is being reproduced through AI and how AI technologies can be located within the long history of slavery and colonization.
\nThis initiative situates algorithms\, data infrastructures\, and AI-enabled systems of surveillance within longer genealogies of colonial militarism\, genocide\, racial capitalism\, and counterinsurgency doctrine. We are especially interested in work that theorizes and historicizes the racialized male body as a primary site of technological targeting\, focusing on how Black and racialized men have been repeatedly constructed as objects of risk\, control\, expendability\, and elimination across colonial\, military\, and data-driven regimes. This project develops what we call the technologization of counterinsurgency: the translation of racialized fear\, militarized governance\, and tactical logics into algorithmic systems of prediction\, classification\, and surveillance.
\nWe seek 10&ndash\;12 contributors whose work will form the basis of:
\n&bull\; a Summer 2026 in-person workshop
\n&bull\; a Winter 2027 conference at the University of Toronto
\n&bull\; an edited anthology by the same title
\nCore Themes &ndash\; Submissions should engage one or more of the following themes:
\nAlgorithmic Targeting and the Racialization of Risk
\nPhallicism\, Gendercide\, and the Political Construction of the &ldquo\;Dangerous Male&rdquo\;
\nCounterinsurgency Logics in Contemporary AI Systems
\nGenocide Studies and Slow Violence: From Camps to Code
\nNecro-Being\, Social Death\, and Digital Ontologies of the Racialized Male
\nMilitarized Data and the War Origins of Artificial Intelligence
\nMapping the Racialized Body: Computer Vision and the Politics of Recognition
\nStatistical Objects and the Colonial Invention of Populations
\nPhilosophy of Technology and the Myth of Neutral Systems
\nPredictive Policing\, &ldquo\;Pre-Crime\,&rdquo\; and Temporal Violence
\nResistance\, Refusal\, and Counter-Surveillance Practices
\nArt\, Visualization\, and the Algorithmic Imagination
\nWe particularly encourage work that:
\n&bull\; Connects AI technologies to colonial\, genocidal\, and military histories
\n&bull\; Engages Black Male Studies\, Africana philosophy\, Black Power thought\, and especially Phallicism
\n&bull\; Analyzes facial recognition\, predictive policing\, gang databases\, drone warfare\, biometric surveillance\, risk modeling\, or &ldquo\;pattern-of-life&rdquo\; technologies
\n&bull\; Employs philosophical\, historical\, ethnographic\, legal\, technical\, artistic\, or data-driven methods
\nSubmissions may be traditional academic papers or include creative\, visual\, or experimental components.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nPlease submit the following materials by April 15\, 2026:
\n&bull\; Abstract (300&ndash\;500 words)
\n&bull\; Short bio (max 150 words)
\n&bull\; Institutional affiliation (if any)
\n&bull\; Contact information
\nSend submissions to: \;miron.claygilmore@utoronto.ca
\nSubject line: \;Algorithmic Bias/CG-IPTC CFP &ndash\; [Your Last Name]
\nWe strongly encourage submissions from:
\n&bull\; Early-career researchers
\n&bull\; Black\, Indigenous\, and racialized scholars
\n&bull\; Scholars from the Global South
\n&bull\; Independent researchers and artists
\n&bull\; Community\, abolitionist\, and activist practitioners
\nLimited travel support will be available for selected participants when possible.
\nTimeline
\nAbstract deadline: April 15\, 2026
\nDecisions announced: May 15\, 2026
\nWorkshop (selected participants): July 2026
\nFull paper drafts due: December 2026
\nConference: March 2027 (University of Toronto)
\nFinal revised papers due: May 2027
\nEdited anthology publication: 2027&ndash\;2028
\nAbout the Hosts
\nThe Clay-Gilmore Institute for Philosophy\, Technology\, and Counterinsurgency (CG-IPTC) \;is an independent research institute dedicated to examining the connections between of artificial intelligence\, liberal humanism\, racialization\, and militarized state power. Through philosophical inquiry\, historical analysis\, and data-driven research\, it investigates the technological infrastructures that govern life\, death\, and social control. Website: \;https://www.cg-iptc.org
\nThe Centre for Ethics\, University of Toronto \;is a leading interdisciplinary research center engaged in critical inquiry into emerging technologies\, governance\, and public life. It supports innovative scholarship at the intersection of ethics\, science\, and society.
\nTogether\, this collaboration responds to the urgent need to interrogate the role of AI in the reproduction of racialized violence\, population control\, and the management of life and death in the contemporary world. Website: \;https://algorithmicbias.ca
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260420T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260420T230000 SUMMARY:Chiasma Journal Volume 11: The Question of Sovereignty UID:20260404T000137Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Theme and Scope:
\nSovereignty\, often imagined as the fixed and self-contained authority of the modern state is historically inseparable from colonization\, which transforms it into a technology of conquest that divided populations into those protected by law and those rendered exploitable outside it. Citizenship for the metropole\, subjugation for the colony exposed sovereignty as a project of territorial expansion rather than a universal political form. A dynamic that persisted after formal decolonization through economic dependency\, Cold War geopolitics\, and the global financial institutions that disciplined postcolonial states.
\nWith the rise of neoliberalism\, sovereignty was further hollowed out as states ceded power to markets\, transnational capital\, and technocratic bodies\, transforming governments from sites of popular will into managers of competitiveness\, debt\, and austerity. Today\, we can say that the nation-sate faces a crisis in which borders tighten as neoliberal sovereignty disperses across supply chains\, privatization\, and supranational agreements\, producing a paradoxical condition: some states amplify coercion and nationalist rhetoric invoking &ldquo\;the people&rdquo\; or the &ldquo\;popular&rdquo\;\, while the populations invoked experience sovereignty less as a democratic self-rule than as a fragmented apparatus of exclusion.
\nIn this conjuncture\, the governed are left behind\; they are excluded from decision-making centers. Fed up with this logic\, some of them become ready to exclude others to simulate their inclusion within the state. Even educational institutions are affected\, becoming a battleground&mdash\;a terrain to be conquered by different sides of the current political spectrum. This opened different questions that can need to be addressed: Is there a way to understand sovereignty as a universal right to self-determination? Can we\, as citizens\, propose a practice to exercise autonomy in individual and communal spheres? What has happened to the common or communal identity constitution in our present paradox? Can we still think of cultural phenomena such as folklore\, rituals\, religion\, traditions\, and forms of discourse as forms of cohesion\, common forms of governmentality\, or governance?
\nTo address these questions\, we propose Canada as an occasion and a site for theorizing sovereignty and challenging established genealogies. Its historical-political positioning toward the U.S. empire\, its colonial history\, and its Indigenous theory that seeks to build alternative epistemes in the face of colonialism and neoliberalism\, together with its struggle for sovereignty\, can be extremely useful for grounding our theoretical thought. That is why we invite different disciplines (but not limited to) like \;philosophy\, cultural studies\, indigenous theory\, political science\, marxism\, gender and sexuality studies\, postcolonial studies\, sociology\, anarchism and anti-anarchism\, to think with us the role of sovereignty in our current historical bloc.
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nChiasma \;accepts any and all manuscripts related to the topic at hand. That being said\, submissions should be theoretically rigorous and diverse\, in keeping with the trans-disciplinary nature of the journal. We ask for complete papers between 6\,000&ndash\;10\,000 words that conform to a slightly modified version of the Chicago Manual of Style with footnotes and no bibliography (see our \;Style Guidelines). If there are original works of art that you think might fit within the theme\, please get in contact via the email below. When submitting your manuscript\, please include two documents:
\nPlease submit your manuscript via our submission page \;here. The deadline for submissions is \;April 20th\, 2026.
\nShould you have any questions\, comments\, or concerns\, please don&rsquo\;t hesitate to get in touch with us at \;chiasma@uwo.ca
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260423T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260424T170000 SUMMARY:Raising a Mirror to the University: Theory and the Canadian Institution UID:20260404T000138Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:1151 Richmond St\, London\, Canada\, N6A 3K7 DESCRIPTION:The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University is pleased to announce our in-person 2026 Annual Theory Conference\, an event that will also commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Theory Centre. The Conference will take place from Thursday\, April 23 - Friday\, April 24 2026.
\nThe theoretical objective of the conference is twofold. Our first objective is centered around the ceremonious occasion of the CSTC&rsquo\;s 40th anniversary. This occasion allows us to foreground theory as an intellectual tradition and academic practice that has shaped the Canadian university. This comes at a critical time when the programs of the humanities and social sciences within the university are being challenged across the country by austere policies and ideologies that have increasingly favoured more practical (or profitable) disciplines. This poses the broader question of the university&rsquo\;s role as a public institution\, as well as the function that it ought to play in contributing to broader social goods such as culture\, aesthetics\, and democracy.
\nOur second objective is centered around the problematic of Canadian identity. Building off our first objective\, this conference aims to provide a ground for theorists and critical scholars to consider theory&rsquo\;s role in shaping the various institutions that affect Canadian identity. This comes at a time when the question of national identity has taken center stage within political discourse and has been continuously leveraged by power players to achieve political outcomes within Canada. In posing this question\, our conference aims to establish space for critical theory to engage with the public discourse in ways that are both nationally situated and generative of a Canadian intellectual tradition not necessarily tied to national frameworks.
\n
Possible topics may include\, but are not limited to:
● The role of theory within/outside the university
\n○ Theory as praxis\; theory and hegemony
\n○ The question of theory and practice
\n○ The Canadian intellectual tradition (Canada&rsquo\;s successes and failures)
\n● The commodification of the university
\n○ Historically contingent vs structurally necessary
\n○ The division of disciplines and the defunding of the humanities
\n○ Democracy and Capitalism\, the University as a site of struggle
\n● The question of Canadian Identity
\n○ Canadian self-conception: One or many or (no) Canadas?
\n○ Literature and Canadian Identity (e.g.\, Frye&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;garrison mentality&rsquo\;\; Atwood&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;Survival&rsquo\;)
\n○ Negation of Americanism\; Canadian identity in an era of declining American hegemony
\n○ Mosaic vs. Melting Pot\; Cultural Diversity vs. Cultural Difference (immigration and the Canadian University)
\n○ Localized cultural identities
\n○ Theory\, Indigenous Sovereignty and Decolonization
\n○ Does Canada have a national question?
The Annual Theory Conference endeavours to cultivate a forum for diverse engagement from graduate students and scholars with a broad range of backgrounds and approaches. This year we are seeking submissions across the humanities and social sciences that deal critically and theoretically with problems related to the university and national identity in a Canadian context.
\nSubmission Instructions:
\nSubmissions will undergo anonymous review. Please submit proposals as a .docx or .pdf file to cstcconference@uwo.ca. Accepted candidates will be notified by email.
Submission Deadline: February 20th\, 2026
Please submit:
1. A cover page that includes: the title of your proposed presentation\, your name\, affiliation(s)\,
\nemail address\, a brief (150-200 word) bio\, and 3-5 keywords for your presentation
\n2. A separate document that includes: the title of your presentation and an abstract of 150- 200
\nwords describing the intentions of your presentation.
ORGANIZER;CN=Ulysse Sizov: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261126T170000 SUMMARY:Séminaire Arendt 2026 UID:20260404T000139Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Le Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone\, cré\;é\; en 2024\, vise à\; favoriser une synergie entre celles et ceux qui\, des amateurs aux chercheuses\, fré\;quentent la pensé\;e de Hannah Arendt. Dans cette optique\, nous cherchons à\; mettre en place un rendez-vous ré\;gulier pour en discuter les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects.
\nDu fait de l&rsquo\;é\;tendue de la francophonie\, ces sé\;minaires auront lieu en ligne. Leur principe sera le suivant : les participant-e-s auront tous et toutes pré\;alablement lu un article ou un chapitre ré\;cent\, lequel sera pré\;senté\; trè\;s rapidement par souci de prioriser les é\;changes (10 minutes) par son autrice ou auteur. À\; partir de celui-ci\, un-e membre du ré\;seau ouvrira (5 min) à\; un dé\;bat plus large afin de discuter\, outre l&rsquo\;article\, les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects de l&rsquo\;&oelig\;uvre d&rsquo\;Arendt (1h30).
\nProgramme 2026\nEn 2026\, nous proposons quatre sé\;ances ordinaires du sé\;minaire et une sé\;ance spé\;ciale : «\; Arendt et la science é\;conomique »\;\, «\; Arendt et le travail »\;\, «\; Liberté\;\, volonté\;\, politique »\;\, «\; Arendt et la violence »\;\, «\; Philosophie\, é\;ducation et politique »\;.
\nLe sé\;minaire est ouvert à\; toutes et tous sans inscription pré\;alable \; n&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas à\; venir y assister et y participer. Les articles et textes discuté\;s sont disponibles sur le site du RAF. N&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas non plus à\; nous contacter pour toute demande d&rsquo\;information complé\;mentaire.
\nLe RAF ?\nLe Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone (RAF) se veut un espace divers et pluriel\, rassemblant une communauté\; de doctorant-e-s\, enseignant-e-s\, chercheurs/ses\, intellectuel-le-s et toute personne inté\;ressé\;e ou engagé\;e dans l'é\;tude et la diffusion de la pensé\;e d'Hannah Arendt en France et le monde francophone. À\; travers cette plateforme\, nous souhaitons favoriser les é\;changes intellectuels\, offrir une visibilité\; accrue aux travaux de recherche et cré\;er des liens solides entre francophones s'inté\;ressant à\; et puisant dans l'&oelig\;uvre de cette autrice majeure du XXe siè\;cle.
\nOutre l&rsquo\;organisation de ce sé\;minaire et d'é\;vè\;nements acadé\;miques lié\;s à\; la pensé\;e d'Arendt\, le ré\;seau actualise continuellement un site web qui met à\; disposition : une bibliographie des textes de langue franç\;aise consacré\;s à\; Arendt ou la mobilisant\, un annuaire des membres du ré\;seau\, un agenda des activité\;s francophones qui lui sont dé\;dié\;es et une lettre d'information mensuelle.
\nN'hé\;sitez pas à\; rejoindre le ré\;seau ou à\; nous contacter pour rejoindre l&rsquo\;é\;quipe d&rsquo\;animation !
\n ORGANIZER;CN="Rémi Zanni": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260504T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260504T170000 SUMMARY:MANCEPT Workshop on Intimate (In)Justices UID:20260404T000140Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Manchester\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Convenors: Kristin Kä\;uper\, Isobel Logan\, Charlotte Curran (University of Leeds)
Contact: \;i.j.logan@leeds.ac.uk
This workshop will explore the relationship between intimacy and justice. We encourage speakers to ask: When and how should considerations of justice extend into our intimate lives and influence our actions? How are intimate relationships shaped by\, reproduce\, and resistant to broader structures of injustice and oppression? Should we worry about the distribution of opportunities for intimacy? How do we balance the responsibilities of the individual\, communities\, and the state in promoting just forms of relating?
We hope to better understand the ways in which hegemonic norms\, institutions\, and intersecting forms of oppression structure intimate life\, governing who is able to form certain relationships\, which relationships are socially valued\, and how power operates within them. We seek to explore the potential of intimate practices and communities of care as sites of resistance\, solidarity\, and social transformation.
By intimacy\, we mean forms of closeness and connection upon which special relationships are based. This encompasses a wide range of relationships\, including but not limited to sexual\, romantic\, platonic\, collegial\, familial\, and parental relationships\, whether in-person or technologically mediated.
We are particularly interested in submissions which explore non-normative ways of relating (e.g. asexuality/aromanticism\, polyamory\, relationship anarchy) and matters of intersecting identities that are underrepresented in philosophy (e.g. sexuality\, disability\, race\, age\, socio-economic status).
We invite abstracts of no more than 500 words for a presentation of approximately 30 minutes to engage with the theme of intimate (in)justices. Here is a non-exclusive list of some indicative questions:
We actively welcome in-progress work and seek to foster a friendly and collaborative environment. Postgraduate and early career researchers are especially welcome. We are also receptive to interdisciplinary explorations of these ideas\, provided they are accessible to non-specialists.
Please send your abstract to \;i.j.logan@leeds.ac.uk \;by end of day on the 4th of May\, 2026. Selected speakers will be notified by the 18th of May\, in time for eligible participants to apply for a bursary.
Schools and universities are increasingly becoming places that reflect global struggles: from culture wars over curriculum content to economic pressures that radically change teachers&rsquo\; working conditions\, the availability of education\, and the very purpose of learning. Within them\, the interests of various social actors inevitably intersect\, and often clash. Educational institutions can serve as instruments of control and reproduction of the existing order &ndash\; entrenching inequalities\, normalizing authority\, and limiting dissent. Conversely\, education can also be a site of resistance - a space for critical thinking\, challenging\, social mobilization\, and the creation of alternatives.
\nContemporary education has a strong moral\, political\, and ideological dimension: it aims\, among other things\, to educate active citizens and skilled entrepreneurs\, encourage care for others and the environment\, foster national identity\, and a sense of belonging. The values of the wider community spill over into the educational system\, but the reverse can also be true - educational institutions and educational actors can contribute to shaping the values of the wider community through their own\, autonomous values. If we view educational institutions as communities that possess a certain autonomy and resilience in relation to the local and wider community\, questions arise about the principles on which they should be built as good communities.
\nOn the other hand\, contemporary social and educational contexts confront us with forms of community that consolidate themselves through exclusion\, as well as with forms of resistance directed against democratic values. Rather than presupposing their emancipatory character\, the conference invites critical reflection on the many directions and forms that community and resistance can take in educational contexts. This also reopens the question of what education itself is\, and ought to be\, under present social conditions.
\nThe conference aims to open an interdisciplinary discussion on the interrelationships between education\, community\, and resistance. Authors are invited to address the following\, as well as other questions they deem relevant to the conference theme:
\n&bull\; What is the meaning of education in new social circumstances?
\n&bull\; In what way does education reproduce or challenge power relations and dominant ideologies?
\n&bull\; In relation to what\, when\, and how can education become a place and practice of resistance?
\n&bull\; How do practices within educational institutions contribute to the transformation of the wider community?
\n&bull\; What can we learn from the movements and protests spurred by educational actors?
\n&bull\; In what ways do various forms of democratic participation in education influence the reflection on and the construction of community?
\n&bull\; What pedagogical practices nurture community\, togetherness\, and a sense of belonging within educational institutions and outside of them? How to overcome alienation within educational institutions?
\n&bull\; How do different forms of non-formal education within the community contribute to the development of critical awareness\, collective action\, and resistance?
\n&bull\; Given the current social circumstances\, can the concepts of community and resistance still function as markers of progressive educational practices?
\nThe conference is open to theoretical and empirical contributions\, case studies\, as well as comparative approaches from all disciplines of social sciences and humanities.
\nKeynote speakers:
\nProf. Michalinos Zembylas\, Open University of Cyprus
\nProf. Aleksandar Baucal\, University of Belgrade
\nProf.Helen Haste\, \;University of Bath
\nIn addition to individual presentations\, panel proposals of three to four papers\, with a designated convener\, are also welcome. Panel proposals should include the title of the panel\, panel abstract (up to 300 words)\, the title of the individual presentations\, individual paper abstracts (up to 300 words)\, and information about all panel participants.
\nWe especially invite teachers and educators to present school projects and teaching initiatives that embody critical pedagogy\, democratic participation\, or creative resistance. These presentations aim to highlight examples of good practice that connect theory and action\, research and education\, community and resistance. We encourage teachers to submit presentations based on their everyday practice and experiences\, such as:
\n&bull\; school projects related to the main themes of the conference\,
\n&bull\; initiatives that promote students&rsquo\; democratic participation\,
\n&bull\; forms of creative or quiet resistance to injustice and bureaucratic pressures\,
\n&bull\; examples of critical pedagogy in the classroom\,
\n&bull\; ways of connecting the school with the local community.
\n\nPlease submit proposals via the following link by May 4\, 2026. Authors will be notified of the application status by June 15\, 2026. We welcome submissions in English and Serbian. For additional information\, please visit wse.ifdt.bg.ac.rs or contact wse@ifdt.bg.ac.rs \; \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260517T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260517T090000 SUMMARY:Towards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory UID:20260404T000142Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Viale Europa\, 1\, Catanzaro\, Italy\, 88100 DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\nTowards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory
15 October 2026
Department of Law\, Economics and Sociology
University Magna Græ\;cia of Catanzaro \;(Italy)
Hybrid format (on site and online)
Overview and Aims
\nThe Conference aims to explore the philosophical meaning of legal institutions and concepts\, starting from the idea that the task of the philosophy of law is to investigate the essence of legal phenomena in order to clarify the object of theoretical legal science.
\nThe event proposes a study day devoted to examining the possibility of explaining and justifying\, from a philosophical perspective\, the existence and functioning of legal concepts. Contributors are invited to apply the hermeneutic method&mdash\;understood as a general interpretative criterion rather than a specific philosophical stance&mdash\;and to conduct an inquiry internal to legal practice\, highlighting the nature of legal concepts as &ldquo\;places of meaning&rdquo\; capable of revealing the substance of legal experience.
\nThe Conference seeks to foster an open\, critical\, and interdisciplinary dialogue among different theoretical approaches to the interpretation of legal phenomena\, encouraging a shared reflection on the role of hermeneutics in understanding law and its institutions.
\nSuggested Topics
\nAbstracts may address\, from a theoretical and philosophical perspective\, themes including (but not limited to):
\nthe concept of the cause of contract and its interpretative approaches\;
\ntheories of legal appearance and the relationship between fact and representation\;
\nthe role of general clauses and the transformation of the idea of the legal &ldquo\;system&rdquo\;\;
\nthe philosophical meaning of civil liability and risk allocation in different social models\;
\nbioethical legal issues (surrogacy\, cloning\, abortion\, end-of-life decisions)\;
\nthe philosophical foundations of the concept of citizenship\;
\ntheoretical configurations of sovereignty in light of changing power relations\;
\nthe concept of public interest as a hermeneutic category\;
\nthe legitimation of power and the symbolic function of the Constitution\;
\nthe state of exception as a philosophical-legal category\;
\nthe relationship between norm and value\;
\nlegal language as symbolic mediation\;
\nthe concept of legal personhood\;
\nthe function of judgment and interpretation in legal practice.
\nContributions are particularly welcome from scholars working in philosophy of law and the social sciences\, including epistemological\, ontological\, sociological\, and political-philosophical perspectives\, as well as approaches related to Critical Legal Studies\, Law and Humanities\, Economic Analysis of Law\, and philosophy of economics.
\nTarget Participants
\nThe Conference is addressed to:
\nPhD candidates and PhD holders\;
\npostdoctoral fellows and early-career researchers\;
\nscholars in law\, philosophy\, history\, economics\, business and management studies\, political science\, and social sciences.
\nParticipation Guidelines
\nDate: \;15 October 2026
\nVenue: \;Department of Law\, Economics and Sociology\, University Magna Græ\;cia of Catanzaro (Italy)
\nFormat: \;Hybrid (on site and online)
\nFee: \;Free of charge (no travel or accommodation reimbursement)
\nCertificate of attendance: \;Available upon request
\nSubmission requirements:
\nAbstract (maximum 400 words)
\nShort biographical note (maximum 100 words)
\nFormat: .doc/.docx or .pdf
\nDeadline: \;17 May 2026
\nSubmission via email to:
\nlinda.brancaleone@studenti.unicz.it
\ngiacomo.cipriani@unicatt.it
\nSelection process:
\nNotification of acceptance by \;5 July 2026
\nSelected authors will present a 15-minute paper
\nConfirmation of participation (indicating on-site or online attendance) required by \;19 July 2026
\nPublication Opportunity
\nConference proceedings will be published in a scientific edited volume. Contributions will be selected by the Scientific Committee following a peer-review process.
\nConference Language
\nPapers may be presented in \;Italian or English.
\nhttps://call-for-abstract-int.tiiny.site
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260517T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260517T090000 SUMMARY:Towards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory UID:20260404T000143Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\nTowards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory
15 October 2026
Department of Law\, Economics and Sociology
University Magna Græ\;cia of Catanzaro \;(Italy)
Hybrid format (on site and online)
Overview and Aims
\nThe Conference aims to explore the philosophical meaning of legal institutions and concepts\, starting from the idea that the task of the philosophy of law is to investigate the essence of legal phenomena in order to clarify the object of theoretical legal science.
\nThe event proposes a study day devoted to examining the possibility of explaining and justifying\, from a philosophical perspective\, the existence and functioning of legal concepts. Contributors are invited to apply the hermeneutic method&mdash\;understood as a general interpretative criterion rather than a specific philosophical stance&mdash\;and to conduct an inquiry internal to legal practice\, highlighting the nature of legal concepts as &ldquo\;places of meaning&rdquo\; capable of revealing the substance of legal experience.
\nThe Conference seeks to foster an open\, critical\, and interdisciplinary dialogue among different theoretical approaches to the interpretation of legal phenomena\, encouraging a shared reflection on the role of hermeneutics in understanding law and its institutions.
\nSuggested Topics
\nAbstracts may address\, from a theoretical and philosophical perspective\, themes including (but not limited to):
\nthe concept of the cause of contract and its interpretative approaches\;
\ntheories of legal appearance and the relationship between fact and representation\;
\nthe role of general clauses and the transformation of the idea of the legal &ldquo\;system&rdquo\;\;
\nthe philosophical meaning of civil liability and risk allocation in different social models\;
\nbioethical legal issues (surrogacy\, cloning\, abortion\, end-of-life decisions)\;
\nthe philosophical foundations of the concept of citizenship\;
\ntheoretical configurations of sovereignty in light of changing power relations\;
\nthe concept of public interest as a hermeneutic category\;
\nthe legitimation of power and the symbolic function of the Constitution\;
\nthe state of exception as a philosophical-legal category\;
\nthe relationship between norm and value\;
\nlegal language as symbolic mediation\;
\nthe concept of legal personhood\;
\nthe function of judgment and interpretation in legal practice.
\nContributions are particularly welcome from scholars working in philosophy of law and the social sciences\, including epistemological\, ontological\, sociological\, and political-philosophical perspectives\, as well as approaches related to Critical Legal Studies\, Law and Humanities\, Economic Analysis of Law\, and philosophy of economics.
\nTarget Participants
\nThe Conference is addressed to:
\nPhD candidates and PhD holders\;
\npostdoctoral fellows and early-career researchers\;
\nscholars in law\, philosophy\, history\, economics\, business and management studies\, political science\, and social sciences.
\nParticipation Guidelines
\nDate: \;15 October 2026
\nVenue: \;Department of Law\, Economics and Sociology\, University Magna Græ\;cia of Catanzaro (Italy)
\nFormat: \;Hybrid (on site and online)
\nFee: \;Free of charge (no travel or accommodation reimbursement)
\nCertificate of attendance: \;Available upon request
\nSubmission requirements:
\nAbstract (maximum 400 words)
\nShort biographical note (maximum 100 words)
\nFormat: .doc/.docx or .pdf
\nDeadline: \;17 May 2026
\nSubmission via email to:
\nlinda.brancaleone@studenti.unicz.it
\ngiacomo.cipriani@unicatt.it
\nSelection process:
\nNotification of acceptance by \;5 July 2026
\nSelected authors will present a 15-minute paper
\nConfirmation of participation (indicating on-site or online attendance) required by \;19 July 2026
\nPublication Opportunity
\nConference proceedings will be published in a scientific edited volume. Contributions will be selected by the Scientific Committee following a peer-review process.
\nConference Language
\nPapers may be presented in \;Italian or English.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260518T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260518T170000 SUMMARY:The Non-Conference UID:20260404T000144Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Belfast\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:The Non-Conference
\n18 May 2026
\nQueen&rsquo\;s University Belfast
\n13 University Square 0G/010\, Belfast\, BT7 1NN\, Northern Ireland
\nWe are pleased to share the programme for the upcoming Non-Conference at Queen&rsquo\;s University Belfast.
\nRecent years have seen heated discussions about the ways in which academic philosophy is presented. Scholars have investigated questions about its style\, the functioning of academic journals\, the formal requirements of analytic philosophy\, or the relationship between philosophy\, science\, and art. However\, most of these discussions have focused on written philosophy only. The way philosophy is presented at conferences\, workshops\, or symposiums tends to follow the same format: a talk (usually with a powerpoint presentation) followed by Q&\;A\, followed by lunch or conference dinner. As a social activity\, it now forms part of the &ldquo\;unwritten curriculum&rdquo\; with its set of expected behaviours\, participates in various different forms of philosophical gatekeeping and might also have unwelcome exclusionary effects (e.g.\, on philosophers suffering from social anxiety\, loss of speech or hearing\, or graduate students who can&rsquo\;t afford lavish dinners (see https://philarchive.org/rec/KIDKWT)). We believe this is a contingent feature of the current philosophical landscape and differs from many ways that philosophy has been verbally presented in the past (and indeed could be presented in the present and future).
\nThe Non-Conference aims to scrutinise the rigid talk + Q&\;A format that has become customary and investigate new ways of presenting philosophy in person.
\nAttendance is free\, but please register your interest in attending by e-mailing: M.Moravec@qub.ac.uk
\nProgramme
\n8.45-9.00
\nMatyá\;&scaron\; Moravec (QUB) and Peter West (Northeastern University London)
\nIntroduction
\n9.00-10.30
\nGeorgie Newson (University of Edinburgh) &\; Luke Dunne (Independent Researcher)
\nTowards Pleiohumanism: Philosophy for the Age of Generative Intelligence
\nIn this session\, we will introduce &lsquo\;Pleiohumanism&rsquo\;: An interdisciplinary project aimed at reimagining the humanities for the era of generative intelligence. After explaining the project\, we will invite the audience to rethink humanism&rsquo\;s legacy through a series of creative collaborations with Pico della Mirandola&rsquo\;s 1496 humanist manifesto\, Oration on the Dignity of Man. By performing\, reworking and deconstructing this text in dialogue with both AI systems and one another\, we will encourage participants to engage actively with our proposal for the revival of an expanded humanism.
\n10.45-12.00
\nAljo&scaron\;a Kravanja (University of Ljubljana) \;
\nRandomly Emerging Human Thinking
\nTwo weeks before the conference\, I sent the organizers a list of 30 concepts in practical philosophy. The organizers sent me a sequence of eight numbers from 1 to 30. I constructed a short paper containing concepts corresponding to these numbers. In my presentation\, I deliver the paper. In Q and A\, audience members do not pose conventional questions. Rather\, they only pick one or two numbers corresponding to one or two concepts from the list. I will then interpret these numbers as genuine questions. The point of the presentation is to show that randomness generates thought in a human thinker.
\n12.15-13.00
\nIoannis Spiliopoulos (University of Athens)
\nWittgenstein: The Motion Picture
\nThis presentation consists of the screening of a short film (approx. 30 min long) presented as a PowerPoint sequence. The work is composed of approximately 300 slides. The first slide is a well-known photograph of Ludwig Wittgenstein\; each subsequent slide is a scanned photocopy of the preceding one. The film depicts the gradual transformation of the sense of &ldquo\;picture of Wittgenstein&rdquo\; from something ordinary to something\, as it were\, sublimated and purified.
\n14.00-16.00
\nVelia Fischer (Universitä\;t Heidelberg\, Université\; de Fribourg) and Caroline Hoskins (Rutgers University)
\nThe Interconnectedness of Courage and Sophrosyne
\nCourage and sophrosyne (temperance\, moderation) are both deeply connected within Plato&rsquo\;s dialogues. Both within the Republic as well as within the Statesman\, the two virtues are treated as reciprocally dependent. Nevertheless\, it is by no means clear how exactly the two virtues are defined within these contexts. For this reason\, our presentation begins by jointly identifying suitable definitions for both virtues. In a second step\, we would then like to explore the exact relationship between these two. This will happen based on key passages taken from Plato&rsquo\;s dialogues as well as on the shared ideas and thoughts of the group.
\n16.15-16.45
\nFraser Logan (Independent Scholar)
\nTyping for Strangers: Towards a Practice of Honesty
\nI will sit with a typewriter throughout The Non-Conference\, ask participants for prompts\, and write a stream of consciousness for two minutes. My performance experiments with self-disclosure and attempts to reimagine philosophy by privileging impulse over polish. Inspired by Nietzsche&rsquo\;s ideal of Ehrlichkeit&mdash\;honesty as nakedness and simplicity&mdash\;it revives philosophy&rsquo\;s tradition of frank speech while testing the therapeutic potential of free writing. Contradiction\, humour\, and spontaneity are favoured over reflection and refinement. During my subsequent &lsquo\;presentation'\, participants and I will interrogate my writings.
\n17.30 [audio walk begins]
\n&Scaron\;á\;rka Zahá\;lková\; (Brno University of Technology)
\nThrough Schizophonia to Reciprocity
\nA site-specific participatory walk designed as an audio walk\, incorporating embodied exploration\, listening\, and movement as philosophical practice in itself. Participants are asked to bring mobile phones with data access and headphones compatible with their devices. Taking place in a nearby outdoor area\, the walk explores the principle of schizophonia &ndash\; the separation of sound from its original source\, as articulated by acoustic ecologist R. Murray Schafer &ndash\; and considers how creative engagement with sound can foster reciprocity\, amplify experience\, and heighten situational awareness. This approach offers a way to rethink one&rsquo\;s relationship to self and environment in a symbiotic\, participatory manner.
ORGANIZER;CN=Peter West;CN=Matyas Moravec: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260521T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260523T170000 SUMMARY:Knowledge Without Comprehension? On Spirit after Hegel in the Age of AI UID:20260404T000145Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Kaulbachstraße 31/33\, Munich\, Germany DESCRIPTION:The conference confronts a pressing question of our time: Can there be knowledge without comprehension&mdash\;and what becomes of Hegel&rsquo\;s concept of \;Geist \;in an era defined by algorithmic operations\, statistical inference\, and synthetic cognition?
\nThe point of departure is Hegel&rsquo\;s conception of Spirit as the self-developing totality of mediation\, in which knowing is never simply the accumulation of information\, but the unfolding of self-related comprehension. Yet today\, we witness a proliferation of epistemic structures&mdash\;artificial intelligences\, language models\, neural nets&mdash\;that generate outputs irreducible to conscious understanding. These systems &ldquo\;know&rdquo\; in a sense that bypasses human reflection\, operating through a logic that resists the very categories of intentionality and meaning on which Hegel&rsquo\;s dialectic relies.
\nWhat happens\, then\, to Spirit when cognition no longer entails comprehension? Does AI signal a new stage of reason&mdash\;or the end of the very subject Hegel placed at the core of his system? Drawing on psychoanalysis (Lacan\, the Ljubljana School) and post-Hegelian dialectics (Marx\, Adorno\, Deleuze\, the Frankfurt School)\, the conference explores whether AI reveals an unthought dimension of \;Geist: the unconscious of the concept\, the drive of negativity beyond reflection\, the logic of the inhuman within Spirit itself.
\nAt the same time\, the event serves as an indirect homage to Slavoj Žižek&mdash\;both as a thinker of Hegel&rsquo\;s speculative legacy and as a diagnostician of our paradoxical historical moment. In revisiting the question of Spirit under digital conditions\, we aim to honor Žižek&rsquo\;s persistent engagement with the dialectical entanglements of consciousness\, ideology\, and technicity.
\nA Marxist perspective is explicitly welcome: AI not only transforms knowledge but intensifies class divisions and reconfigures labor\, value\, and subjectivity. Can HegelianGeist \;still name a site of resistance&mdash\; or has it become the operating system of a post-political technocapitalism?
\nInvited speakers may interrogate the unconscious as a thinking machine\, reflect on the limits of rational comprehension\, explore the ontology of machinic intelligence\, or speculate on a rehabilitation&mdash\;or radical transformation&mdash\;of Hegelian categories. Is AI a dialectical continuation of Geist\, or its monstrous parody? And can the subject still be thought within systems that outpace its ability to comprehend?
ORGANIZER;CN=Dominik Finkelde: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260522T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260523T170000 SUMMARY:What Makes Sense? UID:20260404T000146Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Str. Mihail Kogălniceanu\, no. 1\, Cluj-Napoca\, Romania DESCRIPTION:CFP &ndash\; The Sixth International Conference for Doctoral Students in Philosophy
\nWhat Makes Sense?
\nThe Sixth International Conference for Doctoral Students in Philosophy examines the multiple meanings of sense and other related concepts across the history of philosophy. From Antiquity to contemporary thought\, the conference seeks to explore how these notions have been used to clarify and interpret philosophical discourse\, to reshape and critically assess traditional philosophical narratives\, to displace old beliefs and truths and even to beget new ones in the wake of the so-called &lsquo\;crisis of meaning&rsquo\;. Whether understood as an experience lived on an individual level\, as a feature of human language\, or as the action or result of the perceiving and knowing faculties\, sense remains a central notion in philosophical thinking. Conceived as the outcome of a hermeneutical interpretation\, as an end towards which actions should be oriented\, or as an axiological value attributed to different events\, the notions of purpose and meaning can be sought. Doctoral students are invited to engage with the various interpretations and uses of the notion of sense and related concepts by addressing questions such as: What can philosophical traditions teach us about the analysis of sense and meaning in relation to human discourse? How does the notion of sense relate to the individual\, to human values\, actions\, and social realities? In what way do philosophical theories confer sense upon historical events\, and what ethical and political implications arise from such undertakings? How does the notion of sense relate to our aesthetic experiences\, attitudes\, and sensibilities? In what manner is the act of investing or finding sense relevant for the knowing subject within a phenomenological or epistemological framework? Finally\, can philosophy still be a source of meaning for individuals in a world frequently depicted as being in crisis?
\nDetails
\nThe Doctoral School of Philosophy\, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca\, invites submissions for the sixth instalment of the International Conference for Doctoral Students in Philosophy that is going to take place on May 22-23\, 2026. The event will be organized in a hybrid format. The conference is supported by three research centres of the Faculty of History and Philosophy: Centre for Ancient and Medieval Philosophy\, Centre for Applied Philosophy\, and Department of History in Hungarian Language.
\nOfficial languages of the conference are: English\, Romanian\, and Hungarian.
\nBesides the main topic of the event\, we invite submissions of papers from all areas and subdomains of philosophy: phenomenology\, semiology\, hermeneutics\, ethics\, aesthetics\, political philosophy\, philosophy of culture and communication\, philosophy of science\, logic\, theories of language\, history of philosophy\, studies of ancient and medieval philosophy\, Romanian philosophy\, Hungarian philosophy\, and P4C (philosophy for children).
\nThe conference will have thematic parallel panels organized according to the topics of the papers\, in all the official languages of the conference. The presentations will be made either online or on site\, at the Babeș-Bolyai University\, depending on the availability of the participants. All the students affiliated to The Doctoral School of Philosophy are kindly asked to participate in situ. Participants should specify upon the submission of their abstract whether they wish to participate in presence or online. Participants are requested to submit a draft version of their paper by the due date.
\nAbstract and paper submission
\nAbstracts should be up to 350 words\, written in English and must contain: the title of the contribution\, a short description of the main topic\, thesis\, purpose\, argumentative unfolding of the paper\, and five keywords. The draft papers should be sent in an editable format\, ready for blind review\, no longer than 10 pages (text body: Times New Roman\, at 12 points\, justified\, line spacing at 1\,5) and suitable for a 15-20 minutes talk followed by 10 minutes Q&\;A.
\nDeadline for abstract submissions: 15th of March 2026
\nCommunication of acceptance: 1st of April 2026
\nDeadline for paper submission (only for accepted proposals): 1st of May 2026
\nFor submission\, please send your work at vlad.ile@ubbcluj.ro\, with the subject of the message PHILOSOPHY_2026. The author&rsquo\;s personal information (full name\, affiliation\, contact details\, language of the presentation and attending method: online or on site) should be specified in the message and omitted from the attachment containing the abstract or draft paper.
\nPlease feel free to get in touch with Ile Vlad\, the secretary of the Doctoral School of Philosophy (vlad.ile@ubbcluj.ro)\, for any further questions you may have.
\nOpportunities for publication
\nThe scientific committee of the conference will select a number of papers to be published in a collective volume hosted by Studia UBB Philosophia
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260527T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260529T170000 SUMMARY:Death in the Eyes 2: Philosophical Perspectives on Film Genres and Death UID:20260404T000147Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:FCSH Avenida de Berna\, Lisbon\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:NOVA University Lisbon\, 27-29 May\, 2026 (Lisbon\, Portugal)
\nKeynote Speakers: \;Michele Aaron (University of Warwick) and Jean-Baptiste Thoret (Université\; \;de Poitiers)
\nLike philosophical categories\, film genres function as ways of \;unifying the manifold of experience\, determining under what conditions the particular can be subsumed under the universal. This effort of inclusion lies at the very root of Western philosophical thought\, a fundamentally synthetic form of thinking driven by the desire to unveil the secret unity of the multiple. Genres follow in the footsteps of the Aristotelian systematization of the categories\, regulating the modes of attributing a predicate (the multiple) to a subject (the one)\, and it is indeed in the wake of Aristotelian thought that &ndash\; whether knowingly or not &ndash\;film studies have broached issues of genre from the times of Bazin and Kracauer onwards. Still\, has there ever been a moment in film history in which genres were not hybrid\, or have they been from the outset undergoing successive and always different waves of hybridization? Despite the profusion of studies and variety of methodologies on the subject\, the absence of a rigorously defined canon continues to provoke debate around the specific difference of each genre &ndash\; that is\, the set of codes that allow them to articulate a unique and distinctive vision of the world.
\nFrom Spinoza to Janké\;lé\;vitch\, and from Sobchack to Malkowski\, several thinkers have described \;death \;as an experience that far exceeds symbolic articulation and eludes formal capture at every attempt\, or rather as what remains unrepresentable in its lived dimension. Yet\, death is an event in cinema\, affecting its moving images and plots which constantly try to represent it: showcasing a diverse production of narratives in which characters die\, or even exist in the afterlife. Not only patently intersecting philosophical universality in many ways\, death also has a privileged relationship with cinema as a medium/art. As an event that resists full translation into visual or narrative form\, death interrupts continuity and places pressure on the many structures of representation. In cinema\, this limit becomes compositional far beyond direct depiction\, as the image encounters death through operations involving absence\, delay\, fragmentation\, or stillness. These strategies mark the passage of something that cannot be stabilised or fixed within the frame and reveal how unique the tension is between aesthetic construction and existential experience\, bringing forth a specific and very special relation between cinema and death: giving death space. It is within such a space that disparate genres such as erotica with its exploration of corporeality\, the biopic through its construction of individual life stories\, and documentary by its commitment to factual representation\, articulate death as a temporal condition that shapes cinematic form and binds the unique time of cinema to our awareness of life&rsquo\;s end. Through this\, film acts as a reminder of mortality\, a memento mori essential for deeper reflection on existence.
\nCavell and Deleuze have shown that genres are creations of cinema&rsquo\;s internal movements: displaying its transformations\, pragmatics\, fluxes\, folds\, and tensions while underscoring its pluralism of \;perspectives. Yet\, how does death appear and is elaborated by each cinematographic genre? How do film and time based media both think about and depict death within the specificities of each genre? What light do the increasingly prominent analytical\, cognitive\, affective\, and methodological &ldquo\;class/gender/race&rdquo\; frameworks shed not only on genres\, but also on the multi-faceted presence of death in them? Beyond representation and meaning\, does death have an intensive role in both multiplying and composing new vistas within cinematographic genres?
\nThe ERC Project FILM AND DEATH is organizing\, at the NOVA University Lisbon\, a 2-day conference that aims to debate how genres\, understood as different points of view\, each with its own particularity and desire\, become processes of meditation about death in the multiplicity that composes the thinking machine that is cinema. Bazin once joked that in canons\, like in cannons\, the most important part is their central emptiness: unanswerable (or infinitely answerable) questions like &ldquo\;what is a genre?&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;what is film as a medium?&rdquo\; may\, once linked to death (that thorniest of philosophical questions)\, call for a kaleidoscope of enlighteningly oblique\, slanting\, transversal approaches.
\nOrganizers: \;Lucas Ferraç\;o Nassif\, Marco Grosoli\, Pedro Inock\, Susana Viegas\, Tiago Cravidã\;o and Vasco Marques
\nhttps://filmdeath.fcsh.unl.pt/2025/10/01/cfp-death-in-the-eyes-2-philosophical-perspectives-on-film-genres-and-death/
ORGANIZER;CN=Susana Viegas: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260601T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260601T000000 SUMMARY:International Conference: “Cornelius Castoriadis (1997-2027) : Thirty Years Later” UID:20260404T000148Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:Trie-sur-Baïse\, France DESCRIPTION:Call for papers
\nInternational Conference: &ldquo\;Cornelius Castoriadis (1997-2027) : Thirty Years Later&rdquo\;
\nTrie-sur-Baï\;se (Hautes-Pyré\;né\;es\, 65\, France)
\nOctober 27\, 28 &\; 29\, 2027
\nPresentation
\nIn 2027\, we will mark thirty years since the passing of Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997)\, a singular thinker whose multifaceted work continues to shape contemporary intellectual thought. Philosopher\, economist\, psychoanalyst\, political theorist\, and activist\, he developed a powerful and original reflection on freedom\, creation\, the institution of society\, and both individual and collective autonomy. From his younger days in Greece\, through Socialisme ou Barbarie\, to his passing\, his intellectual journey crossed and challenged disciplinary and ideological boundaries. This international conference aims to reexamine\, three decades after his death\, both the intellectual legacy of the Greek philosopher and the relevance of his conceptual tools for thinking about today&rsquo\;s society. In the face of the challenges of our time\, Castoriadis&rsquo\; thought offers valuable resources to question the very foundations of our societies\, political action\, and philosophical inquiry.
\nObjectives
\nThis conference is neither commemorative nor hagiographic. Its purpose is to revive the radical dimensions of Castoriadian thought by engaging it with contemporary challenges\, exploring its internal tensions\, questioning its assumptions\, and envisioning its possible futures. Since elucidation was at the heart of Castoriadis&rsquo\; project of autonomy\, it will serve as the guiding force for our discussions\, thirty years later. Fundamentally\, this conference seeks to:
\nEncourage renewed reading of Castoriadis across different fields of knowledge.
\nEngage his thought in a dialogue with contemporary issues.
\nExplore the practical uses of his work in social movements\, education\, clinical practices\, and democratic experimentation.
\nMap the intellectual lineages\, as well as the productive critiques and reinterpretations of his thought\, both in France and internationally.
\nThematic Areas
\n1. Castoriadis and the Relevance of Politics Today
\nNew social movements
\nDecolonial and Postcolonial studies
\nGender and its institution
\n2. Castoriadis in his Time
\nThe experience of intellectual journals and the collective dimension of thought
\nCastoriadis and his contemporaries
\nEngagement and refusals in scientific debates of his time
\n3. Castoriadis: Nature\, Technology\, Ecology
\nAutonomy\, complexity\, and self-organisation
\nThe Project of autonomy and technological transformations (AI\, NBIC\, etc.)
\nPolitical Ecology: a renewal of the project of autonomy
\n4. Castoriadis and Language
\nSocial creation through language
\nThe institution of meaning and Castoriadis&rsquo\; critique of structuralism
\nDiachrony and Synchrony : Temporalities of language\, temporalities of the social
\n5. Castoriadis Facing the War
\nCritique of instrumental rationality
\nCastoriadis and Geopolitics
\nHistory as a site and stake of creation
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nProposals for papers (title\, abstract of 300 to 500 words\, indicative bibliography\, 5 keywords\, short bio) should be sent by June 1\, 2026\, to the following addresses: Guillaume Plin ( gplin@parisnanterre.fr)\; Savvas Orfanos (savvas.orfanos@gmail.com)\; Emile Le Pessot (elepessot@gmail.com)\; Quentin Mur Rodriguez (quentinmur@hotmail.fr). Presentations can be made in French\, English or Spanish. Selected contributions may be published in Les Nouveaux Cahiers Castoriadis\, published by Classiques Garnier.
\nScientific Organisation
\nQuentin Mur Rodriguez (Sociologist\, University of Ottawa &\; University Toulouse Jean Jaurè\;s)\, Emile Le Pessot (Historian\, EHESS)\, Guillaume Plin (Philosopher\, University Paris-Nanterre)\, Savvas Orfanos (Philosopher\, University Paris 1 Panthé\;on-Sorbonne)
\nScientific Committee
\nSté\;phane Vibert\, Nicolas Piqué\;\, Philippe Caumiè\;res\, Florence Giust-Desprairies\, Olivier Fressard\, Thibault Tranchant\, Gilles Labelle\, Alexandros Schismenos\, Nicolas Poirier
\nProvisional Timeline
\nSubmissions deadline : June 1\, 2026
\nNotification of acceptance : September 1\, 2026
\nFinal program release : November 1\, 2026
\nConference dates : October 27-29\, 2027
\nRegister here: https://indico.uni-paderborn.de/event/156/
\n02.06.2026\, 4.30-6pm (Paris time)
\nJake Nicholas Brooks - Autonomy Beyond Kant: Butler\, Tronto\, and Interdependence
\nThe aim of this contribution is to highlight - from a standpoint of intersectional critique &ndash\; the limitation of the Kantian conception of autonomy\, grounded on a male and autonomous subject\, that has shaped Western philosophical and theological discourses. The contribution will develop along two complementary lines. First\, drawing on Butler&rsquo\;s critique of the State of Nature tradition\, it will show how the subject of modern philosophy has always been conceived as already adult\, male\, and autonomous\, thus masking the condition of dependency inherent to human beings. Butler&rsquo\;s analysis reveals how this framework is produced through exclusions of those identities\, which are shaped by gender oppression and racialization. Butler&rsquo\;s work demonstrates that dependency is not a deviation from the norm\, rather a constitutive feature of human life. Secondly\, relying on Tronto&rsquo\;s care ethic\, the contribution will argue that humanity is better understood as grounded on interdependence\, where care relationships are not only fundamental for democratic societies\, but also for a responsible and adequate care of human beings. Tronto&rsquo\;s analysis highlights how the unequal distribution of care labor - which is historically borne by women or racialized and marginalized groups - is grounded on &ldquo\;passes&rdquo\; given to men\, that exempt them from care responsibilities. Through Tronto&rsquo\;s theory it will become clear that a model of humanity grounded on interdependence and responsibility is necessary for a more equal ethical and political life. Through this two-fold analysis\, this contribution aims at demonstrating the necessity for an ontological shift: it is necessary to overcome the conception of humanity as male-centered\, autonomous and self-made\, to a vision of humanity as interdependent\, needy\, vulnerable\, and relational.
\nAbout the Speaker: Jake Nicholas Brooks is MA graduate with honors in Philosophy at University of Rome &ldquo\;La Sapienza&rdquo\;. His research interests revolve around Political Philosophy\, Feminist Theories\, and Gender Studies. He carried out a thesis on the Habermasian conception of progress. He has published an article in double-blind peer review for Quaderni Leif - ethical and moral journal from the University of of Catania - on Tronto&rsquo\;s ethics&rsquo\;s of care and Simone Weil&rsquo\;s perspective on war. He is currently working on a paper for Etica-Mente\, another journal of University of Catania\, concerning Tronto&rsquo\;s conception of interdependence
\n\;
\nKaimé\; Guerrero Valencia - Intervening Assemblages of Trans-formation/Action: Beatriz Nascimento (1942-1995)
\nThis paper examines the intellectual\, artistic\, and political contributions of Beatriz Nascimento (1942&ndash\;1995)\, a leading figure of Brazil&rsquo\;s Black Movement. It situates her work at the intersection of historiography\, aesthetics\, and political theory\, showing how she developed innovative conceptual and methodological tools to contest colonial structures of knowledge and create new practices of Black autonomy. Through an interdisciplinary analysis of her essays\, poetry\, archival materials\, and the documentary Ô\;rí\; (1989)\, the paper argues that Nascimento\, by mobilizing writing\, film\, and activism as intertwined strategies\, elaborates a distinct theoretical\, methodological\, and ethical approach that redefines Black historiography\, advances the conception of a Black utopia\, and reconfigures the quilombo (maroon societies) as a political and existential category. At the core of Nascimento&rsquo\;s oeuvre is the concept of trans-formaç\;ã\;o/aç\;ã\;o\, a neologism that denotes processes of transformation enacted through language. She theorizes language not as a neutral medium but as a site of material and historical change\, capable of unsettling hegemonic orders and generating new forms of collective subjectivity. The paper demonstrates how she strategically combined academic\, poetic\, and cinematic registers to transform language itself into an instrument of resistance. Nascimento&rsquo\;s work establishes the conditions for new forms of Black historiography in which freedom is articulated not as an abstract universal but as a lived and collective practice. Her oeuvre constitutes an embodied\, aesthetic\, and political historiography of the Black diaspora\, in which the quilombo functions as both archive and horizon of freedom\, and Black utopia materializes through collective practices of memory\, writing\, and resistance.
\nAbout the Speaker: Kaimé\; Guerrero Valencia were born in Quito\, Ecuador\, and has been living in Berlin for ten years. They studied sociology and political science at the Pontificia Universidad Cató\;lica del Ecuador\, followed by a MA degree in interdisciplinary Latin American studies with a gender profile at the Free University of Berlin. They are currently completing their PhD in the Collaborative Research Center Intervening Arts in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Their research interests include the intersections between aesthetic\, political and scientific processes in the production of alternative forms of word-making
ORGANIZER;CN=Marguerite El Asmar Bou Aoun;CN=Jil Muller;CN=Daniel Fischer;CN=Katia Raya Rami: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260608T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T170000 SUMMARY:ISTP 2026 Conference: Theorizing in Dark Times – Art\, Narrative\, Politics UID:20260404T000150Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:200 Willoughby Ave \, New York\, United States\, 11205 DESCRIPTION:STP 2026 Conference &ndash\; &ldquo\;Theorizing in Dark Times &ndash\; Art\, Narrative\, Politics&rdquo\;
\nJune 8 &ndash\; June 12\, 2026
\nPratt Institute\, Brooklyn\, NY\, USA
\nwww.pratt.edu/ISTP-2026
\nCALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
\nThe International Society for Theoretical Psychology (ISTP\, www.istpsychology.org) will host its 2026 conference at Pratt Institute&rsquo\;s Brooklyn\, New York Campus\, which is located on Lenapehoking\, the traditional and unceded homeland of the Lenape people\, past\, present\, and future.
\nThe conference theme &ldquo\;Theorizing in Dark Times &ndash\; Art\, Narrative\, Politics&rdquo\; invites scholars\, artists\, and practitioners to critically reflect on the ways in which theory operates not only as an intellectual tool but as a form of political engagement.
\nAt the heart of the conference lies the question: What is the role of theory in dark times? Theoretical psychology has long sought to understand the human condition\, yet in moments of global crisis\, theory itself becomes a site of political resistance. The conference will examine how theory functions as a political force\, shaping narratives of power\, ideology\, and agency. It will address the political implications of psychological theory\, asking how psychological concepts\, often regarded as neutral or apolitical\, become entangled with broader social and political dynamics.
\nThe conference will also provide the room to explore how the arts\, through their ability to create alternative narratives and question existing power structures\, play a pivotal role in advancing theoretical inquiry in times of crisis. Art\, in this context\, is not merely reflective\; it is transformative\, offering new ways to theorize human experience and political realities.
\nWe warmly invite scholars from theoretical psychology and neighboring disciplines&mdash\;philosophy\, sociology\, anthropology\, literature\, the arts\, and beyond&mdash\;to submit their contributions and join us at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn\, New York\, from June 8 to June 12\, 2026. Whether through theoretical reflection\, conceptual analyses\, or creative interventions\, we seek diverse perspectives that critically engage with the conference theme. Contributions beyond the conference theme are also welcome. Submit here: www.pratt.edu/ISTP-2026. The deadline is December 10\, 2025.
\n&mdash\;&mdash\;&mdash\;&mdash\;&mdash\;&mdash\;
\nThe Conference Registration Opens September 2025
\nRegistration Fees: Regular $630/ISTP Member $570/Reduced $310
\nPratt Institute provides affordable accommodations: Single: $135 first night\, $65 each additional night/Full conference stay $510/ Double accommodation: $125 first night\, $55 each additional night/Full conference stay $400 per person.
\nWebsite: www.pratt.edu/ISTP-2026
\nContact: istp-2026@pratt.edu
ORGANIZER;CN=Martin Dege: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260610T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260612T170000 SUMMARY:Experiments in Linguistic Meaning 4 UID:20260404T000151Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Philadelphia\, United States\, 19143 DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers: Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) 4
\nJune 10-12 2026\, \;University of Pennsylvania
\nOrganizers: \;Paloma Jeretič\, Anna Papafragou\, and Florian Schwarz
\nEmail: \;organizers@elm-conference.net
\nWe are excited to announce the fourth Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) conference to be hosted by the University of Pennsylvania on June 10-12\, 2026. The conference is dedicated to the experimental study of linguistic meaning broadly construed\, with a focus on theoretical issues in semantics and pragmatics\, their interplay with other components of the grammar\, their relation to language processing and acquisition\, as well as their connections to human cognition and computation. We aim to include representation of linguistic\, psychological\, logical\, philosophical\, social\, developmental\, computational\, as well as cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspectives.
\nInvited speakers:
\nJennifer Culbertson\, University of Edinburgh
\nEllen Lau\, University of Maryland
\nKyle Rawlins\, Johns Hopkins University
\nInvited Online Symposium on Modality in language and cognition:
\nNicolò\; Cesana-Arlotti\, Yale University
WooJin Chung\, Seoul National University
Valentine Hacquard\, University of Maryland
The experimental study of meaning in language draws on a broad spectrum of disciplines\, topics\, and methodologies\, and ELM reflects this diversity in its scope. The biennial ELM conference aims to foster the interdisciplinary study of meaning\, and to provide a home for a community of scholars that might not meet and interact with each other with regularity in other contexts. We encourage researchers from around the world to submit their recent work to ELM 4\, and to attend in order to discuss the latest theories and data in the cognitive science of meaning broadly construed.
\nThe University of Pennsylvania is home to a vibrant interdisciplinary community that studies language and meaning across several departments. ELM acknowledges support from \;mindCORE\, Penn&rsquo\;s hub for the integrative study of \;the mind\; Penn&rsquo\;s \;Department of Linguistics\; and the \;University Research Foundation.
\nFormat: \;After successful hybrid ELM 2 and 3\, we will continue in the same format\, namely:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;start out with an \;online-only day \;(with on-site gathering options for in person attendees already there) on \;June 10\, \;
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;followed by \;two in person \;presentation days (June 11-12) (with \;hybrid \;audience participation option). \;
Note: Desired presentation format (with a commitment to either online or in person) will have to be indicated at time of submission (this applies to consideration for both talks and posters/short presentations)
Abstract Submissions via \;OpenReview\, due December 10\, 2025 (11:59pm EST)
\nThe conference will feature both 20-minute talks and posters/short presentations. Abstracts must be anonymous and written in English. They should use US Letter size paper and 1 inch margins on all four sides. Abstracts must be single-spaced\, and written using Arial 11pt font. Abstracts should be at most 2 pages\, including the main text of the abstract\, figures\, and any supplementary materials and references the authors wish to include. Authors should avoid identifying information in the abstract\, especially when referring to their own prior work. The abstract must be submitted as a single PDF file and must include a title at the top. Abstracts violating these requirements may be rejected without further consideration.
Note: If you do not already have an OpenReview account\, be sure to register and get your account approved/activated well before the deadline\, as this can take a few days.
Timeline:
\nNovember 10\, 2025: \; ELM abstract submissions opens on \;OpenReview
https://openreview.net/group?id=elm-conference.net/ELM/2026/Conference
December 10\, 2025 (11:59pm EST): \; \; \;Abstract submission deadline
Feb 1\, 2026: \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Acceptance Notifications
ORGANIZER;CN=Paloma Jeretic;CN=Florian Schwarz;CN=Anna Papafragou: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260625T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY UID:20260404T000152Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Wieniawskiego 1\, Poznań\, Poland\, 61-712 DESCRIPTION:QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY
\nInternational Conference
\n25-26 June 2026
\nAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań\, Poland
\nFaculty of Philosophy
\nThe international conference Queer: Present! Visibility Through the Body aims to examine queer visibility in contemporary culture\, exploring it across a range of contexts. The title of the conference alone may serve as a catalyst for reflection on various aspects of queer visibility\, demonstrating that queer culture is present today in many forms. However\, queer people are constantly fighting to remain visible and gain access to more divergent visibility. This visibility often encounters strong resistance\; opponents view the queer body as imposing its presence\, disrupting social order and manifesting as unnecessary excess or exaggeration.
\nDuring the conference\, we will highlight the physical presence of queer genders\, sexualities and romantic relations and intimacies. This is why the title of our conference is provocative: queer is present and embodied\; it is expressed in the body.
\nDo queer bodies experience encounters with others and strangers differently when moving within cultural boundaries?
\nWhen writing about corporeality\, we draw inspiration from Sara Ahmed&rsquo\;s queer phenomenology. Ahmed reminds us that\, culturally\, the divergence of sexual orientation is equated with being outside the boundaries of heteronormativity\, as if initiating a discussion about it implied queerness. From a phenomenological stance\, sexual desire and gender identity shape not only the boundaries of our world and our experience of the body: our physicality is a lens through which the outside world could perceive our intimate visibility.
\nSilence\, secrecy\, hypocrisy and concealing one's sexuality\, desire and gender identity due to shame or fear or a culturally rooted habit are pertinent characteristics associated with the lack of queer visibility. A wider and more satisfactory presence can be achieved by creating one's own culture and by establishing better social attitudes and legal frameworks\, more accurate terms and rooting novel expectations or &lsquo\;novel tradition&rsquo\;\, although this could outrage apologists for the politics of silence. It is not easy to achieve visibility in the present moment! However\, new traditions are created and emerge before our very eyes: films\, literary works\, memorials to victims of persecution\, queer rituals and\, finally\, the concept and presence of Pride &mdash\; a joyful rejection of the humiliating concept of shame. The present allows us to document all cases of queer resistance against the politics of hatred. The goal of the narrative of hatred is to hide queer people once again and deprive them of visibility. It is an attitude that is contrary to science and is fed by invented harmful myths\, prejudices and superstitions.
\nQueer visibility is not only an emancipatory strategy based on the idea of equality. It is also the daily struggle of every queer person for dignity and visibility. Any attempt to hide queerness is deceptive\, as it creates the false impression that it does not exist or is not needed by anyone.
\nWe invite submissions from scholars\, PhD candidates\, and independent researchers.
\nTopics for suggested panels and papers may include (but are not limited to):
\n1. Cultural transformations that have shaped the contemporary narrative of queer visibility.
\n2. Changes in rooted attitudes\, social\, legislative and political moods often result in significant progress and emancipation\, but can also lead to regression and increased aggression towards queer individuals.
\n3. Tactics\, risks\, politics\, dramatics\, performance\, experimentations\, exploration of visibility in different areas of art and cultural products.
\n4. Queer visibility in performance\; Queer in Cinema\, Dance and Theatre.
\n5. The contribution of queer people to art\, from poetry to mass media.
\n6. Prospects for future visibility based on the present.
\nThe organisers are open to proposals for both individual presentations and panels. Keynote speeches are planned. Detailed information will be updated on the conference website https://queer.web.amu.edu.pl
\nConference language: English.
\nPresentation length: 15-25 minutes\, depending on the final number of accepted contributions. Format: on-site.
\nVenue: Collegium Minus\, ul. Wieniawskiego 1\, Poznań.
\nRegistration
\nDeadline for submission of abstracts is: for panels 20 February 2026 and for individuals presentations 28 February 2026. They should be sent by email to queer@amu.edu.pl (or marjed7@amu.edu.pl)
\nSubmissions should include a max. 200-word abstract with a 100 word author bio and the contact information gathered in a single PDF-FILE.
\nNotification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026.
\nRegistration fee: 150 EUR or 150 USD.
\nThe fee included a coffee breaks\, a two-course lunch to all participants (25 and 26 June) and a banquet (25 June).
\nImportant additional information:
\n- we plan to publish articles in 2027 (an edited collection).
\n- during the conference\, we will be hosting the management team from the Queer Museum in Warsaw\, the first queer museum in Poland and the third in Europe.
\nKeynote Speakers:
\nProf. Dan Healey\, University of Oxford
\nProf. Joanna Mizielińska\, University of Warsaw
\nDr. Kush Patel\, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
\nConference Organizers:
\nProf. Marek Jedliński (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
\nDocent Antu Sorainen (University of Helsinki)
\nDr. Krzysztof Witczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
\nScientific Committee:
\nProf. Dan Healey\, University of Oxford
\nDr. Kush Patel\, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
\nDr. Efstratia Oktapoda\, Sorbonne University
\nDr. Tamas Nagypal\, Mount Royal University
\nDr. Jana Kantorikova\, Sorbonne University
\nDr. Iga Mergler\, Wilfrid Laurier University
\nDr. Agata Mergler\, York University
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Krzysztof Witczak;CN="Marek Jedliński";CN=Antu Sorainen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221612Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260625T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:Making Kin as Practice of Care: Habitable Bodies or Unexpected Alliances between Ecology\, Technology and Feminism UID:20260404T000153Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:R. Marquês de Ávila e Bolama\, Covilhã\, Portugal\, 6201-001 DESCRIPTION:Making kin is first and foremost a gesture rather than a concept. Donna Haraway \; presents it as a gesture that reacts to a world organized by rigid separations: nature and \; culture\, feminine and masculine\, human and machine\, organism and technique. To \; make kin is to learn how to live together under the epistemological horizontality of \; habitable bodies in damaged landscapes\, accepting interdependence as an ontological \; and political condition. It is not a matter of restoring a lost nature\, nor of celebrating \; technology as a promise of salvation\, but of weaving possible relations within wounded \; worlds. This proposal emerges from the recognition of the most recent narcissistic \; wound in the human imaginary: technology.
\nAfter Copernicus\, Darwin and Freud&mdash\;who \; unsettled anthropocentric pride by demonstrating that the Earth is not the center of the \; universe\, that human beings are not isolated divine creations but part of animal \; evolution\, and that we do not exercise full control over our own mind\, being also \; governed by the unconscious&mdash\;technoscience\, particularly the digital and artificial \; intelligence\, once again displaces the human from the center by challenging its cognitive\, \; ontological\, and moral exceptionalism. For Donna Haraway\, this wound should neither \; be denied nor healed\, but inhabited through a profound reconfiguration of how agency\, \; responsibility\, kinship\, space\, and time are conceived in a shared and fragmented world \; composed of human and non-human cultural entities. Making kin therefore entails \; rethinking and reinhabiting bodies\, beginning by questioning which bodies are \; recognized and how they appear. Bodies that are sites of passage\, traversed by regimes \; of gender\, race\, class\, and species\; bodies exposed to toxicities\, extraction\, and \; infrastructures\; bodies amplified\, monitored\, and reconfigured by technologies. Bodies \; that are also habitats of resistance\, care\, and the invention of new ways of dwelling. The \; pressing question is not only how to survive\, nor even how to live\, but how to render \; bodies habitable. In this sense\, this congress seeks to bring together philosophical and \; interdisciplinary reflections that explore the unexpected alliances between ecology\, \; technology and feminism\, interrogating the conditions of possibility for habitable bodies \; within contemporary ecological techniques. In doing so\, it aims to contribute to \; imagining futures in which making kin is not merely a concept\, but an urgent ethical and \; political praxis.
\nThis way\, researchers are invited to submit presentation proposals within the \; three main strands of the congress&mdash\;feminism\, ecology and technology&mdash\;placing them in \; dialogue through perspectives such as ecofeminism\, transhumanism\, new materialisms\, \; the ethics of care\, decolonial thought\, among others. Theoretical\, critical\, or situated \; approaches from philosophy and related fields are welcome\, exploring\, among other \; possibilities:
\n➢ Contemporary transformations of the categories of subject\, agency and community \; in light of posthumanism\, new materialisms\, and relational metaphysics\;
\n➢ Practices of care\, hospitality and kinship as ethical and political questions\, analyzed \; from the perspectives of care ethics\, applied ethics\, bioethics and contemporary \; political philosophy\;
\n➢ The reconfiguration of the body as a site of experience\, agency and vulnerability\, \; considering dialogues between phenomenology\, philosophy of embodiment\, gender \; studies and philosophy of technology\;
\n➢ Interdependencies between humans\, non-humans and technologies and their \; epistemological implications\, addressed through the lens of philosophy of science\, \; feminist epistemology and technoscience studies\;
\n➢ Questions of justice\, responsibility and vulnerability in wounded ecologies\, \; examined from the optic of political philosophy\, critical theory\, postcolonial theory \; and environmental ethics\;
\n➢ Critiques of traditional hierarchies (nature/culture\, human/non-human\, \; masculine/feminine) and the exploration of alternative models of kinship and \; coexistence\, drawing on metaphysics\, ontology\, social philosophy and posthuman \; theories\;
\n➢ Reflections on technology\, artificial intelligence\, biotechnology and digitalities as \; forces that displace the subject\, transform agency and redefine modes of inhabiting\, \; from the perspectives of philosophy of technology\, critical cybernetics and AI \; studies\;
\n➢ The construction of shared worlds\, kinships and interdependencies through visual \; and performing arts and cinema\, considered in light of philosophy of art\, relational \; aesthetics\, and philosophy of film\;
\n➢ The role of language\, narrative and symbolic representation in mediating bodies\, \; technologies and ecologies\, investigated through philosophy of language\, narrative \; theory\, critical semiotics\, and philosophy of communication.
\nProposals must be submitted in English\, Portuguese\, Spanish\, French\, or \; Italian to makingkin@outlook.pt by April 7\, 2026. They should include an abstract \; (up to 300 words) and a brief biographical note (up to 150 words). Presentations should \; not exceed 20 minutes. The results will be announced on 7 May 2026. This International Congress is organized within the framework of PRAXIS &ndash\; Center for \; Philosophy\, Politics and Culture\, University of Beira Interior (Covilhã\;\, Portugal).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260702T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260703T170000 SUMMARY:LLMs as Mirror\, Colleague\, Rival UID:20260404T000154Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Locomotiefboulevard 101\, Tilburg\, Netherlands\, 5041 SE DESCRIPTION:CFA &ndash\; LLMs as Mirror\, Colleague\, Rival
\n5th TSHD Digital Humanities Symposium Tilburg School of Humanities &\; Digital Sciences\, Tilburg University
\n2 &\; 3 July\, 2026
\nLarge language models (LLMs) have quickly become a prominent feature of contemporary intellectual and cultural life\, raising distinctive questions for scholars across the digital humanities and related disciplines. We are interested in the multi faceted role of LLMs in academic research. LLMs process and generate language in a way that is both familiar and uncanny\, revealing and opaque. They can write\, translate\, argue\, and create\, but also lead us astray. In their complexity\, they hold up a strange mirror to human thought and culture (to borrow Shannon Vallor&rsquo\;s metaphor).
\nThis symposium takes as its organizing metaphor three roles that LLMs play in (digital) humanities research: as mirror\, colleague\, and rival. As a mirror\, LLMs reflect the values and biases encoded in training data drawn from a large corpus of human-generated text. Studying the output of LLMs (and how it falls short) can teach us about ourselves as well as the technology itself. As a colleague\, LLMs can serve as research tools or co-authors\, raising questions about collaboration\, authorship\, research integrity\, and the evolving nature of scholarly work. As a rival\, LLMs can disrupt and confound\, challenging the epistemic foundations of academic research\, by undermining replicability and evaluation\, and flattening the research landscape.
\nThese three roles are not mutually exclusive\, and the tensions between them are precisely what makes LLMs a productive object of study for digital humanists\, philosophers\, communication scholars\, cultural theorists\, cognitive scientists\, and others working adjacent to the digital humanities alike.
\nGuiding Questions
\nThis symposium aims to deepen our understanding of the role of LLMs in (digital) humanities research\, focusing on questions such as:
\n What can LLMs teach us about human language\, cultural heritage\, knowledge\, and creativity?
\n In what ways do LLMs encode or distort cultural values\, biases\, and worldviews? How can our disciplines help us identify and critique these?
\n How can scholars productively collaborate with LLMs as research tools? What methodological and ethical issues does this raise?
\n What does the rise of LLMs mean for domain expertise and the division of cognitive labor in the (digital) humanities?
\n What normative and political questions are raised by the delegation of linguistic and cognitive tasks to LLMs?
\n How do LLMs functoon as rivals or obstacles in (digital) humanites research? In what ways can they undermine traditional research methods and standards?
\n How do the geopolitics of LLM development and deployment affect their use in academic research (e.g.\, in terms of academic freedom\, conflicts of interest)?
\nWe aim to answer these questions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. We welcome theoretical\, empirical\, and methodological contributions. We invite speakers to present on a broad range of topics including\, but not limited to the cognitive and AI (e.g.\, modelling of individual and collective cognition\, LLMs as human subjects\, the nature of LLMs more broadly construed)\, arts and media (e.g.\, shifting definitions of authorship\; the potential dispossession of artists from creative industries)\, philosophical (e.g.\, LLMs and value-sensitive design\, cognitive deskilling\, chatbot epistemology and ethics)\, linguistic (e.g.\, modeling language acquisition and processing\, corpus annota on and analysis)\, and communication and information studies (e.g.\, the role and risks of chatbots in domains of health\, information\, and well-being\; the contributioon of LLMs to social and digital inequalities\; the integration of LLMs into communication science methodologies). Submitied abstracts ideally (but not necessarily) feature digital humanities methods or reflect on digital media and technologies.
\nThis 2-day\, hybrid symposium - part on-site in Tilburg\, part online - brings together scholars from a range of disciplines (all represented in the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences) to engage in a cross-disciplinary dialogue on these matters.
\nKeynote speakers to be confirmed.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nWe invite interested speakers to submit (i) an anonymized abstract of max. 300 words\, and (ii) a cover sheet including your name\, institutional affiliation\, and whether you would prefer to give a talk in person or online to DHsymposium@lburguniversity.edu by May 1st\, 2026. You&rsquo\;ll be no fied on May the 22nd. \; \;
\nOrganisers: Barend de Rooij\, Mirella De Sisto\, Richard Heersmink\, William Marler\, Sean Smith\, Federico Zamberlan
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260724T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260731T170000 SUMMARY:Time Work: Debt\, inheritance\, and intergenerational practice UID:20260404T000155Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Riga LOCATION:Minhauzen Unda\, Ainažu iela 74\, Saulkrasti\, Latvia DESCRIPTION:TIME WORK.
Debt\, inheritance\, and intergenerational practice.
Let&rsquo\;s call it &ldquo\;time work&rdquo\;: Those practices that negotiate the relations between the living and the dead. Time work is not merely conducted by archivists and historians\, but by grave diggers and undertakers\, documentary filmmakers and memoirists\, knowledge bearers\, politicians\, war journalists\, practitioners of living traditions\, speakers of dead languages\, as well as by any and all who keep something &ndash\; a story\, a trinket\, an heirloom\, a song &ndash\; holding onto it to remember. Time work is not easily done without feeling\; It is driven by the weight of mattering\, it is attention called by the fact that now &ndash\; this\, &lsquo\;our&rsquo\; now &ndash\; is in-part composed by the shadows of what and who came before. Time work is haunting work\, it whispers of recurrences (&ldquo\;this happened before&rdquo\;)\, and implicitly describes the present as a thing pushed to the surface of existence by the collective force of innumerable spent lives\, over centuries\, over millennia.
\nIn the summer 2026 Studies in Remoteness symposium\, we explore the ways that time work might destabilize the remoteness of history &ndash\; its absence\, distance\, and neglect. How might we describe the work that transforms time into a weighted force that accumulates\, persists\, and can be carried forward\, often across generations? Through what actions is one accountable to the past? What does it mean to hold or carry an inheritance? In what ways are people indebted to those who came before\, and how might the living &ldquo\;pay the debts&rdquo\; that have accumulated over generations? What kinds of temporalities do different approaches to time work produce\, and what social relations are then enabled or foreclosed? Through these questions\, the symposium reflects on the entanglement of debt and history\, exploring debt as an enduring paradigm that variously informs intergenerational relations\, systems of oppression\, and historical justice.
\nWe particularly invite proposals that engage with voices and worldviews often marginalized or erased in dominant knowledge systems.
\nThat place of bad debt\, the invaluable thing
Economy is one of the technologies that captures time. Timework (or Zeitarbeit) is also a term for wage labour. Since the early 20th century\, Taylorism maximized the efficiency of labouring bodies\, in part\, by transforming work into monotonous\, repeatable tasks. In &ldquo\;Time\, Work-Discipline\, and Industrial Capitalism&rdquo\; (1967)\, E.P. Thompson analysed the industrial imposition of precise\, clock-based time measurements on human labour. In models of industrial labour\, debt accrues around &ldquo\;wasted time&rdquo\;.
Within time-as-economy\, time work can also be rendered into the kind of labour that expedites and standardizes\, and thus administrates of the past as the debts and inheritances of the present. But what does it mean to account for history as countable value? In The Undercommons (2013)\, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten provide a model for thinking about remoteness as an anti-efficient site of refuge within the economic capture of time where the &ldquo\;debtor seeks refuge among other debtors\,&rdquo\; engaging in practices that work in time to accumulate indebtedness without resolution. They write that\, &ldquo\;[t]his refuge\, this place of bad debt\, is what we call the fugitive public&rdquo\;. Harney and Moten draw from a history of debt wielded a tool of oppression to argue that refuge from debt informs black study and other practices of fugitive planning that first emerged among self-liberated slaves\, or maroon communities. And yet\,
\n[t]o creditors it is just a place where something is wrong\, though that something wrong &ndash\; the invaluable thing\, the thing that has no value &ndash\; is desired. Creditors seek to demolish that place\, that project\, in order to save the ones who live there from themselves and their lives.
\nExtractive states\, corporations\, and developers claim that communities are indebted to them for progress delivered and infrastructures that too often devalue precisely what is invaluable to those communities. While the economising of the past as debt informs important reparations processes\, heritage work\, and protections\, remoteness can also point us in another direction &ndash\; following in the footsteps of the fugitive. \;
\nHistorical Remoteness: Marooned and unmoored
At the seaside fishing village of Saulkrasti\, Latvia\, the ruins of the 1960s modernist catering establishment Restaurant Vārava stands marooned amidst the trees in a seaside forest. World War II refugees from Pskov and Leningrad\, who settled around Saulkrasti after Germans had driven them out of their homes\, are shown in photographs digging trenches for the Nazis in that same forest in 1944. An EU-funded project on Baltic military heritage has identified a German WWII bunker in a farmer&rsquo\;s field\, built with timber cut by refugee hands. Excavations flooded the bunker with groundwater and were reversed.
Saulkrasti&rsquo\;s ruins are perhaps not so monumental as Latvia&rsquo\;s famous Karosta Northern Forts\, falling into the sea\, but they speak just as eloquently to histories of loss\, survival\, forced migration\, fascism\, war\, and economic struggle within Europe&rsquo\;s Baltic &ldquo\;peripheries&rdquo\;. Like many communities along the North Sea and Baltic Rim\, Saulkrasti has been historically shaped by movements over water and its beach has since time immemorial provided a thoroughfare for fish\, trade\, language\, culture\, violence\, exchange\, and upheaval.
How can our time work engage with Saulkrasti as a place where time work is already going on? Hosted within the Nordic Summer University\, a mobile institution which holds symposia for interdisciplinary research at different sites throughout the Nordic and Baltic regions\, Studies in Remoteness invites proposals from all fields to our summer 2026 symposium\, and explicitly encourages practice-based and community-inclusive research that takes up the challenge of engaging directly with the site and the seaside\, and thus to thoughts that slip into the water with the maroon to contemplate and critique historical narratives of moorage\, abandonment\, and the uncertainty of being unmoored. What poetic and material threads connect Saulkrasti and Latvian histories to wider emotional and material legacies of remoteness as they flow across time and partake in the patterns of dependency\, exploitation\, and exclusion structured by legal and economic systems? We are particularly interested in work that draws the site into relations with the long and layered histories of the Baltic rim through ruptures and disruptions and in pasts that remain present &ndash\; not as something stable or settled &ndash\; but as partial\, affective\, and unresolved.
DETAILED INFORMATION ON SUMMER SESSION PRACTICALITIES
Place: Minhauzen Unda\, Ainažu iela 74\, Saulkrasti\, Latvia
Dates: 24 July &ndash\; 31 July 2026
The 2026 Summer Session gathers all study circles of the Nordic Summer University.
Participants arrive in the afternoon/evening on 24 July.
Summer session prices include housing and food (full room and board) for the week.
Cost for participants without institutional support (full room and board\, July 24-31 2026):
100 &euro\;: \; \; NSU Scholarship price for full room and board for the week in shared 4-bed rooms
700 &euro\;: \; \; Full room and board\, bed in double room (shared with one other participant)
950 &euro\;: \; \; Full room and board\, single room (not shared)
500 &euro\;: \; \; Camping with access to shared bathrooms with showers + breakfast\, lunch\, dinner\, and
\; \; \; \; \; \; snacks for the week.
Studies in Remoteness is working hard to fund the participation of those with financial need. Participants who need funding support should send in their proposal as early as possible and express this in their applications. Nordic Summer University also offers limited scholarships (by application). Additionally\, there are a number of travel/conference grants we can recommend to participants to apply to independently.
Cost for participants with institutional support (full room and board\, July 24-31 2026):
900&euro\;: \; \; Institutional price for PhDs/any room type
1250&euro\;: \; Institutional price for employed scholars/any room type
Participants with families (full room and board\, July 24-31 2026):
1000 &euro\;: \; \;Full room and board in a double room for 1 adult and 1 child
1200 &euro\;: \; \;Full room and board in a family room for 1 adult and 2 children
1500 &euro\;: \; \;Full room and board in a family room for 2 adults and 1 child
1800 &euro\;: \; \; Full room and board in a family room for 2 adults and 2 children
Attending children aged 4+ are welcome to join the Children&rsquo\;s circle\, with two circle coordinators who plan activities for the kids running the course of the week.
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Read more about Study Circle 1:
Studies in Remoteness is coordinated as a study circle within the Nordic Summer University by dance historian Dr. Lindsey Drury and artist Helena Hildur W\, in cooperation with &ndash\; among others &ndash\; team members Theol. Dr. Shiluinla Jamir\, Essi Nuutinen and Tinka Harvard.
Studies in Remoteness does foundational theoretical\, artistic\, and historical work toward initiating a new field of interdisciplinary research in critical remoteness studies. To unpack the geopolitical\, environmental\, and cultural dimensions of &lsquo\;remoteness&rsquo\; &ndash\; particularly\, in the circumpolar North &ndash\; we will center Indigenous scholarship and critiques of extractive colonialism\, as well as artistic and embodied approaches\, in a series of six symposia across the Baltic rim between 2026-2028.
The project turns its attention to the notion of &ldquo\;a place far away&rdquo\;&ndash\; be it the regional peripheries or cartographic borderlands between nation states\; the residential areas of Indigenous/minoritized communities\; historical testimonies and lacunae\; sub-cultural meeting spots or your neighbour&rsquo\;s kitchen. Theorizing modernity by turning to its so-called outskirts\, the project inquires sensoria of absence\, distance\, and neglect that have blossomed along the frontiers of colonial empires and sedimented among the margins of modern infrastructures of &ldquo\;global connectivity&rdquo\;. With lingering attention\, Studies in Remoteness intends to unsettle conditions of obscuring or exoticising &ndash\; resolutely acknowledging histories\, topographies and epistemologies with an eye to how these might come into &ldquo\;intense proximity&rdquo\;\, as coined by Okwui Enwezor. \;
As a three-year collaborative research project\, Studies in Remoteness brings together a network of scholars\, artists\, and activists to engage in community-based research practices. By establishing a co-creative space for community building and artistic practices &ndash\; open for the sharing of facts\, questions\, concerns and practices &ndash\; we believe that our work will prove enduringly relevant.
Studies in Remoteness Userblog at Freie Universitä\;t Berlin:
https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/remoteness/
Our contemporary world is increasingly enamored by artificiality\, yet the Artificial Intelligence moniker of the latest dot-com bubble triggers profound anxieties. The idea that we can create an artificial intelligence by way of machinic technology is by no means novel in the history of culture. In the Iliad\, for example\, Homer speaks of Hephaestus&lsquo\; &ldquo\;handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids&rdquo\;\, characteristic by their intelligence\, speech and strength. To Aristotle\, technê\; \;was a craft grounded in knowledge\, and in this sense AI is precisely a product of practice\, an art. Thus\, it can be argued that artificial is our use of encyclopedias\, as much of our use of chatbots who in turn perform database searches on our behalf. Should not thinking machines\, wrought by our own technological mastery\, be a solace and relief?
\nClearly\, our concerns with AI and the potential chaos brought about by Large Language Models (LLMs) are significant and diverse. We know that LLMs can have environmental\, social\, juridical\, and economic effects that are poorly understood\, but potentially cataclysmic in force. artifices\, the 6th Ereignis Conference\, seeks to bring together thinking from across philosophy\, social theory\, and psycho-analysis to shed light on the complex emergence of AI. We approach artifice in its broadest sense: as that which is derived\, non-originary\, or external to traditional notions of the authentic. Relevant areas of examination and contestation are whether AI should be considered as generating a novel kind of alterity\, prompting us to ask whether the Other is being reduced to a zero degree of algorithmization or manifesting as a radical new ethical encounter. Further\, we can ask whether LLMs should be viewed not merely as models of cognition but as schizoanalytic desiring-machines that actively reorganize the circuits of human affect\, labor\, and planetary life. This necessitates a fundamental questioning of the natural/artificial distinction itself\; by deconstructing this binary\, we reveal how our anxieties regarding the cyborg reflect a deeper lack\, forcing us to confront the structural brokenness of a humanity that has always been technologically mediated.
\nThis conference invites new ways of positioning &ldquo\;thinking machines&rdquo\; in relation to humans through the lenses of alterity\, psychoanalysis\, and schizoanalysis. We seek to explore AI not as a mere model of cognition\, but as a machinic assemblage that reorganizes desire\, labor\, and planetary forms of life. Drawing on the tension between the Other as a source of alienation (Sartre) and a source of creation (Levinas)\, we ask how AI functions as a Big Other or as an instansiation of the symbolic order. Beyond simple ethics or regulation\, we aim to address the &ldquo\;cyborging&rdquo\; of humanity and the political task of philosophy -- moving toward a post-Lacanian and Deleuzian understanding of how modes of life and care can be composed within the shadow of the machinic earth.
\nKey Questions
\nWe invite papers from across disciplines that engage one or more of these questions: \;
\nInvitation
\nWe invite papers from all traditions and schools of philosophy and adjoining discipline (critical and social theory\, psycho-analysis and schizoanalysis\, media studies and arts\, literary theory and comparative literature\, etc.) to address any of the topics and questions above. Submissions should be structured\, well-argued\, and show evidence of rigorous scholarship. Include an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short author bio (max. 50 words). \;
\nSubmit abstracts by June 1\, 2026 \;through our online submission engine at ereignis.no. We will return to you with a notification on acceptance. Registration is required.
\nHybrid format
\nThe conference will be held on-site in Gdynia\, Poland\, on August 8 and 9\, 2026\, and on-line on the Zoom videoconferencing platform for those unable to attend in person. More information about travel and accommodation is available on the conference page. For accepted papers\, registration will be required by July 1\, 2026.
\nConfirmed keynote speaker
\nSessions
\nPapers are timed to 20 minutes and followed by a Q&\;A with the audience. Each session is moderated.
\nPublishing opportunities
\nAll authors are encouraged to submit essay-versions of their presentation to a themed issue of our peer-reviewed journal\, Inscriptions. Deadline for submitting full-text essays will be October 15\, 2026. Note that this journal has its own criteria for submission\, review and publication. For more information\, see the journal&lsquo\;s about page. \;
\nConference fee
\nScholastic committee
\nOrganisers
\nThis event is hosted by Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts and Inscriptions &mdash\; a journal for contemporary thinking on art\, philosophy and psycho-analysis.
\nMore information about travelling to Gdynia\, Poland\, visa requirements\, accommodation\, and some information for those travelling with families is available on the conference page: .
ORGANIZER;CN=Torgeir Fjeld: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260813T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260814T170000 SUMMARY:Feminism and the Corporation: Radical Metaphysics\, Radical Politics? UID:20260404T000157Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Dublin LOCATION:Dublin\, Ireland DESCRIPTION:A two-day workshop on feminist philosophy\, social ontology and the corporation. The workshop forms a part of the ERC grant Corporate Moral Progress\, and will take place at Trinity College Dublin. \;
\nInvited Speakers
\nJade Fletcher (St Andrews)
\nCarol Gould (CUNY)
\nNaï\;ma Hamrouni (UQTR)
\nVanessa Wills (George Washington)
\nWorkshop Summary
\nFeminist philosophy has gone from strength to strength in recent years\, with feminist work on social ontology and power asking us to rethink our very understanding of the social world. However\, one relative lacuna in this growing field has been feminist work on the corporation. With philosophers like Å\;sa Burman urging emancipatory metaphysicians to engage with the &lsquo\;economic base&rsquo\; alongside work on traditional topics like gender and race\, this conference seeks to find ways to begin to fill that gap. In a world where corporate domination is near-universal\, where platforms like Google are rapidly entrenching a new (and potentially post-capitalist) ruling class\, and where corporate power has helped to give rise to increasingly fascist national governments around the world\, the need for feminist theorisations and critiques of the corporation has never been more urgent.
\nSuggested topics for papers at the conference include (but are by no means limited to): \;
\nWhat would a feminist metaphysics of the corporation look like?
\nHow does a feminist analysis contribute to our understanding of corporate power?
\nWhat can the Marxist feminist tradition tell us about our contemporary moment?
\nDo recent transfeminist accounts of social reproduction give us new ways of analysing our relationships to corporations?
\nHow should we think about ideology and the corporation?
\nCan the corporation as a social form be a site of moral progress?
\nIs there a nonideal social ontology of the corporation?
\nCan corporations have genders?
\nWhat does the corporation look like in a technofeudal world?
\nCan the corporation care?
\nWe invite submission of abstracts of no more than 750 words. Submissions should be sent to cullm@tcd.ie \;
\nThe deadline for submissions is March 9th 2026.
\nAccessibility
\nThe planned location\, Trinity Business School\, is wheelchair accessible\, and we are keen to provide for other disability accommodations - please let us know if we can make the workshop more accessible for you! \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Matthew J. Cull: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260821T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260828T170000 SUMMARY:Ecosocial Ideas: Coexistence and Change UID:20260404T000158Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Universiteto str. 9\, Vilnius\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:Ecosocial Ideas: Coexistence and Change.
\nInterdisciplinary Summer School and Conference\,
\nAugust 21&ndash\;26 &\; 27-28\, 2026
\n(Post)Authoritarian Landscapes Research Centre\, Vilnius University
\nDetails:
\nInitiated by the (Post)Authoritarian Landscapes Research Centre (PAScapes) at Vilnius University\, Lithuania\, this twofold event invites participants to examine the notion of the \;ecosocial \;as a landscape\, milieu\, and site of encounter with a potential to reconfigure coexistence and build practices of transformation. \;
\nWe invite contributions from philosophy and humanities\, social and environmental sciences\, memory and genocide studies\, STS\, ecocriticism and landscape studies\, Western and Russian colonialism studies\, cognitive sciences\, history\, archaeology\, and beyond.
\nKeynote Speakers: \;
\nLuba Jurgenson (Sorbonne University)
\nLambros Malafouris (University of Oxford)
\nSvitlana Matviyenko (Simon Fraser University)
\nCary Wolfe (Rice University)
\n&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;
\nVaiva Dara&scaron\;kevičiūtė (PAScapes\, Vilnius University)
\nMarija Drėmaitė (PAScapes\, Vilnius University)
\nMintautas Gutauskas (PAScapes\, Vilnius University)
\nKristupas Sabolius (PAScapes\, Vilnius University)
\nCall for papers:
\nThe Summer School
\nVilnius University\, Faculty of Philosophy
\nAugust 21-26\, 2026
\nThe Summer School is dedicated to early-career professionals\, primarily PhD students. It will feature keynote addresses\, lectures by scholars from relevant fields\, presentations by participating PhD students\, and joint discussions. The participants are also encouraged to stay for the Conference that will immediately follow the Summer School.
\nAbstracts must be 300-500 words in length and feature your ongoing research in relation to the problem of the ecosocial. Your affiliation\, the topic of Phd (MA\, postdoc) thesis\, and supervisor must be indicated. Short presentations based on the submitted abstracts will be carried out and discussed during the Summer School. Participation is free but limited to 20 participants. \;
\nHow to submit an abstract
\n1. Send an email to \;info@pascapes.lt \;with your abstract attached (acceptable formats: .doc\, .docx\, .rtf\, .pdf).
\n2. Use the subject line: Summer School. Ecosocial Ideas 2026
\nThe deadline for submitting an abstract: extended \;to January 18\, 2026.
\nNotification of reviewers&rsquo\; decision: \;February 10\, 2026.
\nThe Conference \;
\nVilnius University\, Faculty of Philosophy
\nAugust 27-28\, 2026
\nAppropriate topics for submission include\, among others:
\n- \; \; \; ecosocial ontologies and materialities\;
\n- \; \; \; social\, technological\, and environmental interactions\;
\n- \; \; \; aesthetics\, art\, and the ecosocial\;
\n- \; \; \; cognitive dimensions of the ecosocial\;
\n- \; \; \; the methodologies of ecosocial frameworks\;
\n- \; \; \; genocide\, trauma and the ecosocial\;
\n- \; \; \; ambicolonial (Western and Russian) perspectives and the ecosocial.
\nAbstracts must be 500 words in length\; please add your short bio and affiliation. Participation is free\, but the number of presentations is limited. Talks will be 30 minutes\, including Q&\;A.
\nHow to submit an abstract
\n1. Send an email to \;info@pascapes.lt \; \;with your abstract attached (acceptable formats: .doc\, .docx\, .rtf\, .pdf).
\n2. Use the subject line: Conference. Ecosocial Ideas 2026
\nThe deadline for submitting an abstract: extended to April \;11\, 2026. \;
\nNotification of reviewers&rsquo\; decision: May \;1\, 2026.
\n\;
\nFurther information:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Regarding the summer school\, free accommodation will be provided for international participants (those coming from outside Vilnius University). Coffee breaks and light meals will be provided.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Regarding the conference\, the organizers do not cover travel and accommodation costs. Coffee breaks will be provided. Lunch breaks and the Conference dinners will be offered for an additional cost.
\nOrganizers \;
\nEcosocial Ideas Research Group at PAScapes\, Vilnius University
\nKristupas Sabolius\, Head of Group
\nMintautas Gutauskas\, Vaiva Dara&scaron\;kevičiūtė\, Anda Pleniceanu\, Dominykas Barusevičius
\nFor further information:
\ninfo@pascapes.lt
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Sao_Paulo:20260901T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Sao_Paulo:20260904T170000 SUMMARY:International Association for the Philosophy of Sport Conference 2026 UID:20260404T000159Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:America/Sao_Paulo LOCATION:University of São Paulo\, São Paulo\, Brazil DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers
\nInternational Association of the Philosophy of Sport Conference
\nSeptember 1 &ndash\; 4\, 2026\, University of Sã\;o Paulo\, Sã\;o Paulo\, Brazil
\nThe \;conference website for more information.
\nAbstracts are welcome on any area of philosophy of sport (broadly construed)\, including metaphysics\, epistemology\, aesthetics\, and ethics\, and from any theoretical approach\, including analytic philosophy and critical theory. While \;IAPS \;recognizes\, values\, and encourages interdisciplinary approaches and methodologies\, acceptance is contingent on the philosophical content of the project. Emerging scholars are encouraged to submit works in progress. You may also submit suggestions for roundtable discussions or workshops. \;
\nThe deadline for abstract submission is \;April 1\, 2026. Contributors will be notified about the status of their abstracts by May 24\, 2026. \;
\nConference Requirements: All conference presenters shall register for and attend the conference to have their paper included on the conference program. Presenters must also be members of IAPS (either student or full). New members may register for IAPS membership at the following \;www.iaps.net/join-iaps/
\nThe abstract submission site can be found here: http://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/5f65893d-de85-4d72-833a-d228e77e442f
\nThe student essay submission site can be found here: http://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/24d8ad7f-efe3-4b51-a860-2c68db93d15b
\nPlease direct any questions to the IAPS Conference Chair\, Colleen English (iaps.confchair@gmail.com).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260911T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260911T090000 SUMMARY:TransCare 2nd Edition UID:20260404T000200Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Dublin LOCATION:Cork\, Ireland DESCRIPTION:Healthcare education and research continue to grapple with the limits of inherited epistemologies: frameworks that have long marginalised\, pathologised\, or erased trans\, gender-diverse\, and intersex lives. Scholarship on \;epistemic injustice \;(Hall 2017\; Wesp et al. 2019) and \;situated knowledges \;(Haraway 1988) shows how these exclusions are embedded in the very processes through which knowledge is produced and legitimised. Insights from gender/sex pluralism (Monro 2005\; 2019\; Preciado 2013) further highlight how institutional systems struggle to \;accommodate the complexity of lived identities \;within and beyond binary frameworks. Transformative inclusion within healthcare settings therefore requires more than updated curricula or revised clinical guidelines: it calls for new methodological imagination (see e.g. Pendleton &\; Pezaro 2025).
\nThis year&rsquo\;s TransCare conference invites \;scholars\, practitioners\, educators\, and community researchers \;to explore how \;creative\, interdisciplinary\, and humanities‑driven methodologies \;can reshape the production of knowledge in healthcare. Building on the 2024 edition&rsquo\;s focus on educational tools\, TransCare turns its attention to the research practices that make such tools possible. We ask how \;arts‑based\, participatory\, speculative\, and community‑led approaches \;can open pedagogical and methodological pathways that affirm gender diversity\, challenge normative assumptions\, and cultivate critical and trans‑affirming pedagogies and research.
\nTo do so\, we aim to foreground methodology not as a technical procedure but as a site where \;knowledge\, care\, and power intersect. Approaches that centre \;lived experience\, relationality\, and reflexivity \;can unsettle dominant epistemic frames and generate new possibilities for teaching and practice. Attending to the \;affective and embodied dimensions of research \;and care (Malatino 2020\; 2022) further highlights the need for methodologies that recognise and value ways of knowing and dealing with trans and intersex communities\, particularly in challenging social and political settings.
\nThe 2026 edition continues TransCare&rsquo\;s commitment to interdisciplinary exchange by emphasising methodology as a site of care\, ethics\, and transformation (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017). \;We welcome contributions that rethink how education and research are designed\, conducted\, interpreted\, and taught\, and that imagine new infrastructures for trans\, gender-diverse\, and intersex&ndash\;inclusive healthcare education.
\n\;
\nScope of Contributions
\nWe welcome contributions from across disciplines\, sectors\, and methodological traditions. Submissions may address\, but are \;not limited \;to\, the following areas:
\nWe particularly encourage submissions that experiment with form\, challenge disciplinary boundaries\, or propose new infrastructures for trans\, gender‑diverse\, and intersex&ndash\;inclusive healthcare research and education. However\, please do not be intimidated: \;all approaches and levels of experimentation are welcome.
\n\;
\nPublication Opportunity
\nWe are also collecting expressions of interest for a \;collected volume on creative\, interdisciplinary\, and humanities‑driven methodologies for trans\, gender‑diverse\, and intersex&ndash\;inclusive healthcare research and education.
\nIf you wish to be considered for inclusion in this edited collection\, \;please indicate this when submitting your abstract by ticking the box in the form. \;
List of References
\nHall\, K. Q. (2017). Queer epistemology and epistemic injustice. In I. J. Kidd\, J. Medina\, &\; G. Pohlhaus Jr. (Eds.)\, \;The Routledge handbook of epistemic injustice \;(pp. 158&ndash\;166). Routledge.
\nHaraway\, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. \;Feminist Studies\, 14(3)\, 575&ndash\;599.
\nMalatino\, H. (2020). \;Trans care. University of Minnesota Press.
Malatino\, H. (2022). \;Side affects: On being trans and feeling bad. University of Minnesota Press.
Monro\, S. (2005). \;Gender politics: Activism\, citizenship and sexual diversity. Pluto Press.
\nMonro\, S. (2019). Non-binary and genderqueer: An overview of the field. \;International Journal of Transgenderism\, 20(2&ndash\;3)\, 126&ndash\;131.
\nPendleton\, J.\, &\; Pezaro\, S. (2025). From midwife to lead perinatal practitioner: A utopian vision. \;Birth\, 52(3)\, 511&ndash\;516.
\nPreciado\, B. P. (2013). \;Testo Junkie: Sex\, drugs\, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era. The Feminist Press.
\nPuig de la Bellacasa\, M. (2017). \;Matters of care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds. University of Minnesota Press.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Valeria Venditti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260922T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260923T170000 SUMMARY:Between Christian and Post-Christian Worldviews UID:20260404T000201Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Kopernika 26\, Kraków\, Poland DESCRIPTION:Christian Philosophy: Between Christian and Post-Christian Worldviews (2026)
\n4th \;International Conference:
\nChristian \;Philosophy: Between Christian \;and Post-Christian \;Worldviews
\nIgnatianum University in Krakow\, 22-23 September 2026 (Tuesday-Wednesday)
\nThe term &lsquo\;post-Christian&rsquo\; is increasingly appearing in philosophical and cultural discourse\, employed to describe various phenomena that supposedly follow on after Christianity. Most often\, the term is used to describe a contemporary world in which Christianity either is no longer the dominant religion or is not recognised as such in the way that it was until recently. At the same time\, although there is a post-Christian world\, the Christian world has not ended. The problem of the &lsquo\;post-Christian picture of reality&rsquo\; therefore provokes discussion amongst both supporters and opponents of Christianity &ndash\; especially because what is &lsquo\;post-Christian&rsquo\; cannot be understood in isolation from Christianity itself.
\nIn a globalised world\, we are witnessing a clash between Christian and post-Christian images of the world. While some recognise the permanence and validity of the picture of reality founded on the Christian religion\, others are convinced that this has\, for various reasons\, been deformed or destroyed and belongs to an irreversible past\, both in terms of cognition and at the level of social practice.
\nWhile within Western civilisation broadly construed a post-Christian worldview founded on ecological\, gender-based or technological naturalism would seem to be dominating\, in other parts of the globe the Christian worldview is only just gaining ground.
\nThe situation in which Christian and post-Christian worldviews clash within culture and social life poses a serious challenge for philosophy. Christianity-inspired philosophy must define its place in relation to not only worldviews\, but also phenomena\, trends and concepts with anti-Christian overtones. At the same time\, the post-Christian worldview raises many questions that need to be addressed. Proposals We invite proposals that address the problems of Christian and post-Christian worldviews.
\n\nOur interests lie especially in the following topics and questions\, but are not limited to them: \;
\n&bull\; What are the main historical and systematic problems of the Christian worldview?
\n&bull\; Is an evolution of the Christian worldview possible\, or even necessary?
\n&bull\; What is the difference between post-Christian worldviews and non-Christian or postreligious worldviews?
\n&bull\; What are the main aspects and characteristics of the relationship between Christian and post-Christian worldviews?
\n&bull\; Is the transition between Christianity and post-Christianity itself an irreversible phenomenon?
\n&bull\; In what way is post-Christianity influencing debates in ethics and/or politics?
\n&bull\; Does the post-Christian worldview lead to a dissolution of our deep need for religious truths or values?
\n&bull\; Why is the post-Christian worldview mostly dominated by materialistic and relativistic perspectives that reject God as a person and the spiritual values of Christianity?
\n&bull\; What kind of personal identity and individual existence is being presented within the post-Christian worldview?
\n&bull\; Why is it that\, in the post-Christian world\, religion is becoming a tool of political mobilisation and/or manipulation?
\n&bull\; What is the function of religion within the Christian and post-Christian worldviews?
\n&bull\; Is the very meaning of Christianity dissolved in the post-Christian worldview into a set of broad ideals about human behaviour and society?
\n&bull\; What is the position of the Christian and post-Christian worldviews on the truth-falsehood opposition?
\n\nSubmissions:
\nPlease submit a 500-word abstract of your paper (in PDF format) by March 31\, 2026\, via EasyChair\, using the following link:
\nhttps://easychair.org/conferences?conf=chp26
\nLanguage: only proposals in English will be accepted for consideration.
\nWe will be delighted to encounter all participants in person here at Ignatianum University in Cracow. However\, the organisers plan to conduct this conference in hybrid mode\, combining both online and on-site elements. Each conference participant will receive a certificate indicating also the mode of participation.
\n\nWe are pleased to announce that the following individuals have agreed to give a lecture or participate in a panel discussion during the conference:
\nJeffrey Bloechl &ndash\; Boston College\,
\nUSA Chantal Delsol &ndash\; University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallé\;e\,
\nFrance Piotr Gutowski &ndash\; John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin\,
\nPoland John Milbank &ndash\; University of Nottingham\, UK
\nLinda Trinkaus Zagzebski &ndash\; University of Oklahoma\, USA
\n\nFees
\nThe conference is open to the public (also via social media). Presenting participants will be charged a fee to help cover costs (materials\, dinner\, coffee breaks\, etc.). For the exact amount of the conference fee\, see below.
\nEarly submission (up to December 31\, 2025) will attract a reduced fee (so-called &lsquo\;Early Bird registration&rsquo\;).
\nRegular participants 60/80/100 EUR (Early Birds/PhD Students/Regular Participants).
\nOnline participants 30/40/50 EUR (Early Birds/PhD Students/Regular Participants)
\n\nWe plan to record all presentations and then publish them on conference YouTube chanel and on the conference Facebook fanpage. After the conference we plan to publish a special issue in a philosophical journal\, containing articles based on the conference presentations. With this in mind\, speakers are encouraged to prepare a paper (up to 10\,000 words) and submit it by December 31\, 2026. Each article will be subject to a process of doubleblind peer review. Forum Philosophicum\, an international journal for philosophy (listed in SCOPUS)\, has already agreed to publish a special issue in 2026 including materials from the conference. However\, we are also open to collaboration with other journals.
\n\nDeadlines
\n&bull\; Submission of Proposals (Early Birds): December 31\, 2025
\n&bull\; Submission of Proposals: March 31\, 2026
\n&bull\; Notification of Acceptance: April 30\, 2026
\n&bull\; Registration Deadline and Payment: June 30\, 2026
\n&bull\; Conference Dates: September 22&ndash\;23\, 2026
\n&bull\; Paper Submission Deadline: December 31\, 2026
ORGANIZER;CN="Andrzej Skupień";CN="Jacek Poznański": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260929T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260929T234500 SUMMARY:[SPECIAL ISSUE: WONDER] American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly UID:20260404T000202Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY
\nSpecial Issue on Wonder
\nGuest Editor: Kevin M. Kambo (https://udallas.edu/academics/programs/philosophy/faculty/kambo-kevin.php)
\nThis special issue brings the attention of contemporary philosophers and scholars to the phenomenon of wonder.
\nPlato&rsquo\;s Socrates states that &ldquo\;the feeling of wonder belongs very much to the philosopher\, since there is no other source of philosophy than this.&rdquo\; Aristotle concurs\, observing that &ldquo\;it is owing to wonder that men both now begin\, and at first began\, to philosophize. &hellip\; Even the lover of myth in a sense is a lover of wisdom or a philosopher\, for the myth\, too\, is composed of wonders.&rdquo\; Aquinas identifies wonder partly as a hopeful desire or longing for scientific knowledge that causes pleasure. Descartes classifies it among the passions of the soul\, noticing that &ldquo\;those without any natural inclination to this passion are ordinarily very ignorant.&rdquo\; Adam Smith for his part describes wonder as a sentiment attended by &ldquo\;that staring\, and sometimes that rolling of the eyes\, that suspension of the breath\, and that swelling of the heart.&rdquo\; For Josef Pieper\, &ldquo\;the capacity to wonder is among man&rsquo\;s greatest gifts.&rdquo\; To Martha Nussbaum\, &ldquo\;Wonder is the basis of respect. Without wonder\, we become morally numb.&rdquo\; Reflecting on artificial intelligence\, Pope Leo XIV draws attention to &ldquo\;repercussions on humanity&rsquo\;s openness to truth and beauty\, and capacity for wonder and contemplation.&rdquo\; And for Jesse Prinz\, &ldquo\;wonder is the accidental impetus behind our greatest achievements. Art\, science and religion are inventions for feeding the appetite that wonder excites in us. They also become sources of wonder in their own right\, generating epicycles of boundless creativity and enduring inquiry. Each of these institutions allows us to transcend our animality by transporting us to hidden worlds. In harvesting the fruits of wonder\, we came into our own as a species.&rdquo\;
\nThe above quotations demonstrate that wonder has been a phenomenon of interest throughout the history of philosophy. Wonder has variously been invoked as a root or source of philosophy\, as a critical part of interpersonal or political life\, and as a key to understanding the human being&rsquo\;s vocation to enjoy realities that transcend the world of things that pass away. In the present day\, wonder is often invoked in discussions exploring the nature and value liberal education as well as the relationship between the intellectual life and the good life. At the same time\, the phenomenon has not received many sustained treatments\, even into the present day. This special issue aims to be one such sustained&mdash\;and creative&mdash\;treatment.
\nPossible questions and areas of interest for the present study include but are not limited to:
\n1. Wonder as a verb
\n2. Wonder as a noun
\n3. Miscellany
\nAny of the above questions&mdash\;or others&mdash\;may be addressed with reference to or in dialogue with any significant figures in the history of philosophy.
\nThis special issue invites work from philosophers across traditions and approaches. In doing so\, it seeks to occasion a dialogue on the theme by philosophers working in different contexts and thereby to facilitate\, in the present day\, more philosophical conversations about wonder.
\nSubmissions must be written in English and prepared for peer review. Articles may be up to a maximum of 12\,000 words (inclusive of abstract and notes). Full style guidelines may be found on the ACPQ website (https://www.pdcnet.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/format_ACPQ-article.pdf).
\nArticle submission will be made on a rolling basis until the special issue is complete. Review of submissions begins 29th September\, 2026. Final deadline for submission is 1st April\, 2027.
\nPlease submit your original manuscript electronically at acpqwonder[at]gmail[dot]com.
\nFor any questions on this special issue\, please direct your queries to the guest editor\, Kevin M. Kambo (kkambo[at]udallas[dot]edu).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261005T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261005T170000 SUMMARY:Towards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory UID:20260404T000203Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Viale Europa\, 1\, Catanzaro\, Italy\, 88100 DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\nTowards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory
15 October 2026
Department of Law\, Economics and Sociology
University Magna Græ\;cia of Catanzaro \;(Italy)
Hybrid format (on site and online)
Overview and Aims
\nThe Conference aims to explore the philosophical meaning of legal institutions and concepts\, starting from the idea that the task of the philosophy of law is to investigate the essence of legal phenomena in order to clarify the object of theoretical legal science.
\nThe event proposes a study day devoted to examining the possibility of explaining and justifying\, from a philosophical perspective\, the existence and functioning of legal concepts. Contributors are invited to apply the hermeneutic method&mdash\;understood as a general interpretative criterion rather than a specific philosophical stance&mdash\;and to conduct an inquiry internal to legal practice\, highlighting the nature of legal concepts as &ldquo\;places of meaning&rdquo\; capable of revealing the substance of legal experience.
\nThe Conference seeks to foster an open\, critical\, and interdisciplinary dialogue among different theoretical approaches to the interpretation of legal phenomena\, encouraging a shared reflection on the role of hermeneutics in understanding law and its institutions.
\nSuggested Topics
\nAbstracts may address\, from a theoretical and philosophical perspective\, themes including (but not limited to):
\nthe concept of the cause of contract and its interpretative approaches\;
\ntheories of legal appearance and the relationship between fact and representation\;
\nthe role of general clauses and the transformation of the idea of the legal &ldquo\;system&rdquo\;\;
\nthe philosophical meaning of civil liability and risk allocation in different social models\;
\nbioethical legal issues (surrogacy\, cloning\, abortion\, end-of-life decisions)\;
\nthe philosophical foundations of the concept of citizenship\;
\ntheoretical configurations of sovereignty in light of changing power relations\;
\nthe concept of public interest as a hermeneutic category\;
\nthe legitimation of power and the symbolic function of the Constitution\;
\nthe state of exception as a philosophical-legal category\;
\nthe relationship between norm and value\;
\nlegal language as symbolic mediation\;
\nthe concept of legal personhood\;
\nthe function of judgment and interpretation in legal practice.
\nContributions are particularly welcome from scholars working in philosophy of law and the social sciences\, including epistemological\, ontological\, sociological\, and political-philosophical perspectives\, as well as approaches related to Critical Legal Studies\, Law and Humanities\, Economic Analysis of Law\, and philosophy of economics.
\nTarget Participants
\nThe Conference is addressed to:
\nPhD candidates and PhD holders\;
\npostdoctoral fellows and early-career researchers\;
\nscholars in law\, philosophy\, history\, economics\, business and management studies\, political science\, and social sciences.
\nParticipation Guidelines
\nDate: \;15 October 2026
\nVenue: \;Department of Law\, Economics and Sociology\, University Magna Græ\;cia of Catanzaro (Italy)
\nFormat: \;Hybrid (on site and online)
\nFee: \;Free of charge (no travel or accommodation reimbursement)
\nCertificate of attendance: \;Available upon request
\nSubmission requirements:
\nAbstract (maximum 400 words)
\nShort biographical note (maximum 100 words)
\nFormat: .doc/.docx or .pdf
\nDeadline: \;17 May 2026
\nSubmission via email to:
\nlinda.brancaleone@studenti.unicz.it
\ngiacomo.cipriani@unicatt.it
\nSelection process:
\nNotification of acceptance by \;5 July 2026
\nSelected authors will present a 15-minute paper
\nConfirmation of participation (indicating on-site or online attendance) required by \;19 July 2026
\nPublication Opportunity
\nConference proceedings will be published in a scientific edited volume. Contributions will be selected by the Scientific Committee following a peer-review process.
\nConference Language
\nPapers may be presented in \;Italian or English.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261007T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Why Still Education? EDUCATION – COMMUNITY – RESISTANCE UID:20260404T000204Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Kraljice Natalije 45\, Belgrade\, Serbia\, 11000 DESCRIPTION:Schools and universities are increasingly becoming places that reflect global struggles: from culture wars over curriculum content to economic pressures that radically change teachers&rsquo\; working conditions\, the availability of education\, and the very purpose of learning. Within them\, the interests of various social actors inevitably intersect\, and often clash. Educational institutions can serve as instruments of control and reproduction of the existing order &ndash\; entrenching inequalities\, normalizing authority\, and limiting dissent. Conversely\, education can also be a site of resistance - a space for critical thinking\, challenging\, social mobilization\, and the creation of alternatives.
\nContemporary education has a strong moral\, political\, and ideological dimension: it aims\, among other things\, to educate active citizens and skilled entrepreneurs\, encourage care for others and the environment\, foster national identity\, and a sense of belonging. The values of the wider community spill over into the educational system\, but the reverse can also be true - educational institutions and educational actors can contribute to shaping the values of the wider community through their own\, autonomous values. If we view educational institutions as communities that possess a certain autonomy and resilience in relation to the local and wider community\, questions arise about the principles on which they should be built as good communities.
\nOn the other hand\, contemporary social and educational contexts confront us with forms of community that consolidate themselves through exclusion\, as well as with forms of resistance directed against democratic values. Rather than presupposing their emancipatory character\, the conference invites critical reflection on the many directions and forms that community and resistance can take in educational contexts.
\nThis also reopens the question of what education itself is\, and ought to be\, under present social conditions. The conference aims to open an interdisciplinary discussion on the interrelationships between education\, community\, and resistance. Authors are invited to address the following\, as well as other questions they deem relevant to the conference theme:
\n&bull\; What is the meaning of education in new social circumstances?
\n&bull\; In what way does education reproduce or challenge power relations and dominant ideologies?
\n&bull\; In relation to what\, when\, and how can education become a place and practice of resistance?
\n&bull\; How do practices within educational institutions contribute to the transformation of the wider community?
\n&bull\; What can we learn from the movements and protests spurred by educational actors?
\n&bull\; In what ways do various forms of democratic participation in education influence the reflection on and the construction of community?
\n&bull\; What pedagogical practices nurture community\, togetherness\, and a sense of belonging within educational institutions and outside of them? How to overcome alienation within educational institutions?
\n&bull\; How do different forms of non-formal education within the community contribute to the development of critical awareness\, collective action\, and resistance?
\n&bull\; Given the current social circumstances\, can the concepts of community and resistance still function as markers of progressive educational practices?
\nThe conference is open to theoretical and empirical contributions\, case studies\, as well as comparative approaches from all disciplines of social sciences and humanities.
\nKeynote speakers:
\nProf. Michalinos Zembylas\, Open University of Cyprus
\nProf. Aleksandar Baucal\, University of Belgrade
\nProf.Helen Haste\, University of Bath
\nIn addition to individual presentations\, panel proposals of three to four papers\, with a designated convener\, are also welcome. Panel proposals should include the title of the panel\, panel abstract (up to 300 words)\, the title of the individual presentations\, individual paper abstracts (up to 300 words)\, and information about all panel participants.
\nWe especially invite teachers and educators to present school projects and teaching initiatives that embody critical pedagogy\, democratic participation\, or creative resistance. These presentations aim to highlight examples of good practice that connect theory and action\, research and education\, community and resistance. We encourage teachers to submit presentations based on their everyday practice and experiences\, such as:
\n&bull\; school projects related to the main themes of the conference\,
\n&bull\; initiatives that promote students&rsquo\; democratic participation\,
\n&bull\; forms of creative or quiet resistance to injustice and bureaucratic pressures\,
\n&bull\; examples of critical pedagogy in the classroom\,
\n&bull\; ways of connecting the school with the local community.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:Digital Commons: Infrastructures\, Design and the Ethics of Autonomy UID:20260404T000205Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Athens LOCATION:Athens\, Greece DESCRIPTION:Digital Commons: Infrastructures\, Design\, and the Ethics of Autonomy \;
\nCall for Papers and Panels
Co-organized by the Department of Social Anthropology\, Panteion University &\; the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications\, National Center for Scientific Research &ldquo\;Demokritos&rdquo\;
8-10 October 2026\, Athens\, Greece
\nVenues: Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences &\; NCSR Demokritos. Parallel events will take place at AiTHERION. \;
\nIn an age where digital infrastructures shape our modes of living\, learning\, organizing\, and surviving\, the notion of the commons offers a potent ground for rethinking how technologies are built\, owned\, and governed. This conference invites critical dialogue on digital commons not as fixed platforms or technical solutions\, but as ongoing\, situated struggles over autonomy\, access\, and collective care.
\nDrawing from decolonial design\, infrastructure studies\, anthropology\, STS\, design research\, feminist &\; indigenous studies\, and informatics\, the event centers on how communities\, scholars\, and technologists enact commons through/about/for digital infrastructures. What forms of life do digital commons sustain or suppress? How do marginalized actors repurpose networks\, code\, and platforms to build systems of mutual support\, resistance\, and futurity? What design practices enable infrastructural commons to emerge\, and how might they be scaled without reproducing extractive logics? How do protocols\, software architectures\, and governance models embed\, contest or refuse particular values? And how does AI and algorithmic mediation reconfigure cultural meaning\, heritage\, and collective memory within digital commons?
\nAlongside academic panels and presentations\, parallel activities will be hosted at AiTHERION\, a hub for public dialogue developed by NCSR Demokritos and the Hellenic Ministry of Culture. AiTHERION fosters reflection through technology-driven philosophy exhibitions\, public debates\, and immersive experiences. These events will promote public dialogue and encourage cross-disciplinary and civic engagement.
\nCore themes include:
\nInfrastructural Commoning\, Law &\; Governance
\nFrom local networks and cooperative clouds to peer-to-peer architectures and autonomous tech collectives. Exploring how infrastructures can be reclaimed and reimagined beyond market logics\, and how legal frameworks\, ownership models\, and platform regulation shape or challenge these practices.
\nDesigning Otherwise &\; Ethics/Accountability
\nParticipatory\, feminist\, and pluriversal approaches to digital systems. Care and harm in design\; ethics of participation and exclusion\; algorithmic bias and fairness\; collective data stewardship and privacy in commons-based infrastructures.
\nValue\, Labor\, and Ownership
\nCommons-based and open-source production models\; platform cooperativism and postcapitalist economies. The shifting boundaries of waged/unwaged\, visible/invisible labor\, and the politics of collective ownership\, regulation\, and sustainability.
\nAnthropologies of Mediation &\; Cultural AI Commons
\nCultural biographies of infrastructure and code as mediators of affect\, belonging\, and resistance. AI in heritage and cultural institutions\; algorithmic mediation of memory and identity\; community-based digitization\; participatory design of cultural AI. Questions of bias\, erasure\, epistemic justice\, and the imaginaries of counter-hegemonic cultural AI.
\nTechnopolitics &\; Epistemic Justice
\nIndigenous\, migrant\, and activist appropriations of digital tools for sovereignty and autonomy. Struggles against extractive paradigms\, surveillance\, and enclosure. Design as a contested site where alternative futures and value systems are articulated.
\nInterdisciplinary Constellations
\nCollaborations between anthropology\, design\, informatics\, and adjacent fields. Bridging ethnographic insight and technical implementation\, and cultivating shared vocabularies for critical and socially responsible digital practice.
\n\n\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261021T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261023T170000 SUMMARY:4th International Conference on Ancient Philosophy & Other UID:20260404T000206Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Poljicka cesta 35\, Split\, Croatia DESCRIPTION:About the Conference
\nThe Department of Philosophy and the Research Centre "Berislav Žarnić" at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences\, University of Split\, are pleased to invite scholars and researchers to submit abstracts for the upcoming 4th International Conference on Ancient Philosophy and Other.
\nThis hybrid event will take place on October 22-23\, 2026\, with a pre-conference seminar for students and participants on October 21\, 2026.
\nWhile the primary focus is on ancient philosophy\, we warmly welcome submissions on contemporary philosophy as well. PhD students are also encouraged to participate.
\nThe conference will provide an opportunity to explore various philosophical disciplines\, such as logic\, metaphysics\, ethics\, and epistemology\, and to discuss their relevance within both ancient traditions and contemporary philosophical discussions.
\nWe invite everyone with an interest in ancient and contemporary philosophy to join us for this event. Please note that there is a limited number of online spots available\, with a higher participation fee for virtual attendees.
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nWe welcome contributions on various aspects of ancient and contemporary philosophy. Speakers will be notified of the acceptance of their abstracts by August 15\, 2026. Please adhere to the following guidelines:
\nAbstract Length: 300-500 words
\nAbstract Submission Deadline: July 15\, 2026
\nHow to Submit: Visit our registration site [https://sites.google.com/view/icapo/registration] to submit your abstract and complete the registration process.
\nRegistration Fee:
\nIn-person participation: 125 Euros (The registration fee covers coffee breaks and lunch for both conference days. During the coffee breaks\, snacks\, water\, and juice will be served)
\nOnline participation: 187\,5 Euros (to account for additional time and organisational work involved in online participation)
\nPlease note that there are only four (4) online participant spots available.
\nFor inquiries\, please contact us at icapo.ffst@gmail.com.
\nWe look forward to your valuable contributions!
\nConference Website
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261030T170000 SUMMARY:Melancholic historicity: lost pasts and past losses UID:20260404T000207Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Utrecht\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:Melancholic historicity: lost pasts and past losses
\nOrganizers: Katherina Kinzel and Robert Vinkesteijn
\nUtrecht University\, 29+30 October 2026
\nRecent reconceptualizations of historicity&mdash\;most notably in the work of Walter Benjamin and related thinkers&mdash\;have challenged the modern ideal of progress by foregrounding historical experiences of loss and destruction. These approaches question the assumption that history unfolds as a continuous movement in which past suffering is redeemed by future advancement. Instead of viewing the past as dead or completed\, they envision the past as a site of continuous unease and questioning within the present. Forgotten\, suppressed\, or destroyed pasts unsettle present self-understandings and expose their complicity in the ongoing reproduction of loss. \;
\nThis conference explores the question what a &ldquo\;melancholic&rdquo\; conception of historicity that is oriented around experiences of loss\, destruction and defeat looks like. What does it mean to think historically from a standpoint that refuses to forget or &ldquo\;accept&rdquo\; historical losses\, that interrupts linear temporality and breaks with the perpetuation of historical violence in the present. What is the political valence of different attempts at confronting historical loss? What constitutes a philosophically fruitful attitude to lost pasts (the pasts that have been forgotten or suppressed) and past losses (past experiences of loss\, injustice and defeat) that are haunting the present?
\nThis conference brings together \;critical approaches to the philosophy of history\, postcolonial perspectives on loss\, \;theoretical reflections on displacement and genocide\, accounts of ecological loss and destruction and psychoanalytic discussions of (historical) mourning and melancholia.
\nIf you would like to contribute as a speaker\, please send an abstract of maximum 500 words to r.w.vinkesteijn@uu.nl\, the deadline for abstracts is Saturday 28 February 2026. If you have further questions about the scope and topic of this conference\, do not hesitate to get in touch.
ORGANIZER;CN=Katherina Kinzel: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261101T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261101T230000 SUMMARY:Humans in Nature. Perspectives from Classical German Philosophy\, «Thaumàzein»\, Vol. 16\, Issue 2\, 2027 UID:20260404T000208Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Thaumà\;zein\, Vol. 16\, Issue 2\, 2027
Humans in Nature. \;Perspectives from Classical German Philosophy
Edited by Giulia Battistoni &\; Michael Quante
deadline: \;March 31\, 2027 \;(title &\; abstract: \;November 1\, 2026) \;
Call for Abstracts
\nContemporary discussions of nature mainly take place within a field marked by the dominance of models grounded in technology and the natural sciences. However\, we also observe growing philosophical efforts to develop non-reductionist alternatives. Classical German Philosophy can be understood as contributing important conceptual resources to this second trajectory. Rather than conceiving human beings as external observers or masters of nature\, this tradition develops models of the human-nature relation that emphasize organic continuity\, mediation\, and purposiveness\, while also accounting for specifically human forms of reflexivity\, freedom\, and social practice. In this sense\, Kant\, Goethe\, Schiller\, Fichte\, Schelling\, Hegel\, Feuerbach\, and Marx articulate a family of approaches that remain systematically relevant today\, insofar as they challenge reductionist paradigms and offer alternative ways of conceptualizing the human-nature relation and technological mediation.
\nFrom Kant and Fichte onward\, nature is no longer understood merely as a mechanical domain\, but also\, as e.g. Schelling has emphasized\, as the site of purposiveness and living organization. Goethe&rsquo\;s morphological thinking\, being in the background\, exemplifies this shift by conceiving natural and human forms as dynamic processes of transformation and self-formation. In Hegel\, the relation between nature (Natur) and spirit (Geist) is further articulated within an organic and developmental framework. At the same time\, it remains controversial whether and how biological human embodiment is thematized at the transition from Hegel&rsquo\;s Philosophy of Nature to his Anthropology. These debates point to broader ontological questions concerning the structural relation between human beings and nature\, which become a main topic in Ludwig Feuerbach&rsquo\;s philosophical anthropology.
\nA complementary perspective emerges in Marx\, whose metaphor of social metabolism (Stoffwechsel) conceptualizes human labor as a mediating process that both embeds social practice within natural cycles and transforms them. This framework is particularly relevant for understanding technologically mediated forms of production\, addressing both the instrumentalization of nature and the ecological consequences of capitalist social relations.
\nThis special issue of Thaumà\;zein invites contributions that systematically investigate the human-nature relation in light of the resources offered by Classical German Philosophy. We welcome papers that address this relation from aesthetic\, ethical\, epistemological\, anthropological\, and ontological viewpoints\, as well as contributions that explore its contemporary relevance integrating an interdisciplinary perspective.
\nInvited contributors
Carl Friedrich Gethmann (Universitä\;t Mü\;nster)
Cristian Loos (Universitä\;t Gö\;ttingen)
Francesca Iannelli (Università\; Roma Tre)
\nPaola Giacomoni (Università\; di Trento)
\n\nSubmission of the title and short abstract (4.000 characters max.\, in English\, Italian or German): \;November 1\, 2026 \;to the editors:
Giulia Battistoni (giulia.battistoni.90@gmail.com)
Michael Quante (michael.quante@uni-muenster.de)
Submission of full text (35.000 characters max. spaces included\, in English\, Italian or German): \;March 31\, 2027 \;through OJS platform: \;https://rivista.thaumazein.it/index.php/thaum/about/submissions.
\nPlease follow the formatting guidelines for authors: \;https://www.thaumazein.it/la-rivista/about-the-journal/formatting-guidelines/
\nScheduled publication of the volume: December 2027.
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261101T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261101T234500 SUMMARY:Citizenship and Global Inequality (Moral Philosophy and Politics (Special Issue)) UID:20260404T000209Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP: Special Issue of Moral Philosophy and Politics on &ldquo\;Citizenship and Global
Inequality&rdquo\;
Edited by Daniel Sharp (University of Vienna)
Citizenship has an ambivalent status in egalitarian thought. On the one hand\, citizenship is often connected to equality (Marshall 1950\; Mason 2012\; Sharp 2023). The demand for equal citizenship has been central for egalitarian social movements. Although full social equality has not been achieved\, and racial and gender exclusions remain a part of contemporary citizenship regimes\, the struggle for genuinely equal citizenship\, understood as equality of social\, civil\, and political rights and opportunities\, remains central to emancipatory political struggles. On the other hand\, citizenship also serves as an instrument of social closure (Brubaker 1992). It plays a key role in maintaining global distributive inequalities of wealth\, income\, and opportunity by confining people to lowincome states where their economic prospects are limited. Citizenship has thus been criticized by both distributive egalitarians for its deeply inegalitarian global role (Carens 1987\; Shachar 2009) and by theorists of global justice who emphasise that the global inequalities correlated with one&rsquo\;s citizenship deny some conditions of sufficiency or result in the violation their basic rights.
There is thus a marked tension between the moral and political ideal of equal citizenship\, viewed from the perspective of a single society\, and the reality of citizenship as an exclusionary engine of global inequality\, viewed from the global perspective. What should we make of the institution of citizenship and of equal citizenship as a moral and political ideal in light of this tension? How should we understand citizenship&rsquo\;s dual role\, as a badge of civic equality\, on the one hand\, and as a mechanism for preserving global inequality\, on the other? Might citizenship regimes be reformed in ways that limit their globally inegalitarian functions (Shachar 2009)\, or are these functions so essential to citizenship that we should abolish the status itself (Kochenov 2019)?
This special issue aspires to explore these issues. In so doing\, the aim is to collect work that fills important research gaps. For example\, although there is a burgeoning literature on citizenship&rsquo\;s role in cementing and maintaining global hierarchies in law (Kochenov 2019)\, sociology (Harpaz 2019\, Kalm 2020\, Boatcă 2016)\, and economics (Milanovic 2016)\, this debate has often remained disconnected from other discussions in citizenship studies: for example\, debates about statelessness (but see Kochenov 2024)\, naturalization\, and refugee protection. Moreover\, few attempts have been made to systematize both the varieties of global inequality that citizenship plays a role in preserving&mdash\;from passport apartheid to global spatial inequalities\, on the one hand\, to colonial and racial hierarchies\, on the other&mdash\;and to bring these phenomenon into dialog with broader theories of global justice. As a result\, discussions of citizenship and global inequality have often remained in their disciplinary confines and important connections have been missed between those examining citizenship and inequality from different disciplinary perspectives. On the one hand\, the work of sociologists (Kalm 2020\, Harpaz 2020)\, economists (Milanovic 2016)\, and legal scholars (Kochenov 2019) writing on citizenship and global inequality work has not received sufficient uptake among political philosophers. On the other hand\, empirically-minded scholars who discuss citizenship and global inequality often do so without detailed normative and moral evaluations of these inequalities and without developing detailed proposals for what sort of institutional transformations are called for to redress these inequalities. Work that develops concrete institutional or policy proposals for how to redress citizenship-based global inequalities is thus\, with a few notable exceptions\, largely absent from the debate.
This special issue thus aims to bridge these gaps and bring together different disciplinary
perspectives on citizenship and global inequality. We are particularly interested in contributions that explore the following topics:
1. The relationship between the egalitarian and inegalitarian dimensions of citizenship: How should we conceptualize and evaluate the egalitarian and inegalitarian dimensions of citizenship? How are these different dimensions related? What is the best way to conceive of the domestically egalitarian role of citizenship? Is this role undermined by citizenship&rsquo\;s inegalitarian role\, and if so\, in what respect(s)? How should we conceive of the relationship between domestic and global inequality\, and how might different answers to this question shed new light on the nature and function of citizenship?
2. Evaluating and understanding citizenship inequalities: How should we understand and normatively evaluate various forms of global inequality\, and how closely are these inequalities related to citizenship as a legal status? What (if anything) is specifically problematic about citizenship equalities? Is the objection to (e.g.) passport apartheid egalitarian in nature\, or is the objection better understood as concerning the violation of people&rsquo\;s mobility rights? Is it helpful to view citizenship inequality through the prism of unjust inheritance (Shachar 2009)? If not\, what is an alternative way to understand it? How are citizenship inequalities connected to other forms of global inequality\, such as racial or postcolonial inequalities?
3. Measuring and studying citizenship inequalities: What might philosophical theories contribute to the quantitative study of citizenship inequality (see\, e.g.\, Milanovic&rsquo\;s (2016) notion of a citizenship rent or Kochenov&rsquo\;s Quality of Nationality Index) or qualitative study (see\, e.g.\, Harpaz 2019) of global citizenship inequality? What kinds of citizenship-based inequalities should social scientists be measuring? Conversely\, what can engagement with such empirical work teach political philosophers about citizenship? How can it inform (e.g.) debates about inequality and global justice?
4. Responding to citizenship inequalities\, citizenship abolition and alternatives to citizenship: What sorts of institutional and political responses are required to reconcile the ideal of equal citizenship and the actually-existing institution of citizenship? What sorts of institutional reform might be required to address citizenship&rsquo\;s globally inegalitarian role? Is\, for example\, &ldquo\;global citizenship&rdquo\; a viable alternative to national citizenship? What about regional forms of citizenship (e.g. European Union citizenship)? Would a redistributive response\, such as a citizenship levy or tax\, be justified (Shachar 2009\; Dumitru 2012)? If so\, how might such a policy be designed? Does selling citizenship offend against equality or provide a reasonable pathway to status change? Does allowing multiple citizenship create problematic transnational inequalities (Tanasoca 2018) or is it largely unproblematic (Carens 2013\; Spiro 2019)? Is citizenship abolition (Kochenov
2020) a tenable philosophical position? If so\, how would (if at all) an abolitionist approach regulate membership\, residence\, and the distribution of political rights? If not\, what kinds of reform can address the problems identified by citizenship abolitionists?
5. Citizenship policy and global inequality: How might taking global inequality seriously transform our view about various aspects of citizenship policy? What concrete implications does the fact of global inequality have for debates about naturalisation\, citizenship testing\, integration requirements\, denationalisation\, the social rights connected to citizenship\, citizenship sales\, or related aspects of citizenship policy?
We especially encourage submissions that engage closely with other disciplines outside philosophy and also welcome submissions by authors from other disciplines interested in bringing their work to bear on existing philosophical debates. Note that authors interested in submitting to the special issue should be sure that their submission focuses on the connection between citizenship and global inequality in particular\, rather than the many other empirical and philosophical debates concerning migration and inequality. For questions about whether your paper fits within the purview of the special issue\, please contact the guest editor (daniel.sharp@univie.ac.at).
Submission Deadline: November 1\, 2026.
Submissions should no more than 10\,000 words. All submissions will undergo MOPP&rsquo\;s double-blind refereeing process. Papers will only be accepted for publication if they are approved for publication by both the guest editor and the journal&rsquo\;s founding editors. Accepted papers must follow the journal&rsquo\;s style requirements. The journal&rsquo\;s manuscript submission site can be accessed at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mopp
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260403T221613Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270409T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270409T230000 SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Hypatia Special Issue ‘Gender and Nation’ UID:20260404T000210Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:'Gender and Nation' Special Issue of \;Hypatia \;(43.3)\, Summer 2028
\nAcross the globe\, nationalist projects are being renewed and intensified\, mobilizing &ldquo\;gender&rdquo\; as a central site of social and political struggle. From anti-gender movements and border regimes to racialized citizenship policies and digital surveillance\, contemporary nationalisms draw on gender and related intersectional structures to organize political belonging\, govern populations\, and delineate whose lives are recognized as part of &ldquo\;the nation.&rdquo\; These developments lend a particular urgency to examining the philosophical stakes of the relationship between &ldquo\;gender&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;nation&rdquo\; today.
\nThis special issue of \;Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy \;invites philosophical engagements of the topic of &ldquo\;Gender and Nation.&rdquo\; We seek contributions that interrogate how nations are imagined\, experienced\, constituted\, and governed through gendered logics that shape various forms of exclusion\, political subjectivity\, citizenship\, and national belonging. While broadly soliciting contributions that (re)consider &ldquo\;the nation&rdquo\; alongside &ldquo\;gender\,&rdquo\; we also wish to mark the 30th \;anniversary of Nira Yuval-Davis&rsquo\; influential book\, \;Gender and Nation. \;Yuval-Davis&rsquo\; work has been foundational for studies on gender and nationalisms\, and has inspired countless feminist analyses of the idea and lived experience of &ldquo\;the nation.&rdquo\; In the 30 years since the book&rsquo\;s publication\, the world has changed in unimaginable ways\, with the last decade\, in particular\, witnessing a resurgence in nationalist fervour that forms part of a global shift to the right. An assessment of and reengagement with &ldquo\;gender and nation&rdquo\; is therefore not only apt\, but arguably more pressing than ever\, given that such nationalist resurgence has deployed gendered dynamics that are deeply troubling from a feminist perspective.
\nQuestioning whether the idea and attendant realisation of &ldquo\;the nation&rdquo\; can ever be straightforwardly adopted by feminists\, this special issue also provides an opportunity to highlight past and present feminist resistance to misogyny and sexist policymaking underlying patriarchal nation-building projects. Indeed\, there are numerous examples of feminist activism and scholarship challenging nationalism\, but also reconfiguring and claiming &ldquo\;the nation&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;nationalism&rdquo\; in progressive terms. Building on the by now large and influential feminist literature on nationalisms\, of which \;Gender and Nation \;is a stalwart\, we invite contributors to take stock of work on &ldquo\;the nation&rdquo\;\, and to present new and promising ways of thinking about the theme of \;gender and nation. To this end\, articles might address\, without being limited to\, the following questions:
\nContributors working in and across various relevant disciplines (e.g. philosophy\, gender studies\, sociology\, literature\, politics\, and disability studies) are invited to address these questions philosophically\, and to do so drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks (such as critical race theory\, crip theory\, queer theory\, and postcolonial theory). We welcome contributions from diverse social\, cultural\, and geographical contexts\, including those approaching &ldquo\;gender and nation&rdquo\; through decolonial\, Indigenous\, queer of colour\, trans\, and Black feminist frameworks.
\nSubmissions must be written in English and prepared for anonymous review. We will accept both traditional article submissions (up to 10\,000 words long\, excluding footnotes and references) and musings (4\,000 words including footnotes\, but not references). Musings are not merely short research articles\; they are often more personal and/or more concerned with current issues than full-fledged academic articles\, and they are typically less rooted in particular bodies of literature. However they are approached\, Musings should seek to catalyse philosophical reflection on important issues in feminist philosophy. (For examples\, please see the recently published Musings on our \;FirstView \;pages.) We encourage submissions to be written in a style accessible across relevant disciplines\, and with an eye to understanding concrete social and political phenomena. \;
\nDeadline for submission: \;9th \;April 2027
\nPlease submit your original manuscript electronically through the Cambridge University Press online submission and review system \;ScholarOne. Manuscripts need to be prepared for anonymous review. More information may be found in the \;Manuscript Preparations Guidelines.
\nFor any questions on this special issue\, contact the guest editors: Clara Fischer (C.Fischer@qub.ac.uk) and Fulden İbrahimhakkıoğlu (fulden@metu.edu.tr). \;
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