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DESCRIPTION:<p>Conference online (via Zoom)</p>\n<p>CFP:</p>\n<p>In the time when human rights are violated on a regular basis\, violence triumphs\, and feeble democracies ever more often back down before authoritarian rule\, there obviously arises the need to reflect on the possible ways of counteracting such phenomena. Our interdisciplinary conference is intended as a fitting opportunity for this reflection. We would like to look at various manifestations of dictatorship\, violence and human rights violation\, whether historical or current. We will describe them in political\, social\, psychological\, cultural and many other terms. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the situation of human rights and dictatorship is represented in artistic practices: in literature\, film\, theatre or visual arts.</p>\n<p>During our previous conferences on human rights\, violence and dictatorship &nbsp\;we hosted over 300 scholars representing universities and research institutions from all over the world.</p>\n<p>We invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: history\, politics\, psychology\, sociology\, anthropology\, philosophy\, literary studies\, theatre studies\, film studies\, fine arts\, design\, memory studies\, migration studies\, consciousness studies\, dream studies\, gender studies\, postcolonial studies\, medical sciences\, psychiatry\, psychoanalysis\, cognitive sciences\, economics\, law and other.</p>\n<p>Different forms of presentations are encouraged\, including case studies\, theoretical investigations\, problem-oriented arguments\, and comparative analyses.</p>\n<p>We will be happy to hear from both experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers: doctoral students. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners\, without giving a presentation.<br>We hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature\, the conference will bring many interesting observations on and discussions about the role of human rights and dictatorship in the past and in the present-day world.</p>\n<p>Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to:<br><br>I. Societies</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Genocides and ethnic cleansing</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Slavery and forced labor</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Nationalism\, chauvinism\, and xenophobia</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Religious dictatorships</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The Holocaust and totalitarian regimes</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Apartheid and systemic segregation</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>(Neo)Nazism and political extremism</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Digital surveillance states and techno-authoritarianism</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Ecocide and climate injustice as human rights violations</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br>II. Individuals</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Domestic and gender-based violence</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Mobbing and workplace harassment</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Bullying in schools and the military</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Sexual abuse and exploitation</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Sadomasochism and power dynamics</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Symbolic violence and social exclusion</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Economic discrimination and ageism</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Cyberbullying\, doxxing\, and online hate speech</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Algorithmic bias and discrimination in AI systems</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br>III. Defense of Human Rights</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Human rights organizations and humanitarian missions</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Resistance movements and civil disobedience</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The ethos of the freedom fighter</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Conspiracies\, protests\, and revolts</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Racial equality and the performativity of race</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Women's\, LGBTQ+\, and disability rights</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Intersections of human rights and animal rights</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Digital activism\, hashtags\, and cyber-resistance</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The role of whistleblowers in exposing state violence</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>IV. Fallen Dictatorships</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Democracies in transition and post-communist states</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Amnesties\, pardons\, and transitional justice</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The revenge of the oppressed versus legal accountability</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Criminal courts and international tribunals</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The "escape from freedom" and regime nostalgia</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Psychological portraits of dictators</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The weaponization of nostalgia in populist politics</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>De-radicalization programs and reintegration of former oppressors</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>V. Violence and Subjectivity</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The politics of trauma and collective healing</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Fear\, despair\, and utopian visions</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Violence\, discourse\, and language</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Dictatorship as a social symptom</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Dictatorship\, memory\, and forgetting</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Intergenerational trauma and epigenetic memory of violence</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Gaslighting and psychological manipulation in totalitarian systems</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>VI. Violence in the (Post)Modern World</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Cultural conditioning of violence</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Generational dynamics: "dictatorship" of the young or old</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Conformism and compliance under pressure</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The regime of political correctness and censorship</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Democracy and the tyranny of the majority</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Tensions between democracy\, liberalism\, and the free market</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Violence and propaganda in digital and mass media</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Deepfakes\, disinformation\, and the death of truth in the digital age</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Hybrid warfare\, proxy conflicts\, and invisible violence</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>VII. Literature and the Arts</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Art and literature documenting human rights violations</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Aesthetics and narratives of violence</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Artistic practices engaged in the defense of human rights</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Art and literature as tools of censorship or rights violations</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>AI-generated art: authorship\, censorship\, and ethical boundaries</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Cancel culture vs. freedom of artistic expression</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The architecture of oppression: monuments\, ruins\, and political space</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentation\, together with a short biographical note\, by 30 September 2026</p>
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>CFP:</strong></p>\n<p>In the time when human rights are violated on a regular basis\, violence triumphs\, and feeble democracies ever more often back down before authoritarian rule\, there obviously arises the need to reflect on the possible ways of counteracting such phenomena. Our interdisciplinary conference is intended as a fitting opportunity for this reflection. We would like to look at various manifestations of dictatorship\, violence and human rights violation\, whether historical or current. We will describe them in political\, social\, psychological\, cultural and many other terms. We also want to devote considerable attention to how the situation of human rights and dictatorship is represented in artistic practices: in literature\, film\, theatre or visual arts.</p>\n<p>During our previous conferences on human rights\, violence and dictatorship &nbsp\;we hosted over 300 scholars representing universities and research institutions from all over the world.</p>\n<p>We invite researchers representing various academic disciplines: history\, politics\, psychology\, sociology\, anthropology\, philosophy\, literary studies\, theatre studies\, film studies\, fine arts\, design\, memory studies\, migration studies\, consciousness studies\, dream studies\, gender studies\, postcolonial studies\, medical sciences\, psychiatry\, psychoanalysis\, cognitive sciences\, economics\, law and other.</p>\n\n<p>Different forms of presentations are encouraged\, including case studies\, theoretical investigations\, problem-oriented arguments\, and comparative analyses.</p>\n\n<p>We will be happy to hear from both experienced scholars and young academics at the start of their careers: doctoral students. We also invite all persons interested in participating in the conference as listeners\, without giving a presentation.<br>We hope that due to its interdisciplinary nature\, the conference will bring many interesting observations on and discussions about the role of human rights and dictatorship in the past and in the present-day world.</p>\n\n<p>Our repertoire of suggested topics includes but is not restricted to:<br><br>I. Societies</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Genocides and ethnic cleansing</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Slavery and forced labor</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Nationalism\, chauvinism\, and xenophobia</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Religious dictatorships</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The Holocaust and totalitarian regimes</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Apartheid and systemic segregation</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>(Neo)Nazism and political extremism</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Digital surveillance states and techno-authoritarianism</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Ecocide and climate injustice as human rights violations</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br>II. Individuals</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Domestic and gender-based violence</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Mobbing and workplace harassment</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Bullying in schools and the military</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Sexual abuse and exploitation</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Sadomasochism and power dynamics</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Symbolic violence and social exclusion</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Economic discrimination and ageism</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Cyberbullying\, doxxing\, and online hate speech</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Algorithmic bias and discrimination in AI systems</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><br>III. Defense of Human Rights</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Human rights organizations and humanitarian missions</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Resistance movements and civil disobedience</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The ethos of the freedom fighter</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Conspiracies\, protests\, and revolts</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Racial equality and the performativity of race</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Women's\, LGBTQ+\, and disability rights</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Intersections of human rights and animal rights</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Digital activism\, hashtags\, and cyber-resistance</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The role of whistleblowers in exposing state violence</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>IV. Fallen Dictatorships</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Democracies in transition and post-communist states</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Amnesties\, pardons\, and transitional justice</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The revenge of the oppressed versus legal accountability</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Criminal courts and international tribunals</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The "escape from freedom" and regime nostalgia</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Psychological portraits of dictators</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The weaponization of nostalgia in populist politics</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>De-radicalization programs and reintegration of former oppressors</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p>V. Violence and Subjectivity</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>The politics of trauma and collective healing</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Fear\, despair\, and utopian visions</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Violence\, discourse\, and language</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Dictatorship as a social symptom</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Dictatorship\, memory\, and forgetting</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Intergenerational trauma and epigenetic memory of violence</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Gaslighting and psychological manipulation in totalitarian systems</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n<p>VI. Violence in the (Post)Modern World</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Cultural conditioning of violence</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Generational dynamics: "dictatorship" of the young or old</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Conformism and compliance under pressure</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The regime of political correctness and censorship</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Democracy and the tyranny of the majority</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Tensions between democracy\, liberalism\, and the free market</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Violence and propaganda in digital and mass media</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Deepfakes\, disinformation\, and the death of truth in the digital age</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Hybrid warfare\, proxy conflicts\, and invisible violence</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>VII. Literature and the Arts</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Art and literature documenting human rights violations</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Aesthetics and narratives of violence</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Artistic practices engaged in the defense of human rights</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Art and literature as tools of censorship or rights violations</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>AI-generated art: authorship\, censorship\, and ethical boundaries</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Cancel culture vs. freedom of artistic expression</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The architecture of oppression: monuments\, ruins\, and political space</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Please submit abstracts (no longer than 300 words) of your proposed 20-minute presentation\, together with a short biographical note\, by 30 September 2026</p>
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SUMMARY:Reading Gramsci: Context\, Concepts\, and Critique
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Join us for a weekly close reading of Gramsci&rsquo\;s <em>Prison Notebooks</em>! The group has a twofold goal: first\, to analyze contemporary political events through the categories formulated in the text\; and second\, to critically examine potential blind spots in Gramsci&rsquo\;s work regarding race\, gender\, and empire\, while keeping in mind the historical context in which he wrote. <br> <br><strong>TIME</strong> <br> <br>THURSDAYS: weekly\, beginning September 24\, 2026. <br>5-6 PM Eastern US Time. <br> <br><strong>FACILITATOR </strong><br><br>Giusi&nbsp\;Russo is an associate professor of History at Montgomery County Community College in the greater Philadelphia area. Her research focuses on the relationship between the Italian left and internal colonialism\, as well as the entanglements between bodies and European empires. She is the author of&nbsp\;<em>Women\, Empires\, and Body Politics at the United Nations\, 1946&ndash\;1975&nbsp\;</em>(University of Nebraska Press\, 2023) and has published extensively on the colonial history of the United Nations and on the construction of colonial and post-colonial narratives. She is currently working on a book project under contract with Routledge\, titled\,&nbsp\;<em>The Aesthetics of Third-Worldism in Italy: Bodies\, Spaces\, and Oppression.</em><br> <br><strong>ABOUT INCITE SEMINARS </strong><br> <br>We are a mix of rogue scholars\, disgruntled academics\, disenchanted buddhists\, enchantment-hungry anarchists\, radical therapists\, and general weirdos looking to create autonomous and accessible forms of &ldquo\;higher education.&rdquo\; <br> <br>We offer online seminars and reading groups to incite personal exploration and inspire community action. Incite Seminars offers an educational experience. We do so by gathering an engaged group of participants for a dynamic exchange of ideas\, led by skilled facilitators. All of our facilitators have a deep relationship to a subject or topic through intensive study or practice. <br> <br>Incite Seminars is a 100% member-supported learning community. We depend on member contributions to continue holding space for radical study and practice groups\, putting on rigorous seminars and courses\, and providing our facilitators and organizers with fair compensation. If you are unable to pay the full amount for a session or membership at this time\, we invite you to join us at reduced or no cost with our Solidarity option.</p>
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SUMMARY:FrankenstAIn Conference
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LOCATION:Hohe-Schul-Straße\, Ingolstadt\, Germany\, 85049
DESCRIPTION:<p>At a glance:</p>\n<p>* Inaugural two-day philosophy of AI and technology conference in Ingolstadt\, Germany.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>* Call for Abstracts&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>* Essay Prize</p>\n<p><br></p>\n<p>Overview of FrankenstAIn Conference:</p>\n<p>In Mary Shelley&rsquo\;s Frankenstein novel\, the protagonist\, Victor Frankenstein\, creates an artificial agent that ends up escaping the control of its creator. The analogy with AI is clear. And the novel can therefore be read as a cautionary tale about the rapid and unpredictable consequences of creating agents that we do not properly understand and that do not align with our values.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The novel thus raises a host of questions that are today relevant for the philosophy and ethics of artificial intelligence\, as well as the responsible use of technology more generally. Shelley sets her novel in Ingolstadt. And Victor Frankenstein would have studied at buildings recently renovated and now used by KU Eichst&auml\;tt-Ingolstadt. These include the 15th-century Hohe Schule (High School) and the 18th-century Old Anatomy building in which the conference will take place. The aim of the conference is to bring together academics from various disciplines working in the philosophy of AI and technology. The event is set against the backdrop of Shelley&rsquo\;s novel. And participants will have the opportunity to participate in a &lsquo\;city walk&rsquo\; and a visit to the Medical History Museum where they will learn more about the historical and technological context in which the novel is set. The conference marks the first in an annual conference-series on the topic.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><br><br></strong></p>\n<p>Call for Abstracts (250-500 words):</p>\n<p>We welcome submissions on the philosophy of AI and the responsible development\, deployment\, and use of technologies. The idea is to use Shelley&rsquo\;s novel as a source of inspiration to explore new and important areas of AI research\, or to offer different perspectives on current ones. Talks need not explicitly engage with the novel (though this is of course very welcome) as long as they tackle themes\, questions\, and formats that are to some extent relevant to the novel.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>In addition\, we welcome submissions that contextualise these debates within a broader cultural and historical framework\, as well as work on topics in the philosophy of fiction/film/sci-fi and philosophical aesthetics. We hope that the conference will allow for an historically-informed philosophical exploration of the future of AI through the images and ideas that determine our relationship to the things we create &ndash\; especially when they develop a dynamic of their own and seem to escape our control.</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>We are open to submissions from a range of different disciplines and perspectives. The only necessary criterion being that papers must be philosophically informed. Potential areas of interest include\, but are not limited to:&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>What does it mean to create things or beings whose capabilities and effects are fundamentally unpredictable?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>What do we owe &ndash\; if anything &ndash\; to the artificial agents that we create?&nbsp\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>How can ethical responsibility be conceived under conditions of radical uncertainty?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>To what extent is AI a modern &lsquo\;creature&rsquo\; in Shelley's sense?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>What continuities exist between myth (Prometheus)\, literature (Shelley)\, and modern technological development?&nbsp\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>How can literature/sci-fi/film (etc.) help with the investigation of AI and the philosophy of technology?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Which metaphors and narratives promote understanding of current developments in the field of AI\, and which are misleading?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>What new insights &ndash\; if any &ndash\; does Frankenstein bring to the &lsquo\;value alignment problem&rsquo\;?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>How should we define sentience\, awareness\, and similar in artificial intelligence\, or should we not define them in such systems at all?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>What is technological progress?</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>*Abstracts should be submitted as a PDF attachment in English to: frankenstAIn-conference@ku.de</p>\n<p>*Please anonymise abstracts by removing any identifying information about the author(s)</p>\n<p>*Please include your full name and affiliation (if applicable) in the body of the email</p>\n<p>*Deadline for submission is May 1st (2026)\, 23:59 (CET)</p>\n<p>*Applicants will be notified by May 15th</p>\n<p>*Applicants who wish to be considered for the essay prize\, please indicate that when submitting the abstract\; for more info on the essay prize see below</p>\n<p>*Further information can be found on the website: https://www.ku.de/en/frankenstein/events/conference</a>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><br><br></strong></p>\n<p>Essay Prize (3000 words)</p>\n<p>We also welcome submissions for the associated FrankenstAIn Essay Prize. The prize is sponsored by the &ldquo\;F&ouml\;rderverein Georgianum&rdquo\;.</p>\n<p>The prize is aimed at early career researchers &ndash\; master&rsquo\;s students\, doctoral students\, and postdocs (no more than four years after PhD defence) &ndash\; with a strong research interest in:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Philosophy (ethics\, philosophy of technology\, epistemology\, political philosophy\, aesthetics)</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>History of philosophy and history of ideas</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Science and technology studies (STS)</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>History of science</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Computer science\, AI research\, human-computer interaction\, mathematics</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Behavioural sciences focused on human relation to technologies&nbsp\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Philosophical aesthetics\, including philosophy of fiction\, film\, and sci-fi</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>A cash prize of &euro\;1\,000 will be awarded to the author of the essay that combines philosophical depth\, clarity of argument\, originality\, and relevance to current philosophy of AI debates in an interesting and novel way. Reflections on other cultural-historical themes\, as well as connections to Mary Shelley's novel will also be well-received. The essays will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary jury consisting of\, among others\, the keynote speakers invited to the conference. The winner will also have the opportunity to partake in a panel discussion dedicated to their essay.</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>*Applicants who wish to be considered for the essay prize please indicate this in the body of the email when submitting your abstract</p>\n<p>*If your abstract is accepted\, you will then be invited to submit an essay</p>\n<p>*Deadline for submission of the essay is September 4th (2026)\, 23:59 (CET)</p>\n<p>*Applicants will be notified by September 25th (2026)</p>\n<p>*Further information can be found on the website: https://www.ku.de/en/frankenstein/events/conference</a>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>Questions &amp\; Further Queries</p>\n<p>Questions and further queries should be directed to: frankenstAIn-conference@ku.de</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>*Participation is free of charge</p>\n<p>*Unfortunately we are unable to cover travel and accommodation costs as standard. However\, we might be able to provide assistance in special circumstances. If you think this applies to you\, then please write to us: frankenstAIn-conference@ku.de</p>
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SUMMARY:The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Maria Serafini
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>The Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: </strong><strong>Maria Serafini (University of Milan)</strong></p>\n<p>October's Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by Maria Serafini (University of Milan) who will talk about "At the Limits of Mediation: Eulogy\, Digital Afterlife and the Media of Finitude". This will be an online session and will be held on October 28\, 2026\, at 15:00 WET on Microsoft Teams. <br> <strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACT </strong> What happens when an image no longer marks the distance between the living and the dead\, but promises to overcome it? Taking the Black Mirror episode &ldquo\;Eulogy&rdquo\; (2025) as its starting point\, this seminar reflects on the image as a limit between presence and absence\, memory and simulation. If Roland Barthes read the photograph as the trace of an irretrievable that-has-been\, &ldquo\;Eulogy&rdquo\; imagines its transformation into an immersive\, inhabitable environment &ndash\; a technology that allows the mourner to enter the photograph and move through memory itself. The episode is approached from two intersecting perspectives. First\, in relation to contemporary digital mourning: what happens to the eulogy when the work of remembrance is mediated through AI\, immersive archives and posthumous data? Second\, as a philosophical reflection on the limits of mediation: the technology promises co-presence\, yet gaps\, omissions and inaccessible memories continually re-emerge within the reconstructed image. Finitude therefore manifests itself on two levels: in human existence\, shaped by mortality\, loss and forgetting\, and in media themselves\, which glitch\, degrade and become obsolete. To enter the image\, in the end\, is not to overcome death\, but to confront the persistence of finitude within mediation itself.</p>\n<p><strong>BIO </strong> Maria Serafini\, PhD\, is a researcher in aesthetics and visual culture who collaborates with the Coordinated Research Centre on Extended Reality (CRC EXT) at the University of Milan. Her work lies at the intersection of aesthetics\, media studies and anthropology\, with a focus on mourning\, images and digital afterlife. She was a doctoral researcher within the ERC Advanced Grant project AN-ICON (2022&ndash\;2025) and a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Warburg Institute\, London (2024\, 2025). She completed her PhD in Philosophy and Human Sciences in 2026 with a dissertation on lamentation from ritual to the digital\, in dialogue with Ernesto de Martino and Aby Warburg. Her current research focuses on generative AI and technologies of remembrance\, exploring both the digital survival of mourning gestures and the production of posthumous presence.</p>\n<p><br><em>Funded by the European Union (ERC\, FILM AND DEATH\, 101088956). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. &nbsp\;</em></p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Susana Viegas:
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SUMMARY:Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities (www.entanglements.in)
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Call for Papers_Entanglements_Volume 3\, Issue 1 (Open Issue) Manuscript Submission Deadline: 30.10.2026</p>\n<p>Tentative Publication Date: 30 January 2027</p>\n<p>CFP link:&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.entanglements.in/call-for-papers-docs/CFP_Entanglements%203.1_Aug-2026.pdf">https://www.entanglements.in/call-for-papers-docs/CFP_Entanglements%203.1_Aug-2026.pdf</a></p>\n<p><strong>Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities</strong>&nbsp\;is an international\, double-blind\, peer-reviewed\, open-access\, bi-annual\, transdisciplinary journal dedicated to critically interrogating and dismantling the overarching human social contract that largely underpins existing disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Unprecedented climate derangement\, mass species extinction\, social and geopolitical changes\, bio-terrorism\, exceptional growth of technology\, digital surveillance\, AI takeover\, synthetic biologies\, and bio-enhancing prosthesis make us incredulous towards Western modernity's projections of &lsquo\;the human\,&rsquo\; who has traditionally been attributed with autonomy and freedom-seeking agency.</p>\n<p><br>As modernity's fence-building practices are being challenged and 'the human' is always already entangled with 'the nonhuman'\, the journal seeks to explore what it means to be human in a world of drastic multiscalar evolutions and calls for a new totalizing framework\, which requires novel methods and new ways of thinking in pre-existing and burgeoning fields of enquiry: these include the planetary turn\, the non-human turn\, the plastic turn\, new materialism\, affective studies\, plant studies\, the Anthropocene studies\, critical animal studies\, disability studies\, media studies\, gender studies\, queer studies\, anthropology\, pedagogy and the visual arts. The aim of this journal is to move beyond the anthropocentric frame of reference and to re-align existing theoretical\, conceptual\, and interpretative frameworks. The journal promotes transdisciplinary dialogues by publishing critical articles\, reflection pieces\, book reviews and creative works.</p>\n<p>We invite submissions that focus on\, though not strictly limited to\, the following areas:</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;Genealogy of the Posthuman: Were We already Posthuman?</p>\n<p>Anti/Trans/Meta/Post-humanism</p>\n<p>Critical Posthumanism</p>\n<p>Philosophical Posthumanism</p>\n<p>Posthuman (Bio)Ethics\, (Bio)Politics and Rights</p>\n<p>Posthuman Citizenship and Digital Surveillance</p>\n<p>Technology\, Artificial Intelligence\, Robophilosophy</p>\n<p>The Anthropocene\, Posthuman Ecology\, Speciesism</p>\n<p>Human Enhancements and Prosthesis</p>\n<p>New Materialisms</p>\n<p>Art\, Media and Aesthetics in the Posthuman Era</p>\n<p>Material Feminisms</p>\n<p>Critical Plant Studies</p>\n<p>Object-oriented-ontology</p>\n<p>Speculative Realism</p>\n<p>Posthumanities and the Animal Question</p>\n<p>Sci-Fi and the Posthuman</p>\n<p>Cli-Fi and the Posthuman</p>\n<p>Digital (Post) humanities</p>\n<p>Submission &amp\; MS preparation guidelines:</p>\n<p>Entanglements: Journal of Posthumanities&nbsp\;invites original and unpublished submissions in the following categories: research articles\, review articles\, book reviews\, interviews\, reflection pieces\, and creative works that align with the journal&rsquo\;s thematic focus.</p>\n<p>MS preparation guidelines and instructions for the authors are available at&nbsp\;&ldquo\;Submit Your Manuscript&rdquo\;&nbsp\;tab of the Journal&lsquo\;s website:&nbsp\;www.entanglements.in</p>\n<p>Submissions must be emailed at editor@entanglements.in&nbsp\;</p>
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SUMMARY:Reading philosophies of nature and beauty: close reading as method in the history of philosophy
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Graduate students and early career researchers are invited to submit expressions of interest for &ldquo\;Reading philosophies of nature and beauty: close reading as method in the history of philosophy&rdquo\;\, a workshop taking place at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 24 November 2026.<br><br>The event is the product of a collaboration between "Extending New Narratives" SSHRC (Canada) major award and &ldquo\;Women Philosophers on the Natural and the Human" ARC Future Fellowship (Dalia Nassar)</p>\n<p><strong>Overview</strong></p>\n<p>As historians of philosophy\, we are directly acquainted with the method of &lsquo\;close reading&rsquo\;\, but are rarely challenged to articulate what\, exactly\, this methodology entails\, and how it can be better practiced. This one-day event brings together senior scholars with early career researchers within the history of philosophy to discuss the role of close reading in our own work and its implications for our discipline. The day will begin with a masterclass conducted by an experienced historian of philosophy\, and will conclude with a workshop of presentations from graduate students and ECRs showcasing their research and the role of close reading within it.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The masterclass and workshop is complementary to the conference &ldquo\;The Natural and the Beautiful: Women Philosophers on Nature\, Beauty\, and Art&rdquo\; hosted at the University of Sydney over 25-27 November\, and will take place the day before the conference begins: Tuesday 24 November 2026.</p>\n<p>It is open to early career historians of philosophy working on theories of nature\, organic life\, beauty\, and environmental aesthetics (and adjacent fields)\, with a particular interest in the philosophical contributions of women and other underrepresented figures. This workshop aims to provide an opportunity for scholars to showcase their own textual practices and to work collaboratively to articulate how strategies of close reading serve as a specific method of philosophical analysis.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>As such\, key questions include:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How can practices of close reading help us to recover the philosophical contributions of women and other underrepresented figures in the history of philosophy?</li>\n<li>To what extent is close reading necessary for navigating the work of philosophers whose texts are only supported by limited secondary scholarship?&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>How can close reading help counter notions of textual canonicity and influence that constrain whose works are considered &ldquo\;philosophical&rdquo\;?</li>\n<li>Does close reading stand in opposition to historical and &ldquo\;contextualist&rdquo\; readings of philosophical texts?&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>In what sense is close reading also a practice of writing?</li>\n<li>What is the relationship between close reading and other familiar techniques of philosophical interpretation\, such as rational reconstruction and conceptual analysis?&nbsp\;</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Location:</strong></p>\n<p>The event will take place in-person only at the University of Sydney.</p>\n<p><strong>Eligibility:</strong></p>\n<p>The workshop is open to ECRs and graduate students working on any or all of the following topics:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>philosophies of nature\, environmental aesthetics\, and ethics</li>\n<li>philosophy of art\, beauty\, and aesthetics</li>\n<li>underrepresented and 'non-canonical' figures in the history of philosophy</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Participants are invited to submit a 150-200 word abstract for a talk showcasing their work and reflecting on the textual practices that inform their historical and philosophical research. Speakers are encouraged to conduct a guided close reading of a short passage as part of their presentation.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>(ECR is defined as up to five years post-PhD\, and up to seven years with career interruptions. Career interruptions include childcare\, working out of academia\, prolonged uncertain and casual work within academia.)</p>\n<p><strong>Expressions of Interest:</strong></p>\n<p>If you wish to present at the workshop\, please submit an abstract with your EOI at the link below. Please also fill out the EOI if you wish to simply attend. DEADLINE EXTENDED: Abstracts are due 1st of September 2026.&nbsp\;</p>
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SUMMARY:The Natural and the Beautiful: Women Philosophers on Nature\, Beauty\, and Art
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>The Natural and the Beautiful: Women Philosophers on Nature\, Beauty\, and Art</strong></p>\n<p>An International Conference at the University of Sydney</p>\n<p>A collaboration between "Extending New Narratives" SSHRC (Canada) major award and &ldquo\;Women Philosophers on the Natural and the Human" ARC Future Fellowship (Dalia Nassar)</p>\n<p>Organisers: Dalia Nassar and Campbell Rider</p>\n<p>25th&ndash\;27th of November\, 2026</p>\n<p>10:00 &ndash\; 5:00 pm</p>\n<p>In-person only at the University of Sydney</p>\n<p>Vere Gordon Childe Centre\, Room 495\, Madsen Building F09</p>\n<p><strong>Overview:</strong></p>\n<p>This conference proposes that women philosophers made important and distinctive contributions to thinking about both the natural and the beautiful &ndash\; and their relation &ndash\; and aims to uncover these contributions and their continuing significance.</p>\n<p>Women were often identified with &lsquo\;nature&rsquo\; and the &rsquo\;natural&rsquo\;\, and they had to negotiate their status as both natural and human. How did they do this? And in what ways and to what extent did their status as both &rsquo\;natural&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;human&rsquo\; influence their thinking about nature and the place of the human within it?</p>\n<p>In turn\, when women turned to writing philosophy\, they often berated their male colleagues for failing to grapple with and locate philosophical questions in lived experience. In contrast\, they sought to give philosophy a more concrete\, more &lsquo\;lived&rsquo\; character. They often did this through aesthetics\, understood both in the general sense\, as the study of perception\, and in a more limited sense\, as the study of the experiences of beauty. How did their interest in aesthetics support their aims of grounding philosophy in lived experience? And in what ways were their philosophies of art and beauty connected to their philosophies of the natural and the human? This conference invites speakers to consider some or any of these questions.<br><br><br><strong>Call for papers:</strong></p>\n<p><strong></strong>The conference is open for abstract submissions from anyone working on the fields of history of women philosophers\; philosophy of nature\; environmental aesthetics or ethics\; or philosophy of art or beauty.&nbsp\;<u>Abstracts can be submitted at the registration link below by <strong>1st of October 2026</strong>:</u><br><br><strong>Early Career Researcher Workshop:</strong></p>\n<p>There is a separate workshop for early-career researchers to present their work\, taking place one day before the beginning of the conference. The event is entitled: "Reading Philosophies of Nature and Beauty: Close Reading as Method in the History of Philosophy".</p>\n<p>This event is also open for abstracts and papers. For more information and to apply\, email campbell.rider@sydney.edu.au.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Registration:</strong></p>\n<p>Space is limited\, so please register to attend at the link:&nbsp\;<a href="https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=fuOzgnGBXUixCzja5-0UqNgkhD5f7qpBhQrNoV0KledUNlVWWkEzMlBDQ0VJTUUwWlowMUxMMk4zNi4u">"Women Philosophers on Beauty\, Nature\, and Art" &ndash\; Fill in form</a><br><br><br></p>
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SUMMARY:Wittgenstein on Ethics and Aesthetics: Historical\, Systematic\, and Contemporary Perspectives_CfP
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Call for Papers<br> Wittgenstein on Ethics and Aesthetics: Historical\, Systematic\, and Contemporary Perspectives</p>\n<p>Few claims in Ludwig Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s philosophy are as influential and enigmatic as the remark in the Tractatus logico-philosophicus that &ldquo\;ethics and aesthetics are one.&rdquo\; From the early notebooks and the Tractatus through the Lecture on Ethics\, the Lectures on Aesthetics\, the Philosophical Investigations\, On Certainty\, and Culture and Value\, questions of value\, meaning\, art\, judgment\, responsibility\, and religious experience remain central to his thought.</p>\n<p>Wittgenstein\, however\, develops neither an ethical system nor a traditional theory of aesthetics. Instead\, his reflections concern forms of life\, practices of judgment\, modes of perception\, and ways in which value becomes manifest without being reducible to theoretical propositions. Ethics and aesthetics thus touch upon fundamental questions concerning language\, world-understanding\, education\, attention\, culture\, and the limits and possibilities of philosophy itself.</p>\n<p>The planned volume seeks to bring together historical and exegetical studies with systematic\, comparative\, and contemporary approaches to Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s ethics and aesthetics. Contributions may examine continuities and transformations between his early and later philosophy\, explore connections between ethics\, aesthetics\, religion\, mysticism\, philosophical anthropology\, and cultural criticism\, or bring Wittgenstein into dialogue with thinkers such as Kant\, Kierkegaard\, Schopenhauer\, Nietzsche\, Tolstoy\, Weil\, Murdoch\, Anscombe\, Cavell\, Sontag\, Arendt\, Levinas\, Taylor\, and Adorno.</p>\n<p>Particularly welcome are contributions investigating the contemporary significance of Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s thought. Possible areas include artificial intelligence and digital forms of life\, environmental ethics\, deep disagreement\, political ethics\, visual culture\, moral education\, the ethics of attention\, the aesthetics of the ordinary\, and the role of art\, literature\, music\, architecture\, and film.</p>\n<p>Possible topics include\, but are not limited to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>the unity of ethics and aesthetics in the Tractatus</li>\n<li>the Lecture on Ethics and the limits of language</li>\n<li>value\, meaning\, the mystical\, and ineffability</li>\n<li>ethics and aesthetics in Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s later philosophy</li>\n<li>aesthetic judgment\, aspect perception\, and attention</li>\n<li>&acute\;forms of life\, moral education\, and cultural practice</li>\n<li>Wittgenstein in dialogue with other philosophical and artistic traditions</li>\n<li>philosophy\, poetry\, music\, architecture\, visual art\, and film</li>\n<li>Wittgensteinian ethics and aesthetics in contemporary debates</li>\n<li>artificial intelligence\, digital forms of life\, environmental ethics\, and political or cultural conflicts</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Contributions from philosophy\, art history\, literary studies\, religious studies\, and related disciplines are welcome.</p>\n<p>Submission</p>\n<p>Please submit an English abstract of no more than 350 words\, together with a brief academic biography\, <strong>by 31 December 2026</strong> to <a href=">moritzpretzsch@uni-kassel.de</a>&bdquo\;><a href="mailto:moritzpretzsch@uni-kassel.de">moritzpretzsch@uni-kassel.de</a>.</p>\n<p>Authors will be notified following the peer-review process. <strong>Completed chapters are due by 1 April 2027</strong>.</p>\n<p>The volume is planned for publication in early 2028 with a leading international academic publisher. Detailed information concerning length\, citation format\, style\, and editorial guidelines will be provided upon acceptance.</p>\n
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SUMMARY:SdE - aesthetic studies
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>SdE &ndash\; aesthetic studies</strong></p>\n<p><a href="http://journals.mimesisedizioni.it/index.php/studi-di-estetica/index">http://journals.mimesisedizioni.it/index.php/studi-di-estetica/index</a></p>\n<p><strong>Call for Papers issue 1/2027 </strong>(expected release: May 2027)</p>\n<p><em>Submission deadline</em>:<strong> &nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; February 1\, 2027</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Instructions</strong></p>\n<p>Manuscripts must be submitted as an attachment to an email sent to <a href="mailto:sde@mimesisedizioni.it">sde@mimesisedizioni.it</a> in the form of an anonymous document (in .doc or .docx format).</p>\n<p>The manuscript must comply with the editorial guidelines available <a href="https://ojsupgrade.mimesisedizioni.it/documenti/sde/editorial-guidelines.pdf">here</a>.</p>\n<p>All submissions will undergo <strong>double-blind peer review</strong>.</p>\n<p>Contributions should be submitted in English\; contributions in French are also welcome. Manuscripts should not exceed <strong>50\,000 characters (including spaces) or 8\,000 words</strong>.</p>\n<p>The journal reserves the right to publish accepted submissions in a subsequent issue.</p>\n<p>In addition to the manuscript\, authors must provide a separate document containing:</p>\n<p>&bull\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; an abstract in English (max. 150 words)\;</p>\n<p>&bull\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; three keywords in English\;</p>\n<p>&bull\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; the author&rsquo\;s name and surname\, affiliation\, and email address.</p>\n<p><strong>Description</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Studi di estetica / aesthetic studies</strong> invites original research articles for its <strong>Miscellanea / Open Section</strong>\, devoted to current and historically grounded research in aesthetics and philosophy of art.</p>\n<p>The journal welcomes contributions that engage critically with the questions\, concepts\, practices\, and histories that shape contemporary aesthetic inquiry. We are particularly interested in work that places different philosophical traditions\, historical periods\, and disciplinary perspectives into dialogue\, and that contributes to ongoing international debates in aesthetics.</p>\n<p>The <strong>Miscellanea / Open Section</strong> is intentionally open in scope. We invite submissions addressing\, among other topics\, philosophical aesthetics\, theories of art and artistic practice\, aesthetic experience and judgment\, histories of aesthetics\, the relationship between aesthetics and other philosophical disciplines\, and the intersections between aesthetics and fields such as literature\, visual studies\, media studies\, cultural theory\, politics\, anthropology\, and the history of ideas.</p>\n<p>We especially welcome contributions that rethink established categories\, bring neglected authors or traditions into conversation with current debates\, or open new perspectives on enduring problems in aesthetics and philosophy of art. The journal publishes research that is rigorous in its argument\, attentive to historical and conceptual nuance\, and accessible to an international community of scholars.</p>\n\n
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SUMMARY:AFK in Florida: The 5th Annual Philosophy of Video Games Conference
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DESCRIPTION:<p>The Department of Philosophy at Florida Atlantic University invites submissions for the <strong>fifth annual AFK in Florida: The Philosophy of Video Games Conference</strong>.</p>\n<p>This interdisciplinary conference brings together philosophers\, artists\, and educators to explore the ethical\, aesthetic\, metaphysical\, social\, and political dimensions of games and play. We welcome papers that approach video games as philosophically rich texts and experiences\, as well as work that examines the broader philosophical implications of interactive media and ludic culture.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>We are delighted to welcome Dr. Alexandre Declos\, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Neuch&acirc\;tel\, as our keynote speaker. Dr. Declos has published extensively on the ontology and aesthetics of games and digital objects\, with articles appearing in journals such as <em>Journal of the Philosophy of Games</em>\, <em>Synthese</em>\, <em>Erkenntnis</em>\, <em>The Philosophy Quarterly</em>\, and <em>The British Journal of Aesthetics</em>.</p>\n<p>Although the primary focus is on video games\, we also encourage submissions on related domains of play--board games\, puzzles\, amusement and theme parks\, and other forms of play&mdash\; and issues related to technology--virtual reality\, social media\, robots--inasmuch as they raise meaningful philosophical questions. <strong>Preference will be given to papers that engage directly with video games.</strong>&nbsp\;Also\, please note this conference will be entirely in person.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Topics may include\, but are not limited to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ethics and games: agency\, violence\, moral choice</li>\n<li>Aesthetics: the art status of games\, expression\, representation</li>\n<li>Metaphysics of virtual worlds and digital identity</li>\n<li>Epistemology and game mechanics: knowledge\, discovery\, and rule systems</li>\n<li>Virtue theory and character development in gameplay</li>\n<li>Games as vehicles for social or political critique</li>\n<li>Philosophical themes in game narratives and design</li>\n<li>Mind\, embodiment\, and virtual experience</li>\n<li>The nature of fun\, fantasy\, and imagination</li>\n<li>The philosophy of play and its role in human life</li>\n<li>Philosophical pedagogy through games and in the classroom &nbsp\;</li>\n</ul>\n<p>For questions\, random thoughts\, cat pictures\, and fun conversation\, contact Nicholas Baima\, nbaima@fau.edu</p>
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SUMMARY:CFP - Philosophy and Contemporary Art - Philosophia Special Issue
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>CFP -&nbsp\;</strong>Philosophy and Contemporary Art -&nbsp\;<em>Philosophia </em>Special Issue</p>\n<p>Invited contributors: Diarmuid Costello (University of Warwick)\, John Kulvicki (Dartmouth College)\, Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma)\, Enrico Terrone (University of Genoa)</p>\n<p>Guest editors: Elisa Caldarola (University of Turin) and Elsa Saliba (University of Genoa)</p>\n\n<p><em>Philosophia</em>invites submissions for a Special Issue on <strong><em>Philosophy and Contemporary Art</em></strong>.</p>\n\n<p>The term <em>contemporary art</em> can be used in several ways. It may refer to art produced in the same historical period as the speaker. It may also refer more narrowly to art that engages with themes and artistic strategies characteristic of a particular contemporary cultural context. In another important sense\, it refers to artistic production in the plastic arts (broadly understood) from the 1960s to the present within the global high-art world.</p>\n<p>On this latter use\, <em>contemporary art</em> does not simply mean recent art. It names a historically extended field of artistic practices that artists\, critics\, curators\, and institutions continue to treat as belonging together. This raises a question that deserves philosophical attention: <strong><em>what\, if anything\, unifies works produced in the last decade with works produced several generations ago?</em></strong></p>\n<p>One hypothesis motivating this Special Issue is that contemporary art is unified\, at least in part\, by the way its characteristic practices put pressure on central philosophical categories. These practices do not merely invite philosophical interpretation\; through their own modes of production and reception\, they challenge assumptions that have traditionally structured philosophical reflection on art.</p>\n<p>Installations and site-specific works challenge the idea that visual artworks are self-contained physical objects. Participatory works complicate the distinction between artist and public. Delegated fabrication and AI-assisted production put pressure on familiar notions of authorship\, intention\, control\, and responsibility. Performances known mainly through documentation raise questions about traces of\, reconstruction of\, and access to works. Conceptual and deliberately banal works challenge assumptions about aesthetic experience and appreciation. Political and socially engaged works test the boundary between artistic intervention\, activism\, public communication\, manipulation\, and propaganda.</p>\n<p>On this view\, the question of what contemporary art is and the question of why it matters philosophically are closely connected.</p>\n<p>The aim of this Special Issue is to consolidate and structure philosophical work on contemporary art. Relevant discussions already exist across aesthetics and philosophy of art\, ontology and metaphysics\, philosophy of mind\, philosophy of action\, epistemology\, political philosophy\, ethics\, and philosophy of technology. Yet these debates remain fragmented and often develop independently of one another.</p>\n<p>Questions about AI and authorship\, for example\, are closely connected to broader debates about distributed agency. Questions about performance and documentation intersect with debates about imagination and epistemology. Questions about political art connect with debates about propaganda\, manipulation\, nudging\, and public reason. Bringing these discussions together may help identify common philosophical problems\, clarify their interconnections\, and advance a more unified understanding of the philosophical significance of contemporary art.</p>\n\n<p>Submissions may address\, among other topics:</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; the concept\, scope\, and unity of contemporary art\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; the ontology and metaphysics of installations\, conceptual works\, participatory works\, performances\, and site-specific works\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; the identity\, boundaries\, and persistence conditions of contemporary artworks\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; authorship\, intention\, collaboration\, control\, responsibility\, and distributed agency\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; delegated fabrication\, institutional mediation\, audience participation\, and spectatorship\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; AI\, Large Language Models\, and artistic production\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; documentation\, traces\, archives\, and the reconstruction of performances through reasoning and imagination\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; affective responses\, introspection\, imagination\, and other forms of mental engagement with contemporary artworks\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; the aesthetic significance of works that appear deliberately banal\, aesthetically inert\, or thematically insignificant\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; how language figures in conceptual art and contemporary art\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; political and socially engaged art\, propaganda\, activism\, and public reasoning\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; morally or politically defective artworks and their artistic or aesthetic value\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\; manipulation\, affective mobilization\, nudging\, epistemically defective messages\, and the epistemic role of art.</p>\n\n<p>The issue welcomes contributions that address one or more of the above topics from the perspective of aesthetics and philosophy of art as well as from ontology\, metaphysics\, philosophy of mind\, philosophy of action\, epistemology\, ethics\, political philosophy\, and philosophy of technology. Papers may focus on particular artistic practices or bodies of work\, but they should engage broader philosophical questions and be accessible to philosophers outside the author's immediate area of specialization.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Submission deadline:</strong>April 30\, 2027</p>\n\n<p><strong>Submission guidelines:</strong>Manuscripts should be prepared for anonymous review and submitted through <em>Philosophia</em>'s online submission system\, selecting the Special Issue once available.</p>\n<p>Length of papers: 8\,000 to 9\,000 words\, font size 12\, double spaced\, (including references\, footnotes\, tables and figures).&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><em>Philosophia</em>&rsquo\;s submission guidelines are available at this link: https://link.springer.com/journal/11406/submission-guidelines#Instructions%20for%20Authors_Important%20Information%20on%20Manuscript%20Preparation%20and%20Submission</a></p>\n\n<p>Inquiries to: elisa.caldarolaATunito.it</a> and elsa.salibaATedu.unige.it</a></p>
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SUMMARY:Death in the Eyes 3
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LOCATION:University of L’Aquila\, Bazzano\, Italy
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Call for Papers Death in the Eyes 3:&nbsp\;</strong><strong>The Iconographies of Death in Cinema: Personae\, Representations\, and Imaginaries</strong></p>\n<p><strong>24-25 June 2027 University of L&rsquo\;Aquila (Universit&agrave\;&nbsp\;degli Studi dell&rsquo\;Aquila)\, Italy</strong></p>\n<p>Keynote Speakers: <strong>Stacey Abbott</strong> (Northumbria University\, UK) and <strong>Katarzyna Ancuta</strong> (Chulalongkorn University\, Thailand)</p>\n<p>Few cinematic images have entered the collective imagination as profoundly as <em>Death in Ingmar Bergman&rsquo\;s The Seventh Seal (Det sjunde inseglet\,</em> 1957). A pale-faced man cloaked in a long black mantle\, challenging the knight Antonius Block to a game of chess against the backdrop of the fourteenth-century Black Death\, this celebrated personification draws upon a rich medieval iconographic tradition\, embodying the inevitability of death\, the crisis of faith\, and the equality of all human beings before their ultimate fate. Bergman&rsquo\;s Death evokes the numerous allegories of mortality developed between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance\, demonstrating cinema&rsquo\;s extraordinary capacity to reactivate\, reinterpret\, and transform visual traditions that have endured across centuries.</p>\n<p>Cinema thus emerges as an iconological apparatus capable of bringing different historical temporalities into dialogue and may be understood as a privileged site for the <em>Nachleben</em> of images\, in the Aby Warburg sense subsequently extensively explored by\, among others\, Georges Didi-Huberman. Iconographies of death are not merely inherited\; they migrate across media\, are continually reassembled\, reconfigured\, and reinscribed within new cultural imaginaries. Ancient archetypes coexist with contemporary sensibilities. Andr&eacute\; Bazin understood photography and cinema as forms of the &ldquo\;mummification of time&rdquo\;\, preserving reality beyond its disappearance. Edgar Morin interpreted the moving image as an anthropological response to humanity&rsquo\;s enduring desire for survival and immortality. Moving images&rsquo\; spectral dimension has eventually been elaborated upon in Jacques Derrida&rsquo\;s highly influential (including for film-\, media- and visual culture scholarship) <em>hauntology</em>.</p>\n<p>Cinema has developed an extensive repertoire of visual forms and aesthetic strategies whereby the inevitable\, the invisible\, and the unrepresentable acquire shape and visibility. Death has assumed an extraordinary variety of forms and representations: skeleton\, Grim Reaper\, psychopomp\, ghost\, invisible presence\, and cosmic force. At times\, it appears as a fully embodied character endowed with agency\, speech\, and intention\; at others\, it remains an abstract principle\, perceptible only through its effects\, rendering visible that which\, by definition\, escapes representation. It is a spectral figure rooted in Swedish folklore in <em>The Phantom Carriage</em> (1921). It erupts as a medieval Totentanz within the dystopian future of <em>Metropolis</em> (1927)\; it takes the form of the seductive young man in Death Takes a Holiday (1934)\, of the celestial official administering the afterlife in <em>A Matter of Life and Death</em> (1946)\, of the sardonic visitor concluding <em>The Meaning of Life</em> (1983)\, of the enigmatic Joe Black in <em>Meet Joe Black</em> (1998)\, of the ironic yet melancholic figure traversing <em>The Book of Lif</em>e (2014) and <em>Coco</em> (2017)\, and of the unsettling Shinigami of the anime adaptation of the manga <em>Death Note</em> (2006-2007). Horror cinema has transformed death into monstrous corporeality through zombies\, vampires\, revenants\, ghosts\, and supernatural beings that dissolve the boundaries between life and death. Fantasy has imagined death as guide\, companion\, or mediator between worlds. Modern cinema has elevated it into a philosophical allegory of human existence\, while animation has frequently offered ironic\, pedagogical\, or deeply melancholic incarnations of mortality.</p>\n<p>To investigate the iconographies of death in cinema means to confront one of the fundamental questions of visual culture: how can images represent what stands for the ultimate limit of representation itself? From Philippe Ari&egrave\;s&rsquo\;s cultural history of death to Hans Belting&rsquo\;s anthropology of images\; from the iconological studies of Warburg and Didi-Huberman to Laura Mulvey&rsquo\;s reflections on cinematic temporality and Elisabeth Bronfen&rsquo\;s analyses of the aestheticization of death\, scholarship has consistently demonstrated that cinema does not merely stage death as a narrative event but continuously generates new forms of visibility\, new personifications\, and new visual imaginaries. Cinematic images thus become the site where memory\, absence\, corporeality\, trauma\, and survival converge\, transforming one of humanity&rsquo\;s most universal experiences into an inexhaustible laboratory of forms\, figures\, and visions.</p>\n<p>The ERC Project <strong>FILM AND DEATH</strong> is organizing with the <strong>University of L&rsquo\;Aquila</strong> a two-day conference exploring the multiple ways in which cinema has represented\, embodied\, personified\, and visualized death. It invites contributions that investigate the figurative forms\, aesthetic strategies\, iconographic genealogies\, and audiovisual dispositifs through which the cinematic medium renders death visible\, thinkable\, and culturally meaningful.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>In parallel with the conference programme\, the <strong>Necropoli Film Festival 2027</strong> will organize film screenings (more details to be announced).</p>\n<p>We particularly welcome interdisciplinary contributions from film and media studies\, philosophy\, art history\, visual culture\, media archaeology\, death studies\, religious studies\, anthropology\, comparative literature\, and cultural studies.</p>\n<p>Possible topics include\, but are not limited to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>personifications of Death in cinema\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>iconographic genealogies and the survival (<em>Nachleben</em>) of death imagery\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>the aesthetics of dying\, the corpse\, decomposition\, and mourning\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>zombies\, revenants\, vampires\, ghosts\, and other liminal figures between life and death\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>incarnations of death across cinematic genres (horror\, fantasy\, melodrama\, the western\, animation\, science fiction\, mondo and snuff movies)\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p><em>hauntology</em>\, spectrality\, and ghostly images\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>digital death\, technological immortality\, artificial intelligence\, and posthumanism\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>intercultural and intermedial perspectives on the representation of death\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>archives\, images of the dead\, photography\, and audiovisual memory\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>death\, ecology\, the Anthropocene\, and planetary extinction.</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Please submit a title\, an abstract of 300-words\, and short biographical note to&nbsp\;<strong>deathintheeyes3@gmail.com</strong> by<strong> 30 November 2026</strong>. Accepted speakers will be notified before December 18. A registration fee of 80 euros (which includes lunches and coffee breaks) will be due in early 2027. A selection of papers presented in the conference will be part of an edited collection planned for 2028.</p>\n<p>Organizing Committee: Mirko Lino (University of L&rsquo\;Aquila)\; Lucas Ferra&ccedil\;o Nassif\, Marco Grosoli\, Susana Viegas\, and Vasco Baptista Marques (NOVA University Lisbon)</p>\n<p><em>Funded by the European Union (ERC\, FILM AND DEATH\, 101088956). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. </em></p>
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SUMMARY:Experimenting Philosophy of Religion: Altering Politics\, Ecology and Aesthetics in Transition
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LOCATION:Vienna\, Austria
DESCRIPTION:<p>Actual problems and critical situations &ndash\; such as ecological crisis and political disruption &ndash\; have more and more shown the need for a thought that can be effective\, but nonetheless not all-encompassing.</p>\n<p>This conference proposes &ldquo\;experimenting philosophy of religion&rdquo\; as field\, method and a performative mode of exchange: a practice of inquiry that acknowledges precarity and embraces provisional possibilities of thinking. We treat &ldquo\;experiment&rdquo\; in its full sense: trial\, risk\, and iterative testing\, where concepts are articulated\, confronted\, and\, when necessary\, allowed to fail.</p>\n<p>Experimentation is not external to philosophy of religion but constitutive of it\, insofar as the field opens possibilities for creating what is other &ndash\; new conceptual and practical configurations &ndash\; while attending to how these emerge within existing disciplines.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>We convene multiperspective approaches to pressing questions in politics\, ecology\, and aesthetics: What perspectives does the philosophy of religion offer on the climate crisis? How can these insights inform political and social practice? How do aesthetic experiences and approaches reflect philosophical-religious research\, and vice versa?&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>We want to provide a room for young voices in order to express their research and test the capacities\, practical and theoretical\, of philosophy of religion.</p>\n<p>The conference will have a three parts format\, divided in three days (planned days are 21&ndash\;23 October 2026). The section are the followings:</p>\n<p>1.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Podium discussion with Vienna‑based senior scholars on the field&rsquo\;s trajectories and futures\;</p>\n<p>2.&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Three thematic panels (organized by VDTR members): Politics &amp\; Society\; Ecology &amp\; Nature\; Arts &amp\; Aesthetics. Contributions by postdocs and PhD candidates\; strong peer‑to‑peer format\;</p>\n\n<p>3.&nbsp\; &nbsp\;Active\, non‑conventional session (e.g.\, reading and discussion group\, collective writing\, method try‑outs) that goes beyond lecture/listen formats.</p>
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SUMMARY:12th Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics: Modalities of Aesthetic Attention
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LOCATION:Via Panorâmica Edgar Cardoso s / n\, 4150-564 Porto\, Porto\, Portugal
DESCRIPTION:<p>The organization of the twelfth edition of the Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics invites researchers in philosophical aesthetics and in related disciplinary areas to submit proposals for papers. The submission of abstracts will be open until <strong>April 1st</strong>.</p>\n<p><strong>Dates &amp\; Venue</strong><br>The Meeting will take place on October 22\, 23\, and 24\, 2026\, with institutional hosting by the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto\, Research Group Aesthetics\, Politics and Knowledge (APK).</p>\n<p><strong>Theme:</strong> Modalities of Attention: Contemplation\, Critical Virtues\, and Agency<br><br>One of the problems of our contemporary world is that of attention: paying attention to things requires time and energy\, resources increasingly mobilised almost exclusively for consumption or incessant productivity. The sweeping technological and cultural transformations we face &mdash\; or are imposed upon us &mdash\; are accompanied by equally profound changes in how we attend\, how we experience things\, and even how we conceive of and value attention and experience themselves. This concerns our practical life\, as much as it does aesthetic theory.</p>\n<p>Although contemporary aesthetics goes beyond the experience of art\, encompassing our relation to a degraded natural world and to an everyday life that is ever more massified\, gentrified\, and touristified\, attention is the knot in which all these strands converge. Thus\, a fundamental and enduring value of at least some works of art lies in their capacity to show us new ways of attending to things and of reconfiguring our experience of the world.</p>\n<p>As a philosophical concept\, aesthetic attention has been the object of debate and\, in particular\, of incisive criticism across various traditions of thought. Whatever perspective we adopt on the nature of aesthetic value and its role in human well-being\, what we attend to\, and how we attend\, will continue to be a decisive aspect of what it means to be the subject of a life.</p>\n<p>We invite researchers in aesthetics and the theory of the arts to submit proposals for papers within the following thematic lines:</p>\n<p><strong>THEMATIC LINES</strong></p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>How art teaches us to see and to listen: aesthetics and the education of the senses.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Attention as action: authorship\, interpretation\, and completion.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Affective attention: the role of emotions in aesthetic experience.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Attention and memory: the role of memory in aesthetic experience.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>The prosaic and the mundane: aesthetic attention beyond art.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Aesthetic attention and the environment: from contemplation to the construction of nature.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Architecture\, urbanism\, and aesthetic attention: life in cities and the experience of dwelling.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Aesthetic attention in education: philosophical perspectives.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Technology and politics: challenges to aesthetic attention\, from hyperconnectivity to AI.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>From aesthetic attention to critical attention: whatever became of the philosophy of art criticism?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Aesthetics and virtues: contemporary aretaic perspectives on attention.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>From Critical Theory to the present: the political dimension of aesthetic attention.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Popular culture: from collective protest to memes.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Digital art and new media: dispersion\, fragmentation\, and recentring.</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Aesthetics and epistemology: are there collective forms of aesthetic attention?</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Transcultural perspectives: aesthetic attention in non-Western contexts.</p>\n</li>\n</ol>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>ABSTRACTS</strong></p>\n<p>Document 1: anonymous</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Title of the proposal</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Abstract (maximum 500 words)</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Bibliography (maximum of five references)</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Five keywords and the thematic line to which the proposal is assigned</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Document 2: non-anonymous</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Title of the proposal</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Brief biographical note of no more than 200 words</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Instructions for sending:</strong><br>Both documents (Word) will be named with the title &ndash\; or a part of it &ndash\; plus its corresponding numbering (Example: Title_1 and Title_2\, depending on whether it is anonymous or not) and will be sent to the following e-mail address: encontroibe.porto@letras.up.pt&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Important information:</strong><br>The selection will be made taking into account the scientific quality and the relevance to the theme of the Meeting.<br>The presentation time for each paper will be 20 minutes\, plus 10 minutes for discussion.<br>The official languages will be Portuguese\, Spanish\, and English.</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT DATES</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>April 1: Deadline for submission of abstracts</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>From May 15: Acceptance reply</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>May 30 - June 30: Speaker registration</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>July 15: Program announcement</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Until September 30: Attendee registration</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>October 22-24: Congress date</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>REGISTRATION</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Speaker registration: 70 &euro\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Speaker registration (SEyTA member): 50 &euro\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Attendee registration: 50 &euro\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Attendee registration (SEyTA member) or student: 40 &euro\;</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Grants for PhD students<br>Three grants of 200 &euro\; each will be awarded.<br>To be eligible\, it is necessary to be a member of SEyTA or a PhD student in Portugal and to justify the relation between the theme of the congress and the theme of the thesis.<br>The grant is awarded retrospectively\, once the PhD student submits the certificate of participation to SEyTA.</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>ORGANIZERS</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Sociedad Espa&ntilde\;ola de Est&eacute\;tica y Teor&iacute\;a de las Artes</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Grupo de investiga&ccedil\;&atilde\;o Aesthetics\, Politics &amp\; Knowledge</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</strong></p>\n<p>V&iacute\;tor Guerreiro</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p>Domingos Faria</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p>S&iacute\;lvia Bento</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p>Pablo Seoane</p>\n<p>Universidade de Santiago de Compostela</p>\n<p><strong>TECHNICAL COMMITEE</strong></p>\n<p>Susana Costa</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p>Vanessa Pelerigo</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p>Paula Lima</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p>Joana Rego</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p>Marco Dias</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p><strong>SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE</strong></p>\n<p>Ana Mar&iacute\;a Rabe</p>\n<p>Universidade de Santiago de Compostela</p>\n<p>Carlos Valente</p>\n<p>Universidade da Madeira</p>\n<p>Carla Carmona</p>\n<p>Universidad de Sevilla</p>\n<p>Erika Rodrigues</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p>Carlos Vara Sanchez</p>\n<p>Universidad Complutense de Madrid</p>\n<p>Filipa Afonso</p>\n<p>Universidade de Lisboa</p>\n<p>Joaqu&iacute\;n Macarro</p>\n<p>Universidad de Salamanca</p>\n<p>Maria de F&aacute\;tima Lambert</p>\n<p>Escola Superior de Educa&ccedil\;&atilde\;o do Instituto</p>\n<p>Polit&eacute\;cnico do Porto</p>\n<p>Magda Polo Pujadas</p>\n<p>Universidad de Barcelona</p>\n<p>M&aacute\;rio Correia</p>\n<p>Universidade do Porto</p>\n<p>Rosa Ben&eacute\;itez</p>\n<p>Universidad de Salamanca</p>\n<p>Tiago Sousa</p>\n<p>Universidade do Minho</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>CONTACT:</strong><br>encontroibe.porto@letras.up.pt&nbsp\;</p>
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SUMMARY:North American Sartre Society 31st Annual Conference
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DESCRIPTION:<p><img src="blob:https://philevents.org/6bd78b34-3d77-42ba-bd2f-587ba449ab00" alt="A black text on a white background\n\nAI-generated content may be incorrect." width="157" height="141" align="left" hspace="12" /><strong>North American Sartre Society</strong></p>\n<p><strong>31st&nbsp\;Annual Meeting</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Call for Abstracts</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>23-24 October 2026</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Virtual Zoom Conference&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Submission Deadline: June 15\, 2026</strong></p>\n<p><strong><u>&nbsp\;</u></strong></p>\n<p><strong><u>Theme</u></strong></p>\n<p><strong>A.I.\, Virtual Worlds\, and Digital Existentialism</strong></p>\n<p>The North American Sartre Society invites proposals for our 31st&nbsp\;meeting.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Our conference theme is A.I.\, Virtual Worlds\, and Digital Existentialism. We encourage papers that explore existentialism as it relates to A.I.\, social media\, data centers\, and virtual worlds. We encourage papers on topics and questions such as:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;How does artificial intelligence reshape our understanding of selfhood\, agency\, and responsibility?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Can virtual worlds provide authentic forms of meaning\, identity\, and community\, or are they structurally alienating?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;What does &ldquo\;existence&rdquo\; mean when one&rsquo\;s social\, emotional\, and creative life is increasingly mediated by A.I. systems and platforms?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Do A.I.-generated personas and avatars challenge distinctions between authenticity and bad faith?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;How should we understand freedom and choice when algorithmic systems increasingly guide behaviors\, desires\, and commitments?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;What ethical obligations do creators of A.I. and virtual worlds have toward users&rsquo\; existential well-being and sense of meaning?</p>\n<p>We invite proposals from any area of Sartre studies and from any disciplinary background. In the spirit of Sartre&rsquo\;s eclectic thinking\, we encourage proposals that address philosophy\, literature\, theater\, aesthetics\, psychology\, politics\, intellectual history\, art\, music\, and other disciplines. Aiming to foster diverse and pluralistic approaches\, we understand Sartre Studies broadly to indicate work in the existentialist tradition\, including work emerging from thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir\, Maurice Merleau-Ponty\, Frantz Fanon\, Richard Wright\, Angela Davis\, Albert Camus\, Anna Julia Cooper\, Harriet Ann Jacobs\, Lewis R. Gordon\, Frederick Douglass\, Kathryn Sophia Belle\, Steve Biko\, Naomi Zack\, Chabani Manganyi\, Emilio Uranga\, Jorge Portilla\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Aim&eacute\; C&eacute\;saire\, Keiji Nishitani\, Azzedine Haddour\, Martin Buber\, Hannah Arendt\, Martin Heidegger\, Gabriel Marcel\, Emmanuel Levinas\, Sara Ahmed\, danielle davis\, bell hooks\, Kamau Brathwaite\, Nathalie Etoke\, Achille Mbembe\, Suzanne C&eacute\;saire\, James Baldwin and others.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Keynote Speaker: Stefano Gualeni</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Title: Existential Immersion and Care in Virtual Worlds</strong></p>\n<p>Stefano Gualeni is a Full Professor at the Institute of Digital Games\, University of Malta. His academic books include&nbsp\;<em>Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools</em>&nbsp\;(Palgrave\, 2015)\,&nbsp\;<em>Virtual Existentialism&nbsp\;</em>(Palgrave Pivot\, 2020\, with Daniel Vella)\, and&nbsp\;<em>Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play</em>&nbsp\;(Bloomsbury\, 2023\, with Riccardo Fassone). Stefano&rsquo\;s games\, essays and philosophical fictions can be found on his webpage at&nbsp\;<a  title="Original   URL:target=">www.gua-le-ni.com</a></p>\n<p>Stefano&rsquo\;s philosophical fictions include&nbsp\;<em>The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction</em>&nbsp\;(Routledge\, 2024)\,&nbsp\;<em>What We Owe the Dead&nbsp\;</em>(Set Margins'\, 2025)\,&nbsp\;<em>Scholar's Codex</em>&nbsp\;(Tune and Fairweather\, 2026)\, and&nbsp\;<em>Errata Corpora</em>&nbsp\;(Set Margins'\, forthcoming in 2027)</p>\n<p><strong>The submission process:</strong></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;The submission deadline is May 15.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;We are accepting abstracts of 300-500 words. Reading time for papers is 20-25 minutes.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;We will accept proposals for both individual papers and panel proposals. Please indicate if you are interested in the teaching existentialism session.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;English or French is acceptable.</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Please submit your abstract (or any questions) by email to NASS President\, Dane Sawyer\,&nbsp\;<a href="mailto:dsawyer@laverne.edu">dsawyer@laverne.edu</a></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Graduate students are encouraged to submit.</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;All proposals will be forwarded to the program committee for review.</p>\n<p><strong>Contacts:</strong></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Dane Sawyer\, NASS President: dsawyer@laverne.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Paul Gyllenhammer\, NASS Co-President:&nbsp\;gyllenhp@stjohns.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Kiki Berk\, NASS Past-President k.berk@snhu.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Kimberly Engels\, NASS Treasurer: kengels@molloy.edu&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Damon Boria\, NASS Member-at-Large: damon.boria@gmail.com&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;T Storm Heter\, NASS Member at Large: sheter@esu.edu&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;James Sares\, NASS Member-at-large: james.sares@uky.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Tom Meagher: NASS Member-at-large: tjm101@shsu.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Thomas Payre\, NASS Member-at-large: thp42@aber.ac.uk</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Varun Chandrasekhar\, NASS Member-at-Large: c.varun@wustl.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;NASS Webpage<em>:</em><a href="https://www.northamericansartresociety.org/"><em>&nbsp\;</em></a><a href="https://www.northamericansartresociety.org/"><em>https://www.northamericansartresociety.org</em></a></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;NASS Knowledge Commons Page:&nbsp\;<a href="https://hcommons.org/groups/north-american-sartre-studies-society/">https://hcommons.org/groups/north-american-sartre-studies-society/</a></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;NASS Facebook:&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/SartreSociety/">&nbsp\;</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SartreSociety/"><em>https://www.facebook.com/SartreSociety/</em></a></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Sartre Studies International&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/sartre-studies/sartre-studies-overview.xml"><em>https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/sartre-studies/sartre-studies-overview.xml</em></a></p>
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SUMMARY:North American Sartre Society 31st Annual Conference
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DESCRIPTION:<p><img src="blob:https://philevents.org/6bd78b34-3d77-42ba-bd2f-587ba449ab00" alt="A black text on a white background\n\nAI-generated content may be incorrect." width="157" height="141" align="left" hspace="12" /><strong>North American Sartre Society</strong></p>\n<p><strong>31st&nbsp\;Annual Meeting</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Call for Abstracts</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>23-24 October 2026</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Virtual Zoom Conference&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Submission Deadline: June 15\, 2026</strong></p>\n<p><strong><u>&nbsp\;</u></strong></p>\n<p><strong><u>Theme</u></strong></p>\n<p><strong>A.I.\, Virtual Worlds\, and Digital Existentialism</strong></p>\n<p>The North American Sartre Society invites proposals for our 31st&nbsp\;meeting.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Our conference theme is A.I.\, Virtual Worlds\, and Digital Existentialism. We encourage papers that explore existentialism as it relates to A.I.\, social media\, data centers\, and virtual worlds. We encourage papers on topics and questions such as:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;How does artificial intelligence reshape our understanding of selfhood\, agency\, and responsibility?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Can virtual worlds provide authentic forms of meaning\, identity\, and community\, or are they structurally alienating?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;What does &ldquo\;existence&rdquo\; mean when one&rsquo\;s social\, emotional\, and creative life is increasingly mediated by A.I. systems and platforms?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Do A.I.-generated personas and avatars challenge distinctions between authenticity and bad faith?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;How should we understand freedom and choice when algorithmic systems increasingly guide behaviors\, desires\, and commitments?</p>\n<p>&middot\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;What ethical obligations do creators of A.I. and virtual worlds have toward users&rsquo\; existential well-being and sense of meaning?</p>\n<p>We invite proposals from any area of Sartre studies and from any disciplinary background. In the spirit of Sartre&rsquo\;s eclectic thinking\, we encourage proposals that address philosophy\, literature\, theater\, aesthetics\, psychology\, politics\, intellectual history\, art\, music\, and other disciplines. Aiming to foster diverse and pluralistic approaches\, we understand Sartre Studies broadly to indicate work in the existentialist tradition\, including work emerging from thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir\, Maurice Merleau-Ponty\, Frantz Fanon\, Richard Wright\, Angela Davis\, Albert Camus\, Anna Julia Cooper\, Harriet Ann Jacobs\, Lewis R. Gordon\, Frederick Douglass\, Kathryn Sophia Belle\, Steve Biko\, Naomi Zack\, Chabani Manganyi\, Emilio Uranga\, Jorge Portilla\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Aim&eacute\; C&eacute\;saire\, Keiji Nishitani\, Azzedine Haddour\, Martin Buber\, Hannah Arendt\, Martin Heidegger\, Gabriel Marcel\, Emmanuel Levinas\, Sara Ahmed\, danielle davis\, bell hooks\, Kamau Brathwaite\, Nathalie Etoke\, Achille Mbembe\, Suzanne C&eacute\;saire\, James Baldwin and others.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Keynote Speaker: Stefano Gualeni</strong></p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Title: Existential Immersion and Care in Virtual Worlds</strong></p>\n<p>Stefano Gualeni is a Full Professor at the Institute of Digital Games\, University of Malta. His academic books include&nbsp\;<em>Virtual Worlds as Philosophical Tools</em>&nbsp\;(Palgrave\, 2015)\,&nbsp\;<em>Virtual Existentialism&nbsp\;</em>(Palgrave Pivot\, 2020\, with Daniel Vella)\, and&nbsp\;<em>Fictional Games: A Philosophy of Worldbuilding and Imaginary Play</em>&nbsp\;(Bloomsbury\, 2023\, with Riccardo Fassone). Stefano&rsquo\;s games\, essays and philosophical fictions can be found on his webpage at&nbsp\;<a   URL:target=">www.gua-le-ni.com</a></p>\n<p>Stefano&rsquo\;s philosophical fictions include&nbsp\;<em>The Clouds: An Experiment in Theory-Fiction</em>&nbsp\;(Routledge\, 2024)\,&nbsp\;<em>What We Owe the Dead&nbsp\;</em>(Set Margins'\, 2025)\,&nbsp\;<em>Scholar's Codex</em>&nbsp\;(Tune and Fairweather\, 2026)\, and&nbsp\;<em>Errata Corpora</em>&nbsp\;(Set Margins'\, forthcoming in 2027)</p>\n<p><strong>The submission process:</strong></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;The submission deadline is May 15.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;We are accepting abstracts of 300-500 words. Reading time for papers is 20-25 minutes.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;We will accept proposals for both individual papers and panel proposals. Please indicate if you are interested in the teaching existentialism session.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;English or French is acceptable.</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Please submit your abstract (or any questions) by email to NASS President\, Dane Sawyer\,&nbsp\;<a href="mailto:dsawyer@laverne.edu">dsawyer@laverne.edu</a></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Graduate students are encouraged to submit.</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;All proposals will be forwarded to the program committee for review.</p>\n<p><strong>Contacts:</strong></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Dane Sawyer\, NASS President: dsawyer@laverne.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Paul Gyllenhammer\, NASS Co-President:&nbsp\;gyllenhp@stjohns.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Kiki Berk\, NASS Past-President k.berk@snhu.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Kimberly Engels\, NASS Treasurer: kengels@molloy.edu&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Damon Boria\, NASS Member-at-Large: damon.boria@gmail.com&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;T Storm Heter\, NASS Member at Large: sheter@esu.edu&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;James Sares\, NASS Member-at-large: james.sares@uky.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Tom Meagher: NASS Member-at-large: tjm101@shsu.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Thomas Payre\, NASS Member-at-large: thp42@aber.ac.uk</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Varun Chandrasekhar\, NASS Member-at-Large: c.varun@wustl.edu</p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;NASS Webpage<em>:</em><a href="https://www.northamericansartresociety.org/"><em>&nbsp\;</em></a><a href="https://www.northamericansartresociety.org/"><em>https://www.northamericansartresociety.org</em></a></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;NASS Knowledge Commons Page:&nbsp\;<a href="https://hcommons.org/groups/north-american-sartre-studies-society/">https://hcommons.org/groups/north-american-sartre-studies-society/</a></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;NASS Facebook:&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/SartreSociety/">&nbsp\;</a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/SartreSociety/"><em>https://www.facebook.com/SartreSociety/</em></a></p>\n<p>●&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Sartre Studies International&nbsp\;<a href="https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/sartre-studies/sartre-studies-overview.xml"><em>https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/sartre-studies/sartre-studies-overview.xml</em></a></p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Dane Sawyer:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T090000
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SUMMARY:The Kristeva Circle
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LOCATION:Buffalo\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p>We are pleased to announce that the next annual meeting of The Kristeva Circle will be held at the University at Buffalo\, SUNY\, on October 23-24\, 2026.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The Kristeva Circle meeting is an international conference that advances scholarship on\, or influenced by\, philosopher\, psychoanalyst\, and novelist Julia Kristeva. The two-day conference will host a variety of speakers from the United States and abroad.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>In its 11th iteration\, the theme of the 2026 conference will broadly focus on embodiment. However\, given the tenant of the work of this year&rsquo\;s two keynote speakers we&nbsp\;encourage submissions that address the work of Julia Kristeva in relation to disability\, gender\, sexuality\, and race.</p>\n<p>We are delighted to share that we have two keynote speakers confirmed for this year&rsquo\;s conference. They are as follows:&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>David Marriott</strong> is the Charles T. Winship Professor of Philosophy at Emory University. He works broadly on Comparative Francophone Caribbean Literature and Literary theory\, psychoanalysis\, Black cultural theory and philosophies of race\, literary and visual cultures of modernism.&nbsp\;</li>\n<li><strong>Melinda C. Hall</strong> is Director of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida. Dr. Hall&rsquo\;s research specialties are philosophy of disability\, Continental philosophy\, and bioethics.&nbsp\;</li>\n</ul>\n<p>We are seeking abstracts that develop the work of Julia Kristeva\, with preference given to submissions that address embodiment broadly construed\, and more specifically disability\, gender\, sexuality\, and/or race.</p>\n<p>Please submit abstracts of 500 words\, prepared for anonymous review\, <strong>by April 30\, 2026</strong>\, to kristevacircle@gmail.com. In a separate document\, include a short author bio with contact info. For more information on the conference\, please write to the local host\, Elisabeth Paquette\, at epaquette@buffalo.edu.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Elisabeth Paquette:
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261024T070000
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SUMMARY:Imaginative Ideas and Political Cohesion: Spinoza on the Hebrew Commonwealth
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TZID:Europe/Berlin
LOCATION:Berlin\, Germany
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Imaginative Ideas and Political Cohesion: Spinoza on the Hebrew Commonwealth</strong></p>\n<p>Spinoza is often portrayed as a philosopher committed to the supremacy of reason over imagination. In the <em>Ethics</em>\, imaginative ideas are described as inadequate\, partial\, and confused forms of cognition. Yet his political writings suggest a more complex relationship between imagination and human flourishing. The <em>Theological-Political Treatise</em> in particular indicates that imagination is not merely a source of epistemic limitation but also a condition of collective political life.</p>\n<p>This paper argues that Spinoza&rsquo\;s account of the Hebrew Commonwealth reveals a constructive political role for imaginative ideas. The cohesion of the ancient Hebrew state depended upon a network of shared narratives\, religious symbols\, collective memories\, rituals\, and beliefs that shaped the imagination of its citizens. The covenant between God and Israel\, the authority of Moses\, and the idea of divine election did not derive their political force from rational demonstration. Rather\, they operated through the imagination\, organizing affects\, sustaining loyalty\, and fostering obedience to common laws.</p>\n<p>By examining the Hebrew Commonwealth as a political order grounded in imagination\, the paper challenges interpretations that treat imaginative ideas solely as cognitive deficiencies destined to be superseded by reason. While reason remains the highest form of knowledge\, Spinoza recognizes that political communities cannot be maintained through rational insight alone. Most individuals are guided primarily by imaginative representations\, and stable institutions therefore depend upon shared images\, narratives\, and symbols capable of generating solidarity and commitment to a common political project.</p>\n\n<p>The Hebrew Commonwealth thus serves as a privileged case through which Spinoza demonstrates the enduring political significance of imagination. Far from being merely a mark of human imperfection\, imaginative ideas provide many of the symbolic and affective resources necessary for political cohesion. Spinoza&rsquo\;s analysis\, therefore\, offers a distinctive account of the relationship between imagination\, affect\, and political order\, one that remains relevant to contemporary discussions of collective identity and social integration.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Oliver Toth;CN=Domenica Romagni;CN=Leonardo Moauro:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261024T080000
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SUMMARY:McMaster Philosophy Graduate Conference
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TZID:America/Toronto
LOCATION:1280 Main St W\, Hamilton\, Canada\, L8S 4L8
DESCRIPTION:<p>Bringing together scholars in the field of philosophy\, this one-day conference aims to provide a welcoming venue for graduate students in philosophy to present their work and engage with other students on a variety of topics and inquiries. We will be hosting a variety of talks ranging from aesthetics\, feminist philosohpy\, phenomenology\, and AI ethics.</p>\n\n<p>We are excited to have Dr. Kimberley Brownlee as our keynote speaker for the event.</p>\n\n
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20261024T090000
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SUMMARY:University of Utah Graduate Philosophy Conference
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TZID:America/Denver
LOCATION:Carolyn Tanner Irish Humanities Building\, Salt Lake City\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p>The University of Utah philosophy graduate students are excited to open submissions for our 2026 conference\, which will be held in-person on Saturday\, October 24th.&nbsp\;We welcome submissions from all areas of philosophy but are particularly interested in topics that match the interests of our current graduate students.</p>\n<p>Some of these areas are philosophy of science\, aesthetics\, political philosophy\, social epistemology\, formal epistemology\, applied philosophy broadly construed\, and ethics.</p>\n<p>Keynote Speaker:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Eliya Cohen (The University of Utah)</p>\n<p>To apply\, please submit a 300-500 word abstract (as a pdf) to:&nbsp\;uofuphilgradconference@gmail.com&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Abstracts must be anonymous.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Submission Deadline: September 1st\, 2026.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Notification of Acceptance: September 8th\, 2026.</p>\n<p>Questions can be directed to:&nbsp\;uofuphilgradconference@gmail.com</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Lola Warnick:
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261027T180000
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SUMMARY:"Ricœur\, Dead or Alive?" Fonds Ricœur Monthly Seminar (ENS\, Paris)
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LOCATION:École Normale Supérieure\, 45 rue d'Ulm\, Paris\, France\, 75005
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Presentation of the Seminar</strong></p>\n<p>The seminar "Actualit&eacute\;s de Ric&oelig\;ur" ("Ric&oelig\;ur Studies Today") aims to offer a space for discussion and development for early-career research on Ric&oelig\;ur. Hosted at the &Eacute\;cole Normale Sup&eacute\;rieure for the 2026&ndash\;2027 academic year\, it welcomes proposals from doctoral students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars who wish to explore\, extend\, or put to the test the resources of Paul Ric&oelig\;ur's philosophy.</p>\n<p>The first edition of this seminar is entitled "Ric&oelig\;ur\, Dead or Alive?" &mdash\; a deliberately ambiguous formulation\, one that invites us to question both the internal vitality of his &oelig\;uvre and its capacity to nourish the philosophical\, ethical\, and political debates of today.</p>\n<p>Is Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutic phenomenology not defined\, in essence\, by its defense of &mdash\; and\, as it were\, its "vow" (v&oelig\;u) in favor of &mdash\; life\, the living\, and the lively? But is he still a living interlocutor\, or has his thought sedimented into heritage?</p>\n<p>The seminar will follow this format: two speakers per two-hour session\, with 30 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of discussion for each speaker.</p>\n<p>For paper proposals\, we welcome submissions engaging with three thematic axes.</p>\n<p><strong>Axis I. Life as Resistance &ndash\; Language\, Time\, and Action</strong></p>\n<p>How does life affirm\, narrate\, and configure itself in the face of what negates it? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutic phenomenology is traversed by a fundamental tension between the power to act and the multiple forms of its hindrance. Confronted with evil\, forgetting\, or indeed death\, Ric&oelig\;ur explores the diverse forms of resistance at work within life &mdash\; metaphors\, narratives\, memories\, history. These resistances\, as actions\, possess an intrinsic logic and continue to create the meaning of life.</p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Lines of Approach</strong></p>\n<p>1. Language as resistance: How does the "living metaphor" (<em>The Rule of Metaphor</em>\, 1975) constitute a form of resistance to the "entropy of language\," which freezes meaning? In what sense is semantic innovation a vital act\, a "revival"?</p>\n<p>2. Narrative as resistance: In <em>Time and Narrative </em>(1983&ndash\;1985)\, emplotment is presented as a provisional victory over temporal discordance. How are we to think this victory in the face of the radicality of Heideggerian "being-towards-death"?</p>\n<p>3. Memory as resistance: <em>Memory\, History\, Forgetting </em>(2000) distinguishes between forgetting kept in reserve and forgetting through effacement. In what way does this distinction commit us to an ethics of memory as a form of fidelity to life?</p>\n<p><strong>Axis II. A Life of One's Own &ndash\; Selfhood\, Vulnerability\, Ethicity</strong></p>\n<p>How might vulnerability\, far from being a limit of subjectivity\, be its very condition of ethical possibility? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutics of the self is built upon the recognition of a constitutive fragility: narrative identity is always exposed to rupture\, to suffering\, to undergoing the action of the other &mdash\; the other inscribing at the very heart of the self. This axis proposes to deepen reflection on the relation between the self and the other\, and to explore the modes by which a "good life" may be accomplished\, starting from the concrete ordeals of vulnerability: trauma\, the quest for mutual recognition\, and the precariousness of existence.</p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Lines of Approach</strong></p>\n<p>4. The ordeal of narrative identity: <em>Oneself as Another </em>(1990) articulates <em>idem</em>-identity and <em>ipse</em>-identity around the self-constancy under trial. What becomes of this articulation when the trial is that of identity's collapse &mdash\; serious illness\, exile\, trauma? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutics of narrative identity also resonates with debates on the performativity of identity and with gender studies (Butler).</p>\n<p>5. The reciprocity of recognition: In <em>The Course of Recognition</em> (2004)\, Ric&oelig\;ur moves from self-recognition to mutual recognition. How might this course enter into dialogue with contemporary theories of vulnerability (Weil\, Levinas) or of care?</p>\n<p>6. The ethical life: The "ethical aim" defined in the "ethical studies" (<em>Oneself as Another</em>\, Studies 5-7) seeks to realize a "good life." Does this notion remain operative in the face of situations of thwarted life\, precarity\, or desubjectivation?</p>\n<p><strong>Axis III. Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s Survival &ndash\; Present Legacies</strong></p>\n<p>Ric&oelig\;ur maintained a singular relationship with his own era\, marked as much by fruitful resonances as by sharp conflicts. This axis seeks to interrogate the philosophical actuality of these past debates: what extensions\, what corrections\, and what ruptures does Ric&oelig\;urian thought call for today? Proposals will place Ric&oelig\;ur's texts in critical dialogue with contemporary problematics\, without confining themselves to historical reconstruction.</p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Lines of Approach</strong></p>\n<p>7. Radical alterity in phenomenology: Ric&oelig\;ur engaged in a twofold critical dialogue with Derridean deconstruction and Levinasian ethics &mdash\; two distinct contestations of the autonomy of the self\, the one through the play of language\, the other through the ethical injunction of the face. How do these confrontations\, taken together\, illuminate the limits and the resources of the hermeneutics of the self in the face of the contemporary challenges of hospitality\, communication\, and responsibility?</p>\n<p>8. Philosophical anthropology: Is the human being\, understood as the "capable human being" (<em>From Text to Action</em>\, 1986)\, in a position to accommodate new forms of agency &mdash\; collective\, distributed\, digital &mdash\; or do its anthropological presuppositions constrain it? In this regard\, Ric&oelig\;urian philosophy could enter into fruitful dialogue with the theories of Stiegler (tertiary retention) and Arendt (collective action).</p>\n<p>9. Justice today: How might Ric&oelig\;ur's reflections on justice\, collective memory\, and forgiveness (<em>Memory\, History\, Forgetting</em>\, Epilogue) be articulated with the contemporary stakes of memory conflicts\, politics of reconciliation\, or postcolonial reparations? Ric&oelig\;ur's philosophy is bound up with figures such as Halbwachs\, Derrida\, and Honneth. His reflection on memory and forgiveness continues to shed lasting light on the practices of transitional justice.</p>\n<p><strong>Submission Guidelines</strong></p>\n<p>To submit a proposal or for any inquiries\, please write to us at the following address: <a href="mailto:seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com"><u>seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com</u></a>. Proposals are welcome from doctoral students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars of any discipline (philosophy\, literary studies\, theology\, social sciences\, law)\, provided that they are grounded in Ric&oelig\;ur's texts and in contemporary debates for which Ric&oelig\;urian theory could be fruitfully mobilized. Comparative and transdisciplinary proposals are welcome. We will accept proposals in French and in English.</p>\n<p><strong>Practical Information</strong></p>\n<p>Submissions: <a href="mailto:seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com"><u>seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com</u></a></p>\n<p>Submission deadline: 20 September 2026</p>\n<p>Venue: &Eacute\;cole Normale Sup&eacute\;rieure\, 45 rue d'Ulm\, Paris (75005)</p>\n<p>Frequency: monthly (2026&ndash\;2027 academic year)\, normally on the last Tuesday of each month\, beginning on <u>Tuesday 27 October</u>.</p>\n<p>Schedule: 27 October\; 24 November\; 15 December (due to the holiday break)\; 26 January\; 23 February\; 16 March\; 30 March\; 27 April.</p>\n<p><strong>Paper proposals must follow these guidelines:</strong></p>\n<p>An anonymized abstract of 400 to 600 words in Word format\, specifying the title of the paper\, the chosen axis\, and the thesis defended\, accompanied by an indicative bibliography.</p>\n<p>A brief bio-bibliographical note (name\, affiliation\, current position\, thesis supervisor where applicable) should be included in the body of the email. To facilitate the archiving and processing of your submission\, we kindly ask you to format the subject line of your email as follows: [Seminar Application] Surname &ndash\; Title of the Paper. Formatting guidelines for the (anonymous) abstract: Times New Roman or Arial\, 12-point font\, 1.5 line spacing.</p>\n<p>We wish for the papers to be delivered in person\, in order to facilitate the discussions that lie at the heart of the seminar spirit of this initiative. A link will nevertheless be available for those who wish to follow the event remotely\, where applicable.</p>\n<p>The seminar has no dedicated budget for the reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses\, and in-person participation is at the speakers' own expense. We therefore encourage them to explore\, as a first step\, the funding available from their research unit\, doctoral school\, or home institution.</p>\n<p>Selected speakers will be invited to submit a preparatory text (25\,000 characters maximum)\, to be circulated to participants one week before the session\, and sent to the contact address (<a href="mailto:seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com"><u>seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com</u></a>).</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Barberousse Tristan;CN=Hu Kexin;CN=Lodi Martina;CN=Chen Qiyu:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Port_of_Spain:20261028T090000
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SUMMARY:1st Annual Algorithmacy Conference
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LOCATION:Arima\, Trinidad and Tobago
DESCRIPTION:<p>The First Global Algorithmacy Conference<br><br>Acronym<br>ALGOCON 2026<br><br>Web page<br>https://algorithmacy.com<br><br>Location<br>La Brea Pitch Lake\, Trinidad and Tobago<br><br>Submission deadline<br>15 August 2026<br><br>Notification due<br>Rolling (public review on the PR thread\, typically within ~5 business days of submission)\; final decisions by September 1 2026<br><br>Final version due<br>At acceptance &mdash\; accepted papers are published with their full review history on the public repository<br><br>Categories / keywords<br>Algorithmic management\, Platform labor\, Gig economy\, Future of work\, Human-AI interaction\, Computer-mediated communication\, Communication competency\, AI literacy\, Labor studies\, Science and technology studies\, Measurement and scale development\, Global South\, Caribbean studies<br><br>PART 2 &mdash\; Call for Papers (paste into the body field)<br><br>The First Global Algorithmacy Conference<br>La Brea Pitch Lake\, Trinidad and Tobago &middot\; Late October / Early November 2026<br>Hosted by GauntleTT in partnership with a Trinidad institutional partner (TBA)<br>Submission deadline: 15 August 2026 &middot\; Open review &middot\; Open access &middot\; APA 7<br>Submit at https://algorithmacy.com<br><br>The argument the conference convenes around<br><br>Algorithmacy is the communication competency through which a worker coordinates with another human party through an algorithmic third party. The construct names what the platform-work literature has been documenting without naming: a worker-level capacity that explains why equivalently positioned participants on identical algorithmic systems achieve divergent coordination outcomes. The competency vocabulary the field inherited from computer-mediated communication\, human-machine communication\, and AI-mediated communication was built around a worker on one side of a medium\, partner\, or sender-side agent. It does not reach the form in which the algorithm sits between two human parties and acts on inputs from both in pursuit of its own objectives.<br><br>A new coordination form has produced a new competency before\, and the new competency was not a refinement of the prior one. Oracy and literacy are the historical precedents. Oracy was the competency a face-to-face speaker exercised before a listener present in the same place at the same time. Writing introduced a third structural position the speaker had not occupied &mdash\; an author addressing a reader through a document that conveyed without acting &mdash\; and the competency that form required was not more proficient speech but reading\, writing\, citing\, and working through institutions that ran on text. The algorithmic form is not a more sophisticated channel through which writing happens. It is a third party with its own objectives that transforms each input as part of its operation\, and the competency it requires has not yet been named in the field's existing vocabulary.<br><br>Institutions are already building curricula for the new form\, and the vocabulary scholarship hands them will determine what those institutions train. Bootcamps\, certification regimes\, gig-worker advocacy organizations\, platform-cooperative experiments\, AI engineering programs\, and state-level workforce-development efforts converge on what they variously call algorithmic skill\, AI fluency\, or platform literacy &mdash\; each naming something the algorithm does or shows\, and each training workers to read what the algorithm displays rather than to coordinate with another person through it.<br><br>The conference convenes the scholars\, practitioners\, educators\, and worker advocates whose work bears on this question. It asks what algorithmacy is\, how it develops\, how it should be measured\, how it distributes across worker populations\, how it transfers across architectures\, how it aggregates to teams and institutions\, and what training\, certification\, and labor protection look like once the construct is in place.<br><br>Why La Brea<br><br>La Brea Pitch Lake is the world's largest natural deposit of asphalt &mdash\; an opaque substrate that has produced the roads of empires while remaining itself unreadable to those who walked over it. The choice of venue is not metaphor for its own sake. The conference convenes in a Caribbean nation whose talent is being recruited into the global algorithmic economy under terms its workers and institutions did not author. Whether the competency develops uniformly across populations or replicates existing stratification will be answered first in the regions whose workers enter the form last. La Brea grounds the convening in that stake.<br><br>Tracks and suggested topics<br><br>Submissions are invited in the following twelve tracks. Listed topics are suggestive\, not exhaustive. Authors working across two or more tracks should choose the closest fit and note the secondary track in the submission.<br><br>Track 1 &mdash\; Construct and theory<br>The conceptual domain of algorithmacy and construct clarity\; the variance puzzle\; the triadic form as a coordination form distinct from dyadic precedents\; discriminant position relative to CMC competence\, HMC\, AI-MC\, algorithmic literacy\, AI literacy\, algorithm sensemaking\, and algorithmic competency\; jingle and jangle problems in the human-AI construct family\; co-optation as a coordination mechanism alongside hierarchy\, market\, and network\; competency versus literacy/sensemaking/knowledge\; boundary conditions\; levels of analysis\; definitions\, dimensions\, and the nomological network.<br><br>Track 2 &mdash\; Historical and philosophical foundations<br>Oracy &rarr\; literacy &rarr\; algorithmacy as ontological transitions in coordination\; the Ong/Goody/Havelock lineage and the cognitive neuroscience of literacy\; the New Literacy Studies critique and what survives it\; print as a structural transition\; algorithmic culture and cultural-epistemic rupture\; contemporary articulations of the algorithmic epoch\; the intermediary/mediator distinction and its limits in the triadic case\; the irreducibility of triads\; the sociology of paperwork and the bureaucratic file\; the mediated triad as a form distinct from brokerage and tertius traditions.<br><br>Track 3 &mdash\; Measurement and scale development<br>Item generation and content validation\; discriminant validity against algorithmic literacy\, AI literacy\, algorithm sensemaking\, and algorithmic competency\; measurement invariance across cohorts\, populations\, platforms\, and languages\; longitudinal trajectory analysis\; mixed-methods designs for situated competency\; ethnographic methods for real-time platform interaction\; the construct-identity fallacy in human-AI measurement\; frameworks for triadic competency constructs\; convergent validity\; cohort-based replication of confirmatory factor structure.<br><br>Track 4 &mdash\; Empirical settings<br>Rideshare\, food delivery\, and on-demand labor\; freelance platforms and opaque-evaluation cases\; AI engineering and AI-augmented IDEs\; knowledge work with LLMs in legal\, medical\, and consulting contexts\; healthcare diagnostic and triage systems\; customer service under recommendation and routing\; education under AI tutoring and assessment\; content creation and journalism under recommender mediation\; logistics\, warehousing\, and last-mile delivery\; financial services\, lending\, and credit under algorithmic decisioning.<br><br>Track 5 &mdash\; Antecedents<br>Exposure to mediated coordination as the primary engine\; reflective practice and feedback interpretation\; motivational engagement and the partner-versus-constraint framing\; peer social support and cognitive job crafting\; implicit acquisition without curriculum\; prior digital exposure and transfer from other domains\; mentorship\, apprenticeship\, and shadow learning\; folk theorization and adaptive practice on changing platforms\; reflection-in-action under algorithmic conditions\; workplace social ecologies as antecedents.<br><br>Track 6 &mdash\; Outcomes<br>Coordination success on measurable platforms\; earnings and the worker-level economics of mediation\; retention and persistence through algorithmic disruption\; AI burnout as a competency rather than a workload problem\; service behavior and worker-customer interaction\; identification with platform work and work-identity formation\; career trajectories and mobility within and across platforms\; well-being\, autonomy\, anxiety\, and isolation\; resistance\, voice\, and political mobilization\; performance benchmarking and coordination quality.<br><br>Track 7 &mdash\; Distribution and stratification<br>Algorithmic awareness\, knowledge gaps\, and digital divides\; gender\, race\, and class in platform coordination outcomes\; regional and national variation in capacity development\; the coding elite and the cybertariat as political-economy positions\; algorithmacy as human capital versus access to developmental conditions\; algorithmic stratification as a vector of labor-market inequality\; the Global South and the algorithmic frontier\; Indigenous\, diasporic\, and minoritized communities\; generational differences\; disability\, neurodivergence\, and triadic coordination.<br><br>Track 8 &mdash\; Transferability<br>Multi-homing and platform-portable competency\; architecture-specific versus architecture-general capacity\; generalization of algorithmic management features across platforms\; the encoding problem and the abstraction the form imposes\; worker-skill-transfer mechanisms\; cross-architectural learning curves and switching costs\; generalized algorithmacy versus platform-specific repertoires\; relation to broader sociotechnical competencies\; transfer across human and algorithmic interlocutors\; transfer across natural-language and code-based systems.<br><br>Track 9 &mdash\; Aggregation\, institutions\, and curriculum<br>Team-level algorithmacy and collective coordination capacity\; organizational algorithmacy as a firm-level capability\; curriculum design &mdash\; what training should actually teach\; certification and credentialing regimes\; the AI engineering bootcamp as a developmental setting\; higher education and the algorithmic curriculum\; K-12 instruction alongside oracy and literacy\; workforce development under platform displacement\; apprenticeship models\; professional associations and learned societies.<br><br>Track 10 &mdash\; Labor protections\, policy\, and political economy<br>Legal recognition of platform-mediated work\; unions and worker centers\; platform cooperativism and alternative ownership\; state-level regulation of algorithmic management\; international labor law and the cross-border platform\; worker data rights and algorithmic accountability\; wage transparency and information asymmetries\; national AI strategies and worker development\; the sovereignty question for small states\; algorithmacy as a micro-foundation of organizational and national sovereignty.<br><br>Track 11 &mdash\; Caribbean\, Global South\, and frontier perspectives<br>Caribbean labor markets and the platform economy\; AI talent development in small island developing states\; Trinidad and Tobago\, GauntleTT\, and the Caribbean AI engineering pipeline\; diaspora networks and cross-border mediated coordination\; postcolonial frameworks for reading platform capital\; language\, code-switching\, and multilingual interfaces\; Caribbean creative industries under algorithmic distribution\; resource economies and the energy demands of AI\; South-South cooperation on competency development\; the question of an algorithmic equivalent to the New International Economic Order.<br><br>Track 12 &mdash\; Critique\, limits\, and the conference's own commitments<br>The case for refining existing constructs rather than naming a new one\; the case against the literacy-historical analogy\; materialist and labor-process critiques\; critical algorithm studies and whether competency is the right unit\; phenomenological and existential readings of mediation\; the limits of measurement and the case for ethnographic primacy\; decolonial critiques of competency-development frameworks\; the political risks of credentialing\; what algorithmacy cannot reach\; the conference's own complicity in convening under the conditions it studies.<br><br>Submission types<br><br>The conference accepts five submission types:<br>- Full paper &mdash\; 6&ndash\;8 pages. Empirical\, theoretical\, or review work.<br>- Research note &mdash\; 2&ndash\;3 pages. Work-in-progress\, methodological innovations\, single-case studies.<br>- Panel &mdash\; 3&ndash\;4 participants with a unifying argument and a short framing statement.<br>- Poster &mdash\; visual presentation with a one-page extended abstract.<br>- Practitioner report &mdash\; 2&ndash\;4 pages from worker advocates\, organizers\, curriculum designers\, and policy practitioners\; reviewed for relevance and substance rather than academic form.<br><br>How to submit<br><br>Intake is via pull request against the conference's public repository. Drop a 300&ndash\;500-word abstract and outline as submissions/(your-handle).md\, then open a PR titled [Type] [TR.0X] Your title. Full instructions and an AI-assisted submission path are at https://algorithmacy.com. Manuscripts follow APA 7. Submissions are in English\; translation support is available for presenters whose first language is not English.<br><br>Review model &mdash\; open\, signed\, published\, timestamped<br><br>This is open review. Submissions and review threads live on the public repository from the moment of intake\; there is no anonymized stage. Reviewers attach their names to their assessments. Accepted papers ship alongside their full review history &mdash\; reviewer reports\, author responses\, and the revision trail. Your pull request is a public\, dated record: in any future priority dispute\, the conference will support your claim based on the PR timestamp. Review is rolling\, with responses on the PR thread typically within about five business days.<br><br>Awards<br>- Founders' Paper Award &mdash\; best full paper.<br>- Pitch Lake Prize &mdash\; most theoretically generative early-career contribution.<br>- GauntleTT Practitioner Award &mdash\; the practitioner report that most advances the translation of algorithmacy into curriculum\, policy\, or worker advocacy.<br><br>Travel and logistics<br><br>The venue is approximately 90 minutes by road from Piarco International Airport. Limited travel support is available for scholars from low- and middle-income countries\, doctoral students\, and worker representatives\; apply with your abstract. A site visit to the Pitch Lake is built into the program.<br><br>Key dates<br>- Submission deadline: 1 August 2026<br>- Review: rolling\, public on the PR thread (~5 business days)<br>- Final decisions: [CONFIRM &mdash\; suggested mid-September 2026]<br>- Conference: [CONFIRM] Late October / Early November 2026\, La Brea Pitch Lake\, Trinidad and Tobago<br><br>Contact<br>Roger Hunt\, Bentley University &mdash\; rhunt@bentley.edu<br>Web: https://algorithmacy.com</p>\n\n\nContact Information\n\n<p>Roger Hunt</p>\n\n\n\nContact Email\nrhunt@bentley.edu\n\n\nURL\nhttps://www.algorithmacy.com</a>\n
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DESCRIPTION:<p>The First Global Algorithmacy Conference<br><br>Acronym<br>ALGOCON 2026<br><br>Web page<br>https://algorithmacy.com<br><br>Location<br>La Brea Pitch Lake\, Trinidad and Tobago<br><br>Submission deadline<br>15 August 2026<br><br>Notification due<br>Rolling (public review on the PR thread\, typically within ~5 business days of submission)\; final decisions by September 1 2026<br><br>Final version due<br>At acceptance &mdash\; accepted papers are published with their full review history on the public repository<br><br>Categories / keywords<br>Algorithmic management\, Platform labor\, Gig economy\, Future of work\, Human-AI interaction\, Computer-mediated communication\, Communication competency\, AI literacy\, Labor studies\, Science and technology studies\, Measurement and scale development\, Global South\, Caribbean studies<br><br>PART 2 &mdash\; Call for Papers (paste into the body field)<br><br>The First Global Algorithmacy Conference<br>La Brea Pitch Lake\, Trinidad and Tobago &middot\; Late October / Early November 2026<br>Hosted by GauntleTT in partnership with a Trinidad institutional partner (TBA)<br>Submission deadline: 15 August 2026 &middot\; Open review &middot\; Open access &middot\; APA 7<br>Submit at https://algorithmacy.com<br><br>The argument the conference convenes around<br><br>Algorithmacy is the communication competency through which a worker coordinates with another human party through an algorithmic third party. The construct names what the platform-work literature has been documenting without naming: a worker-level capacity that explains why equivalently positioned participants on identical algorithmic systems achieve divergent coordination outcomes. The competency vocabulary the field inherited from computer-mediated communication\, human-machine communication\, and AI-mediated communication was built around a worker on one side of a medium\, partner\, or sender-side agent. It does not reach the form in which the algorithm sits between two human parties and acts on inputs from both in pursuit of its own objectives.<br><br>A new coordination form has produced a new competency before\, and the new competency was not a refinement of the prior one. Oracy and literacy are the historical precedents. Oracy was the competency a face-to-face speaker exercised before a listener present in the same place at the same time. Writing introduced a third structural position the speaker had not occupied &mdash\; an author addressing a reader through a document that conveyed without acting &mdash\; and the competency that form required was not more proficient speech but reading\, writing\, citing\, and working through institutions that ran on text. The algorithmic form is not a more sophisticated channel through which writing happens. It is a third party with its own objectives that transforms each input as part of its operation\, and the competency it requires has not yet been named in the field's existing vocabulary.<br><br>Institutions are already building curricula for the new form\, and the vocabulary scholarship hands them will determine what those institutions train. Bootcamps\, certification regimes\, gig-worker advocacy organizations\, platform-cooperative experiments\, AI engineering programs\, and state-level workforce-development efforts converge on what they variously call algorithmic skill\, AI fluency\, or platform literacy &mdash\; each naming something the algorithm does or shows\, and each training workers to read what the algorithm displays rather than to coordinate with another person through it.<br><br>The conference convenes the scholars\, practitioners\, educators\, and worker advocates whose work bears on this question. It asks what algorithmacy is\, how it develops\, how it should be measured\, how it distributes across worker populations\, how it transfers across architectures\, how it aggregates to teams and institutions\, and what training\, certification\, and labor protection look like once the construct is in place.<br><br>Why La Brea<br><br>La Brea Pitch Lake is the world's largest natural deposit of asphalt &mdash\; an opaque substrate that has produced the roads of empires while remaining itself unreadable to those who walked over it. The choice of venue is not metaphor for its own sake. The conference convenes in a Caribbean nation whose talent is being recruited into the global algorithmic economy under terms its workers and institutions did not author. Whether the competency develops uniformly across populations or replicates existing stratification will be answered first in the regions whose workers enter the form last. La Brea grounds the convening in that stake.<br><br>Tracks and suggested topics<br><br>Submissions are invited in the following twelve tracks. Listed topics are suggestive\, not exhaustive. Authors working across two or more tracks should choose the closest fit and note the secondary track in the submission.<br><br>Track 1 &mdash\; Construct and theory<br>The conceptual domain of algorithmacy and construct clarity\; the variance puzzle\; the triadic form as a coordination form distinct from dyadic precedents\; discriminant position relative to CMC competence\, HMC\, AI-MC\, algorithmic literacy\, AI literacy\, algorithm sensemaking\, and algorithmic competency\; jingle and jangle problems in the human-AI construct family\; co-optation as a coordination mechanism alongside hierarchy\, market\, and network\; competency versus literacy/sensemaking/knowledge\; boundary conditions\; levels of analysis\; definitions\, dimensions\, and the nomological network.<br><br>Track 2 &mdash\; Historical and philosophical foundations<br>Oracy &rarr\; literacy &rarr\; algorithmacy as ontological transitions in coordination\; the Ong/Goody/Havelock lineage and the cognitive neuroscience of literacy\; the New Literacy Studies critique and what survives it\; print as a structural transition\; algorithmic culture and cultural-epistemic rupture\; contemporary articulations of the algorithmic epoch\; the intermediary/mediator distinction and its limits in the triadic case\; the irreducibility of triads\; the sociology of paperwork and the bureaucratic file\; the mediated triad as a form distinct from brokerage and tertius traditions.<br><br>Track 3 &mdash\; Measurement and scale development<br>Item generation and content validation\; discriminant validity against algorithmic literacy\, AI literacy\, algorithm sensemaking\, and algorithmic competency\; measurement invariance across cohorts\, populations\, platforms\, and languages\; longitudinal trajectory analysis\; mixed-methods designs for situated competency\; ethnographic methods for real-time platform interaction\; the construct-identity fallacy in human-AI measurement\; frameworks for triadic competency constructs\; convergent validity\; cohort-based replication of confirmatory factor structure.<br><br>Track 4 &mdash\; Empirical settings<br>Rideshare\, food delivery\, and on-demand labor\; freelance platforms and opaque-evaluation cases\; AI engineering and AI-augmented IDEs\; knowledge work with LLMs in legal\, medical\, and consulting contexts\; healthcare diagnostic and triage systems\; customer service under recommendation and routing\; education under AI tutoring and assessment\; content creation and journalism under recommender mediation\; logistics\, warehousing\, and last-mile delivery\; financial services\, lending\, and credit under algorithmic decisioning.<br><br>Track 5 &mdash\; Antecedents<br>Exposure to mediated coordination as the primary engine\; reflective practice and feedback interpretation\; motivational engagement and the partner-versus-constraint framing\; peer social support and cognitive job crafting\; implicit acquisition without curriculum\; prior digital exposure and transfer from other domains\; mentorship\, apprenticeship\, and shadow learning\; folk theorization and adaptive practice on changing platforms\; reflection-in-action under algorithmic conditions\; workplace social ecologies as antecedents.<br><br>Track 6 &mdash\; Outcomes<br>Coordination success on measurable platforms\; earnings and the worker-level economics of mediation\; retention and persistence through algorithmic disruption\; AI burnout as a competency rather than a workload problem\; service behavior and worker-customer interaction\; identification with platform work and work-identity formation\; career trajectories and mobility within and across platforms\; well-being\, autonomy\, anxiety\, and isolation\; resistance\, voice\, and political mobilization\; performance benchmarking and coordination quality.<br><br>Track 7 &mdash\; Distribution and stratification<br>Algorithmic awareness\, knowledge gaps\, and digital divides\; gender\, race\, and class in platform coordination outcomes\; regional and national variation in capacity development\; the coding elite and the cybertariat as political-economy positions\; algorithmacy as human capital versus access to developmental conditions\; algorithmic stratification as a vector of labor-market inequality\; the Global South and the algorithmic frontier\; Indigenous\, diasporic\, and minoritized communities\; generational differences\; disability\, neurodivergence\, and triadic coordination.<br><br>Track 8 &mdash\; Transferability<br>Multi-homing and platform-portable competency\; architecture-specific versus architecture-general capacity\; generalization of algorithmic management features across platforms\; the encoding problem and the abstraction the form imposes\; worker-skill-transfer mechanisms\; cross-architectural learning curves and switching costs\; generalized algorithmacy versus platform-specific repertoires\; relation to broader sociotechnical competencies\; transfer across human and algorithmic interlocutors\; transfer across natural-language and code-based systems.<br><br>Track 9 &mdash\; Aggregation\, institutions\, and curriculum<br>Team-level algorithmacy and collective coordination capacity\; organizational algorithmacy as a firm-level capability\; curriculum design &mdash\; what training should actually teach\; certification and credentialing regimes\; the AI engineering bootcamp as a developmental setting\; higher education and the algorithmic curriculum\; K-12 instruction alongside oracy and literacy\; workforce development under platform displacement\; apprenticeship models\; professional associations and learned societies.<br><br>Track 10 &mdash\; Labor protections\, policy\, and political economy<br>Legal recognition of platform-mediated work\; unions and worker centers\; platform cooperativism and alternative ownership\; state-level regulation of algorithmic management\; international labor law and the cross-border platform\; worker data rights and algorithmic accountability\; wage transparency and information asymmetries\; national AI strategies and worker development\; the sovereignty question for small states\; algorithmacy as a micro-foundation of organizational and national sovereignty.<br><br>Track 11 &mdash\; Caribbean\, Global South\, and frontier perspectives<br>Caribbean labor markets and the platform economy\; AI talent development in small island developing states\; Trinidad and Tobago\, GauntleTT\, and the Caribbean AI engineering pipeline\; diaspora networks and cross-border mediated coordination\; postcolonial frameworks for reading platform capital\; language\, code-switching\, and multilingual interfaces\; Caribbean creative industries under algorithmic distribution\; resource economies and the energy demands of AI\; South-South cooperation on competency development\; the question of an algorithmic equivalent to the New International Economic Order.<br><br>Track 12 &mdash\; Critique\, limits\, and the conference's own commitments<br>The case for refining existing constructs rather than naming a new one\; the case against the literacy-historical analogy\; materialist and labor-process critiques\; critical algorithm studies and whether competency is the right unit\; phenomenological and existential readings of mediation\; the limits of measurement and the case for ethnographic primacy\; decolonial critiques of competency-development frameworks\; the political risks of credentialing\; what algorithmacy cannot reach\; the conference's own complicity in convening under the conditions it studies.<br><br>Submission types<br><br>The conference accepts five submission types:<br>- Full paper &mdash\; 6&ndash\;8 pages. Empirical\, theoretical\, or review work.<br>- Research note &mdash\; 2&ndash\;3 pages. Work-in-progress\, methodological innovations\, single-case studies.<br>- Panel &mdash\; 3&ndash\;4 participants with a unifying argument and a short framing statement.<br>- Poster &mdash\; visual presentation with a one-page extended abstract.<br>- Practitioner report &mdash\; 2&ndash\;4 pages from worker advocates\, organizers\, curriculum designers\, and policy practitioners\; reviewed for relevance and substance rather than academic form.<br><br>How to submit<br><br>Intake is via pull request against the conference's public repository. Drop a 300&ndash\;500-word abstract and outline as submissions/(your-handle).md\, then open a PR titled [Type] [TR.0X] Your title. Full instructions and an AI-assisted submission path are at https://algorithmacy.com. Manuscripts follow APA 7. Submissions are in English\; translation support is available for presenters whose first language is not English.<br><br>Review model &mdash\; open\, signed\, published\, timestamped<br><br>This is open review. Submissions and review threads live on the public repository from the moment of intake\; there is no anonymized stage. Reviewers attach their names to their assessments. Accepted papers ship alongside their full review history &mdash\; reviewer reports\, author responses\, and the revision trail. Your pull request is a public\, dated record: in any future priority dispute\, the conference will support your claim based on the PR timestamp. Review is rolling\, with responses on the PR thread typically within about five business days.<br><br>Awards<br>- Founders' Paper Award &mdash\; best full paper.<br>- Pitch Lake Prize &mdash\; most theoretically generative early-career contribution.<br>- GauntleTT Practitioner Award &mdash\; the practitioner report that most advances the translation of algorithmacy into curriculum\, policy\, or worker advocacy.<br><br>Travel and logistics<br><br>The venue is approximately 90 minutes by road from Piarco International Airport. Limited travel support is available for scholars from low- and middle-income countries\, doctoral students\, and worker representatives\; apply with your abstract. A site visit to the Pitch Lake is built into the program.<br><br>Key dates<br>- Submission deadline: 1 August 2026<br>- Review: rolling\, public on the PR thread (~5 business days)<br>- Final decisions: [CONFIRM &mdash\; suggested mid-September 2026]<br>- Conference: [CONFIRM] Late October / Early November 2026\, La Brea Pitch Lake\, Trinidad and Tobago<br><br>Contact<br>Roger Hunt\, Bentley University &mdash\; rhunt@bentley.edu<br>Web: https://algorithmacy.com</p>\n\n\nContact Information\n\n<p>Roger Hunt</p>\n\n\n\nContact Email\nrhunt@bentley.edu\n\n\nURL\nhttps://www.algorithmacy.com</a>\n
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DESCRIPTION:<p>The First Global Algorithmacy Conference<br><br>Acronym<br>ALGOCON 2026<br><br>Web page<br>https://algorithmacy.com<br><br>Location<br>La Brea Pitch Lake\, Trinidad and Tobago<br><br>Submission deadline<br>15 August 2026<br><br>Notification due<br>Rolling (public review on the PR thread\, typically within ~5 business days of submission)\; final decisions by September 1 2026<br><br>Final version due<br>At acceptance &mdash\; accepted papers are published with their full review history on the public repository<br><br>Categories / keywords<br>Algorithmic management\, Platform labor\, Gig economy\, Future of work\, Human-AI interaction\, Computer-mediated communication\, Communication competency\, AI literacy\, Labor studies\, Science and technology studies\, Measurement and scale development\, Global South\, Caribbean studies<br><br>PART 2 &mdash\; Call for Papers (paste into the body field)<br><br>The First Global Algorithmacy Conference<br>La Brea Pitch Lake\, Trinidad and Tobago &middot\; Late October / Early November 2026<br>Hosted by GauntleTT in partnership with a Trinidad institutional partner (TBA)<br>Submission deadline: 15 August 2026 &middot\; Open review &middot\; Open access &middot\; APA 7<br>Submit at https://algorithmacy.com<br><br>The argument the conference convenes around<br><br>Algorithmacy is the communication competency through which a worker coordinates with another human party through an algorithmic third party. The construct names what the platform-work literature has been documenting without naming: a worker-level capacity that explains why equivalently positioned participants on identical algorithmic systems achieve divergent coordination outcomes. The competency vocabulary the field inherited from computer-mediated communication\, human-machine communication\, and AI-mediated communication was built around a worker on one side of a medium\, partner\, or sender-side agent. It does not reach the form in which the algorithm sits between two human parties and acts on inputs from both in pursuit of its own objectives.<br><br>A new coordination form has produced a new competency before\, and the new competency was not a refinement of the prior one. Oracy and literacy are the historical precedents. Oracy was the competency a face-to-face speaker exercised before a listener present in the same place at the same time. Writing introduced a third structural position the speaker had not occupied &mdash\; an author addressing a reader through a document that conveyed without acting &mdash\; and the competency that form required was not more proficient speech but reading\, writing\, citing\, and working through institutions that ran on text. The algorithmic form is not a more sophisticated channel through which writing happens. It is a third party with its own objectives that transforms each input as part of its operation\, and the competency it requires has not yet been named in the field's existing vocabulary.<br><br>Institutions are already building curricula for the new form\, and the vocabulary scholarship hands them will determine what those institutions train. Bootcamps\, certification regimes\, gig-worker advocacy organizations\, platform-cooperative experiments\, AI engineering programs\, and state-level workforce-development efforts converge on what they variously call algorithmic skill\, AI fluency\, or platform literacy &mdash\; each naming something the algorithm does or shows\, and each training workers to read what the algorithm displays rather than to coordinate with another person through it.<br><br>The conference convenes the scholars\, practitioners\, educators\, and worker advocates whose work bears on this question. It asks what algorithmacy is\, how it develops\, how it should be measured\, how it distributes across worker populations\, how it transfers across architectures\, how it aggregates to teams and institutions\, and what training\, certification\, and labor protection look like once the construct is in place.<br><br>Why La Brea<br><br>La Brea Pitch Lake is the world's largest natural deposit of asphalt &mdash\; an opaque substrate that has produced the roads of empires while remaining itself unreadable to those who walked over it. The choice of venue is not metaphor for its own sake. The conference convenes in a Caribbean nation whose talent is being recruited into the global algorithmic economy under terms its workers and institutions did not author. Whether the competency develops uniformly across populations or replicates existing stratification will be answered first in the regions whose workers enter the form last. La Brea grounds the convening in that stake.<br><br>Tracks and suggested topics<br><br>Submissions are invited in the following twelve tracks. Listed topics are suggestive\, not exhaustive. Authors working across two or more tracks should choose the closest fit and note the secondary track in the submission.<br><br>Track 1 &mdash\; Construct and theory<br>The conceptual domain of algorithmacy and construct clarity\; the variance puzzle\; the triadic form as a coordination form distinct from dyadic precedents\; discriminant position relative to CMC competence\, HMC\, AI-MC\, algorithmic literacy\, AI literacy\, algorithm sensemaking\, and algorithmic competency\; jingle and jangle problems in the human-AI construct family\; co-optation as a coordination mechanism alongside hierarchy\, market\, and network\; competency versus literacy/sensemaking/knowledge\; boundary conditions\; levels of analysis\; definitions\, dimensions\, and the nomological network.<br><br>Track 2 &mdash\; Historical and philosophical foundations<br>Oracy &rarr\; literacy &rarr\; algorithmacy as ontological transitions in coordination\; the Ong/Goody/Havelock lineage and the cognitive neuroscience of literacy\; the New Literacy Studies critique and what survives it\; print as a structural transition\; algorithmic culture and cultural-epistemic rupture\; contemporary articulations of the algorithmic epoch\; the intermediary/mediator distinction and its limits in the triadic case\; the irreducibility of triads\; the sociology of paperwork and the bureaucratic file\; the mediated triad as a form distinct from brokerage and tertius traditions.<br><br>Track 3 &mdash\; Measurement and scale development<br>Item generation and content validation\; discriminant validity against algorithmic literacy\, AI literacy\, algorithm sensemaking\, and algorithmic competency\; measurement invariance across cohorts\, populations\, platforms\, and languages\; longitudinal trajectory analysis\; mixed-methods designs for situated competency\; ethnographic methods for real-time platform interaction\; the construct-identity fallacy in human-AI measurement\; frameworks for triadic competency constructs\; convergent validity\; cohort-based replication of confirmatory factor structure.<br><br>Track 4 &mdash\; Empirical settings<br>Rideshare\, food delivery\, and on-demand labor\; freelance platforms and opaque-evaluation cases\; AI engineering and AI-augmented IDEs\; knowledge work with LLMs in legal\, medical\, and consulting contexts\; healthcare diagnostic and triage systems\; customer service under recommendation and routing\; education under AI tutoring and assessment\; content creation and journalism under recommender mediation\; logistics\, warehousing\, and last-mile delivery\; financial services\, lending\, and credit under algorithmic decisioning.<br><br>Track 5 &mdash\; Antecedents<br>Exposure to mediated coordination as the primary engine\; reflective practice and feedback interpretation\; motivational engagement and the partner-versus-constraint framing\; peer social support and cognitive job crafting\; implicit acquisition without curriculum\; prior digital exposure and transfer from other domains\; mentorship\, apprenticeship\, and shadow learning\; folk theorization and adaptive practice on changing platforms\; reflection-in-action under algorithmic conditions\; workplace social ecologies as antecedents.<br><br>Track 6 &mdash\; Outcomes<br>Coordination success on measurable platforms\; earnings and the worker-level economics of mediation\; retention and persistence through algorithmic disruption\; AI burnout as a competency rather than a workload problem\; service behavior and worker-customer interaction\; identification with platform work and work-identity formation\; career trajectories and mobility within and across platforms\; well-being\, autonomy\, anxiety\, and isolation\; resistance\, voice\, and political mobilization\; performance benchmarking and coordination quality.<br><br>Track 7 &mdash\; Distribution and stratification<br>Algorithmic awareness\, knowledge gaps\, and digital divides\; gender\, race\, and class in platform coordination outcomes\; regional and national variation in capacity development\; the coding elite and the cybertariat as political-economy positions\; algorithmacy as human capital versus access to developmental conditions\; algorithmic stratification as a vector of labor-market inequality\; the Global South and the algorithmic frontier\; Indigenous\, diasporic\, and minoritized communities\; generational differences\; disability\, neurodivergence\, and triadic coordination.<br><br>Track 8 &mdash\; Transferability<br>Multi-homing and platform-portable competency\; architecture-specific versus architecture-general capacity\; generalization of algorithmic management features across platforms\; the encoding problem and the abstraction the form imposes\; worker-skill-transfer mechanisms\; cross-architectural learning curves and switching costs\; generalized algorithmacy versus platform-specific repertoires\; relation to broader sociotechnical competencies\; transfer across human and algorithmic interlocutors\; transfer across natural-language and code-based systems.<br><br>Track 9 &mdash\; Aggregation\, institutions\, and curriculum<br>Team-level algorithmacy and collective coordination capacity\; organizational algorithmacy as a firm-level capability\; curriculum design &mdash\; what training should actually teach\; certification and credentialing regimes\; the AI engineering bootcamp as a developmental setting\; higher education and the algorithmic curriculum\; K-12 instruction alongside oracy and literacy\; workforce development under platform displacement\; apprenticeship models\; professional associations and learned societies.<br><br>Track 10 &mdash\; Labor protections\, policy\, and political economy<br>Legal recognition of platform-mediated work\; unions and worker centers\; platform cooperativism and alternative ownership\; state-level regulation of algorithmic management\; international labor law and the cross-border platform\; worker data rights and algorithmic accountability\; wage transparency and information asymmetries\; national AI strategies and worker development\; the sovereignty question for small states\; algorithmacy as a micro-foundation of organizational and national sovereignty.<br><br>Track 11 &mdash\; Caribbean\, Global South\, and frontier perspectives<br>Caribbean labor markets and the platform economy\; AI talent development in small island developing states\; Trinidad and Tobago\, GauntleTT\, and the Caribbean AI engineering pipeline\; diaspora networks and cross-border mediated coordination\; postcolonial frameworks for reading platform capital\; language\, code-switching\, and multilingual interfaces\; Caribbean creative industries under algorithmic distribution\; resource economies and the energy demands of AI\; South-South cooperation on competency development\; the question of an algorithmic equivalent to the New International Economic Order.<br><br>Track 12 &mdash\; Critique\, limits\, and the conference's own commitments<br>The case for refining existing constructs rather than naming a new one\; the case against the literacy-historical analogy\; materialist and labor-process critiques\; critical algorithm studies and whether competency is the right unit\; phenomenological and existential readings of mediation\; the limits of measurement and the case for ethnographic primacy\; decolonial critiques of competency-development frameworks\; the political risks of credentialing\; what algorithmacy cannot reach\; the conference's own complicity in convening under the conditions it studies.<br><br>Submission types<br><br>The conference accepts five submission types:<br>- Full paper &mdash\; 6&ndash\;8 pages. Empirical\, theoretical\, or review work.<br>- Research note &mdash\; 2&ndash\;3 pages. Work-in-progress\, methodological innovations\, single-case studies.<br>- Panel &mdash\; 3&ndash\;4 participants with a unifying argument and a short framing statement.<br>- Poster &mdash\; visual presentation with a one-page extended abstract.<br>- Practitioner report &mdash\; 2&ndash\;4 pages from worker advocates\, organizers\, curriculum designers\, and policy practitioners\; reviewed for relevance and substance rather than academic form.<br><br>How to submit<br><br>Intake is via pull request against the conference's public repository. Drop a 300&ndash\;500-word abstract and outline as submissions/(your-handle).md\, then open a PR titled [Type] [TR.0X] Your title. Full instructions and an AI-assisted submission path are at https://algorithmacy.com. Manuscripts follow APA 7. Submissions are in English\; translation support is available for presenters whose first language is not English.<br><br>Review model &mdash\; open\, signed\, published\, timestamped<br><br>This is open review. Submissions and review threads live on the public repository from the moment of intake\; there is no anonymized stage. Reviewers attach their names to their assessments. Accepted papers ship alongside their full review history &mdash\; reviewer reports\, author responses\, and the revision trail. Your pull request is a public\, dated record: in any future priority dispute\, the conference will support your claim based on the PR timestamp. Review is rolling\, with responses on the PR thread typically within about five business days.<br><br>Awards<br>- Founders' Paper Award &mdash\; best full paper.<br>- Pitch Lake Prize &mdash\; most theoretically generative early-career contribution.<br>- GauntleTT Practitioner Award &mdash\; the practitioner report that most advances the translation of algorithmacy into curriculum\, policy\, or worker advocacy.<br><br>Travel and logistics<br><br>The venue is approximately 90 minutes by road from Piarco International Airport. Limited travel support is available for scholars from low- and middle-income countries\, doctoral students\, and worker representatives\; apply with your abstract. A site visit to the Pitch Lake is built into the program.<br><br>Key dates<br>- Submission deadline: 1 August 2026<br>- Review: rolling\, public on the PR thread (~5 business days)<br>- Final decisions: [CONFIRM &mdash\; suggested mid-September 2026]<br>- Conference: [CONFIRM] Late October / Early November 2026\, La Brea Pitch Lake\, Trinidad and Tobago<br><br>Contact<br>Roger Hunt\, Bentley University &mdash\; rhunt@bentley.edu<br>Web: https://algorithmacy.com</p>\n<p>Contact Information</p>\n<p>Roger Hunt</p>\n<p>Contact Email rhunt@bentley.edu URL https://www.algorithmacy.com</p>
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Dossier </strong><strong>Walking-with the Past: Embodiment\, Environment\, and Narrative</strong></p>\n<p><strong><em>Locus. Journal of Culture Studies</em></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Call for Papers</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Guest editors: Marieke Borren and Susan Hogervorst</strong></p>\n<p>As an everyday act of embodied locomotion\, walking rarely becomes an explicit object of reflection\, let alone an entry point into questions of history and memory. Yet as we move through streets\, landscapes\, ruins\, and memorial sites\, alone or collectively\, walking can reactivate personal memories\, disclose hidden histories\, and inscribe new narratives into shared spaces. Examples range from commemorative marches and heritage walking tours to psychogeographical drifts that excavate urban and peri-urban spaces as palimpsests\, and the prominent role of walking in first-person biographical accounts of displacement. In literary and cinematic representations\, moreover\, walking often mediates between personal memories and the meaningful environments in which they unfold.</p>\n<p>This dossier of <em>Locus</em> explores walking as an embodied mnemonic\, narrative\, and pedagogical practice. We are particularly interested in the philosophical question of how walking mediates between body\, environment\, memory\, and history. We therefore invite contributions that approach walking from one of three interconnected perspectives: (1) embodiment and bodily memory\, (2) environment and place\, or (3) narrative and representation.</p>\n<p><strong>Walking-with the past: a phenomenological perspective</strong></p>\n<p>Walking may have a particularly strong relation to memory because it is never a purely present activity. From a phenomenological perspective\, the moving body can be understood as a sedimentation of histories and habits: bodily comportment is shaped by past experience\, social norms\, technologies\, infrastructures\, and built environments. Walking is thus not simply an activity performed by a body in space\; it is an embodied way of inhabiting an already meaningful world.</p>\n<p>At the same time\, environments are not neutral backdrops or abstract spaces. They constitute structured fields of affordances that enable and constrain particular forms of movement. Streets\, paths\, ruins\, memorial sites\, and infrastructures invite certain trajectories\, rhythms\, and styles of walking while discouraging others. Historical transformations of built environments may thus become sedimented in bodily habits\, while changes in bodily practices can disclose otherwise unnoticed historical layers of place.</p>\n<p>Walking consequently unfolds in a dynamic relation between historically sedimented bodily habits and environments that themselves bear traces of past events. This raises questions not only about memory and history but also about the phenomenological constitution of bodily subjectivity\, place\, temporality\, and world.</p>\n<p>These questions resonate with phenomenological approaches from Husserl and Merleau-Ponty to more recent work on embodiment\, place\, habit\, and environmental experience\, as well as with approaches in 4E cognition and ecological approaches to perception\, including work on affordances and the embodied and situated character of cognition.</p>\n<p>From a cultural memory perspective\, walking can likewise inscribe collective and personal histories into places and reactivate past experiences in the present. Collaborative walking practices in public history\, commemoration\, heritage education\, and psychogeography can make historical layers experientially available through bodily movement. In this sense\, walking may be understood as a form of embodied historical inquiry: a way of encountering the past not merely as an object of representation\, but through situated\, sensory\, and affective engagement with places and environments.</p>\n<p>The notion of &ldquo\;walking-with the past&rdquo\; therefore points to a relational and co-constitutive understanding of historical experience. The past is not simply something walkers represent or remember\; it may be encountered\, activated\, and partially re-enacted through movement in places where histories have been sedimented.</p>\n<p><strong>Possible questions include:</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Walking and embodied memory</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How might phenomenological approaches to walking deepen our understanding of the relationship between embodiment\, memory\, and historical experience?</li>\n<li>How does walking reveal the historicity of embodied practices and everyday forms of movement?</li>\n<li>How are personal and collective memories sedimented in bodily habits and styles of walking?</li>\n<li>How does embodied movement activate or reorganize autobiographical memory?</li>\n<li>What kinds of memories\, meanings\, or narratives emerge specifically through embodied movement?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Walking\, environment\, and place</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How do historical transformations of landscapes\, infrastructures\, and built environments shape the affordances of walking and become sedimented in bodily comportment and habit?</li>\n<li>How are temporal\, particularly historical\, dimensions of lived experience involved in ambulatory place-making?</li>\n<li>How does walking disclose historical layers embedded in landscapes and urban environments?</li>\n<li>How can walking disclose or produce memoryscapes\, including traumascapes?</li>\n<li>What does walking reveal about the phenomenological constitution of place?</li>\n<li>How might concepts such as sedimentation\, historicity\, habituality\, affordance\, and bodily schema illuminate walking as a historical practice?</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Walking\, narrative time\, and representation</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does walking structure narrative or autobiographical time in literary\, cinematic\, or autobiographical works?</li>\n<li>How do representations of walking connect personal memory with broader historical or cultural contexts?</li>\n<li>How can phenomenological perspectives illuminate the relation between walking\, embodiment\, and narrative time?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>We particularly welcome philosophical contributions\, including phenomenological and critical-phenomenological approaches to embodiment\, bodily memory\, temporality\, place\, historicity\, habit\, affordance\, and environmental experience. We also welcome contributions from 4E cognition\, ecological approaches to perception\, cultural memory studies\, history\, heritage studies\, psychogeography\, narrative studies\, and the walking arts\, including work that brings these perspectives into dialogue.</p>\n<p><strong>Types of contributions</strong></p>\n<p>We invite proposals for:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>theoretical contributions on walking\, embodiment\, memory\, place\, historicity\, and habit\, particularly from phenomenology and 4E cognition\;</li>\n<li>philosophical or interdisciplinary analyses of walking as a mode of encountering history and place\;</li>\n<li>empirical or methodological studies of walking in public history\, heritage\, commemoration\, oral history\, or psychogeography\;</li>\n<li>analyses of literary\, cinematic\, or autobiographical representations of walking\;</li>\n<li>artistic and practice-based contributions from walking artists\, psychogeographers\, and practitioners working with locative media or walking-based artistic research.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><em>The full call\, including further information about the dossier and submission guidelines\, is available on the </em></strong><a href="https://platform.openjournals.nl/LOCUS/call-for-papers"><strong><em>Locus Open Journals website</em></strong></a><strong><em>.</em></strong></p>\n<p><strong>About <em>Locus</em></strong><br><em>Locus: Journal of Culture Studies</em> is an interdisciplinary\, diamond Open Access journal published by the Department of Culture Studies at the Open University of the Netherlands. It provides a forum for scholarship across the humanities and culture studies\, including philosophy\, and particularly welcomes interdisciplinary dialogue between academic research and cultural practice. In addition to stand-alone articles\, the journal publishes biannual thematic &lsquo\;dossiers\,&rsquo\; special collections of articles on topical debates. These dossiers cover diverse themes such as <em>the cultural imagination of human and non-human animals\, the coloniality of natural history collections</em>\, <em>performativity</em>\, and <em>embodiment</em>.</p>\n<p>We recently completed the migration of Locus to the <a href="https://platform.openjournals.nl/LOCUS/">Open Journals ecosystem</a>. While our current platform is new\, all back issues and articles remain fully available through our <a href="locus.ou.nl">former platform</a>.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Submission information</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Abstracts (300&ndash\;500 words): due 30 October 2026</li>\n<li>Notification of acceptance: 15 November 2026</li>\n<li>Full manuscripts (4\,000&ndash\;5\,000 words): due 3 January 2027</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Submissions are accepted in English and Dutch. All submissions will undergo editorial review.</p>\n<p>For inquiries about the theme\, please contact Marieke Borren: <a href="mailto:marieke.borren@ou.nl">marieke.borren@ou.nl</a>.</p>
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DESCRIPTION:<p>On Friday\, October 30\, and Saturday\, October 31\, the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research will host a two-day conference devoted to the work of Stanley Cavell. The conference will focus on Cavell&rsquo\;s writings on aesthetics\, with particular attention to the role that skepticism about other minds plays in his interpretation of art.</p>
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Lessico di Etica Pubblica&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Special Issue - The Divine and the Digital</strong></p>\n<p>(XVII\, n. 2\, 2026)</p>\n<p>Edited by <strong>Gemma Serrano</strong> (Coll&egrave\;ge des Bernardins\, Paris).</p>\n<p>The relationship between technology and culture is an increasingly discussed topic in the humanities. The analysis of the consequences of the so-called digital turn\, sometimes regarded as an unprecedented cultural transformation\, has developed within an interdisciplinary field encompassing philosophy\, history\, anthropology\, and sociology\, as well as theology and religious studies. Like any technological transformation\, the social implementation of digital technologies has had an impact on religious and spiritual practices on a global scale. For years\, the study of religions has examined how the spread of digital media has influenced our experience of transcendence\, rituals\, communal life\, and belief. At the same time\, theology and religion can offer cultural and theoretical tools to deepen our understanding of technology and can also provide an original perspective on the meaning of transformations in contemporary society.</p>\n<p>Beyond analysing the fate of theology and religion in the digital age\, it is crucial to recognize that the field of digital technologies opens up horizons of meaning and reflection that are closely intertwined with the domain of spirituality. Our relationship with technology\, more broadly\, is permeated by religion: a wide range of metaphors and notions&mdash\;either explicitly theological or rooted in religious language and practices&mdash\;are pervasively present in public and academic debates on the meaning of technology. In this sense\, many philosophers of technology&mdash\;including\, to name just a few\, G&uuml\;nther Anders\, Walter Benjamin\, Jacques Ellul\, Martin Heidegger\, Ivan Illich\, Emanuele Severino\, and Norbert Wiener&mdash\;have grounded their reflections in terms imbued with a theological resonance\, and have assigned a central role to the sphere of the divine in their interpretations of technology\, even when working from a secular perspective. A critical engagement with our religious tradition can help us develop analytical models for understanding our relationship with technology\, as well as for analysing our desires\, our fears\, and the socio-technical imaginaries that structure the social space.</p>\n<p>This task\, of course\, also entails theoretical and methodological challenges. First\, thinking about the relationship between technology and religion means recognizing the need for an intercultural study of different models for understanding the technical phenomenon. If the European interpretation of technology is rooted in Christian culture\, it becomes crucial to consider other traditions and other frameworks of reference.</p>\n<p>At the same time\, reference to digital technologies requires us to address the problem of technology from a historical perspective. The advent of artificial intelligence has made it even clearer that what we call the &ldquo\;digital turn&rdquo\; is in fact a layered and complex phenomenon\, and that digital technologies already have a long history\, which prevents us from thinking of &ldquo\;the digital&rdquo\; as a unified dimension. What\, then\, are the specific features of the so-called &ldquo\;digital age&rdquo\;? How can the analysis of the imaginaries and narratives associated with digital technologies help us shed light on our present?</p>\n<p>Issue 2/2026 of <em>Lessico di Etica Pubblica</em> will address these themes from an interdisciplinary perspective\, with contributions from philosophy\, theology\, cultural and technological history\, sociology\, and media theory. The following are some of the topics that will be explored:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The digital turn as a socio-technical imaginary\;</li>\n<li>The religious and theological origins of the vocabulary we use to speak about digital technologies\;</li>\n<li>The relationship between technology and religion in contemporary thought\;</li>\n<li>Ethical and eschatological perspectives related to digital culture\;</li>\n<li>Critical reflections on the history of digital technologies\;</li>\n<li>Digital technologies as an intercultural and interreligious issue\;</li>\n<li>Social imaginaries and Artificial Intelligence.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Submission Guidelines for Article Proposals</strong></p>\n<p>Papers must be submitted by <strong>October 31\, 2026</strong> to the following address:redazione.eticapubblica@gmail.com.</p>\n<p>Contributions in Italian\, English and French are accepted. Maximum length: 35\,000 characters\, including spaces and notes. Authors are also required to include an abstract of no more than 150 words in both Italian and English. The article file must be prepared in anonymous form to comply with the blind peer review process. In a separate file attached to the same email\, authors should provide their full name\, email address\, the title of the article\, and its abstract.</p>\n<p>Submissions must conform to the editorial guidelines available at the following link:<br>https://www.eticapubblica.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/LEP_Norme_redazionali.pdf.<br>Authors are also invited to use the journal&rsquo\;s style sheet available here:<br>https://www.eticapubblica.it/norme-editoriali/.</p>
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SUMMARY:"Apocalypse now what? Capitalism and the end of the world"
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Famously\, infamously\, and cited ad nauseum\, Fredric Jameson wrote in 1994&rsquo\;s <em>Seeds of Time</em> that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism\, a formulation that Slavoj Zizek later borrowed to ask why we cannot even seek to reform capitalism at all. More recently\, the late Mark Fisher returned to this line of inquiry to demonstrate how Capitalist Realism depends upon the mantra that there is no viable alternative to capitalism. At last\, we have begun to see some scattered indications that our apocalyptic imaginaries may have begun to cross this threshold\, carving out fictional spaces wherein we can imagine otherwise or mourn our own entrapment in a system that will survive us all. At last\, our &ldquo\;monsters&rdquo\; may be taking on post-capitalist forms. Their images do not merely furnish fertile ground for the imagination &mdash\; they oblige us to think what may come after capitalism&rsquo\;s collapse.</p>\n<p>Reading contemporary pop-cultural texts through Fredric Jameson&rsquo\;s critique of late capitalism and his theorization of the apocalypse as the horizon of ideological imagination\, we ask how it is possible to stage the persistence of capital\, grief\, and meaning after the end of history has already been announced or enacted. A paradigmatic example is the 28 Later series. The 2002 film <em>28 Days later</em> arguably rebooted the zombie apocalypse as faster\, stronger\, and scarier pandemic nightmare for the new millennium\, an apt rebrand for the undead in the era of advanced capitalism. But can the first two installments of the <em>28 Years Later</em> cycle (2025\, Danny Boyle &amp\; Alex Garland)\, sequels to the 2002 film\, be read as imagining the emergence of hope that humanity might persist beyond the collapse of capitalism through communities organized around mutual aid\, shared resources\, and collective protection? Or does this narrative suggest that a few will always revert to strategies of appropriation over collaboration (as exemplified by Jimmy&rsquo\;s marauding gang)?</p>\n<p>The imagination of apocalypse can also be subverted. Rather than staging catastrophe as spectacular rupture\, some texts reimagine the &ldquo\;post-apocalypse&rdquo\; as displaced continuation. <em>The Leftovers</em> (HBO\, 2014&ndash\;2017) is exemplary here\, recasting the post-apocalyptic not as the end of the world but as its afterlife &mdash\; an extended\, undramatic continuation organized around endless\, unresolved mourning. In this afterlife of social relations\, catastrophe is no longer an event but becomes an ordinary form of existence. Rupture is no longer something to be survived but a condition to be inhabited. A different variation on this logic can be found in <em>Fallout</em>\, which invites us to reflect on the post-apocalypse as a continuation of capitalist realism rather than its rupture. Here\, ruin becomes aestheticized order and survival is fully absorbed into systems of extraction and control\, repackaged as commodity\, spectacle\, and routine. The series stages a world in which the end of the world is endlessly repeated\, without exit\, a catastrophe normalized to the extent that it forecloses any possible outside\, except for nostalgic affects.</p>\n<p>These texts are valuable not because they accurately depict a future society marked by failure or mourning\, but because they estrange the present. In Jameson's sense\, they reveal that what appears natural and inevitable&mdash\;capitalism\, private property\, wage labour\, and the organization of social life itself&mdash\;is historically contingent and therefore open to transformation.</p>\n<p>By contrast\, the recent series <em>Pluribus</em> (admittedly still an unfinished text\, with only its first season released) asks us a different question altogether: whether the end of the individual subject position-- and with it the end of an exploitative system working for the benefit only of the few-- would really amount to an apocalypse\, or could it be the Utopia we haven&rsquo\;t dared to dream of. These are just some of the many recent apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic texts that ask us to consider where we are\, in this moment so steeped in apocalyptic affect\, in relation to Jameson&rsquo\;s proclamation that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The decisive issue is not whether these narratives depict a more perfect society\, but whether they expand the horizon of what can be politically imagined.</p>\n<p>We welcome submissions on any recent (pre- to post covid) pop cultural texts that contribute to our contemporary understanding of apocalyptic imaginaries. While we expect submissions on film\, television\, videogames\, literature and graphic novels\, we would be happy to consider offerings that defy medial boundaries or work within other disciplines\, such as performance or art. We welcome contributions that transcend the fictional conventions of known genres but also works that flesh out apocalyptic imaginaries by drawing from unconventional aesthetic means.</p>\n<p>Prospective contributors may consider examining texts such as:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mourning capitalism's triumph: affects\, grief and meaning at "the end of history"</li>\n<li>Apocalyptic temporalities (post-apocalypse as displaced continuation\, ruin as aestheticized order\, capitalist realism without exit)</li>\n<li>Genre and form across the apocalyptic imaginary (sci-fi\, analog horror\, cli-fi\, zombie fiction and outbreak narratives\, surrealism\, satire)</li>\n<li>Extraction\, control\, and the politics of survival (resource-sharing communities vs. marauding appropriation\, systems that absorb survival into themselves)</li>\n<li>The end of the subject as utopia or dystopia (collective vs. individual personhood\, exploitative systems and their unmaking)</li>\n<li>Pandemic and outbreak imaginaries (zombie apocalypse\, viral nightmare\, post-2020 reboots of contagion narrative)</li>\n<li>Apocalyptic storytelling across media (film\, television\, videogames\, graphic novels)</li>\n<li>Capitalist Realism and the foreclosure of alternatives (Jameson\, Fraser\, Žižek\, Fisher\, Berlant)</li>\n<li>World-ending as repetition vs. rupture (slow apocalypse\, endless apocalypse\, displaced continuation\, exit and non-exit)</li>\n</ul>\n<p>We imagine contemporary pop-cultural case studies speaking to these themes could engage convincingly with a large variety of texts (<em>Pluribus\, Disco Elysium\, Fallout\, Station Eleven\, The Last of Us\, Severance\, 28 Years Later vol. 1 &amp\; 2\, Department of Truth and others</em>)</p>\n<p>We also welcome submissions engaging other perspectives and topics.</p>\n<p><strong>Please submit your abstract (250 words) alongside a short biographical note (50 words) to&nbsp\;<a href="mailto:slauro@ut.edu">slauro@ut.edu</a>&nbsp\;by October 31\, 2026.</strong></p>\n<p>If your abstract is accepted\, we will invite you to submit a full article by January 31\, 2027. Full articles will be about 8\,000 &ndash\; 9\,000 words long (including an abstract of 250 words\, 3-5 keywords\, references\, footnotes\, etc.)</p>
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DESCRIPTION:<p>The ASA Pacific Division is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its 2027 meeting at the Graduate Hotel\, Berkeley\, CA\, March 5-6\, 2027. The submission deadline is <strong>November 1\, 2026</strong>.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The ASA Pacific Division invites excellent paper and panel submissions on any topic in aesthetics and the philosophy of art\, but we especially encourage papers on <strong>environmental aesthetics and/or everyday aesthetics</strong>.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>We hope to assemble a vibrant program of diverse topics and speakers\, and we encourage submissions from students\, from early career philosophers\, and from members of historically underrepresented groups.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Authors will have 15 minutes to introduce their paper. Commentators will then have 5 minutes to present two discussion questions\, followed by 20 minutes of audience questions.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Paper submissions should be no longer than 3\,000 words\, prepared for anonymous review\, and accompanied by anonymized abstracts of no more than 300 words.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Panels\, author-meets-critics sessions\, and other special sessions are not part of the pre-read sessions.</p>\n<p>Proposals should include a brief description of the topic or theme\, the names and affiliations of all participants\, and long abstracts of 400-500 words for all papers.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>There are no concurrent sessions\, which promotes engaged participation and in-depth discussion of all accepted papers and panels. You may submit a paper or participate in a panel\, but not both. All presentations and commentaries must be delivered in person at the meeting.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>We are excited to announce <strong>Yuriko Saito (Professor Emerita\, RISD) as the keynote speaker\, </strong>who will discuss the aesthetics of care for the artifactual world.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Please send submissions in PDF or Word format to the 2027 Program Chair\, Tony Chackal\, at tonychackal77@gmail.com. Please also use this address to contact the program chair if you have any questions or if you would like to volunteer to comment on a paper or chair a session.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>$1\,000 in total funds will be available for Irene H. Chayes Travel grants from the American Society for Aesthetics for presenters who have no other access to travel support. To apply\, please note in your submission email that you wish to be considered and include an estimate of your travel costs. Please do not include this information in your paper or panel proposal.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>ASA Policies: Papers presented at ASA Divisional meetings may not be presented at the ASA Annual Meeting. Everyone on an ASA program must be a member of the ASA. Submissions from non-members are welcome\, but if you are accepted for the program\, you must join ASA within 30 days of the conference. Everyone must also register for the meeting. This applies to presenters\, panelists\, commentators\, and chairs&nbsp\;</p>
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SUMMARY:XV International Bauhaus Colloquium: Politics of Research
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LOCATION:Weimar\, Germany
DESCRIPTION:<p>Research at universities is political\, a fact made all the more evident during times of increasing social and political polarisation when politicians denounce universities as &raquo\;enemies&laquo\;. Such external attacks intersect with debates in academia itself\, where research structures\, purposes\, and approaches are increasingly brought into question. The XV International Bauhaus Colloquium critically examines the politics that underlie\, shape\, or result from research. The interdisciplinary academic event provides a platform for exploring how research operates within and across infrastructures\, epistemologies\, power\, and publics. Research politics manifest both in specific research projects and in the procedures and frameworks that define academic work as such. In addition to issues of access\, representation\, and ethics\, the Colloquium addresses critical practices and highlights the ways in which research may both reinforce and challenge dominant hierarchies. &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The fifteenth edition of the International Bauhaus Colloquium moves beyond its traditional focus on architectural theory and history to understand architecture as part of an extended field in which the arts\, media\, technologies\, and society interact. The architectural perspective is integrated into contemporary questions of knowledge production\, as well as the infrastructural and political conditions that shape it. As research is transforming rapidly through the effects of digital infrastructures and AI-trained knowledge production\, the processes that are shifting its epistemological and institutional frameworks will be examined.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The Colloquium investigates research as a political practice operating in a contested field of historically specific forms of situatedness and shifting epistemologies. In line with the Bauhaus tradition\, it combines theoretical\, aesthetic\, and technical/empirical approaches to analyse and develop research politics in response to urgent questions within international discourse. Discussions are structured into four thematic tracks\, each of which offers specific insights into the politics of research:&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Track I: Practices examines current approaches to practice-based research\, discussing their particularity\, their transformative potential\, and the capacity to renegotiate the relationship between researchers and society.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Track II: Institutions analyses political\, economic\, and spatial conditions of knowledge production. It brings together current propositions of institutional critique to examine the boundaries and infrastructures of the university as formations that must be both defended and transformed.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Track III: Ecologies recognises the role of localities and milieus\, such as exposed geographies\, Indigenous sites and communities\, or marginalized cultural topics that become constitutive of research. It explores how proximity to local places and ecologies reshapes conventional research approaches and the ethical shifts they entail.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Track IV: Epistemologies addresses the need to critically engage with and unlearn dominant frameworks\, often based on privileged Western paradigms\, through decolonial\, queer\, and feminist practices. It examines how disciplinary traditions\, established canons\, and knowledge regimes\, as well as barriers between theoretical and practical approaches\, can be opened up to multiple perspectives.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Detailed programme: www.bauhaus-kolloquium.de&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Registration Deadline: 10 October 2026&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>OVERVIEW: Panels and Keynotes&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>//&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday 4 November 2026&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>14-14:45 h&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Opening: Panel Discussion: Common Grounds &ndash\; Art-Science in the Making&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>15-17 p.m.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Practices: Panel Discussion: Building Knowledge: Design\, Experiment and Engage&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Institutions: Panel: System Failure&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Ecologies: Panel: Historical Bauhaus&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Epistemologies: Panel: Disobedient Methods: Research Beyond Neutrality and Discipline&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>17:30 h&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE: Samia Henni (Montreal)</strong> Psychological Warfare: Architecture for the Political&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>//</p>\n<p><strong>Thursday 5 November 2026&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>10-12 h&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Practices: Panel: Particular Cases&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Institutions: Panel: University in Crisis&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Ecologies: Panel: Decentering Cores and Canons&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Epistemologies: Panel: Epistemic Forces: Experinces Beyond Academic Norms&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>14-16 h&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Practices: Panel: Experimental Setups: Invisibilities\, Images and Imaginaries&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Institutions: Conversation: Learning from the Silent University&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Ecologies: Panel: Whose Diaspora?&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Epistemologies: Panel: Towards a Proto-Science of Architecture?&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>16:30 h&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE: Matteo Pasquinelli (Venice)</strong> N-1: Dimensionality Reduction Across the History of Cultural Techniques\, Information Technologies\, and AI&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;//</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Friday 6 November 2026&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>10-12 h&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Practices: Panel: Embodied Encounters: Subjectivity\, Care\, and Relational Knowledge&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Institutions: Panel Discussion: Urban Studies in Limbo &ndash\; On (Un)Certainties of Re-Searching Authoritarian Contexts&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Ecologies: Panel: Productive Landscapes: Extractive Tendencies vs. Alternative Epistemologies&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Epistemologies: Panel: Frictions of Solidarity: Critical Histories\, Insurgent Methods&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>14-16 h&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Practices: Panel: Contested Sites: Spatial Struggles&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Institutions: Panel: Access\, Control\, Constraint&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Ecologies: Conversation: Soviet Era of Russian Colonialism&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Epistemologies: Panel: Situated Epistemologies: Decoloniality\, Race\, and Global Knowledge Production&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>17h&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>KEYNOTE: Hito Steyerl (Munich) &amp\; Oleksiy Radynski (Kyiv)</strong> Where Russia Ends&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>//</p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 7 November 2026&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>10-13h&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Workshop: Held Together. Antichorality and the Politics of Vocal Pleasure&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Workshop: The Secret Grant&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Workshop: Re-search.site: The Pasts and Futures of Search&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Moreover\, walks\, installations\, exhibitions\, and screenings are part of the programme.</p>
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SUMMARY:Workshop for The Journal of Ethics Special Issue on Meritocracy
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LOCATION:Barcelona\, Spain
DESCRIPTION:<p>DESCRIPTION:</p>\n<p>Meritocratic ideals have played a central role in shaping educational systems\, labor markets and public narratives about fairness and social mobility in modern societies (Bell 2015\; Kett 2013\; Khanna &amp\; Szoni 2022\; Mulligan 2018\, 2022\; Wooldridge 2021).</p>\n<p>However\, meritocracy&nbsp\;has been criticized extensively&nbsp\;in recent years (Littler 2018\; Markovits 2019\; Sandel 2020\; Thomas\, Archer &amp\; Engelen 2024). These critiques are part of a long tradition\, spanning educational theory\, moral theory\, political philosophy\, and sociology (Arendt 1961\; Fox 1956\; Guinier 2015\; Napoletano 2024\; Rawls 1999\; Sen 2000\; Young 1958\, 2001). The word &lsquo\;meritocracy&rsquo\; itself was\, in fact\, coined by Michael Young in his dystopian novel The Rise of Meritocracy (1958). In it\, people revolt against social stratification based on innate talents. Young&rsquo\;s account has become a reference point for critics of meritocracy.</p>\n<p>Meritocracy is a notoriously slippery concept. As the economist and philosopher Amartya Sen once quipped: &ldquo\;[t]he idea of meritocracy may have many virtues\, but clarity is not one of them&rdquo\; (2000\, 5). This lack of conceptual clarity complicates both normative assessment and institutional evaluation\,&nbsp\;often leading critics and defenders to talk past one another. It may be the case that not all possible notions of meritocracy are vulnerable to the same objections (Daniels 1978\; Miller 1996\; Mulligan 2018).</p>\n<p>The purpose of this special issue is to provide a&nbsp\;philosophical examination of meritocracy&nbsp\;in light of recent critiques.&nbsp\;Possible topics include\, but are not limited to:</p>\n<p>&bull\; What exactly is a meritocracy? Is it a normative principle of justice\, an ideology that legitimizes inequality\, or something hovering between the two?</p>\n<p>&bull\; What is the relation between meritocracy and equality of opportunity? And what is the relationship between meritocracy and responsibility?</p>\n<p>&bull\; What is the distribuendum of meritocracy? Is meritocracy necessarily about the distribution of social positions and income? Or is it limited to the distribution of social positions?</p>\n<p>&bull\; What is the appropriate base of merit claims? Is it talent and effort\, as Young claimed? Or is it another base\, such as productive contribution\, social contribution\, or again something else?</p>\n<p>&bull\; What is the normative ground of merit claims? Are they grounded in people&rsquo\;s appreciative attitudes\, for instance? Or are they perhaps a special type of requirement?</p>\n<p>&bull\; What is the connection between meritocracy and the market?</p>\n<p>&bull\; What is the connection between meritocracy and related concepts\, such as desert and efficiency? How should these concepts be distinguished and/or integrated within a broader theory of justice?</p>\n<p>CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:</p>\n<p>- Andreas Bengtson (Aarhus University)</p>\n<p>- Ryan Cox (University of Sydney)</p>\n<p>- Blake Harris (University of Virginia)</p>\n<p>- Gloria M&auml\;hringer (Ludwig Maximilian University)</p>\n<p>- David Miller (Oxford University)</p>\n<p>- Pascal Mowla (Oxford University)</p>\n<p>- Thomas Mulligan (Georgetown University and RAND Corporation)</p>\n<p>- Ryan Semery-Palumbo (Oxford University)</p>\n<p>- Huub Brouwer (Tilburg University) and Jahel Queralt (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)</p>\n<p>PROCEDURE:</p>\n<p>Papers are recruited through a call for abstracts for a pre-read workshop at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF)\, in Barcelona\, on 12-13 November 2026. The workshop is designed to facilitate in-depth discussion of draft papers and to foster constructive feedback among contributors. All papers presented at the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the special issue.</p>\n<p>The organization of the workshop associated with the Special Issue is supported by funding from an ICREA Academia grant awarded to Jahel Queralt.&nbsp\;Travel and accommodation costs for workshop participants will be covered by the workshop organizers.</p>\n<p>Abstracts for the workshop should address the special issue theme and consist of an abstract 750-1.000 words in length (citations not counted). These extended abstracts are intended to allow authors to clearly articulate their central argument\, methodology\, and contribution to the existing literature. All submissions should be prepared for blind review. Abstracts should be submitted to&nbsp\;meritocracyworkshop@gmail.com&nbsp\;by 31 March 2026.</p>\n<p>TIMELINE:</p>\n<p>Authors of accepted abstracts will need to adhere to the following timeline for the full development of the paper:</p>\n<p>&bull\; All contributors will participate in-person in a special issue workshop on 12-13 November 2026\, with a draft paper.</p>\n<p>&bull\; The workshop will be held at UPF (Barcelona).</p>\n<p>&bull\; Draft papers are due by 31 October 2026 (8.000 &ndash\; 11.000 words).</p>\n<p>&bull\; Revised papers have to be submitted to&nbsp\;<em>The Journal of Ethics</em>&nbsp\;by 28 February 2027.</p>\n<p>&bull\; All papers will then undergo the journal&rsquo\;s peer review process that must be concluded by the end of 2027. The special issue will be published in 2028.</p>\n<p>EDITORIAL PROCESS:</p>\n<p>All submissions will go through the standard review procedure of&nbsp\;<em>The Journal of Ethics</em>&nbsp\;(publication only on the basis of an editorial decision based on at least two double blind reviews). Final acceptance is contingent upon successful completion of the journal&rsquo\;s peer review process. At that time\, all manuscripts should be prepared according to the journal&rsquo\;s guidelines provided on&nbsp\;<em>The Journal of Ethics</em>&nbsp\;website.</p>\n<p>The Special Issue will follow all Springer Journal Policies\, including&nbsp\;Peer Review Policy\, Process and Guidance and peer review selection policy.</p>\n<p>Participants will be informed that the journal offers the option to publish&nbsp\;Open Access&nbsp\;and that they are allowed to publish open access through&nbsp\;Open Choice.</p>\n<p>CONTACT:</p>\n<p>For more information and questions\, please contact the Editors at&nbsp\;h.m.brouwer@tilburguniversity.edu&nbsp\;and&nbsp\;jahel.queralt@upf.edu</p>
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SUMMARY:The 2026 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Call for Papers</p>\n<p>The 2026 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy</p>\n<p>Mud\, Islands and Ocean</p>\n<p>Dates: November 5 (Thu) - 6 (Fri)\, 2026 &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\; No conference fee\, participation is free.</p>\n<p>Mud\, islands and ocean are places of mixture and changes. Animals and people leave traces in the mud. The NAEP symposium 2026 dives into blue humanities and interrogates the fringes between worlds and aims to explore views in terms of fluidity and process. In the mud\, soil and water shift forms and transform. Boundaries are not clearly apparent. Environmental philosophy forces us to reconsider certain assumptions about clear boundaries delimiting and isolating things\, and mud invites us to this journey.</p>\n<p>Oceans can be places of both encounters and separations\, and&nbsp\; islands can easily trigger narratives of isolation. Mud involves and interconnects lands and seas. Mud also hosts specific ecosystems and bridges the worlds of different species. But places of mixtures and changes can also be places of tensions\; the encounter between different worlds can unleash clashes about access and belonging. Many struggles about justice unfold in muddy waters.</p>\n<p>The NAEP 2026 Online Symposium welcomes contributions from scholars\, practitioners and stakeholders on a broad range of aspects within Asian worldviews\, including but not limited to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Silt\, sand and shells\, changing materialities and temporalities</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Philosophies of microbiology and oceanology</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Sea-faring people\, slow living\, Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and practices</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Justice and radical approaches to transformation</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Mangroves and coastal ecosystems as protectors from climate change</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Sea level rise and the futures of islands</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Ecofeminism insights on water and birth</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Philosophical explorations about natural boundaries\, artificial delimitations\, holism and animism</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Whale songs and artistic expressions (narratives\, artforms\, storytelling\, memory landscape&hellip\;) related to mud\, islands and ocean in Asian cultures</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Early- and mid-career scholars are especially encouraged to send proposals.</p>\n<p>We welcome abstracts for individual presentations\, panels\, online posters and workshop proposals. Please submit your 200-250 words abstract with your name\, affiliation and contact informationthrough this form\, by August 16th\, 2026 (or by email toasiaenviphilo@gmail.com).</p>\n<p>Language: The primary language of the conference is English. We aim to be non-native friendly\, so we make it a rule that we speak slow and accessible English. If you would like to present in a language other than English\, please contact us.</p>\n<p>Organisation: La&yuml\;na Droz\, Orika Komatsubara\, Dipanwita Pal\, Concordia Marie Lagasca-Hiloma\, Romaric Jannel\, Spriha Roy\, Felipe Cuervo\, May Aye Thiri.</p>\n<p>About the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy (NAEP)</p>\n<p>The Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy (NAEP) was founded by agroup of scholarsin the field of environmental philosophy in Asia in 2019 with the goal to supportworks related to environmental philosophy within Asian traditions of thoughts broadly conceived or related to grassroots perspectives on environmental issues in Asia. &nbsp\; &nbsp\; Visit our website:www.asiaenviphilo.com</p>
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SUMMARY:Fractured Ontologies in Music
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DESCRIPTION:<p>a 3-session seminar with Andrea F. de Donato\, Gorica Orsholits &amp\; Carlos A. Segovia &bull\; with guest contributions by Luigi Attademo &amp\; Gaia Ferrantini <br> <br><strong>SEMINAR DESCRIPTION </strong><br> <br>Fractured Ontologies in Music explores musical forms in which fracture becomes a productive way of organizing musical experience. From the spectral dispersions of the French style bris&eacute\; to the phantomic operations of fantasia and the mutable structures of variation in the Romantic piano repertoire\, music emerges as a field where presence is continually refracted through absence\, interruption\, and excess. Across these perspectives\, the seminar asks how musical forms might resist organic wholeness without simply celebrating its dissolution\, opening instead onto modes of existence that are multiple\, unstable\, and generative. <br> <br>Session I (&ldquo\;Style Bris&eacute\;&rsquo\;s Ghost: Neither Unity Nor Its Loss\,&rdquo\; with Carlos A. Segovia and a guest contribution by Luigi Attademo) explores how French Baroque music&mdash\;and the lute world within it in particular&mdash\;is an anomaly running perpendicular to the principles of development of modern European music. Neither is architecture in it prior to expression\, as in Renaissance polyphony\, nor does drama determine form\, as in the Italian Baroque&mdash\;the development of these tendencies having resulted in Classicism and Romanticism\, and post-Romanticism having dissolved organic wholeness wherever it emerged. The French style bris&eacute\; or luth&eacute\;&mdash\;which is not merely a style but an aesthetic field with its own affective ontology&mdash\;thus amounts to modernity&rsquo\;s musical ghost. Two ideas define it: the refraction and diffraction of the experienceable. Through them\, harmony and rhythm\, to which melody is subordinated\, disperse into echoes\, delays\, and interruptions\, from the repertoire to the individual note. Music thus becomes spectral: neither does unity precede fragmentation\, nor is fragmentation the effect of its loss\; rather\, fracture itself becomes the condition of its manifestation. Hence\, the French style bris&eacute\; inhabited positively what modernism would seek through negation\, thereby unsettling the narrative of today&rsquo\;s dominant musical aesthetics. <br> <br>In turn\, Session II (&ldquo\;Fantasia: The Sounding of a Phantom\,&rdquo\; with Gorica Orsholits) examines fantasia: an imagined musical composition that represents the free-form\, improvisational\, and irrational power of imagination through sound\, overcoming the limits of ordinary conceptual thinking. The structure of fantasia is a bridge between the sensory and the supersensory\, where music does not imitate the external world\, but directly expresses the inner essence and movement of consciousness\, ignoring common harmonic structures to achieve hyper-sensual experiences. Fantasia operates through phantasm which represents a phantomic sound operation that exposes the visibility of its being through a disguise\, a phantom\, a non-being. The phantomic event of non-being is a combination of real and completely invented situations where the trace of a presence appears as an absence. The original fantasias were compositions intended for the lute and related string instruments\, and later for keyboard instruments. In Baroque music\, fantasia acquires a more extensive\, technically complex structure while in the classical period\, it appears in more freely-formed sonata movements. In the Romantic period\, it is encountered as the title of various compositions. Fantasia in contemporary music changes shape and embodies musical expressionist melodrama\, speech-songs and forms of dark\, phantasmagoric musical fantasias. <br> <br>Lastly\, Session III (&ldquo\;The Mutant Sound Object: Paganini-Liszt &amp\; Variation\,&rdquo\; with Andrea F. de Donato and a guest contribution by Gaia Ferrantini) focuses on the problem of variation. After providing an introductory overview of how the concept of variation can be defined differently in philosophy and musicology\, the session presents a case study of Franz Liszt&rsquo\;s Grandes &eacute\;tudes de Paganini\, S. 141\, from 1851. This work serves as an exemplary case to demonstrate how creative thought and the structuring of a musical style can constitute multiple levels of ontological expressibility. Thus the session begins with a comparative analysis of the 1851 &eacute\;tudes and an earlier version\, published by Liszt in 1838 under the title &Eacute\;tudes d&rsquo\;ex&eacute\;cution transcendante d&rsquo\;apr&egrave\;s Paganini\, S. 140. Next\, focusing on &Eacute\;tude No. 3\, &ldquo\;La Campanella\,&rdquo\; four different modes of variation are identified: functional\, semantic\, sound\, and spatial variation. Supported by specific audio and score excerpts\, key harmonic characteristics are analyzed\, providing the following conclusions: 1. the four modes of variation structure a distinctive sound object&mdash\;not monadic and isolated\, but processual and mutant\; 2. from this sound object\, an ontology based on variation may be derived. Whether and how this variational ontology\, derived from the Paganini-Liszt &eacute\;tudes\, might constitute a fractured ontology is likewise examined. <br> <br> <br><strong>TIME</strong> <br> <br>3 Sundays\, November 8\, 15\, and 22\, 2026 <br>10:00&ndash\;12:00 Eastern Time Zone &bull\; 16:00&ndash\;18:00 Central European <br> <br> <br><strong>SESSIONS</strong> <br> <br>Session I &bull\; November 8\, 2026 <br> <br>Style Bris&eacute\;&rsquo\;s Ghost <br>Neither Unity Nor Its Loss <br>with Carlos A. Segovia <br> <br>Session II &bull\; November 15\, 2026 <br> <br>Fantasia <br>The Sounding of a Phantom <br>with Gorica Orsholits <br> <br>Session III &bull\; November 22\, 2026 <br> <br>The Mutant Sound Object <br>Paganini-Liszt &amp\; Variation <br>with Andrea F. de Donato <br> <br> <br><strong>ABOUT INCITE SEMINARS </strong><br> <br>We are a mix of rogue scholars\, disgruntled academics\, disenchanted buddhists\, enchantment-hungry anarchists\, radical therapists\, and general weirdos looking to create autonomous and accessible forms of &ldquo\;higher education.&rdquo\; <br> <br>We offer online seminars and reading groups to incite personal exploration and inspire community action. Incite Seminars offers an educational experience. We do so by gathering an engaged group of participants for a dynamic exchange of ideas\, led by skilled facilitators. All of our facilitators have a deep relationship to a subject or topic through intensive study or practice. <br> <br>Incite Seminars is a 100% member-supported learning community. We depend on member contributions to continue holding space for radical study and practice groups\, putting on rigorous seminars and courses\, and providing our facilitators and organizers with fair compensation. If you are unable to pay the full amount for a session or membership at this time\, we invite you to join us at reduced or no cost with our Solidarity option.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Hannes Schumacher:
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SUMMARY:CFP: Feminist Legal Reform and Digital Agency in Global Media Landscapes
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Call for Book Chapters</strong></p>\n\n<p><strong>Book Title: Feminist Legal Reform and Digital Agency in Global Media Landscapes</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Publisher: IGI Global Scientific Publishing</strong></p>\n\n<p>Proposal Submission Deadline: <strong>November 8\, 2026</strong></p>\n\n<p>Book Editors:</p>\n<p>- Dr. Jamil Akhtar (University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan)</p>\n<p>- Dr. Aulia Rahmawati (Universitas Pembangunan Nasional &ldquo\;Veteran&rdquo\; Jawa Timur\, Indonesia)</p>\n<p>- Dr. Dirk Hartwig (University of M&uuml\;nster\, Germany)</p>\n\n<p><strong>Introduction</strong></p>\n<p>The intersection of feminist legal reform and digital agency represents one of the most dynamic and contested terrains in contemporary global media landscapes. As digital platforms reshape how societies debate\, negotiate\, and implement gender justice\, new possibilities for feminist advocacy emerge alongside novel forms of resistance\, surveillance\, and backlash. From hashtag movements challenging patriarchal legal systems to online campaigns for reproductive rights\, from digital storytelling by marginalized women to algorithmic biases perpetuating gender inequality\, the relationship between feminist legal reform and digital media is complex\, multifaceted\, and urgently in need of scholarly attention.</p>\n<p>This edited collection responds to a critical gap in interdisciplinary scholarship: the need for a comprehensive examination of how digital agency&mdash\;the capacity of individuals and communities to act purposefully through digital technologies&mdash\;intersects with feminist legal reform across diverse global contexts. While existing literature addresses feminist legal theory and digital media separately\, few works systematically explore their convergence. This volume brings together scholars from law\, media studies\, communication\, gender studies\, religious studies\, and digital humanities to examine how digital platforms enable\, constrain\, and transform feminist legal advocacy worldwide.</p>\n<p>The book will critically interrogate questions of power\, representation\, authenticity\, and justice at the nexus of law\, gender\, and digital technology. It recognizes that feminist legal reform is not merely a matter of changing statutes but involves transforming cultural narratives\, challenging embedded patriarchal norms\, and creating new spaces for women's voices and agency. Digital media\, with its affordances for networking\, storytelling\, and mobilization\, has become an indispensable arena for these transformative projects&mdash\;yet it also presents new challenges\, including online harassment\, misinformation\, algorithmic discrimination\, and the digital divide that disproportionately affects women in the Global South.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Submission Procedure</strong></p>\n<p>Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit on or before [<strong>November 8\, 2026</strong>]\, a chapter proposal of 1\,000 to 2\,000 words clearly explaining the mission and concerns of his or her proposed chapter. Authors will be notified by [<strong>November 22\, 2026</strong>] about the status of their proposals and sent chapter guidelines. Full chapters are expected to be submitted by [<strong>January 10\, 2027</strong>]\, and all interested authors must consult the guidelines for manuscript submissions at http://www.igi-global.com/publish/contributor-resources/before-you-write/</a> prior to submission. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on a double-anonymized review basis. Contributors may also be requested to serve as reviewers for this project.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Note:</strong> There are no submission or acceptance fees for manuscripts submitted to this book publication\, Feminist Legal Reform and Digital Agency in Global Media Landscapes. All manuscripts are accepted based on a double-anonymized peer review editorial process.</p>\n\n<p><strong>Important Dates</strong></p>\n<p>November 8\, 2026: Proposal Submission Deadline</p>\n<p>November 22\, 2026: Notification of Acceptance</p>\n<p>January 10\, 2027: Full Chapter Submission</p>\n<p>February 14\, 2027: Review Results Returned</p>\n<p>March 14\, 2027: Final Acceptance Notification</p>\n<p>March 21\, 2027: Final Chapter Submission</p>\n\n<p><strong>Inquiries</strong></p>\n<p>Inquiries can be forwarded to: jamillahori@gmail.com</a></p>\n\n<p>For Chapter Proposal Submission\, please visit the following link:</p>\n<p>https://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/10358</p>\n\n\n\nContact Information\n\n<p>Dr. Jamil Akhtar</p>\n<p>University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan</p>\n\n\n\n\nContact Email\njamillahori@gmail.com\n\n\nURL\nhttps://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/10358</a>\n\n\n&nbsp\;\n\n\n\n
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SUMMARY:Philosophy Students’ Symposium 2026
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TZID:Europe/Belgrade
LOCATION:Koroška cesta 160\, Maribor\, Slovenia
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>The topic this year is AI and philosophy\, broadly construed.</strong><br>The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming our society\, scientific practices\, and our understanding of the human mind. The rise of sophisticated AI systems raises profound philosophical questions across multiple disciplines. The intersection of philosophy and AI is more relevant than ever. Machine learning reshapes scientific discovery and knowledge production\, while algorithmic systems raise urgent ethical questions regarding bias and value alignment. Simultaneously\, advancements in generative AI and artificial cognition force us to revisit foundational debates about creativity\, consciousness\, and agency.<br>This conference invites submissions that address foundational and applied issues at the intersection of philosophy and artificial intelligence. Possible topics include\, but are not limited to:<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\; ethics of AI (e.g.\, algorithmic bias\, value alignment\, moral status of AI)\,<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\; AI in scientific discovery and practice\,<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\; epistemology of AI (e.g.\, can LLMs testify\, epistemic trust in machines)\,<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\; AI consciousness and philosophy of mind\,<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\; aesthetics of AI-generated art and creativity\,<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\; the alignment problem and existential risk\,<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\; explainable AI (XAI) and understanding\,<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\; the nature of artificial agency\, and<br>&bull\;&nbsp\; &nbsp\; human-AI interaction and cognitive enhancement.</p>\n<p><strong>The call for submission is now closed.</strong>&nbsp\;You can join us as a listener by registering here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/3qs3iYxG9n. This is an inperson event only.</p>\n<p>We would appreciate it if the abstracts sent were in English\, as that will be the official working language of the conference.</p>\n<p>Conference fee is 10 &euro\;.</p>\n<p>If enough participants are interested\, they can publish their work in a peer-reviewed student compendium\, which will be reviewed by faculty professors.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to your applications.<br><br></p>\n<p><br><br></p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Martin Justin;CN="Tadej Todorović";CN=Borut Trpin:
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SUMMARY:University of Oxford's 30th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference
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LOCATION:Oxford\, United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:<p>17th Sept\, 2026 update</p>\n<p><strong>Registration will open at 10 am BST on 30th Sept\, 2026 on our website (</strong><strong>https://www.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/oxford-philosophy-graduate-conference). </strong></p>\n<p><strong>Spots are limited on a first-come-first-served basis.</strong></p>\n\n<p>Graduate student speakers:</p>\n<p>Anusha Celly (Princeton)\, 'Aristotle on Slave-Virtue: Non-Deliberative Virtue and External Reason'</p>\n<p>Caterina Pavoni (LMU Munich)\, 'Aristotle's Minimal Essentialism in the <em>Topics</em>'</p>\n<p>Ether Lin (LSE)\, 'In Defence of Carnapian Constitutive Functionalism'</p>\n<p>Georgie Newson (University of Edinburgh)\, 'Large Gametaphysics: Misapplications of Biological Teleology in Gender-Critical Feminism'</p>\n<p>Kevin Jia (University of Notre Dame)\, 'Non-Accidental Intuition and Global Revelation'</p>\n<p>Maxime Daniel Barbier (Universit&agrave\; degli studi di Milano)\, 'A Semantics of Smell: Olfactory Denotation Beyond Source Representation'</p>\n<p>Meichen Liu (UCL)\, 'Moral Responsibility and the Opacity of Attitudes: A Critique and Revision of Smith&rsquo\;s Rational Relation View"</p>\n<p>Shao-An Hsu (The Ohio State University)\, 'An Epistemological Argument for Numerical Perception'</p>\n<p>Tania Bteish (LSE)\, 'Targets of Intervention in Structural Injustice'</p>\n<p>Tatiana Sitnikova (University of Cambridge)\, 'Code Words and Self-Deception'</p>\n<p>Victor Tremblay-Baillargeon (University of Montreal)\, 'A Quark's Dream and a Panpsychist's Need: Microphenomenology for Panpsychism'</p>\n<p>Zhengping Zhang (University of Virginia)\, 'Toward a Relational Picture of Self-Trust'</p>\n\n<p><strong>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</strong></p>\n<p>5th August\, 2026 update:</p>\n<p><strong>We have notified all the accepted and waitlisted authors via email</strong>\, and rejections will be sent out this Thursday. If you do not receive anything from us<strong> by</strong>&nbsp\;<strong>Friday</strong>\, please let us know (our email address: gradconf@philosophy.ox.ac.uk)</p>\n<p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</p>\n<p>5th May\, 2026 update:</p>\n<p>Submissions&nbsp\;are now <strong>CLOSED</strong>.</p>\n<p>We expect that we will notify the authors of accepted papers via email by early August 2026.</p>\n<p>* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *</p>\n<p>4th Feb\, 2026 update:</p>\n<p><strong>CALL FOR PAPERS:</strong></p>\n<p>We invite submissions from all graduate students working in philosophy for the 30th Annual Oxford Philosophy Graduate Conference\, to be held on the 13th-14th November 2026 at the University of Oxford.</p>\n<p>Papers can be on&nbsp\;<strong>any topic in philosophy</strong>. We aim to represent a broad range of philosophical debates and traditions in our final selection\, across theoretical philosophy\, practical philosophy\, and the history of philosophy.</p>\n<p>Each selected graduate student will be asked to present their paper in a 30-40 minute presentation. Each presentation will be followed by a response\, typically from a member of the Oxford Philosophy Faculty.</p>\n<p>We are also delighted to announce our keynote speakers for this year&rsquo\;s conference: &nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>David Chalmers (New York University)\,</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Monima Chadha (University of Oxford)\,&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Rob Simpson (University College London)\,</strong></p>\n<p>In addition\,&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Adrian Moore (University of Oxford)</strong>&nbsp\;will be holding a workshop on how to publish in philosophy journals.</p>\n<p><strong><br></strong><strong>Eligibility</strong>:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>All current graduate students in philosophy are eligible to apply\, except those studying at the University of Oxford at the time of the conference.</li>\n<li>We particularly encourage submissions from philosophers from underrepresented groups in philosophy.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Submission details</strong><strong>:</strong>&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The submission deadline is&nbsp\;<strong>1st&nbsp\;</strong><strong>May\, 2026 at 12:00 pm/noon&nbsp\; (Greenwich Time)</strong></li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>All papers and abstracts should be submitted using this link: https://forms.gle/GyFZVqSc8m7jSaFaA</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Your abstract should be no more than 300 words in length. Your paper should be no more than 3000 words in length\, including footnotes\, excluding references.</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Abstracts and papers must be suitable for blind review\, i.e.\,&nbsp\;<strong>they must not contain any information that identifies the author or their institutional affiliation.</strong>&nbsp\;</li>\n</ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Only one submission per person is allowed.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>If you have any questions\, feel free to email&nbsp\;gradconf@philosophy.ox.ac.uk</p>\n<p>We look forward to your submission!</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Reginald Chua;CN=Wanda von Knobelsdorff;CN=Xichen Li;CN="Otto Räsänen";CN=Meredith Ross-James;CN=Mhairi Tait:
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SUMMARY:Another Sense of Earth at the End of Worlds: Environmental Humanities in the Face of Crises
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Another Sense of Earth at the End of Worlds: Environmental Humanities in the Face of Crises<br>The Fourth Philosophy and Religion Graduate Student Conference&nbsp\;<br>at the University of North Texas (UNT)&nbsp\;<br><br>In a time of crises overshadowed by impressions of the precarity and contingency of the plurality of worlds we live in\, we invite interdisciplinary\, critical reflection on the meaning and stakes of our senses of world and ending. While totalizing narratives of crises oscillate between techno-optimistic visions of geoengineering and dystopic pessimism\, this conference seeks to contextualize dominant understandings of endings to envision new conceptions of time\, relations\, and finality beyond the hegemonic imaginaries.<br>For whom and what do the apocalyptic bells of the end of the world sound? What does it even mean to conceive of &ldquo\;our&rdquo\; world as ending? Who&rsquo\;s included and excluded from this sense of world? What does it mean for traditions in which the end of the world is inevitable\, cyclical\, or has already come to pass? What would this so-called &ldquo\;end of the world&rdquo\; even mean for people who&rsquo\;ve already endured innumerable ends to their ways of life?</p>\n<p>Taking up the gauntlet thrown by Thomas Nail in Theory of the Earth\, we ask for submissions that problematize static\, dominant conceptions of world and think with him on what it means\, in the context of crises\, to imagine how &ldquo\;this stable ground is becoming increasingly unstable&mdash\;for some of us more than others.&rdquo\; In this spirit\, the conference seeks to engage with forms of thought that emphasize the radically plural character of sense-making\, ways of knowing\, and temporal existence. We welcome submissions that build upon these critical and marginalized perspectives to challenge assumptions of crisis and delimit what worlds are at stake. Within these broad thematic horizons\, we aim to bring together a diverse set of perspectives into dialogue and reconceptualize our relationship to planet Earth.&nbsp\;</p>\n\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>We cordially invite graduate students from all fields and disciplines to submit their research and perspectives on the following themes:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Indigenous &amp\; non-Western conceptions of world-making\, cataclysm\, and/or time</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Feminist/Queer theories on resistant subjectivities and spaces in the face of precarity</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Geophilosophical approaches from traditions historically excluded from philosophy (ex. Sikhism\, Buddhism\, Hinduism\, etc.)&nbsp\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Philosophies of science and normative theories that utilize a planetary approach&nbsp\;</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Relational ontologies\, specifically those with nonhuman and more-than-human beings</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Phenomenological accounts of temporality\, &ldquo\;world collapse\,&rdquo\; and futurity</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Critical theories on the &ldquo\;Anthropocene&rdquo\; and the role of capitalism in the ongoing environmental crisis</p>\n</li>\n<li>\n<p>Ecocritical perspectives on the role of technology and natural science in organizing our sense of the Earth</p>\n</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>Conference Details</p>\nThe conference will be held in-person at the University of North Texas\, Denton\, TX\, from November 13th-15th. This conference does not require registration fees.&nbsp\;\nThe conference will feature Thomas Nail\, a Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver\, as the keynote speaker\, whose materialist interventions in conceptions of earth and planet\, particularly in Theory of the Earth\, pose deep and transformational reflections on imaginaries of time\, space\, and world for our context of apocalypse and crisis.\n
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SUMMARY:League of African Women Philosophers (LAWP) Third Annual International (Virtual) Conference 2027
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DESCRIPTION:<p>LEAGUE OF AFRICAN WOMEN PHILOSOPHERS (LAWP)</p>\n<p>THIRD ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2027</p>\n<p>VIRTUAL CONFERENCE</p>\n<p>THEME: Women in African Endogenous Knowledge Systems: Philosophical Perspectives on Theories\, Concepts\, and Institutions</p>\n<p>CONCEPT NOTE:</p>\n<p>African Endogenous Knowledge Systems are the living\, plural ways African communities understand personhood\, health\, land\, governance\, education and spirituality. Women have been central to producing\, preserving and transforming this knowledge as healers\, farmers\, educators and custodians of culture\, yet their contributions are often dismissed as merely &ldquo\;domestic&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;informal&rdquo\;. This conference recovers women&rsquo\;s knowledge of philosophy as theory\, ethics and institutions\, and interrogates its place in contemporary debates on decoloniality\, sustainability and justice.</p>\n<p>KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:</p>\n<p>1. Prof. Gail Presbey\,&nbsp\; University of Detroit Mercy\, USA</p>\n<p>2. Prof. Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob\, University of Calabar\, Nigeria</p>\n<p>3. Assoc. Prof. Lydie Chritiane Azab &agrave\; Boto University of Yaounde I\, Cameroon</p>\n<p>CONFERENCE INFO:</p>\n<p>Date: 29-30 January 2027 | Venue: Online | Languages: English &amp\; French | Fee: FREE</p>\n<p>SUB-THEMES (10):</p>\n<p>1. Women\, African Endogenous Epistemologies\, Ontologies\, Rationalities and Production of Knowledge</p>\n<p>2. African Women and Philosophies of Personhood and Community</p>\n<p>3. African Women\, Knowledge Transmission and Philosophy of Education</p>\n<p>4. Women and Philosophy of Health and Care in Africa</p>\n<p>5. African Women and Philosophies of Agriculture\, Food and the Environment</p>\n<p>6. Women\, African Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Law</p>\n<p>7. African Women and Endogenous Art</p>\n<p>8. African Women and Philosophy of Technology and the Digital</p>\n<p>9. African Women&rsquo\;s Philosophical Contributions to Decoloniality and Epistemic Justice</p>\n<p>10. African Feminist Thought and Studies / Women Philosophers\, Thinkers and Knowledge Innovators</p>\n<p>CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:</p>\n<p>Submit 150-200 words abstract stating problem\, argument\, method and contribution.</p>\n<p>IMPORTANT DATES:</p>\n<p>Call Opens: Oct 1\, 2026</p>\n<p>Deadline for Abstract: Nov 30\, 2026</p>\n<p>Notification: Dec 15\, 2026</p>\n<p>Registration Deadline: Jan 20\, 2027</p>\n<p>SUBMIT TO: africanwomenphilconference@gmail.com</p>\n<p>Subject: LAWP 2027 Abstract &ndash\; [Your Name]</p>\n<p>Include: Title\, Name\, Affiliation\, Country\, Email\, 5 Keywords</p>\n<p>PUBLICATION: Selected papers will be published in an Edited Volume &amp\; Journal Special Issue</p>\n<p>Conference Organizing Committee&nbsp\; &nbsp\; 1- Dr Mirian Ngozi Alike (Chairperson Organizing Committee)&nbsp\; &nbsp\; 2- Dr Grace Tomoka Bakuwa (Vice-Chairperson Organizing Committee)&nbsp\; &nbsp\; 3- Dr Gama Lindo (Coordinator for Academic Networking and Conference Outreach)&nbsp\; &nbsp\; 4-Ms Modupe Olajumoke ADU (Secretary 1)&nbsp\; &nbsp\; 5- Ms Margaret Kanyemba ( Secretary 2&nbsp\; )&nbsp\; &nbsp\; 6- Ms Ebbah Dube (Officer in charge of communication) &nbsp\; &nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>LIGUE DES FEMMES PHILOSOPHES AFRICAINES (LAWP) TROISI&Egrave\;ME CONF&Eacute\;RENCE INTERNATIONALE ANNUELLE 2027 CONF&Eacute\;RENCE VIRTUELLE &nbsp\; TH&Egrave\;ME : Les Femmes dans les Syst&egrave\;mes de Connaissances Endog&egrave\;nes Africaines : Perspectives Philosophiques sur les Th&eacute\;ories\, les Concepts et les Institutions &nbsp\; NOTE CONCEPTUELLE : Les Syst&egrave\;mes de Connaissances Endog&egrave\;nes Africaines sont les mani&egrave\;res vivantes et plurielles dont les communaut&eacute\;s africaines comprennent la personne\, la sant&eacute\;\, la terre\, la gouvernance\, l'&eacute\;ducation et la spiritualit&eacute\;. Les femmes ont jou&eacute\; un r&ocirc\;le central dans la production\, la pr&eacute\;servation et la transformation de ces savoirs en tant que gu&eacute\;risseuses\, agricultrices\, &eacute\;ducatrices et gardiennes de la culture\, pourtant leurs contributions sont souvent rel&eacute\;gu&eacute\;es au rang de savoirs simplement &laquo\; domestiques &raquo\; ou &laquo\; informels &raquo\;. Cette conf&eacute\;rence vise &agrave\; r&eacute\;cup&eacute\;rer le savoir des femmes en tant que philosophie &mdash\; en tant que th&eacute\;orie\, &eacute\;thique et institutions &mdash\; et &agrave\; interroger sa place dans les d&eacute\;bats contemporains sur la d&eacute\;colonialit&eacute\;\, la durabilit&eacute\; et la justice. &nbsp\; CONF&Eacute\;RENCI&Egrave\;RES PRINCIPALES : 1. Prof. Gail Presbey &ndash\; Universit&eacute\; de Detroit Mercy\, USA 2. Prof. Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob &ndash\; Universit&eacute\; de Calabar\, Nigeria 3. Prof. Assoc. Lydie Christiane Azab &agrave\; Boto &ndash\; Universit&eacute\; de Yaound&eacute\; I\, Cameroun &nbsp\; INFORMATIONS SUR LA CONF&Eacute\;RENCE : Date : 29-30 Janvier 2027 | Lieu : En ligne | Langues : Anglais &amp\; Fran&ccedil\;ais | Frais : GRATUIT &nbsp\; SOUS-TH&Egrave\;MES (10) : 1. Femmes\, &Eacute\;pist&eacute\;mologies\, Ontologies\, Rationalit&eacute\;s Endog&egrave\;nes Africaines et Production du Savoir 2. Femmes Africaines et Philosophies de la Personne et de la Communaut&eacute\; 3. Femmes Africaines\, Transmission des Savoirs et Philosophie de l'&Eacute\;ducation 4. Femmes et Philosophie de la Sant&eacute\; et du Soin en Afrique 5. Femmes Africaines et Philosophies de l'Agriculture\, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement 6. Femmes\, Philosophie Politique Africaine et Philosophie du Droit 7. Femmes Africaines et Art Endog&egrave\;ne 8. Femmes Africaines et Philosophie de la Technologie et du Num&eacute\;rique 9. Contributions Philosophiques des Femmes Africaines &agrave\; la D&eacute\;colonialit&eacute\; et &agrave\; la Justice &Eacute\;pist&eacute\;mique 10. Pens&eacute\;e et &Eacute\;tudes F&eacute\;ministes Africaines / Femmes Philosophes\, Penseuses et Innovatrices de Savoirs &nbsp\; APPEL &Agrave\; COMMUNICATIONS : Soumettre un r&eacute\;sum&eacute\; de 150-200 mots indiquant le probl&egrave\;me\, l'argument\, la m&eacute\;thode et la contribution. &nbsp\; DATES IMPORTANTES : Ouverture de l'appel : 1er Octobre 2026 Date limite de soumission : 30 Novembre 2026 Notification d'acceptation : 15 D&eacute\;cembre 2026 Date limite d'inscription : 20 Janvier 2027 &nbsp\; SOUMISSION &Agrave\; : africanwomenphilconference@gmail.com Objet : LAWP 2027 R&eacute\;sum&eacute\; &ndash\; [Votre Nom] Inclure : Titre\, Nom\, Affiliation\, Pays\, Email\, 5 Mots-cl&eacute\;s &nbsp\; PUBLICATION : Les articles s&eacute\;lectionn&eacute\;s seront publi&eacute\;s dans un Ouvrage Collectif et un Num&eacute\;ro Sp&eacute\;cial de Revue (avec &eacute\;valuation par les pairs) &nbsp\; Comit&eacute\; d'Organisation De la Conference&nbsp\; &nbsp\; 1- Dr Mirian Ngozi Alike ( Pr&eacute\;sident\, Comit&eacute\; d'organisation) &nbsp\; 2- Dr Grace Tomoka Bakuwa (Vice- Pr&eacute\;sident\, Comit&eacute\; d'organisation) &nbsp\; 3- Dr Gama Lindo (Coordinatrice du Reseautage pour la Conf&eacute\;rence virtuelle) &nbsp\; 4-Ms Modupe Olajumoke ADU (Secr&eacute\;tarie 1)&nbsp\; &nbsp\; 5- Ms Margaret Kanyemba ( Secr&eacute\;tarie 2&nbsp\; )&nbsp\; &nbsp\; 6- Ms Ebbah Dube (Responsable de la communication)</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Dr Marlene Femba;CN=Dr Miriam Ngozi Alike;CN=Grace Dr. Tomoka;CN=Dr Lindokuhle Gama;CN=Modupe Adu;CN=Margaret Kanyemba;CN=Ebbah Dube:
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SUMMARY:When Uncertainty Becomes a Vacuum: Misinformation\, Trust\, and the Ethics of Communicating What We Don’t Know (Q&A Session with Professor Mike Steer)
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong><em>What happens when communities need answers before institutions have them?</em></strong><em></em></p>\n<p>In this Q&amp\;A\, Mike Steer reflects on communicating with South Australian communities during the unprecedented algal bloom\, when rapidly evolving science could offer probabilities rather than definitive answers &ndash\; while communities\, media and political leaders demanded explanations.</p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does uncertainty create space for misinformation?</li>\n<li>What happens when institutional delays feed a &ldquo\;thirsty machine&rdquo\; for information?</li>\n<li>How can uncertainty be communicated without becoming a vacuum for competing narratives?</li>\n<li>Where is the line between legitimate scepticism and harmful misinformation?</li>\n<li>And what does it take for institutions to remain worthy of trust when they cannot yet provide the answers people need?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Rather than asking simply how we combat misinformation\, this conversation asks a more difficult question:&nbsp\;<strong><em>what are the ethical responsibilities of institutions when certainty is impossible?</em></strong></p>\n<p>(Note: This session will be held at Australian Eastern Dayligh Time\, which is&nbsp\;UTC +11)</p>\n<p>Facilitated by: Dr Larelle Bossi</p>\n<p>Larelle is CEO and Founder of Ethical Ocean\, a Research Fellow at Griffith University&rsquo\;s Institute for Ethics\, Governance and Law\, and Vice President of the Australian Association for Professional and Applied Ethics. Her research and advisory work focuses on ocean ethics\, biocultural ethics and transformative ocean governance\, drawing on ecofeminist theory and First Nations kinship worldviews. She has developed ethical frameworks for aquaculture\, offshore wind and wave energy\, and works across ocean governance\, place attachment\, cultural licence and the decolonisation of marine spaces. Larelle is also an advisory member of the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy.</p>\n<p>Prof Mike Steer</p>\n<p>Professor Steer brings over two decades of expertise in marine science to his role at the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI). His expertise spans various fields including fish biology\, fisheries science\, cephalopod ecology\, molecular science\, fishery reform\, gear selectivity\, and fleet dynamics\, providing direction for numerous applied research initiatives that have advanced Australia&rsquo\;s seafood industry.</p>\n<p>Professor Steer's strategic leadership centres on forging genuine relationships to facilitate collaborations with stakeholders and industry partners\, ensuring SARDI's work remains pertinent and impactful in fisheries management and sustainable livestock practices. He drives meaningful advancements\, bridging the gap between academia and industry to address critical challenges in South Australia's aquatic ecosystems and livestock industries.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Larelle Bossi;CN=Hugh Breakey;CN=Jacqueline Boaks:
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SUMMARY:17th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE – WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY
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LOCATION:Fakulteti Filozofik\, Priština\, Kosovo\, 10000
DESCRIPTION:<p><em>Confirmed keynote/distinguished speakers:</em></p>\n<p><strong>Philip Kitcher</strong> &ndash\; <em>John Dewey Professor of Philosophy\, Emeritus\, Columbia University</em><br><strong>Bj&oslash\;rn Torgrim Ramberg</strong> &ndash\;&nbsp\;&nbsp\;<em>Professor at Department of Philosophy\, Classics\, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK)\, University of Oslo</em><em></em><em><br></em><strong>Lee Braver</strong> &ndash\; <em>Professor at Department of Philosophy\, University of South Florida</em><em></em><em><br></em><strong>Magnus Schlette </strong>&ndash\; <em>Professor at Heidelberg University</em><br><strong>Sarin Marchetti</strong> &ndash\; <em>Dipartimento di Filosofia Department of Philosophy\, The Sapienza University of Rome&nbsp\;</em></p>\n<p><em>Honorary lecture:</em></p>\n<p><strong>Astrit Salihu</strong> &ndash\; <em>Professor at Department of Philosophy\, University of Pristina</em></p>\n<p><strong><em>Organized by: </em></strong><em>Department of Philosophy @ University of Pristina\; Kosovo Philosophical Association\; European Pragmatism Association\; F&eacute\;d&eacute\;ration Internationale des Soci&eacute\;t&eacute\;s de Philosophie</em><em></em><strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Call for Papers</strong></p>\n<p>Modernity is characterized by the discovery of the &lsquo\;New Continent&rsquo\;\, which in the philosophical discourse of different periods has not been conceived merely as a geographical expansion\, but as a potential space for the development of a new mode of practical and contemplative thinking. Alexis de Tocqueville evaluated the American Revolution in contrast to the French one\, interpreting it as a more authentic expression of democracy\, while Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel argued that the future of philosophical and historical development would shift toward the New Continent. Similarly\, Jean Baudrillard conceptualized America as a form of transatlantic utopia of late modernity.</p>\n<p>However\, these interpretations do not reduce America to a passive space of European projections\, nor do they define it as an entity devoid of self-reflection. On the contrary\, American philosophy\, drawing upon the European intellectual heritage&mdash\;its <em>cr&egrave\;me de la cr&egrave\;me</em>&mdash\;articulates a distinct and authentic tradition of philosophical thought. This tradition begins with the transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau\, where Emerson may be read as a proto-pragmatic figure\, and then develops toward the consolidation of classical pragmatism. It culminates in the work of Charles Sanders Peirce\, William James\, and John Dewey\, who reconfigure the map of Western philosophy through a post-metaphysical paradigm of thought.</p>\n<p>Within this framework\, elements such as radical empiricism\, eco-ethics\, pluralism\, Hegelian Darwinism\, and ethical democracy contribute to shaping what is known as American philosophy\, articulated under the conceptual framework of pragmatism. In this paradigm\, freedom\, pluralism\, and democracy are not treated as fortuitous categories\, but as constitutive conditions of philosophical practice itself. In this sense\, pragmatism marks a shift from the primacy of theory to practice\, from practice to theoretical reformulation\, and from a theory of truth to a theory <em>about</em> truth (Rorty).</p>\n<p>After the Second World War\, American philosophy became dominated by the Anglo-Saxon tradition of analytic philosophy\, which marginalized classical pragmatism. It was not until the 1970s that this tradition re-emerged in the form of neo-pragmatism or linguistic pragmatism. The key figures of this reconfiguration are Richard Rorty and Hilary Putnam\, later supported by Richard Bernstein with a more political orientation\, and Robert Brandom within a more epistemological and inferentialist line.</p>\n<p>In addition to pragmatism as the central tradition of American philosophy\, eco-ethics developed in parallel in the post-war years through Aldo Leopold\, which can be situated within the broader framework of bioethics as articulated by Van Rensselaer Potter. At the same time\, the philosophy of technology initially developed from European premises with Martin Heidegger and Jacques Ellul\, and was further elaborated through the Society for Philosophy and Technology\, established in the United States. One of the key directions within this approach is post-phenomenology\, representing one of the most significant approaches of the empirical turn in the study of technology.</p>\n<p>Another central dimension is the philosophy of law and political theory\, where John Rawls and Ronald Dworkin represent two paradigmatic figures of contemporary normative thought. Likewise\, the tradition of philosophy of art and literary criticism developed\, with Harold Bloom\, Arthur Danto\, and George Dickie reformulating debates on the canon\, the artworld\, and the &ldquo\;end of art.&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>In general\, pragmatism has functioned as a space of dialogue and plural-perspectivism. As William James emphasizes\, it can be understood as a &ldquo\;house with many rooms\,&rdquo\; where different philosophical traditions coexist in continuous dialogue. In this sense\, American philosophy appears as an open and unfinished reflective process\, articulated through dialogue with various traditions such as phenomenology\, analytic philosophy\, structuralism/post-structuralism\, the Frankfurt School\, and hermeneutics. This methodological and pluralistic openness makes pragmatism one of the most enduring and inclusive traditions of contemporary philosophy. In this sense\, American philosophy cannot be reduced to a single doctrine\, but should be understood as a shared horizon where freedom\, pluralism\, and endless dialogue are respected.</p>\n<p><strong>Main Topics of the Conference</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nature in the American tradition: Emerson\, Whitman\, Thoreau\, James\, and Leopold</li>\n<li>The consequences of the pragmatist triad: Peirce\, James\, and Dewey</li>\n<li>Epistemology in the analytic tradition</li>\n<li>Epistemology and ontology in pragmatism</li>\n<li>Social ontology of neo-pragmatism</li>\n<li>Bioethics in the American context</li>\n<li>Neo-pragmatism</li>\n<li>Hegel and pragmatism</li>\n<li>Kant and pragmatism</li>\n<li>Heidegger and pragmatism</li>\n<li>Wittgenstein and pragmatism</li>\n<li>Nietzsche and pragmatism</li>\n<li>Pragmatist legacy in the European context: Habermas\, Apel\, Joas\, and Forst</li>\n<li>Philosophy of technology in the American context</li>\n<li>Post-phenomenology</li>\n<li>Philosophy of law in the American context</li>\n<li>Aesthetics: the &ldquo\;artworld&rdquo\; and the &ldquo\;end of art&rdquo\;</li>\n<li>Literary criticism and philosophy of literature in the American context</li>\n<li>Cinema and film in the American context</li>\n<li>Liberalism and American philosophy</li>\n<li>Challenges of democracy</li>\n<li>American political theory</li>\n<li>American social theory</li>\n<li>American anthropological theory</li>\n<li>Redefining architecture and the city in the American context</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>Guidelines and General Information about the Confernce</strong></p>\n<ul>\n<li>For each submission\, the following are required: the title\, an abstract of 200&ndash\;400 words\, five keywords\, and the author&rsquo\;s institutional affiliation.</li>\n<li>Papers to be presented must be written in either Albanian or English.</li>\n<li>All abstracts must be submitted via email to the following addresses: labinot.kelmendi@uni-pr.edu\; shfk.kosova@gmail.com&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>Abstracts will be reviewed and selected by the Scientific Committee of the Conference.</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong>IMPORTANT DATES:</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Abstract submission deadline: </strong>September 1</p>\n<p><strong>Notification of acceptance: </strong>September 10</p>\n<p><strong>Conference dates: </strong>November 19-20&nbsp\; 2026</p>\n<p>The conference will be held in hybrid format: both in-person and online participation will be possible.</p>
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DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20261121T090000
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SUMMARY:11th De La Salle University Undergraduate Conference
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LOCATION:2401 Taft Avenue\, Manila\, Philippines\, 1004
DESCRIPTION:<p>11TH DE LA SALLE UNDERGRADUATE CONFERENCE<br><br>The wait is over! We are thrilled to announce the 11th De La Salle University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference.<br><br>To honor more than a decade of scholarly excellence\, the 11th UPC is leveling up with a HYBRID setup.<br><br>While getting those drafts ready\, keep a close eye for additional information and updates coming your way in the next few days.&nbsp\;<br><br>The scope of the paper may focus on the following. However\, students may go beyond the given topics:<br><br>&middot\; Philosophy of Mind<br>&middot\; Epistemology<br>&middot\; Metaphysics<br>&middot\; Filipino Philosophy&nbsp\;<br>&middot\; Philosophy of Religion&nbsp\;<br>&middot\; Political Philosophy&nbsp\;<br>&middot\; Philosophy of Language&nbsp\;<br>&middot\; Philosophy of Science&nbsp\;<br>&middot\; Moral Philosophy&nbsp\;<br>&middot\; Aesthetics</p>\n<p>Abstract Template:&nbsp\;<a href="https://tinyurl.com/39e7fvc8">https://tinyurl.com/39e7fvc8</a></p>\n<p>Submission Forms:<a href="https://tinyurl.com/4pha9zbc">https://tinyurl.com/4pha9zbc</a>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Deadline of Submissions:&nbsp\;<strong>EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 02\, 2026</strong></p>\n<p><strong><br></strong></p>\n<p>For inquiries\, you may contact any of the student convenors:&nbsp\;<br><br>Culada Baladad | juan_baladad@dlsu.edu.ph&nbsp\;<br>Elisha Rivas | elisha_rivas@dlsu.edu.ph<br>Josef Felipe | josef_felipe@dlsu.edu.ph&nbsp\;<br>Judd Alcoba | judd_alcoba@dlsu.edu.ph<br>Juan Emmanuel Reyes | juan_emmanuel_reyes@dlsu.edu.ph<br>Khristia Canta | khristia_canta@dlsu.edu.ph<br>Mako Sison | john_marko_sison@dlsu.edu.ph</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Juan Emmanuel Reyes;CN=Culada Baladad;CN=Judd Audri Alcoba;CN=Josef Felipe;CN=Khristia Angela Canta;CN=Elisha Nicole Rivas;CN=Mako Sison:
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261120T230000
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SUMMARY:DePaul Philosophy Graduate Student Conference 2027
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LOCATION:DePaul University\, Chicago\, United States
DESCRIPTION:<p><em><strong>From East to West and Back: Kyoto School in Dialogue with Western Philosophy</strong></em></p>\n<p>The Philosophy Department at DePaul University is pleased to announce the <strong>DePaul Philosophy Graduate Student Conference 2027</strong>\, to be held <strong>in person</strong> on <strong><u>February 6&ndash\;7</u>\, 2027</strong>\, at DePaul University in Chicago\, Illinois.</p>\n<p>This year&rsquo\;s conference\, &ldquo\;From East to West and Back: Kyoto School in Dialogue with Western Philosophy\,&rdquo\; explores the rich and complex philosophical exchanges between the Kyoto School and Western philosophy. We are pleased to welcome <strong>Prof. Gregory S. Moss</strong>\, Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong\, as our keynote speaker.</p>\n<p>Prof. Moss is the author of <em>Hegel&rsquo\;s Foundation-Free Metaphysics: The Logic of Singularity</em> (2020)\, which received the HegelPD Prize in 2022\, and <em>Absolute Dialetheism: Hegel\, Schelling\, and the End of Alterity</em> (2026)\, recently published by Edinburgh University Press. His keynote address will draw from his new manuscript\, <em>Hegel and Nishida</em>.</p>\n\n<p><strong><u>Call for Papers</u></strong></p>\n<p>The Kyoto School represents one of the most significant encounters between Japanese philosophy and Western philosophical thought. Its philosophers engaged deeply with figures such as Kant\, Hegel\, Fichte\, Schelling\, Husserl\, Heidegger\, and others\, while simultaneously developing philosophical approaches grounded in their own intellectual and cultural contexts. The resulting dialogue was neither simply an adoption of Western philosophy nor a rejection of it\, but a complex process of inheritance\, transformation\, criticism\, and philosophical creation.</p>\n<p>This conference invites graduate student papers that investigate the ways in which philosophers of the Kyoto School understand\, inherit\, develop\, transform\, or criticize the thought of familiar Western philosophers and philosophical traditions. At the same time\, we welcome contributions that bring Western philosophical traditions\, as well as philosophical traditions from other cultural and intellectual contexts\, into dialogue with the Kyoto School\, whether by engaging\, evaluating\, challenging\, or developing its philosophical practices.</p>\n<p>We particularly welcome papers that explore\, but are not limited to:</p>\n<p>- Kyoto School engagements with Kant\, Hegel\, Schelling\, Fichte\, Husserl\, Heidegger\, and other Western philosophers\;</p>\n<p>- Nishida Kitarō\, Tanabe Hajime\, Nishitani Keiji\, and other Kyoto School philosophers\;</p>\n<p>- Comparative approaches to Japanese\, Western\, Chinese\, Indian\, Buddhist\, Daoist\, or other philosophical traditions\;</p>\n<p>- The concepts of absolute nothingness\, <em>basho</em>\, pure experience\, self-awareness\, dialectic\, contradiction\, mediation\, and alterity\;</p>\n<p>- Kyoto School approaches to metaphysics\, epistemology\, phenomenology\, logic\, ethics\, aesthetics\, and philosophy of religion\;</p>\n<p>- The relationship between philosophical traditions and their cultural or historical contexts\;</p>\n<p>- Questions concerning translation\, interpretation\, appropriation\, and philosophical inheritance\;</p>\n<p>- Contemporary philosophical engagements with the Kyoto School\; and</p>\n<p>- New possibilities for philosophical dialogue between East Asian and Western traditions.</p>\n<p>We also encourage submissions that move beyond conventional comparative philosophy and consider whether engagement between different philosophical traditions can generate new philosophical problems\, methods\, or conceptual possibilities.</p>\n\n<p><u><strong>Submission Guidelines</strong></u></p>\n<p>We invite submissions from current <strong>graduate students</strong> (MA and PhD) in philosophy and related disciplines.</p>\n<p>Submissions should:</p>\n<p>(1) Consist of a full paper in Word or PDF format\, suitable for a 30-minute presentation\, approximately 3\,000&ndash\;4\,000 words\;</p>\n<p>(2) Be prepared for blind review\; and</p>\n<p>(3) Be accompanied by a separate cover page containing the paper title\, author's name\, institutional affiliation\, graduate student status (MA or PhD)\, and contact information.</p>\n<p>Please email submissions as a PDF or Word document to: <u><strong>depaulgradconference2027@gmail.com</strong></u></p>\n<p>The submission deadline is <u><strong>November 20\, 2026</strong></u>.</p>\n<p>Decisions regarding submissions will be announced approximately <strong>two weeks</strong> after the submission deadline.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Edward Kwok:
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261125T090000
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SUMMARY:Female Philosophers\, Male Feminists: Renegotiating Gender and Learning in Early Modern Europe
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LOCATION:2-10 Norham Rd\, Oxford OX2 6SE\, Oxford\, United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:<p>This one-day interdisciplinary workshop will include papers dedicated to the work of women thinkers in the early modern period across several subdisciplines\, including aesthetics\, moral philosophy\, natural philosophy\, and medical science. Confirmed speakers include Sarah Hutton (York)\, Susan James (Birkbeck/King&rsquo\;s College London)\, Sabrina Ebbersmeyer (Copenhagen)\, Helena Taylor (Exeter)\, Ruth Boeker (Dublin)\, Bodil Hvass Kjems (Copenhagen)\, Floris Verhaart (Exeter)\, Una Faller (Lyon)\, and Mogens L&aelig\;rke (Lyon/Oxford). Full programme forthcoming.</p>\n<p>The event brings together four major ongoing projects entirely or partly devoted to the place of women thinkers in early modern Europe\, including the ERC Advanced project <em>Women in the Nordic Enlightenment</em> (WHENCE</a>)\, coordinated by Sabrina Ebbersmeyer at the University of Copenhagen in 2024-2028\, the ERC Consolidator project <em>New Histories of British Moral Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century</em> (BMoral</a>)\, coordinated by Ruth Boeker at University College Dublin in 2025-2030\, the UKRI project <em>Cultures of Philosophy: Women Writing Knowledge in Early Modern Europe</em> (CultPhil</a>)\, coordinated by Helena Taylor at the University of Exeter in 2023-2028\, and the ERC Advanced project <em>The Common Notion: Science and Consensus in the Seventeenth Century</em> (NOTCOM</a>)\, coordinated by Mogens L&aelig\;rke at the CNRS\, Lyon (IHRIM) and Oxford (MFO)\, in 2023-2027.</p>\n&nbsp\;
ORGANIZER;CN=Mogens Laerke:
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261129T234500
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SUMMARY:Special Issue: “Hermeneutics\, Aesthetics\, and Bildung: A Tribute to Nicholas Davey” (JGS 2.3)
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DESCRIPTION:<p>The <em>Journal of Gadamer Studies</em> (JGS) is now accepting submissions for its third issue\, which will be published in February-March 2027. The title of the special issue is &ldquo\;Hermeneutics\, Aesthetics\, and <em>Bildung</em>: A Tribute to Nicholas Davey.&rdquo\;</p>\n<p>This issue will be dedicated to remembering the life and work of Professor Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee)\, who passed away on August 2\, 2026. The theme and title of the issue mark practices dear to Nicholas&rsquo\;s heart and to his life-long scholarly pursuits. His contributions to Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics are immeasurable as is his loss to all whose lives he touched\, inspired\, and brought joy. A beautiful <a href="https://www.dundee.ac.uk/news/obituary-professor-nicholas-davey">memorial reflection</a> is posted on the University of Dundee&rsquo\;s website.</p>\n<p>For this special issue we invite original submissions in English that:</p>\n<p>1) focus on Nicholas Davey&rsquo\;s work vis-&agrave\;-vis the subject areas of Gadamerian hermeneutics\, hermeneutical aesthetics\, and hermeneutics and <em>Bildung</em>.</p>\n<p>2) We will also consider submissions that align with the issue&rsquo\;s theme but that do not directly engage Nicholas&rsquo\;s work.</p>\n<p>Additionally\, we welcome submissions of brief memories of Nicholas as well as reflections on his contributions to Gadamerian scholarship from colleagues and former students who knew him. These will be featured in the Introduction for the issue\, which will be written by Cynthia Nielsen (University of Dallas) and Dominic Smith (University of Dundee). Submissions for consideration in this category should be no more than two paragraphs and can be emailed directly to Cynthia Nielsen (<a href="mailto:cynthia.nielsen@gmail.com">cynthia.nielsen@gmail.com</a>).</p>\n<p>The JGS is an open access journal hosted by Texas A&amp\;M University and is published biannually. Submissions are subject to a double-anonymized peer review process and will be evaluated for their scholarly contribution to the field of Gadamer studies.</p>\n<p>Please read our <a href="http://gadamer-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/gadamer/about/submissions">submission guidelines</a> and submit your essay via our <a href="https://gadamer-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/gadamer/about/submissions">submission portal</a>. To guarantee consideration for this special issue\, please submit your contribution by <strong>Nov. 29\, 2026</strong>.</p>
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SUMMARY: Emergence and language (eds. J. Miller & E. Onnis) - RIFL journal
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DESCRIPTION:<p>Emergence is broadly understood as the appearance of genuinely novel and therefore irreducible properties\, structures\, and behaviours arising from the interaction of simpler components.</p>\n<p>Despite being a central topic in philosophy of science and metaphysics\, its implications for philosophy of language and linguistics remain comparatively underexplored. However\, the linguistic dimensions seem to offer compelling and philosophically rich instances of emergent phenomena: the evolutionary origin of natural languages\; the emergence of grammar and linguistic structures\; that of meaning and creativity\; that of social and institutional facts through linguistic acts and their inscription. These phenomena are cases in which something genuinely new comes into being through complex historical\, linguistic\, cognitive\, and/or social processes and makes a difference to the world.</p>\n<p>This issue of the <em>Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio</em> invites original contributions investigating the relationships between emergence and language. The issue aims to bring together work in philosophy of language and linguistics\, philosophy of science\, aesthetics\, complexity science\, metaphysics\, and social ontology.</p>\n<p>Papers exploring\, but not limited to\, the following topics are welcome:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The emergence of natural and/or artificial languages\;</li>\n<li>The emergence of grammar\;</li>\n<li>The emergence of linguistic structures and meanings\;</li>\n<li>The relationaship between emergence and creativity\;</li>\n<li>Emergent social facts and their relationships with linguistic facts\;</li>\n<li>Natural and/or artificial languages as complex dynamical systems\;</li>\n<li>The nature of linguistic novelty\;</li>\n<li>Philosophical frameworks able to capture emergence in language (weak strong\, ontological <em>vs.</em> epistemological\, synchronic <em>vs.</em> diachronic).</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Manuscripts\, in Italian or in English\, must be accompanied by an abstract (max. 250 words)\, a title\, and 5 keywords. All submissions must be prepared for anonymous evaluation. The name\, affiliation and title of the contribution should be indicated in a separated file.</p>\n<p>Contribution must be sent in .doc or .docx format to <a href="mailto:segreteria.rifl@gmail.com">segreteria.rifl@gmail.com</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Maximum contribution length</strong></p>\n<p>45000 characters\, including spaces\, bibliography\, and endnotes.</p>\n<p><strong>&nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Guidelines</strong></p>\n<p>The manuscript must be prepared using the template at this link:</p>\n<p><a href="https://www.rifl.unical.it/index.php/rifl/editorialguidelineseng">http://www.rifl.unical.it/authortemplate/template_eng.doc.</a></p>\n\n<p><strong>Submission deadline</strong></p>\n<p>Novembre 15th\, 2026</p>\n<p>For any questions\, please write to <a href="mailto:erica.onnis@unicusano.it">erica.onnis@unicusano.it</a></p>\n
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SUMMARY:Art Style Magazine Special Edition on Performative Arts
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Call for Papers</strong></p>\n<p><em>Art Style Magazine</em>\, an online\, peer&ndash\;reviewed publication dedicated to art and culture\, invites submissions of extended essays and scholarly articles.</p>\n<p>The theme of the upcoming edition is:</p>\n<p><strong>Performative Arts:</strong> Human and Non-Human Co-Creation\, Cultural Diversity\, Artificial Intelligence\, and Future Visions</p>\n<p>During the last decades\, the field of performative arts has been reshaped by a convergence of philosophical debates\, aesthetic experiments\, and rapid technological developments. At the same time\, enduring historical trajectories&mdash\;such as the evolution of the classical theatre concept\, the rise of intercultural exchange from the 1920s onward\, the radical sociopolitical transformations since 1968\, and the institutional bifurcation into state-supported and independent theatres&mdash\;continue to inform contemporary practice. This special issue seeks to foreground these intertwined dimensions while also addressing the emergent role of artificial intelligence (AI)\, augmented reality (AR)\, virtual reality (VR) and related media as co‑creative agents.</p>\n<p>The volume aims to assemble scholarly articles and extended essays that:</p>\n<p>1.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Re-situate the classical theatre paradigm&nbsp\;(dramaturgy\, direction\, acting\, scenography) within current co-creative practices.</p>\n<p>2.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Trace intercultural dynamics&nbsp\;in performance from the avant-garde encounters of the 1920s through post-colonial and decolonial interventions.</p>\n<p>3.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Analyze the impact of the 1968 revolts&nbsp\;on notions of authorship\, audience participation\, and the politics of the stage.</p>\n<p>4.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Examine the structural split&nbsp\;between state-funded and independent theatres\, focusing on funding models\, artistic working strategies\, and\, possibly\, the integration of digital technologies.</p>\n<p>5.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Critically engage with AI-driven creation\, treating algorithmic systems not merely as tools but as potential collaborators within historically informed frameworks.</p>\n<p>6.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;Project speculative futures&nbsp\;for performative arts that synthesize the above strands into coherent theoretical and practical visions.</p>\n<p>We encourage submissions that address (but are not limited to) the following topics:</p>\n<p><strong>Classical Theatre Foundations</strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; continuity and rupture in dramaturgical structures\, staging conventions\, and performer-director relationships.<strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Intercultural Performance Since the 1920s</strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; early cross-cultural exchanges\, migration of theatrical forms\, and contemporary transnational collaborations.<strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>The 1968 Epoch</strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; anti-institutional movements\, participatory aesthetics\, and their lasting influence on experimental theatre.<strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>State vs. Independent Theatre</strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; comparative analyses of governance\, audience development\, and artistic autonomy.<strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Human&ndash\;Non‑Human Co‑Creation</strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; collaborative processes involving performers\, audiences\, AI agents\, robots\, algorithms\, and responsive environments.<strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>AI\, AR/VR\, and Live Creative Arts</strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; case studies of theatre\, dance\, music\, performance art\, and installation employing generative systems\, sensor-based interaction\, motion capture\, and immersive media.<strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Design of Performative Spaces</strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; adaptive\, immersive\, and interactive architectures shaped by intelligent systems and participatory audiences.<strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Ethical\, Political\, and Ecological Implications</strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; responsibility\, sustainability\, and post-humanist perspectives on technologically mediated performance.<strong></strong></p>\n<p><strong>Speculative Futures</strong>&nbsp\;&ndash\; envisioning new dramaturgical scores\, performance scores for human-machine ensembles\, and educational trajectories.<strong></strong></p>\n<p>For detailed submission instructions and formatting requirements\, please consult&nbsp\;<em>Art Style Magazine</em>&rsquo\;s official guidelines on our website (https://artstyle-editions.org/author-guidelines/).&nbsp\;<strong>Submission deadline: November 30\, 2026.&nbsp\;</strong>We will get back to you with acceptance or non-acceptance feedback after the reviewers have evaluated your contribution. If your submission is accepted\, we will inform you about the publication schedule.</p>\n<p>Christiane Wagner\, editor-in-chief</p>\n<p>J&ouml\;rg U. Lensing\, co-editor for this special edition</p>\n<p>The&nbsp\;<em>Art Style Magazine</em>&nbsp\;operates under the guidance of the editor-in-chief\, with support from an international editorial board and scientific committee. For more information about the magazine or the full bios of the editorial team and scientific committee\, please visit the&nbsp\;<a href="https://artstyle-editions.org/"><em>Art Style Magazine</em>&rsquo\;s website</a>&nbsp\;(<a href="http://www.artstyle-editions.org/">www.artstyle-editions.org</a>).</p>
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SUMMARY:Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy: Philosophy's Future\, Past and Present
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LOCATION:Montréal\, Canada
DESCRIPTION:<p>Extending New Narratives in the History of Philosophy (ENN) has been working to reconceive the history of philosophy with the idea that doing so can help to change the standards of practice in philosophy\, making the discipline more inclusive and diverse. We have not been alone in this work.<br><br>Our concluding conference\, taking place 7&ndash\;9 October 2027 in Montr&eacute\;al\, Qu&eacute\;bec\, Canada\, aims to bring together scholars working across traditions\, periods\, and areas of philosophy to share the fruits of various efforts to transform the history of philosophy and to imagine together philosophy&rsquo\;s future. We invite participants to consider questions such as: How might we tell the stories of philosophy&rsquo\;s past in the future? How can these stories affect how we do philosophy now and in the future? Amid ongoing shifts in the discipline\, the academic environment\, and our broader cultural and political landscapes\, are these still the right questions to be asking? Efforts to retrieve the work of neglected and marginalized philosophers and philosophical traditions of the past\, and to sustain their presence in the discipline\, have intensified in recent years. This conference seeks to bring into conversation scholars working on Africana and Black philosophy\, women philosophers in European traditions\, Indigenous philosophy\, Latin American philosophy\, and non-canonical figures and traditions more broadly\, as well as scholars examining the historiographical and methodological assumptions that have shaped the philosophical canon.<br><br>The conference will feature a number of panels that have already been accepted\, including:<br>● Afrocentricit&eacute\; et traduction interculturelle en philosophie<br>● Approaching women philosophers in antiquity: methodological contributions<br>● Method and narrative in Africana philosophy<br>● Reflections on the history of the history of women&rsquo\;s moral and political thought<br>● Unveiling women philosophers in Indian philosophy: methodological exploration and the<br>question of philosophical boundaries<br>● Writing philosophy beyond the canon: 19th-century Latin American women in the press<br><br>We now invite faculty members and early-career researchers\, including post-docs and graduate students\, working on these and related issues to submit abstracts for individual papers. We particularly welcome contributions that recover neglected figures\, texts\, traditions\, or philosophical practices\; reconsider established narratives in the history of philosophy\; or address the methodological questions raised by efforts to expand and transform the philosophical canon. Submissions may engage with any area of philosophy and are encouraged to connect with one or more of the four broad themes of the ENN project:<br><br>● Ethics\, Social and Political Philosophy<br>● Metaphysics and Epistemology<br>● Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Education<br>● Methodology<br><br><strong>Submission Guidelines</strong><br>Please submit an abstract of 500&ndash\;750 words\, prepared for anonymous review\, together with a separate document containing your name\, institutional affiliation\, career stage\, paper title\, and contact information. Papers should be suitable for a presentation of approximately 20&ndash\;25 minutes\, followed by discussion.<br><br>The conference will be bilingual (English and French)\, and submissions and presentations are welcome in either language.<br>Please send submissions to aline.medeirosramos@mcgill.ca by November 30\, 2026.<br><br>Notifications of acceptance will be sent by February 28\, 2027.<br><br>The conference will combine plenary sessions\, including the panels listed above\, and parallel sessions featuring papers selected through this call. We are also planning an exhibit of rare books from McGill&rsquo\;s collection. Time will also be set aside for informal conversations and mentoring opportunities for graduate students and early-career researchers.<br><br>We expect to accept up to 16 papers. Speakers will not receive honoraria\; some funding might be available to help defray some travel expenses. We especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers\, members of historically underrepresented groups in philosophy\, and scholars whose work crosses established geographical\, chronological\, or disciplinary boundaries.</p>
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SUMMARY:Special Issue of Telos on the Russo-Ukrainian War
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DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Call for Papers: Special Issue of Telos on the Russo-Ukrainian War &nbsp\;</strong></p>\n<p>War and Time: Russia&rsquo\;s Invasion of Ukraine and the Eclipse of&nbsp\;Peace</p>\n<p>Coedited by Michael Marder and Denys Sultanhaliiev</p>\n<p>In what appears to be a peculiar paradox of our time\, the Russo-Ukrainian war&mdash\;initially a profound rupture in the European political imagination&mdash\;has gradually receded into the background noise of global media circulation. Saturated coverage has not yielded conceptual clarity. On the contrary\, despite the overwhelming volume of commentary\, there remains a striking absence of sustained theoretical engagement with the war&rsquo\;s implications for political thought. Rather than catalyzing new frameworks\, the conflict has too often been instrumentalized as confirmatory evidence for already established positions.</p>\n<p>This special issue of&nbsp\;<em>Telos</em>&nbsp\;seeks to address this philosophical void.</p>\n<p>The war resists easy classification. On the one hand\, it follows recognizable patterns of territorial conquest associated with land-based empires. On the other\, it marks a historical threshold: the largest ground war in Europe since World War&nbsp\;II and since the early 1990s proclamation of the &ldquo\;end of history.&rdquo\; It is accompanied by competing and often contradictory narratives regarding its global significance\, including claims that it will reshape the foundations of international law\, potentially replacing juridical norms with the prerogatives of power. At the same time\, it exemplifies a hybrid form of warfare\, combining trench combat with drone technologies\, cyber operations\, and informational strategies.</p>\n<p>Ukraine\, already marked by the ecological and existential trauma of the 1986 nuclear disaster\, again finds itself at the forefront of global crises&mdash\;this time not only geopolitical but also conceptual. The war compels us to rethink the limits of habitability\, the intersections of the Anthropocene with militarization\, and the ontological status of territory\, sovereignty\, and life itself.</p>\n<p>This special issue aims not merely to interpret the present conflict but to challenge the conceptual inertia surrounding it. At stake is not only how we understand this war\, but how we think politically in its wake. Thus\, we invite contributions that move beyond immediate commentary and engage in rigorous theoretical reflection. Possible topics include\, but are not limited to:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>The war and the crisis (or renewal) of political theory</li>\n<li>Neo-imperialism and the reconfiguration of sovereignty</li>\n<li>The future of international law and the &ldquo\;right of the strongest&rdquo\;&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>Hybrid warfare and the ontology of technology&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>Freedom\, resistance\, and political subjectivity under conditions of invasion&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>Nationhood\, identity\, and alterity in wartime&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>Historical agency and the temporality of war&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>The role of media and the normalization of conflict&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>War\, ecology\, and the Anthropocene&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>Philosophical responses to violence\, destruction\, and displacement&nbsp\;</li>\n</ul>\n<p>We particularly encourage submissions that develop new conceptual vocabularies or critically interrogate the limits of existing ones.</p>\n<p><strong>Submission Guidelines</strong></p>\n<p>Length: Full papers should be 6\,000 to 8\,000 words</p>\n<p>Deadline for paper submissions:&nbsp\;<strong>December&nbsp\;1\, 2026</strong></p>\n<p>Submissions should be made&nbsp\;via Scholastica&nbsp\;at the following&nbsp\;link&nbsp\;and should conform to&nbsp\;<em>Telos</em>&nbsp\;style and editorial guidelines.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><a href="https://telos.scholasticahq.com/for-authors">https://telos.scholasticahq.com/for-authors</a></p>
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SUMMARY:2nd Southwestern Graduate Aesthetics Conference
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LOCATION:1145 E. South Campus Drive\, Tucson\, United States\, 85721
DESCRIPTION:<p>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.</p>\n\n<p>We 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.</p>\n\n<p>We are excited to announce Elizabeth Scarbrough (Florida International University) and Erich Hatala Matthes (Wellesley College) as our keynote speakers.</p>\n\n<p>Submission Guidelines:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Address submissions to swgraduateaesthetics@gmail.com. Please provide your preferred name and current student affiliation in the body of the email.</li>\n<li>Please attach a &le\;1\,000-word (footnotes included\, references excluded) extended abstract prepared for anonymous review.</li>\n<li>Co-authored papers are ineligible for submission.</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Important Dates:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Deadline for submissions: December 1st\, 2026</li>\n<li>Notification of acceptance: December 13th\, 2026</li>\n<li>Papers (&le\;3\,500 words) due to commentators: January 4th\, 2027</li>\n<li>Conference dates: January 29th-30th\, 2027</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>For all correspondence\, including inclusivity or accessibility concerns\, please contact the organizers at swgraduateaesthetics@gmail.com.</p>\n&nbsp\;
ORGANIZER;CN=Lenin Vazquez-Toledo;CN=Kyle Kirby;CN=Jim Moster:
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