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DESCRIPTION:<p>This sixth edition of the Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis series seeks contributions exploring issues surrounding identity and community in times of uncertainty.</p>\n<p>Writing in the aftermath of the Second World War\, Simone de Beauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics centred around the ambiguity of the human condition. Her work critiques traditional ethical frameworks subsuming plurality and ambiguity under the generalisations of normative concepts and practices. Ethics\, she argues\, should enable individuals to assume this ambiguity and plurality\, mindful of the diversity of our human condition.&nbsp\;<em>Ethics of Ambiguity\,&nbsp\;</em>notably\, strives to demonstrate how existentialism can be and indeed is inherently moral or social. Beauvoir appeals to us to recognise our freedom and responsibility\, yet at the same time highlights the limits of this freedom in situations of oppression\, and that this freedom is the most precarious in times of &lsquo\;uncertainty&rsquo\;&mdash\;where &lsquo\;crushed by present events\, [one] loses one&rsquo\;s way before the darkness of a future haunted by frightening spectres: war\, illness\, revolution\, fascism.&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>Beauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics sought to respond to the challenges addressed to existentialism\, accused of miserabilism and solipsism. This conference seeks develop on Beauvoir&rsquo\;s works and legacy and those of her contemporaries\, and to explore the resources available within existential philosophy for rethinking the role of identity and community in times of uncertainty and crisis. Does the focus that existential philosophy places on the singular individual impede the construction of community? Does existentialism provide tools for articulating situations of oppression\, and navigating hostile environments? Does it provide guidance for concrete forms of action and activism\, and paths for navigating the uncertainty in the contemporary world?</p>\n\n<p>Conference Programme:</p>\n\n<p><strong>Thursday 22 October 2026</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n\n<p>9:00 Welcome and introductory words</p>\n\n<p>9:10-10:00&nbsp\;<strong>M&eacute\;lissa Fox-Muraton</strong>\, Clermont School of Business/PHIER\, University Clermont Auvergne</p>\n<p>A Duty to Resist Oppression Whatever the Cost: Beauvoir&rsquo\;s Lessons for Living in Uncertainty</p>\n\n<p>10:00-10:50&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<strong>Maciej Kałuża</strong>\, Krakow University of Economics</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Ambiguous Identity: Camus' reply to Beauvoir</p>\n\n<p>Break</p>\n\n<p>11:10-12:00&nbsp\;<strong>Hyun H&ouml\;chsmann</strong>\, East China Normal University</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Merleau-Ponty on the Reciprocity of Chiasm of Ourselves and Others</p>\n\n\n<p>12:00-12:50&nbsp\;<strong>Monika Wernerowska</strong>\, AGH University of Krakow</p>\n<p>Identity in Fallen Worlds: Pathologic 2 as Representation of Existential Experience of Illness</p>\n\n<p>Lunch Break</p>\n\n<p>14:30-15:20&nbsp\;<strong>Dominik Kulcs&aacute\;r</strong>\, Institute of Philosophy\, Slovak Academy of Sciences&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Camus' Appropriation of Hegel's Dialectic and the Missing Unhappy Consciousness</p>\n\n<p>15:20-16:10&nbsp\;<strong>Mohammad Hadi</strong>\, Independent Researcher\, Berlin Germany</p>\n<p>The Ethics of Ambiguity in War</p>\n\n\n<p>Break</p>\n\n<p>16:30-17:20&nbsp\;<strong>Wojciech&nbsp\;</strong><strong>Kaftański</strong>\, Institute of Philosophy\, Jagiellonian University /Human Flourishing Program\, Harvard University</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Kierkegaard&rsquo\;s Moral Imagination: Cognitive /Non-Cognitive?</p>\n\n<p>17:20-18:10&nbsp\;<strong>Jan Jasper Math&eacute\;</strong>\,&nbsp\;Vrije Universiteit Brussel</p>\n<p>Selfhood and Community in the Polycrisis: Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Possibility</p>\n\n\n<p>19:30 Conference Dinner for Speakers<br></p>\n<p><strong>Friday 23 October 2026</strong></p>\n\n\n<p>9:00 Welcome</p>\n\n<p>9:10-10:00&nbsp\;<strong>Daniel Chakrabarti</strong>\, University of Essex&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Gerda Walther and Shared Feelings&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p>10:00-10:50&nbsp\;<strong>Michal Chud&yacute\;</strong>\,&nbsp\;Institute of Philosophy\, Slovak Academy of Sciences</p>\n<p>Shedding the Spirit of Seriousness: Sartre's Call to Abolish Identity and Embrace Community</p>\n\n<p>Break</p>\n\n<p>11:10-12:00&nbsp\;<strong>Ahmet Emre &Ccedil\;oban</strong>\, Independent Researcher\, Ankara Turkey</p>\n<p>Unmaking the Home in the Encounter with the Refugee: Kierkegaard\, Beauvoir\, and the Ethics of Asylum</p>\n\n<p>12:00-12:50&nbsp\;<strong>Mariola Tajs</strong>\, University of Wroclaw</p>\n<p>The Indebted Body: Debt\, Identity\, and Situated Freedom in Madame Bovary and The Ugly Stepsister</p>\n\n<p>Lunch Break</p>\n\n<p>14:30-15:20&nbsp\;<strong>V&aacute\;clav Sklen&aacute\;ř</strong>\, University of Pardubice</p>\n<p>Nietzsche and the New Nietzschean Right</p>\n\n<p>Break</p>\n\n<p>15:40-16:30&nbsp\;<strong>Jakub Marek</strong>\, Charles University</p>\n<p>Humanism\, Existential Philosophies\, and the Testimony of Holocaust Survivors&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p>16:30-17:20&nbsp\;<strong>Jakub Gomułka</strong>\,&nbsp\;AGH University of Krakow&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Lem on Holocaust&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p>17:20 Closing words</p>\n\n<p><strong>Registration:&nbsp\;</strong>by email to&nbsp\;conference.eptcc@gmail.com&nbsp\;by 15 October 2026\, providing your name and institutional affiliation</p>
ORGANIZER;CN="Mélissa Fox-Muraton";CN="Jakub Gomułka";CN="Maciej Kałuża":
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SUMMARY:Identity and Community in Times of Uncertainty
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DESCRIPTION:<p>This sixth edition of the Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis series seeks contributions exploring issues surrounding identity and community in times of uncertainty.</p>\n<p>Writing in the aftermath of the Second World War\, Simone de Beauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics centred around the ambiguity of the human condition. Her work critiques traditional ethical frameworks subsuming plurality and ambiguity under the generalisations of normative concepts and practices. Ethics\, she argues\, should enable individuals to assume this ambiguity and plurality\, mindful of the diversity of our human condition.&nbsp\;<em>Ethics of Ambiguity\,&nbsp\;</em>notably\, strives to demonstrate how existentialism can be and indeed is inherently moral or social. Beauvoir appeals to us to recognise our freedom and responsibility\, yet at the same time highlights the limits of this freedom in situations of oppression\, and that this freedom is the most precarious in times of &lsquo\;uncertainty&rsquo\;&mdash\;where &lsquo\;crushed by present events\, [one] loses one&rsquo\;s way before the darkness of a future haunted by frightening spectres: war\, illness\, revolution\, fascism.&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>Beauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics sought to respond to the challenges addressed to existentialism\, accused of miserabilism and solipsism. This conference seeks develop on Beauvoir&rsquo\;s works and legacy and those of her contemporaries\, and to explore the resources available within existential philosophy for rethinking the role of identity and community in times of uncertainty and crisis. Does the focus that existential philosophy places on the singular individual impede the construction of community? Does existentialism provide tools for articulating situations of oppression\, and navigating hostile environments? Does it provide guidance for concrete forms of action and activism\, and paths for navigating the uncertainty in the contemporary world?</p>\n<p>Contributions should engage with current issues from the perspectives of thinkers in existential philosophy and phenomenology\, such as Albert Camus\, Theodor Adorno\, Simone Weil\, Emil Cioran\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Jean-Paul Sartre\, Karl Jaspers\, Hannah Arendt\, Martin Heidegger\, and their nineteenth-century predecessors (Kierkegaard\, Nietzsche\, Stirner&hellip\;).&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Conference Programme:</strong></p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 22 October 2026</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n\n<p>9:00 Welcome and introductory words</p>\n\n<p>9:10-10:00&nbsp\;<strong>M&eacute\;lissa Fox-Muraton</strong>\, Clermont School of Business/PHIER\, University Clermont Auvergne</p>\n<p>A Duty to Resist Oppression Whatever the Cost: Beauvoir&rsquo\;s Lessons for Living in Uncertainty</p>\n\n<p>10:00-10:50&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<strong>Maciej Kałuża</strong>\, Krakow University of Economics</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Ambiguous Identity: Camus' reply to Beauvoir</p>\n\n<p>Break</p>\n\n<p>11:10-12:00&nbsp\;<strong>Hyun H&ouml\;chsmann</strong>\, East China Normal University</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Merleau-Ponty on the Reciprocity of Chiasm of Ourselves and Others</p>\n\n\n<p>12:00-12:50&nbsp\;<strong>Monika Wernerowska</strong>\, AGH University of Krakow</p>\n<p>Identity in Fallen Worlds: Pathologic 2 as Representation of Existential Experience of Illness</p>\n\n<p>Lunch Break</p>\n\n<p>14:30-15:20&nbsp\;<strong>Dominik Kulcs&aacute\;r</strong>\, Institute of Philosophy\, Slovak Academy of Sciences&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Camus' Appropriation of Hegel's Dialectic and the Missing Unhappy Consciousness</p>\n\n<p>15:20-16:10&nbsp\;<strong>Mohammad Hadi</strong>\, Independent Researcher\, Berlin Germany</p>\n<p>The Ethics of Ambiguity in War</p>\n\n\n<p>Break</p>\n\n<p>16:30-17:20&nbsp\;<strong>Wojciech&nbsp\;</strong><strong>Kaftański</strong>\, Institute of Philosophy\, Jagiellonian University /Human Flourishing Program\, Harvard University</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Kierkegaard&rsquo\;s Moral Imagination: Cognitive /Non-Cognitive?</p>\n\n<p>17:20-18:10&nbsp\;<strong>Jan Jasper Math&eacute\;</strong>\,&nbsp\;Vrije Universiteit Brussel</p>\n<p>Selfhood and Community in the Polycrisis: Kierkegaard on Anxiety and Possibility</p>\n\n\n<p>19:30 Conference Dinner for Speakers<br></p>\n<p><strong>Friday 23 October 2026</strong></p>\n\n\n<p>9:00 Welcome</p>\n\n<p>9:10-10:00&nbsp\;<strong>Daniel Chakrabarti</strong>\, University of Essex&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Gerda Walther and Shared Feelings&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p>10:00-10:50&nbsp\;<strong>Michal Chud&yacute\;</strong>\,&nbsp\;Institute of Philosophy\, Slovak Academy of Sciences</p>\n<p>Shedding the Spirit of Seriousness: Sartre's Call to Abolish Identity and Embrace Community</p>\n\n<p>Break</p>\n\n<p>11:10-12:00&nbsp\;<strong>Ahmet Emre &Ccedil\;oban</strong>\, Independent Researcher\, Ankara Turkey</p>\n<p>Unmaking the Home in the Encounter with the Refugee: Kierkegaard\, Beauvoir\, and the Ethics of Asylum</p>\n\n<p>12:00-12:50&nbsp\;<strong>Mariola Tajs</strong>\, University of Wroclaw</p>\n<p>The Indebted Body: Debt\, Identity\, and Situated Freedom in Madame Bovary and The Ugly Stepsister</p>\n\n<p>Lunch Break</p>\n\n<p>14:30-15:20&nbsp\;<strong>V&aacute\;clav Sklen&aacute\;ř</strong>\, University of Pardubice</p>\n<p>Nietzsche and the New Nietzschean Right</p>\n\n<p>Break</p>\n\n<p>15:40-16:30&nbsp\;<strong>Jakub Marek</strong>\, Charles University</p>\n<p>Humanism\, Existential Philosophies\, and the Testimony of Holocaust Survivors&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p>16:30-17:20&nbsp\;<strong>Jakub Gomułka</strong>\,&nbsp\;AGH University of Krakow&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Lem on Holocaust&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p>17:20 Closing words</p>\n<p><strong>Registration:</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>To participate without presenting a talk\, please register by email to&nbsp\;conference.eptcc@gmail.com&nbsp\;by 15 October 2026\, providing your name and institutional affiliation.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN="Mélissa Fox-Muraton";CN="Jakub Gomułka";CN="Maciej Kałuża":
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