Tulane University invites all undergraduate students to submit for our second upcoming philosophy conference! Students are free to submit on any philosophical topic.
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\n- Any undergraduate from any university may submit.
\n- Students must submit an abstract (of any length) and a paper which will be promptly considered.
\n- Papers may be on any philosophical topic and must be between 2\,000 and 3\,000 words.
\n- Accepted undergraduate students will be invited to give a 30 minute presentation of their paper\, followed by a 10 minute Q&\;A session.
\nSubmission Deadline: August 1st\, 2025.
\nPlease send your submissions to: \;ejack1@tulane.edu. Include your full name and university in the body of the submission email and have your abstract attached as either a .pdf\, .doc\, or .docx file. Accepted students will be notified by the 1st of August. Feel free to email the included email with any questions you may have.
ORGANIZER;CN=Evan Jack: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20261016T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Indiana/Indianapolis:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:Concerned Philosophers for Peace UID:20261012T005620Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Indiana/Indianapolis LOCATION:Indianapolis\, United States DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers
\nConcerned Philosophers for Peace 39th Annual Conference
\n\n\;(October 16-17\, 2026\, the Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics\, DePauw University\, Greencastle\, IN)
\n\nWar and the Environment
\nKeynote: Mark Woods
\nChair and Professor of Philosophy\, University of San Diego
\nAuthor of Rethinking Wilderness (2017)
\n&ldquo\;Green Just War Theory? No: Ecologically Liable Contingent Pacifism and Sustainable Peace.&rdquo\;
\n\nConcerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) seeks to investigate and promote peaceful\, nonviolent transitions in all arenas of common life. This year&rsquo\;s conference will focus primarily on the impacts of war on the environment\, the consequences of these impacts on prospects for a lasting and just peace\, and the potential for fruitful collaboration between environmentalists and peace advocates. We especially encourage papers which examine moral\, political and social questions about environmental aspects of conflict and peace\, but also welcome work on any topic related to peace and nonviolence. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
\n\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Effects of conflict\, and preparations for conflict on the environment
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Long-term-ism: advocacy for permanent peace and environmental sustainability
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; New/emerging technologies for war and their effects on the environment.
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Environmental activism and peace advocacy &ndash\; shared or divergent strategies.
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Rights to a clean environment and the UN mission of attaining a secure\, just peace.
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Climate change\, population flows and threats to peace
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Conflict\, human displacement and threats to the environment
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Environmentalism in transitional justice\, peace settlements\, and negotiations.
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Enduring costs of conflict on the environment (WWII bunkers\, minefields\, agent orange&hellip\;).
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Alliances between pacifists and environmentalists
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; The idea of a &ldquo\;War on the Environment&rdquo\;
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Intersectionality of gender and environmental aspects of conflict and peace processes
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; The Environmental Modification Convention and its weak enforcement.
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Ecocide as a new/emergent crime against humanity
\n\n\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words for papers either related to the conference theme or to the overall mission of Concerned Philosophers for Peace. CPP welcomes submissions from undergraduates\, graduate students\, professional academics\, independent scholars\, and anyone willing to present persuasive sound argumentative positions in line with our theme and ethos. We also welcome submissions from a range of fields including philosophy\, law\, public policy\, business\, history\, religious studies\, political science\, social science\, or related fields. Submissions from teachers\, researchers\, or practitioners are also welcome\, particularly insofar as those presentations could complement the theme of the conference.
\n\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Concerned Philosophers for Peace is the largest\, active organization of professional philosophers in North America involved in the analysis of the causes of violence and prospects for peace. For more information and updates\, please visit the CPP Website.
\n\;
\nSubmission Guidelines: Deadline: July 15th\, 2026
\n\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Email your CV and an abstract of no more than 500 words\, prepared for blind review to David Holiday at davidholiday@depauw.edu. Write &ldquo\;CPP 2026 submission&rdquo\; in the subject line. Please be sure to include your name\, institutional affiliation or status as an independent scholar or practitioner\, e-mail address\, and paper title in the body of your email. If you are a Graduate or Undergraduate student\, please indicate so in your email. **There will be a cash prize for the best Graduate student paper and the best Undergraduate student paper.** \;
\n\nBill Gay Award for an Early Career Scholar
\n\n\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; The Bill Gay Award is for an early career scholar (defined as a scholar who is within 6 years of receiving their terminal degree) who has demonstrated their commitment to engaging with peace\, peace studies\, and peace and justice scholarship and/or activism. To be eligible for the award\, a scholar must submit a full paper (5-7K words) at least two months in advance of the annual Concerned Philosophers for Peace conference. All submissions will be blind reviewed by the CPP awards committee. The award will be announced at the annual CPP conference by the awards committee chair\, and comes with a $2000 prize\, formal certificate of recognition\, and paper publication (subject to editorial approval) in the scholarly\, peer-reviewed journal The Acorn: Philosophical Studies in Pacifism and Nonviolence.
\n\n\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Many thanks to Dr. Bill Gay\, long-time CPP member\, contributor\, and activist scholar for peace and justice. His generous financial support is the backbone of this prestigious award\, and CPP hopes that awardees will follow in Dr. Gay&rsquo\;s illustrious footsteps as lifelong champions for a more just and more peaceful world.
ORGANIZER;CN=Concerned Philosophers for Peace Concerned Philosophers for Peace: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261023T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261024T170000 SUMMARY:20th Annual SIUE Undergraduate Philosophy Conference UID:20261012T005621Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Edwardsville\, United States DESCRIPTION:Undergradutae philosophy conference with Dr. David Gunkel of Northern Illinos University giving a keynote address entitled\, "Person\, Thing\, Robot" \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261107T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261107T170000 SUMMARY:CFP: Mastering the Writing Sample: A Workshop for Grad School Applicants UID:20261012T005622Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Norman\, United States\, 73069 DESCRIPTION:The Graduate Philosophical Association (GPA) of the University of Oklahoma (OU) invites folks intending to apply to graduate programs in Philosophy to send in their writing samples for our annual Writing Sample Workshop. Students whose papers are accepted have the opportunity to present their papers and will receive constructive feedback from OU graduate students in the form a working group.
\nWe invite papers on any topic (Max 6000 words\, including footnotes). Please also include a short statement of intent. Preference will be given to folks applying to the University of Oklahoma's graduate program. Accomodation and rides to/from the airport \;
\nPlease send your paper and letter of intent in an email to melle.van.duijn-1@ou.edu with the subject line: GPA Undergraduate Conference 2026. Submissions are due October 2nd\, 2026
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261107T083000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261107T170000 SUMMARY:CFP: Mastering the Writing Sample: A Workshop for Grad School Applicants UID:20261012T005623Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Dale Hall Tower\, Norman\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Graduate Philosophical Association (GPA) of the University of Oklahoma invites prospective applicants to graduate programs in Philosophy to submit their writing samples for our annual Writing Sample Workshop (November 7th\, 2026). Students whose papers are accepted will have the opportunity to workshop their papers and receive constructive feedback from OU graduate students in an intensive one-day session. Participants will also have the opportunity to brainstorm their cover letters and statement of purpose\, with guidance from members of the Admissions Committee. \;
\nWe invite papers on any topic (Max 6000 words\, including footnotes and bibliography). Preference will be given to students applying to the University of Oklahoma's philosophy graduate program Please also include a short statement of intent (1-2 paragraphs). \;
\nAccommodation for Friday and Saturday night\, as well as meals on Saturday\, will be provided. \;We are also able to offer an application fee waiver for succesful applicants. Unfortunately\, we are not able to provide support for travel. \;
\nPlease send your paper and letter of intent in an email to melle.van.duijn-1@ou.edu with the subject line: GPA Undergraduate Conference 2026. Submissions are due October 2nd 2026. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Melle van Duijn: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261113T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261113T170000 SUMMARY:LSU New Orleans Philosophy Student Conference 2026 UID:20261012T005624Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:2000 Lakeshore Drive\, New Orleans\, United States\, 70148 DESCRIPTION:LSU New Orleans Philosophy Student Conference 2026
\nLSU New Orleans presents our first Philosophy Student Conference. The conference will include papers from both graduate and undergraduate students. The conference will take place on our campus\, on the Lake Front of New Orleans\, on November 13\, 2026\, at Kirschman Hal\, Room 401. Papers can be on any topic or any field of philosophy. Presentations will be 20 minutes\, followed by a 10-minute discussion. All submissions and registrations need to be by October 1st\, 2026.
\n\nMore Information:
\nFor more information contact bjaguda2@uno.eduand sbizarro@uno.edu.
\nNote: This event will be held in person\; there will be no virtual/remote presentation sessions.
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Sara Bizarro: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261113T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261113T150000 SUMMARY:LSU New Orleans Philosophy Student Conference 2026 UID:20261012T005625Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:2000 Lakeshore Drive\, New Orleans\, United States\, 70148 DESCRIPTION:LSU New Orleans invites all Philosophy students to submit to our first Philosophy Student Conference. We welcome papers from both graduate and undergraduate students. The conference will take place on our campus\, on the Lake Front of New Orleans\, on November 13\, 2026\, at Kirshman Hall.
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nSubmission Deadline:
\nPlease send submissions to bjaguda2@uno.eduand sbizarro@uno.edu
\nNote: This event will be held in person\; there will be no virtual/remote presentation sessions.
ORGANIZER;CN=Sara Bizarro: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261114T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261115T170000 SUMMARY:Eastern Michigan University's Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy 2026 UID:20261012T005626Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Detroit LOCATION:Eastern Michigan University\, Ypsilanti\, United States DESCRIPTION:Eastern Michigan University&rsquo\;s 17th Annual Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy
\nNovember 14th-15th\, 2026
\nThe Eastern Michigan University Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy is now accepting papers for its conference to be held on Saturday and Sunday\, November 14th-15th\, 2026. Papers selected for presentation will be allotted 20-minute presentation times\, followed by formal comments and Q&\;A. All papers in philosophy\, broadly construed\, will be considered for the conference\; since this is an undergraduate conference\, no papers by professionals\, graduate students\, or others holding an advanced degree (in philosophy) will be considered.
\nPapers submitted for the conference should be 8-12 pages (2200-3600 words) in length and include an abstract of approximately 250 words.
\nThe deadline for submission is Sunday\, September 6th\, 2026\, and only completed papers accompanied by an abstract will be reviewed. We expect to announce the papers selected for presentation by the beginning of October.
\nWe will also be using a formal commenter system\; so\, even if your paper is not selected for presentation\, you may be considered for such a role. Please let us know\, along with your paper submission\, if you are willing to comment. This also means that all selected papers will receive formal feedback at the conference.
\nKeynote: TBD
\nFaculty Mentors: We strongly encourage students to invite faculty mentors to the conference. The dialog among professors\, discussion of pedagogy\, and expansion of mentoring opportunities for students\, are among the desirable benefits of this conference. Additionally\, faculty have played an important role in the success of the conference.
\nSubmit abstracts electronically to this Google Form. Papers should be submitted following the instructions on the Google form.
\nQuestions? Conference organizers can be reached by email at emuucip@gmail.com.
\nFaculty Supervisor: Dr. W. John Koolage
\nPublication Opportunity: The top (3 to 5) papers submitted will also be published in the upcoming edition of our undergraduate philosophy journal\, Acta Cogitata!
\nConference Website: http://www.emuucip.com
\nPapers submitted and/or presented at other conferences will be given equal consideration in our review process.
\n701 Pray-Harrold\, Eastern Michigan University\, Ypsilanti\, MI 48197
ORGANIZER;CN=W. John Koolage: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20261121T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20261121T170000 SUMMARY:11th De La Salle University Undergraduate Conference UID:20261012T005627Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Asia/Manila LOCATION:2401 Taft Avenue\, Manila\, Philippines\, 1004 DESCRIPTION:11TH DE LA SALLE UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE
The wait is over! We are thrilled to announce the 11th De La Salle University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.
To honor more than a decade of scholarly excellence\, the 11th UPC is leveling up with a HYBRID setup.
While getting those drafts ready\, keep a close eye for additional information and updates coming your way in the next few days. \;
The scope of the paper may focus on the following. However\, students may go beyond the given topics:
·\; Philosophy of Mind
·\; Epistemology
·\; Metaphysics
·\; Filipino Philosophy \;
·\; Philosophy of Religion \;
·\; Political Philosophy \;
·\; Philosophy of Language \;
·\; Philosophy of Science \;
·\; Moral Philosophy \;
·\; Aesthetics
Abstract Template: \;https://tinyurl.com/39e7fvc8
\nSubmission Forms:https://tinyurl.com/4pha9zbc \;
\nDeadline of Submissions: \;EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 02\, 2026
\nFor inquiries\, you may contact any of the student convenors: \;
Culada Baladad | juan_baladad@dlsu.edu.ph \;
Elisha Rivas | elisha_rivas@dlsu.edu.ph
Josef Felipe | josef_felipe@dlsu.edu.ph \;
Judd Alcoba | judd_alcoba@dlsu.edu.ph
Juan Emmanuel Reyes | juan_emmanuel_reyes@dlsu.edu.ph
Khristia Canta | khristia_canta@dlsu.edu.ph
Mako Sison | john_marko_sison@dlsu.edu.ph
The graduate students of the Department of Philosophy at The University of Arizona are excited to announce the 2nd Southwestern Graduate Aesthetics Conference (SWGAC II)\, to be held in person in Tucson\, Arizona on January 29th&ndash\;30th\, 2027. SWGAC II aims to promote the study of aesthetics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and to provide a collaborative platform to showcase upcoming work in aesthetics.
\n\nWe are seeking submissions in aesthetics and the philosophy of art\, broadly construed. The organizers especially welcome submissions that explore issues of special concern to the Southwest. Members of traditionally underrepresented groups in philosophy are strongly encouraged to apply. All submissions will be considered for the SWGAC Essay Prize\, which includes a modest monetary award. Each session will include 20 minutes for presentation\, 10 minutes for commentary\, (optional) 5 minutes for the speaker&rsquo\;s response\, and 25 minutes for audience questions. There is no registration fee.
\n\nWe are excited to announce Elizabeth Scarbrough (Florida International University) and Erich Hatala Matthes (Wellesley College) as our keynote speakers.
\n\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nImportant Dates:
\nFor all correspondence\, including inclusivity or accessibility concerns\, please contact the organizers at swgraduateaesthetics@gmail.com.
\n \; ORGANIZER;CN=Lenin Vazquez-Toledo;CN=Kyle Kirby;CN=Jim Moster: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261210T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261210T230000 SUMMARY:King University's Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy and Religion UID:20261012T005629Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:1350 King College Road \, Bristol\, United States\, 37620 DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers
\nKing University&rsquo\;s Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy and Religion
\nFebruary 26-27\, 2027
\nKing University
\nBristol\, TN \;
\nOur conference provides a supportive environment in which undergraduate students from across the nation can present their original work in philosophy and/or religion. Papers on any topic within these fields will be considered for acceptance. \; Accepted authors should prepare for a 30-minute presentation&mdash\;20 minutes for your paper presentation and 10 minutes for Q &\; A.
\nThe $250.00 Errol Rohr Prize in Philosophy and Religion will be awarded to the best paper. Participants will also enjoy a keynote presentation by Dr. Thomas Senor from the University of Arkansas. \; \; \; \;
\nSubmit your papers via email to Jasmine Barker at jmbarker@king.edu. \; Acceptance will be determined by blind review by a jury of scholars from various institutions. \; Accordingly\, please submit the following as three separate attachments to your email: \;
\n1. An abstract of no more than 150 words. \; The abstract should contain the title of your paper but no identifying information. \;
\n2. The Paper: \; Prepare for 20 minutes of reading\, which is approximately 7 -10 pages of double-spaced type. \; Include the title of the paper on the top of the first page. \; Remove identifying information from the body of your work.
\n3. A separate coversheet that includes the paper title\, author&rsquo\;s name\, institution\, email\, and phone number.
\nSubmissions must be received by Monday\, December 10\, 2026.
\nFor further information\, please contact:
\nCraig Streetman\, Ph.D. \;
\nAssociate Professor of Philosophy
\nKing University
\n1350 King College Road
\nBristol\, TN 37620 \;
\nEmail: wcstreetman@king.edu
\nPhone: 423-612-5614 \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270115T160000 SUMMARY:2027 Pacific AAPT-APA Teaching Hub: Undergraduate Poster Session UID:20261012T005630Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:Hilton Portland Downtown 921 SW 6th Avenue\, Portland\, United States\, 97204 DESCRIPTION:Pacific Division Meeting
\nThe American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) seek presenters for the following sessions at the AAPT-APA Teaching Hub at the 2027 APA Pacific Division meeting\, March 24&ndash\;27\, in Portland\, Oregon. The AAPT-APA Teaching Hub is a collaborative meeting space hosting a series of interactive workshops and conversations designed specifically for philosophers and created to celebrate teaching within the context of the APA divisional meetings. The Teaching Hub aims to offer a range of high quality and inclusive development opportunities that address the teaching of philosophy at all levels.
\nSESSION: Undergraduate Poster Session &ndash\; Pacific
\nThe American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) invite abstracts for the Eastern Teaching Hub Undergraduate Poster Session.
\nThe Teaching Hub Poster Sessions are designed to feature independent work by undergraduate students on any subject in philosophy. If you are an undergraduate&mdash\;or a professor who knows of a student&mdash\;who has a research project to share with fellow philosophers in an informal\, visually engaging and interactive setting\, please consider submitting an abstract of 500 words or less to the Pacific Teaching Hub. \;This year\, the Pacific meeting is entirely online\, so we especially encourage submissions to this division meeting to save on costs associated with travel. \;
\nFor some more information about designing\, printing\, and presenting posters\, \;please see this resource document \;for applicants and faculty advisors. \;
\nPoster Proposal have an extended submission deadline: January 15\, 2027 \;
\n(Note: If you would like to present your work in this poster session but don&rsquo\;t have much to show by January 15\, please consider submitting a proposal anyway\, because we are interested in not only finished projects\, but also works-in-progress.)
\nYou may submit a proposal to more than one poster session.
\nImportant note: To present at the Teaching Hub\, participants must both join the APA and register for the conference (both at significantly reduced fees for undergraduates). Unfortunately\, neither the APA nor the AAPT can offer funding to Teaching Hub participants for travel or lodging. However\, your home institutions may have funding available for undergraduate research\, so we invite you to speak with your faculty mentors and academic support offices. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Cory Davia;CN=Courtney Morris: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Phoenix:20270129T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Phoenix:20270130T170000 SUMMARY:2nd Southwestern Graduate Aesthetics Conference UID:20261012T005631Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Phoenix LOCATION:1145 E. South Campus Drive\, Tucson\, United States\, 85721 DESCRIPTION:The graduate students of the Department of Philosophy at The University of Arizona are excited to announce the 2nd Southwestern Graduate Aesthetics Conference (SWGAC II)\, to be held in person in Tucson\, Arizona on January 29th&ndash\;30th\, 2027. SWGAC II aims to promote the study of aesthetics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and to provide a collaborative platform to showcase upcoming work in aesthetics.
\nWe are seeking submissions in aesthetics and the philosophy of art\, broadly construed. The organizers especially welcome submissions that explore issues of special concern to the Southwest. Members of traditionally underrepresented groups in philosophy are strongly encouraged to apply. All submissions will be considered for the SWGAC Essay Prize\, which includes a modest monetary award. Each session will include 20 minutes for presentation\, 10 minutes for commentary\, (optional) 5 minutes for the speaker&rsquo\;s response\, and 25 minutes for audience questions. There is no registration fee.
\nWe are excited to announce Elizabeth Scarbrough (Florida International University) and Erich Hatala Matthes (Wellesley College) as our keynote speakers.
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nImportant Dates:
\nFor all correspondence\, including inclusivity or accessibility concerns\, please contact the organizers at swgraduateaesthetics@gmail.com.
ORGANIZER;CN=Lenin Vazquez-Toledo;CN=Kyle Kirby;CN=Jim Moster: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270226T030000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270227T170000 SUMMARY:King University's Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy and Religion UID:20261012T005632Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:1350 King College Road \, Bristol\, United States\, 37620 DESCRIPTION:King University&rsquo\;s Undergraduate Conference in Philosophy and Religion
\nFebruary 26-27\, 2027
\nBristol\, TN \; \;
\nOur conference provides a supportive environment in which undergraduate students from across the nation can present their original work in philosophy and/or religion. Papers on any topic within these fields will be considered for acceptance. \; Accepted authors should prepare for a 30-minute presentation&mdash\;20 minutes for your paper presentation and 10 minutes for Q &\; A.
\nThe $250.00 Errol Rohr Prize in Philosophy and Religion will be awarded to the best paper. Participants will also enjoy a keynote presentation by Dr. Thomas Senor from the University of Arkansas. \; \; \; \;
\nSubmit your papers via email to Jasmine Barker at jmbarker@king.edu. \; Acceptance will be determined by blind review by a jury of scholars from various institutions. \; Accordingly\, please submit the following as three separate attachments to your email: \;
\n1) \; An abstract of no more than 150 words. \; The abstract should contain the title of your paper but no identifying information. \;
\n2) The Paper: \; Prepare for 20 minutes of reading\, which is approximately 7 -10 pages of double-spaced type. \; Include the title of the paper on the top of the first page. \; Remove identifying information from the body of your work.
\n3) \; A separate coversheet that includes the author&rsquo\;s name\, institution\, email\, and phone number.
\nSubmissions must be received by Monday\, December 10\, 2026.
\nFor further information\, please contact:
\nDr. Craig Streetman\, Ph.D.
\nAssociate Professor of Philosophy
\nKing University
\n1350 King College Road
\nBristol\, TN 37620 \; \;
\nEmail: wcstreetman@king.edu
\nPhone: 423-612-5614
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270306T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270307T170000 SUMMARY:AI and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20261012T005633Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Pulaski\, United States DESCRIPTION:Call for Proposals: AI and the Humanities: \;An Interdisciplinary Conference Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee Southern
\nMarch 6-7\, 2027 | Pulaski\, Tennessee
Proposal Deadline: October 20\, 2026
The University of Tennessee Southern is pleased to announce an interdisciplinary conference exploring the crucial intersection of AI and the Humanities. \;
\nConference dates: March 5-6\, 2027
\nSubmission deadline: October 20\, 2026
\nLocation: University of Tennessee Southern\, Pulaski\, TN
\nCall for Proposals:
\n"Technology's promise is great\, but it requires our liberal arts in equal measure\, the fuzzy and the techie working together in pursuit of shared human goals"
\n-Scott Hartley \;The Fuzzy and the Techie
\nAI is a Humanities issue. \;Questions about meaning\, creativity\, language\, ethics\, interpretation\, education\, and human identity have become central to public conversations about artificial intelligence. \;
\nThis conference aims to bring together researchers\, teachers\, students\, and stakeholders \;to examine how AI is reshaping the humanities\, and how the humanities can shape the future of AI. We recognize that there are many stakeholders at the heart of this discussion\, and we therefore invite perspectives that range from the academic to the corporate. We especially welcome proposals that deal with pedagogy\, humanities research\, issues pertinent to four-year public regionals\, and regional workforce development. We welcome presentations from academic scholars\, humanities educators\, graduate and undergraduate students\, community partners\, and industry leaders. \; \;
\nThis conference has a further specific focus on the particular institutional and geographic contexts similar to the University of Tennessee Southern. Nestled in the rural rolling hills of southern middle Tennessee\, 70 miles south of Music City (Nashville\, TN)\, and 45 miles north of Huntsville\, AL&rsquo\;s growing tech hub\, the University of Tennessee Southern straddles diverse industries with seemingly competing interests. Further\, as a rural area with developing agricultural business\, the arts and humanities often play second fiddle to disciplines with more perceived industry demand. Resource scarcity further stymies efforts to develop innovative technologies such as AI and their scholarly and pedagogical application\, particularly at public regional universities. This conference will explore the role that humanities and AI can play in rural areas with competing industry needs\, at public regional institutions\, and in areas experiencing cultural drought.
\nPossible topics may include but are not limited to the following:
\nAI and the Humanities
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Ethics and moral responsibility in AI
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Rethinking or reaffirming the value of the humanities in light of AI
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Human intelligence and/vs artificial intelligence
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Definitions of the human in the age of AI
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;AI and the future of humanities scholarship
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;AI-informed humanities research
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;AI and authorship
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Fine Arts and AI
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Creative writing in the age of AI
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Linguistics and LLMs
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Environmental humanities
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Resistance to AI
\nAI in the Classroom
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Critical thinking\, reading\, and writing with/alongside/vs AI
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Teaching with AI
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;"AI-proof" assignments
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;AI policies in the writing classroom
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Student perspectives
\nAI\, Industry\, and Leadership
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Professional and technical writing with AI
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Industry leadership and the humanities
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Humanities administration and leadership
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Curriculum development
\nPresentation formats: \;
\nAcceptable presentation formats include pre-formed panels and roundtables\, individual presentations\, and workshops. Proposals should clarify the presentation format. \;
\nSubmissions for the above formats should include the following:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;250-300 word abstract and a brief bio (up to 150 words) for individual presentations
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Approx. 600-word abstract for pre-formed panels and workshops along with a brief bio for each presenter (up to 150 words). Panels should include 3-4 speakers and a chair\; roundtables should include no more than 6 presenters and a moderator or respondent. \;
\nSubmission: Please submit your proposals for any of the above approved formats to \;https://tinyurl.com/yc5xr63f \;by \;October 20\, 2026. Please contact the College of Arts and Sciences with any questions: \;utsartsandsciences@utsouthern.edu. \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN=J. J. Snodgrass: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270324T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270327T170000 SUMMARY:2027 Pacific AAPT-APA Teaching Hub: "The Role of Primary Texts in the Age of AI" UID:20261012T005634Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:Hilton Portland Downtown 921 SW 6th Avenue\, Portland\, United States\, 97204 DESCRIPTION:Pacific Division Meeting
\nThe American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) seek presenters for the following sessions at the AAPT-APA Teaching Hub at the 2027 APA Pacific Division meeting\, March 24&ndash\;27\, in Portland\, Oregon. The AAPT-APA Teaching Hub is a collaborative meeting space hosting a series of interactive workshops and conversations designed specifically for philosophers and created to celebrate teaching within the context of the APA divisional meetings. The Teaching Hub aims to offer a range of high quality and inclusive development opportunities that address the teaching of philosophy at all levels.
\nSESSION: The Role of Primary Texts in the Age of AI
\nSESSION GOALS: \;AI has transformed how many of our students approach assigned reading in the philosophy classroom. Fewer students enter college thinking of themselves as readers and many report that they have never read a whole book. This puts us philosophy teachers in a difficult position\, given that philosophy texts have always challenged even the most dedicated of readers. While there exists much literature on how to teach students how to read philosophy properly\, we now face a different question concerning the value and purpose of reading a philosophy text when the student can easily rely on an LLM to summarize the reading for them. We invite submissions that address the following or related questions:
\nFORMAT: Rather than a traditional paper presentation\, Teaching Hub sessions are expected to be highly interactive. Proposals should indicate how audience members will participate in the session. The primary goal for the Teaching Hub is for attendees to walk away with something concrete to deploy in their own classrooms/teaching context.
\nWhat does the Teaching Hub mean by &ldquo\;highly interactive&rdquo\;? This includes (but is not limited to) the following:
\nDEADLINE for proposals: September 1\, 2026
\nSUBMISSIONS:
\nQuestions about this session should be directed to Robert Wallace at the above email address. For general information about the AAPT-APA Teaching Hub\, please visit the \;Teaching Hub website. For specific information about the Teaching Hub at the 2027 Pacific Division online meeting\, please contact the 2027 Pacific Division Teaching Hub Co-Chairs\, Cory Davia (corydavia@zirkel.us) and Courtney Morris ( \;courtney.morris@westpoint.edu).
\nImportant note: To present at the Teaching Hub\, participants must both join the APA and register for the conference (both at significantly reduced fees for undergraduates). Unfortunately\, neither the APA nor the AAPT can offer funding to Teaching Hub participants for travel or lodging. However\, your home institutions may have funding available for undergraduate research\, so we invite you to speak with your faculty mentors and academic support offices. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Cory Davia;CN=Courtney Morris;CN=Robert H. Wallace: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270324T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270327T170000 SUMMARY:2027 Pacific AAPT-APA Teaching Hub: "The Varieties of Philosophical Experience" UID:20261012T005635Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:Hilton Portland Downtown 921 SW 6th Avenue\, Portland\, United States\, 97204 DESCRIPTION:Pacific Division Meeting
\nThe American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) seek presenters for the following sessions at the AAPT-APA Teaching Hub at the 2027 APA Pacific Division meeting\, March 24&ndash\;27\, in Portland\, Oregon. The AAPT-APA Teaching Hub is a collaborative meeting space hosting a series of interactive workshops and conversations designed specifically for philosophers and created to celebrate teaching within the context of the APA divisional meetings. The Teaching Hub aims to offer a range of high quality and inclusive development opportunities that address the teaching of philosophy at all levels.
\nSESSION: The Varieties of Philosophical Experience
\nSESSION GOALS: \;Many of us philosophy teachers recognize the importance of clearly communicating student learning outcomes and building assessment techniques that reliably track how well a student is meeting those expectations. One thing that can get lost in our focus on such objectively measured standards is what it &ldquo\;feels like&rdquo\; for students to be in our classrooms. What is the phenomenology of learning philosophy? What can a teacher/mentor/instructor do to create meaningful philosophical experiences for our students in the classroom and what constitutes a meaningful/good/valuable experience with philosophy? What constitutes a bad experience with philosophy? We invite submissions that explore these questions concerning these varieties of philosophical experiences and how teachers can deliberately foster (or avoid) them. Proposals might also address the following or related questions:
\nFORMAT: Rather than a traditional paper presentation\, Teaching Hub sessions are expected to be highly interactive. Proposals should indicate how audience members will participate in the session. The primary goal for the Teaching Hub is for attendees to walk away with something concrete to deploy in their own classrooms/teaching context.
\nWhat does the Teaching Hub mean by &ldquo\;highly interactive&rdquo\;? This includes (but is not limited to) the following:
\nDEADLINE for proposals: September 1\, 2026
\nSUBMISSIONS:
\nQuestions about this session should be directed to Yashin Voss at the above email address. For general information about the AAPT-APA Teaching Hub\, please visit the \;Teaching Hub website. For specific information about the Teaching Hub at the 2027 Pacific Division online meeting\, please contact the 2027 Pacific Division Teaching Hub Co-Chairs\, Cory Davia (corydavia@zirkel.us) and Courtney Morris (courtney.morris@westpoint.edu).
\nImportant note: To present at the Teaching Hub\, participants must both join the APA and register for the conference (both at significantly reduced fees for undergraduates). Unfortunately\, neither the APA nor the AAPT can offer funding to Teaching Hub participants for travel or lodging. However\, your home institutions may have funding available for undergraduate research\, so we invite you to speak with your faculty mentors and academic support offices. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Cory Davia;CN=Courtney Morris;CN=Yashin Voss: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270324T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270327T170000 SUMMARY:2027 Pacific AAPT-APA Teaching Hub: Undergraduate Poster Session UID:20261012T005636Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:Hilton Portland Downtown 921 SW 6th Avenue\, Portland\, United States\, 97204 DESCRIPTION:Pacific Division Meeting
\nThe American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and the APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) seek presenters for the following sessions at the AAPT-APA Teaching Hub at the 2027 APA Pacific Division meeting\, March 24&ndash\;27\, in Portland\, Oregon. The AAPT-APA Teaching Hub is a collaborative meeting space hosting a series of interactive workshops and conversations designed specifically for philosophers and created to celebrate teaching within the context of the APA divisional meetings. The Teaching Hub aims to offer a range of high quality and inclusive development opportunities that address the teaching of philosophy at all levels.
\nSESSION: Undergraduate Poster Session &ndash\; Pacific
\nThe American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT) and APA Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy (CTP) invite abstracts for the Eastern Teaching Hub Undergraduate Poster Session.
\nThe Teaching Hub Poster Sessions are designed to feature independent work by undergraduate students on any subject in philosophy. If you are an undergraduate&mdash\;or a professor who knows of a student&mdash\;who has a research project to share with fellow philosophers in an informal\, visually engaging and interactive setting\, please consider submitting an abstract of 500 words or less to the Pacific Teaching Hub. \;This year\, the Pacific meeting is entirely online\, so we especially encourage submissions to this division meeting to save on costs associated with travel. \;
\nFor some more information about designing\, printing\, and presenting posters\, \;please see this resource document \;for applicants and faculty advisors. \;
\nPoster Proposal have an extended submission deadline: January 15\, 2027 \;
\n(Note: If you would like to present your work in this poster session but don&rsquo\;t have much to show by January 15\, please consider submitting a proposal anyway\, because we are interested in not only finished projects\, but also works-in-progress.)
\nYou may submit a proposal to more than one poster session.
\nImportant note: To present at the Teaching Hub\, participants must both join the APA and register for the conference (both at significantly reduced fees for undergraduates). Unfortunately\, neither the APA nor the AAPT can offer funding to Teaching Hub participants for travel or lodging. However\, your home institutions may have funding available for undergraduate research\, so we invite you to speak with your faculty mentors and academic support offices. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Cory Davia;CN=Courtney Morris: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270423T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270423T140000 SUMMARY:Experience and Value - Texas Tech's 19th Annual Graduate Conference UID:20261012T005637Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:3001 15th St\, Lubbock\, United States\, 79410 DESCRIPTION:Texas Tech's Department of Philosophy proudly presents the 19th Annual Graduate Conference hosted by the Philosophy Graduate Student Association.
\nWe invite submissions for a philosophy conference on connections between experience and value. The conference aims to bring together scholars working at the intersection of philosophy of mind\, value theory\, and the history of philosophy. The conference will feature a keynote address by Dr. José\; Luis Bermú\;dez.
\nThe central question of the conference is broad: what\, if anything\, makes experience valuable?
\nWe especially welcome papers that bring ancient or historical accounts of perception\, affect\, cognition\, and value into conversation with contemporary debates about consciousness\, knowledge\, agency\, ethics\, and technology.
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nAncient and historical accounts of perception\, imagination\, desire\, emotion\, cognition and flourishing
\nValue in perception\, attention\, awareness\, and whether value requires consciousness\, access\, reflection\, or rational uptake
\nThe role of experience in well-being\, welfare\, the good life\, sentience\, and moral status
\nWhether experience reveals\, represents\, responds to\, or helps constitute value
\nTransformative experience\, rational choice\, and imaginative acquaintance
\nThe significance of lived-experience and situated knowledge
\nThe conference is intended to encourage dialogue between scholars who might not ordinarily attend the same event: ancient and historical philosophers interested in psychology\, ethics\, and value\; philosophers of mind working on consciousness\, affect\, attention\, and perception\; ethicists and value theorists concerned with welfare\, moral status\, and the good life\; epistemologists and philosophers of action interested in memory\, rational choice\, and transformative experience\; and philosophers examining artificial consciousness\, and technologically mediated forms of life. \;
\nOnly submissions from graduate students (and undergraduate students who have been accepted to a graduate program) are welcome.
\nPlease submit a paper of 3500 words (excluding references and abstract) that has been prepared for blind review. Papers should be suitable for a presentation of approximately 30 minutes. Each paper will be followed by comments from a Texas Tech graduate student and then opened up for Q/A followed by discussion. In the submission form below\, please also include your name\, school\, email\, and an abstract of 150-200 words.
\nSubmissions should be submitted by February 1st to the following link: https://forms.gle/Y1c5GHdRmcZp6i536
\nNotifications of acceptance will be sent by March 1st. For questions\, please contact Ori Respler (orespler@ttu.edu).
\nStanley Cavell at 100 \; An International Centennial Conference \; \;
Paris: \;4-5 June 2026 \;| Organized by Sandra Laugier\, Université\; Paris 1 Panthé\;on Sorbonne \; Rome: 8-9 June 2026 \;| Organized by Piergiorgio Donatelli\, Sapienza Università\; di Roma \; Boston: 23-24 October 2026 \;| Organized by Juliet Floyd\, Boston University \; \; \;
In 2026\, we mark the centenary of \;Stanley Cavell (1926&ndash\;2026)\, one of the \;most original and wide-ranging American philosophers of the twentieth century. Cavell&rsquo\;s work traversed traditional disciplinary boundaries&mdash\;engaging deeply with philosophy\, literature\, film\, opera\, psychoanalysis\, politics\, and both American and European traditions of thought. In the spirit of his intellectual breadth and transnational sensibility\, we are organizing a three-part international conference to celebrate his life\, work\, and legacy in Paris\, Rome\, and Boston.
\nWhy This Conference Matters
\nStanley Cavell transformed philosophy into an act of acknowledgment&mdash\;of self\, of others\, and of the everyday. His writings on skepticism\, language\, film\, and the ordinary remain vital at a time when trust in both language and human connection faces renewed challenges. From \;Must We Mean What We Say? \;to \;The Claim of Reason\, from \;The World Viewed \;to \;Pursuits of Happiness\, and through his readings of Emerson and Thoreau\, Cavell helped redefine the scope and style of philosophical writing and teaching.
\nHis engagement with Wittgenstein and Austin reinvigorated the ordinary language tradition\, while his interests in modernism\, cinema\, and American transcendentalism forged a philosophical voice that responded to&mdash\;and often transcended&mdash\;the academic context.
\nThis centennial conference will bring together philosophers\, literary scholars\, and critics to reflect on Cavell&rsquo\;s legacy and extend the conversations he began.
\nThis call for papers concerns all three installments&mdash\;Paris\, Rome\, and Boston&mdash\;of the Cavell at 100 conference.
\nSuggested Themes:
\nWe welcome proposals that engage with the following themes or propose new directions for exploring Cavell&rsquo\;s thought.
\nConference Foci:
\nParis will focus especially on Ordinary Language Philosophy\, Film\, and Popular Culture.
\nRome will center mainly on Ethics\, Politics\, and Forms of Life.
\nBoston will treat primarily Philosophy and Literature\, Tragedy\, Music\, and the Idea of America.
\nSome themes&mdash\;such as skepticism\, modernism\, the ordinary&mdash\;cut across all three conferences.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261003T170000 SUMMARY:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality UID:20261012T005639Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality Call for Papers and PresentationsDetails
\nThe Call For Proposals
\nThe Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites proposals for an online conference entitled \;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality. \;The proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nThis conference investigates how beliefs\, paranoia\, and conspiratorial modes of knowing shape a contemporary cognitive battlespace in which actors struggle to define truth\, authority\, and reality itself. Drawing on Michel Foucault&rsquo\;s \;Lectures on the Will to Know \;and Julia Kristeva&rsquo\;s \;This Incredible Need to Believe \;(2024)\, we focus on practices of selective fact use and &ldquo\;truth-selecting&rdquo\; that construct alternative epistemic orders while claiming privileged access to what is &ldquo\;really&rdquo\; going on.
\nRather than treating conspiracy thinking as merely political or psychological\, the conference foregrounds its religious dimensions: faith in hidden powers\, moral dualism\, apocalyptic expectation\, and hermeneutical struggle over revelatory access to the real. Conspiracy cultures routinely reproduce theological structures of knowing&mdash\;visions of salvation and corruption\, truth and deception\, initiation and blindness. At the same time\, new forms of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; reframe these religious energies within state and platform attempts to govern perception\, attention\, and trust. Artificial intelligence\, algorithmic media\, and strategic information campaigns do not only deliver messages\; they create digital ecologies in which suspicion becomes faith-like and revelation is continual.
\nThe conference organizers are seeking proposals of high academic quality that take a reflective and analytical approach to both general and specific topics with international appeal or focus. We encourage contributions from scholars of religious studies\, philosophy\, communication\, sociology\, security studies\, psychology\, media\, and related fields. Submissions should engage religion as a dynamic force&mdash\;conceptually\, historically\, or materially&mdash\;within the cognitive battlespaces of our time. We encourage contributions from a spectrum of perspectives\, approaches\, and methodologies.
\nWe are not interested in papers that simply rehearse or promote particular conspiracies\, or that use the conference as a platform for calling out disliked groups. We are not interested in polemics\, jeremiad\, or de facto advocacy pieces. Instead\, we welcome theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous work that takes the religious and epistemic dimensions of cognitive conflict seriously as objects of critical inquiry.
\nTopics and Guiding Questions
\nProposals may address\, but are not limited to\, the following subthemes and questions:
\n1. Paranoid Styles and Truth-Selecting
\nReligious narratives have always negotiated the boundary between revelation and delusion\, authority and transgression. This subtheme explores how conspiratorial and paranoid styles echo older religious hermeneutics&mdash\;selective citation\, esoteric interpretation\, claims to hidden truth&mdash\;while retooling them in secular or digital forms. How do religious movements or quasi-religious publics narrate their privileged access to hidden realities? What theological and philosophical resources&mdash\;including the Foucauldian genealogy of the &ldquo\;will to truth&rdquo\;&mdash\;sustain these modes of &ldquo\;truth selection&rdquo\; and suspicion?
\n2. Zionism\, Antisemitism\, and Global Conspiracy Imaginaries
\nReligious symbols and myths remain central to global conspiracy thinking\, and Judaism occupies a particularly charged position in these narratives. This subtheme invites analyses of antisemitic conspiracies past and present\, from classical &ldquo\;hidden ruler&rdquo\; myths to their algorithmic reprints in digital culture. How do such imaginaries convert theological motifs into political paranoia? What criteria can scholars use to distinguish legitimate critique of religion or state policy from conspiratorial reinscriptions of sacred enmity and eschatological blame?
\n3. AI\, Platforms\, and Paranoid Infrastructures
\nTechnological systems now mediate belief and belonging in ways that rival traditional religious institutions. As artificial intelligence curates information and personalizes experience\, it also reconfigures how suspicion\, revelation\, and trust are produced and distributed. This subtheme asks whether algorithmic systems function as &ldquo\;paranoid infrastructures&rdquo\;&mdash\;digital environments that reinforce particular patterns of attention and faith. How do these systems become sites of religious projection\, and how do AI-generated and synthetic media intersect with conspiracy\, extremism\, and religious imaginary?
\n4. Cognitive Warfare and the Expanded Battlespace
\nThe concepts of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;cognitive domain operations&rdquo\; increasingly shape strategic and policy discourse\, yet they resonate with deeply theological questions about will\, truth\, and freedom. When states and institutions seek to &ldquo\;weaponize&rdquo\; belief or perception\, they enter into the same struggle for reality long theorized within religious and philosophical traditions. How might religious studies and critical theory help decode the sacred undercurrents of this emerging battlefield&mdash\;its rituals\, its eschatologies\, its doctrines of purified mind and corrupted reason?
\n5. Ethics of Information Control and Scholarly Responsibility
\nReligious communities have always wrestled with the ethics of teaching\, interpretation\, and secrecy&mdash\;questions that return urgently in the academy&rsquo\;s role as arbiter of truth amid disinformation. This subtheme invites reflexive discussion of how scholars navigate the line between critique and amplification when studying conspiratorial or extremist movements. What responsibilities accompany the act of curating knowledge&mdash\;or withholding it&mdash\;in an age when information itself is the battlefield?
\n6. Esoteric and Speculative Knowledge
\nReligious and occult traditions offer rich precedents for contemporary speculative and conspiratorial epistemologies. Drawing on Michael Barkun and related theorists of stigmatized knowledge\, this subtheme investigates how claims to esoteric or speculative truth function as alternative forms of knowing and meaning-making\, challenging empiricist and positivist paradigms. What ethical and epistemic possibilities emerge when the speculative is taken seriously as an object of inquiry? Where are the boundaries between credible revelation\, creative speculation\, and dangerous delusion\, and how do such claims sustain communities seeking Reality amid uncertainty?
\nSubmission of Proposals
\nContributors should send an abstract of 300&ndash\;500 words outlining their proposal and its relevance to the conference theme. All proposals should be submitted as email attachments to the editor at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com \;with the subject line header: &ldquo\;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare &ndash\; [Paper Title].&rdquo\;
\nAbstracts of papers\, drafts of papers\, or complete papers are welcome\, as well as proposals for oral presentations\, panel discussions\, or short workshops. Accepted presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review and possible inclusion in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nPublication
\nAs the \;Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory \;works toward a special issue on Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare\, our goal is to create an interdisciplinary forum for rigorous examination of these pressing issues. All conference presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review. Selected articles will be published in a forthcoming special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nQueries
\nFor questions regarding the conference or submissions\, please contact the JCRT editorial office at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com.
\nSponsored by the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) in Collaboration with the University of Denver
\njcrt.org/religioustheory - editor.jcrt@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Adam DJ Brett;CN=Carl Raschke;CN=Kev Grane: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261002T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261004T170000 SUMMARY:ELM (Expression\, Language and Music) 3 UID:20261012T005640Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:University of Connecticut \, Storrs\, United States\, 06269 DESCRIPTION:The Third Biennial Conference on Expression\, Language\, and Music (ELM3) will bring together researchers from linguistics\, philosophy\, cognitive science\, music theory\, dance theory\, anthropology\, and neurobiology with the aim of integrating recent findings and insights from diverse perspectives concerning the significance of expression in music\, dance\, and language\, the importance of systematic structure in these domains\, and the interrelations between expressive\, musical\, and communicative capacities and their relevance \;for \;understanding music cognition and language and their emergence in ontogeny and phylogeny.
\nFor the two previous meetings of ELM\, seeELM Website.
\nKeynote Speakers:
Assal Habibi (University of Sourthern California)
Erin Hannon (University of Nevada\, Las Vegas)
Gabriel Greenberg (UCLA)
Nori Jacoby (Cornell University)
Steve Michen (University of Reading)
Robert Zatorre (McGill University)
Contributing Talks
\nMicah Mooney (UMich) &mdash\; "The Ups and Downs of Tone-Tune Bigram Analysis in Thai Song Text-Setting
\nJorge Bonet Gomez (Wollongong) &mdash\; "A Pluralistic Hypothesis of How Expressions Became Communicative Acts"
\nPiotr Podlipniak (Adam Mickiewicz University\, Poznań) &mdash\; "Acoustic Ecology and the Divergence of Music and Language: A Transmission Range Hypothesis"
\nAli Bebry (New School) &mdash\; "I Made You a Mixtape: Relational Communication in Music Sharing and Playlist Curation"
\nJustyna Skop-Wach (Dundee) &mdash\; "Effects of Rhythmic Priming on Grammaticality Judgment in English-Speaking Children"
\nJi Chul Kim (UConn) &mdash\; "Why Does Music Make Us Move? An Embodied Dynamical Account of Music Perception and Action"
\nCarmen Wong (UIC) &mdash\; "Combinatoriality before Propositionality: Music\, Language\, and an Eventive Architecture of Representation"
\nFor \;more details\, visit: \;https://elm.clas.uconn.edu \;or reach out to Utku Sonsayar viaelm3conference@gmail.com.
\nOn behalf of \;ELM3 \;Committee:
Stefanie Acevedo \;(UConn\, Music Theory\; IBACS)
Dorit Bar-On \;(UConn\, Philosophy\; ECOM)
Harry van der Hulst \;(UConn\, Linguistics)
Edward Large \;(UConn\, Psychology\; IBACS)
Erika Skoe \;(UConn\, Speech\, Language\, and Hearing Sciences)
Whit Tabor \;(UConn\, Psychology)
Utku Sonsayar (UConn\, Philosophy\; ECOM)
The fourth annual Philadelphia Normative Philosophy Conference will be held at the University of Pennsylvania on October 2nd-3rd\, 2026.
\nThere are 30 talks\, ranging widely across all of normative philosophy\, very broadly construed. Conference presentations will be 30 minutes\, in addition to time for both comments and general discussion. You can find the current version of the program at \;https://tinyurl.com/PNPC2026.
\nPhiladelphia is a fantastic city for philosophy\, with many philosophers at the institutions in the greater Philadelphia region\, and it is accessible for many outside of the area. Philadelphia also has stellar and affordable food and tremendous museums and historical sites. \;
\nQuestions can be addressed to either of the conference organizers:
\nCraig Agule: \;craig.agule@rutgers.edu
Brian Berkey: \;bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu
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\nSubmissions in any area of normative philosophy\, very broadly construed\, are welcome. Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words\, formatted for anonymous review\, to \;philnormphilconf@gmail.com. Abstracts should be submitted in PDF form\, single-spaced\, with no references\, and with the paper title at the top of the page. Please name the file after the title of the paper\, e.g.\, "A Theory of Justice.PDF". Please include your name and institutional affiliation in the body of your email\, and please also indicate whether you would be interested in commenting on a paper\, should your abstract not be selected. We especially welcome submissions from new attendees!
\nAbstracts are due April 15th\, 2026. Applicants will be notified of decisions by May 15th.
ORGANIZER;CN=Craig K. Agule;CN=Brian Berkey: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Regina:20261002T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Regina:20261004T170000 SUMMARY:The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association & the 10th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy / Société canadienne de Philosophie Environnementale UID:20261012T005642Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Regina LOCATION:3737 Wascana Parkway\, Regina\, Canada\, S4S 0A2 DESCRIPTION:The 62nd Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association &\; the 10th annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy / Socié\;té\; canadienne de Philosophie Environnementale
\nDates: Friday\, October 2 to Sunday\, October 4\, 2026
\nLocation: University of Regina\, Regina\, Saskatchewan
\nKeynote Speakers
\nSubmission Deadline (Extended): August 14\, 11:59PM\, CST
\nSubmission Details
\nWe are pleased to invite submissions to the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Western Canadian Philosophical Association (WCPA) &\; the 11th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for Environmental Philosophy / Socié\;té\; canadienne de philosophie environnementale (CSEP/SCPE)\, to be held concurrently from Friday\, October 2 to Sunday\, October 4\, 2026\, at the University of Regina.
\nAll submissions can be made\, by the deadline\, through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wcpaandcsepscpe2026
\nQuestions can be sent to the address: wcpa2026@protonmail.com
\nWe invite four different types of submission\, from all areas of philosophy:
\nFull-Paper Submissions
\nAbstract-Only Submissions
\nFull-Panel / Symposia Submissions
\nAuthor-Meets-Critics Submissions
\nA submission (of any of the four types above) on an environmental topic will be considered for inclusion on both the WCPA program and the CSEP/SCPE program. However\, if you are submitting with the CSEP/SPCE in mind\, please indicate this somewhere prominent in your submission.
\nThe WCPA and CSEP will each award a Student Essay Prize. So\, if you are a student\, please indicate this somewhere prominent in your submission. Only full-paper submissions will be eligible for the WCPA Student Essay Prize\, barring exceptional circumstances.
\nPré\;sentations en franç\;ais. Le comité\; organisateur est ouvert à\; la possibilité\; d&rsquo\;un panel ou d&rsquo\;une session (ou davantage) en franç\;ais et a la capacité\; d&rsquo\;é\;valuer des propositions envoyé\;es en franç\;ais. Il espè\;re ainsi contribuer au renforcement de l&rsquo\;exercice de la philosophie en franç\;ais dans l&rsquo\;Ouest canadien et donner la chance aux philosophes qui comprennent le franç\;ais mais ne s&rsquo\;en servent pas beaucoup de participer à\; la confé\;rence dans cette langue.
\nSpecial Workshop: Interconnection in Indigenous Philosophies and the Disciplinary Colonial University. To begin the conference\, the afternoon of Friday\, October 2 will include a workshop featuring academic researchers and knowledge keepers who work with them. Dr. Blair Stonechild will start the discussion with a first keynote. To continue the discussion over the rest of the conference\, we specifically encourage papers engaging with Indigenous philosophies and Indigenous scholars\, whether they are established\, emerging\, or studying\, and whether they are academic or working in community\, to submit papers to the WCPA.
\nLocation details. The conference will take place at the College Avenue campus of the University of Regina\, which offers accessible rooms over two floors\, with a view of Wascana Park. The building is located downtown\, within reasonable walking distance from the hotels\, with ample parking. It is newly renovated to preserve the historical features of the original building and bring it into the 21st century. It features ample space for open or private conversation and hosts wonderful artworks from the President&rsquo\;s Art Collection. More information on hotels will be provided as registration time approaches.
ORGANIZER;CN="Jérôme Melançon";CN=Paul Simard Smith;CN=Owen Clifton: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261004T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261004T234500 SUMMARY:2027 Meeting of the Society for Philosophy of Religion UID:20261012T005643Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Nashville\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Society for Philosophy of Religion is pleased to invite submissions for its 2027 meeting to be held in Nashville\, TN from March 4-6\, 2027 at Vanderbilt University. We welcome papers in philosophy of religion from a plurality of perspectives and traditions.
\nThe Society aims to create long-term relationships of collaboration\, consultation\, and conversation across traditional lines of disciplinary specialization\, philosophical orientation\, and religious/cultural identity. \; To facilitate this\, the conference is organized so that only one paper is presented at a time to permit all participants to attend all sessions. \;
\nThis year we are delighted to announce that Sam Newlands (Notre Dame) will deliver the keynote address.
\nThe deadline for submissions is October 4\, 2026.
\nThere are two formats for individual paper submissions: colloquia papers suitable for presentation in 20-25 minutes (up to 3000 words)\, and symposia papers suitable for presentation in 35-40 minutes (up to 5000 words). Colloquia presentations will be followed by q&\;a. \; Symposia presentations will be followed by commentary and then q&\;a.
\nWe also welcome proposals for panel discussions of relevant topics or questions. \;
\nDecisions will be communicated in early November. \; \;Accepted participants without institutional financial support who may not otherwise be able to attend are encouraged to reach out\, as the Society may be able to offer some assistance with travel expenses.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nTo be considered\, please submit two documents: (i) a pdf of your paper prepared for blind review. \; (ii) a separate document including your name\, email\, paper title\, a short abstract of no more than 150 words\, type of submission (colloquium or symposium)\, institutional affiliation (if any)\, and academic status (e.g. professor\, post doc\, graduate student).
\nFor panel proposals\, please outline the topic or question and include the names\, affiliations\, and emails of confirmed participants. \; \;
\nAll submission materials should be sent by email to 2027SPRconference@gmail.com.
\nRising Scholar Award
\nThe Society for Philosophy of Religion is pleased to offer the Rising Scholar Award\, which will be presented to the best conference paper by an author who earned their Ph.D. within the past five years. The Society reserves the right not to grant the award if no submission meets the criteria for quality and suitability.
\nIf you are interested in serving as a commentator or session chair or have questions regarding the conference please contact Tad Robinson at tadrobinson@muhlenberg.edu. \;
\nFor information about the Society for Philosophy of Religion and past programs see https://www.societyphilosophyreligion.org/home
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261005T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261007T170000 SUMMARY:Deliberative Democratic Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities from a Constitutional Perspective UID:20261012T005644Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Innstr. 27\, Passau\, Germany\, 94032 DESCRIPTION:We are looking for two contributions for a panel entitled \;"Deliberative Democratic Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities from a Constitutional Perspective" \;as part of the conference \;Backsliding\, Resilience\, Renewal? Democracy in Eras of Transformation\, which will take place at the \;University of Passau\, Germany from \;Monday 5th \;to Wednesday 7th \;October 2026. Submissions of up to 400 words should be made directly onto the \;webpage \;from Wednesday 26th \;November to Monday 15th \;December 2025. Notification of acceptance will be made by Tuesday 20th \;January 2026.
\nFor organisational inquiries\, please contact Silvia Haider (second.congress@uni-passau.de). The panel is part of the transatlantic project "Open Constitutional Democracy: Reconciling Deliberation and Constitutional Democracy". More information about the call for papers and the panel proposal can be found on the link below. We look forward to your submission!
ORGANIZER;CN="Sonia Anaid Cruz Dávila": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261005T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261005T170000 SUMMARY:Towards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory UID:20261012T005645Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 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:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T234500 SUMMARY:36th Association for Practical and Professional Ethics Annual International Conference UID:20261012T005646Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown\, 600 Commonwealth Place\, Pittsburgh\, United States\, 15222 DESCRIPTION:The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) invites individuals from every discipline and profession interested in advancing scholarship\, teaching\, and a general understanding of applied ethics to submit proposals based on their work to our 36th Annual APPE International Conference on March 4-7\, 2027 in Pittsburgh. There will be an online-only portion of the conference program on April 2\, 2027 to accommodate our members\, presenters\, and guests who are located across the globe\, or who are unable to attend the in-person conference in Pittsburgh.
\nAPPE is a multidisciplinary\, international organization advancing scholarship\, education\, and practice in practical and professional ethics. We facilitate and support scholarly and professional collaborations among teachers\, scientists\, business practitioners\, engineers\, government officials\, researchers\, the media\, and all professionals concerned with the practical application and communications of ethics and values.
\nThis year&rsquo\;s theme\, Examining Ethics and Power\, invites critical reflection on the ethical dimensions of power across professional\, institutional\, and global contexts. We encourage proposals that explore how power dynamics shape ethical decision‑making\; how power manifests in professional practices\; how institutions perpetuate or prevent harm\; and how ethical frameworks can clarify what is at stake as well as expose\, challenge\, and transform unjust power relations.
\nPower structures social\, political\, organizational\, and interpersonal relations. Violence&mdash\;whether physical\, structural\, symbolic\, epistemic\, or institutional&mdash\;often emerges from\, reinforces\, or obscures the workings of power. Ethical analysis is essential for understanding how power is exercised\, resisted\, justified\, and contested\; how its proper use is often not recognized\, as well as how the misuse of power is often normalized\, hidden\, or confronted in professional and public settings.
\nIn addition to the special focus\, we welcome submissions from all areas of practical and professional ethics.
\nSubmissions are due Monday\, October 5\, 2026 and will be submitted via Ex Ordo.
ORGANIZER;CN=Kristen Fuhs Wells;CN=Earl Spurgin;CN=Mark Doorley: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261006T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261007T170000 SUMMARY:The Nature of Social Identities: Metaphysics\, Epistemology\, and Politics UID:20261012T005647Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Arna Nováka 1\, Brno \, Czech Republic\, 60200 DESCRIPTION:The Department of Philosophy\, Faculty of Arts\, Masaryk University in Brno\, Czech Republic\, invites submissions for a conference on the metaphysical and epistemological foundations of social identities\, organised within the research project Identity Politics: Metaphysics and Epistemology.
\nConference Theme
\nIn recent decades\, political and social debates have increasingly focused on identity-based groups defined by characteristics such as race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, disability\, class\, religion\, or age. These developments have generated extensive discussion in political philosophy and social theory. However\, many of the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions underlying identity politics remain insufficiently examined.
\nThis conference aims to investigate the nature\, constitution\, and epistemic role of social identities. In particular\, we seek to explore the mechanisms through which identities emerge as robust social and political entities\, and the ways in which identity-related features&mdash\;such as lived experience\, self-identification\, social recognition\, and shared narratives&mdash\;contribute to their formation and persistence. \;
\nAnother central aim is to examine whether different identities (for example\, race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, or class) are constituted through similar or distinct metaphysical and epistemic mechanisms. Comparative approaches that analyse similarities and differences across identities are especially welcome. \;
\nThe conference will also address the epistemological aspects of social identities\, including questions concerning situated knowledge\, epistemic authority\, intersectionality\, and conflicts among different socially situated perspectives.
\nTopics
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nMetaphysics of Social and Political Identities
\nEpistemology of Social Identity
\nSubmissions from metaphysics\, epistemology\, social philosophy\, feminist philosophy\, philosophy of race\, and related areas are welcome.
\nKeynote speaker: Kristina Rolin (Tampere University)
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nPlease submit an anonymous abstract of 400&ndash\;500 words.
\nThe submission should be attached to the email in .pdf format and prepared for blind review. Please include the following information separately in the body of the email: your name(s)\, affiliation(s)\, contact information\, the title of your talk.
\nImportant Dates
\nConference Details
\nSubmission
\nPlease send submissions to: belohrad@phil.muni.cz
\nContact
\nFor inquiries\, please contact: Radim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. (belohrad@phil.muni.cz)
\nOrganizing committee
\nRadim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. \;
\nZdeňka Jastrzembská\;\, Ph.D. \;
\nMarek Picha\, Ph.D.
\nDagmar Pichová\;\, Ph.D.
ORGANIZER;CN=Radim Belohrad: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261006T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261006T170000 SUMMARY:PhilML'26 Graduate Conference UID:20261012T005648Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Munich\, Germany DESCRIPTION:PhilML is an annual conference dedicated to the philosophy of machine learning. It addresses foundational epistemological\, ethical\, and social questions concerning machine learning from the perspective of analytic philosophy. The conference welcomes both (1) work that applies philosophical concepts and methods to gain insight into machine learning\, and (2) work that critically reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of machine learning research. To foster close and productive exchange\, PhilML brings together philosophers and philosophically inclined machine learning researchers\, with an openness to engaging direclty with scientific and mathematical details. \;
\nPhilML'26 will have a graduate conference associated to the main conference. The graduate conference will take place at LMU Munich on October 6. \;
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261007T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Causality and Causal Inference in Medicine UID:20261012T005649Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Facultad de Filosofia\, C/Camilo José Cela S/N\, Sevilla\, Spain\, 41018 DESCRIPTION:Interactions between the philosophy of causality and investigations of inferential practices in the sciences\, particularly medicine\, have yielded key developments across disciplines. One such example is evidential pluralism\, arguing for broadening the evidence range beyond difference-making to overcome the rigidity of evidence-based medicine. Further interdisciplinary engagements can assess the adequacy of different philosophical analyses of causation and corresponding causal concepts with respect to particular scientific problems or areas or draw on practices from the sciences to adjust the philosophical toolkit. At the same time\, there are also challenges to address\, such as working across areas with different\, sometimes conflicting\, methods and approaches. This conference aims to bring together current research dealing with causality and inferential practices in the health sciences\, broadly construed\, welcoming philosophical\, methodological\, and scientific contributions\, among others.
\nKeynote speakers:
\nJonathan Fuller (University of Pittsburgh)
\nNaja Hulvej Rod (University of Copenhagen)
\nSaana Jukola (University of Twente)
\nLocal organizing team: Cristina Baré\;s Gó\;mez\, Matthieu Fontaine\, Elena Popa\, Quentin Ruyant.
This conference is the 16th in the series of Causality in the Sciences conferences. Steering committee: Phyllis Illari\, Science &\; Technology Studies\, UCL\; Samantha Kleinberg\, Computer Science\, Stevens\; Bert Leuridan\, Philosophy\, Antwerp\; Julian Reiss: Philosophy\, Linz\; Federica Russo: History and Philosophy of Science\, Utrecht\; Erik Weber: Philosophy\, Ghent\; Jon Williamson: Philosophy\, Manchester. \; \;
Funding and organization
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:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20261007T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Oslo:20261008T170000 SUMMARY:Mathematical Proof in the Age of AI: Conceptual Implications of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Mathematical Research UID:20261012T005651Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Oslo LOCATION:Bergen\, Norway DESCRIPTION:This conference will be about the conceptual-philosophical implications of AI-based proving and autoformalisation for mathematics. Examples include the resolution of various Erdos problems by Google DeepMind&rsquo\;s Alethia model\, the recent disproof of the unit distance conjecture by OpenAI&rsquo\;s GPT model\, and the (partial) autoformalisations of sphere packing in dimension 8 and 24 by the model Gauss from Math Inc. \;
We aim to reflect on how these technologies may transform mathematical practice\, with a concentration on the practice of creating and verifying proofs. While some view the use of LLMs\, and AI in general\, as heralding a new era of machine-assisted mathematics\, others caution against overestimating their capabilities and warn of the downsides of automating mathematics. The workshop aims to critically assess the role of AI-based mathematics\, striking a balance between optimism and scepticism.
The conference will be livestreamed\, recorded\, and made available online (with speakers&rsquo\; permission).
This is a save the date for the annual PhilML conference.
\nPhilML is an annual conference dedicated to the philosophy of machine learning. It addresses foundational epistemological\, ethical\, and social questions concerning machine learning from the perspective of analytic philosophy. The conference welcomes both (1) work that applies philosophical concepts and methods to gain insight into machine learning\, and (2) work that critically reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of machine learning research. To foster close and productive exchange\, PhilML brings together philosophers and philosophically inclined machine learning researchers\, with an openness to engaging direclty with scientific and mathematical details. \;
\nPhilML'26 will take place at LMU Munich from October 7-9. The call for papers will be announced in May\, at which point we will invite people to submit extended abstracts. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Kate Vredenburgh;CN=Thomas Grote;CN=Tom F. Sterkenburg;CN=Timo Freiesleben: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:Digital Commons: Infrastructures\, Design and the Ethics of Autonomy UID:20261012T005653Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 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:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:5th Central European Graduate Conference in Ancient Philosophy UID:20261012T005654Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:Keynote Speakers at this event are:
\nKaterina Ierodiakonou (University of Athens)
\nRobert Roreitner (Charles University\, Prague)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:The Moral University — Higher Education in an Age of Uncertainty UID:20261012T005655Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:800 S. Main St.\, Harrisonburg\, United States\, 22807 DESCRIPTION:Colleges and universities face unprecedented ethical challenges&mdash\;pressures from politics\, markets\, and technology that raise deep questions about what higher education is for\, whom it serves\, and how it should change. This conference invites scholars and practitioners to reflect on the moral dimensions of academic life: from teaching and research to governance\, access\, and the evolving social role of the university. We seek presentations that explore these issues from any disciplinary\, theoretical\, or practical perspective. At the same time\, and in keeping with the mission of the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum\, the conference strongly welcomes presentations on the teaching of ethics in higher education broadly conceived. Submissions addressing pedagogical approaches\, curricular design\, assessment\, institutional initiatives\, professional programs\, and classroom practices related to ethics&mdash\;whether or not they directly engage the conference theme&mdash\;are especially encouraged.
\nPossible areas for exploration include\, but are not limited to:
\n&bull\; The purpose and public mission of higher education in a changing society
\n&bull\; Academic freedom\, shared governance\, and institutional integrity
\n&bull\; Free expression\, protest\, and the ethics of dialogue on campus
\n&bull\; Political and financial pressures on universities and their leadership
\n&bull\; The value and economics of higher education: debt\, equity\, and accountability
\n&bull\; Ethics in academic administration and decision-making
\n&bull\; Technology\, AI\, and the digital transformation of learning and research
\n&bull\; Teaching ethics across the curriculum and in professional programs
\n&bull\; Globalization\, inclusion\, and the moral boundaries of the university community
\n&bull\; The moral development\, well-being\, and agency of students\, faculty\, and staff
ORGANIZER;CN=David McGraw: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261008T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Loneliness - 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20261012T005656Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP: \;loneliness and war
\nloneliness and illness \;
\nloneliness and self-isolation\, social distancing
\nloneliness among children
\nloneliness among seniors
\nthe lonely crowd
\nloneliness in urban spaces
\nloneliness as an epidemic
\nloneliness and pandemic
\nloneliness \; and social exclusion (social class\, racism\, gender factors\, educational status) \;
\nloneliness and social media (Facebook\, Instagram\, etc.)
\nloneliness in different parts of the world
\nloneliness and religions
\nloneliness and initiation rituals
\nlonely communities
\nabandoned nations
\nexpelled minorities
\nloneliness and digital cultures / virtual communities
\nthe cultural taboo of solitude vs. hyper-individualism
\nmigrant loneliness and diaspora experiences
\nloneliness during self-isolation\, quarantanne\, \;
\nloneliness as a state of mind
\nloneliness and emotional isolation
\nloneliness and depression
\nloneliness and shame
\ncreative loneliness
\nloneliness as a rest
\nsituational loneliness
\nexistential loneliness
\nloneliness\, aloneness\, and solitude
\nthe commercialization of loneliness (the "rent-a-friend" industry\, monetized companion apps\, dating algorithms\, and AI relationships)
\nsynthetic companionship &\; AI (digital intimacy\, dating algorithms\, and robotic care)
\nloneliness in literature\, film\, theatre \; and visual arts
\nlonely artists
\naesthetics\, spaces\, and narratives of isolation (e.g.\, in pop culture\, life-writing\, and architecture)
\n
Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentations\, together with a short biographical note\, by \; \;18 September 2026 to: lonelinessconference@gmail.com
2026 SCP Midwest Regional Meeting
\nLocation
\nBaylor University (Waco\, TX) \;
\nDates
\nOctober 8-10\, 2026
\nConference Theme &ndash\; God\, Knowledge\, and Narratives
\nKeynotes
\nJohn Greco (Georgetown)
\nLeigh Vicens (Augustana)
\nPanel discussion
\nThere will be a panel discussion on Perfect Existence with participants Alex Pruss (Baylor) and Joshua Rasmussen (Baylor).
\nPlease see theSCP webpagefor further details\, including registration and hotel reservations when available.
\nOrganizer
\nCharity Anderson (Baylor)
\nSCP 2026 Regional Committee
\nBlake McAllister (Hillsdale)bmcallister@hillsdale.edu
\nBob Hartman (Ohio Northern)roberthartman122@gmail.com
\nJason Runyan (Indiana Wesleyan)jason.runyan@indwes.edu
\nRegistration Link:https://www.societyofchristianphilosophers.com/content.aspx?page_id=4002&\;club_id=560358&\;item_id=3023680
\nHotel Block Link:https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1774287932087&\;key=GRP&\;app=resvlink&\;_branch_match_id=1474412281116427579&\;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAA8soKSkottLXTywo0MtNLCrKzC8p0UvOz9UvSi3OyczLtgdK2ALZZSCOWmaKraG5uYmRhbmlsZGBhbladmqlrXtQgFpdUWpaKlB3Xnp8UlF%2BeXFqka1zRlF%2BbioARApu7mAAAAA%3D
ORGANIZER;CN=Charity Anderson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:Voir-Dire: "World-Building" UID:20261012T005658Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:60 university private\, Ottawa\, Canada\, K1N 6N5 DESCRIPTION:Call for Proposals:
\n&ldquo\;World-Building&rdquo\;
\nOctober 9th &\; 10th\, 2026 at University of Ottawa
\nSubmission Deadline: June 1st\, 2026
\n[La version franç\;aise se trouve ci-dessous]
\nToday&rsquo\;s global community is at a critical juncture in the wake of increasing environmental\, political\, social\, cultural\, and economic crises. Worlds\, as we know them\, are becoming destabilized and fractured and the futures of individual nations as well as their geopolitical relations are uncertain. However\, from this uncertainty and rupture\, opportunity arises to build a better world. The theme\, &ldquo\;World-Building&rdquo\;\, invites graduate students and scholars to share their ideas and research on questions of transformative\, collaborative\, and cooperative processes and practices that envision worlds in their possible futures and the conditions for their realization.
\nVoir Dire: Conference &\; Journal is a joint initiative between graduate students from the philosophy departments at the University of Ottawa\, Saint-Paul University\, and Carleton University. Since an interdisciplinary approach is crucial for identifying\, discussing\, and resolving complex social and political issues\, we welcome proposals from other disciplines and from all areas of philosophy. \;
\nAbstracts and presentations may be in either French or English. Each speaker has 20 minutes to present\, followed by an open discussion period. We invite submissions that engage in research on topics including but not limited to:
\n● Transformation\, solidarity\, and community.
\n● Rights\, dignity\, and freedom: Relationships between human\, animals\, and nature.
\n● Positive and negative roles of dystopian/utopian thinking\, of hope/hopelessness\, of \;
\nnihilism/fatalism\, and of future studies.
\n● Alienation\, reconciliation\, and reparation.
\n● Relation between theory and practice\; justice\; moral and institutional responsibility.
\n● Policy\, commensurability\, feasibility\, and sustainability.
\nFully anonymized abstracts (250-500 words) can be submitted online using the following link:
\nConference Submission Form. You can find the formatting guidelines for abstracts at the beginning of the form and you will be asked to provide a brief bio describing your research interests. Following the conference\, papers may be considered for publication in the Voir Dire journal.
\nFor any questions\, please email us at voirdire.ottawa@gmail.com. \;
\n---------
\nAppel à\; communications :
\n«\; World-Building »\;
\nLe 9 &\; 10 octobre 2026 à\; l&rsquo\;Université\; d&rsquo\;Ottawa
\nDé\;lai de soumission : le 1er juin 2026
\nLa communauté\; mondiale actuelle\, face aux crises environnementales\, politiques\, sociales\, culturelles et é\;conomiques croissantes\, se trouve à\; un moment dé\;cisif. Les mondes\, tel que nous les connaissons\, se dé\;stabilisent et se fracturent\, et l&rsquo\;avenir des nations individuelles et leur relations gé\;opolitiques sont incertaines. Cependant\, de cette incertitude et de cette rupture\, é\;merge l&rsquo\;occasion de bâ\;tir un monde meilleur. Le thè\;me\, «\; World-Building »\;\, invite les é\;tudiant.e.s diplô\;mé\;.e.s et chercheurs.euses à\; partager leurs idé\;es et leurs recherches sur les enjeux relatifs aux processus et pratiques transformatives\, collaboratives et coopé\;ratives qui envisagent les mondes dans leurs futurs possibles et leurs conditions d&rsquo\;avè\;nement.
\nVoir Dire : confé\;rence et revue est une initiative conjointe des é\;tudiant.e.s diplô\;mé\;s des dé\;partements de philosophie de l&rsquo\;Université\; d&rsquo\;Ottawa\, de l&rsquo\;Université\; Saint-Paul et de l&rsquo\;Université\; Carleton. L&rsquo\;utilisation d&rsquo\;une approche interdisciplinaire é\;tant essentielle pour identifier\, discuter et ré\;soudre les problè\;mes sociaux et politiques complexes\, nous accueillons des propositions provenant d&rsquo\;autres disciplines ainsi que des propositions provenant de tous les domaines de philosophie. \;
\nLes ré\;sumé\;s et les pré\;sentations peuvent ê\;tre en franç\;ais ou en anglais. Chaque intervenant.e à\; 20 minutes pour faire sa pré\;sentation\, suivie d&rsquo\;une pé\;riode de discussion ouverte. Nous acceptons des propositions qui abordent\, sans s&rsquo\;y limiter\, les sujets de recherche suivant :
\n● La transformation\, solidarité\; et communauté\;.
\n● Droits\, dignité\; et liberté\; : les relations entre les humains\, animaux et la nature.
\n● Rô\;les positifs et né\;gatifs de la pensé\;e dystopique/utopique\, de l&rsquo\;espoir/dé\;sespoir\, du nihilisme/fatalisme et des é\;tudes de l&rsquo\;avenir.
\n● Alié\;nation\, ré\;conciliation et ré\;paration.
\n● Relation entre la thé\;orie et la pratique\; la justice\; la responsabilité\; morale et institutionnelle.
\n● Politique\, commensurabilité\;\, faisabilité\; et durabilité\;.
\nLes ré\;sumé\;s entiè\;rement anonymisé\;s (250-500 mots) peuvent ê\;tre soumis en ligne à\; travers le lien suivant : Formulaire de soumission. Vous trouverez les directives pour la mise en forme des ré\;sumé\;s au dé\;but du formulaire et vous devrez fournir une brè\;ve biographie dé\;crivant vos inté\;rê\;ts de recherche.
\nÀ\; la suite de la confé\;rence\, les articles pourront ê\;tre pris en considé\;ration pour publication dans la revue \;
\nVoir Dire. Pour toutes questions\, veuillez nous envoyer un courriel à\; voirdire.ottawa@gmail.com. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261010T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261010T080000 SUMMARY:AI Perspectives 2026 UID:20261012T005659Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Borongajska 83d\, Zagreb\, Croatia\, 10000 DESCRIPTION:Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming nearly every aspect of contemporary society. Beyond technological innovation\, AI raises profound philosophical\, ethical\, legal\, social\, economic\, and educational questions that increasingly influence the way we live\, work\, communicate\, and govern.
\n\nAI Perspectives 2026: Philosophy\, Society and Technology is an international interdisciplinary conference organized on the occasion of World Philosophy Day. The conference aims to provide a platform for critical dialogue on the opportunities and challenges created by Artificial Intelligence while fostering collaboration between academia\, students\, industry\, entrepreneurs\, investors\, and the broader technology ecosystem.
\n\nOur objective is to bridge the gap between theoretical reflection and practical innovation by bringing together experts from philosophy\, computer science\, sociology\, psychology\, law\, economics\, business\, and related disciplines. The conference welcomes contributions including\, but not limited to\, the following topics: philosophy of AI\, ethics of AI\, explainable and trustworthy AI\, AI and society\, AI and education\, AI in business and management\, AI and digital humanities\, human-AI collaboration\, artificial general intelligence.
\n\nThe Organizing Committee invites researchers\, academics\, doctoral candidates\, and professionals to submit original research for presentation at the International Conference AI Perspectives 2026: Philosophy\, Society and Technology\, to be held on 19-20 November 2026 at the Faculty of Croatian Studies\, University of Zagreb. Two days of research\, discussion\, workshops\, and networking\, in the format of:
\nDay 1: opening ceremony\, keynote lectures\, scientific sessions\, conference dinner
\nDay 2: student research session\, workshops\, industry and academic panels\, networking event.
\n\nAuthors are invited to submit an abstract of up to 2\,500 characters\, including spaces\, presenting original\, unpublished research relevant to the conference themes. The abstract should clearly describe the research objectives\, methodology where applicable\, principal findings or expected results\, and the significance of the contribution.
\n\nAll submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process conducted by members of the Scientific Committee. Accepted abstracts will be included in the official conference program. Authors of accepted contributions will be invited to present their work at the conference. Following the event\, they will have the opportunity to submit a full paper for consideration in the peer-reviewed conference proceedings\, subject to a separate review process.
\n\nDeadline for abstract submission: October 10\, 2026
\nNotification of acceptance: October 20\, 2026
\nConference: November 19-20\, 2026\; University of Zagreb\, Croatia
\n\nMore info at: https://ai-perspectives.org/
ORGANIZER;CN=Sandro Skansi;CN="Željka Metesi Deronjić": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261010T091500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:Journée stoïcienne 2026 : Stoïcisme et écologie – Penser notre relation à la nature aujourd’hui UID:20261012T005700Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:4 rue du Guignier\, Paris\, France\, 75020 DESCRIPTION:La Journé\;e stoï\;cienne est le seul é\;vé\;nement en France entiè\;rement consacré\; à\; l&rsquo\;é\;tude et à\; la pratique du stoï\;cisme aujourd&rsquo\;hui. Confé\;rences expertes\, ateliers pratiques et moments de discussions collectives ou en petits groupes rythmeront la journé\;e !
\nFace aux bouleversements é\;cologiques\, le stoï\;cisme nous offre un cadre de pensé\;e d&rsquo\;une é\;tonnante modernité\;. Nous l'explorerons ensemble à\; travers des questions é\;thiques et physiques\, lié\;es au concept central de la nature !
\nProgramme de la Journé\;e stoï\;cienne 2026\nÀ\; partir de 9h15
\nOuverture des portes &ndash\; bienvenue à\; la Journé\;e stoï\;cienne 2026 !
\n\n10h-10h15
\nMot d&rsquo\;accueil par Maë\;l Goarzin\, pré\;sident de Stoa Gallica.
\n\n10h15-11h
\nConfé\;rence [thè\;me à\; venir]
\npar Christelle Veillard\, maî\;tre de confé\;rences en philosophie antique.
\n\n11h-11h30
\nMoment convivial / é\;changes
\n\n11h30-12h30
\nAtelier pratique : «\; Suivre la Nature »\; : la physique stoï\;cienne peut-elle mener à\; une é\;thique é\;cologique ?
\npar Silvain Margot\, fondateur du portique Stoa Gallica de Montré\;al
\n\n12h30-14h
\nPause du midi
\n\n14h-14h45
\nConfé\;rence [thè\;me à\; venir]
\npar Cé\;line Dennevault\, doctorante en philosophie stoï\;cienne\, avec comme sujet de thè\;se (en cours) : «\; Le statut du beau dans la pensé\;e stoï\;cienne. »\;
\n\n14h45-15h45
\nAtelier pratique : Les quatre vertus stoï\;ciennes au chevet de la nature
\npar Guillaume Beauquesne\, fondateur de l'Agora Stoï\;cienne au thé\;â\;tre de la Concorde
\n\n15h45-16h
\nPause
\n\n16h-17h
\nAtelier pratique : Une lecture é\;picurienne de la Gé\;ographie de Strabon : habiter la Terre hier et aujourd&rsquo\;hui
\npar Ludovic Jeanne\, docteur en gé\;ographie et co-fondateur du Cercle philosophique Le Jardin de Philodè\;me
\n\n17h-18h
\nTable-ronde [thè\;me à\; venir]
\n\n18h-18h15
\nLe mot de la fin
\n\n\n\n\nLieu \;:
\nLe Transformateur
\n4 rue du Guignier
\n75020 Paris
\n\n\n\nPourquoi cet é\;vé\;nement est-il payant ?
\nLe prix du ticket nous permet de :
\ndé\;dommager les intervenants (transport\, repas\, hé\;bergement é\;ventuel) \;
\ncouvrir les coû\;ts lié\;s à\; l&rsquo\;organisation de l&rsquo\;é\;vé\;nement (location des salles\, impression des brochures\, affiches&hellip\;) \;
\nfaire grandir l&rsquo\;association pour qu&rsquo\;elle propose toujours plus d&rsquo\;actions en lien avec le stoï\;cisme !
\nVous hé\;sitez à\; venir ?
\nLes organisateurs
\nOrganisé\;e par l&rsquo\;association
Stoa Gallica est une association qui encourage l&rsquo\;é\;tude de la philosophie stoï\;cienne et dé\;fend la pertinence d&rsquo\;un stoï\;cisme contemporain. Elle a pour but de favoriser les é\;changes entre les personnes francophones dé\;sireuses de dé\;couvrir et de mettre en pratique la philosophie stoï\;cienne aujourd&rsquo\;hui.
ORGANIZER;CN=Stoa Gallica: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261011T170000 SUMMARY:Formal Approaches to Rationality and Meaning (FARM) UID:20261012T005701Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:New York\, United States DESCRIPTION:FARM is a conference that aims to bring together researchers studying meaning\, reasoning and rational norms.
ORGANIZER;CN=Matthew Mandelkern;CN=Harvey Lederman;CN=Snow Zhang;CN=Paolo Santorio;CN=Julia Staffel: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261012T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261012T234500 SUMMARY:What is Economic Planning? Historical and Contemporary Perspectives UID:20261012T005702Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:1 Place St Thomas d'Aquin\, Paris\, France DESCRIPTION:The workshop aims to bring together scholars working across intellectual history\, political theory\, socio-economic history\, political economy\, sociology\, and related fields in order to foster dialogue between historically grounded perspectives on economic planning and contemporary debates about its revival. We are particularly interested in contributions examining how economic planning has been conceptualised and practised across national and international contexts\, the politics of planning\, and the ways planning histories can (or not) inform present-day political and policy discussions. We are looking for both empirical and theoretical papers from diverse disciplinary angles.
Topics of papers may include (but are not limited to) the three following axes:
Applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 500 words outlining their proposal\, and a short CV by \;12 October 2026 \;to \;zoe.evrard@uclouvain.be \;and \;thomas.kayzel@sciencespo.fr. They will be informed of the outcome by \;20 October \;and will be requested to submit their papers by \;1st of December \;by the latest.
Please note that should your institution be unable to do so\, limited conference funds are available to support accommodation and travel expenses. \;
For the extended call for paper: \;https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lnpxkca8bkicgnyqcwgo2/What-is-planning_CfP_FINAL.pdf?rlkey=37mofilm7xw2h13r6lvab7f9j&\;st=skqr1nth&\;dl=0
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261013T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261016T170000 SUMMARY:Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6 (OASIS 6) UID:20261012T005703Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Lisbon\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:OASIS 6 (Ontology As Structured by the Interfaces with Semantics 6) will take place at the Centro de Linguí\;stica da Universidade de Lisboa\, 13-16 October\, 2026.
\nThe OASIS conference series aims to promote conversation across different disciplines that interface with semantics\, using ontological questions as shared reference points. The broad questions in the background are these: 1. What basic ontological building blocks do we use to talk and think about the world? 2. How do these building blocks get combined? 3. And how do grammatical and cognitive phenomena motivate the answers to the first two questions? For more information\, see the OASIS credo.
\nWe welcome submissions from semantics and semantics-adjacent domains\, including philosophy and the cognitive sciences. We will host sessions bringing together linguists and philosophers to discuss foundational questions in linguistics and their relation to broader philosophical issues. The sessions will introduce some of the central assumptions and frameworks of contemporary linguistic theory and provide informal opportunities for interdisciplinary exchange. Philosophers and others interested in language\, mind\, or cognition are particularly encouraged to attend.
\nInvited speakers:
\nSatellite session: Creoles as windows on language and cognition This special session will focus on Creoles as full-fledged natural languages that emerged in certain socio-historical environments shaped by European colonial expansion. For any given theory of Creole formation\, those contexts involve language contact and innovation through complex processes of language acquisition\, therefore providing a particular starting point for research on how conceptual categories are mapped into diverse grammatical systems.
\nAbstract submission:
\nAbstracts are due on May 15\, 2026. Submission will be via the conference Open Review page. Authors should be aware of OpenReview's moderation policy for newly created profiles in the Call for Papers:
\nIf you are submitting for the satellite workshop\, please indicate this by including &ldquo\;[for satellite workshop]&rdquo\; under the title of your abstract.
\nAbstracts must be anonymous\, in pdf format\, 2 A4 pages\, in a font size no less than 12pt. You may submit at most two abstracts but can be single author on only one.
\nLinguists and any others submitting very technical research: It is absolutely necessary that you do what you can to make your abstract accessible to an interdisciplinary audience. This doesn't mean eschewing all formalism\, but do pitch your abstract so that a non-technical reader can get something interesting out of it.
\nImportant dates:
\nContact: oasis6lisboa@letras.ulisboa.pt
\nMeeting URL: https://oasis.cnrs.fr/meetings/oasis-6
\nOrganizing Committee:
\nCOMET 2026 &ndash\; Metaphysics in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
\n13-15 October | Radboud University\, Nijmegen\, the Netherlands
\nCOMET is the annual expert meeting for metaphysics in contemporary continental philosophy\, hosted at Radboud University by its Center for Contemporary European Philosophy (CCEP).
\nIt brings together researchers across career stages who are doing metaphysical work in or in dialogue with continental philosophy\, and offers a setting to discuss research projects in depth.
\nWe are looking for contributions on what there is and how it is structured\, from any school or methodology within the field.
\nPROGRAM
\nThe meeting opens on Tuesday afternoon with a thematic session on ontologies of process and action\, featuring invited talks by Prof. Rein Raud (Tallinn University) and Dr. Mercedes Valmisa Oviedo (University of Gettysburg).
\nWednesday and Thursday are devoted to open sessions selected through this call. Each day has five speakers\, each with a sixty-minute plenary slot split roughly equally between presentation and discussion. The program also provides ample time between sessions for informal exchanges.
\nThe working language is English. Presentations in Dutch\, French\, and German are also welcome\, provided the speaker makes an English translation of their talk available for participants to follow along. The organizers can assist with translations from and into these languages during discussions
\nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES
\nPlease send an abstract of max. 250 words\, prepared for blind review\, plus a separate document with a biographical note of max. 150 words to comet@ru.nl. The deadline is July 2.
\nSelection is a two-stage process. Abstracts first undergo blind review. From the resulting shortlist\, the organizers compose the final program with an eye to a balanced representation of ideas\, career stages\, and backgrounds.
\nATTENDING WITHOUT PRESENTING
\nIn addition to ten speaker slots\, there are fifteen places for researchers who wish to attend and participate in discussions without presenting. To apply\, send an email with a short motivation and biographical note to comet@ru.nl.
\nPRACTICAL INFORMATION
\nThere is no registration fee. All sessions take place on campus. Speakers and participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation.
\nFurther details about COMET 2026 are available at https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/events/comet-2026. Last year&rsquo\;s program and abstracts can be found there as well.
\nORGANIZERS
\nCOMET 2026 is organized by dr. Arjen Kleinherenbrink and dr. Tim Miechels at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy (CCEP) of the Faculty of Philosophy\, Theology\, and Religious Studies at Radboud University.
\nPARTNERS
\nCOMET is closely connected to the School of Materialist Research and Malta University's Engaging the Contemporary conference. There is significant overlap in our intellectual aims\, and we invite anyone already involved in one to find their way to the others.
\n
The \;SLR Conference: Science\, Language and Reality. Themes from the Philosophy of Susan Haack \;aims to deepen the tradition of analytic philosophy by exploring points of intersection between three of its central areas: philosophy of science\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of language. The conference seeks to bring together scholars from around the world working on these topics in order to foster dialogue\, exchange of ideas\, and mutual enrichment.
\nThe intellectual inspiration for this conference is found in the philosophical work of Susan Haack\, whose contributions exemplify the fruitful interaction between philosophy of science\, and philosophy of language within the analytic tradition. Haack&rsquo\;s work has consistently emphasized the importance of understanding scientific inquiry through an integrated philosophical perspective&ndash\;one that connects questions about evidence\, truth\, and justification with issues concerning meaning\, reference\, and the structure of scientific theories. Her development of \;foundherentism \;and her defense of a critical\, commonsense form of scientific realism illustrate how philosophical reflection on science inevitably engages with both metaphysical and semantic questions. We are specially interested in contributions that connect these discussions with Susan Haack's philosophy in a broad sense.
\nIn recent decades\, developments in analytic philosophy have increasingly shown that many fundamental questions concerning the nature of scientific knowledge&mdash\;such as scientific realism\, the structure of scientific theories\, explanation in science\, and the ontological status of entities posited by science&mdash\;require close engagement with both metaphysical and semantic issues. In particular\, the analysis of scientific ontology\, laws of nature\, causation\, and modality is deeply intertwined with questions about reference\, meaning\, and linguistic representation within scientific theories.
\nThis conference aims to provide a forum for examining these connections from a variety of philosophical perspectives. By bringing together researchers working in philosophy of language\, philosophy of logic\, philosophy of science\, and pragmatism\, the event seeks to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and to promote collaboration among research groups working in these areas.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nWe invite submissions of a short abstract (max. 300 words) through our submission system (Easychair) and by our mail \;slrconference2026@gmail.com \;by 1 June 2026. To submit\, please prepare your abstract for blind review. The total time allocated to each contributed talk at the conference will be 30 minutes\, of which max. 20 minutes will be for presenting the research and rest will be for Q&\;A. \;Participants are encouraged to submit their work for consideration for publication in a special issue of \;Teorema. Revista Internacional de Filosofí\;a.
\nTimeline
\nConference registration fees:
\n&bull\; Faculty: 100&euro\;
\n&bull\; Non-faculty/PhD/Postdoc: 50&euro\;
\nList of Topics
\nThe SLR Conference Organizing Committee invites submissions about the following \;topics of interest related with the work of Susan Haack\, among others:
\nProgram Committee
\nConcha Martí\;nez Vidal (USC)\, Javier Cumpa (UCM)\, Obdulia Torres (USAL)\, Ana Cuevas Badallo (USAL)\, Marta Campdelacreu (UB)\, Atocha Aliseda (UNAM)\, Rodrigo Ló\;pez Orellana (UVal)\, Alfredo Marcos (UVA)\, Antonio Blanco Salgueiro (UCM)\, Noemí\; Sanz (UIB)\, Susana Gó\;mez Ló\;pez (UCM)
\nOrganizing committee
\nVioleta Conde\, Benedicto Acosta\, Llanos Navarro\, Andrei Moldovan
ORGANIZER;CN=Violeta Conde;CN=Benedicto Acosta;CN=Llanos Navarro;CN=Andrei Moldovan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261014T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261016T170000 SUMMARY:NEEN & ISEE Conference on Environmental Ethics UID:20261012T005706Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Umeå\, Sweden DESCRIPTION:The Nordic Environmental Ethics Network (NEEN) and the International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE) invite submissions of abstracts for a joint conference at Umeå\; University (Sweden) on October 14&ndash\;16\, 2026. The conference aims to bring together scholars from multiple disciplines to discuss a range of topics relating to environmental ethics. Keynote lectures will be delivered by Catriona McKinnon and Teea Kortetmä\;ki.
\n\nAbstracts should be fully anonymized and must not exceed 300 words. Abstracts can be submitted viathis linkby May 31\, 2026. \; Accepted speakers will be expected to deliver a presentation in person. \; We aim to notify accepted speakers by mid-June\, 2026.
\n\nTopics may include (but are not limited to):
\n
If you wish to attend the conference without presenting\, please contact us atnordicEEnetwork@gmail.com. \;
Time and Location: October 14&ndash\;16\, 2026 Umeå\; University\, Umeå\;\, Sweden
\n\nOrganizers: Nordic Environmental Ethics Network International Society for Environmental Ethics (European section)
\n\nKeynote Speakers: Catriona McKinnon\, University of Exeter Teea Kortetmä\;ki\, University of Jyvä\;skylä\;
\n\nImportant Dates: Submission closes on May 15\, 2026 Acceptance is notified in mid-June\, 2026
\n\nSubmission Form:https://forms.gle/ughuNGbjDFboftqA8 \;
\n\nConference Fee: There will be no conference fee for registered speakers.
\n\nContact:
\nFor inquiries\, please contactnordicEEnetwork@gmail.com.
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Linde De Vroey;CN=Leonie Bossert;CN=Lars Samuelsson;CN=Mac Willners;CN=Linnea Luuppala;CN=Anne Sauka: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261015T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy of the City—Prague UID:20261012T005707Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Prague\, Czech Republic DESCRIPTION:The Philosophy of the City Research Group is a global community of scholars dedicated to understanding the city and urban affairs. You are invited to our thirteenth annual conference. Presentations on any philosophical issue about cities are welcome. \; Some topics include:
\nHousing crisis and homes
\nHeritage\, architecture\, and current/future needs
\nLocal governance\, urban policy\, and practice
\nTourism\, touristic cities\, and over-tourism
\nConceptualizing cities
\nInfrastructure
\nSustainability
\nResilience
\nUrban aesthetics
\nThe city and economics
\nUrban technologies\; challenges/promises of AI
\nFood and the city
\nUrban mobility and transportation
\nThe city in philosophy&rsquo\;s history
\nCity life and culture
\nPublic and common space
\nExamining specific cities
\nUrban expansion and the nonhuman world
\nFor individual submissions\, provide abstracts of about 300 words. For panels of 3-4 (90 minutes presentation time and Q and A)\, send the panel&rsquo\;s title and a 400-500 word abstract describing each presentation\, along with each presenter&rsquo\;s name and affiliation (if any) to potcprague@gmail.com.
\nDeadline: March 1\, 2026. Notifications: Before March 30.
\nWe are pleased to offer a Graduate Student Presentation Award of 300 USD to be given at the concluding ceremony. To be eligible\, include &ldquo\;Submission Award Eligible&rdquo\; in the title of your email for consideration.
ORGANIZER;CN=Shane Epting;CN=Vladan Klement: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261003T162610Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:International conference: the concept of attention UID:20261012T005708Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:10f5:e0ff:fe86:30ee%3 TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Faculdade de Letras\, Coimbra\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:Attention constitutes one of the most fundamental yet under-theorized dimensions of human experience. Despite its centrality to perception\, cognition\, action\, and intersubjectivity\, the philosophical investigation of attention as a concept in its own right remains surprisingly underdeveloped. This international conference represents the first major initiative of a four-year research program (2025-2029) dedicated to establishing the philosophy of attention as a major field of contemporary philosophical inquiry.
\n \;\n\n\n\nThis conference seeks to bring these rich historical engagements into systematic dialogue with contemporary philosophy. We welcome contributions from all philosophical traditions and approaches\, including but not limited to: the reflexive tradition\, hermeneutics\, phenomenology\, empiricist and analytic philosophy\, philosophy of mind\, cognitive science\, pragmatism\, and non-Western philosophical traditions. We aim to explore how different philosophical frameworks have conceptualized attention's structure\, dynamics\, and normative dimensions\, and how these varied perspectives can illuminate both historical debates and current research.
\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN="José Manuel Beato";CN="Marcela Uchôa";CN=Bruno Padilha;CN=Catarina Rebelo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR