In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance &ndash\; Series III
\nA series of interviews with contributors to The Philosophy of Money and Finance (Hardcover\, OUP 2024\; Paperback\, fall 2025)
\nSchedule
\n"Bitcoins Left and Right: A Normative Assessment of a Digital Currency"
Authors: Lars Lindblom and Joakim Sandberg
Interviewer: Violet Victoria
Date and Time: October 6\, 2026\, 12 pm EST (18:00 CET)
[Thi is the final interview in the series. Recordings of prior interviews can be found on Phinance.]
ORGANIZER;CN=Lisa Warenski;CN=Emiliano Ippoliti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260429T210000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261126T170000 SUMMARY:Séminaire Arendt 2026 UID:20260911T081542Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Le Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone\, cré\;é\; en 2024\, vise à\; favoriser une synergie entre celles et ceux qui\, des amateurs aux chercheuses\, fré\;quentent la pensé\;e de Hannah Arendt. Dans cette optique\, nous cherchons à\; mettre en place un rendez-vous ré\;gulier pour en discuter les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects.
\nDu fait de l&rsquo\;é\;tendue de la francophonie\, ces sé\;minaires auront lieu en ligne. Leur principe sera le suivant : les participant-e-s auront tous et toutes pré\;alablement lu un article ou un chapitre ré\;cent\, lequel sera pré\;senté\; trè\;s rapidement par souci de prioriser les é\;changes (10 minutes) par son autrice ou auteur. À\; partir de celui-ci\, un-e membre du ré\;seau ouvrira (5 min) à\; un dé\;bat plus large afin de discuter\, outre l&rsquo\;article\, les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects de l&rsquo\;&oelig\;uvre d&rsquo\;Arendt (1h30).
\nProgramme 2026\nEn 2026\, nous proposons quatre sé\;ances ordinaires du sé\;minaire et une sé\;ance spé\;ciale : «\; Arendt et la science é\;conomique »\;\, «\; Arendt et le travail »\;\, «\; Liberté\;\, volonté\;\, politique »\;\, «\; Arendt et la violence »\;\, «\; Philosophie\, é\;ducation et politique »\;.
\nLe sé\;minaire est ouvert à\; toutes et tous sans inscription pré\;alable \; n&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas à\; venir y assister et y participer. Les articles et textes discuté\;s sont disponibles sur le site du RAF. N&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas non plus à\; nous contacter pour toute demande d&rsquo\;information complé\;mentaire.
\nLe RAF ?\nLe Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone (RAF) se veut un espace divers et pluriel\, rassemblant une communauté\; de doctorant-e-s\, enseignant-e-s\, chercheurs/ses\, intellectuel-le-s et toute personne inté\;ressé\;e ou engagé\;e dans l'é\;tude et la diffusion de la pensé\;e d'Hannah Arendt en France et le monde francophone. À\; travers cette plateforme\, nous souhaitons favoriser les é\;changes intellectuels\, offrir une visibilité\; accrue aux travaux de recherche et cré\;er des liens solides entre francophones s'inté\;ressant à\; et puisant dans l'&oelig\;uvre de cette autrice majeure du XXe siè\;cle.
\nOutre l&rsquo\;organisation de ce sé\;minaire et d'é\;vè\;nements acadé\;miques lié\;s à\; la pensé\;e d'Arendt\, le ré\;seau actualise continuellement un site web qui met à\; disposition : une bibliographie des textes de langue franç\;aise consacré\;s à\; Arendt ou la mobilisant\, un annuaire des membres du ré\;seau\, un agenda des activité\;s francophones qui lui sont dé\;dié\;es et une lettre d'information mensuelle.
\nN'hé\;sitez pas à\; rejoindre le ré\;seau ou à\; nous contacter pour rejoindre l&rsquo\;é\;quipe d&rsquo\;animation !
\n ORGANIZER;CN="Rémi Zanni": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260604T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261024T170000 SUMMARY:Stanley Cavell at 100. An International Centennial Conference UID:20260911T081543Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:Roma\; Paris\; Boston\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Stanley Cavell at 100 \; An International Centennial Conference \; \;
Paris: \;4-5 June 2026 \;| Organized by Sandra Laugier\, Université\; Paris 1 Panthé\;on Sorbonne \; Rome: 8-9 June 2026 \;| Organized by Piergiorgio Donatelli\, Sapienza Università\; di Roma \; Boston: 23-24 October 2026 \;| Organized by Juliet Floyd\, Boston University \; \; \;
In 2026\, we mark the centenary of \;Stanley Cavell (1926&ndash\;2026)\, one of the \;most original and wide-ranging American philosophers of the twentieth century. Cavell&rsquo\;s work traversed traditional disciplinary boundaries&mdash\;engaging deeply with philosophy\, literature\, film\, opera\, psychoanalysis\, politics\, and both American and European traditions of thought. In the spirit of his intellectual breadth and transnational sensibility\, we are organizing a three-part international conference to celebrate his life\, work\, and legacy in Paris\, Rome\, and Boston.
\nWhy This Conference Matters
\nStanley Cavell transformed philosophy into an act of acknowledgment&mdash\;of self\, of others\, and of the everyday. His writings on skepticism\, language\, film\, and the ordinary remain vital at a time when trust in both language and human connection faces renewed challenges. From \;Must We Mean What We Say? \;to \;The Claim of Reason\, from \;The World Viewed \;to \;Pursuits of Happiness\, and through his readings of Emerson and Thoreau\, Cavell helped redefine the scope and style of philosophical writing and teaching.
\nHis engagement with Wittgenstein and Austin reinvigorated the ordinary language tradition\, while his interests in modernism\, cinema\, and American transcendentalism forged a philosophical voice that responded to&mdash\;and often transcended&mdash\;the academic context.
\nThis centennial conference will bring together philosophers\, literary scholars\, and critics to reflect on Cavell&rsquo\;s legacy and extend the conversations he began.
\nThis call for papers concerns all three installments&mdash\;Paris\, Rome\, and Boston&mdash\;of the Cavell at 100 conference.
\nSuggested Themes:
\nWe welcome proposals that engage with the following themes or propose new directions for exploring Cavell&rsquo\;s thought.
\nConference Foci:
\nParis will focus especially on Ordinary Language Philosophy\, Film\, and Popular Culture.
\nRome will center mainly on Ethics\, Politics\, and Forms of Life.
\nBoston will treat primarily Philosophy and Literature\, Tragedy\, Music\, and the Idea of America.
\nSome themes&mdash\;such as skepticism\, modernism\, the ordinary&mdash\;cut across all three conferences.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260908T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260911T170000 SUMMARY:2026 ECPR General Conference UID:20260911T081544Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Kraków\, Poland ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20260908T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20260911T170000 SUMMARY:Historical Narratives and Counternarratives UID:20260911T081545Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Belgrade\, Serbia DESCRIPTION:Organiser: Prof. Milenko Bodin (University of Belgrade)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260910T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260911T170000 SUMMARY:The Limits of Critique: Phenomenology and Ideology UID:20260911T081546Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Kerpener Str. 33\, Cologne\, Germany DESCRIPTION:THE LIMITS OF CRITIQUE: PHENOMENOLOGY AND IDEOLOGY
\n10&ndash\;11 September 2026
Husserl Archives\, University of Cologne
Kerpener Str. 30\, 50937 Cologne\, Germany
Phenomenology has often presented itself as a method capable of freeing thought from unexamined assumptions. Yet critical\, political\, and Marxist phenomenologies have shown that experience is always situated within historical\, social\, and political horizons. At the same time\, phenomenology has itself been criticized for obscuring the socio-historical mediations that constitute subjectivity.
\nThe workshop explores this tension by asking whether phenomenology can serve as a method of ideology critique\, where the limits of such a critique lie\, and to what extent phenomenology may itself become implicated in ideological formations. The contributions address gender ideology\, social imaginaries\, reification\, political belonging\, war\, science\, and the relationship between phenomenology and Marxism.
\nPROGRAMME
\nThursday\, 10 September 2026
\n14:00&ndash\;14:15
Welcome and introduction
Jesú\;s Guillermo Ferrer Ortega (University of Wuppertal) and Marco Cavallaro (University of Cologne)
Panel 1: Phenomenology and Gender Ideology
Chair: Marco Cavallaro
14:15&ndash\;14:35
Tris Hedges (Freie Universitä\;t Berlin/University of Copenhagen) and André\;a Delestrade (London School of Economics)
&ldquo\;&lsquo\;Gender Ideology&rsquo\; and the Limits of Phenomenological Critique&rdquo\;
14:35&ndash\;14:55
Lucie Boulay (Université\; Bordeaux Montaigne)
&ldquo\;The Ideology Producing Obstructed Transcendence: The Lived Experience of Emancipation\, a Phenomenological Approach to the Memoirs as an Epoché\; of Destiny\, Drawing on The Second Sex&rdquo\;
14:55&ndash\;15:15
Discussion
15:15&ndash\;15:30
Coffee break
Panel 2: Ideology and Imagination
Chair: Jesú\;s Guillermo Ferrer Ortega
15:30&ndash\;15:50
Francesca Casciotta (University of Jena)
&ldquo\;Beyond Suspension: A Phenomenology of Social Imaginaries as the Key to the Critique of Ideological Naturalisation&rdquo\;
15:50&ndash\;16:10
Carlos Anaya (University of Toronto)
&ldquo\;Ric&oelig\;ur on Ideology\, Utopia\, and Imagination&rdquo\;
16:10&ndash\;16:30
Discussion
16:30&ndash\;16:45
Coffee break
Panel 3: Ideological Field and Reification
Chair: Sara Dameno
16:45&ndash\;17:05
Damian Nussbaumer (University of St Gallen)
&ldquo\;The Dialectic of Reification: Reification as a Critical Concept in Merleau-Ponty and Adorno&rdquo\;
17:05&ndash\;17:25
Vanessa Ossino (University of Cologne/Université\; de Fribourg)
&ldquo\;Beyond False Consciousness: Merleau-Ponty on the Ideological Field&rdquo\;
17:25&ndash\;17:45
Discussion
19:00
Conference dinner at Hanoi Vibes\, Weyertal 47\, 50937 Cologne
Friday\, 11 September 2026
\nPanel 4: Myth\, Ideology\, and Political Belonging
Chair: Ragna Winniewski
09:30&ndash\;09:50
Piero Carreras (independent scholar)
&ldquo\;Existentialism and Mythological Machinery&rdquo\;
09:50&ndash\;10:10
Simon van Ramshorst (Radboud University)
&ldquo\;Beyond the Nation-State Horizon: Political Belonging and Ideology Critique&rdquo\;
10:10&ndash\;10:30
Discussion
10:30&ndash\;10:45
Coffee break
Panel 5: Political Phenomenology and the Critique of Ideology
Chair: Gudrun Reucher
10:45&ndash\;11:05
Weronika Maciejewska (University of Warsaw)
&ldquo\;Political Phenomenology as a Method for Situating Being within the Realm of Responsibility&rdquo\;
11:05&ndash\;11:25
Paul Gigon (Sciences Po\, Paris)
&ldquo\;Enzo Paci and the Phenomenological Critique of Ideology&rdquo\;
11:25&ndash\;11:45
Discussion
11:45&ndash\;12:00
Coffee break
Panel 6: Ideology Critique and Husserlian Phenomenology
Chair: Jesú\;s Guillermo Ferrer Ortega
12:00&ndash\;12:20
Bence Marosan (Budapest University of Economics and Business)
&ldquo\;From Critical Rationality to Ideology Critique: Husserl and Luká\;cs on Collective Authenticity and Emancipation&rdquo\;
12:20&ndash\;12:40
Dror Pimentel (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design\, Jerusalem)
&ldquo\;Phenomenology as Critique of the Ideology of Science: Husserl with Marx&rdquo\;
12:40&ndash\;13:00
Discussion
13:00&ndash\;14:30
Lunch
Panel 7: War Ideology and Its Reception in Spanish Phenomenology
Chair: Marco Cavallaro
14:30&ndash\;14:50
Jesú\;s Dí\;az Á\;lvarez (UNED Madrid)
&ldquo\;Phenomenology and Ideology: Some Reflections on Ortega&rsquo\;s Reception of Max Scheler&rsquo\;s Der Genius des Krieges und der Deutsche Krieg&rdquo\;
14:50&ndash\;15:10
Jesú\;s Guillermo Ferrer Ortega (University of Wuppertal)
&ldquo\;Towards a Historical Phenomenology of War Ideology: Unamuno&rsquo\;s Stance on the Spanish Civil War&rdquo\;
15:10&ndash\;15:30
Discussion
15:30&ndash\;16:00
Final discussion and farewell
The workshop is organized by Marco Cavallaro (University of Cologne)\, Jesú\;s Guillermo Ferrer Ortega (University of Wuppertal)\, and Sara Dameno (University of Cologne).
\nFurther information and programme updates can be found here:
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Marco Cavallaro: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20260911T093000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20260912T170000 SUMMARY: 2026 Action\, Politics and Responsibility Conference\, Tokyo UID:20260911T081547Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Asia/Tokyo LOCATION:Tokyo\, Japan DESCRIPTION:The conference aims to survey ongoing original research on agency\, politics\, responsibility and their connections. Special attention will be given to political agency and the responsibility of groups. A wide variety of related questions will be addressed\, including\, but not limited to\, the existence and nature of group agents\, criteria of group responsibility\, how and whether agents can act jointly\, what distinguishes action from behaviour\, what legitimacy groups in conflict zones have\, group epistemic virtues\, and what interplay of emotion and reason renders relations between persons as genuine. The aim is to discuss\, learn from and enable participants to collaboratively improve their new\, original ongoing research on a number of interconnected topics.
ORGANIZER;CN="István Zárdai";CN=Kodai Sato: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T000000 SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Journal of Law\, Society\, and Authority - Special Issue (December 2026) UID:20260911T081548Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers &ndash\; Special Issue (December 2026)
\nThe Journal of Law\, Society\, and Authority (JLSA)\, a peer-reviewed open-access journal indexed in DOAJ and assigning CrossRef DOIs\, invites submissions for a special issue entitled:
\n&ldquo\;International Order and the Question of the Use of Force Involving Iran: Geopolitical and Legal Dimensions&rdquo\;
\nThe special issue welcomes original and interdisciplinary contributions in international law\, international relations\, political science\, and security studies. Topics may include the regulation of the use of force under international law\, regional security dynamics involving Iran and the Middle East\, collective security mechanisms\, sanctions and geoeconomic transformations\, emerging multipolarity\, maritime security\, asymmetric conflicts\, and strategic communication.
\nGuest Editors:
Prof. Nacim Belhoul (University of Blida 2\, Algeria)
Dr. Wang Guangda (China-Arab Research Center on Reform and Development\, China)
Prof. Hassan Abdullah Al-Da'jah (Al-Hussein Bin Talal University\, Jordan)
Submission deadline: 15 September 2026
Language: English only
Article Type and Length:
Original research articles and theoretical contributions (15&ndash\;25 pages\, including references and appendices).
Submission Email:
nassaiki@yahoo.fr
Author Guidelines:
https://revue.univ-oran2.dz/Revue/DSP/index.php/DSP/Author-guidelines
Gastrospaces: Towards a Theory and Research Programme for Food and Space
\nBeatrice Serini \;
Abstract: \;Where do we eat? Restaurants\, café\;s\, kitchens and dining rooms may seem like obvious answers\, but eating also takes place in parks\, streets\, markets\, workplaces\, public squares\, gardens\, vehicles and many other spaces. Despite their ubiquity\, the spaces in which food is consumed have received comparatively little systematic philosophical attention.
\nThis talk introduces Gastrospaces\, a research project developed at the intersection of analytic philosophy\, political philosophy and social ontology. The concept gastrospace provides a common analytical category for examining the diverse spaces in which eating takes place and for asking what makes these spaces socially\, politically and culturally significant. \; The project investigates how material arrangements\, social norms\, human and non-human agents\, and patterns of use interact to shape what can happen in a gastrospace and who can participate in it\, asking how apparently ordinary arrangements of food and space can enable inclusion\, exclusion\, discrimination\, conviviality\, distinction or care.
\nThe talk will first present the ontological framework and its main components\, and then provide an overview of the kinds of questions that the framework can help address. It will conclude by considering how this framework can be extended beyond philosophy\, particularly in food studies\, geography\, urban planning\, design and policy.
\nBio: \;Beatrice Serini\, PhD\, is an independent researcher and co-coordinator of Culinary Mind (International Centre for the Philosophy of Food). Her work explores the normative and conceptual dimensions of food and food systems\, with a particular interest in intersections between food\, health\, and technology\, as well as the cultural politics and ontology of the places where we eat.
\nZoom Link: \;https://deakin.zoom.us/j/85740576531?pwd=OK2GIQxhWM1C2LKY2KujrQqCXRXEcw.1
\nMeeting ID: \;857 4057 6531 \;// Password: \;63703912
\nThis meeting is at 12:30pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) 15 September 2026 [02:30am UTC 15 September 2026]
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T090000 SUMMARY:Religious Art and Power – Contestations and Affirmations - Open Theology UID:20260911T081550Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS
\nfor the special issue of Open Theology
\nReligious Art and Power &ndash\;
\nContestations and Affirmations
\nOpen Theology (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/opth/html) invites submissions for the special issue &ldquo\;Religious Art and Power &ndash\; Contestations and Affirmations\,&rdquo\; edited by Lá\;szló\; Koppá\;ny Csá\;ji and Má\;rk Nemes (Research Institute of Art Theory and Methodology\, Hungarian Academy of Arts\, Budapest\, Hungary).
\nDESCRIPTION
\nInterlacing culture and society\, religious art has traditionally been a hub of social reflections. A field of creativity\, intuitive expression\, professionalism\, communication\, and even social agency\, religious art appears in many forms of expression and activity. It can be studied &ldquo\;through the prism of the genre\,&rdquo\; as Leonard Primiano suggests\, using the frameworks of architecture\, dress\, photographs\, artifacts\, narratives\, bodily communication\, and even dance\, music\, or song. Artistic expressions often incorporate reflections on power\, whether affirmative and legitimizing or critical and resistant\, even on the level of vernacular religiosity. Religion and power also have a complex relationship and interaction\, as professional religious art&mdash\;whether at the level of the individual\, the religious community\, or society at large&mdash\;has the capability to address contemporary issues of &ldquo\;mundane&rdquo\; power. Within these frameworks\, urgent issues such as climate change\, crises\, war\, migration\, and social discrimination can also be addressed. However\, art is not merely a tool for expressing a critical position and commentary on social\, cultural\, and political power\, but can function as an agent that shapes and affirms it.
\nThis special issue of &ldquo\;Open Theology&rdquo\; seeks novel approaches to these intertwined subjects\, with a thematic focus on how power\, authority\, and agency play out at the vernacular and institutional levels\, and on how power is bestowed\, legitimized\, and subverted through social and spiritual frameworks.
\nWe encourage submissions on inductive\, fieldwork-centered research\; theoretical overviews of the relationship between art and power applied to case studies\; and critical methodological reflections on prior research or approaches on the subject group. Submissions should aim to articulate proposals with real traction&mdash\;normative and operational&mdash\;attentive to feasibility\, measurable change\, and transferability.
\nSubmissions should primarily (but not exclusively) address the following questions:
\nWhat kind of discursive practices appear in religious art?
\nWhat is the role of emotions and the senses in legitimizing or subverting forms of power and authority?
\nHow do new media and new technologies shape religious artistic practices by empowering marginalized voices\, deconstructing traditional hierarchies\, or creating alternative narratives?
\nHow do performative approaches in religious practices play a crucial role in expressing\, shaping\, or contesting religious authority or power?
HOW TO SUBMIT
\nSubmissions will be collected until 15 September\, 2026\, via the online submission system
\nat http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/
\nPlease choose section/category: special issue &ldquo\;Religious Art and Power&rdquo\;.
\nBefore submission\, authors should carefully read the Instruction for Authors\, available at:
\n\nAll contributions will undergo peer review before acceptance for publication.
\nFurther questions about content for this thematic issue can be addressed to Dr. Lá\;szló\; Koppá\;ny Csá\;ji (csaji.koppany@mma-mmki.hu) and Dr. Má\;rk Nemes (nemes.mark@mma-mmki.hu)
\nBecause &ldquo\;Open Theology&rdquo\; is published under an open access model\, as a rule\, publication costs should be covered by Article Publishing Charges (APC)\, paid by authors\, their affiliated institutions\, funders\, or sponsors. Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss potential discounts or waivers with OA Portfolio Manager Magdalena Skoneczna (magdalena.skoneczna@degruyterbrill.com) before submitting their manuscripts.
\nIn case of technical problems with submission\, please write to Assistant.Managing.Editor@degruyterbrill.com.
\nFind us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OpenTheology
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260915T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260915T234500 SUMMARY:Security-Relevant Research in Academia - Debates\, Definitions\, and Best-Practices UID:20260911T081551Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Karlsruhe\, Germany DESCRIPTION:Please note: The call has been extended to the 15th of September!
\n\nDear Colleagues\,
\nWe are pleased to invite submissions for a conference on "Security-Relevant Research in Academia: Debates\, Definitions\, and Best-Practices\," taking place 5&ndash\;6 November 2026 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)\, Germany:
\nDate: 5-6 November 2026
Location: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)\, Germany
Submission Deadline: 15 September 2026
Contact: scott.robbins@kit.edu
Universities stand at the critical intersection of open inquiry and societal responsibility. The ongoing war in Ukraine has illustrated how rapidly scientific advances can be repurposed for conflict\, raising the stakes for research touching on national security\, cryptography\, dual-use technologies\, and emerging weapon systems. To address these challenges\, we invite submissions for a conference dedicated to exploring the complex area of Security-Relevant Research (SRR) within higher-education institutions.
\nWe seek contributions from scholars\, administrators\, ethicists\, defense professionals\, policy makers\, and engineers/technology developers that examine the fundamental questions surrounding SRR. We are particularly interested in papers that address:
\nWhile advocates argue that academic freedom fuels innovation and that university-based research offers transparent\, ethical alternatives to opaque military labs\, critics warn of accelerating arms races\, the exposure of students to dual-use dilemmas\, and conflicts of interest with defense sponsors. This workshop aims to navigate these tensions\, fostering a dialogue that balances innovation with ethical stewardship.
\nSubmission Guidelines
We invite abstracts of 300&ndash\;500 words (excluding references) that propose a paper for presentation. Submissions must include the author's name and affiliation. Please send your abstracts via email to scott.robbins@kit.edu by 15 September 2026.
Presentation Format
Selected authors will be invited to present their work during the workshop. Each presentation will be allocated 20 minutes\, followed by 10 minutes for Q&\;A and discussion.
Publication Opportunity
A primary goal of this workshop is to synthesize the insights\, case studies\, and draft guidelines generated during the event. Following the conference\, all participants will be invited to submit their full manuscripts for consideration in a special issue dedicated to Security-Relevant Research in Academia. We will have more information about this in due time.
This conference is supported by BMFTR\, as part of the "MilEth" project (Military Defense Technologies and Ethics).
\nKeynotes:
Michiel Bot (Tilburg University)
Lonneke Peperkamp (Radboud University Nijmegen &\; Netherlands Defense Academy)
Conference Organizers:
\nScott Robbins &mdash\; Post-Doctoral Researcher\, KIT\, ARRTI
Nathan Wood &mdash\; Junior Research Group Leader\, TUHH
Alexander Bagattini &mdash\; Senior Researcher\, KIT\, ARRTI
Volker Gollnick &mdash\; Professor\, TUHH
Nico Brä\;hler &mdash\; Managing Director\, ARRTI\, KIT
KIT &mdash\; TUHH
ORGANIZER;CN="Nico Brähler": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T234500 SUMMARY:Res Practica Special Issue - “The Faces of Responsibility” UID:20260911T081552Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP - Res Practica\, New CRÉ\; Journal &ndash\; Special Issue: &ldquo\;The Faces of Responsibility&rdquo\;
\nEdited by Christine Tappolet and Christian Nadeau
\n**The deadline for submitting proposals has been extended to September 15\, 2026.
\nThe Centre de recherche en é\;thique (CRÉ\;) invites you to submit a manuscript for publication in the first special issue of its new journal Res Practica\, to be launched formally in the Fall of 2026 and which will replace Les Ateliers de l'é\;thique / The Ethics Forum. This special issue aims to explore the plurality of forms that responsibility takes in our individual\, social\, and institutional practices. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives by bringing together expertise in moral and political philosophy\, political science\, and legal theory\, our objective is to examine the concepts of moral responsibility\, political responsibility\, and legal responsibility.
\nWe especially welcome contributions that interrogate the points of convergence and divergence between these different kinds of responsibility: their foundations\, their attribution criteria\, their functions within our normative practices\, and the tensions they may generate in contemporary contexts.
\nAs the journal is fully bilingual\, submissions may be in either French or English. The articles will be accompanied by a short abstract in the other language.
\nWe invite the submission of research articles (8\,000 to 12\,000 words) addressing questions related to moral\, political\, and legal responsibility\, as well as issues at the intersection of these fields\, including but not limited to the themes listed below:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Moral agency\, psychological capacities\, and responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Responsibility attributions\, reactive attitudes\, and emotions
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Responsibility\, blame\, and punishment
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Defenses and apologies
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Responsibility for non-voluntary attitudes (beliefs\, emotions\, etc.)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Moral constructivism and moral responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Disagreements in responsibility attributions and the question of relativism
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Legal responsibility: criminal vs. civil
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Moral guilt and legal guilt
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Punishment and liability
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Legal doctrines of control\, fault\, and risk
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Corporate responsibility and institutional responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; The responsibility gap and artificial intelligence
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Punishment and responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Collective and individual responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Collective agency and excuses
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Political responsibility vs. social responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Tensions between moral and legal responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Reducing one kind of responsibility to another
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Collective and individual responsibility
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Group agency and intentionality
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Responsibility toward future generations
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; The political responsibility of states and social responsibility
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\nSubmission Guidelines
\n\;Submitted manuscripts may be in French or English. They should be between 8\,000 and 12\,000 words\, including references and footnotes. Manuscripts must be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 200 words and must be anonymized in preparation for double-blind peer review.
\nManuscripts must be submitted by email to aeef@umontreal.ca no later than September 15\, 2026.
\nAbout Res Practica
\nThe aim of Res Practica is to create a space for fruitful exchange between experts from a variety of disciplines whose work focuses on\, or has implications for\, ethical\, political\, and more broadly normative questions. One important goal is to further our understanding of practical problems that confront both individuals and societies by uncovering philosophical assumptions often left implicit. Another goal is to encourage exploration of innovative solutions to normative dilemmas that confront individuals and societies\, in order to provide original and informed ethical guidelines and public policies. Res Practica will invite authors to reach across traditional disciplinary divides\, and to explore the multiple ways in which experts from a variety of academic disciplines\, including but not restricted to moral and political philosophy\, applied ethics\, political sciences\, and law\, can cast mutually enriching light upon pressing practical questions. Res Practica is also committed to promoting exchanges between experts writing in different languages. While we will begin with English and French\, we hope\, over time\, to broaden the range of linguistic traditions that can find a home in our pages.
\nRes Practica&rsquo\;s editors in chief are Christine Tappolet (Université\; de Montré\;al)\, Daniel Weinstock (McGill University) and Samuel Dishaw (UCLouvain).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260917T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260918T170000 SUMMARY:24th Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy UID:20260911T081553Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION: Corso Strada Nuova\, 65\, Pavia\, Italy DESCRIPTION:24th \;Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy
\n17th \;and 18th \;September 2026
\n\;CALL FOR PAPERS
\nOn the 17th \;and 18th \;of September 2026\, the Department of Political and Social Sciences\, University of Pavia (Italy) will host the 24th \;edition of the Pavia Graduate Conference in Political Philosophy. The conference is held within the framework of the PhD Program in Philosophy of the North-west Italy Philosophy Consortium (FINO).
\nThis two-day conference is meant to offer graduate students an opportunity to present papers\, get helpful feedback in a friendly atmosphere\, and exchange ideas both with peers and with leading academics in the field of political philosophy. In addition to parallel sessions devoted to students&rsquo\; presentations\, there will also be two plenary sessions for keynote speakers. For details of past editions\, see \;here (http://www-4.unipv.it/paviagc/). This year&rsquo\;s keynote speakers are:
\nClare Chambers \;(Jesus College\, University of Cambridge)
\nFrancesco Guala \;(University of Milan)
\nGraduate students interested in giving papers should send their contributions (max 1000 words &ndash\; in English) and a curriculum vitae\, by Friday 1st \;May 2026. Papers may focus on any area within political philosophy\, and presentations should take no longer than twenty minutes to allow at least another twenty minutes of discussion. Papers must be prepared for blind review and files must be anonymized. \;Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their submissions around mid-June. The conference will be held on premises.
\nCOSTS
\nThe conference package includes lunch and coffee breaks. Participants will be charged a fee of roughly 50&euro\; to contribute to catering expenses. Additionally\, participants can choose to sign up for the social dinner (roughly 35-40&euro\;). A number of accommodation places in university colleges are available to paper givers at relatively cheap rates. Accommodation fees and details will be arranged individually.
\nEVALUATION OF SUBMISSIONS
\nSubmissions will be evaluated by the organizing committee\, composed of FINO PhD students and faculty members. To avoid any conflict of interests\, submissions from FINO PhD students will be evaluated separately and will be allocated a limited quota of places in the conference.
\nCONTACT
\nAll correspondence (including paper submissions and additional inquiries) should be addressed to the conference email address: \;pavia.gradconference@gmail.com
\nhttp://www-4.unipv.it/paviagc/
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260917T170000 SUMMARY:Iowa Law Review 2026 Symposium: Philosophy at Trial UID:20260911T081554Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:College of Law\, Iowa City\, United States DESCRIPTION:Iowa Law Review 2026 Symposium
\nPhilosophy At Trial
\nSeptember 17th\, 2026
\nLaw and Philosophy at Iowa and the Iowa Law Review are delighted to open registration for "Philosophy at Trial\," a symposium focusing on philosophical issues in recent Supreme Court jurisprudence. \; The symposium will take place September 17\, with topical panels and a keynote address by Lawrence Solum (Texas A&\;M and Legal Theory Blog). \;
\nIn-person and remote attendance is available. \; For more information and registration\, please visit the symposium website:ilr.law.uiowa.edu/symposium-2026.
\n\;Keynote:
\nLawrence Solum (Texas A&\;M) \;
\n\;
\nSpeakers:
\nEmad Atiq (Cornell)
\nBrian Bix (Minnesota)
\nMichael Cecil (Gonzaga)
\nClaire Finkelstein (Penn)
\nStephen Galoob (Tulsa)
\nHeidi Hurd (Illinois)
\nJohn Kang (New Mexico)
\nMichael Moore (Illinois)
\nSusan Provenzano (Georgia State)
\nConnie Rosati (Texas)
\nKevin Tobia (Georgetown)
\nBill Watson (Illinois)
\nBenjamin Zipursky (Fordham)
\n\;
\nModerators:
\nAmin Ebrahimi Afrouzi (UCLA)
\nSamantha Godwin (Yale)
\nMohammad Khalilzadeh (Illinois)
\n\nEvent Sponsors: University of Iowa College of Law\, Department of Philosophy\, and the Office of Vice President of Research
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Stephanie Patridge;CN=Andrew Jordan;CN=Mihailis E. Diamantis: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260920T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260920T230000 SUMMARY:"Ricœur\, Dead or Alive?" Fonds Ricœur Monthly Seminar (ENS\, Paris) UID:20260911T081555Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:École Normale Supérieure\, 45 rue d'Ulm\, Paris\, France\, 75005 DESCRIPTION:Presentation of the Seminar
\nThe seminar "Actualité\;s de Ric&oelig\;ur" ("Ric&oelig\;ur Studies Today") aims to offer a space for discussion and development for early-career research on Ric&oelig\;ur. Hosted at the É\;cole Normale Supé\;rieure for the 2026&ndash\;2027 academic year\, it welcomes proposals from doctoral students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars who wish to explore\, extend\, or put to the test the resources of Paul Ric&oelig\;ur's philosophy.
\nThe first edition of this seminar is entitled "Ric&oelig\;ur\, Dead or Alive?" &mdash\; a deliberately ambiguous formulation\, one that invites us to question both the internal vitality of his &oelig\;uvre and its capacity to nourish the philosophical\, ethical\, and political debates of today.
\nIs Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutic phenomenology not defined\, in essence\, by its defense of &mdash\; and\, as it were\, its "vow" (v&oelig\;u) in favor of &mdash\; life\, the living\, and the lively? But is he still a living interlocutor\, or has his thought sedimented into heritage?
\nThe seminar will follow this format: two speakers per two-hour session\, with 30 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of discussion for each speaker.
\nFor paper proposals\, we welcome submissions engaging with three thematic axes.
\nAxis I. Life as Resistance &ndash\; Language\, Time\, and Action
\nHow does life affirm\, narrate\, and configure itself in the face of what negates it? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutic phenomenology is traversed by a fundamental tension between the power to act and the multiple forms of its hindrance. Confronted with evil\, forgetting\, or indeed death\, Ric&oelig\;ur explores the diverse forms of resistance at work within life &mdash\; metaphors\, narratives\, memories\, history. These resistances\, as actions\, possess an intrinsic logic and continue to create the meaning of life.
\nSuggested Lines of Approach
\n1. Language as resistance: How does the "living metaphor" (The Rule of Metaphor\, 1975) constitute a form of resistance to the "entropy of language\," which freezes meaning? In what sense is semantic innovation a vital act\, a "revival"?
\n2. Narrative as resistance: In Time and Narrative (1983&ndash\;1985)\, emplotment is presented as a provisional victory over temporal discordance. How are we to think this victory in the face of the radicality of Heideggerian "being-towards-death"?
\n3. Memory as resistance: Memory\, History\, Forgetting (2000) distinguishes between forgetting kept in reserve and forgetting through effacement. In what way does this distinction commit us to an ethics of memory as a form of fidelity to life?
\nAxis II. A Life of One's Own &ndash\; Selfhood\, Vulnerability\, Ethicity
\nHow might vulnerability\, far from being a limit of subjectivity\, be its very condition of ethical possibility? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutics of the self is built upon the recognition of a constitutive fragility: narrative identity is always exposed to rupture\, to suffering\, to undergoing the action of the other &mdash\; the other inscribing at the very heart of the self. This axis proposes to deepen reflection on the relation between the self and the other\, and to explore the modes by which a "good life" may be accomplished\, starting from the concrete ordeals of vulnerability: trauma\, the quest for mutual recognition\, and the precariousness of existence.
\nSuggested Lines of Approach
\n4. The ordeal of narrative identity: Oneself as Another (1990) articulates idem-identity and ipse-identity around the self-constancy under trial. What becomes of this articulation when the trial is that of identity's collapse &mdash\; serious illness\, exile\, trauma? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutics of narrative identity also resonates with debates on the performativity of identity and with gender studies (Butler).
\n5. The reciprocity of recognition: In The Course of Recognition (2004)\, Ric&oelig\;ur moves from self-recognition to mutual recognition. How might this course enter into dialogue with contemporary theories of vulnerability (Weil\, Levinas) or of care?
\n6. The ethical life: The "ethical aim" defined in the "ethical studies" (Oneself as Another\, Studies 5-7) seeks to realize a "good life." Does this notion remain operative in the face of situations of thwarted life\, precarity\, or desubjectivation?
\nAxis III. Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s Survival &ndash\; Present Legacies
\nRic&oelig\;ur maintained a singular relationship with his own era\, marked as much by fruitful resonances as by sharp conflicts. This axis seeks to interrogate the philosophical actuality of these past debates: what extensions\, what corrections\, and what ruptures does Ric&oelig\;urian thought call for today? Proposals will place Ric&oelig\;ur's texts in critical dialogue with contemporary problematics\, without confining themselves to historical reconstruction.
\nSuggested Lines of Approach
\n7. Radical alterity in phenomenology: Ric&oelig\;ur engaged in a twofold critical dialogue with Derridean deconstruction and Levinasian ethics &mdash\; two distinct contestations of the autonomy of the self\, the one through the play of language\, the other through the ethical injunction of the face. How do these confrontations\, taken together\, illuminate the limits and the resources of the hermeneutics of the self in the face of the contemporary challenges of hospitality\, communication\, and responsibility?
\n8. Philosophical anthropology: Is the human being\, understood as the "capable human being" (From Text to Action\, 1986)\, in a position to accommodate new forms of agency &mdash\; collective\, distributed\, digital &mdash\; or do its anthropological presuppositions constrain it? In this regard\, Ric&oelig\;urian philosophy could enter into fruitful dialogue with the theories of Stiegler (tertiary retention) and Arendt (collective action).
\n9. Justice today: How might Ric&oelig\;ur's reflections on justice\, collective memory\, and forgiveness (Memory\, History\, Forgetting\, Epilogue) be articulated with the contemporary stakes of memory conflicts\, politics of reconciliation\, or postcolonial reparations? Ric&oelig\;ur's philosophy is bound up with figures such as Halbwachs\, Derrida\, and Honneth. His reflection on memory and forgiveness continues to shed lasting light on the practices of transitional justice.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nTo submit a proposal or for any inquiries\, please write to us at the following address: seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com. Proposals are welcome from doctoral students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars of any discipline (philosophy\, literary studies\, theology\, social sciences\, law)\, provided that they are grounded in Ric&oelig\;ur's texts and in contemporary debates for which Ric&oelig\;urian theory could be fruitfully mobilized. Comparative and transdisciplinary proposals are welcome. We will accept proposals in French and in English.
\nOrganizing Committee
\nTristan Barberousse (ENS)
\nKexin Hu (ENS)
\nMartina Lodi (Lumsa-ICP)
\nQiyu Chen (Montpellier III)
\n\nPractical Information
\nSubmissions: seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com
\nSubmission deadline: 20 September 2026
\nVenue: É\;cole Normale Supé\;rieure\, 45 rue d'Ulm\, Paris (75005)
\nFrequency: monthly (2026&ndash\;2027 academic year)\, normally on the last Tuesday of each month\, beginning however on Tuesday 6 October.
\nSchedule: 6 October\; 27 October\; 24 November\; 15 December (due to the holiday break)\; 26 January\; 23 February\; 30 March\; 27 April.
\nPaper proposals must follow these guidelines:
\nAn anonymized abstract of 400 to 600 words in Word format\, specifying the title of the paper\, the chosen axis\, and the thesis defended\, accompanied by an indicative bibliography.
\nA brief bio-bibliographical note (name\, affiliation\, current position\, thesis supervisor where applicable) should be included in the body of the email. To facilitate the archiving and processing of your submission\, we kindly ask you to format the subject line of your email as follows: [Seminar Application] Surname &ndash\; Title of the Paper. Formatting guidelines for the (anonymous) abstract: Times New Roman or Arial\, 12-point font\, 1.5 line spacing.
\nWe wish for the papers to be delivered in person\, in order to facilitate the discussions that lie at the heart of the seminar spirit of this initiative. A link will nevertheless be available for those who wish to follow the event remotely\, where applicable.
\nThe seminar has no dedicated budget for the reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses\, and in-person participation is at the speakers' own expense. We therefore encourage them to explore\, as a first step\, the funding available from their research unit\, doctoral school\, or home institution.
\nSelected speakers will be invited to submit a preparatory text (25\,000 characters maximum)\, to be circulated to participants one week before the session\, and sent to the contact address (seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com).
ORGANIZER;CN=Barberousse Tristan;CN=Hu Kexin;CN=Lodi Martina;CN=Chen Qiyu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260923T150000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260923T170000 SUMMARY:Book Launch: Miguel Vatter "Machiavelli and the Religion of the Ancients" In Conversation with Andrea Rizzi and Paul Muldoon UID:20260911T081556Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Tower 2 level 12/727 Collins St\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3008 DESCRIPTION:Book Launch Event: "Machiavelli and the Religion of the Ancients: \;Platonism and Radical Republicanism" In Conversation with Andrea Rizzi and Paul Muldoon
\nMiguel Vatter (Deakin University)
\nBlurb: \;Machiavellianism and Platonism are traditionally opposed\, as realism is to idealism\, and might is to right. This book questions this opposition\, arguing that Machiavelli is far more influenced by Platonism than by Epicureanism. The Platonism at the time of the Medici is marked by the reception of Arabic/Islamic and Byzantine interpretations of Plato. These portray Platonism as an expression of an &ldquo\;ancient theology&rdquo\; that offers an alternative to Christianity by undoing a stark opposition between faith and knowledge\; emphasising the political and state-founding role of prophets\; affirming the continuity between humans and animals\; and defending the rationality of divine and human law. Miguel Vatter contends that from these alternative approaches to Platonism\, Machiavelli draws a critique of both the Catholic Church and of Humanism\, rejecting their oligarchic tendencies in favour of a radical form of republicanism.
\nBio: \;Professor Miguel Vatter \;has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the New School for Social \;Research\, and has held academic positions in political science and philosophy \;departments in the United States and in Chile\, as well as visiting \;professorships in Germany\, China and the UK. Before coming to Deakin he was Professor \;of Politics at Flinders and UNSW. He works in the areas of political and legal \;theory\, contemporary continental philosophy\, and intellectual history. \;His current areas of research and publication are Machiavelli\, Kant\, \;republicanism\, neoliberalism\, biopolitics\, political theology and planetary \;health.
\nThis event is in person at 3pm Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) 23 September 2026.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260925T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260925T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy\, Evidence and Policymaking UID:20260911T081557Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Rijnstraat 50\, Den Haag\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:This workshop brings together researchers working on the theory and philosophy of science and evidence in policymaking as well as practitioners such as knowledge-brokers\, policymakers and policy advisors. It is organised by researchers at University of Antwerp\, University of Groningen and the VU Amsterdam in collaboration with the Science for Policy project at the Netherlands&rsquo\; Ministry of Education\, Culture &\; Science.
\nThe workshop is aimed at both early-career and senior researchers who are interested in the theory and the practice of evidence generation for and use in policymaking and the interaction between science and policy. This field of research addresses questions such as: What type of evidence should one use to develop policies? What should the role of scientific advisors be in policymaking? Does it make sense to rank evidence in hierarchies? How should policymakers deal with scientific expert disagreement? What does an appropriate role for non-epistemic values look like in evidence and science for policy?
\nWe invite you to send abstracts on the abovementioned topics\, as well as on related ones. Abstracts should:
\nNot exceed 300 words (references excluded)\;
\nBe sent in an anonymised document to the following email address: ebpolicy.network@gmail.com\;
\nBe suitable for a 30-minute presentation (+15 minutes of Q&\;A)\;
\nBe sent by the deadline: 3 August 2026 (notification of acceptance in the beginning of August 2026)\;
\nParticipation in the workshop without sending an abstract is possible by filling out the registration form no later than 15 August 2026. \;
\nThe first part of the workshop will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Donal Khosrowi (University of Hannover) and\, after\, presentations of the selected abstracts. After the lunch break\, the second part of the workshop will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Jaakko Kuosmanen (Finnish Academy of Science and Letters) and structured dialogues in break-out groups with practitioners\, aimed at making participants reflect together on various topics related to evidence and policy.
\nMoreover\, the workshop aims to encourage interaction between researchers and practitioners. Therefore\, the workshop will also include sessions in which there is structured dialogue between participating researchers and practitioners from the Netherlands&rsquo\; government.
\nQuestions can be sent to \;ebpolicy.network@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Geertjan Holtrop;CN=Kato Van Roey;CN=Helena R. Slanickova;CN=Paride Del Grosso: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260926T170000 SUMMARY:Problems of Democracy and possible Solutions UID:20260911T081558Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:453 John Lewis Freedom Parkway NE\, Atlanta\, United States\, 30307 DESCRIPTION:On September 25-26\, the Problems of Democracy and possible Solutions (PoDS) Network will hold its first workshop at the Carter Center in Atlanta\, GA. We invite scholars in political science\, political theory\, philosophyand related fields who work on current problems facing democracies and are interested in developing solutions. All career levels are eligible to contribute &ndash\; from advanced PhD students to senior scholars. This initialworkshop is primarily regional for participants from the SE United States\, but we expect to expand to an international network as we fundraise. \; All are welcome to submit proposals. \;
\nThe aim of the workshop is to encourage collaborations that focus on problems and proposals for solutions in combination (solutions might include institutional reforms\, interventions affecting behavior and attitudes\, or other). We also welcome submissions addressing methodological challenges that might result from conflicts among normative\, theoretical\, and ideological frameworks of those who collaborate on these problems and solutions. \; \;
\nParticipants will present their ideas to stimulate creative thought across divergent approaches and to build potential collaborations. Presentations may include new\, fully developed article manuscripts seeking feedback\, summaries of past research\, participant&rsquo\;s reading of the state of the art in their problem area\, or their own nascent ideas of how to approach problems and solutions. \;
\nIf you are interested\, please submit a proposal of up to 500 words that\, consistent with the above\, explains what you plan to contribute to problems of democracy and possible solutions.
ORGANIZER;CN=Michael H. G. Hoffmann;CN=Andrew Jason Cohen;CN=Jennifer McCoy;CN=Anthony DeMattee: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270416T170000 SUMMARY:Zicklin Center Workshop in Normative Business Ethics UID:20260911T081559Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:3730 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, United States\, 19104 DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts for The Zicklin Center Normative Business Ethics Workshop Series
\nOver the 2026-2027 academic year\, the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School\, University of Pennsylvania\, will convene a regular works-in-progress series for scholars working in normative business ethics (NBE). In particular\, the Series will workshop papers pursuing business ethics issues from a normative perspective\, or papers in moral or political philosophy with implications for the market\, distributive justice\, labor relations\, the role of business in society\, etc.
\nWorkshop Objectives
\nThe Series is part of an effort to foster normative business ethics in the academy and the public sphere. This particular initiative has two key objectives: First\, it endeavors to provide a regular forum for scholars working on business ethics from a normative perspective. The community of such scholars is relatively small\, and dispersed across numerous institutions\, and there are few opportunities for these individuals to convene and share work. This Series is an effort to connect these scholars and to enrich their shared intellectual life. Second\, the Series aims to be especially valuable to junior faculty and advanced graduate students\, by providing them with feedback from\, and opportunities to interact with\, more established members of the normative business ethics community. To that end\, we hope to have (at least) one junior author and one senior author at each session.
\nWorkshop Format
\nThe workshop will meet six times over the academic year. Any academic or practitioner with an interest in normative business ethics is invited to attend the sessions. Attendees are expected to read the papers in advance\, and to come with feedback for the paper authors. To maximize the opportunity for paper improvement\, authors will not present their papers\; we will instead spend our time together on questions and comments for the author.
\nSessions will be held on Fridays\, beginning at 1:00 pm unless otherwise indicated. We will discuss two to three papers at each session. Attendees are expected to read the papers in advance\, and to come prepared to offer feedback.
\nWe plan to hold all sessions in-person\, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania\, in Philadelphia.
\nSession Dates:
\nSeptember 25th\, 2026
\nOctober 30th\, 2026
\nJanuary 29th\, 2027
\nFebruary 26th\, 2027
\nMarch 19th\, 2027
\nApril 16th\, 2027
\nCall for Abstracts
\nWe invite abstract submissions from \;faculty and post-docs\, and from graduate students who have advanced to the ABD stage. \;Preferential treatment will be given to those who have not presented work at the Series before\, and we especially welcome submissions from women and under-represented minorities.
\nThe abstract should propose a paper in normative business ethics\, as described above. We ask that submissions offer a fairly detailed sense of the paper without exceeding 500 words.
\nWe ask that applicants identify three of the above dates\, in order of preference\, at which they would like to present their work. Please send your abstract to Brian Berkey &ndash\; bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu -- by July 15th\, 2026. Individuals will be notified about whether their paper has been selected for presentation by August 3rd\, 2026.
\nInformation for Selected Authors
\nThe Zicklin Center will cover reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for paper authors for the session at which their paper will be discussed.
\nReimbursement for travel expenses is subject to two conditions. By accepting the offer to workshop a paper\, the paper author pledges that:
\n1. \; \; \; \; The paper they will share is at a stage of development where the author can incorporate feedback gained at the workshop (e.g.\, the paper is not yet in page proofs or in print)\; and
\n2. \; \; \; \; The paper author will send their draft paper to the organizers no fewer than 14 days before their presentation date.
\nFor co-authored papers\, we can ordinarily only provide travel funding for one of the authors\, though other co-authors are welcome to attend.
\nPlease address any questions about the CFA or the workshop to one of the organizers: Brian Berkey (bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu)\, Amy Sepinwall (sepin@wharton.upenn.edu)\, Julian Jonker (jonker@wharton.upenn.edu)\, or Paul Forrester (pforr@wharton.upenn.edu).
ORGANIZER;CN=Brian Berkey;CN=Amy J. Sepinwall;CN=Julian Jonker;CN=Paul Forrester: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T170000 SUMMARY:Markets\, Firms\, and the Gender Pay Gap UID:20260911T081600Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:25 Quincy St\, Cambridge\, United States\, 02138 DESCRIPTION:Abstract: Assuming that the gender pay gap is unjust\, what are the corresponding responsibilities of firms\, in particular\, to eliminate their own gender pay gap? In this presentation\, I challenge the extremely popular\, and seemingly modest\, claim that firms are normally required by justice to pay their staff equally for performing equal work. This result is philosophically significant in itself\, but legally and politically significant because it casts some doubt over the justifiability of a range of widely-adopted measures whose purpose is to equalize pay within firms\, including equal pay laws and mandatory pay gap reporting. At first glance\, these conclusions may appear reactionary and\, indeed\, highly inimical to the feminist project. However\, I contend that these charges overlook the intersectional feminist credentials of my view\, which prioritizes the interests of disadvantaged women.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 SUMMARY:The Impact of Religious Movements on Electoral Politics and Political Behaviour - Open Theology UID:20260911T081601Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS: RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS AND ELECTORAL POLITICS
\n\n&ldquo\;Open Theology&rdquo\; (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opth ) invites submissions for the special issue &ldquo\;The Impact of Religious Movements on Electoral Politics and Political Behaviour\,&rdquo\; edited by Dr. Caglar Ezikoglu.
\n\nDESCRIPTION
\n\nThis topical issue investigates the impact of religious movements on electoral politics and political behaviour. We seek contributions that integrate theological frameworks with empirically grounded analysis (qualitative\, quantitative\, mixed-method) to examine mobilization\, political engagement\, and institutional change. Submissions should aim to articulate proposals with real traction&mdash\;normative and operational&mdash\;attentive to feasibility and measurable change.
\n\nTo comprehensively cover these dynamics\, the issue highly welcomes papers that assess electoral dynamics and voting patterns\, specifically how religious movements actively influence voter turnout and shape party affiliations. Submissions are also encouraged to dive into normative and theological frameworks to reconceptualize concepts such as authority\, obedience\, and conscience within the highly charged contexts of political campaigns and religious rhetoric. Additionally\, the issue invites analyses of movement formation and governance\, focusing on organizational leadership\, grassroots mobilization strategies\, and how these elements successfully translate into political capital. Lastly\, we welcome intersectional research that examines how underlying social locations&mdash\;such as gender\, class\, and colonial legacies&mdash\;shape political participation and behavior within these religious movements.
\n\nEspecially welcomed are papers presenting:
\n\nBecause &ldquo\;Open Theology&rdquo\; is published under an open access model\, as a rule\, publication costs should be covered by Article Publishing Charges (APC)\, paid by authors\, their affiliated institutions\, funders or sponsors. Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss potential discounts or waivers with OA Portfolio Manager Magdalena Skoneczna (magdalena.skoneczna@degruyterbrill.com ) before submitting their manuscripts.
\n\nHOW TO SUBMIT
\n\nSubmissions will be collected until September 30\, 2026\, via the on-line submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/openth/ \; Please choose section/category: special issue Religious Movements and Electoral Politics. Before submission\, authors should carefully read the Instruction for Authors\, available at: https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key/OPTH/downloadAsset/OPTH_Instruction%20for%20Authors.pdf . All contributions will undergo critical peer review before being accepted for publication.
\n\nFurther questions about content for this thematic issue can be addressed to the editor\, Dr. Caglar Ezikoglu (c.ezikoglu@wlv.ac.uk). Financial questions should be directed to the journal OA Portfolio Manager Magdalena Skoneczna (magdalena.skoneczna@degruyterbrill.com) . In case of technical problems with submission please write to Assistant.Managing.Editor@degruyterbrill.com .
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\n\n\n\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 SUMMARY:Democracies in the Post-digital World: cultural studies perspectives in global contexts - Open Cultural Studies UID:20260911T081602Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS:
DEMOCRACIES IN THE POST-DIGITAL WORLD: CULTURAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVES IN EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS \;
&ldquo\;Open Cultural Studies&rdquo\; (www.degruyter.com/CULTURE) invites submissions for a special issue entitled "Democracies in the Post-digital World: cultural studies perspectives in global contexts\," edited by Sara Brandellero (Leiden University\, the Netherlands)\, Sini Hassinen (Leiden University\, The Netherlands)\, Sonia Horonziak\, (Institute of Public Affairs\, Warsaw\, Poland)\, and Monika Junker (Magdeburg-Stendal University\, Germany). \;
\nDESCRIPTION
\nWe invite contributions to a special issue exploring the challenges and transformations of democracies in the post-digital world from cultural studies perspectives. As David M. Berry and Michael Dieter in their book Postdigital Aesthetics. Art\, Computation and Design (2015) emphasised\, we are seeing a dramatic change in the way in which sociality is performed and mediated through new distributed digital media technologies in constant negotiation with the analogue. The rapid expansion of digital technologies\, algorithms\, and AI-driven communication has reshaped public spheres\, political participation\, and modes of governance. At the same time\, cultures of resistance\, grassroots mobilization\, and new forms of collective identity emerge\, both in physical and online contexts\, highlighting both opportunities and threats for democratic practices globally. This issue aims to address how democracy is lived\, negotiated\, contested\, and imagined in the post-digital condition\, where digital infrastructures are no longer new\, but embedded in everyday cultural\, social\, and political life. We welcome interdisciplinary and critical approaches that situate democracy in relation to media\, arts and culture\, especially if embedded in grassroot mobilization\, in European (local\, regional or national settings) and/or global contexts.
\nContributions with a comparative focus are welcome.We invite contributors to offer reflections and insights on the following suggested themes (and beyond) concerning the democratic practices and cultural life in the post-digital era.
\nPossible topics include (but are not limited to):
\nHOW TO SUBMIT \;
\nSubmissions of articles of 8\,000 words maximum (with abstract of 200 words) will be collected from August 1 to September 30\, 2026 via the online submission system at https://www.editorialmanager.com/culture/ \;
\nPlease choose section/category: &ldquo\;special issue: Democracies in the Post-Digital World"
\nBefore submission\, authors should carefully read the Instructions for Authors\, available athttps://www.degruyterbrill.com/publication/journal_key/CULTURE/downloadAsset/CULTURE_License%20to%20Publish.pdf
\nAll contributions will undergo critical peer review before being accepted for publication. \;
\nAs a general rule\, publication costs should be covered by Article Publishing Charges (APC)\; that is\, be defrayed by the authors\, their affiliated institutions\, funders or sponsors. Authors without access to publishing funds are encouraged to discuss potential discounts or fee-waivers with Magdalena Skoneczna at magdalena.skoneczna@degruyterbrill.com before submitting their manuscripts. \;
\nFurther questions about this thematic issue can be sent to democracyinaction@hum.leidenuniv.nl \;
\nIn case of technical problems with submission\, please write to Assistant.Managing.Editor@degruyterbrill.com
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ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 SUMMARY:Call for Editors - Open Cultural Studies UID:20260911T081603Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Editorial Board Members: Open Cultural Studies
\nOpen Cultural Studies (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/journal/key/culture/html)\, an international peer-reviewed academic journal published by De Gruyter Brill\, invites applications from scholars interested in joining its Editorial Board.
\nThe journal provides an international and interdisciplinary forum for research in Cultural Studies and related fields. We welcome applications from scholars working across a broad range of areas\, including cultural theory\, popular culture\, media studies\, visual culture\, digital cultures\, cultural memory\, gender and sexuality studies\, postcolonial and decolonial studies\, heritage studies\, and other established or emerging areas of cultural research.
\nApplicants should hold a PhD or equivalent doctoral degree and have an active research profile in Cultural Studies or a closely related discipline. We particularly welcome scholars representing diverse intellectual traditions\, methodological approaches\, geographical contexts\, and areas of expertise.
\nMembers of the Editorial Board contribute to the scholarly development of Open Cultural Studies\, support its peer-review and editorial activities\, and help strengthen the journal&rsquo\;s international academic network and profile.
\nScholars interested in joining the Editorial Board are invited to submit their details and areas of expertise through the application form:
\nApplication form: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/qcsrDSjB4J
\nJournal: Open Cultural Studies
Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
We encourage colleagues to circulate this call within relevant academic networks.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 SUMMARY:Responsible Trusting without Prejudice Workshop 2 UID:20260911T081604Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:University of Stirling\, Stirling\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:The Responsible Trusting without Prejudice project is jointly hosted by the University of Stirling and the University of Edinburgh\, and is funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Our first in-person workshop will take place on the University of Stirling campus on the 7th and 8th of November 2026.
\nIn addition to a number of invited speakers (TBA)\, we are pleased to invite the submission of extended abstracts to be considered for presentation at this workshop. Abstracts should include a short bibliography\, should be no longer than 800 words in total\, and should be anonymised for review. Abstracts should be sent to Sharon Coull thoughtmanagingeditor@gmail.com\, by the end of day on Wednesday 30th of September\, 2026. Proposed presentations can be on any aspect of the project\, though we particularly invite abstracts on what is involved in being a responsible epistemic agent\, and whether epistemic responsibility raises any distinctive issues not already raised by responsibility for action in general. Following review\, selected authors will be invited to attend the workshop and give a presentation based on their submissions\, with 2-3 nights of accommodation and the workshop dinner paid for by the project (unfortunately\, we are unable to cover the cost of travel to Stirling).
\nOverview
\nOne lesson of Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s On Certainty is that responsible inquiry requires that we take certain things on trust rather than seeking evidence in their favour\, and yet\, accepting things without evidence can be a manifestation of prejudice. How can we distinguish cases in which accepting something without evidence is demanded of us as responsible epistemic agents from those in which it must be avoided? What steps might we take as an epistemic community to promote responsible inquiry\, given the risks of falling into prejudicial thinking?
\nThese questions have particular urgency in the present social context\, in which real social harm is caused both by unjustified doubts&mdash\;such as climate change denial\, distrust of experts etc. &mdash\;and unjustified acceptances&mdash\;as seen in the phenomenon of online echo chambers\, the proliferation of conspiracy theories etc. \;This project will clarify what it takes to be a responsible inquirer in a world that is so uncooperative\, and where the consequences of lapsing into prejudicial thinking are so harmful.
\nSome issues to be explored draw on and evaluate hints and insights from On Certainty and views advanced in the extensive literature of what has come to be known as hinge epistemology. What should be included in the range of presuppositions that inquiring rational agents cannot but &lsquo\;take for granted&rsquo\; as background to the responsible formation of belief&mdash\;for example\, propositions about the effectiveness of their own cognitive capacities and the suitability of the circumstances in which they are deployed for the effective function of those capacities. Some of these propositions will admit of independent investigation\, but that of course will rest upon a further set of propositions.
\nMore specific questions to be addressed at the workshop include:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; What are the nature and limits of rationally unavoidable epistemic trust?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; What is the nature of epistemic responsibility?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; What are the conditions for the effective transmission of reliable information?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; What is the significance of &lsquo\;inherited&rsquo\; backgrounds and echo chambers.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Why are people susceptible to disinformation?
\nFor additional information go tohttps://crispinjwright.com/rtwp_workshop/ \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Aidan McGlynn;CN=Alan Millar: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 SUMMARY:Translation—Semiotics—Music UID:20260911T081605Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Title:
\nTranslation&mdash\;Semiotics&mdash\;Music
\n\nGuest editors:
\nAnna Rędzioch-Korkuz (University of Warsaw)
\nMałgorzata Grajter (The Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz)
\n\nJournal:
\nStudia Semiotyczne (Semiotic Studies)
\n\nhttp://studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/
\n\nDeadline for submissions:
\nthe 30th of September 2026
\n\nDescription
\nStudia Semiotyczne (Semiotic Studies) invites submissions for a special issue of the journal. Papers should be written either in English or in Polish and prepared for blind review.
\n\nThe field of translation and music has been attracting increased attention recently: this is evident in numerous monographs\, research papers\, and conferences focused on the complex relationship between words and sounds (see also Bennett\, 2025: 1). As Susam-Sarajeva (2008: 189-190) has noted\, this relationship appears at best challenging\, since translation scholars are &ldquo\;more comfortable dealing with written texts\,&rdquo\; and consequently\, &ldquo\;end up sliding into a predominantly textual analysis.&rdquo\; Similarly\, Desblache (2019: 58) argues that the two fields\, which are genuinely interested in that relationship &ndash\; namely\, translation studies and musicology &ndash\; remain separate because both are practice-oriented disciplines that primarily focus on either verbal translation or music.
\n\nAgainst this backdrop\, we would like to bring the two fields together through semiotics-based research on musical texts\, believing that this perspective has the potential to create resonance for general translation studies. It has been argued that semiotics is good for translation studies (Stecconi 2007\; Marais 2019\; Kourdis 2023)\, which means &ndash\; at least potentially &ndash\; that there is a good deal of methodological and theoretical capital that can be utilized. Research on translation and music can definitely espouse a movement away from words\, verbal artefacts and textual research towards the understanding of the performative\, enacted\, embedded and embodied nature of meaning making within translation\, i.e. towards a deeper understanding of material processes of cultural practices\, which necessitate moving beyond the verbal fixation and concentrating on more semiotically-informed approaches.
\n\nIn the special issue\, we would like to see how the actual go-between of semiotics bridges the fields of translation studies and musicology. We encourage scholars from across the academy to explore and provide their unique insight within the suggested thematic focus of translation\, music and semiotics. We welcome both conceptual and empirical research. Possible topics include\, but are not limited to the following questions:
\n\n● Can (and if yes\, then how can) semiotics contribute to solving the conceptual confusion within translation studies as exemplified by translating musical texts?
\n\n● How can translation and music capitalize theoretically on various theories of semiotics and vice versa?
\n\n● Can we (and if yes\, then how can we) apply conceptual frameworks developed by various schools\, e.g. the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics\, Paris School\, Eco&rsquo\;s interpretative semiotics\, Groupe &mu\;\, Peircean semiotics\, etc. to the study of translating musical texts?
\n\n● What methodologies can we use to research the synergy of semiotic systems in musical texts?
\n\n● How can the concept of &ldquo\;textuality&rdquo\; be rethought when applied to musical compositions as texts to be translated?
\n\n● How can the study of translating musical texts through semiotics help to challenge the traditional hierarchy between linguistic and non-linguistic forms of meaning-making?
\n\n● How can semiotics challenge the literal and the human in translating musical texts?
\n\n● How can semiotic approaches account for the performative\, enacted\, embedded and embodied dimensions of musical translation?
\n\n● How can semiotics bridge the disciplinary gap between musicology and translation studies?
\n\nIn order to submit the paper\, one is kindly asked to submit the manuscript by sending it to:
\nannaredzioch@uw.edu.pl\, malgra@amuz.lodz.pl and studiasemiotyczne@pts.edu.pl
\n\nAll submitted papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261001T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261001T080000 SUMMARY:Winter School in Phenomenology: "Phenomenology of the We. Intersubjectivity\, Collective Emotions\, and the Constitution of the Social World" UID:20260911T081606Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Via Porta di Massa 1\, Napoli\, Italy\, 80133 DESCRIPTION:The Winter School \;Phenomenology of the We \;invites graduate students\, doctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars to explore phenomenological approaches to \;intersubjectivity and emotions. The event aims to foster discussion on the structures of shared experience\, collective intentionality\, affective relations\, and the constitution of social life\, bringing classical phenomenological perspectives into dialogue with contemporary debates. The Winter School will feature keynote lectures by \;Dan Zahavi \;and \;Sophie Loidolt.
\nMorning Programme
\nThursday\, 19 November
\nDan Zahavi
The Unity and Plurality of Emotional Sharing
Anna Donise \;
Empathetic Relationships and the Original Self
Friday\, 20 November
\nSophie Loidolt
Philosophy as a Communal Form of Life: Assessing Husserl&rsquo\;s Political Visions in the Kaizo Articles
Anna Pia Ruoppo
Back to the Origins: Ethics and Politics in Martin Heidegger
The \;morning lectures are open to the public\, while the \;afternoon workshops are reserved for 20 selected participants. The workshops are designed to encourage intensive discussion and close interaction among participants and keynote speakers.
\nApplications and presentations
\nThose wishing to participate in the Winter School are invited to submit a \;short motivation letter\, accompanied by a \;brief biographical note. Applicants who would also like to present their work during the afternoon workshops should additionally submit an \;abstract of no more than 1\,000 words. Abstracts should address topics related to the general themes of the Winter School and should be written in English. Of the \;20 participants admitted to the Winter School\, 6 will be selected to give a 15-minute presentation\, followed by discussion. Applicants who are not selected to give a presentation may therefore still be admitted as participants and take part in all afternoon workshops.
\nWe particularly welcome abstracts addressing topics including\, but not limited to:
\nSubmission deadline: \;1 October 2026
Notification of acceptance: \;15 October 2026
Abstracts should be submitted to: \;lorenzo.cavallo2@unina.it \;and \;giulia.salzano@unina.it
\nFurther information regarding the venue and programme will be communicated to selected participants.
ORGANIZER;CN=Anna Donise;CN=Anna Pia Ruoppo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261002T170000 SUMMARY:Ljubljana Doctoral and Postdoctoral Conference in Political Theory and Philosophy UID:20260911T081607Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Aškerčeva cesta 2\, Ljubljana\, Slovenia DESCRIPTION:The Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts\, University of Ljubljana\, invites doctoral candidates and early-career postdoctoral researchers to a two-day conference in political theory and political philosophy.
\nThe conference is open to work on any topic in the field\, and is unconstrained by school or tradition. Papers in the analytic and continental traditions are equally welcome\, as are Marxist\, critical-theoretical\, psychoanalytic\, (post)structuralist\, comparative\, historical\, and normative approaches.
\nKeynote speakers
\n&ndash\; \; \; \; \; Richard Bellamy (University College London) &mdash\; title to be confirmed
\n&ndash\; \; \; \; \; Vincent Harting (London School of Economics) &mdash\; title to be confirmed
\nFormat
\nPapers will be grouped into thematic panels. Each speaker will have 50 minutes to divide between the presentation and discussion. There is no requirement to send papers in advance\, but there will be an opportunity to do so.
\nPractical information
\nThere is no registration fee. Coffee and lunch will be provided on both days. We regret that we are unable to cover travel or accommodation costs.
\nWe particularly encourage submissions from researchers belonging to groups underrepresented in political theory.
\nSubmissions
\nPlease send an abstract of no more than 300 words\, together with your name\, affiliation\, and current position (doctoral or postdoctoral)\, to dusan.rebolj@ff.uni-lj.si -- ideally \; \;by 6 September 2026. Later submissions will be accepted but are not guaranteed consideration. Timely applicants will be notified of decisions within days of the deadline\, others on a case-by-case basis. Enquiries may be directed to the same address.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261005T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261007T170000 SUMMARY:Deliberative Democratic Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities from a Constitutional Perspective UID:20260911T081608Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Innstr. 27\, Passau\, Germany\, 94032 DESCRIPTION:We are looking for two contributions for a panel entitled \;"Deliberative Democratic Innovations: Challenges and Opportunities from a Constitutional Perspective" \;as part of the conference \;Backsliding\, Resilience\, Renewal? Democracy in Eras of Transformation\, which will take place at the \;University of Passau\, Germany from \;Monday 5th \;to Wednesday 7th \;October 2026. Submissions of up to 400 words should be made directly onto the \;webpage \;from Wednesday 26th \;November to Monday 15th \;December 2025. Notification of acceptance will be made by Tuesday 20th \;January 2026.
\nFor organisational inquiries\, please contact Silvia Haider (second.congress@uni-passau.de). The panel is part of the transatlantic project "Open Constitutional Democracy: Reconciling Deliberation and Constitutional Democracy". More information about the call for papers and the panel proposal can be found on the link below. We look forward to your submission!
ORGANIZER;CN="Sonia Anaid Cruz Dávila": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261005T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261005T170000 SUMMARY:Towards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory UID:20260911T081609Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Viale Europa\, 1\, Catanzaro\, Italy\, 88100 DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\nTowards a Philosophy of Legal Concepts. Hermeneutic Itineraries in Legal Theory
15 October 2026
Department of Law\, Economics and Sociology
University Magna Græ\;cia of Catanzaro \;(Italy)
Hybrid format (on site and online)
Overview and Aims
\nThe Conference aims to explore the philosophical meaning of legal institutions and concepts\, starting from the idea that the task of the philosophy of law is to investigate the essence of legal phenomena in order to clarify the object of theoretical legal science.
\nThe event proposes a study day devoted to examining the possibility of explaining and justifying\, from a philosophical perspective\, the existence and functioning of legal concepts. Contributors are invited to apply the hermeneutic method&mdash\;understood as a general interpretative criterion rather than a specific philosophical stance&mdash\;and to conduct an inquiry internal to legal practice\, highlighting the nature of legal concepts as &ldquo\;places of meaning&rdquo\; capable of revealing the substance of legal experience.
\nThe Conference seeks to foster an open\, critical\, and interdisciplinary dialogue among different theoretical approaches to the interpretation of legal phenomena\, encouraging a shared reflection on the role of hermeneutics in understanding law and its institutions.
\nSuggested Topics
\nAbstracts may address\, from a theoretical and philosophical perspective\, themes including (but not limited to):
\nthe concept of the cause of contract and its interpretative approaches\;
\ntheories of legal appearance and the relationship between fact and representation\;
\nthe role of general clauses and the transformation of the idea of the legal &ldquo\;system&rdquo\;\;
\nthe philosophical meaning of civil liability and risk allocation in different social models\;
\nbioethical legal issues (surrogacy\, cloning\, abortion\, end-of-life decisions)\;
\nthe philosophical foundations of the concept of citizenship\;
\ntheoretical configurations of sovereignty in light of changing power relations\;
\nthe concept of public interest as a hermeneutic category\;
\nthe legitimation of power and the symbolic function of the Constitution\;
\nthe state of exception as a philosophical-legal category\;
\nthe relationship between norm and value\;
\nlegal language as symbolic mediation\;
\nthe concept of legal personhood\;
\nthe function of judgment and interpretation in legal practice.
\nContributions are particularly welcome from scholars working in philosophy of law and the social sciences\, including epistemological\, ontological\, sociological\, and political-philosophical perspectives\, as well as approaches related to Critical Legal Studies\, Law and Humanities\, Economic Analysis of Law\, and philosophy of economics.
\nTarget Participants
\nThe Conference is addressed to:
\nPhD candidates and PhD holders\;
\npostdoctoral fellows and early-career researchers\;
\nscholars in law\, philosophy\, history\, economics\, business and management studies\, political science\, and social sciences.
\nParticipation Guidelines
\nDate: \;15 October 2026
\nVenue: \;Department of Law\, Economics and Sociology\, University Magna Græ\;cia of Catanzaro (Italy)
\nFormat: \;Hybrid (on site and online)
\nFee: \;Free of charge (no travel or accommodation reimbursement)
\nCertificate of attendance: \;Available upon request
\nSubmission requirements:
\nAbstract (maximum 400 words)
\nShort biographical note (maximum 100 words)
\nFormat: .doc/.docx or .pdf
\nDeadline: \;17 May 2026
\nSubmission via email to:
\nlinda.brancaleone@studenti.unicz.it
\ngiacomo.cipriani@unicatt.it
\nSelection process:
\nNotification of acceptance by \;5 July 2026
\nSelected authors will present a 15-minute paper
\nConfirmation of participation (indicating on-site or online attendance) required by \;19 July 2026
\nPublication Opportunity
\nConference proceedings will be published in a scientific edited volume. Contributions will be selected by the Scientific Committee following a peer-review process.
\nConference Language
\nPapers may be presented in \;Italian or English.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261006T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20270427T170000 SUMMARY:"Ricœur\, Dead or Alive?" Fonds Ricœur Monthly Seminar (ENS\, Paris) UID:20260911T081610Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:École Normale Supérieure\, 45 rue d'Ulm\, Paris\, France\, 75005 DESCRIPTION:Presentation of the Seminar
\nThe seminar "Actualité\;s de Ric&oelig\;ur" ("Ric&oelig\;ur Studies Today") aims to offer a space for discussion and development for early-career research on Ric&oelig\;ur. Hosted at the É\;cole Normale Supé\;rieure for the 2026&ndash\;2027 academic year\, it welcomes proposals from doctoral students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars who wish to explore\, extend\, or put to the test the resources of Paul Ric&oelig\;ur's philosophy.
\nThe first edition of this seminar is entitled "Ric&oelig\;ur\, Dead or Alive?" &mdash\; a deliberately ambiguous formulation\, one that invites us to question both the internal vitality of his &oelig\;uvre and its capacity to nourish the philosophical\, ethical\, and political debates of today.
\nIs Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutic phenomenology not defined\, in essence\, by its defense of &mdash\; and\, as it were\, its "vow" (v&oelig\;u) in favor of &mdash\; life\, the living\, and the lively? But is he still a living interlocutor\, or has his thought sedimented into heritage?
\nThe seminar will follow this format: two speakers per two-hour session\, with 30 minutes of presentation and 30 minutes of discussion for each speaker.
\nFor paper proposals\, we welcome submissions engaging with three thematic axes.
\nAxis I. Life as Resistance &ndash\; Language\, Time\, and Action
\nHow does life affirm\, narrate\, and configure itself in the face of what negates it? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutic phenomenology is traversed by a fundamental tension between the power to act and the multiple forms of its hindrance. Confronted with evil\, forgetting\, or indeed death\, Ric&oelig\;ur explores the diverse forms of resistance at work within life &mdash\; metaphors\, narratives\, memories\, history. These resistances\, as actions\, possess an intrinsic logic and continue to create the meaning of life.
\nSuggested Lines of Approach
\n1. Language as resistance: How does the "living metaphor" (The Rule of Metaphor\, 1975) constitute a form of resistance to the "entropy of language\," which freezes meaning? In what sense is semantic innovation a vital act\, a "revival"?
\n2. Narrative as resistance: In Time and Narrative (1983&ndash\;1985)\, emplotment is presented as a provisional victory over temporal discordance. How are we to think this victory in the face of the radicality of Heideggerian "being-towards-death"?
\n3. Memory as resistance: Memory\, History\, Forgetting (2000) distinguishes between forgetting kept in reserve and forgetting through effacement. In what way does this distinction commit us to an ethics of memory as a form of fidelity to life?
\nAxis II. A Life of One's Own &ndash\; Selfhood\, Vulnerability\, Ethicity
\nHow might vulnerability\, far from being a limit of subjectivity\, be its very condition of ethical possibility? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutics of the self is built upon the recognition of a constitutive fragility: narrative identity is always exposed to rupture\, to suffering\, to undergoing the action of the other &mdash\; the other inscribing at the very heart of the self. This axis proposes to deepen reflection on the relation between the self and the other\, and to explore the modes by which a "good life" may be accomplished\, starting from the concrete ordeals of vulnerability: trauma\, the quest for mutual recognition\, and the precariousness of existence.
\nSuggested Lines of Approach
\n4. The ordeal of narrative identity: Oneself as Another (1990) articulates idem-identity and ipse-identity around the self-constancy under trial. What becomes of this articulation when the trial is that of identity's collapse &mdash\; serious illness\, exile\, trauma? Ric&oelig\;ur's hermeneutics of narrative identity also resonates with debates on the performativity of identity and with gender studies (Butler).
\n5. The reciprocity of recognition: In The Course of Recognition (2004)\, Ric&oelig\;ur moves from self-recognition to mutual recognition. How might this course enter into dialogue with contemporary theories of vulnerability (Weil\, Levinas) or of care?
\n6. The ethical life: The "ethical aim" defined in the "ethical studies" (Oneself as Another\, Studies 5-7) seeks to realize a "good life." Does this notion remain operative in the face of situations of thwarted life\, precarity\, or desubjectivation?
\nAxis III. Ric&oelig\;ur&rsquo\;s Survival &ndash\; Present Legacies
\nRic&oelig\;ur maintained a singular relationship with his own era\, marked as much by fruitful resonances as by sharp conflicts. This axis seeks to interrogate the philosophical actuality of these past debates: what extensions\, what corrections\, and what ruptures does Ric&oelig\;urian thought call for today? Proposals will place Ric&oelig\;ur's texts in critical dialogue with contemporary problematics\, without confining themselves to historical reconstruction.
\nSuggested Lines of Approach
\n7. Radical alterity in phenomenology: Ric&oelig\;ur engaged in a twofold critical dialogue with Derridean deconstruction and Levinasian ethics &mdash\; two distinct contestations of the autonomy of the self\, the one through the play of language\, the other through the ethical injunction of the face. How do these confrontations\, taken together\, illuminate the limits and the resources of the hermeneutics of the self in the face of the contemporary challenges of hospitality\, communication\, and responsibility?
\n8. Philosophical anthropology: Is the human being\, understood as the "capable human being" (From Text to Action\, 1986)\, in a position to accommodate new forms of agency &mdash\; collective\, distributed\, digital &mdash\; or do its anthropological presuppositions constrain it? In this regard\, Ric&oelig\;urian philosophy could enter into fruitful dialogue with the theories of Stiegler (tertiary retention) and Arendt (collective action).
\n9. Justice today: How might Ric&oelig\;ur's reflections on justice\, collective memory\, and forgiveness (Memory\, History\, Forgetting\, Epilogue) be articulated with the contemporary stakes of memory conflicts\, politics of reconciliation\, or postcolonial reparations? Ric&oelig\;ur's philosophy is bound up with figures such as Halbwachs\, Derrida\, and Honneth. His reflection on memory and forgiveness continues to shed lasting light on the practices of transitional justice.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nTo submit a proposal or for any inquiries\, please write to us at the following address: seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com. Proposals are welcome from doctoral students\, postdoctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars of any discipline (philosophy\, literary studies\, theology\, social sciences\, law)\, provided that they are grounded in Ric&oelig\;ur's texts and in contemporary debates for which Ric&oelig\;urian theory could be fruitfully mobilized. Comparative and transdisciplinary proposals are welcome. We will accept proposals in French and in English.
\nPractical Information
\nSubmissions: seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com
\nSubmission deadline: 20 September 2026
\nVenue: É\;cole Normale Supé\;rieure\, 45 rue d'Ulm\, Paris (75005)
\nFrequency: monthly (2026&ndash\;2027 academic year)\, normally on the last Tuesday of each month\, beginning however on Tuesday 6 October.
\nSchedule: 6 October\; 27 October\; 24 November\; 15 December (due to the holiday break)\; 26 January\; 23 February\; 30 March\; 27 April.
\nPaper proposals must follow these guidelines:
\nAn anonymized abstract of 400 to 600 words in Word format\, specifying the title of the paper\, the chosen axis\, and the thesis defended\, accompanied by an indicative bibliography.
\nA brief bio-bibliographical note (name\, affiliation\, current position\, thesis supervisor where applicable) should be included in the body of the email. To facilitate the archiving and processing of your submission\, we kindly ask you to format the subject line of your email as follows: [Seminar Application] Surname &ndash\; Title of the Paper. Formatting guidelines for the (anonymous) abstract: Times New Roman or Arial\, 12-point font\, 1.5 line spacing.
\nWe wish for the papers to be delivered in person\, in order to facilitate the discussions that lie at the heart of the seminar spirit of this initiative. A link will nevertheless be available for those who wish to follow the event remotely\, where applicable.
\nThe seminar has no dedicated budget for the reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses\, and in-person participation is at the speakers' own expense. We therefore encourage them to explore\, as a first step\, the funding available from their research unit\, doctoral school\, or home institution.
\nSelected speakers will be invited to submit a preparatory text (25\,000 characters maximum)\, to be circulated to participants one week before the session\, and sent to the contact address (seminaire.actualites.ricoeur@gmail.com).
ORGANIZER;CN=Barberousse Tristan;CN=Hu Kexin;CN=Lodi Martina;CN=Chen Qiyu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261007T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:PhilML'26 UID:20260911T081611Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:LMU Munich\, Munich\, Germany DESCRIPTION:This is a save the date for the annual PhilML conference.
\nPhilML is an annual conference dedicated to the philosophy of machine learning. It addresses foundational epistemological\, ethical\, and social questions concerning machine learning from the perspective of analytic philosophy. The conference welcomes both (1) work that applies philosophical concepts and methods to gain insight into machine learning\, and (2) work that critically reflects on the philosophical and ethical implications of machine learning research. To foster close and productive exchange\, PhilML brings together philosophers and philosophically inclined machine learning researchers\, with an openness to engaging direclty with scientific and mathematical details. \;
\nPhilML'26 will take place at LMU Munich from October 7-9. The call for papers will be announced in May\, at which point we will invite people to submit extended abstracts. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Kate Vredenburgh;CN=Thomas Grote;CN=Tom F. Sterkenburg;CN=Timo Freiesleben: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261012T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261014T170000 SUMMARY:Caring for Non-Humans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Care among Animals\, the Environment\, and AI UID:20260911T081612Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Praha\, Czech Republic ORGANIZER;CN=Friderike Spang;CN=John Dorsch: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261015T090000 SUMMARY:Public Affairs Quarterly UID:20260911T081613Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Public Affairs Quarterly will hold a special issue focusing on connections between ethics and political psychology. \; Philosophers\, political theorists\, and political psychologists are invited to submit normative papers exploring connections between these fields. \; Although contributions should be normative or conceptual\, submissions from practicing social scientists are particularly encouraged. \; Submissions may raise new philosophical questions from a social scientific point of view\, foster philosophical focus on concepts from political psychology\, or introduce new ways of approaching normative questions. \; Examples of possible topics include: opinion change in political beliefs\, bias and heuristics in political reasoning\, polarization (including its causes\, various dimensions\, and normatively significant consequences)\, rural or urban consciousness\, symmetries and asymmetries between political parties\, connections to democracy and democratic norms\, the psychology of deliberation\, attitudes toward political violence\, contact theory and politically significant relationships\, epistemic deference or resistance to expertise\, trust in media and political institutions\, and the political psychology of race and gender. \; This issue aims in particular to initiate conversations about issues of common normative concern between philosophers and political scientists. \; As such\, submissions need not be situated in an existing philosophical literature\; interested scholars are encouraged to introduce normatively significant conceptual questions from their own disciplinary point of view. \;
\nManuscripts should be between 7\,000 and 9\,000 words\, prepared for anonymous review\, and submitted through the PAQ submission portal by October 15\, 2026. Please note in the submission that this is intended for the special issue on Ethics and Political Psychology. Review will begin November 1\, 2026. The special issue is planned for Spring/Summer 2027. Questions may be directed to Ryan Davis.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:Radical Philosophy Association 18th Biennial Conference UID:20260911T081614Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:Claremont\, United States DESCRIPTION:Conference Theme: Life After Capitalism? \;
The risks posed by the glocal economic and political system's nearly unlimited dependence on fossil fuels and ecological destruction have inspired reflection on the possibility that capitalism might spell the end of life as we know it\, and that the imperatives of this social\, political\, and economic system work against life itself. As these risks have become more apparent\, this system has only become more entrenched\, exerting progressively greater control over our patterns of production and consumption\, forms of life\, and collective political imagination. But the difficulty of envisaging life after capitalism has not translated intoa shortage of theoretical\, practical\, and artistic work on this topic. It seems rather to have spurred a rich and diverse range of attempts to imagine and enact alternative forms of social organization\, discern the possibility and dangers of revolutionary transformation\, learn from the traditions of exploited and dispossessed peoples around the world\, and assess the prospects of escape - or collapse.
The programe committee of the 18th biennial conference of the Radical Philosophy Association encourages submissions on the theme of life after capitalism\, with a special emphasis on three areas: ecology\, humanity\, and utopia. Submissions are encouraged that address any area of these topics\, including the following:
Ecology
degrowth v. eco-modernism\; afro-\, anti-colonial\, and indigenous resistance to ecological destruction\; eco-fascism\, eco-socialism\, and anarchism\; revolutionary strategy and environmental collapse\; extractivism and its critiques\; political economy and the global energy system\; ecological flourishing and ecological catastrophe\; the political\, epistemic\, or ontological concept of life
Humanity
humanism and its critics (e.g. Afro-pessimism\, posthumanism\, theoretical antihumanism)\; humanity's relationship to the environment and to itself\; pre- and post-capitalist forms of life\; political organization and political strategy\; organizing society differently in theory and practice\; capitalist production and social repdoction\; the experience of economic and social collapse
Utopia
uses and abuses of utopia/distopia\; the end of the world and the end of capitalism\; theorizing revolutionary transformation\; imagining life before\, after\, or outside of capitalism\; political temporality: kairos\, kronos\, and apocalypse
We welcome single paper\, panel\, and workshop submissions on any area related to these themes\, or to radical philosophy mroe broadly construed. Individual authors are asked to submit anonymized abstracts of 250-400 words (maximum) to \;radical.philosophy.association@gmail.com. For panel submissions (maximum 3 speakers)\, please send an abstract for each paper\, as well as a more general panel abstract. All papers received by \;February 15\, 2026\, \;will be anonymously reviewed. \;
Pace University Center for Ethical Thinking's Third Thursdays Speaker Series brings together scholars from a range of disciplines doing innovative work in ethics\, political theory\, and related areas. \;
\nAll attendees who are not Pace University students or employees must register in advance to attend. \;
\nFollow us on Instagram! instagram.com/pacecenterforethicalthinking
ORGANIZER;CN=Eddis Miller: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261016T141500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261018T170000 SUMMARY:North American Association for Philosophy and Education (NAAPE) 2026 UID:20260911T081616Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Mundelein\, United States DESCRIPTION:NAAPE welcomes submissions in any area related to philosophy and education and encourages submissions from all traditions of philosophy including work that is historical\, contemporary\, \;analytic\, continental\, theoretical\, and/or applied. Furthermore\, we encourage authors working within the interdisciplinary fields of educational ethics\, moral and civic education\, and ethics of educational policy to submit to the conference. However\, we only accept papers that are written in clear\, straightforward prose that is accessible to a wide range of philosophers and educators. We therefore discourage the use of technical language that is not otherwise clearly explained in the paper. Finally\, the paper must have some bearing on education. \;If that bearing is largely implicit throughout the paper\, \;the author must\, at the very least\, gesture towards its bearing in the introduction or conclusion of the paper. Submissions for NAAPE 2026 are due \;July 1st\, 2026 by 11:59 PM CDT (UTC -5\, Chicago time). \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Dennis Arjo;CN=Drew Chambers;CN=Madison Cosby;CN=Randall R. Curren;CN=Evan Dutmer;CN=Nicholas Smith;CN=Dario Vaccaro;CN=Darby Vickers;CN=Ilya Zrudlo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20261017T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20261018T170000 SUMMARY:The Third “Frontiers in Ethics and Political Philosophy” Workshop UID:20260911T081617Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Asia/Shanghai LOCATION:Zhejiang University\, Zijingang Campus\, Hangzhou\, China\, 310058 DESCRIPTION:The Third &ldquo\;Frontiers in Ethics and Political Philosophy&rdquo\; Workshop
\nTheme: Equal Relations and Social Justice
\n\;
\nZhejiang University: October 17-18 (Sat-Sun)\, 2026
\nSubmission Deadline: August 10 (Mon)\, 2026
\nWe are pleased to announce the Third &ldquo\;Frontiers in Ethics and Political Philosophy&rdquo\; Workshop\, which will take place at Zhejiang University on October 17-18\, 2026. This workshop aims to bring together scholars to explore and discuss issues related to equal relations and social justice\, broadly conceived.
\nWorkshop Theme: \;Equal Relations and Social Justice
\nRecent developments in ethics and political philosophy have increasingly emphasized the relational dimensions of justice\, arguing that a just society requires not only fair distributions of resources and opportunities but also social relations characterized by equality\, mutual respect\, and freedom from domination. We intend for this workshop to have a broad remit within this topic. Submissions may engage with the work of influential thinkers in these debates\, including Elizabeth Anderson\, Iris Marion Young\, David Miller\, Thomas Scanlon\, Samuel Scheffler\, and others.
\nTopics of Interest
\nWe invite submissions addressing any aspect of equal relations and social justice\, including but not limited to:
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nInterested authors are invited to submit extended abstracts (500-1000 words) for blind review. Abstracts should be submitted to frontiersworkshop@foxmail.com by August 10\, 2026. We welcome submissions from scholars at all career stages.
\nLanguages: English\, Chinese.
\nThere will be 6-8 refereed talks (30 minutes each). Please also indicate whether you would like to be considered as a commentator.
\nParticipants are responsible for their own transportation expenses. Accommodation and meals will be covered by the organizers.
\nImportant Dates
\nContact Information
\nFor inquiries\, please contact Xuanpu Zhuang at xuanpuzhuang@zju.edu.cn \;or Jiangmei Liu at jl319@zju.edu.cn.
ORGANIZER;CN=Xuanpu Zhuang;CN=Jiangmei Liu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20261021T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20261022T170000 SUMMARY:Digital Ethics and Wellbeing UID:20260911T081618Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Asia/Shanghai LOCATION:220 Handan Lu\, Shanghai\, China\, 200433 DESCRIPTION:The conference explores the ethics and wellbeing impact of digital technology use (online activity\, gaming\, smartphone use\, AI\, VR etc.) from philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives. We welcome contributions on a wide range of topics within this field\, for example \; \;gaming and mental health\, use of AI and VR to support wellbeing in different groups (e.g. young people and older adults)\, use of AI and VR to foster new understandings and ideas for wellbeing and individual and collective ways of living\, social media use and personal development\, existential aspects of AI companionship\, and how normative consideration and \;knowledge of the wellbeing impact can inform design of technology\, interventions and policy making\, and comparative studies o Chinese and Western approaches to ethical assessment and to integrating ethical concerns in innovation and implementation processes. \;
ORGANIZER;CN="Søren Klausen": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261021T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261021T170000 SUMMARY:Deep Disagreement and the Limits of Argumentation UID:20260911T081619Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Klemensova 19\, Bratislava\, Slovakia\, 81109 DESCRIPTION:We invite submissions of abstracts for a one-day symposium exploring the nature and consequences of deep disagreement for argumentation theory. When interlocutors lack shared premises\, standards of evidence\, or even criteria for what counts as a good argument\, what &mdash\; if anything &mdash\; can argumentation still accomplish?
\nKeynote Speaker: Scott F. Aikin (Vanderbilt University) &mdash\; "Deep Disagreement and the Owl of Minerva Problem"
\nTopics of interest include:
\n- The nature and scope of deep disagreement
\n- Epistemic and argumentative responses to fundamental disagreement
\n- The limits of rational persuasion
\n- Deep disagreement in political\, moral\, and religious contexts
\n- The role of argumentation in polarized discourse
\n- Argumentation and epistemic agency under conditions of disagreement
\nSubmission Guidelines: Please submit an abstract of 300&ndash\;500 words to deepdisagreement2026@gmail.com by June 30\, 2026. Include your name\, affiliation\, and contact details in the body of the email.
\nNotification of acceptance: August 1\, 2026.
\nThere is no registration fee.
\nOrganizer: Tomá\;&scaron\; Kollá\;rik (Institute of Philosophy\, Slovak Academy of Sciences)
\nContact: deepdisagreement2026@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Tomas Kollarik: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261023T170000 SUMMARY:Utopias of Work: Historical Perspectives UID:20260911T081620Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Groningen\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:Recent changes in the world of work &ndash\; \;changes such as growing precarity in people&rsquo\;s access to the goods of work\, the rise of platform work\, the resurgent popularity of the ideal of productive self-sufficiency\, and the unequal impact of automation and AI &ndash\; have renewed interest in how work might be valued\, compensated\, and organized differently. The moral issues raised by these changes are not new\, however\, and we would benefit from revisiting the long history of thinking about ideals of work and its place in the good life. This conference turns to the history of philosophy and political economy for utopian and radical perspectives on work. We will explore how philosophers and political economists from Plato to Gandhi saw the rational or democratic organization of firms\, unions\, and labor markets as means of advancing justice\, freedom\, and virtue at work. In particular\, we are interested in insights from these figures that might help to address today&rsquo\;s injustices surrounding work. The conference will conclude with a panel on the overall relevance of returning to utopian and revolutionary thinkers from our past. What (if anything) can we learn from them for the 21st century? \;
\nThe conference will focus on three major themes: \;
\nWorker rights and worker control \;
\nWe welcome submissions on any utopian or radical historical figure or movement that addresses one or more of these themes. That could include:
\nLabor\, the good life\, and the just society in ancient philosophy\, for example: the division of labor in Plato&rsquo\;s Republic\; Aristotle on work\, politics\, and leisure\; Aristophanes&rsquo\; Assemblywomen \;
\nUtopian socialism in the 19th century\, including Babeuf\, Saint Simon\, Owen\, Fourier\, etc. \;
\nFeminist proposals for rethinking domestic labor\, or the place of social reproduction in the rational society more generally\, such as in Kollontai and Tristan \;
\nRussian radicals and utopians\, such as: Nikolay Chernyshevsky\, Peter Kropotkin\, Alexander Bogdanov \;
\nLabor utopias in literature\, for instance those of Le Guin and Callenbach
\nLabor utopias in Anarchist thought \;
\nThis event is part of the Ammodo project "The political philosophy of work - expanding our vision" and is organized by Lisa M. Herzog (l.m.herzog@rug.nl) and Tyler C. Re (t.c.re@rug.nl) at the University of Groningen\, Philosophy Faculty. For more information about the project\, please visit \;https://www.rug.nl/staff/l.m.herzog/project-description.pdf. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Lisa Maria Herzog;CN=Tyler Colby Re: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261024T170000 SUMMARY:Rationality and Normativity Conference UID:20260911T081621Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:nám. Svobody 331/2\, Hradec Králové\, Czech Republic DESCRIPTION:The conference is on the nature of rationality and its relation to normativity\, especially on how rationality and reasons generate norms for what to believe\, trust or doubt. Rationality provides norms governing our thinking\, not only in general (do not form incoherent beliefs)\, but also in specific cases (do not trust that obvious conman). Which reasons the agent does or does not possess\, and their quality\, is also important. This conference aims at bringing together experts on these topics and shed light on these phenomena.
\nGetting a clear picture of what rationality and reasons are and what norms they place on our thinking can aid with applied philosophical issues as well. For example\, is conspiracy thinking\, distrust towards scientific experts or falling for fake news irrational? If so\, which rational norms are violated exactly\, and under which circumstances? What does the rational standing of people who engage in these potentially irrational processes teach us about why they engage in them\, and what if anything we should do to combat these phenomena?
\nOrganization
\nOrganization committee: \;
\nAuke Montessori\, Jaroslav Malí\;k\, Zuzana Votavová\; \;
\nContact:
\nhttps://ff.uhk.cz/rationalityandnorms/#contact \;
\nThis conference is organized by the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences\, Faculty of Philosophy\, University of Hradec Krá\;lové\;\, as part of the project:
\nKnowledge in the Age of Distrust
\nFunded by the Ministry of Education\, Youth and Sports (Czech Republic). Co-funded by the European Union.
ORGANIZER;CN=Auke Montessori: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261022T170000 SUMMARY:International Workshop Counterrevolution and Democratic Transformation UID:20260911T081622Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Sankt Gallen\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:\;
\nCall for Abstracts
\n\;
\nInternational Workshop | 22 October 2026\, Chair of Philosophy\, University of St. Gallen
\nCounterrevolution and
\nDemocratic Transformation
\nWith Prof. Bernard Harcourt (Columbia University / EHESS)
\nOver the past two decades\, the world has witnessed increasing normalization of emergency measures\, restrictive border measures\, and the creation of legal and administrative apparatuses to identify\, coerce\, and eliminate internal threats. As these processes have often been driven by democratic states\, there has been intensified debates across political philosophy\, legal theory\, and critical social theory concerning how and when democratic institutions themselves can act as vehicles of authoritarian transformation. However\, disagreement remains over the mechanisms driving these processes and the conceptual vocabularies for understanding them.
\nThe workshop addresses these debates through Bernard Harcourt&rsquo\;s concept of counterrevolution. His recent analyses of counterrevolution\, counterinsurgency\, and emergency governance provide one of the most influential contemporary frameworks for understanding how coercive state rationalities migrate from exceptional contexts into ordinary democratic governance.
\nAt the centre of the workshop is an inquiry into how contemporary democratic states transform governance through legal\, political\, and security mechanisms in ways that consolidate coercive power while preserving the appearance of constitutional normality. It further asks how counterrevolutionary rationalities reshape democratic institutions through law\, administration\, and security practices\, and to what extent these transformations illuminate contemporary processes of authoritarian consolidation or fascitization.
\nThe workshop invites contributions that engage with one or more of the following questions:
\n- \; \; \; \; \; How do emergency powers and constitutional provisions become instruments of permanent governance transformation rather than temporary exception?
\n- \; \; \; \; \; By what legal and administrative mechanisms are internal enemies constructed\, classified\, and subjected to coercive state intervention?
\n- \; \; \; \; \; How do counterinsurgency rationalities migrate into the governance of domestic populations?
\n- \; \; \; \; \; To what extent is fascitization a useful analytical category for understanding contemporary authoritarian consolidation within democratic institutions\, and where does the concept reach its limits?
\nFormat
\nThe workshop takes place on 22 October 2026 at the University of St. Gallen as a one-day\, in-person event\, including a keynote presentation by Bernard Harcourt. The selected speakers will present their paper (20-30min presentation)\, followed by discussion (30 min).
\nEarly-career researchers (including advanced PhD and postdoctoral researchers) in political philosophy\, critical theory\, critical legal studies\, and related fields\, are encouraged to apply.
\nSelected papers will be considered for publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Details will be communicated to participants in due course.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\n- \; \; \; \; \; Submission deadline: 31 July 2026
\n- \; \; \; \; \; Date of notification: 15 August 2026
\n- \; \; \; \; \; Workshop language: English
\n- \; \; \; \; \; The submission should include an abstract (300-500 words) for a 20&ndash\;30min presentation\, a short bio (100-200 words)\, and an indication of institutional affiliation (if applicable).
\nWe are actively seeking funding to support participant travel and accommodation (the support cannot yet be confirmed). Please indicate in your submission whether you require financial support &mdash\; this will not affect the evaluation of your application.
\nSubmissions should be sent to: Damian Nussbaumer (damian.nussbaumer@unisg.ch) and Leire Urricelqui (leire.urricelqui@unisg.ch).
ORGANIZER;CN=Leire Urricelqui;CN=Damian Nussbaumer;CN=Christine Abbt: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261026T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Mexico_City:20261027T170000 SUMMARY:Innovation and tradition: intersections\, interactions and disputes in culture UID:20260911T081623Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:America/Mexico_City LOCATION:Cuernavaca\, Mexico DESCRIPTION:This colloquium emerges from the need to think and propose new epistemological positions to the cultural frame. From an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspective\, our aim is to bring together researchers from fields like sociology\, communication science\, Cultural Studies\, anthropology\, history\, computational sciences\, political science\, and others\, to explore critical \;reflections on cultural tradition and cultural innovation. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Omar Cerrillo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261027T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261028T170000 SUMMARY:Race\, Ethnicity\, Religion - Categories of Descent-Based Difference UID:20260911T081624Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Bern\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts
\nCategories of Descent-Based Difference: Race\, Ethnicity\, Religion\, and Ethnoreligion
\nTwo-day workshop\, University of Bern
\nOctober 27 &\; 28 2026
\nAcross Europe &ndash\; and elsewhere &ndash\; politically significant boundaries often turn on forms of belonging treated as inherited: ethnic\, religious\, ethnoreligious\, or mixed. The oppression organised through such boundaries is sometimes described as racism\, even when it does not map neatly onto the colour line. This raises a general question about how race\, ethnicity\, religion\, and ethnoreligion relate to one another. Do they name distinct kinds of group\, overlapping forms of classification\, or different configurations of descent-based difference? Under what conditions do ethnic or religious groups become racialised?
\nThis workshop invites papers addressing these questions. Bosnia and Herzegovina offers one revealing example. The categories Bosniak\, Croat\, and Serb draw together national belonging\, religious affiliation\, family history\, and attributed descent. They shape political membership\, yet are neither simply religious nor straightforwardly racial categories. Belief\, practice\, self-identification\, and classification by others need not coincide\, while institutions and social practices may nevertheless treat membership as inherited and enduring. The same problem arises\, in different forms\, well beyond Southeast Europe.
\nOver recent decades\, philosophers have developed sophisticated accounts of race and racialisation. Ethnicity\, religious belonging\, and ethnoreligion have been studied extensively in history\, sociology\, anthropology\, and religious studies. Although philosophers have compared race and ethnicity\, religion and ethnoreligion have seldom been included in the same social-ontological analysis. \; Building on Maneri and Morning&rsquo\;s (2022\, 2024) proposal to compare concepts of descent-based difference\, the workshop asks whether these categories can be analysed within a common frame.
\nOne possible point of comparison is descent-based ascription: the construction of group membership as genealogically inherited and transmitted across generations. This need not involve belief in biological descent. Names\, religious practices\, language\, culture\, place of origin\, and family history may instead become signs of inherited membership. We take this proposal as a starting point for exploring the relations among race\, ethnicity\, and religion\, rather than as a framework to be assumed. What can descent-based ascription explain about these groups\, and which differences does it obscure? How does racialisation interact with ethnic\, religious\, or ethnoreligious classification\, and what follows for debates about racism?
\nSoutheast Europe\, especially former Yugoslavia\, will provide one comparative point of reference. We welcome work on European and extra-European contexts more broadly\, including papers that develop\, challenge\, or mark the limits of the proposed framework.
\nTopics
\nPossible topics include:
\nWe particularly welcome papers that expose the limits of the proposed framework or offer a different account. We also welcome historically and empirically grounded papers that use their cases to develop\, test\, or challenge an explicit conceptual or ontological claim.
\nFormat
\nPapers will be allocated 30 minutes for presentation\, followed by 30 minutes for discussion.
\nConfirmed speakers:
\nAnn Morning (New York University)
\nAdam Hochman (Macquarie University)
\nSandra King-Savić (University of Zurich)
\nVita Zalar (European University Institute)
\nSubmissions
\nPlease submit:
\nSend submissions to descent-bern@protonmail.com by September 6 2026. Decisions will be communicated by September 16.
\nWe especially encourage submissions from early-career researchers\, precariously employed or independent scholars\, and researchers working on regions and traditions underrepresented in contemporary social ontology.
\nFunding
\nFunding covering travel and accommodation costs is available for a limited number of early-career and underfunded researchers. Please indicate in the separate document if your participation depends being partly or fully funded.
\nOrganisation
\nArmin Ma&scaron\;ala\, University of Bern
\nDaniel James\, Freie Universitä\;t Berlin
ORGANIZER;CN=Daniel James;CN="Armin Mašala": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261030T170000 SUMMARY:Melancholic historicity: lost pasts and past losses UID:20260911T081625Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Utrecht\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:Melancholic historicity: lost pasts and past losses
\nOrganizers: Katherina Kinzel and Robert Vinkesteijn
\nUtrecht University\, 29+30 October 2026
\nRecent reconceptualizations of historicity&mdash\;most notably in the work of Walter Benjamin and related thinkers&mdash\;have challenged the modern ideal of progress by foregrounding historical experiences of loss and destruction. These approaches question the assumption that history unfolds as a continuous movement in which past suffering is redeemed by future advancement. Instead of viewing the past as dead or completed\, they envision the past as a site of continuous unease and questioning within the present. Forgotten\, suppressed\, or destroyed pasts unsettle present self-understandings and expose their complicity in the ongoing reproduction of loss. \;
\nThis conference explores the question what a &ldquo\;melancholic&rdquo\; conception of historicity that is oriented around experiences of loss\, destruction and defeat looks like. What does it mean to think historically from a standpoint that refuses to forget or &ldquo\;accept&rdquo\; historical losses\, that interrupts linear temporality and breaks with the perpetuation of historical violence in the present. What is the political valence of different attempts at confronting historical loss? What constitutes a philosophically fruitful attitude to lost pasts (the pasts that have been forgotten or suppressed) and past losses (past experiences of loss\, injustice and defeat) that are haunting the present?
\nThis conference brings together \;critical approaches to the philosophy of history\, postcolonial perspectives on loss\, \;theoretical reflections on displacement and genocide\, accounts of ecological loss and destruction and psychoanalytic discussions of (historical) mourning and melancholia.
\nIf you would like to contribute as a speaker\, please send an abstract of maximum 500 words to r.w.vinkesteijn@uu.nl\, the deadline for abstracts is Saturday 28 February 2026. If you have further questions about the scope and topic of this conference\, do not hesitate to get in touch.
ORGANIZER;CN=Katherina Kinzel: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261030T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261031T170000 SUMMARY:Can social ontology change the world? UID:20260911T081626Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:America/Vancouver LOCATION:Vancouver\, Canada DESCRIPTION:The International Social Ontology Society workshop "Can Social Ontology Change the World?" will take place October 30-31\, 2026 at the Harbour Centre Campus of Simon Fraser University in downtown Vancouver\, British Columbia. \;
\nIn recent years\, the sub-discipline of social ontology has undergone a decidedly political reorientation. In non-ideal\, emancipatory\, and critical social ontology\, theorists explicitly ask whether our theorizing should have political goals or be relevant for political ends. An uptick in investigations on the metaphysics of race and gender has centered anti-racist\, feminist\, and trans struggles. These projects (e.g.\, Haslanger 2000\; Dembroff 2016\; Jenkins 2023\; Richardson 2023) explicitly theorize with a political purpose\, and so presuppose that social ontology can play a role in the struggle for social justice. But\, taking a step back\, this workshop questions the precise relationship between social ontology and politics. Are social ontologists changing the world\, or merely interpreting it? Given the former\, are there social ontological theories or methods better suited for direct political intervention\, and\, if so\, what makes them better? Given the latter\, what is the relationship\, if any\, between description and political intervention? \; \; \;
\nWe invite the submission of abstracts of 500-700 words for 20-minute presentations of papers related to the theme of the conference. Please send anonymized abstracts to \;social.ontology.and.the.world@gmail.com. The deadline for submitting is \;June 15th\, with notice of acceptance by July 15th. \; \;
\nSome \;travel grants and support for accommodations \;will be available for graduate students and faculty members who do not have access to research funds\; please indicate in your submission email if you would like to be considered for support. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Zara Anwarzai;CN=August Faller: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261030T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261030T234500 SUMMARY:Medically Assisted Dying for Persons with Mental IIlness: Philosophical\, Ethical\, and Legal Perspectives UID:20260911T081627Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Chapters: Medically Assisted Dying for Persons with Mental IIlness: Philosophical\, Ethical\, and Legal Perspectives
\n\;(Edited Volume)
\nPlanned publisher: Springer (contract in preparation)
Planned series: The International Library of Bioethics
Editors: David Černý\;\, Tomá\;&scaron\; Doležal\, Adam Doležal (Czech Academy of Sciences)\, Manuel Trachsel (University of Basel)
Rationale and Scope
\nOver the past decades\, debates on euthanasia and physician-assisted dying (PAD) have matured in many respects. Yet one domain remains both conceptually unsettled and practically urgent: psychiatric euthanasia and PAD for persons with mental disorders. A small but growing number of jurisdictions&mdash\;most prominently the Netherlands\, Belgium\, and (more recently) Canada&mdash\;have opened legal pathways for cases where psychiatric suffering is the primary indication\, provoking intense controversy across psychiatry\, bioethics\, law\, and public policy.
\nThis edited volume aims to provide a comprehensive\, systematic\, book-length treatment of psychiatric euthanasia\, integrating philosophical analysis\, normative bioethics\, comparative law\, and clinical/empirical perspectives. We welcome contributions that are philosophically rigorous and normatively ambitious while carefully engaging with clinical and legal realities.
\nWhat we are looking for
\nWe invite proposals for original chapters offering:
\nrigorous argumentation and conceptual clarity\,
\ncareful engagement with clinical and legal realities\,
\nempirical grounding where relevant\,
\nan interdisciplinary orientation (chapters may be philosophical\, bioethical\, legal\, psychiatric\, or genuinely interdisciplinary)\,
\naccessibility to an international scholarly readership.
\nThe volume is envisaged as a four-part collection&mdash\;moving from conceptual groundwork through normative debates and legal frameworks to clinical practice and lived experience.
\nSuggested Topics (non-exhaustive)
\nPart I &mdash\; Conceptual and historical foundations
\nConcepts\, definitions\, and key distinctions (psychiatric vs somatic vs &ldquo\;mixed&rdquo\; cases)
\nHistory of euthanasia debates in relation to mental illness
\nThe nature of mental suffering\; the badness (or possible acceptability) of death
\nAutonomy\, competence\, and decision-making capacity in psychiatric contexts (incl. fluctuating capacity and ambivalence)
\nPart II &mdash\; Normative arguments and ethical frameworks
\n&ldquo\;Parity&rdquo\; arguments (and their limits): somatic vs psychiatric indications
\nBeneficence\, non-maleficence\, autonomy\, justice in psychiatric euthanasia
\nVulnerability\, coercion\, and structural injustice (stigma\, poverty\, loneliness\, access to care)
\nSlippery-slope arguments\, expressivist concerns\, and symbolic meanings
\nPart III &mdash\; Legal frameworks and comparative law
\nThe Netherlands: statutory framework\, guidelines\, review practice
\nBelgium: regulation\, case law\, oversight bodies and landmark cases
\nCanada: MAiD and the contested expansion to mental disorders
\nComparative and human-rights perspectives\; emerging jurisdictions and models of professional self-regulation
\nPart IV &mdash\; Clinical practice\, empirical evidence\, lived experience
\nTreatment resistance\, prognosis\, and &ldquo\;irremediability&rdquo\;: epistemic limits in psychiatry
\nAssessing voluntariness and stability of the wish to die\; distinguishing suicidality-as-symptom from a sustained request
\nEmpirical studies: patient profiles\, clinician and review-body reasoning\, procedural experiences
\nSuicide prevention\, palliative psychiatry\, recovery-oriented care\, and &ldquo\;reasonable alternatives&rdquo\;
\nFuture directions: research priorities\, policy implications\, professional guidance
\nVolume profile and review process
\nThe book is planned for Springer&rsquo\;s International Library of Bioethics (contract in preparation). We anticipate approximately 16&ndash\;17 chapters (including an overall introduction and concluding chapter). All chapters will undergo peer review through an editor-coordinated review process.
\nSubmission guidelines
\nPlease submit an abstract including:
\nprovisional title
\nabstract (recommended 400&ndash\;800 words)
\n4&ndash\;6 keywords
\nshort author bio (100&ndash\;150 words)
\nFull chapters should be original\, written in English\, and prepared to align with Springer&rsquo\;s book-manuscript requirements.
\nTimeline
\nExtended abstracts due: 28 February 2026
\nFull chapters due: 30 October 2026
\nFinal manuscript submission to Springer: 30 December 2026
\nHow to submit
\nPlease send your abstract (single PDF or DOCX) with the subject line:
&ldquo\;Psychiatric Euthanasia &ndash\; Chapter Proposal&rdquo\; \;to: David Černý\; (david.cerny@ilaw.cas.cz)
CfP: \;Rethinking Agency under Non-Ideal Conditions
\nConfirmed \;speakers: Maria Alvarez\, Havi Carel\, Hanne Jacobs\, Quill Kukla\, Kristina Musholt and \;Caleb Ward.
\n\nThe notion of agency plays a central role across many areas of philosophy\, including philosophy of action\, ethics\, political philosophy\, epistemology\, feminist philosophy\, and phenomenology. \;While traditionally conceptualized in terms of intentional action\, rational control\, and autonomy\, our understanding of agency has recently come under intense scrutiny and is now being increasingly transformed. \;Feminist and phenomenological approaches\, in particular\, have emphasized the need for a richer and more fine-grained conception of agency&mdash\;one that takes seriously the social\, historical\, and relational contexts in which agents are situated. From this perspective\, agency cannot be adequately understood without acknowledging that agents are not only rational decision-makers\, but also emotional\, embodied\, desiring\, creative\, and affective beings.
\nThis conference invites new investigations into agency as it is lived and exercised under non-ideal conditions\, such as vulnerability\, dependency\, uncertainty\, coercion\, structural injustice\, affective ambivalence\, or crisis. Rather than presupposing idealized models of action and rational control\, the conference aims to analyze how agency isreconfigured \;under such conditions. We also particularly welcome contributions that examine how rational and virtuous agency should be rethought under non-ideal conditions and in times of crisis.
\nPossible questions include (but are not limited to):
\nIn addition to contemporary approaches\, we explicitly welcome historical-philosophical work\, including contributions engaging with the phenomenological tradition\, as well as those that critically engage with accounts of agency from marginalized figures and traditions in the history of philosophy.
\nContributions from early-career researchers are especially encouraged.
\nThe conference is planned as an in-person event only.
\n\;
\nWe invite you to submit an anonymized abstract of up to 500 words \;by \;October 31\, 2026 \;to \;laurentia.adam@uni-graz.at
\nPlease include a separate file with your name\, email address\, the title of your talk\, and your affiliation (if any) and put &lsquo\;Rethinking Agency Graz 2027&rsquo\; in the subject line.
\n\;
\nOrganizing Team: Emanuela Carta\, Denis Dzanic\, and Daniel Neumann.
ORGANIZER;CN="Denis Džanić";CN=Emanuela Carta;CN=Daniel Neumann: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260911T081509Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261031T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261031T234500 SUMMARY:Lessico di Etica Pubblica - The Divine and the Digital (2/2026) UID:20260911T081629Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6cf9979bf7-9cf6q TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Lessico di Etica Pubblica \;
\nSpecial Issue - The Divine and the Digital
\n(XVII\, n. 2\, 2026)
\nEdited by Gemma Serrano (Collè\;ge des Bernardins\, Paris).
\nThe relationship between technology and culture is an increasingly discussed topic in the humanities. The analysis of the consequences of the so-called digital turn\, sometimes regarded as an unprecedented cultural transformation\, has developed within an interdisciplinary field encompassing philosophy\, history\, anthropology\, and sociology\, as well as theology and religious studies. Like any technological transformation\, the social implementation of digital technologies has had an impact on religious and spiritual practices on a global scale. For years\, the study of religions has examined how the spread of digital media has influenced our experience of transcendence\, rituals\, communal life\, and belief. At the same time\, theology and religion can offer cultural and theoretical tools to deepen our understanding of technology and can also provide an original perspective on the meaning of transformations in contemporary society.
\nBeyond analysing the fate of theology and religion in the digital age\, it is crucial to recognize that the field of digital technologies opens up horizons of meaning and reflection that are closely intertwined with the domain of spirituality. Our relationship with technology\, more broadly\, is permeated by religion: a wide range of metaphors and notions&mdash\;either explicitly theological or rooted in religious language and practices&mdash\;are pervasively present in public and academic debates on the meaning of technology. In this sense\, many philosophers of technology&mdash\;including\, to name just a few\, Gü\;nther Anders\, Walter Benjamin\, Jacques Ellul\, Martin Heidegger\, Ivan Illich\, Emanuele Severino\, and Norbert Wiener&mdash\;have grounded their reflections in terms imbued with a theological resonance\, and have assigned a central role to the sphere of the divine in their interpretations of technology\, even when working from a secular perspective. A critical engagement with our religious tradition can help us develop analytical models for understanding our relationship with technology\, as well as for analysing our desires\, our fears\, and the socio-technical imaginaries that structure the social space.
\nThis task\, of course\, also entails theoretical and methodological challenges. First\, thinking about the relationship between technology and religion means recognizing the need for an intercultural study of different models for understanding the technical phenomenon. If the European interpretation of technology is rooted in Christian culture\, it becomes crucial to consider other traditions and other frameworks of reference.
\nAt the same time\, reference to digital technologies requires us to address the problem of technology from a historical perspective. The advent of artificial intelligence has made it even clearer that what we call the &ldquo\;digital turn&rdquo\; is in fact a layered and complex phenomenon\, and that digital technologies already have a long history\, which prevents us from thinking of &ldquo\;the digital&rdquo\; as a unified dimension. What\, then\, are the specific features of the so-called &ldquo\;digital age&rdquo\;? How can the analysis of the imaginaries and narratives associated with digital technologies help us shed light on our present?
\nIssue 2/2026 of Lessico di Etica Pubblica will address these themes from an interdisciplinary perspective\, with contributions from philosophy\, theology\, cultural and technological history\, sociology\, and media theory. The following are some of the topics that will be explored:
\nSubmission Guidelines for Article Proposals
\nPapers must be submitted by October 31\, 2026 to the following address:redazione.eticapubblica@gmail.com.
\nContributions in Italian\, English and French are accepted. Maximum length: 35\,000 characters\, including spaces and notes. Authors are also required to include an abstract of no more than 150 words in both Italian and English. The article file must be prepared in anonymous form to comply with the blind peer review process. In a separate file attached to the same email\, authors should provide their full name\, email address\, the title of the article\, and its abstract.
\nSubmissions must conform to the editorial guidelines available at the following link:
https://www.eticapubblica.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/LEP_Norme_redazionali.pdf.
Authors are also invited to use the journal&rsquo\;s style sheet available here:
https://www.eticapubblica.it/norme-editoriali/.
Famously\, infamously\, and cited ad nauseum\, Fredric Jameson wrote in 1994&rsquo\;s Seeds of Time that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism\, a formulation that Slavoj Zizek later borrowed to ask why we cannot even seek to reform capitalism at all. More recently\, the late Mark Fisher returned to this line of inquiry to demonstrate how Capitalist Realism depends upon the mantra that there is no viable alternative to capitalism. At last\, we have begun to see some scattered indications that our apocalyptic imaginaries may have begun to cross this threshold\, carving out fictional spaces wherein we can imagine otherwise or mourn our own entrapment in a system that will survive us all. At last\, our &ldquo\;monsters&rdquo\; may be taking on post-capitalist forms. Their images do not merely furnish fertile ground for the imagination &mdash\; they oblige us to think what may come after capitalism&rsquo\;s collapse.
\nReading contemporary pop-cultural texts through Fredric Jameson&rsquo\;s critique of late capitalism and his theorization of the apocalypse as the horizon of ideological imagination\, we ask how it is possible to stage the persistence of capital\, grief\, and meaning after the end of history has already been announced or enacted. A paradigmatic example is the 28 Later series. The 2002 film 28 Days later arguably rebooted the zombie apocalypse as faster\, stronger\, and scarier pandemic nightmare for the new millennium\, an apt rebrand for the undead in the era of advanced capitalism. But can the first two installments of the 28 Years Later cycle (2025\, Danny Boyle &\; Alex Garland)\, sequels to the 2002 film\, be read as imagining the emergence of hope that humanity might persist beyond the collapse of capitalism through communities organized around mutual aid\, shared resources\, and collective protection? Or does this narrative suggest that a few will always revert to strategies of appropriation over collaboration (as exemplified by Jimmy&rsquo\;s marauding gang)?
\nThe imagination of apocalypse can also be subverted. Rather than staging catastrophe as spectacular rupture\, some texts reimagine the &ldquo\;post-apocalypse&rdquo\; as displaced continuation. The Leftovers (HBO\, 2014&ndash\;2017) is exemplary here\, recasting the post-apocalyptic not as the end of the world but as its afterlife &mdash\; an extended\, undramatic continuation organized around endless\, unresolved mourning. In this afterlife of social relations\, catastrophe is no longer an event but becomes an ordinary form of existence. Rupture is no longer something to be survived but a condition to be inhabited. A different variation on this logic can be found in Fallout\, which invites us to reflect on the post-apocalypse as a continuation of capitalist realism rather than its rupture. Here\, ruin becomes aestheticized order and survival is fully absorbed into systems of extraction and control\, repackaged as commodity\, spectacle\, and routine. The series stages a world in which the end of the world is endlessly repeated\, without exit\, a catastrophe normalized to the extent that it forecloses any possible outside\, except for nostalgic affects.
\nThese texts are valuable not because they accurately depict a future society marked by failure or mourning\, but because they estrange the present. In Jameson's sense\, they reveal that what appears natural and inevitable&mdash\;capitalism\, private property\, wage labour\, and the organization of social life itself&mdash\;is historically contingent and therefore open to transformation.
\nBy contrast\, the recent series Pluribus (admittedly still an unfinished text\, with only its first season released) asks us a different question altogether: whether the end of the individual subject position-- and with it the end of an exploitative system working for the benefit only of the few-- would really amount to an apocalypse\, or could it be the Utopia we haven&rsquo\;t dared to dream of. These are just some of the many recent apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic texts that ask us to consider where we are\, in this moment so steeped in apocalyptic affect\, in relation to Jameson&rsquo\;s proclamation that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The decisive issue is not whether these narratives depict a more perfect society\, but whether they expand the horizon of what can be politically imagined.
\nWe welcome submissions on any recent (pre- to post covid) pop cultural texts that contribute to our contemporary understanding of apocalyptic imaginaries. While we expect submissions on film\, television\, videogames\, literature and graphic novels\, we would be happy to consider offerings that defy medial boundaries or work within other disciplines\, such as performance or art. We welcome contributions that transcend the fictional conventions of known genres but also works that flesh out apocalyptic imaginaries by drawing from unconventional aesthetic means.
\nProspective contributors may consider examining texts such as:
\nWe imagine contemporary pop-cultural case studies speaking to these themes could engage convincingly with a large variety of texts (Pluribus\, Disco Elysium\, Fallout\, Station Eleven\, The Last of Us\, Severance\, 28 Years Later vol. 1 &\; 2\, Department of Truth and others)
\nWe also welcome submissions engaging other perspectives and topics.
\nPlease submit your abstract (250 words) alongside a short biographical note (50 words) to \;slauro@ut.edu \;by October 31\, 2026.
\nIf your abstract is accepted\, we will invite you to submit a full article by January 31\, 2027. Full articles will be about 8\,000 &ndash\; 9\,000 words long (including an abstract of 250 words\, 3-5 keywords\, references\, footnotes\, etc.)
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