30th Annual Conference of Chinese Society for Phenomenology
\nSeptember 11&ndash\;14\, 2026
\nBeijing\, China
\nThe 30th Annual Conference on Chinese Phenomenology will be held in Beijing from September 11 to 14\, 2026. The conference is organized by the Chinese Society for Phenomenology and hosted by the School of Philosophy and the Institute of Foreign Philosophy at Renmin University of China.
\n\nAbout the Conference
\n\nFrom its inception\, phenomenology has sought to return to experience in order to clarify the structures through which meaning is constituted. At the same time\, its sustained responsiveness to historical and scientific developments has ensured that phenomenology has never been isolated from the problems of its time. In the contemporary context&mdash\;shaped by the pervasive influence of artificial intelligence\, digital media\, the life sciences\, and computational technologies&mdash\;experience itself appears to be undergoing significant transformations. Technologies do not merely introduce new objects of experience\; they reconfigure the very modes through which the world is disclosed and rendered intelligible.
\n\nThese transformations raise pressing philosophical questions for phenomenology. How should phenomenological analyses respond to technologically mediated forms of experience? What conceptual resources does phenomenology offer for understanding shifting relations between technology\, embodiment\, agency\, and meaning? And how can phenomenology situate itself within ongoing debates in analytic philosophy\, the philosophy of technology\, and the sciences\, without relinquishing its distinctive methodological commitments?
\n\nAgainst this background\, the conference\, devoted to the theme &ldquo\;Phenomenology: Technology and the Humanities\,&rdquo\; seeks to provide an open forum for critical reflection on the role of phenomenology in the technological age\, as well as for a renewed assessment of its distinctive contributions to contemporary philosophy and interdisciplinary research at the intersection of the humanities and technology.
\n\nTopics of Interest
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\nThe conference welcomes contributions on phenomenology broadly construed. Topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nl \; Classical questions and figures in phenomenology
\nl \; Contemporary developments and new directions in phenomenological research
\nl \; Phenomenology and analytic philosophy
\nl \; Phenomenology and artificial intelligence
\nl \; Phenomenology and recent developments in the humanities
\nl \; Chinese phenomenology in historical and systematic perspectives
\n\nThis conference provides a distinctive forum for engaging with these critical issues. Alongside contributions from scholars working across diverse areas of phenomenology\, the conference will feature participation from a number of internationally recognized researchers\, including:
\nAndrea Altobrando (University of Padua\, Italy)
\nClaudie Majolino (Université\; de Lille\, France)
\nDachun Yang (Zhejiang University)
\nDaniele De Santis (Charles University\, Czech)
\nGenki Uemura (Okayama University\, Japan)
\nGeorg Stenger (University of Vienna\, Austria)
\nJocelyn Benoist (Université\; Paris 1 Panthé\;on-Sorbonne\, France)
\nJun Wang (Zhejiang University)
\nKatsunori Miyahara (Hokkaido University\, Japan)
\nKeith Crome (President of the British Society for Phenomenology\; Manchester Metropolitan University\, UK)
\nLiangkang Ni (Zhejiang University)
\nLilian Alweiss (Trinity College Dublin\, Ireland)
\nNicolas de Warren (Pennsylvania State University\, USA)
\nQingjie Wang (University of Macau)
\nShigeru Taguchi (Hokkaido University\, Japan)
\nWei Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University)
\nXiaowen Chen (Shandong University)
\nXiping Jin (Peking University)
\nZengding Wu (Peking University)
\nZhiwei Zhang (Renmin University of China)
\nZhouxing Sun (Zhejiang University)
\n......List is being updated.
\n\nFurther submissions from researchers worldwide are very welcome.
\n\nSubmission Guidelines
\n\nParticipants are invited to submit either a full paper or an extended abstract (in WORD format) by May 31\, 2026\, to: phenomenology2026@126.com
\n\nSubmissions should include:
\n1. \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Title of the paper
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\n\nAll submissions will be peer reviewed by the Chinese Society for Phenomenology. Authors of accepted submissions will receive a formal invitation to participate in the conference. Please note that\, due to limitations of funding and conference capacity\, participation by doctoral students is limited to a maximum of 15.
\n\nVenue and Schedule
\n\nThe conference will take place at Renmin University of China (Zhongguancun Campus) in Beijing.
\nSeptember 11: Arrival and registration
\nSeptember 12&ndash\;13: Conference sessions
\nSeptember 14 (morning): Departure
\n\nAccommodation\, meals\, and conference materials will be covered by the organizers. Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses.
\n\nOrganizing Committee
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\nHaojun Zhang
Chair of 30th Annual Conference of the Chinese Society for Phenomenology
School of Philosophy\, Renmin University of China\, Beijing\, China
Wei Zhang
\nPresident of the Chinese Society for Phenomenology
\nDepartment of Philosophy\, Sun Yat-sen University\, Guangzhou\, China
\n\nJanuary 4\, 2026
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260531T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260531T090000 SUMMARY:Arkete: War: Ethics\, Neurobiology and Philosophy UID:20260529T044944Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Arkete. Rivista di studi filosofici Special Issue 2025
\nCall for Papers - \; War: Between Ethics\, Neurobiology and Philosophy
\nEditors:
Mariano Bianca (University of Siena\, Italy)
Inna Golubovych (Odesa I.I. Mechnikov National University\, Ukraine)
\nPaolo Piccari (University of Siena\, Italy)
\nPhilosophical reflection on war has traditionally developed within the domains of political theory and moral philosophy. Yet contemporary debates increasingly show that war cannot be fully understood solely as a historical or institutional phenomenon. Advances in neuroscience\, cognitive science\, and philosophical anthropology have brought renewed attention to the cognitive\, emotional\, and biological dimensions of conflict\, raising fundamental questions about the relation between human nature\, normativity\, and violence.
\nThe experience of war appears simultaneously as a moral problem\, a social practice\, and a manifestation of deep structures of human cognition and affectivity. Neurobiological research on aggression\, fear\, empathy\, and group dynamics suggests that conflict may involve mechanisms rooted in evolutionary processes and neural architectures\, while ethical reflection continues to interrogate responsibility\, justification\, and the limits of violence. At the same time\, philosophy is called to clarify the conceptual frameworks through which war is interpreted &mdash\; whether as an accidental product of historical circumstances or as a structural possibility inscribed in human forms of life.
\nThis special issue aims to gather contributions that explore war as a multidimensional phenomenon located at the intersection of ethics\, neurobiology\, and philosophical inquiry. Particular attention will be devoted to analyses that investigate how cognitive structures\, affective dispositions\, and normative systems interact in shaping both the reality and the representation of conflict.
\nContributions may address questions such as the ethical justification or critique of war\, the neurobiological bases of aggression and cooperation\, the role of emotions and perception in conflict situations\, the construction of enemy images\, the epistemic and normative dimensions of propaganda\, the phenomenology of violence\, or the philosophical-anthropological significance of war within human history. Interdisciplinary approaches that preserve a strong philosophical orientation are especially encouraged.
\nTopics areas
\nContributions may address\, but are not limited to\, the following topics:
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Ethical theories of war and peace (just war theory\, pacifism\, realism)
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Neurobiological foundations of aggression and cooperation
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Moral emotions and conflict (fear\, anger\, empathy\, hatred)
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Cognitive and perceptual structures involved in violence
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Group identity\, ideology\, and in-group/out-group dynamics
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Representation and construction of the enemy
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Propaganda\, misinformation\, and epistemic distortion in wartime
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Responsibility\, agency\, and collective violence
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Phenomenology of violence and lived experience of war
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Trauma\, memory\, and narrative identity
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Philosophical anthropology and the ontology of conflict
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War\, technology\, and transformations of human cognition
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Normativity and moral limits of violence
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Interdisciplinary approaches that preserve a strong philosophical orientation are especially encouraged.es
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nSubmissions must be original and unpublished\, written in English or Italian\, and formatted according to the journal&rsquo\;s editorial guidelines. All manuscripts will undergo double-blind peer review.
\nThe 2025 issue of Arkete will be dedicated to these questions. The volume will include articles selected through this Call for Papers as well as invited contributions by national and international scholars.
\nAll submissions must be sent no later than 31 May 2026 to the Editors at:
\nmariano.bianca@unisi.it
piccari@unisi.it
Manuscripts must conform to the editorial guidelines available at:
https://www.arkete.it
Accepted languages: English and Italian.
\nMaximum length: 40\,000 characters (including spaces\, footnotes\, references\, and abstract).
\nEach submission must include:
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an abstract (max. 150 words\, in English)
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5&ndash\;6 keywords (in English)
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the anonymised manuscript prepared for blind review
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In a separate file attached to the same email\, authors must provide:
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name and surname
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institutional affiliation
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email address
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title of the paper
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abstract and keywords
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In the wake of profound technological and cultural transformations\, cinema no longer names a stable medium but rather a shifting constellation of practices\, dispositifs\, and experiential forms. The proliferation of streaming platforms\, algorithmically curated feeds\, immersive installations\, AI-generated imagery\, VR and AR environments\, conversational agents\, and multi-screen ecologies compels us to rethink the very structures of our lived experience. Under the still-contested but heuristically productive concept of \;&ldquo\;post-cinema\,&rdquo\; recent scholarship in film and media studies has sought to come to grips with this transformed media landscape in ways that are still waiting to be fully appropriated by phenomenological reflection.
\nThe present conference invites contributions that bring phenomenology into sustained dialogue with contemporary media theory in order to interrogate the \;manifold facets of our current \;post-cinematic situation \;and map the experiential\, affective\, embodied\, and critical structures that characterize our current media ecology.
\nBuilding primarily on traditions of film phenomenology associated with \;Vivian Sobchack \;and \;Jean-Pierre Meunier\, and drawing on the philosophical resources of\, among others\, \;Edmund Husserl\, \;Martin Heidegger\, \;Maurice Merleau-Ponty\, and \;Jean-Paul Sartre\, as well as Emmanuel Levinas&rsquo\;s ethics of the Other\, Hermann Schmitz&rsquo\;s New Phenomenology\, Don Ihde&rsquo\;s post-phenomenology of technology\, or Mark Coeckelbergh&rsquo\;s phenomenologically informed ethics of human-robot interaction\, we aim to extend phenomenological inquiry beyond the classical cinematic dispositif toward emerging &ldquo\;families of images&rdquo\;: algorithmic visuals\, deepfakes\, TikTok feeds\, immersive environments\, AI image synthesis\, and hybrid human-machine interfaces.
\nBy bringing together philosophers\, film and media scholars\, as well as artists\, we aim to foster a rigorous interdisciplinary conversation about how phenomenology can illuminate\, and be transformed by\, the evolving media landscape.
ORGANIZER;CN=Christian Ferencz-Flatz;CN=Alexandru Bejinariu;CN=Remus Breazu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260601T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260604T170000 SUMMARY:BACK to the THINGS THEMSELVES! UID:20260529T044946Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Vancouver LOCATION:Victoria\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Back to the Things Themselves! \;(BTTTT!) is an annual attempt to put aside the more conventional scholarly practice of textual exegesis and critique\, and return to the lived world to divine the essential structures of experience through careful phenomenological description.
\nIn short\, \;BTTTT!&lsquo\;s \;main aim is to &ldquo\;do phenomenology&rdquo\;&mdash\;that is\, to generate original descriptions of phenomena in the lifeworld.
ORGANIZER;CN=D. Koukal: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260601T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260604T170000 SUMMARY:Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory & Culture (EPTC/TCEP) Annual Conference UID:20260529T044947Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Vancouver LOCATION:Victoria\, Canada DESCRIPTION:The Annual meeting of the EPTC will be held June 1-4\, 2026\, at the University of Victoria in Victoria\, British Columbia.
\nFounded in 2003\, the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is a Canadian-based international academic society that aims to promote rigorous scholarship drawn from the traditions of existentialism and phenomenology\, broadly construed. In addition to theoretical work on core philosophical issues and figures\, we are especially interested in providing a forum for showcasing practical and applied research\, as well as cross- and interdisciplinary developments of existential and phenomenological themes.
\nDay One of our conference will be reserved for papers exploring the foundations and pre-histories of phenomenology and/or existentialism. Please indicate in your submission if you wish your paper to be considered as contribution to this discussion. The remainder of the conference is open to submissions on any scholarship of \;existential and phenomenological themes\, \;theoretical\, practical\, or cross- and interdisciplinary.
\n\nLa ré\;union annuelle de la TCEP aura lieu du 1er au 4 juin 2026 à\; l&rsquo\;Université\; de Victoria\, en Colombie-Britannique
\nFondé\;e en 2003\, Thé\;orie et culture existentialistes et phé\;nomé\;nologiques (TCEP) est une socié\;té\; acadé\;mique canadienne d&rsquo\;envergure internationale dont la mission est de promouvoir la recherche inspiré\;e\, au sens large\, des traditions existentialiste ou phé\;nomé\;nologique. En plus de s&rsquo\;inté\;resser aux travaux thé\;oriques portant sur des sujets et personnalité\;s du monde philosophique\, la TCEP offre une vitrine aux travaux de recherche pratique ou appliqué\;e ainsi qu&rsquo\;à\; la recherche multi- ou interdisciplinaire portant sur des thé\;matiques existentialiste ou phé\;nomé\;nologique.
\nLa premiè\;re journé\;e de notre confé\;rence sera ré\;servé\;e aux contributions explorant les fondements et les pré\;histoires de la phé\;nomé\;nologie et/ou de l&rsquo\;existentialisme. Veuillez indiquer dans votre soumission si vous souhaitez que votre article soit considé\;ré\; comme une contribution à\; cette discussion. Le reste de la confé\;rence est ouvert aux soumissions sur toute recherche portant sur des thè\;mes existentiels et phé\;nomé\;nologiques\, thé\;oriques\, pratiques ou transdisciplinaires.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T180000 SUMMARY:Nostalgia of the Infinite: Philosophical Investigations into Metaphysics and Historicity UID:20260529T044948Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:NOSTALGIA OF THE INFINITE?: \;
\nPhilosophical Investigations into Metaphysics and Historicity. \;
\nEdited by Max K. Feenan and Jan Kerkmann
\nDETAILS:
\nAbstracts of \;c. 300 words\, with contribution proposals can be submitted until \;June 1st\, 2026
\nAnd should be sent to these email addresses: \;jan.kerkmann@philosophie.un-freiburg.de \;and \;mkfwa2777@gmail.com. \;Feedback regarding accepted submissions will be provided by \;June 15th\, 2026. Final versions of the essays are due by \;December 31st\, 2026. The edited volume will be published by a renowned German publisher in 2027\, with a contract signing scheduled for December 2025.
\nNB: \;It is not necessary for the contributions to focus on the thinkers and traditions discussed below. Submissions that other modern figures and figurations are most welcome! The only requirement is that a clear connection to the relationship between metaphysics and historicity is established and explored in depth within the essays.
\nOverall\, the planned volume claims to make a significant contribution to modern intellectual and cultural history\, and contemporary philosophical discussions about the limits of philosophy itself\, by highlighting the idea of historicity as a fundamental challenge to metaphysics and speculative thought. To so treat the concept of historicity with the necessary precision\, the focus is explicitly placed on the modernity in which not only the historical self-positioning of humankind became a central theme\, but also the course of philosophy itself was understood for the first time as a coherent whole\, viewed from the perspective of a historical logic of its development. The contributions to this volume aim to illustrate how and to what extent the systematic and direct access to the fundamental principles of the world\, which had previously characterized metaphysics\, was increasingly abandoned &ndash\; and how this access might be regained today.
\nInfinitely speculative\, \;metaphysics \;may even justifiably seek to apprehend eternity itself\, while \;historicity\, which often lacks a fundamental definition\, emphasises the relativity and contingency of human temporal existence. This volume aims to explore the tension-filled\, ambiguous and perhaps even paradoxical relationship between the seeming-opposites of metaphysics and historicity. In doing so\, a special focus is to be placed\, from a conceptual-historical perspective\, on the emergence and the changes in meaning of &lsquo\;historicity&rsquo\; itself\, and its definitions. The basic question asked is: \;Is it possible to still pursue a speculative even metaphysical philosophical project which is also a critical engagement with the real history such speculation is always already within? The edited volume aims to combine philosophical styles and traditions attempting to answer this questions\, while engaging with the philosophical problems and question in the \;longue duré\;e \;of modern philosophy. We also welcome submissions from related disciplines such as history\, politics\, literature or theological/religious studies.
\nChapters could engage with this relationship in the idealist systematizing of metaphysics grounded in a logical account of history\, culminating in the late systems of Hegel and Schelling\, but stemming from the Copernican revolution of Kant&rsquo\;s critical philosophy and the contemporary intellectual controversies during the time of the democratic revolutions. Or the anti-Kantian philosophies of Hamann\, Herder\, the critiques Mendelssohn\, Jacobi\, Goethe and Schiller\, not to mention the contours of European Romanticism both within and beyond Germany. Perspectives on neglected aspects of the modern idealist heritage\, whether from George Berkeley&rsquo\;s theories or the Cambridge Platonists&rsquo\; theological-philosophies in the 17th &\; 18th \;centuries\; or the varieties of British Idealism or French \;Spiritualisme \;across the 19th \;century. \;Not to mention underappreciated voices from elsewhere!
\nWe also want to deal with the twentieth century traditions critiquing metaphysics itself\, or the allied attempts to reform metaphysics against the dangers of reductive historical relativisation. After Kierkegaard and Feuerbach\, the political and theological receptions of Hegelianism and its discontents from Schopenhauer to Marx\, the social upheavals and reforms of the mid-19th \;century\, the twin developments of pragmatism and positivism\, the increasing secularization of society and perceptions of knowledge and science\, and perhaps culminating in the lasting effects of Nietzsche&rsquo\;s philosophy\, the 20th \;century thinkers increasingly saw themselves working and writing in the wake of a metaphysical tradition. Perhaps exemplified most of all\, in the historical yet speculative philosophies of Heidegger&rsquo\;s \;Seinsfrage \;and Rosenzweig&rsquo\;s \;Stern\; the political critiques of the history of metaphysics in Arendt or in Strauss\, or even the mystical-yet-political critique found in Simone Weil&rsquo\;s writings. Perhaps one could ask with Lö\;with\, Blumenberg\, or in a different vein Emmanuele Severino\, whether this very absolutisation of the historical itself proves to be a metaphysical assumption that prevents deep reflection on the nature of being\, of nature\, and of humanity? Alternatively\, submissions could pursue the processual thinking in Whitehead or in different form in Deleuze\, and the anti-metaphysical tradition arising from phenomenology\, such as Levinas&rsquo\; ethics or Derrida&rsquo\;s thought\; the linguistic-sociopragmatic accounts in Appel and Habermas&rsquo\; systems\, and finally voices from the historiographical critiques such as Koselleck&rsquo\;s \;Begriffsgeschichte \;or the Anglophone &lsquo\;Cambridge School of Political Thought&rsquo\; (Pocock\, Skinner\, Dunn et al.) and their respective influences would be welcome.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260601T170000 SUMMARY:North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics UID:20260529T044949Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:Davis\, United States DESCRIPTION:This year's meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics will meet at University of California Davis. The meeting will feature a keynote address by Dr. Francis Mootz (University of the Pacific) entitled "Law after Postmodernity: Ontology\, Practice\, and Critique."
\nWe welcome submissions on any topic or question in philosophical hermeneutics. While honoring the rootedness of hermeneutics in the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer\, NASPH welcomes papers on any figure in the hermeneutic tradition and on the application of hermeneutic theory to all important philosophical and social problems. \;
\nSubmissions of 3000-5000 words are due June 1st and can be submitted to nasphermeneutics@gmail.com. More information can be found at www.nasph.org. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Carolyn Culbertson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260603T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260603T170000 SUMMARY:Aesthetics of the Virtual UID:20260529T044950Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Lange Winkelstraat 9\, Antwerpen\, Belgium\, 2000 DESCRIPTION:Arthur Cools (Antwerp) &\; Federico Fantelli (Cologne/Antwerp)
\nIntroduction \; \;
\nFabrizia Bandi (Milan) \;
\nAesthetics of Virtual Space. Immersive Environments and Digital Twins \;
\nMarco Cavallaro (Cologne) \;
\nEgo-Splitting and the Phenomenology of Virtual Reality \;
\nLaura Katherin Jimenez Cuadros (Antwerp) \;
\nSeeing and Being Seen: A First-Person Experience of Image-Based Sexual Abuse \;
\nAlessandro De Cesaris (Fribourg) \;
\nSpatial Monism\, Modal Pluralism. Outlines of a Theory of Virtual Experience \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Arthur Cools;CN=Federico Fantelli: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260606T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260607T170000 SUMMARY:International Interdisciplinary Conference of Psychedelic Studies UID:20260529T044951Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Splaiul Independențeii\, nr. 204\, Bucharest\, Romania DESCRIPTION:The &ldquo\;International Interdisciplinary Conference of Psychedelic Studies&rdquo\;\, organized by drd. Raluca Bilașco-Rusu and drd. Ștefăniță Manea\, Doctoral School of Philosophy\, Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Bucharest (Department of Theoretical Philosophy)\, brings together students\, professionals and researchers in philosophy of mind\, phenomenology\, neuroscience\, psychiatry and cognitive science to engage in rigorous scholarly dialogue on certain psychedelic substances and their significance for mind\, medicine\, and culture.
\nThe conference offers a genuinely interdisciplinary space &mdash\; one in which phenomenological analysis\, neurophilosophical modelling\, empirical clinical findings\, and questions of ethics and policy are held in productive tension. Presentations will span philosophy of mind\, phenomenology\, psychiatry\, cognitive science\, neuroscience\, and the ethics of psychedelic research.
\nThe event will take place on \;June 6th - 7th\, 2026. Regular presentations will be 20 minutes in length\, followed by 10-minute Q&\;A sessions. Keynote lectures will be 45 minutes followed by a 15-minute discussion period. The conference will adopt a hybrid format: presenters may choose to participate in person or via live stream\, and all sessions will be available to remote attendees.
\nWe encourage BA\, MA and PhD students\, as well as early PhDs\, postdocs and researchers\, to contribute with research abstracts related to the event's topic areas. Abstracts should be written in English and should not exceed 300 words. Abstracts will receive full consideration if submitted before May 20th\, 2026 at \;confpsych2026@gmail.com \;Word or PDF attachments preferred\, with the message titled "abstract submission".
\nAll submissions will undergo a process of blind peer review. (Please write your identifying details in the body of the email\, and leave the attached abstract anonymized.) We intend notifications of acceptance to be sent out on or before June 1st\, 2026. The conference programme will be announced as soon as review is completed. For any questions\, please don't hesitate to email \;confpsych2026@gmail.com.
\nThematic Areas
\nThe conference welcomes contributions across the following domains:
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- Philosophy of Mind ·\; Phenomenology ·\; Neurophilosophy \n
- Altered States of Consciousness ·\; Ego Dissolution \n
- Transformative Experience (L.A. Paul) ·\; Predictive Processing ·\; Enactive/4E Cognition \n
- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy ·\; Philosophy of Psychiatry \n
- Mystical-Type Experiences ·\; Metaphysical Belief Revision \n
- Ethics of Psychedelic Research ·\; Informed Consent ·\; Epistemic Justice \n
- Panpsychism\, Idealism\, and Cosmopsychist Interpretations of Psychedelic Experience \n
Panel Topics &\; Guiding Questions
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- What is the ontological and epistemic status of psychedelic-induced experiences? Can they constitute genuine forms of knowledge? \n
- What can psychedelic-induced experiences teach or inform us about consciousness? \n
- How do predictive processing and the REBUS model account for the phenomenology of ego dissolution and oceanic boundlessness? \n
- In what ways do psychedelic experiences qualify as transformative experiences in L.A. Paul's sense &mdash\; and what are the implications for rational decision-making? \n
- What does the entropic brain hypothesis tell us about the relationship between psychedelic states and ordinary waking consciousness? \n
- How should psychiatry respond to emerging evidence on psychedelic-assisted therapy for treatment-resistant conditions? \n
- What role do cultural\, ceremonial\, and ritualistic settings play in shaping the phenomenological content of psychedelic experiences? \n
- Can non-physicalist interpretations of psychedelic states &mdash\; panpsychism\, idealism\, cosmopsychism &mdash\; be defended on philosophical grounds? \n
- What ethical frameworks should govern research on psychedelic substances\, including questions of vulnerability and epistemic justice? \n
- How do enactive and 4E approaches to cognition illuminate the embodied dimensions of psychedelic phenomenology? \n
Keynote Speakers
\nKarl Friston ·\; University College London One of the most cited neuroscientists in the world\, Karl Friston is the originator of the free energy principle and active inference framework &mdash\; among the most influential theoretical contributions to contemporary neuroscience and philosophy of mind. His work offers a unified account of perception\, action\, and consciousness grounded in Bayesian brain theory\, and has become central to current debates on the mechanisms underlying psychedelic states\, including the REBUS model developed with Robin Carhart-Harris. \;
\nPeter Sjö\;stedt-Hughes ·\; University of Exeter Dr Peter Sjö\;stedt-Hughes is a Philosopher of Mind and Metaphysics who specializes in the thought of Whitehead\, Spinoza\, Nietzsche\, and Bergson&mdash\;and in fields pertaining to panpsychism\, pantheism\, mental causation\, and altered states of consciousness. He is a lecturer at The University of Exeter where he is a lead on the new MSc in Psychedelics: Mind\, Medicine\, and Culture. Peter is co-director of Europe&rsquo\;s largest psychedelics conference\, Breaking Convention\, and is on the board of breathwork charity Dreamshadow. He is a member of the drugs advisory committee group\, DrugScience\, he is on the advisory board of the Tyringham Institute\, and is on the team of the established UK independent publisher\, Psychedelic Press. Peter is the author of Noumenautics (2015)\, Modes of Sentience (2021)\, co-editor and contributor of Bloomsbury&rsquo\;s Philosophy and Psychedelics (2022)\, the TEDx Talker on &lsquo\;psychedelics and consciousness&rsquo\;. \;
\nDavid Luke ·\; University of Greenwich Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of Greenwich and co-founder of the Breaking Convention conference\, David Luke is one of the foremost researchers on the psychology and phenomenology of anomalous experiences induced by psychedelic substances. His work spans transpersonal psychology\, parapsychology\, and the anthropology of altered states\, with particular attention to DMT\, entity encounters\, and the broader question of what radically non-ordinary experiences reveal about the nature of mind and reality. He is the editor of DMT Entity Encounters and Otherworlds: Psychedelics and Exceptional Human Experience\, and brings to the conference a rare combination of rigorous empirical inquiry and genuine openness to the most challenging implications of psychedelic phenomenology.
\n ORGANIZER;CN="Raluca Bilașco Rusu";CN="Ștefăniță Manea": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260607T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260607T203000 SUMMARY:Phenomenology of Artificial Intelligence UID:20260529T044952Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Phenomenology of Artificial Intelligence \;
\nBSP Online Course
\nRegistration open now \;
\nThe rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has sparked numerous philosophical debates\, revealing that AI is not merely a sophisticated technological invention but also a profound philosophical problem. From its onset\, AI has been modeled in many ways after assumptions about how human intelligence works. \;
\nPhenomenology\, as a philosophical tradition\, offers unique insights into human cognition\, perception\, and consciousness. By focusing on the lived experience and the embodied nature of intelligence\, phenomenology challenges reductionist views of intelligence and provides a more holistic approach to understanding how artificial systems might (or might not) reflect human intelligence. This course will explore the ways in which phenomenological concepts can illuminate key issues in the philosophy of AI and help us navigate the conceptual and ethical challenges posed by these emerging technologies. \;
\nThis course focuses on four key concepts and their phenomenological treatment as applied to AI: embodiment\, lifeworld\, meaning\, and consciousness. \;
\nBSP Online courses focus on phenomenological thinkers or topics and are taught by experts in the field. The sessions last 1.5 hours and are held once a week online\, over consecutive weeks. This will include a lecture and time for discussion / Q&\;A. Reading materials or any other course materials will be provided in advance. Catch-up recordings are available in case anyone misses any sessions! \;
\nCourse Leader: Veronica Cibotaru (University of Tü\;bingen and the Husserl Archives\, Paris)
\nSessions: 4 sessions over 4 weeks Dates: 7 / 14 / 21 / 28 June &ndash\; weekly &ndash\; Sundays
\nTime: 7:00&ndash\;8:30pm UK time
\nLocation: Online (Teams) \;
\nFind out some more about \;BSP2026OC2: Phenomenology of Artificial Intelligence
ORGANIZER;CN=Alessandro Guardascione: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20260610T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20260611T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on AI companionship UID:20260529T044953Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Copenhagen LOCATION:Campusvej 55\, Odense\, Denmark\, 5230 DESCRIPTION:The seminar Philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on AI-companionship will explore questions related to rapidly growing use of chatbots to simulate human-like emotional support\, empathy and social interactions: How good is friendship or love with a chatbot? How can it be better or worse? What can be gained\, what is lost\, and what can or cannot so easily be simulated? How can the use of AI companions impact wellbeing and personal development? What are the ramifications for human-human social interactions and societal life more generally? The topic covers more than deep personal relationships like friendship and love\, for example also the use of AI therapists\, coaches\, trainers and teachers.
The seminar brings together internationally leading scholars on the philosophy and interdisciplinary study of AI-companionship and related issues. \;
The seminar is open to everyone.
\nPhilosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on AI-companionship
\nUniversity of Southern Denmark\, Odense\, 10-11th June 2026
\nHosted by the Wellbeing and Virtual Worlds project \;
\nJune 10th (O100)
9:30-9.45 Sø\;ren Harnow Klausen (SDU): Introduction
9.45-10.35 Lucy Osler (Exeter): Devotional AI: AI Companions and Bad Faith Love
10.45-11.35 Renee Ye (Bochum): AI Companionship: A New Frontier
11.45-12.35 Anne Gerdes (SDU): Stochastic Care
12.35-13.20 Lunch
13.20-14.10 Chunfang Zhou (SDU): How did it Feel to Work with ChatGPT?
14.20-15.10 Niclas Rautenberg (Hamburg): A critical phenomenology of flourishing with/out AI:
15.30-16.30 Valerie Tiberius (Minnesota): It&rsquo\;s Good to Be Loved: Experientialism and the Problem of Chatbots \;
June 11th (O97)
9:30-10:20 Flor Pasturino &\; Matthew Dennis (Eindhoven): Sphere- Transgressions in Mental Health Chatbots
10.30-11.20 Victoria Paul (SDU): Being somebody else: AI and playfulness
11.30-12.20 Helena Ward (Oxford): Grief Bots and Continued Bonds
12.20-13.00 Lunch
13.00-13.50 Anastasiia Babash (Tartu): Why Dating the Wrong Person Might Be Good for You: AI and the Diagnostic Value of Freedom
14.00-14.50 Sø\;ren Harnow Klausen (SDU): AI and self-cultivation
15.05-15.55 Matthews Dennis (Eindhoven): The Ethical Dangers of Content- Creating Machines
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260611T070000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260611T070000 SUMMARY:Styles of Appearing. Aesthetics and Phenomenology UID:20260529T044954Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Avenue de l'Europe 20\, Fribourg\, Switzerland\, 1700 DESCRIPTION:In January 1907\, the founder of phenomenology\, \; Edmund Husserl\, wrote a letter to the Viennese Modernist playwright and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal\, suggesting that the phenomenologist&rsquo\;s and the artist&rsquo\;s methods are closely connected. Husserl&rsquo\;s suggestion remains provocative to this day\, as its full implications are yet to be fully grasped. Undeniably\, for more than a century now\, the tradition of phenomenology has cleared a path for philosophy that departs from argument-centric approaches in favor of firsthand corporeal experiences rooted in the lifeworld. This also entailed suspending or &ldquo\;bracketing&rdquo\; the question of whether our metaphysical\, ethical\, or aesthetic beliefs are justified\, focusing instead on the way things appear to us: phenomenology sets aside the &ldquo\;what&rdquo\; (the mind-independent nature of things) to home in on the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\;&mdash\;the mode in which things are given in our experience.
\nIf this is a valid characterization of the phenomenological method\, it aligns it closely with the discipline of aesthetics\, as founded by A.G. Baumgarten in the 18th century. Aesthetics too\, one might argue\, predominantly leaves aside the nature of what is being depicted or expressed to focus on the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\;: on how things are presented to us by artworks or other aesthetic objects and\, correspondingly\, on what it is like to sense them in aesthetic experience. Gü\;nter Figal even went as far as to claim that aesthetics could never be anything but phenomenological. Be that as it may: uncontestably\, what phenomenology and aesthetics have in common is a shared interest in the &ldquo\;style&rdquo\; of appearing.
\nAlthough Husserl himself hinted at this proximity in his letter to von Hofmannsthal\, his own writings on art and literature are remarkably sparse. While Husserl never wrote a formal work on aesthetics\, Jacques Derrida
\nmaintained that his thinking yields a &ldquo\;latent aesthetics.&rdquo\; This claim seems applicable to the phenomenological movement as a whole: while attempts to develop a systematic phenomenological aesthetics are surprisingly rare&mdash\;with Roman Ingarden and \; Mikel Dufrenne as the exceptions that prove the rule &mdash\;the aesthetic dimension however takes center stage in the work of numerous other authors\, from Eugen Fink\, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty through Erwin Straus\, Henri Maldiney\, and Bernhard Waldenfels. What happens\, then\, when we look at phenomenology through an aesthetic lens? And in turn\, what is the outcome of practicing aesthetics as a kind of phenomenology?
\nThe ninth iteration of the Aesthetics &\; Critique workshop will address the complex and layered relationship between aesthetics and phenomenology. Topics for discussion include:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What does it mean to ground aesthetics in phenomenological analysis rather than other approaches? Conversely\, could an aesthesiological approach&mdash\;as required by aesthetic objects and situations&mdash\;offer a refinement to phenomenology as a method?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What is the relationship between sensible experience and artistic experience\, and how does a phenomenology of art relate to the phenomenological analysis of sensible experience in general?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Can the concept of style help describe different modes of appearing (and of reacting to it)?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How is sense-making inextricably connected to corporeal sensing?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;What possibilities does the artist&rsquo\;s encounter with the world offer the phenomenologist&mdash\;perhaps a heightened sensitivity to the nuances of lived experience?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;How can aesthetic as well as aesthesiological categories help reconceptualizing the multisensorial mediascapes of our contemporary condition?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How can experimental aesthetic practices become test sites\, both individually and collectively\, for transformative embodied experiences?
\n\nConveners: Emmanuel Alloa\, Alessandro De Cesaris\, Masoud Olia
\n\;
\nInvited Speakers
\n\nCharles Bobant (Paris)
\nMauro Carbone (Lyon)
\nMaud Hagelstein (Liè\;ge)
\nAdnen Jdey (Louvain)
\nHarri Mä\;cklin (Helsinki)
\nMarcia Sá\; Schuback Cavalcante (Stockholm)
\nAlessandra Scotti (Torino)
\n\nHow to participate
\n\nParticipants are invited to send a proposal (max 400 words) and a CV to Alessandro De Cesaris (alessandro.decesaris@unifr.ch) by April 30th. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 5th.
\n\n\nTravel\, accommodation and meal costs will be covered for all speakers. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Alessandro De Cesaris;CN=Emmanuel Alloa: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260611T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260612T170000 SUMMARY:Styles of Appearing. Aesthetics and Phenomenology UID:20260529T044955Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Avenue de l'Europe 20\, Fribourg\, Switzerland\, 1700 DESCRIPTION:In January 1907\, the founder of phenomenology\, \; Edmund Husserl\, wrote a letter to the Viennese Modernist playwright and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal\, suggesting that the phenomenologist&rsquo\;s and the artist&rsquo\;s methods are closely connected. Husserl&rsquo\;s suggestion remains provocative to this day\, as its full implications are yet to be fully grasped. Undeniably\, for more than a century now\, the tradition of phenomenology has cleared a path for philosophy that departs from argument-centric approaches in favor of firsthand corporeal experiences rooted in the lifeworld. This also entailed suspending or &ldquo\;bracketing&rdquo\; the question of whether our metaphysical\, ethical\, or aesthetic beliefs are justified\, focusing instead on the way things appear to us: phenomenology sets aside the &ldquo\;what&rdquo\; (the mind-independent nature of things) to home in on the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\;&mdash\;the mode in which things are given in our experience.
\nIf this is a valid characterization of the phenomenological method\, it aligns it closely with the discipline of aesthetics\, as founded by A.G. Baumgarten in the 18th century. Aesthetics too\, one might argue\, predominantly leaves aside the nature of what is being depicted or expressed to focus on the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\;: on how things are presented to us by artworks or other aesthetic objects and\, correspondingly\, on what it is like to sense them in aesthetic experience. Gü\;nter Figal even went as far as to claim that aesthetics could never be anything but phenomenological. Be that as it may: uncontestably\, what phenomenology and aesthetics have in common is a shared interest in the &ldquo\;style&rdquo\; of appearing.
\nAlthough Husserl himself hinted at this proximity in his letter to von Hofmannsthal\, his own writings on art and literature are remarkably sparse. While Husserl never wrote a formal work on aesthetics\, Jacques Derrida
\nmaintained that his thinking yields a &ldquo\;latent aesthetics.&rdquo\; This claim seems applicable to the phenomenological movement as a whole: while attempts to develop a systematic phenomenological aesthetics are surprisingly rare&mdash\;with Roman Ingarden and \; Mikel Dufrenne as the exceptions that prove the rule &mdash\;the aesthetic dimension however takes center stage in the work of numerous other authors\, from Eugen Fink\, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty through Erwin Straus\, Henri Maldiney\, and Bernhard Waldenfels. What happens\, then\, when we look at phenomenology through an aesthetic lens? And in turn\, what is the outcome of practicing aesthetics as a kind of phenomenology?
\nThe ninth iteration of the Aesthetics &\; Critique workshop will address the complex and layered relationship between aesthetics and phenomenology. Topics for discussion include:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What does it mean to ground aesthetics in phenomenological analysis rather than other approaches? Conversely\, could an aesthesiological approach&mdash\;as required by aesthetic objects and situations&mdash\;offer a refinement to phenomenology as a method?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What is the relationship between sensible experience and artistic experience\, and how does a phenomenology of art relate to the phenomenological analysis of sensible experience in general?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Can the concept of style help describe different modes of appearing (and of reacting to it)?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How is sense-making inextricably connected to corporeal sensing?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;What possibilities does the artist&rsquo\;s encounter with the world offer the phenomenologist&mdash\;perhaps a heightened sensitivity to the nuances of lived experience?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;How can aesthetic as well as aesthesiological categories help reconceptualizing the multisensorial mediascapes of our contemporary condition?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How can experimental aesthetic practices become test sites\, both individually and collectively\, for transformative embodied experiences?
ORGANIZER;CN=Emmanuel Alloa;CN=Alessandro De Cesaris: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260612T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260612T234500 SUMMARY:Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory & Culture (EPTC/TCEP) Annual Conference UID:20260529T044956Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Vancouver LOCATION:Victoria\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers 2026\nThe Annual meeting of the EPTC will be held June 1-4\, 2026\, at the University of Victoria in Victoria\, British Columbia.
\nFounded in 2003\, the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) is a Canadian-based international academic society that aims to promote rigorous scholarship drawn from the traditions of existentialism and phenomenology\, broadly construed. In addition to theoretical work on core philosophical issues and figures\, we are especially interested in providing a forum for showcasing practical and applied research\, as well as cross- and interdisciplinary developments of existential and phenomenological themes.
\nDay One of our conference will be reserved for papers exploring the foundations and pre-histories of phenomenology and/or existentialism. Please indicate in your submission if you wish your paper to be considered as contribution to this discussion. The remainder of the conference is open to submissions on any scholarship of \;existential and phenomenological themes\, \;theoretical\, practical\, or cross- and interdisciplinary.
\nInterested authors should submit the following electronically in .doc\, .docx\, or .rtf format:
\n- \n
- A copy of your paper\, not more than 3500 words\, and prepared for anonymous review (identifiable by paper title only)\, \;and \n
- A separate abstract\, not more than 100 words\, listing the paper&rsquo\;s title\, author&rsquo\;s name\, complete mailing address\, institutional affiliation\, and e-mail address. \n
While we strongly prefer complete papers\, we will also consider long abstracts (750&ndash\;1000 words\, plus bibliography). Please prepare this for anonymous review\, and submit along with a separate cover sheet listing the title\, author&rsquo\;s name\, address\, etc. Please also include a short CV.
\nThe submission deadline for the above materials is January 12\, 2026. Submissions and questions should be sent to: \;eptc.tcep@gmail.com.
\nAccepted authors will have twenty-five minutes to present their papers and should consider allocating a portion of that time to respond to commentators. Presentations will be followed by a ten-minute commentary and a twenty-minute discussion period. Accepted authors may be asked to provide a commentary on another paper\, or to chair a session. (If you are just interested in presenting a commentary or chairing a session\, please submit a brief note to this effect\, including your name\, e-mail address\, institutional affiliation\, and relevant areas of interest.)
\nAll submissions are subject to a double-blind review process\, and accepted authors will be asked to send final versions of their papers to a commentator by April 15.
\nEPTC is able to waive registration fees for a few participants each year. Such awards will be made according to criteria of financial need and paper quality at the discretion of the organizing committee. Non-tenure-stream participants interested in this award should include a note to this effect in their submission materials.
\n\nAppel à\; contributions 2026\nLa ré\;union annuelle de la TCEP aura lieu du 1er au 4 juin 2026 à\; l&rsquo\;Université\; de Victoria\, en Colombie-Britannique
\nFondé\;e en 2003\, Thé\;orie et culture existentialistes et phé\;nomé\;nologiques (TCEP) est une socié\;té\; acadé\;mique canadienne d&rsquo\;envergure internationale dont la mission est de promouvoir la recherche inspiré\;e\, au sens large\, des traditions existentialiste ou phé\;nomé\;nologique. En plus de s&rsquo\;inté\;resser aux travaux thé\;oriques portant sur des sujets et personnalité\;s du monde philosophique\, la TCEP offre une vitrine aux travaux de recherche pratique ou appliqué\;e ainsi qu&rsquo\;à\; la recherche multi- ou interdisciplinaire portant sur des thé\;matiques existentialiste ou phé\;nomé\;nologique.
\nLa premiè\;re journé\;e de notre confé\;rence sera ré\;servé\;e aux contributions explorant les fondements et les pré\;histoires de la phé\;nomé\;nologie et/ou de l&rsquo\;existentialisme. Veuillez indiquer dans votre soumission si vous souhaitez que votre article soit considé\;ré\; comme une contribution à\; cette discussion. Le reste de la confé\;rence est ouvert aux soumissions sur toute recherche portant sur des thè\;mes existentiels et phé\;nomé\;nologiques\, thé\;oriques\, pratiques ou transdisciplinaires.
\nLes auteurs inté\;ressé\;s devront soumettre les documents suivants par voie é\;lectronique en format .doc\, .docx ou .rtf :
\n- \n
- un exemplaire de votre article (d&rsquo\;au plus 3500 mots) soumis de maniè\;re anonyme\, soit uniquement avec son titre\, \;et \n
- un ré\;sumé\; sur un document distinct (d&rsquo\;au plus 100 mots) sur lequel se trouvent le titre de l&rsquo\;article\, le nom de l&rsquo\;auteur\, l&rsquo\;adresse postale et é\;lectronique et l&rsquo\;affiliation institutionnelle. \n
Bien que nous pré\;fé\;rions vivement recevoir des articles complets\, nous considé\;rerons aussi des ré\;sumé\;s approfondis (750-1000 mots\, ainsi qu&rsquo\;une bibliographie). Ceci doit ê\;tre soumis de maniè\;re anonyme\, accompagné\; d&rsquo\;un document distinct sur lequel se trouvent le titre\, le nom de l&rsquo\;auteur\, les adresses\, etc. Veuillez é\;galement fournir un bref CV.
\nLa date limite pour soumettre les documents susmentionné\;s est le 12 janvier 2026. Les dossiers doivent ê\;tre envoyé\;s à\; : \;eptc.tcep@gmail.com.
\nLes auteurs retenus auront vingt-cinq minutes pour pré\;senter leur article et devraient ré\;partir une partie du temps pour ré\;pondre aux commentateurs. Les pré\;sentations seront suivis d&rsquo\;une dizaine de minutes de commentaires ainsi qu&rsquo\;une discussion d&rsquo\;une vingtaine de minutes. Les auteurs retenus peuvent ê\;tre aussi invité\;s à\; commenter sur un article ou pré\;sider une sé\;ance. (Si vous souhaitez seulement commenter sur un article ou pré\;sider une sé\;ance\, veuillez nous contacter par courriel en nous indiquant votre nom\, votre adresse postale et é\;lectronique\, votre affiliation institutionnelle ainsi que tous vos centres d&rsquo\;inté\;rê\;t pertinents.)
\nTous les dossiers seront soumis à\; une é\;valuation à\; double insu\, and les auteurs retenus seront tenus d&rsquo\;envoyer versions dé\;finitives de leurs articles aux commentateurs/trices au plus tard le 15 avril.
\nChaque anné\;e\, la TCEP est en mesure d&rsquo\;annuler les frais d&rsquo\;inscription de quelques dé\;lé\;gué\;s. Cette dé\;cision du coordonnateur des activité\;s du Congrè\;s s&rsquo\;appuie sur la situation financiè\;re et la qualité\; de la pré\;sentation du participant. Les dé\;lé\;gué\;s non permanents souhaitant recevoir cette aide sont appelé\;s à\; en faire la demande lors de la soumission de leur dossier.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260615T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260619T170000 SUMMARY:10th International Kierkegaard Conference UID:20260529T044957Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Northfield\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Kierkegaard Library is hosting its 10th International Kierkegaard Conference from June 15&ndash\;19\, 2026. This five-day conference will take place on the idyllic Liberal Arts campus of St. Olaf College in Northfield\, Minnesota. Traditionally an occasion for members of the global Kierkegaard community to gather and engage in intellectual conversation\, the first conference launched nearly forty years ago in 1985\, with the topic &ldquo\;Kierkegaard and Contemporary Philosophy.&rdquo\; Today\, we would like to celebrate the special occasion of its tenth installment\, as well as the 50th anniversary of the Howard and Edna Hong Kierkegaard Library (founded in 1976)\, with the topic &ldquo\;Readings of Kierkegaard.&rdquo\;
\nReading Kierkegaard is what Kierkegaard scholars do\, which for good reason may often be a solitary venture. However\, when we come together in community to present\, read\, and further research in our fields\, we encounter traditions for reading Kierkegaard along certain lines of interpretation\, influenced by particular historical trends\, and in dialogue with adjacent and interdisciplinary fields of study. Kierkegaard has been read as Bildungsroman literature\, as existential-psychological study\, as moral philosophy\, as devotional literature\, as hermeneutics\, and as religious philosophy\, among others. Strategies have been applied to contextualize and open up his works\, including negative dialectics\, the double movement\, indirect communication\, stages or spheres\, a theory of categories\, and more.
\nWe call for papers that reflect critically on ways of reading Kierkegaard. We invite you to explore and analyze traditional readings\, as well as to offer fresh perspectives. We welcome contributions that take a historical perspective\, engage in close readings of the works\, and bring Kierkegaard into dialogue with pressing issues of our times&mdash\;or any of the above. \;
\nPaper presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minute Q&\;A.
\nIf you would like to present a paper at the 10th International Kierkegaard Conference\, please submit a proposal\, consisting of a title and abstract (maximum 300 words)\, by September 15\, 2025 via email to hkl@stolaf.edu (please include &ldquo\;10th International Kierkegaard Conference&rdquo\; in the subject line).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260615T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260615T230000 SUMMARY:Re-examining AI / Rethinking Modernity. Critical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology UID:20260529T044958Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Athens LOCATION:Kérkyra\, Greece DESCRIPTION:INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
\nRe-examining AI / Rethinking Modernity
\nCritical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology
\nCorfu\, 22-23 October 2026
\n\;
\nConference scope
\nIn recent years\, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed multiple sectors\, from healthcare and finance to education and entertainment. However\, amidst the excitement surrounding these technological developments\, it is essential to critically revisit the philosophical foundations of this plural technology and\, on this basis\, examine the societal\, ethical\, political\, economic\, and ecological challenges it presents. This conference focuses primarily on this foundational dimension and\, through such critique\, seeks to offer a deeper perspective on the notions\, assumptions\, and frameworks of modernity at large. Which modern understandings of nature\, the human\, intelligence\, imagination\, the body\, the mind\, or reason were taken for granted in the development of what is now called &ldquo\;Artificial Intelligence&rdquo\;? Have these onto-epistemological foundations proved adequate\, or have they produced problems that become visible today through the socio-political\, economic\, and ecological crises associated with AI? Also\, an anthropological lens is crucial here\, as AI exposes how culturally situated\, rather than universal\, the modern Western assumptions about the human\, reason\, and technological agency have always been. \;By bringing these foundations into dialogue with alternative anthropologies\, including non-Western and Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies\, the conference also seeks to rethink entrenched West/East divides that structure contemporary imaginaries of both "intelligence" and technological "progress".
\nWhile we wish to approach AI with a critical lens\, this conference is not grounded in technophobia or anti-AI sentiment. We recognize the transformative reality and potential of AI but we don&rsquo\;t align with neo-Luddite efforts to &ldquo\;destroy&rdquo\; or reject this technology altogether. Instead\, our aim is to foster a constructive dialogue that acknowledges AI&rsquo\;s profound influence on our lives while addressing its underlying ontological and epistemological challenges. By bringing together scholars\, researchers\, and practitioners from diverse fields\, this conference seeks to refine our understanding of AI while also identifying flaws within our current phase of modernity that become visible through the global impact of this technology.
\nCall for papers
\nIn this context\, we invite scholars\, researchers\, and thinkers to contribute to a critical examination of Artificial Intelligence in all its forms at our upcoming Critical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology international conference.
\nWe are particularly interested in papers that interrogate (but are not limited to) the following areas:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophical and Ontological Foundations of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Alternative ontologies and/or epistemologies that can either stand as foundations for (a different) AI or critique current AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; AI and Modernity (drawing lines between modern thinkers and contemporary AI).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Socio-Political\, Economic\, and Ecological Implications based on elements of AI that stem from ideas rooted in modernity).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Epistemology and Knowledge Production in the Age of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Constructive Critique Beyond Technophobia (grounded in renewed modern theories -Critical Theory\, Phenomenology\, Anthropology of Technology\, Bergsonian Vitalism\, etc.- or in thinkers who were previously overlooked or not typically associated with AI).
\nThis conference focuses on theoretical approaches to Artificial Intelligence and in this context\, we welcome contributions from a range of fields\, including philosophy\, anthropology\, sociology\, media studies\, and cultural theory\, but despite its theoretical orientation\, the conference also welcomes technical approaches\, as well as contributions from computer engineers\, code developers\, and other branches of informatics\, provided these approaches are situated within the broader philosophical roots of AI. Our aim is to cultivate a space for critical engagement with AI\, which\, while informed by its technical foundations\, transcends the hype and focuses on the onto-political impacts of this field of study and technology.
\nKeynote Speakers
\nAgostino Cera\, Associate Professor\, Humanities Department\, University of Ferrara
\nMore Keynote Speakers tba)
\nConference Language
\nEnglish
\nAbstract submission
\nYou are kindly requested to send both your abstract (max. 300 words) and a short CV (max. 150 words) in one .doc file at: \;aicene.research@gmail.com
\n\;
\nImportant Dates
\nAbstract submission deadline: June 15\, 2026
\nAbstract acceptance notification: July 31\, 2026
\nConference Program: September 2026
\nScientific Committee
\nFotini Vaki\, Associate Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nKonstantinos Aggelakos\, Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nAnna Apostolidou\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nGiannis Perperidis\, Adjunct Lecturer\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nOrganizers
\nPolitical Philosophy and Digital Technologies Laboratory\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University\, Greece.
\nResearch Project &ldquo\;A(I)nthropology during the Anthropocene: Hybrid research and creative pedagogy at the limits of the human&rdquo\;\, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2025-2028).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20260615T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20260615T234500 SUMMARY:The Given UID:20260529T044959Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Copenhagen LOCATION:Karen Blixens Plads 8\, Copenhagen\, Denmark\, 2300 DESCRIPTION:Perceptual experiences seem to present\, make manifest\, or &lsquo\;give&rsquo\; the world to us. Such experiences have &lsquo\;presentational phenomenology&rsquo\;\, or &lsquo\;presentational feel&rsquo\;\; they seem to offer &lsquo\;scene immediacy&rsquo\; or &lsquo\;givenness in-the-flesh&rsquo\;. And perhaps perceptual experiences are not unique in this regard: similar expressions have been used to articulate\, for instance\, mathematical intuitions\, and certain religious experiences. However\, most attempts to characterize presentational phenomenology revolve around striking yet unexplained metaphors. The aim of this conference is to move beyond metaphor\, exploring presentational phenomenology in a variety of different contexts and from a variety of different perspectives\, including epistemology\, philosophy of perception\, philosophy of religion\, psychopathology\, and VR research.
Abstracts of a maximum of 1\,000 words (list of references not included) on topics related to the theme of the conference are to be sent to s.overgaard@hum.ku.dk no later than Monday the 15th of June\, 11.59 pm Central European Time. Abstracts must include a word count.
ORGANIZER;CN="Søren Overgaard";CN=Laura Oppi;CN="Kasper Møller Nielsen";CN=Mads G. Henriksen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260618T083000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260619T170000 SUMMARY:XIV Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences Workshop UID:20260529T045000Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Paseo de la Senda del Rey 7\, Madrid\, Spain DESCRIPTION:XIV PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES (PBCS) WORKSHOP
UNED (MADRID\, SPAIN)
18&ndash\;19 JUNE\, 2026
https://sites.google.com/view/xivpbcs/home
\nThis is a 2026 Off-Year ISHPSSB Workshop.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Enara Garcí\;a (Syddansk Universitet)
Alejandro Fá\;bregas-Tejeda (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
José\; Antonio Pé\;rez-Escobar (Universidad Nacional de Educació\;n a Distancia)
SCHEDULE
\nDay 1 - 18 June 2026 - Sala B UNED Humanidades building
\n08:30-09:00
Registration &\; welcoming
09:00-09:30
CRISTIAN SABORIDO
Universidad Nacional de Educació\;n a Distancia (UNED)
09:30-10:05
DAVID SÁ\;NCHEZ
Universidad de Granada (UGR)
Teleology Without Representation: Meaning and Function in Ecological Psychology
10:05-10:40
ELIAS COHEN
É\;cole des hautes é\;tudes en sciences sociales / Institut Jean-Nicod (EHESS / Jean-Nicod Paris)
Situating mental representation: Perry&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Thought without representation&rdquo\; in an enactivist context
10:40-11:15
ANDREAS T. POMMER
Kø\;benhavns Universitet (KU)
Population-Level Representations and Computations Afford Causal Explanations
11:15-11:30
Coffee Break
11:30-12:05
AINHOA RODRIGUEZ-MUGURUZA
Universidad del Paí\;s Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU)
Menstrual Health as Rhythmic Plasticity
12:05-12:40
REBECCA R. CUCINIELLO
Università\; di Genova (UniGe)
Integrating plasticity and teleology: lessons from Ernst Mayr&rsquo\;s somatic programs
12:40-14:10
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ENARA GARCÍ\;A
Syddansk Universitet (SDU)
The Path-Dependent Mind: Individuation\, Vulnerability\, and the Ontogenesis of Mental Disorder
14:10-16:00
Lunch
16:00-16:35ASTRID RENG
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitä\;t Mü\;nchen (LMU Munich)
Mental health and options for mental action
16:35-17:10
JAMES TURNER
Umeå\; universitet (Umeå\;)
Low Mood\, Proper Function\, and Dysfunction: The Case Against Depression as a Natural Kind
17:10-17:45
BENEDETTA COGO
University of Wollongong (UOW)
Keeping it rational in the philosophy of psychiatry
Day 2 - 19 June 2026 - Sala A UNED Humanidades building
FRIDAY 19 JUNE ~ Sala A
08:30-09:00
Registration &\; welcoming
09:00-10:30
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ALEJANDRO FÁ\;BREGAS-TEJEDA
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)
Ethospaces and the Comparative Study of Behavior
10:30-11:05
TOMMASO ZORZINI
Università\; degli Studi di Milano (UniMi)
Reciprocal causation in EES is still unidirectional and diachronic
11:05-11:40
CARLOS ESTEBAN-JIMÉ\;NEZ
Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
The cognitive dimension of experiential niche construction: an epistemological problem?
11:40-11:55
Coffee Break
11:55-12:30
LUCIA C. NECO
Universidad de Murcia (UMU)
The Prospect of Plant Sociality
12:30-13:05
ADEX IZQUIERDO
Universitat de Valè\;ncia (UV)
Offline information transmission: A teleofunctional hybrid account for mnemonic episodic reference
13:05-13:40
MEGAN H. TODD
Sveučili&scaron\;te u Rijeci (Rijeka)
Communicating Science Under Uncertainty: Hedging and Epistemic Function in Animal Cognition Research
13:40-14:15
MIGUEL GRAMAGE
Universitat de Valè\;ncia (UV)
Specification in Use: A Modal Account of Ecological Information
14:15-16:00
Lunch
16:00-17:30
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: JOSÉ\; ANTONIO PÉ\;REZ-ESCOBAR
Universidad Nacional de Educació\;n a Distancia (UNED)
Mathematical explanations in biology: A Neo-Aristotelian proposal
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The Research Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences (PBCS) invites submissions to its 14th edition\, hosted by the Universidad Nacional de Educació\;n a Distancia (UNED) in Madrid\, Spain.
Since its first edition in 2011\, the PBCS workshop encourages contributions from all areas in the philosophy of biology and in the philosophy of cognitive sciences. Submissions from both philosophers and researchers inthe biological and cognitive sciences are welcome.
SUBMISSIONS
Young researchers (Master&rsquo\;s and PhD students\, as well as scholars who defended their PhD dissertations within the last three years) are encouraged to submit their work\, present their ideas\, and participate in vibrant interdisciplinary discussions. Women and other underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Possible topics include (but are not limited to):
- Enactive and 4E approaches to cognition\, perception\, and mental disorders
- Embodied intersubjectivity and affective dynamics in psychotherapy and social cognition
\n- Phenomenology and qualitative methods in cognitive science and mental health research
\n- Philosophical foundations of psychiatry and models of mental disorders
\n- Organism-environment relations in biological explanation and cognitive science
\n- Theoretical and conceptual perspectives on comparative biology and evolutionary theory
\n- Historical and philosophical analyses of the organism in contemporary biosciences
\n- Measurement\, modeling\, and data practices in the life and cognitive sciences
\n- Mathematical formalisation and normativity in biological and
\; \;psychological explanation
- Big data\, AI\, and methodological innovation in biology and cognitive science
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submit an abstract of 500-700 words to xivpbcs@gmail.com \;including two separate PDF files:
1. Identified version: containing author name(s)\, affiliation(s)\, and email address.
2. Blind version: fully anonymised\, removing any information that could eveal authorship.
Abstracts may be written in English or Spanish. They must include a title\, clearly state the relevance of the topic to the workshop\, and provide a concise outline of the main arguments.
All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by the scientific committee.
Selected presentations will be allocated 20 minutes for the talk\, followed by 10 minutes of discussion.
Deadline for submission: 1̶5̶t̶h̶ ̶J̶a̶n̶u̶a̶r̶y̶ \;1st February\, 2026 \;(deadline extended).
Notification of acceptance: 1̶s̶t̶ ̶M̶a̶r̶c̶h̶ \;16 March\, 2026 (deadline extended).
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\nClosing Conference of the DFG Emmy-Noether Project &ldquo\;A Sensible World&rdquo\;
\nThe Physical World and Its Perception:
Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
Humboldt-Universitä\;t zu Berlin\, 18-19 June 2026
\nThe aim of this conference is to explore the nature of physical reality\, the way the various macro- and microscopic layers of physical reality are constituted and structured\, and to what extent perception provides faithful access to the physical world. Topics to be addressed include metaphysical issues about the mind-(in)dependent existence of sensory qualities\, the distinction between primary and secondary qualities (and possible differences in their perception)\, the relations of foundation between sensory qualities and subperceptual aspects of physical reality\, the reliability of sensory contents for our cognition of the physical world\, and\, more generally\, naive realism and competing metaphysical accounts of physical reality. The guiding idea is that a dialogue between phenomenology and analytic philosophy on these questions will be fruitful and mutually enriching\, as there are important points of contact between these two traditions\, in particular regarding the description and vindication of our ordinary experience of the physical world.
\n
Programme
Thursday\, 18 June
\n09:15-09:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:30-10:45 Michelle Montague (UT Austin)
Presentational Phenomenology and Descriptive Metaphysics
11:00-12:15 Walter Hopp (Boston University)
Phenomenological Exceptionalism
13:45-15:00 Christian Beyer (Gö\;ttingen)
Husserl&rsquo\;s View of Perceptual Content and Justification
15:15-16:30 James Jardine (HU Berlin)
Revisiting Husserl&rsquo\;s Account of Colour Constancy
16:45-18:00 Galen Strawson (UT Austin)
Real Direct Realism: Charles Augustus Strong
Friday\, 19 June
\n09:30-10:45 Bill Brewer (KCL)
What are the Primary Qualities?
11:00-12:15 Thomas Crowther (Warwick)
Events and the Primary-Secondary Quality Distinction
13:45-15:00 Hamid Taieb (FU/HU Berlin)
Colours: Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
15:15-16:30 Louise Richardson (University of York)
Structural Features and Naï\;ve Realism
16:45-18:00 Mark Eli Kalderon (UCL)
Perceptual Pragmatism and Objectivity
Venue: Room 2249a\, Humboldt-Universitä\;t zu Berlin\, Unter den Linden 6\, 10117 Berlin
Attendance: Registration mandatory\, please write to maria.staecker.1@hu-berlin.de \; \;
Organiser: Hamid Taieb (hamid.taieb@hu-berlin.de)
For more information: www.a-sensible-world.net
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ORGANIZER;CN=Hamid Taieb: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260625T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY UID:20260529T045002Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Wieniawskiego 1\, Poznań\, Poland\, 61-712 DESCRIPTION:QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY
\nInternational Conference
\n25-26 June 2026
\nAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań\, Poland
\nFaculty of Philosophy
\nThe international conference Queer: Present! Visibility Through the Body aims to examine queer visibility in contemporary culture\, exploring it across a range of contexts. The title of the conference alone may serve as a catalyst for reflection on various aspects of queer visibility\, demonstrating that queer culture is present today in many forms. However\, queer people are constantly fighting to remain visible and gain access to more divergent visibility. This visibility often encounters strong resistance\; opponents view the queer body as imposing its presence\, disrupting social order and manifesting as unnecessary excess or exaggeration.
\nDuring the conference\, we will highlight the physical presence of queer genders\, sexualities and romantic relations and intimacies. This is why the title of our conference is provocative: queer is present and embodied\; it is expressed in the body.
\nDo queer bodies experience encounters with others and strangers differently when moving within cultural boundaries?
\nWhen writing about corporeality\, we draw inspiration from Sara Ahmed&rsquo\;s queer phenomenology. Ahmed reminds us that\, culturally\, the divergence of sexual orientation is equated with being outside the boundaries of heteronormativity\, as if initiating a discussion about it implied queerness. From a phenomenological stance\, sexual desire and gender identity shape not only the boundaries of our world and our experience of the body: our physicality is a lens through which the outside world could perceive our intimate visibility.
\nSilence\, secrecy\, hypocrisy and concealing one's sexuality\, desire and gender identity due to shame or fear or a culturally rooted habit are pertinent characteristics associated with the lack of queer visibility. A wider and more satisfactory presence can be achieved by creating one's own culture and by establishing better social attitudes and legal frameworks\, more accurate terms and rooting novel expectations or &lsquo\;novel tradition&rsquo\;\, although this could outrage apologists for the politics of silence. It is not easy to achieve visibility in the present moment! However\, new traditions are created and emerge before our very eyes: films\, literary works\, memorials to victims of persecution\, queer rituals and\, finally\, the concept and presence of Pride &mdash\; a joyful rejection of the humiliating concept of shame. The present allows us to document all cases of queer resistance against the politics of hatred. The goal of the narrative of hatred is to hide queer people once again and deprive them of visibility. It is an attitude that is contrary to science and is fed by invented harmful myths\, prejudices and superstitions.
\nQueer visibility is not only an emancipatory strategy based on the idea of equality. It is also the daily struggle of every queer person for dignity and visibility. Any attempt to hide queerness is deceptive\, as it creates the false impression that it does not exist or is not needed by anyone.
\nWe invite submissions from scholars\, PhD candidates\, and independent researchers.
\nTopics for suggested panels and papers may include (but are not limited to):
\n1. Cultural transformations that have shaped the contemporary narrative of queer visibility.
\n2. Changes in rooted attitudes\, social\, legislative and political moods often result in significant progress and emancipation\, but can also lead to regression and increased aggression towards queer individuals.
\n3. Tactics\, risks\, politics\, dramatics\, performance\, experimentations\, exploration of visibility in different areas of art and cultural products.
\n4. Queer visibility in performance\; Queer in Cinema\, Dance and Theatre.
\n5. The contribution of queer people to art\, from poetry to mass media.
\n6. Prospects for future visibility based on the present.
\nThe organisers are open to proposals for both individual presentations and panels. Keynote speeches are planned. Detailed information will be updated on the conference website https://queer.web.amu.edu.pl
\nConference language: English.
\nPresentation length: 15-25 minutes\, depending on the final number of accepted contributions. Format: on-site.
\nVenue: Collegium Minus\, ul. Wieniawskiego 1\, Poznań.
\nRegistration
\nDeadline for submission of abstracts is: for panels 20 February 2026 and for individuals presentations 28 February 2026. They should be sent by email to queer@amu.edu.pl (or marjed7@amu.edu.pl)
\nSubmissions should include a max. 200-word abstract with a 100 word author bio and the contact information gathered in a single PDF-FILE.
\nNotification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026.
\nRegistration fee: 150 EUR or 150 USD.
\nThe fee included a coffee breaks\, a two-course lunch to all participants (25 and 26 June) and a banquet (25 June).
\nImportant additional information:
\n- we plan to publish articles in 2027 (an edited collection).
\n- during the conference\, we will be hosting the management team from the Queer Museum in Warsaw\, the first queer museum in Poland and the third in Europe.
\nKeynote Speakers:
\nProf. Dan Healey\, University of Oxford
\nProf. Joanna Mizielińska\, University of Warsaw
\nDr. Kush Patel\, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
\nConference Organizers:
\nProf. Marek Jedliński (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
\nDocent Antu Sorainen (University of Helsinki)
\nDr. Krzysztof Witczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
\nScientific Committee:
\nProf. Dan Healey\, University of Oxford
\nDr. Kush Patel\, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
\nDr. Efstratia Oktapoda\, Sorbonne University
\nDr. Tamas Nagypal\, Mount Royal University
\nDr. Jana Kantorikova\, Sorbonne University
\nDr. Iga Mergler\, Wilfrid Laurier University
\nDr. Agata Mergler\, York University
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Krzysztof Witczak;CN="Marek Jedliński";CN=Antu Sorainen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260625T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:Making Kin as Practice of Care: Habitable Bodies or Unexpected Alliances between Ecology\, Technology and Feminism UID:20260529T045003Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:R. Marquês de Ávila e Bolama\, Covilhã\, Portugal\, 6201-001 DESCRIPTION:Making kin is first and foremost a gesture rather than a concept. Donna Haraway \; presents it as a gesture that reacts to a world organized by rigid separations: nature and \; culture\, feminine and masculine\, human and machine\, organism and technique. To \; make kin is to learn how to live together under the epistemological horizontality of \; habitable bodies in damaged landscapes\, accepting interdependence as an ontological \; and political condition. It is not a matter of restoring a lost nature\, nor of celebrating \; technology as a promise of salvation\, but of weaving possible relations within wounded \; worlds. This proposal emerges from the recognition of the most recent narcissistic \; wound in the human imaginary: technology.
\nAfter Copernicus\, Darwin and Freud&mdash\;who \; unsettled anthropocentric pride by demonstrating that the Earth is not the center of the \; universe\, that human beings are not isolated divine creations but part of animal \; evolution\, and that we do not exercise full control over our own mind\, being also \; governed by the unconscious&mdash\;technoscience\, particularly the digital and artificial \; intelligence\, once again displaces the human from the center by challenging its cognitive\, \; ontological\, and moral exceptionalism. For Donna Haraway\, this wound should neither \; be denied nor healed\, but inhabited through a profound reconfiguration of how agency\, \; responsibility\, kinship\, space\, and time are conceived in a shared and fragmented world \; composed of human and non-human cultural entities. Making kin therefore entails \; rethinking and reinhabiting bodies\, beginning by questioning which bodies are \; recognized and how they appear. Bodies that are sites of passage\, traversed by regimes \; of gender\, race\, class\, and species\; bodies exposed to toxicities\, extraction\, and \; infrastructures\; bodies amplified\, monitored\, and reconfigured by technologies. Bodies \; that are also habitats of resistance\, care\, and the invention of new ways of dwelling. The \; pressing question is not only how to survive\, nor even how to live\, but how to render \; bodies habitable. In this sense\, this congress seeks to bring together philosophical and \; interdisciplinary reflections that explore the unexpected alliances between ecology\, \; technology and feminism\, interrogating the conditions of possibility for habitable bodies \; within contemporary ecological techniques. In doing so\, it aims to contribute to \; imagining futures in which making kin is not merely a concept\, but an urgent ethical and \; political praxis.
\nThis way\, researchers are invited to submit presentation proposals within the \; three main strands of the congress&mdash\;feminism\, ecology and technology&mdash\;placing them in \; dialogue through perspectives such as ecofeminism\, transhumanism\, new materialisms\, \; the ethics of care\, decolonial thought\, among others. Theoretical\, critical\, or situated \; approaches from philosophy and related fields are welcome\, exploring\, among other \; possibilities:
\n➢ Contemporary transformations of the categories of subject\, agency and community \; in light of posthumanism\, new materialisms\, and relational metaphysics\;
\n➢ Practices of care\, hospitality and kinship as ethical and political questions\, analyzed \; from the perspectives of care ethics\, applied ethics\, bioethics and contemporary \; political philosophy\;
\n➢ The reconfiguration of the body as a site of experience\, agency and vulnerability\, \; considering dialogues between phenomenology\, philosophy of embodiment\, gender \; studies and philosophy of technology\;
\n➢ Interdependencies between humans\, non-humans and technologies and their \; epistemological implications\, addressed through the lens of philosophy of science\, \; feminist epistemology and technoscience studies\;
\n➢ Questions of justice\, responsibility and vulnerability in wounded ecologies\, \; examined from the optic of political philosophy\, critical theory\, postcolonial theory \; and environmental ethics\;
\n➢ Critiques of traditional hierarchies (nature/culture\, human/non-human\, \; masculine/feminine) and the exploration of alternative models of kinship and \; coexistence\, drawing on metaphysics\, ontology\, social philosophy and posthuman \; theories\;
\n➢ Reflections on technology\, artificial intelligence\, biotechnology and digitalities as \; forces that displace the subject\, transform agency and redefine modes of inhabiting\, \; from the perspectives of philosophy of technology\, critical cybernetics and AI \; studies\;
\n➢ The construction of shared worlds\, kinships and interdependencies through visual \; and performing arts and cinema\, considered in light of philosophy of art\, relational \; aesthetics\, and philosophy of film\;
\n➢ The role of language\, narrative and symbolic representation in mediating bodies\, \; technologies and ecologies\, investigated through philosophy of language\, narrative \; theory\, critical semiotics\, and philosophy of communication.
\nProposals must be submitted in English\, Portuguese\, Spanish\, French\, or \; Italian to makingkin@outlook.pt by April 21\, 2026. They should include an abstract \; (up to 300 words) and a brief biographical note (up to 150 words). Presentations should \; not exceed 20 minutes. The results will be announced on 7 May 2026. This International Congress is organized within the framework of PRAXIS &ndash\; Center for \; Philosophy\, Politics and Culture\, University of Beira Interior (Covilhã\;\, Portugal).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260630T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260630T080000 SUMMARY:Early Phenomenology on ‘Position-Taking’ (Stellungnahme). Theoretical Stance\, Emotional Response\, and the Constitution of the Person UID:20260529T045004Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Louvain-la-Neuve\, Belgium DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\n&ldquo\;Early Phenomenology on &lsquo\;Position-Taking&rsquo\; (Stellungnahme). Theoretical Stance\, Emotional Response\, and the Constitution of the Person&rdquo\;
\nUCLouvain\, Belgium\, 17&ndash\;19 March 2027
\nOrganizing committee: Alexis Delamare (University College Dublin/ULiè\;ge) &\; É\;lise Dravigny (UCLouvain/Sorbonne Université\;)
\nScientific committee: Sylvain Camilleri (UCLouvain)\, Alexis Delamare (University College Dublin/ULiè\;ge)\, Arnaud Dewalque (ULiè\;ge)\, É\;lise Dravigny (UCLouvain/Sorbonne Université\;)\, Bruno Leclercq (ULiè\;ge)\, Marc Maesschalck (UCLouvain)\, Denis Seron (ULiè\;ge)
\nSubmission guidelines
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Please send your abstracts as attachments (Word or PDF) to both elise.dravigny@uclouvain.be and alexis.delamare@ucd.ie
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Abstract length: max. 600 words (bibliography excluded\, if any).
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Abstracts should be anonymized. Please include your name\, affiliation\, and position in the body of the email.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Deadline for abstract submission: 30 June 2026.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Notification of acceptance: by 15 July 2026.
\nTheme and scope of the conference
\n&ldquo\;Now the question is how we want to fix the concept of position-taking. It is not so easy&rdquo\; (Edmund Husserl\, Ms A VI 31\, 42a\, 1928)
\nThis conference aims to shed new light on the intriguing concept of Stellungnahme (usually translated as &ldquo\;position-taking&rdquo\;) as it is applied by early phenomenologists\, especially by Edmund Husserl and the so-called &lsquo\;Munich-Gö\;ttingen&rsquo\; Circle of phenomenology\, composed of Johannes Daubert\, Dietrich von Hildebrand\, Roman Ingarden\, Alexander Pfä\;nder\, Adolf Reinach\, Max Scheler\, and Edith Stein\, among others.
\nWithin early phenomenology\, the term Stellungnahme is first employed in a published work by Reinach in &ldquo\;Zur Theorie des negativen Urteils&rdquo\; \;(1911\; 1982). There\, it characterizes those mental experiences\, such as belief\, striving\, or love\, which display an inherent polarity (being respectively opposed to disbelief\, struggle\, and hate) &ndash\; in contrast to representations or meanings. Reinach then takes up this concept in 1912 in his essay on &ldquo\;reflection&rdquo\; (Ü\;berlegung) (1912\; 1913)\, in which he emphasizes that intellectual reflection necessarily aims to establish a &ldquo\;position-taking&rdquo\;\, typically a conviction about a state of affairs (2017\, 58&ndash\;65).
\nSoon after\, clearly drawing on Reinach\, von Hildebrand elaborates his own original approach to Stellungnahme\, through its cardinal distinction with Kenntnisnahme or &ldquo\;knowledge-taking&rdquo\; (von Hildebrand 1916\, 134). A knowledge-taking\, such as the vision of a landscape\, is characterized as a mere &ldquo\;having&rdquo\; of a content\, whereas\, in the case of a Stellungnahme\, I take a spontaneous stance with respect to the appearing object. In this regard\, intellectual experiences such as conviction\, but also affective experiences such as joy or indignation and conative experiences such as willing\, insofar as they exhibit such subjective activity\, are to be interpreted as &lsquo\;position-takings&rsquo\;.
\nEspecially in his manuscripts from the Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins\, Edmund Husserl also makes extensive and yet-to-be-explored use of the concept of Stellungnahme. In the theoretical sphere\, he notably distinguishes between &lsquo\;position-taking&rsquo\; understood as a positional act &ndash\; in contrast to neutral &lsquo\;mere representations&rsquo\; (1980\, 446&ndash\;47) &ndash\; and &lsquo\;position-taking&rsquo\; understood as a critical procedure aiming at the rational verification of a certain thesis (2020a\, 331\, 372). In the affective sphere\, he observes that the manifestation of a positive value often motivates an &ldquo\;affective position-taking&rdquo\; (Gemü\;tsstellungnahme) as a response\, whereby the subject actively &ldquo\;turns&rdquo\; towards the object with pleasure (2020b\, 121). Lastly\, Husserl emphasizes the crucial role played by sedimented active &lsquo\;position-takings&rsquo\; in the constitution of a stable personal self (1952\, 112&ndash\;13).
\nFinally\, Edith Stein also appeals to the terminology of &lsquo\;position-taking&rsquo\; in her 1922 Beiträ\;ge zur philosophischen Begrü\;ndung der Psychologie und der Geisteswissenschaften (2010\, 49\, 133). Following von Hildebrand and Husserl\, she asserts that an emotion &ndash\; for instance\, joy &ndash\; is not a &ldquo\;knowledge-taking of the value&rdquo\; (Wertkenntnisnahme) &ndash\; for instance of beauty &ndash\; but rather a subjective stance towards the axiological object\, and thus a &ldquo\;response&rdquo\; (Antwort) thereto.
\nThe concept of Stellungnahme thus assumes a variety of functions within early phenomenology. This variety reveals the richness and power of this notion\, whose applications range from theoretical philosophy to the philosophy of emotion and to ethics\; yet it also challenges the unity of this concept and calls into question the compatibility of these diverse uses\, across authors and within the work of particular phenomenologists &ndash\; e.g.\, Husserl.
\nAgainst this background\, the aim of this meeting is to advance the literature &ndash\; whose (scarce) accounts of Stellungnahme have been limited to individual authors (Carta and Delamare\, forthcoming\; Delamare 2025\; De Monticelli 2011\; Jacobs 2016\; Jardine 2020\; Loidolt 2021\; Magrì\; 2022\; Mü\;ller 2020\; Salice 2015\; Uemura and Salice 2019) \;&ndash\; by offering an overview of &lsquo\;position-taking&rsquo\; among early phenomenologists. To do so\, the first objective is to study the influences\, continuities\, and tensions between the accounts they propose. Emphasis will also be placed on the sources of the concept of Stellungnahme. In particular\, the psychologist Hugo Mü\;nsterberg (a student of Wundt) already uses this term in his Grundzü\;ge der Psychologie (1900)\, seemingly with a meaning very close to Reinach&rsquo\;s. In addition\, in his 1911 essay\, Reinach explicitly refers to the works of Windelband (1884) and to Brentano&rsquo\;s theory of judgment (Brentano 1874\, 262). Finally\, a third line of inquiry will be the potential relevance of this terminology for contemporary issues\, such as epistemic agency (Jacobs 2021) or the reactional nature of emotions (Mü\;ller 2018).
\nSuggested topics
\nWe welcome presentations on topics including\, but not limited to\, the following:
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; The historical origins of the concept of Stellungnahme as used by Husserl and the Munich-Gö\;ttingen Circle.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; The mutual influences of the members of the Munich-Gö\;ttingen Circle as they develop their understanding of Stellungnahme.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; The unity\, diversity\, and evolution of the meaning of Stellungnahme within early phenomenology.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; &lsquo\;Position-taking&rsquo\; understood minimally as &lsquo\;belief&rsquo\; or &lsquo\;positional act&rsquo\;. The doxic modification introduced by the phenomenological epoché\; &ndash\; which brackets all Stellungnahmen (Husserl 1976\, 63) &ndash\; can also be investigated in this perspective.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; &lsquo\;Position-taking&rsquo\; understood maximally as a critical procedure\, based on doubt and intellectual deliberation.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Stellungnahme in the affective sphere\, especially the distinction between value-feelings \;&ndash\; in which values are known &ndash\; and emotions as responses.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Stellungnahme in the conative\, volitional\, and practical sphere.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Stellungnahme\, agency\, freedom\, and the constitution of an active and stable personality.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; &lsquo\;Position-taking&rsquo\; and related notions &ndash\; e.g.\, &lsquo\;knowledge-taking&rsquo\; (Kenntnisnahme)\, &lsquo\;acknowledgment&rsquo\; (Anerkennung)\, or &lsquo\;approval&rsquo\; (Billigung) (Carta 2024).
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; The influence of early phenomenology&rsquo\;s concept of Stellungnahme on later phenomenology &ndash\; e.g.\, Stavenhagen (1925\; Smith 1982\, 312) &ndash\; as well as on later philosophy more broadly.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; The significance of early phenomenology&rsquo\;s concept of Stellungnahme for contemporary debates.
\nBibliography
\nBrentano\, Franz. 1874. Psychologie vom empirischen Standpunkt. Leipzig: Duncker &\; Humblot.
\nCarta\, Emanuela. 2024. Approval\, reflective emotions\, and virtue: sentimentalist elements in Husserl&rsquo\;s philosophy. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 32: 1329&ndash\;1349.
\nCarta\, Emanuela and Delamare\, Alexis. Forthcoming. Husserl on position-taking (Stellungnahme). In Husserl&rsquo\;s Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins\, ed. Emanuela Carta\, Gabriel Barroso\, and Julia Jansen. Cham: Springer.
\nDe Monticelli\, Roberta. 2011. Alles Leben ist Stellungnehmen &ndash\; Die Person als praktisches Subjekt. In Die Aktualitä\;t Husserls\, ed. Marisa Scherini\, Christopher Erhard\, and Verena Mayer\, 39&ndash\;55. Freiburg: Alber.
\nDelamare\, Alexis. 2024. The development of emotional responsivism in the Munich-Gö\;ttingen Circle. The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy 22: 158&ndash\;175.
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\nHusserl\, Edmund. 2020b. Studien zur Struktur des Bewuß\;tseins&ndash\;Teilband II: Gefü\;hl und Wert. Texte aus dem Nachlass (1896&ndash\;1925) (Hua XLIII/2). Edited by Ullrich Melle and Thomas Vongehr. Cham: Springer.
\nJacobs\, Hanne. 2016. Husserl on Reason\, Reflection\, and Attention. Research in Phenomenology 46: 257&ndash\;276.
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ORGANIZER;CN=Alexis Delamare: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T090000 SUMMARY:The Phenomenology of Desire (The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy\, Vol. XXVII) UID:20260529T045005Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\n"The Phenomenology of Desire"
\nThe New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy \;(Vol. XXVII)
\nGuest Editors
Emanuela Carta (emanuela.carta@uni-graz.at)
Sara Dameno (sara.dameno@uni-koeln.de)
Alexis Delamare (alexis.delamare@ucd.ie)
About the volume
Over the past decade\, phenomenology has emerged as a central interlocutor in the philosophy of emotions\, and it is now well established that it offers distinctive resources for understanding the structure\, intentionality\, and normativity of emotional life. By contrast\, its contribution to the analysis of desire remains comparatively underdeveloped\, if not neglected. This is so even though reflections on desire can be found throughout the phenomenological tradition\, broadly understood&mdash\;from the Brentano School and early phenomenology\, including figures such as Alexius Meinong\, Christian von Ehrenfels\, Edith Stein\, Max Scheler\, and Dietrich von Hildebrand\, to later French developments\, including thinkers such as Simone de Beauvoir\, Paul Ric&oelig\;ur\, Emmanuel Levinas\, Frantz Fanon\, Jean-Luc Nancy\, and Renaud Barbaras. In addition\, recently published materials from Edmund Husserl&rsquo\;s manuscripts&mdash\;most notably the third volume of the \;Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins&mdash\;offer important analyses that remain largely unexplored and invite further systematic development.
Against this background\, the volume has a twofold aim. On the one hand\, it seeks to clarify and critically examine phenomenological accounts of desire across the tradition\, from the Brentano School and early phenomenology to contemporary approaches. On the other hand\, it aims to assess how phenomenology can contribute to current debates on desire\, including its nature\, its relation to value and normativity\, its role in agency\, and its social and political dimensions. In this regard\, we especially welcome contributions that examine how desire is shaped by structures of power\, including race and coloniality\, as well as those that explore how desire can be transformed and reoriented when freed from oppressive environments. In this way\, the volume seeks to advance the philosophical understanding of desire while further developing phenomenological approaches to it.
We invite extended abstracts of approximately \;800&ndash\;1\,000 words\, outlining the central thesis\, argumentative strategy\, and contribution to the volume.
Topics of interest \;include\, but are not limited to:
- Phenomenological analyses of desire within specific schools or traditions (e.g.\, the Brentano School\; the Munich and Gö\;ttingen Circles).
- Conceptions of desire in major phenomenological figures (e.g.\, Husserl\, Levinas\, Merleau-Ponty\, de Beauvoir\, etc.).
- Desire in critical and feminist phenomenology.
- The relationship between phenomenology and psychoanalysis with respect to desire.
- Contemporary phenomenological approaches to desire.
- Possible contributions of phenomenological perspectives to contemporary debates on desire.
- Desire in underrepresented or neglected phenomenological traditions.
- Non-Western phenomenological perspectives on desire.
Submission Guidelines
To submit your abstract\, please fill in the form using the link below. Abstracts should be anonymized. They will be reviewed by the editors of the volume. Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to submit full papers\, which will then undergo a double-blind peer review process in accordance with NYPPP policy. Final acceptance decisions regarding the full papers will be made thereafter.
Timeline
\n- Deadline for abstract submission: \;30 June 2026
- Notification of acceptance: by 15 July 2026
- Full paper deadline: 31 March 2027
Length of final papers: 6\,000&ndash\;8\,000 words (including notes and references). The volume is expected to be published in 2028.
To submit your abstract\, please fill in and submit the form using the following link:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdUJyOZBt8Awm0b3KS5AIRvFNNmMK0QL8Mx5akW2SeHOa3XvA/viewform?usp=header
For any further questions\, please contact:
phenomenologyofdesire.nyppp2028@gmail.com
Open Philosophy\, De Gruyter Brill
\nCALL FOR EDITORS
\n
Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/opphil/html) is an international open-access journal covering a broad spectrum of philosophical research. We are currently inviting applications for Section Editor positions in the following sections:
·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Ancient Philosophy
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Epistemology
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Ethics
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; German Philosophy
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Logic
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Social and Political Philosophy
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Phenomenology and Existentialism
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophy of Art
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophy of Artificial Inteligence
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophy of Medicine
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophy of Mind
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophy of Religion
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophy of Science
About Editor&rsquo\;s role:
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- Editors are responsible for handling articles in the field of their specialisation. Their duties include: processing manuscripts through the Editorial Manager system\, i.e.\, evaluating manuscripts\, identifying and inviting proper reviewers\, ensuring a rigorous and fair peer review process\, and making decisions on the submissions. \n
- Editors play an active role in journal development e.g.\, suggesting future special issues and inviting new submissions. \; \n
- Editors promote the journal to peers and colleagues. \; \n
- Editors act in accordance with the journal's standards and policies. \n
The role requires a commitment of a few days per month\, with an initial appointment for one year. While there is no remuneration for the position\, the role offers an opportunity to play an active part in shaping the future of academic publishing and to gain editorial experience with a well-regarded journal published by an established academic publisher.
\nFor whom?
\nPostdoctoral researchers and academics with a solid research background in any area of philosophy and an interest in contributing to the development of the Journal
\nPlease apply via the link:
https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/h6AHz0bfSe
Please email OA Portfolio Manager\, Magdalena Skoneczna\, if you have any questions \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T230000 SUMMARY:Philosophy of Emotions\, Philosophy and Psychiatry\, Philosophy as Transformation\, Ancient Philosophy/ Thaumazein UID:20260529T045007Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Open Essays &ndash\; Thaumazein\, Volume 15\, Issue 1 (2027)
\nThaumà\;zein invites submissions for its forthcoming open issue (Vol. 15\, No. 1\, June 2027). Unlike previous monographic issues\, this volume welcomes original contributions across the journal's core areas of interest\, with particular attention to:
\n- \n
- Philosophy of emotions and the phenomenology of affective life\; \n
- Philosophy and psychiatry (philosophy of psychiatry\, philosophical psychopathology\, phenomenological approaches to mental disorders)\; \n
- Philosophy as a way of transformation (philosophy as a way of life\, spiritual exercises\, ethics of self-formation and Bildung)\; \n
- Ancient philosophy and its contemporary resonance. \n
Contributions in theoretical philosophy\, moral philosophy\, and the history of philosophy more broadly are also welcome. Prospective authors are encouraged to consult the journal's back catalogue:
\n\;https://rivista.thaumazein.it/index.php/thaum/index
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nContributions may be submitted in English or Italian\, in two stages:
\n- \n
- Stage 1 &ndash\; Title and abstract (max. 4\,000 characters): by 1 July 2026\, to be sent to editorial@thaumazein.it and to Prof. Guido Cusinato (guido.cusinato@univr.it). \n
- Stage 2 &ndash\; Full paper (max. 35\,000 characters\, including spaces): by 1 November 2026\, via the OJS platform:https://rivista.thaumazein.it/index.php/thaum/about/submissions \n
Editorial guidelines for authors are available at:https://rivista.thaumazein.it/index.php/thaum/about/submissions
\nPublication
\nThe volume is scheduled for publication in June 2027.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260704T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260724T170000 SUMMARY:Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026: Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene UID:20260529T045008Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Città di Castello\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Call for applications: Deadline extended to March 1 2026
\nCollegium \;Phaenomenologicum \;2026: \;Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene
\nThe theme for the Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026 is climate philosophy in the anthropocene. \;Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities\, eco-politics\, climate justice\, climate affects\, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by climate change. Climate philosophy also rethinks climate\, partly in response to global heating\, as world in the phenomenological sense and as history and habitat of life on earth. The Capitalocene references the Anthropocene dominated by colonial capitalism and its uneven and ongoing histories. In the first week\, we will question\, in discussion with phenomenology and climate science\, how the temporal framing of climate change is narrated. The second week moves the focus to space by exploring\, principally in conversation with deconstruction and French philosophy more broadly\, how climate change alters the sense of world beyond globalization. The final week&rsquo\;s course draws on eco-marxism\, bio-politics\, and eco-feminism to propose a fundamental rethinking of the political at the end of the world.
\nThe Collegium runs from July 6th to 24th\, 2026\, preceded by the participants' conference on July \;4th and 5th. \;The deadline to apply has been extended to March 1\, 2026\, and \;we welcome applications from within philosophy and related disciplines concerned with the overarching theme. \;
\nFurther details of the topic and the lecturers\, abstracts for each of the three courses\, and application forms are available on the website at
\nhttps://collegiumphaenomenologicum.org/ \;
\nFor all enquiries contact:
\nMatthias Fritsch (director) \;matthias.fritsch@concordia.ca
\nRebecca van der Post (graduate assistant) \;graduateassistant2026@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Matthias Fritsch: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260710T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260712T170000 SUMMARY:American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Meeting UID:20260529T045009Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Denver LOCATION:828 Paseo de Peralta\, Santa Fe\, United States\, 87501 DESCRIPTION:The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics will take place at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, July 10th&ndash\;12th\, 2026.
Manuel Davenport Keynote Address: \; Cynthia Willett Cynthia Willett is the Samuel Candler Dobb's professor of philosophy at Emory University. Her current book project\, A Musicology of Everyday Life\, is a study of the social dynamic of musical and vibrational atmospheres through New Phenomenology\, Resonance Theory\, and Attunement Theory. This study probes the nuances of tone\, rhythm\, vibration\, timbre for ethical cultures within and across human and non-human social groups. Her ongoing research focuses on three key areas: music/tragedy/blues\; transspecies cosmopolitanism\; and humor/irony. The research is anchored in ancient and contemporary concepts of eros and hubris\; call and response\; affective attunements and dissonances\; symbolic social space and its violations.
Michael Manson Artist Keynote Address: Liz Harris \; Liz Harris is an artist based on the North Oregon coast. She has recorded and performed since 2005 under the names Grouper\, Nivhek\, Raum\, Helen and Mirrorring\; and releases music and art editions on her imprint YELLOWELECTRIC\, as well as kranky records. Harris&rsquo\; project Nivhek has received various commissions and has been presented internationally\, including performances and installations in Bergen\, Murmansk\, Munich\, Krakow and London. Her most recent commission from Portland Institute of Contemporary Art\, ENGINE\, combines field recordings of drag races and train yards with string arrangements. The work began inside a decade-long obsession with engine noise. \;
You can find the Call for Abstracts at \;https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1869644 \;
From July 14th to July 17th\, 2026 project EPIC \;will host a Summer School at Ce.U.B (Centro Residenziale Universitario di Bertinoro) in Bertinoro\, Italy. The event is made possible by generous funding by the Wellcome Trust\, which will also subsidise the delegates' subsistence costs.
\nTopics for lectures will encompass perspectives from philosophy\, psychology\, psychiatry\, history\, legal scholarship\, clinical practice\, and lived experience. Themes will include:
\n- \n
- the ineffability of illness \n
- AI-enhanced healthcare and epistemic injustice \n
- phenomenological approaches to epistemic injustice in medicine \n
- the role of dignity and person-centred care in an epistemic just healthcare \n
- the importance of clinical communication for good and epistemically just medicine \n
- moral responsibility and epistemic injustice \n
- legal and clinical approaches to epistemic injustice \n
- the centrality of agency in youth mental health \n
- co-design and co-production as ameliorative strategies \n
- epistemic injustice in dementia\, schizophrenia\, and depression. \n
EPIC researchers Jodie Russell\, Dan Degerman\, Fred Cooper\, Chiara Punzi\, Lara Calabrese\, Alice Monypenny and Michael Bresalier will also participate\, leading reading groups and discussion sessions on recent journal articles and book chapters. \;
\nTopics for discussion will include: \;
\n- \n
- uptake of delusional beliefs \n
- vaccine hesitancy and epistemic injustice \n
- silence and testimonial smothering \n
- loneliness \n
- affective injustice \n
- phenomenology and intersectionality. \n
If you are interested in joining us\, there is a \;form to apply (see link below) as places are limited. The deadline for applications is 1st February 2026 and the outcome will be made known to applicants by 2nd March 2026. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Lisa Bortolotti;CN=Elisabetta Lalumera: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality UID:20260529T045011Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality\nCall for Papers and Presentations\nDetails\n- \n
- When: \;October 1-3\, 2026 \n
- Where: \;Online \n
- Submission Deadline: \;July 15\, 2026 \n
- Sponsored by: \;The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) in Collaboration with the University of Denver and Syracuse University \n
- Keynote Address by: \;Jason Josephson Storm\, Williams College author of \;The Genealogy of Genealogy: Nietzsche\, Foucault\, and the Coils of Critical History \;and \;Metamodernism: The Future of Theory \n
The Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites proposals for an online conference entitled \;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality. \;The proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nThis conference investigates how beliefs\, paranoia\, and conspiratorial modes of knowing shape a contemporary cognitive battlespace in which actors struggle to define truth\, authority\, and reality itself. Drawing on Michel Foucault&rsquo\;s \;Lectures on the Will to Know \;and Julia Kristeva&rsquo\;s \;This Incredible Need to Believe \;(2024)\, we focus on practices of selective fact use and &ldquo\;truth-selecting&rdquo\; that construct alternative epistemic orders while claiming privileged access to what is &ldquo\;really&rdquo\; going on.
\nRather than treating conspiracy thinking as merely political or psychological\, the conference foregrounds its religious dimensions: faith in hidden powers\, moral dualism\, apocalyptic expectation\, and hermeneutical struggle over revelatory access to the real. Conspiracy cultures routinely reproduce theological structures of knowing&mdash\;visions of salvation and corruption\, truth and deception\, initiation and blindness. At the same time\, new forms of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; reframe these religious energies within state and platform attempts to govern perception\, attention\, and trust. Artificial intelligence\, algorithmic media\, and strategic information campaigns do not only deliver messages\; they create digital ecologies in which suspicion becomes faith-like and revelation is continual.
\nThe conference organizers are seeking proposals of high academic quality that take a reflective and analytical approach to both general and specific topics with international appeal or focus. We encourage contributions from scholars of religious studies\, philosophy\, communication\, sociology\, security studies\, psychology\, media\, and related fields. Submissions should engage religion as a dynamic force&mdash\;conceptually\, historically\, or materially&mdash\;within the cognitive battlespaces of our time. We encourage contributions from a spectrum of perspectives\, approaches\, and methodologies.
\nWe are not interested in papers that simply rehearse or promote particular conspiracies\, or that use the conference as a platform for calling out disliked groups. We are not interested in polemics\, jeremiad\, or de facto advocacy pieces. Instead\, we welcome theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous work that takes the religious and epistemic dimensions of cognitive conflict seriously as objects of critical inquiry.
\nTopics and Guiding Questions\nProposals may address\, but are not limited to\, the following subthemes and questions:
\n1. Paranoid Styles and Truth-Selecting\nReligious narratives have always negotiated the boundary between revelation and delusion\, authority and transgression. This subtheme explores how conspiratorial and paranoid styles echo older religious hermeneutics&mdash\;selective citation\, esoteric interpretation\, claims to hidden truth&mdash\;while retooling them in secular or digital forms. How do religious movements or quasi-religious publics narrate their privileged access to hidden realities? What theological and philosophical resources&mdash\;including the Foucauldian genealogy of the &ldquo\;will to truth&rdquo\;&mdash\;sustain these modes of &ldquo\;truth selection&rdquo\; and suspicion?
\n2. Zionism\, Antisemitism\, and Global Conspiracy Imaginaries\nReligious symbols and myths remain central to global conspiracy thinking\, and Judaism occupies a particularly charged position in these narratives. This subtheme invites analyses of antisemitic conspiracies past and present\, from classical &ldquo\;hidden ruler&rdquo\; myths to their algorithmic reprints in digital culture. How do such imaginaries convert theological motifs into political paranoia? What criteria can scholars use to distinguish legitimate critique of religion or state policy from conspiratorial reinscriptions of sacred enmity and eschatological blame?
\n3. AI\, Platforms\, and Paranoid Infrastructures\nTechnological systems now mediate belief and belonging in ways that rival traditional religious institutions. As artificial intelligence curates information and personalizes experience\, it also reconfigures how suspicion\, revelation\, and trust are produced and distributed. This subtheme asks whether algorithmic systems function as &ldquo\;paranoid infrastructures&rdquo\;&mdash\;digital environments that reinforce particular patterns of attention and faith. How do these systems become sites of religious projection\, and how do AI-generated and synthetic media intersect with conspiracy\, extremism\, and religious imaginary?
\n4. Cognitive Warfare and the Expanded Battlespace\nThe concepts of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;cognitive domain operations&rdquo\; increasingly shape strategic and policy discourse\, yet they resonate with deeply theological questions about will\, truth\, and freedom. When states and institutions seek to &ldquo\;weaponize&rdquo\; belief or perception\, they enter into the same struggle for reality long theorized within religious and philosophical traditions. How might religious studies and critical theory help decode the sacred undercurrents of this emerging battlefield&mdash\;its rituals\, its eschatologies\, its doctrines of purified mind and corrupted reason?
\n5. Ethics of Information Control and Scholarly Responsibility\nReligious communities have always wrestled with the ethics of teaching\, interpretation\, and secrecy&mdash\;questions that return urgently in the academy&rsquo\;s role as arbiter of truth amid disinformation. This subtheme invites reflexive discussion of how scholars navigate the line between critique and amplification when studying conspiratorial or extremist movements. What responsibilities accompany the act of curating knowledge&mdash\;or withholding it&mdash\;in an age when information itself is the battlefield?
\n6. Esoteric and Speculative Knowledge\nReligious and occult traditions offer rich precedents for contemporary speculative and conspiratorial epistemologies. Drawing on Michael Barkun and related theorists of stigmatized knowledge\, this subtheme investigates how claims to esoteric or speculative truth function as alternative forms of knowing and meaning-making\, challenging empiricist and positivist paradigms. What ethical and epistemic possibilities emerge when the speculative is taken seriously as an object of inquiry? Where are the boundaries between credible revelation\, creative speculation\, and dangerous delusion\, and how do such claims sustain communities seeking Reality amid uncertainty?
\nSubmission of Proposals\nContributors should send an abstract of 300&ndash\;500 words outlining their proposal and its relevance to the conference theme. All proposals should be submitted as email attachments to the editor at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com \;with the subject line header: &ldquo\;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare &ndash\; [Paper Title].&rdquo\;
\nAbstracts of papers\, drafts of papers\, or complete papers are welcome\, as well as proposals for oral presentations\, panel discussions\, or short workshops. Accepted presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review and possible inclusion in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nPublication\nAs the \;Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory \;works toward a special issue on Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare\, our goal is to create an interdisciplinary forum for rigorous examination of these pressing issues. All conference presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review. Selected articles will be published in a forthcoming special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nQueries\nFor questions regarding the conference or submissions\, please contact the JCRT editorial office at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com.
\nSponsored by the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) in Collaboration with the University of Denver
\njcrt.org/religioustheory \; - \; \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Adam DJ Brett;CN=Carl Raschke;CN=Kev Grane: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Fourth Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology UID:20260529T045012Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Austrian Society for Phenomenology launches its fouth international summer school. Our objective is to promote the research of young scholars (bachelor\, master\, and doctoral students) that sheds new phenomenological light on current debates in epistemology\, metaethics\, and metaphysics. The descriptive analysis of lived experience\, the eidetic study of the various modes of intentionality\, and the epistemic role and normative dimensions ascribed to experience constitute the cornerstones of phenomenological research. In particular\, Husserl&rsquo\;s conceptions of originary givenness\, evaluative experience\, and eidetic intuition are among the various seminal contributions we find in the phenomenological tradition. Currently\, promising research is done that utilizes such conceptions in order to develop phenomenological perspectives on experiential justification\, the debate between epistemic internalism and externalism\, the theory of value\, (moral) emotions\, moral epistemology\, issues surrounding metaphysical realism and anti-realism\, as well as the epistemology and metaphysics of essence\, modality\, and metaphysical dependence relations. We would like to encourage students to develop phenomenological insights and teachings systematically and in view of contemporary debates in philosophy. Our ambition is to promote such phenomenological research by providing a platform to connect with\, discuss with\, and receive feedback from peers and experts. Each conference day is devoted to one of the subtopics of the event.
\nThe conference will be an \;online event. \;If you wish to participate in the summer school but not to give a talk\, please provide a short statement of motivation (not more than 150 words) and specify your name\, affiliation\, and research interests.
\nCall for Papers
\nIf you wish to participate in the summer school and give a talk\, please apply with an (extended) abstract of the paper you wish to present. Submissions should not exceed 500 words\, must be written in English (conference language)\, and should be prepared for blind review.
\nThe submission deadline is July 15\, 2026.
\nPlease send your applications/submissions and general inquiries to: laurentia[dot]adam[at]uni-graz[dot]at
\nWomen and members of other traditionally underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
\nPreliminary schedule
\nSeptember 1
\nPhenomenological Approaches to Metaethics
\nNicolas de Warren (Penn State University): TBA
\n3 student presentations commented on by Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (University of Graz)
\nSeptember 2
\nPhenomenological Approaches to Epistemology
\nMirja Hartimo (University of Helsinki): TBA
\n3 student presentations commented on by Philipp Berghofer (University of Graz)
\nSeptember 3
\nPhenomenological Approaches to Metaphysics
\nKit Fine (New York University): TBA
\n3 student presentations commented on by Michael Wallner (University of Graz)
ORGANIZER;CN=Philipp Berghofer;CN=Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl;CN=Michael Wallner: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260725T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260725T000000 SUMMARY:Phenomenology and the Political: Experience\, Power\, and Methods UID:20260529T045013Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Covilhã\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:International Conference
\nPhenomenology and the Political:
\nExperience\, Power\, and Methods
\n2-3 December 2026
\nUniversity of Beira Interior
\n(Covilhã\;\, Portugal)
\nConfirmed Speakers:
\nThomas Bedorf (Hagen)
\nFrank Chouraqui (Leiden)
\nSteffen Herrmann (Hagen)
\nMariana Larison (Buenos Aires)
\nRicardo Mendoza-Canales (Lisbon)
\nDelia Popa (Vilanova)
\nThe relationship between phenomenology and politics has long been complex and contested. While Husserl famously positioned phenomenology as a rigorous science of essences\, focused on the structures of consciousness and the epoché\;\, he also emphasized the inseparability of experience from its temporal\, cultural\, and historical horizons. His methodological rigor has often been interpreted as apolitical\, privileging descriptive clarity over engagement with collective life. Subsequent phenomenologists&mdash\;ranging from Merleau-Ponty\, Sartre\, and Arendt to Fanon\, Young\, Levinas\, Butler\, Schutz\, and Derrida&mdash\;have demonstrated that these structures of meaning\, intersubjectivity\, and experience carry profound political implications. Their work shows that politics is not only enacted in institutions but lived\, embodied\, and experienced\, and that power\, legitimacy\, and social norms are shaped through both visibility and concealment\, presence and absence.
\nThis conference builds on these insights\, exploring the reciprocal transformation between phenomenology and politics: phenomenology illuminates political phenomena\, while political realities&mdash\;inequalities\, conflicts\, and power asymmetries&mdash\;reshape phenomenological inquiry. The conference seeks to foster dialogue on how political worlds are constituted\, contested\, and transformed through experience\, social practices\, and collective recognition. Particular attention will be given to the relational and structural dimensions of power\, the temporal and historical constitution of political life\, and the ways in which phenomenology can both reveal and be reshaped by these realities.
\nBy foregrounding experience\, structural dynamics\, and methodological innovation\, the conference aims to create a space for international dialogue among scholars investigating how phenomenology and politics transform one another\, offering insights into authority\, legitimacy\, inequality\, and the lived dimensions of political life.
\nWe welcome abstracts addressing\, but not limited to:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Methodological Innovation: How phenomenological methods evolve when applied to political phenomena\, and how engagement with political realities reshapes conceptual and analytic frameworks.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Experience and Embodiment: Lived\, bodily\, and affective dimensions of political life\, including trust\, conflict\, solidarity\, exclusion\, and resistance.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Power\, Presence\, and Absence: How visibility\, concealment\, and structural asymmetries shape political authority\, legitimacy\, and relational dynamics.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Political Ontology and Structures: How social\, institutional\, material\, and historical conditions constitute political realities\, making them intelligible\, contestable\, and transformable.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Temporal and Historical Dimensions: Memory\, anticipation\, rupture\, and the opening of political futures.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Subjectivation\, Emancipation and Agency: How political realities shape subjectivity\, identity\, and collective self-understanding\, and how these processes inform phenomenological inquiry.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Technology and Mediation: The role of technology\, media\, and communication infrastructures in shaping political experience\, authority\, and participation.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Normativity and Epistemic Foundations: How phenomenology illuminates the frameworks through which political knowledge\, critique\, and understanding emerge.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Interdisciplinary Approaches: Contributions from political theory\, cultural studies\, media and communication studies\, or related fields examining the reciprocal shaping of politics and phenomenology.
\nWe welcome proposals for academic contributions that speak to the concerns of the conference as outlined above. Each speaker will have 20 min. for presentation\, followed by 15 min. of questions and discussion. Interested speakers should submit a 400-words abstract\, accompanied by a short biographical note\, including your full name\, institutional affiliation\, and a short bio (100 words)\, to phenomenologyandthepolitical@gmail.com by 25/07/2026. Decision notices will be emailed by 1/9/2026. The conference has been conceived as a two-day in-person event\, but if the number of quality submissions exceeds expectations\, a third day may be added. The conference will be held in English. There is no registration fee\, and the organization cannot cover travel or accommodation costs. For further details or inquiries\, please contact the conference organizers at the above-mentioned email addresses.
\nOrganization: Albano Pina and Janilce Praseres (PRAXIS/UBI)
ORGANIZER;CN=Albano Pina: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260727T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260731T170000 SUMMARY:Libori Summer School 2026 - The History of Women Philosophers and Scientists UID:20260529T045014Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Pohlweg 57\, Paderborn\, Germany\, 33098 DESCRIPTION:We are excited to announce the Libori Summer School 2026\, dedicated to the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The Summer School offers an interdisciplinary forum for critical inquiry into women&rsquo\;s intellectual contributions across historical periods\, cultural contexts\, and disciplinary boundaries.
\nThe Libori Summer School invites applications from Bachelor&rsquo\;s\, Master&rsquo\;s and graduate students\, as well as post-doctoral researchers interested in exploring the rich\, diverse\, and often overlooked histories of women philosophers and scientists. We particularly welcome contributions that adopt innovative perspectives\, engage with neglected figures or traditions\, or challenge established narratives through interdisciplinary approaches.
\nPossible areas of interest include (but are by no means limited to):
\n- \n
- History of philosophy and science \n
- Economics and political thought \n
- Ecofeminism and environmental humanities \n
- History of medicine and health \n
- Theology\, religious thought\, and spiritual traditions \n
- Global and non-Western intellectual histories \n
- Women writers\, literary culture\, and philosophy \n
- Sustainability\, ethics\, and social responsibility \n
- Science\, technology\, and gender \n
- \n
- Intersections of philosophy\, science\, art\, and culture \n
The Libori Summer School strongly encourages interdisciplinary dialogue\, welcoming submissions that bridge philosophy\, history\, science studies\, literature\, theology\, economics\, environmental studies\, and related fields. Comparative\, cross-cultural\, and transhistorical approaches are especially encouraged.
\nJoin us for an inspiring 5-day Summer School dedicated to the rich and diverse Histories of Women Philosophers and Scientists. The program combines intellectual depth\, collaborative exchange\, and a vibrant social atmosphere.
\nProgram highlights include:
\n- \n
- Welcome Session
Monday\, 27 July 2026\, 9:00&ndash\;10:00
Kick off the Summer School by meeting fellow participants\, organizers\, and workshop leaders. \n
- \n
- Daily Keynote Lectures
Tuesday&ndash\;Friday (28&ndash\;31 July 2026)\, 9:00&ndash\;10:00
Insightful keynote talks by long-standing members of the Center\, including Dorota Dutsch\, Kateryna Karpenko\, Priyanka Jha\, and Ronny Miron offering broad perspectives and cutting-edge reflections in the field. \n
- \n
- Intensive Full-Day Workshops
10:00&ndash\;12:30 and 14:00&ndash\;17:00 (preliminary program)
Engage in in-depth discussions and hands-on research exchange in up to three parallel workshop sessions\, tailored to diverse scholarly interests. \n
- \n
- A wide range of thematic sessions\, such as: Women in Antiquity and the Middle Ages\; Women in the Early Modern Period\; Women in the History of Medicine\; Ecocriticism and Ecofeminism\; Women in Economics\, Politics\, and Society\; Women in Phenomenology\; Women in Culture and the Arts\; Radical Feminism\; Women in Theology\; Women in Philosophy of Science\; Women and Teaching\; Women and Global Culture &ndash\; and many more. \n
- \n
- Social &\; Networking Events
Connect beyond the classroom through a stroll at the Libori fair\, a shared dinner\, and informal lunch-time get-togethers\, creating space for conversation\, exchange\, and community. \n
This Summer School offers a unique opportunity to deepen your research\, broaden your perspectives\, and become part of an international network committed to exploring women&rsquo\;s intellectual histories\, in scholarship and in life.
\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Ruth Edith Hagengruber;CN=Jil Muller: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T234500 SUMMARY:Husserl and Schutz on Intersubjectivity. Phainomenon UID:20260529T045015Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CALL-FOR-PAPERS
\nHusserl considered the establishment of a transcendental community of subjects necessary for the possibility of obtaining transcendental knowledge of oneself and the world. Notwithstanding\, Husserl's philosophy has been regarded as solipsistic for a significant period. However\, analysis of Husserl's theory of perception\, even prior to the publication of the \;Cartesian Investigations\, \;suggests otherwise. According to this view\, experience of the world is understood as public rather than private. Perceived objects are not exclusive to a single perceiving subject\, although they are given in subjective experience. For this reason\, at least from the 1920s onwards\, Husserl refers to the egological foundation of his philosophy as leading toward an intersubjective transcendental phenomenology\, or even (as one can read in Hua IX: 539)\, towards a sociological phenomenology.
\nThe issue of "transcendental intersubjectivity"\, beginning from a transcendental ego\, and its role in the constitution of an intersubjectively valid world\, is discussed in Husserl's 5th Cartesian Meditation as well as in numerous unpublished manuscripts. This topic was further explored by later phenomenologists\, including Eugen Fink and Ludwig Landgrebe. Others\, overlooking Husserl's focus on the constitutive role of intersubjectivity rather than its empirical forms\, charged him with neglecting the ethical aspects of the I-Thou relationship\; this critique was most notably advanced by Emanuel Lé\;vinas. However\, it was in the 1950s that Alfred Schutz offered one of the most critical perspectives on the project of establishing an intersubjective transcendental community of egos. Schutz argued\, namely: \;1) Husserl's transcendental Ego cannot be put in the plural. \;2) Husserl did not provide conclusive proof that the existence of other Egos is a problem of the transcendental sphere. \;3) Intersubjectivity is just an empirical-mundane problem. \;4) \;Transcendental subjectivity must be replaced by mundane intersubjectivity.
\nAdditionally\, Schutz made several observations about Husserl's method in the 5th Cartesian Meditation. He argued that Husserl's concept of reduction to the "sphere of the proper" assumes a distinction between the proper and the alien\, which could only have been established prior to the reduction. Schutz also noted that the experience of pairing\, which presents the alien body as similar to one's own\, lacks precision\, as it does not consider differences such as those between male and female\, or between humans and animals.
\nNº\; 40 of \;Phainomenon \;aims to retrieve this issue\, offering not only an analysis of the Husserl-Schutz debate\, but also exploring new perspectives\, namely (but not restricted to):
\n1) the ways the experience of an alien self can be addressed from a phenomenological point-of-view\;
\n2) intersubjectivity and lifeworld\;
\n3) the role of the lived body in the experience of "pairing"\;
\n4) "higher-level" intersubjective communities: family\, corporations\, trade-unions\, state institutions\;
\n5) "mundane phenomenology" and sociology\;
\n6) Schutz: continuation and criticisms (Lester Embree\, Thomas Luckman\, Jü\;rgen Habermas\, and others).
\nThe deadline for submitting proposals is July 31\, 2026.
\nThe author guidelines can be consulted and articles submitted at the following link: \;https://phainomenon-journal.pt/index.php/phainomenon/about/submissions
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260801T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260801T234500 SUMMARY:CFP for a Special Issue of Angelaki: Khôra UID:20260529T045016Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for papers for a Special Issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
\nKhô\;ra
\n(preliminary title)
\nEditors: Nicholas Birns and Marina Christodoulou
\nFor a pdf of the full Call see: \;https://www.academia.edu/164922361/CFP_for_a_Special_Issue_of_Angelaki_Khô\;ra
\nThis special issue (33.5) invites contributions that revisit the concept of khô\;ra\, introduced in Plato&rsquo\;s Timaeus as a &ldquo\;third kind&rdquo\; beyond being and becoming\, a matrix\, a receptacle\, and reinterpreted in contemporary philosophy\, most notably by Derrida. Situated between presence and absence\, intelligibility and materiality\, khô\;ra resists stable categorization while remaining indispensable for thinking space\, inscription\, and receptivity. We seek papers that engage khô\;ra across disciplines\, exploring its implications for spatial theory\, media\, politics\, ecology\, and aesthetics\, as well as its limits and possible reconfigurations today.
\nContributors are encouraged to explore the following subjects\, as already apparent in the presentation/argumentaire of the edited volume\, however these are not exclusive (an indicative non-exhaustive bibliography that might give some directions is included in the end): \;
\n- \n
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Platonic interpretations\, as well as pre-platonic and later antique \; (i.e. Neoplatonist \, e.g. Plotinus) references and interpretations
\n \n - \n
Potential later uses and mentions of the term\, e.g. in Byzantine\, Roman\, and Medieval texts
\n \n - \n
Modern and Contemporary uses\, mentions\, studies\, interpretations of the term: e.g. Spinoza\, Leibniz\, Schelling&rsquo\;s commentary on the Timaeus\, Bergson\, Heidegger\, Phenomenology (Husserl\, Richir\, etc.)\, Whitehead\, Derrida\, Deleuze\, Feminism (Grosz\, Irigaray\, Kristeva\, etc.)\, \; John Sallis\, Aesthetics (e.g. in Arts\, Performance and Architecture).
\n \n - \n
Accounts from Charles Taylor\, \; John Caputo\, Richard Kearney\, other post-secular thinkers. \;
\n \n - \n
Non-western equivalent terms/concepts/ideas\, or usages and interpretations\, in Hindu or Buddhist philosophy or elsewhere\, as for example in Nishida Kitarō\, or in Indigenous cultures.
\n \n - \n
Khô\;ra and digital space / AI
\n \n - \n
Khô\;ra in architecture or urban studies
\n \n - \n
Khô\;ra and/in feminist philosophy\, especially as applied to the limits and fault lines of gender. \;
\n \n - \n
Khô\;ra and decolonial spatial theory
\n \n - \n
Khô\;ra in literature or visual art\, especially accounts of place or materiality in literature. \;
\n \n - \n
Khô\;ra and affect / embodiment
\n \n - \n
Khô\;ra and environmental thought\, especially in terms of the idea of the ground. \;
\n \n - \n
Animal Studies
\n \n - \n
Object oriented ontology
\n \n - \n
Khô\;ra and psychology/subjectivity \;
\n \n
Chapters shall be 5000-8500 (max) words\, inclusive of bibliography and notes.
\nContributions can include the following: original essays\, interviews\, and &ldquo\;review articles&rdquo\; (Angelaki does not accept standard book reviews though). Translations to English will be taken into account\, as long as the responsibility for producing work of publishable quality in the English language lies with the author.
\nThe Special Issue will also be published as a monograph-type book by Routledgein theAngelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities - book series.
\nPlease submit a title and an abstract/brief-outline proposals of between 300-800 words. Additionally\, please include an up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV). The deadline for submissions is 01 August\, 2026. Please send your materials to Nicholas Birns (nb2003@nyu.edu) and Marina Christodoulou (marina.n.christodoulou@gmail.com)\, who can also address any inquiries you may have. \;
\nThe timeline is below:
\n01 August\, 2026 &ndash\; Abstracts/brief outlines due from CFP
\nSeptember 15\, 2026 &ndash\; Notification of Preliminary Acceptance of Proposals or Rejection
\nSeptember 15\, 2027 &ndash\; Completed Manuscripts Due\, Editorial Reviews Start \;
\nJanuary 15\, 2028 &ndash\; Editorial Reviews Completed
\nMarch 01\, 2028 &ndash\; Revisions Completed\, Final Manuscript Submission\, Final Approval of Manuscripts
\nMay 15\, 2028 &ndash\; Delivery of material to Angelaki. Beginning of Production Process (Copy Edits and Proofs)
\nSeptember 2028 &ndash\; Special Issue Publication Online
\n2029 &ndash\; Republication in the Routledge Book Series
\nAngelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities
\nAngelaki homepage
\nAngelaki facebook
\nAngelaki Humanities - book series
\nAngelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities - book series
\nFor a pdf of the full Call see: \;https://www.academia.edu/164922361/CFP_for_a_Special_Issue_of_Angelaki_Khô\;ra
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260831T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260831T090000 SUMMARY:Call for Papers (on Rolling Basis) UID:20260529T045017Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Karto-Teka Gdańska
\nAn interdisciplinary\, peer-reviewed\, open-access journal \;published by the \;University of Gdańsk \;and the \;Pomeranian Philosophical-Theological Society\, \;Karto-Teka Gdańska \;invites submissions on an \;ongoing\, rolling basis \;for future online-first publication.
\nFounded in \;2017\, \;Karto-Teka Gdańska \;is an international\, peer-reviewed journal committed to \;interdisciplinary dialogue \;across the humanities\, philosophy\, history\, theology\, cultural studies\, and related fields.
\nScope and Focus
\nWe welcome \;original research articles\, \;theoretical essays\, and \;interdisciplinary contributions \;engaging&mdash\;directly or indirectly&mdash\;with questions in\, between\, or beyond:
\n- \n
- Contemporary philosophy \n
- Ancient philosophy \n
- Medieval philosophy \n
- Hermeneutic philosophy \n
- Philosophy of culture \n
- Aesthetics \n
- Ethics and applied philosophy \n
- Feminist philosophy \n
- Phenomenology \n
- Post-secularism \n
- Theology and philosophy of religion \n
- Cultural\, literary\, and media studies \n
- Cultural anthropology \n
- History of ideas \n
- Education and pedagogy \n
- Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary methodologies \n
A Special Invitation to Early Career Researchers
\nKarto-Teka Gdańska \;is \;especially welcoming to early career researchers\, including:
\n- \n
- Doctoral candidates \n
- Postdoctoral researchers \n
- Scholars within the first years after their PhD \n
We recognize the challenges of academic publishing at early stages and are committed to a \;constructive\, rigorous\, and fair peer-review process. Submissions are evaluated on scholarly merit\, originality\, and clarity of argument&mdash\;not on institutional prestige or academic seniority.
\nIf you are developing work from a dissertation chapter\, conference paper\, or an emerging research project\, we warmly encourage you to submit.
\nLanguages
\nWe are particularly looking for submissions in \;English.
\nHow to Submit
\nDetailed submission guidelines\, formatting requirements\, and editorial policies are available on the journal&rsquo\;s website: \;http://karto-teka.ptft.pl/en/paper/for-authors.html
\nPlease email your submission to: redakcja@karto-teka.ptft.pl
\nSubmissions are welcome at any time.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260526T040102Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260831T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260831T190000 SUMMARY:Identity and Community in Times of Uncertainty UID:20260529T045018Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Czarnowiejska 36\, Kraków \, Poland\, 30-054 DESCRIPTION:This sixth edition of the Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis series seeks contributions exploring issues surrounding identity and community in times of uncertainty.
\nWriting in the aftermath of the Second World War\, Simone de Beauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics centred around the ambiguity of the human condition. Her work critiques traditional ethical frameworks subsuming plurality and ambiguity under the generalisations of normative concepts and practices. Ethics\, she argues\, should enable individuals to assume this ambiguity and plurality\, mindful of the diversity of our human condition. \;Ethics of Ambiguity\, \;notably\, strives to demonstrate how existentialism can be and indeed is inherently moral or social. Beauvoir appeals to us to recognise our freedom and responsibility\, yet at the same time highlights the limits of this freedom in situations of oppression\, and that this freedom is the most precarious in times of &lsquo\;uncertainty&rsquo\;&mdash\;where &lsquo\;crushed by present events\, [one] loses one&rsquo\;s way before the darkness of a future haunted by frightening spectres: war\, illness\, revolution\, fascism.&rsquo\;
\nBeauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics sought to respond to the challenges addressed to existentialism\, accused of miserabilism and solipsism. This conference seeks develop on Beauvoir&rsquo\;s works and legacy and those of her contemporaries\, and to explore the resources available within existential philosophy for rethinking the role of identity and community in times of uncertainty and crisis. Does the focus that existential philosophy places on the singular individual impede the construction of community? Does existentialism provide tools for articulating situations of oppression\, and navigating hostile environments? Does it provide guidance for concrete forms of action and activism\, and paths for navigating the uncertainty in the contemporary world?
\nContributions should engage with current issues from the perspectives of thinkers in existential philosophy and phenomenology\, such as Albert Camus\, Theodor Adorno\, Simone Weil\, Emil Cioran\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Jean-Paul Sartre\, Karl Jaspers\, Hannah Arendt\, Martin Heidegger\, and their nineteenth-century predecessors (Kierkegaard\, Nietzsche\, Stirner&hellip\;). \;
\n\;
\nTo propose a talk:
\nScholars interested in presenting should send a 300-word abstract and brief bio-bibliographical information by \;31 August 2026 \;to \;conference.eptcc@gmail.com \;. Notification of acceptance by 15 September 2026. For scholars requiring earlier notification in order to organize travel\, \;early submission \;and acceptance is possible. In that event submissions should be sent by \;1 July 2026 \;for notification by 15 July 2026. Please clearly indicate in the body of the email that you wish to be considered for early acceptance.
\nPresentations should be 25 minutes\, followed by 25 minutes discussion time. \;
\nConference participation open to all and \;free of charge \;for all speakers and participants\, but no funding is available for travel or accommodation.
\nFor specific queries (other than submission of abstracts or registration)\, contact: \;melissa.fox-muraton@clermont-sb.fr \;.
\nRegistration:
\n\;
\nTo participate without presenting a talk\, please register by email to \;conference.eptcc@gmail.com \;by 15 October 2026\, providing your name and institutional affiliation.This sixth edition of the Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis series seeks contributions exploring issues surrounding identity and community in times of uncertainty.
\nWriting in the aftermath of the Second World War\, Simone de Beauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics centred around the ambiguity of the human condition. Her work critiques traditional ethical frameworks subsuming plurality and ambiguity under the generalisations of normative concepts and practices. Ethics\, she argues\, should enable individuals to assume this ambiguity and plurality\, mindful of the diversity of our human condition. \;Ethics of Ambiguity\, \;notably\, strives to demonstrate how existentialism can be and indeed is inherently moral or social. Beauvoir appeals to us to recognise our freedom and responsibility\, yet at the same time highlights the limits of this freedom in situations of oppression\, and that this freedom is the most precarious in times of &lsquo\;uncertainty&rsquo\;&mdash\;where &lsquo\;crushed by present events\, [one] loses one&rsquo\;s way before the darkness of a future haunted by frightening spectres: war\, illness\, revolution\, fascism.&rsquo\;
\nBeauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics sought to respond to the challenges addressed to existentialism\, accused of miserabilism and solipsism. This conference seeks develop on Beauvoir&rsquo\;s works and legacy and those of her contemporaries\, and to explore the resources available within existential philosophy for rethinking the role of identity and community in times of uncertainty and crisis. Does the focus that existential philosophy places on the singular individual impede the construction of community? Does existentialism provide tools for articulating situations of oppression\, and navigating hostile environments? Does it provide guidance for concrete forms of action and activism\, and paths for navigating the uncertainty in the contemporary world?
\nContributions should engage with current issues from the perspectives of thinkers in existential philosophy and phenomenology\, such as Albert Camus\, Theodor Adorno\, Simone Weil\, Emil Cioran\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Jean-Paul Sartre\, Karl Jaspers\, Hannah Arendt\, Martin Heidegger\, and their nineteenth-century predecessors (Kierkegaard\, Nietzsche\, Stirner&hellip\;). \;
\n\;
\nTo propose a talk:
\nScholars interested in presenting should send a 300-word abstract and brief bio-bibliographical information by \;31 August 2026 \;to \;conference.eptcc@gmail.com \;. Notification of acceptance by 15 September 2026. For scholars requiring earlier notification in order to organize travel\, \;early submission \;and acceptance is possible. In that event submissions should be sent by \;1 July 2026 \;for notification by 15 July 2026. Please clearly indicate in the body of the email that you wish to be considered for early acceptance.
\nPresentations should be 25 minutes\, followed by 25 minutes discussion time. \;
\nConference participation open to all and \;free of charge \;for all speakers and participants\, but no funding is available for travel or accommodation.
\nFor specific queries (other than submission of abstracts or registration)\, contact: \;melissa.fox-muraton@clermont-sb.fr \;.
\nRegistration:
\n\;
\nTo participate without presenting a talk\, please register by email to \;conference.eptcc@gmail.com \;by 15 October 2026\, providing your name and institutional affiliation.
ORGANIZER;CN="Mélissa Fox-Muraton";CN="Jakub Gomułka";CN="Maciej Kałuża": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR