The Anna Tumarkin Lectures in Philosophy are a lecture series dedicated to presenting top women philosophers.
\nThis is part 1 of a series of three lectures on The Right to Be Known. Epistemic Reparations and the Making of Rounder Stories
\nAbstract This lecture provides a philosophical discussion of the epistemic significance of the phenomenon of &ldquo\;being known&rdquo\; as well as the relationship it has to reparations that are distinctively epistemic. Drawing on a framework provided by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights\, it is argued that victims of gross violations and injustices not only have the right to know what happened\, as the UN maintains\, but they also have a right that is altogether absent from these discussions&mdash\;the right to be known. The case is made for expanding the standard conception of reparations to include actions intended to redress distinctively epistemic wrongs. An account is then provided of how to best understand these epistemic reparations that capture both the right to know and the right to be known possessed by survivors of gross violations and injustices.
ORGANIZER;CN=Georg Brun;CN=Claus Beisbart: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260502T092300Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260505T181500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260505T194500 SUMMARY:Stories That Wrong and Stories That Repair UID:20260507T041758Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Hochschulstrasse 4\, Bern\, Switzerland\, 3012 DESCRIPTION:The Anna Tumarkin Lectures in Philosophy are a lecture series dedicated to presenting top women philosophers.
\nThis is part 2 of a series of three lectures on The Right to Be Known. Epistemic Reparations and the Making of Rounder Stories
\nAbstract This lecture focuses on how stories themselves can wrong a person in ways that rise to the level of inflicting a gross violation or injustice. This is supported by the introduction of the concept of &ldquo\;misknowing\,&rdquo\; which applies when only a narrow\, one-dimensional set of facts is centered on a person or persons\, often focusing on those that are most injurious. It is shown that misknowing is often fueled by &ldquo\;flat stories\,&rdquo\; which are agentially closed and depict a person in static\, one-dimensional\, and psychologically simplistic terms. When such stories are grounded in or constitute gross violations or injustices\, epistemic reparations require &ldquo\;rounder stories\,&rdquo\; which are agentially open and portray a person in dynamic\, multidimensional\, and psychologically complex terms. In this way\, while stories can epistemically wrong a person in life-altering ways\, they can also be the source of the life-restoring epistemic reparations that are demanded in response.
ORGANIZER;CN=Claus Beisbart;CN=Georg Brun: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260502T092300Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260506T181500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260506T194500 SUMMARY:Talking\, Listening\, and Learning UID:20260507T041759Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Hochschulstrasse 4\, Bern\, Switzerland\, 3012 DESCRIPTION:The Anna Tumarkin Lectures in Philosophy are a lecture series dedicated to presenting top women philosophers.
\nThis is part 3 of a series of three lectures on The Right to Be Known. Epistemic Reparations and the Making of Rounder Stories
\nAbstract When we talk about victims of gross violations and injustices having the right to be known\, traditional epistemological theories push us toward understanding this as involving either wholesale deference to their testimony\, on the one hand\, or autonomous\, firsthand inquiry\, on the other. In this lecture\, it is shown that there is a third\, powerful option available to us: knowing someone through the interpersonal process of talking\, listening\, and learning. This process can lead to coconstructed narratives that are epistemically generative for both those who are telling their stories and those who are appropriate listeners\, leading to the repairing of epistemic wrongs\, the creation of new narratives and new identities\, and\, ultimately\, the development of new selves.
ORGANIZER;CN=Claus Beisbart;CN=Georg Brun: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260502T092300Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260515T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260515T234500 SUMMARY:Multilateralism\, International Institutions and the Ethics of War UID:20260507T041800Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Bern\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:International institutions and multilateralism no longer occupy the central place in the ethics of war that they once did in classic writings on war and peace. Whereas Immanuel Kant placed a strong federation of states at the core of his vision for perpetual peace\, much of contemporary just war theory focuses primarily on the rights and responsibilities of individuals\, with states and multilateral institutions as a derivative object of interest.
\nHowever\, recent events such as the US attack on Iran without UN authorization\, Ukraine&rsquo\;s potential NATO membership as a key issue in prospective peace talks with Russia and US cuts to peace-keeping UN institutions bring questions of multilateralism back into sharp relief. \;
\nThis workshop offers an opportunity to discuss new work on multilateralism\, international institutions and the ethics of war. We welcome submissions on questions including but not limited to:
\nWorkshop details
\nThe workshop will be held on 19-21 November at the University of Bern (Switzerland). The workshop will be pre-read and we expect a full draft of the paper by mid-October. Selected speakers will be invited to act as commentators on one of the other papers. We will be able to cover accommodation and part of the travel expenses. \;
\nSubmission
\nIf you are interested\, please send a pdf or word document with your abstract of 750 - 1000 words to Ms Njango Njung&rsquo\;e (mary.njunge[at]students.unibe.ch). \;The document itself should not contain any identifying information\; please include your name\, email and institutional affiliation in the body of your email.Submission deadline is 15 May 2026.
\nWorkshop organizers:Lisa Hecht (Bern)\, Adis Selimi (Saarland)\, Njango Njung&rsquo\;e (Bern)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260502T092300Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260515T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260515T234500 SUMMARY:Multilateralism\, International Institutions and the Ethics of War UID:20260507T041801Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Bern\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:International institutions and multilateralism no longer occupy the central place in the ethics of war that they once did in classic writings on war and peace. Whereas Immanuel Kant placed a strong federation of states at the core of his vision for perpetual peace\, much of contemporary just war theory focuses primarily on the rights and responsibilities of individuals\, with states and multilateral institutions as a derivative object of interest.
\nHowever\, recent events such as the US attack on Iran without UN authorization\, Ukraine&rsquo\;s potential NATO membership as a key issue in prospective peace talks with Russia and US cuts to peace-keeping UN institutions bring questions of multilateralism back into sharp relief. \;
\nThis workshop offers an opportunity to discuss new work on multilateralism\, international institutions and the ethics of war. We welcome submissions on questions including but not limited to:
\nWorkshop details
\nThe workshop will be held on 19-21 November at the University of Bern (Switzerland). The workshop will be pre-read and we expect a full draft of the paper by mid-October. Selected speakers will be invited to act as commentators on one of the other papers. We will be able to cover accommodation and part of the travel expenses. \;
\nSubmission
\nIf you are interested\, please send a pdf or word document with your abstract of 750 - 1000 words to Ms Njango Njung&rsquo\;e (mary.njunge[at]students.unibe.ch). \;The document itself should not contain any identifying information\; please include your name\, email and institutional affiliation in the body of your email.Submission deadline is 15 May 2026.
\nWorkshop organizers: Lisa Hecht (Bern)\, Adis Selimi (Saarland)\, Njango Njung&rsquo\;e (Bern)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260502T092300Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260518T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260520T170000 SUMMARY:Feminist Perspectives on Climate Research (FemClim 2026) UID:20260507T041802Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Bern\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:Research on climate change is situated within a context of historical and persisting injustices: populations who have contributed the least to global warming are currently most vulnerable to its impacts (e.g. Nakashima\, 2018)\, regions of the world that are most vulnerable are often less well researched than regions in the Global North (e.g. James et al. 2018)\, and the knowledge and expertise of marginalised groups &ndash\; including women\, Indigenous people\, young\, (dis)abled\, people of colour &ndash\; is often not taken into account\, leading to the intersection of climate\, racial and gender injustice (Whyte\, 2014\; Whyte\, 2016\; Tuana and Cuomo\, 2014). These injustices have to be reckoned with for climate research to be both reliable and fair. Indeed\, the scientific community is currently facing major challenges that are not strictly epistemic: modelling and projecting climate impacts at local scales\, filling in the knowledge gaps\, addressing the human dimensions of climate change\, and meeting the diversity of needs of the populations on Earth are all both epistemic and ethical issues. Yet\, how to acknowledge and address injustices within knowledge production\, how to design models and studies in order to fairly address people&rsquo\;s needs\, how to organise the climate research community and how to effectively communicate about climate information and its uncertainty\, are matters of ongoing but often behind-the-scenes debates.
\nThe aim of this workshop is to explore ways in which resources from feminist epistemology can come to bear on these problems of injustice in climate research and climate action.
\nProgramme:
\nMonday \;18 \;May \;2026
\n13:30-13:55 \;Welcome \;
\n13:55-14:30 \;Hannah Hilligardt\, Julie Jebeile\, Sapna Kumar &\; Futura Venuto \;(Universitä\;t \;Bern\, Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research) \;Presentation of the SNSF research project &ldquo\;Climate Change Adaptation through the Feminist Kaleidoscope&rdquo\; \;
\n14:30-15:10 \;Olivia Maegaard Nielsen* \;(Universitä\;t Bremen) \;&\; Frida Hjortkjæ\;r Ekelund* \;(independent) \;&lsquo\;Climate Fools&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;Eco-terrorists&rsquo\; - On Danish Media&rsquo\;s Silencing of Environmental Activists \;
\n15:10-15:50 \;Timothé\;e Cabos \;(É\;cole Normale Supé\;rieure \;Paris) \;Relational accounts of data and epistemic injustices: The case of satellites as climate data sources \;
\n15:50-16:20 \;Coffee break \;
\n16:20-17:35 \;Kristen Intemann \;(Montana State University) \;Learning from Greenland: A Standpoint Approach to Equitable Climate Research \;
\n*** 18:30 Conference dinner *** \;
\n\nTuesday \;19 \;May \;2026 \;
\n09:15-09:55 \;Ulrike Proske* &\; Melsen Lieke \;(Wageningen University) \;Climate modelers as &ldquo\;pragmatic realists&rdquo\; \;
\n09:55-10:35 \;Julia Mindlin* \;(Universitä\;t Leipzig) \;&\; Fiona Spuler* \;(University of Reading) \;Accounting for multiple lines of evidence for losses and damages from climate change: investigating the extreme fire seasons in Brazilian Amazon and Pantanal biomes \; \;
\n10:35-11:05 \;Coffee break \;
\n11:05-11:45 \;Niklas Gä\;rtner \;(Université\; Grenoble Alpes) \;What Counts as Evidence? Reconsidering Evidence-Based Policy for Climate Change Adaptation \;
\n11:45-13:00 \;Olivia Romppainen-Martius \;(Universitä\;t \;Bern) \;Flood risk assessment tools for Switzerland \;
\n13:00-14:30 \;Lunch \;
\n14:30-15:10 \;Meret Haldemann*\, \;Ana Maria Vicedo Cabrera &\; Apolline Saucy \;(Universitä\;t \;Bern) \;Extreme temperatures and the risk of hospitalization during pregnancy &ndash\; analysis of cause-specific emergency hospital admission records from 1998 to 2023 in Switzerland \;
\n15:10-15:50 \;Claudia Matus \;(Pontificia Universidad Cató\;lica de Chile) \;Gender as an Epistemological Lens in Biodiversity Data Production: Rethinking Open-Air Laboratories \;
\n15:50-16:20 \;Coffee break \;
\n16:20-17:35 \;Ana Maria Vicedo-Cabrera \;(Universitä\;t \;Bern) \;Climate change\, \;health \;and feminism: from gender medicine to climate action
\nWednesday \;20 \;May \;2026 \;
\n09:15-09:55 \;Julianne Mann \;(University of North Dakota) \;Consensual Sacrifice: Managing Ignorance\, Managing Vulnerability \;
\n09:55-10:35 \;Lauren Ware \;(Canterbury Cathedral Gardens) \;Ingestive Injustice: Emotion\, Epistemic Harm\, and Wild Food Knowledge in Climate Adaptation \;
\n10:35-11:05 \;Coffee break \;
\n11:05-11:45 \;Carolina Cuadrado Bastos \;(Universidad Complutense de Madrid) \;Unfixing evolution. Biological agency as a foundation for transformative climate adaptation \;
\n11:45-13:00 \;Nancy Tuana \;(Penn State University) \;Embedding Feminist Values in Climate Risk Management: Challenges and Opportunities \;
\n13:00-14:30 \;Lunch
Entity realism (also known as &lsquo\;experimental realism&rsquo\;) traditionally ties belief in scientific entities to experimental manipulation. Yet many sciences involve a commitment to entities that we cannot manipulate\, such as black holes in cosmology\, mantle convection in geophysics\, or common ancestors in evolutionary biology. So what&mdash\;if anything&mdash\;warrants belief in these entities?
\nRecent work in the philosophy of science\, especially in the epistemology and methodology of observational\, computational\, and historical sciences\, has extended our understanding of experimental practice beyond manipulation&mdash\;to include\, for example\, detection\, measurement\, robustness reasoning\, modeling\, simulation\, analogue experiments\, and natural experiments. While these developments have been addressed in the more recent literature on entity realism\, we are yet to see a systematic debate exploring the full extent of their implications.
\nThis workshop aims to bring together philosophers working on these issues to explore how entity realism could be extended beyond experimental manipulation. We invite contributions that:
\n- develop\, refine\, or critically assess (anti-)realist accounts of experimental practice beyond direct manipulation\;
\n- assess whether or to what extent insights from entity realism apply to non-experimental sciences\;
\n- or provide pertinent case studies from observational\, computational\, or historical sciences (e.g.\, astronomy and cosmology\, planetary science\, geophysics\, climate science\, paleobiology\, and archeology).
\nThis workshop is part of the project Extending the Scope of Causal Realism\, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation:
\nhttps://www.philosophie.unibe.ch/research/projects/extending_the_scope_of_causal_realism/index_eng.html
ORGANIZER;CN=Matthias Egg;CN=Mahdi Khalili;CN=Frederick Britt: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260502T092300Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260616T113000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260617T170000 SUMMARY:Entity Realism Beyond Manipulation UID:20260507T041804Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Hochschulstrasse 4\, Bern\, Switzerland\, 3012 DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to share the program and registration details for the workshop Entity Realism Beyond Manipulation. Participation (including lunch and refreshments) is free of charge\, but we ask you to register \;by 7 June 2026 \;by sending your name and affiliation to \;mahdi.khalili@unibe.ch. The program is as follows:
\nTuesday\, June 16
11.30 &ndash\; 11.45 \;Welcome Address
11.45 &ndash\; 12.30 \;Katherine Morrow\, University of Oslo \;&mdash\; \;Against Selective Antirealism About Ecological Entities
\n12.30 &ndash\; 14.00 \; Lunch Break
\n14.00 &ndash\; 14.45 \;Kenneth Aizawa\, Rutgers University Newark \;&mdash\; \;Compositional Abduction and Entity Realism
\n14.45 &ndash\; 15.30 \;Mahdi Khalili\, University of Bern \;&mdash\; \;Entity Realism about Black Holes
\n15.30 &ndash\; 16.00 \; \; \; Coffee Break
\n16.00 &ndash\; 16.45 \;Gauvain Leconte-Chevillard\, University of Namur \;&mdash\; \;No Manipulation\, No Entities? The Ontological Commitment of Natural \;Experiments in Astrophysics and Cosmology
\n16.45 &ndash\; 18.00 \;Mauricio Suá\;rez\, Complutense University of Madrid \;&mdash\; \;Deflating Experimental Realism in Astrophysics
\n19.00 &ndash\; 22.00 \; Workshop Dinner \;
\nWednesday\, June 17
\n11.00 &ndash\; 11.45 \; \;Thijs Latten\, Delft University of Technology \;&mdash\; \;An Engineering Perspective on Quantum State Realism: A Case Study in \;Expanding Causal Realism
\n11.45 &ndash\; 12.30 \;Ruey-Lin Chen\, National Chung Cheng University &\; \;Jonathan Hricko\, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University \;&mdash\; \;Real Entities and Real Causal Relationships: The Cases of the Transgenic and \;Gene Knockout/Knock-In Methods
\n12.30 &ndash\; 14.00 \; \; \; Lunch Break
\n14.00 &ndash\; 14.45 \;Matthias Egg\, University of Bern \;&mdash\; \;Effective Entity Realism
\n14.45 &ndash\; 16.00 \;Nora Boyd \;(online)\, Siena University \;&mdash\; \;How to Get in Touch With Distant Reality: The Causal Production of Empirical Data
\n16.00 &ndash\; 16.30 \; \; Coffee Break
\n16.30 &ndash\; 17.15 Panel Discussion
\n17.15 &ndash\; 17.30 \; \; \; Closing Remarks
\n\nThis conference is part of the project Extending the Scope of Causal Realism\, supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Mahdi Khalili;CN=Matthias Egg;CN=Frederick Britt: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260502T092300Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261119T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261121T170000 SUMMARY:Multilateralism\, International Institutions and the Ethics of War UID:20260507T041805Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Bern\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:International institutions and multilateralism no longer occupy the central place in the ethics of war that they once did in classic writings on war and peace. Whereas Immanuel Kant placed a strong federation of states at the core of his vision for perpetual peace\, much of contemporary just war theory focuses primarily on the rights and responsibilities of individuals\, with states and multilateral institutions as a derivative object of interest.
\nHowever\, recent events such as the US attack on Iran without UN authorization\, Ukraine&rsquo\;s potential NATO membership as a key issue in prospective peace talks with Russia and US cuts to peace-keeping UN institutions bring questions of multilateralism back into sharp relief. \;
\nThis workshop offers an opportunity to discuss new work on multilateralism\, international institutions and the ethics of war. We welcome submissions on questions including but not limited to:
\nWorkshop details
\nThe workshop will be held on 19-21 November at the University of Bern (Switzerland). The workshop will be pre-read and we expect a full draft of the paper by mid-October. Selected speakers will be invited to act as commentators on one of the other papers. We will be able to cover accommodation and part of the travel expenses. \;
\nSubmission
\nIf you are interested\, please send a pdf or word document with your abstract of 750 - 1000 words to Ms Njango Njung&rsquo\;e (mary.njunge[at]students.unibe.ch). \;The document itself should not contain any identifying information\; please include your name\, email and institutional affiliation in the body of your email. Submission deadline is 15 May 2026.
\nWorkshop organizers: Lisa Hecht (Bern)\, Adis Selimi (Saarland)\, Njango Njung&rsquo\;e (Bern)
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