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:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260814T140000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260814T153000 SUMMARY:The Ethical View of Civilization and the Future of Humanity UID:20260813T010737Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Monash University\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3800 DESCRIPTION:Join Zoom Meeting ID: 89630608339
Passcode: 443228
This lecture explores the relationship between the ethical view of civilization and the future of humanity through three questions.
\nFirst\, human civilization today is undergoing a philosophical crisis in both concept and actuality. At the conceptual level\, civilizational centrism has pushed the concept of civilization toward the limits of its usefulness. At the level of actuality\, conflict now unfolds among civilizational tribes\, between humanity and nature\, and between humanity and itself. An apocalyptic civilizational mindset is therefore taking shape.
\nSecond\, where does the future of civilization lie? A philosophical crisis must be resolved philosophically\, and civilizational conflict is fundamentally a conflict between different views of civilization. We must therefore seek the third idea beyond both civilizational conflict and dialogue among civilizations: the return and construction of the ethical view of civilization.
\nThird\, what can Chinese ethics contribute? Chinese ethics and morality give rise to a distinctive tradition of virtue\, shape an ethically oriented and ethical-rather-than-religious form of civilization marked by the continuity of family and state\, and generate the Chinese ethical view of civilization. This view is articulated through six major formulations covering civilization&rsquo\;s foundational vision\, driving force\, ideals and historical models\, principles of construction\, view of the human world\, and cosmic view.
\nThe ethical view of civilization can make two major contributions to the future. The first is a civilizational driving force generated through the modern transformation of Self-discipline and Social Commitment and the dialectical interaction between the most powerful and the ethically best driving forces. The second is a future opened by the primacy of ethics\, in which humanity learns to be governed by ethical reflection.
\nThe ethical view of civilization is a view of civilization governed by ethical reflection. Its essential meaning is learning to live together&mdash\;with &ldquo\;us&rdquo\; and with &ldquo\;them\,&rdquo\; with ourselves\, with nature\, with the cosmos\, and with the future.
\nKeywords: modern civilization\; philosophical crisis\; ethical view of civilization\; governed by ethical reflection\; Chinese ethics
ORGANIZER;CN=Robert Sparrow: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260815T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260815T234500 SUMMARY:Central APA Affiliated Group: Society for the Study of Early Modern Women & Gender (SSEMWG) UID:20260813T010738Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:America/Denver LOCATION:Denver\, United States DESCRIPTION:The biannual Philosophy group meeting for the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG) will be held at the Central APA's 2027 meeting in Denver\, CO from Feb 24-27.
\nWork in any sub-area of early modern philosophy which contributes to creative scholarship on/about/from non-canonical figures is encouraged. Past meetings have included excellent work by graduate students\, junior faculty\, and senior scholars in the field. Undergraduates are welcome to attend as a session chair or commenter. \;
\nAbstracts (around 300-500 words) are due by August 15. Please submit abstracts\, or indicate interest in chairing/commenting by email to organizer Jill Hernandez\, jill.hernandez@ttu.edu. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by August 31.
\nMembership in SSEMWG is not required to attend\, nor to submit a paper. Travel bursaries for graduate student participants are available on a competitive basis! See: https://www.ssemwg.org/graduate-student-travel-grants for more information.
\nFor questions\, email Jill Hernandez\, jill.hernandez@ttu.edu.
ORGANIZER;CN=Jill Hernandez: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260816T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260816T230000 SUMMARY:The 2026 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy UID:20260813T010739Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers
\nThe 2026 Online Symposium of the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy
\nMud\, Islands and Ocean
\nDates: November 5 (Thu) - 6 (Fri)\, 2026 \; \; \; \; \; \; No conference fee\, participation is free.
\nMud\, islands and ocean are places of mixture and changes. Animals and people leave traces in the mud. The NAEP symposium 2026 dives into blue humanities and interrogates the fringes between worlds and aims to explore views in terms of fluidity and process. In the mud\, soil and water shift forms and transform. Boundaries are not clearly apparent. Environmental philosophy forces us to reconsider certain assumptions about clear boundaries delimiting and isolating things\, and mud invites us to this journey.
\nOceans can be places of both encounters and separations\, and \; islands can easily trigger narratives of isolation. Mud involves and interconnects lands and seas. Mud also hosts specific ecosystems and bridges the worlds of different species. But places of mixtures and changes can also be places of tensions\; the encounter between different worlds can unleash clashes about access and belonging. Many struggles about justice unfold in muddy waters.
\nThe NAEP 2026 Online Symposium welcomes contributions from scholars\, practitioners and stakeholders on a broad range of aspects within Asian worldviews\, including but not limited to:
\nSilt\, sand and shells\, changing materialities and temporalities
\nPhilosophies of microbiology and oceanology
\nSea-faring people\, slow living\, Indigenous and local knowledge (ILK) and practices
\nJustice and radical approaches to transformation
\nMangroves and coastal ecosystems as protectors from climate change
\nSea level rise and the futures of islands
\nEcofeminism insights on water and birth
\nPhilosophical explorations about natural boundaries\, artificial delimitations\, holism and animism
\nWhale songs and artistic expressions (narratives\, artforms\, storytelling\, memory landscape&hellip\;) related to mud\, islands and ocean in Asian cultures
\nEarly- and mid-career scholars are especially encouraged to send proposals.
\nWe welcome abstracts for individual presentations\, panels\, online posters and workshop proposals. Please submit your 200-250 words abstract with your name\, affiliation and contact informationthrough this form\, by August 16th\, 2026 (or by email toasiaenviphilo@gmail.com).
\nLanguage: The primary language of the conference is English. We aim to be non-native friendly\, so we make it a rule that we speak slow and accessible English. If you would like to present in a language other than English\, please contact us.
\nOrganisation: Laÿ\;na Droz\, Orika Komatsubara\, Dipanwita Pal\, Concordia Marie Lagasca-Hiloma\, Romaric Jannel\, Spriha Roy\, Felipe Cuervo\, May Aye Thiri.
\nAbout the Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy (NAEP)
\nThe Network of Asian Environmental Philosophy (NAEP) was founded by agroup of scholarsin the field of environmental philosophy in Asia in 2019 with the goal to supportworks related to environmental philosophy within Asian traditions of thoughts broadly conceived or related to grassroots perspectives on environmental issues in Asia. \; \; Visit our website:www.asiaenviphilo.com
ORGANIZER;CN="Laÿna Droz";CN=Romaric Jannel: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260817T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261204T170000 SUMMARY:Fall 2026 Tulane German Philosophy Workshop Series UID:20260813T010740Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:New Orleans\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Tulane German Philosophy Workshop is based out of Tulane University&rsquo\;s Philosophy department. It is aimed at promoting the discussion of scholarship about the German philosophical tradition and the establishment of relations between philosophers and departments that focus on the German philosophical tradition. It welcomes scholars interested in the many ways to engage with this rich tradition and the specific projects and concerns of its many representatives&mdash\;from Leibniz to Wittgenstein\, Kant to Gadamer\, Hegel to Habermas&mdash\;as well as the reception of this tradition.
ORGANIZER;CN=Jeffrey Patrick Colgan;CN=Nicolas Day: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260827T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260830T170000 SUMMARY:EAJS2026\, the 18th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies ヨーロッパ日本研究協会 (EAJS) UID:20260813T010741Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Poznań\, Poland DESCRIPTION:https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/eajs2026/paper/101689
\nhttps://research.berkeley.edu/surf-fellows/jiaqian-zhu/
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260827T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260828T170000 SUMMARY:Just Theorising 2026 UID:20260813T010742Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Leeds\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Main Event: \;27th \;August 2026
\nOptional \;Additional Session: \;28th \;August 2026
\nCall for participants deadline: \;Sunday 10th \;May \;23:59 GMT*
\nTheme
\nMany of us theorise about groups to which we do not belong\, and about issues which seriously impact groups to which we do not belong. In this workshop we will explore questions around how this theorising should be done\, and whether/when such research should be avoided. \;
\nJust Theorising is a reading workshop on responsible and responsive philosophical research. Participants will discuss the epistemological and methodological issues surrounding theorising across social difference.
\nParticipants will discuss texts from social epistemology\, applied ethics\, and by marginalised people writing outside academia &ndash\; all \;of which suggest ways to approach (or not to approach) \;theorising across social difference. \;
\nOur aim is to improve our \;philosophical \;practice by thinking together. \;By approaching these questions collaboratively and openly\, we hope to improve the philosophical and ethical quality of \;our \;future work. \;
\nFormat
\nThis workshop involves one full day of discussions\, and an optional collaborative session the following morning. \;
\nThe main event \;will involve a series of \;reading-group-style sessions\, where participants discuss existing texts on workshop themes. \; \;
On the second day\, the organiser will be holding an optional session\, where we will design an online resource to aid others who want to investigate these issues themselves or organise similar events.
How to participate
\nBecause this workshop is discussion-based\, we are limited to 20 attendees. This means that if we have more than 20 interested \;applicants \;we will need to say &lsquo\;yes&rsquo\; \;to some applicants and &lsquo\;no&rsquo\; to others. \;We hope that we \;won&rsquo\;t \;have to turn anyone away\, but if we do\, this will be decided \;based on \;who will get the most out of the workshop \;(not \;who is the most successful philosopher!). \;Therefore\, we ask applicants to \;state \;why the workshop is appealing to them\, and how they feel it will be useful to them. \;We are looking for an honest statement of how the workshop might support your work\, we are not looking for \;competitive statements of \;academic credentials. \;
\nAccess Information
\nThis event was made possible by the Leverhulme Trust\, thanks to them for funding \;an \;Early Career Research Fellowship which includes this project. This event \;revives the approach and goals of a 2018 event of the same name\, organised by Nadia Mehdi and Rosa Vince. \;Thank you to Nadia for her hard work in the original workshop.
\nOrganising team: Rosa Vince\, Alethea Choo\, Anne-Marie McCallion\, Leonie Smith
\nIf you have any questions about this workshop\, please contact Dr Rosa Vince at r.vince@leeds.ac.uk
ORGANIZER;CN=Rosa Vince;CN=Leonie Smith;CN=Anne-Marie McCallion: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260828T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260828T103000 SUMMARY:'Here and There:' Food\, Safety and Community in Contemporary Performance Art 「あちらとこちら」：現代パフォーマンス・アートにおける食、安全、そしてコミュニティ UID:20260813T010743Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Poznań\, Poland DESCRIPTION:https://coolhunting.com/link-about-it/does-this-soup-taste-ambivalent/
\nhttps://dajf.org.uk/event/the-art-of-soup-a-taste-of-fukushima
\nhttps://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/ei-arakawa-frieze-presentation/
\nhttps://nomadit.co.uk/conference/eajs2026/paper/101689
\nhttps://research.berkeley.edu/surf-fellows/jiaqian-zhu/
\nhttps://nomadit.co.uk/conference/eajs2026/pp/101689
\nPaper short abstract In the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami\, artists attempt to explore ways to present the motif of &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\; beyond geographic confinement&mdash\;beyond Japan. Given restricted access to the nuclear zone\, how do artists respond to &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\; without direct physical proximity to Fukushima? Paper long abstract
\nIn the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami\, artists attempt to explore ways to present the motif of &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\; beyond geographic confinement&mdash\;beyond Japan. Given restricted access to the nuclear zone\, how do artists respond to &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\; without direct physical proximity to Fukushima? How do overseas Japanese artists represent what took place back in their homeland? How do people outside Japan gain the access to experience and respond to &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\;? To grapple with this representational dilemma of &ldquo\;here and there\,&rdquo\; this paper looks at the performance art of the contemporary Japanese artist Ei Arakawa&mdash\;Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent? (2014). In this conceptual project\, he attempted to mediate a geographic gap between New York (where he works) and Fukushima (where he comes from). He also intended to reach a geographical balance between Fukushima and the international audience by bringing his family to Frieze London. In dialogue with Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?\, this paper brings comparative examples of Rirkrit Tiravanija&rsquo\;s installation Untitled (Free/Still) (2007) and the socially engaged art piece Conflict Kitchen (2010). This paper attempts to extend the metaphor of a geographic boundary to invisible yet crucial boundaries among people\, and to further spatialize what Nicolas Bourriaud regards as relational aesthetics. Visual representations of &ldquo\;here and there&rdquo\; can thus be thematically translated into a rendering of boundaries between artists and spectators/participants\, between social environment and human beings and between different ethnic groups. Moreover\, this paper examines the instrumental role of food in performance art. With the same incorporation of food\, these works take advantage of the taste to unite people from different backgrounds\, and to provide a corporeal medium to raise concerns for nuclear radiation and safety. The remediation of food\, in art practice and social media\, further produces a micro-social and micro-political narrative to think of food safety\, human safety\, and community conflicts.
\nAbstract in Japanese (if needed): 「あちらとこちら」：現代パフォーマンス・アートにおける食、安全、そしてコミュニティ 要旨では、2011年の東日本大震災と津波のあと、アーティストたちが 「3/11」を日本の外でどう表現するか を考える研究だと説明されています。特に、福島に直接近づけない状況で、アーティストはどう反応するのか、海外にいる日本人アーティストは故郷で起きたことをどう表すのか、日本の外にいる人はどうやってその出来事に触れ、応答するのか、という問いが立てられています。中心事例として扱われるのは、Ei Arakawa の Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent? (2014) です。要旨によれば、この作品は ニューヨークと福島の地理的な隔たりを媒介しようとした企画として読まれています。比較される例として、Rirkrit Tiravanija の Untitled (Free/Still) (2007) と、社会参加型アートの Conflict Kitchen (2010) も挙げられています。福島の出来事を、食べ物を使ったアートで世界の人にどう伝えるかを考える発表です。 そして、食べ物は人をつなぐだけでなく、安全や不安、社会の対立について考えさせる力を持つ、というのがポイントです。
\n\nhttps://www.academia.edu/73785101/Xu_Weis_Melon_and_Vine ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260830T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260830T234500 SUMMARY:Sein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance UID:20260813T010744Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Padova\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts:
\nSein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance
\n(Padua\, February 17-19\, 2027)
\nWe are pleased to share the call for abstracts for the conference Sein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance\, organized by the Centro Studi di Critica Heideggeriana (CSCH) on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of Being and Time by Martin Heidegger. The conference will take place from February 17 to 19\, 2027\, at the FISPPA Department of the University of Padua.
\nIn a context that has long been active in Heidegger studies\, the conference aims to bring into dialogue some of the most authoritative voices in the current debate on Heidegger&rsquo\;s work and thought across different philosophical traditions and geographical contexts. Alongside contributions from invited speakers in the regular sessions (Hiroshi Abe\, Francesco Camera\, Paola-Ludovika Coriando\, Costantino Esposito\, Giuliana Gregorio\, Servanne Jollivet\, Giusi Strummiello\, Mark Wrathall\, Holger Zaborowski) and a panel dedicated to the work of the Paduan philosopher Franco Volpi (&ldquo\;Being and Time&rdquo\;: A Practical Philosophy? Interpretative Perspectives in Dialogue with Franco Volpi\, with guest interventions from Jesú\;s Adriá\;n Escudero\, Adriano Fabris\, and Carlo Scilironi)\, the event will include parallel sessions featuring presentations selected through this call for abstracts. Proposed abstracts should focus on the relevance of Being and Time for contemporary thought\, a theme that applicants are encouraged to address from multiple perspectives.
\nThe guiding idea of the conference is to foster engagement with a classic text of twentieth-century philosophy by rereading it from the standpoint of the present and by relating the fundamental questions that run through Heidegger&rsquo\;s masterpiece to the concerns of an era &ndash\; our own &ndash\; shaped by radically transformed conceptual horizons and frameworks of thought. In this perspective\, the call invites contributions that critically engage with Being and Time in light of the questions the text continues to raise one hundred years after its publication. We welcome proposals that explore the relevance of Heidegger&rsquo\;s analyses in relation to themes such as existence\, temporality\, finitude\, historicity\, understanding\, language\, body\, being\, and instrumentality\, bringing these into dialogue with contemporary problems\, trajectories\, and fields of research. The aim is to encourage dialogue among different traditions of thought that have found in Being and Time a major source of inspiration &ndash\; such as hermeneutics\, existential philosophy\, and phenomenology of embodiment &ndash\; or that have engaged with it in original ways\, such as certain areas of analytic philosophy and pragmatism.
\nTo submit a proposal\, applicants are required to send\, no later than August 30\, 2026\, a title and an anonymized abstract in English\, Italian\, or German (max. 3\,000 characters\, including spaces)\, addressing Being and Time and its relevance today. Presentations will be delivered in the same language chosen for the abstract. Please also attach\, in a separate file\, a brief biographical note (max. 150 words). The expected duration of each presentation is 20 minutes\, followed by a 10-minute discussion.
\nThe results of the selection process\, conducted by the selection committee\, will be announced on September 30\, 2026.
\nAll materials must be sent by email to: seinundzeit2027@virgilio.it
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260831T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260831T190000 SUMMARY:Identity and Community in Times of Uncertainty UID:20260813T010745Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Czarnowiejska 36\, Kraków \, Poland\, 30-054 DESCRIPTION:This sixth edition of the Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis series seeks contributions exploring issues surrounding identity and community in times of uncertainty.
\nWriting in the aftermath of the Second World War\, Simone de Beauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics centred around the ambiguity of the human condition. Her work critiques traditional ethical frameworks subsuming plurality and ambiguity under the generalisations of normative concepts and practices. Ethics\, she argues\, should enable individuals to assume this ambiguity and plurality\, mindful of the diversity of our human condition. \;Ethics of Ambiguity\, \;notably\, strives to demonstrate how existentialism can be and indeed is inherently moral or social. Beauvoir appeals to us to recognise our freedom and responsibility\, yet at the same time highlights the limits of this freedom in situations of oppression\, and that this freedom is the most precarious in times of &lsquo\;uncertainty&rsquo\;&mdash\;where &lsquo\;crushed by present events\, [one] loses one&rsquo\;s way before the darkness of a future haunted by frightening spectres: war\, illness\, revolution\, fascism.&rsquo\;
\nBeauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics sought to respond to the challenges addressed to existentialism\, accused of miserabilism and solipsism. This conference seeks develop on Beauvoir&rsquo\;s works and legacy and those of her contemporaries\, and to explore the resources available within existential philosophy for rethinking the role of identity and community in times of uncertainty and crisis. Does the focus that existential philosophy places on the singular individual impede the construction of community? Does existentialism provide tools for articulating situations of oppression\, and navigating hostile environments? Does it provide guidance for concrete forms of action and activism\, and paths for navigating the uncertainty in the contemporary world?
\nContributions should engage with current issues from the perspectives of thinkers in existential philosophy and phenomenology\, such as Albert Camus\, Theodor Adorno\, Simone Weil\, Emil Cioran\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Jean-Paul Sartre\, Karl Jaspers\, Hannah Arendt\, Martin Heidegger\, and their nineteenth-century predecessors (Kierkegaard\, Nietzsche\, Stirner&hellip\;). \;
\n\;
\nTo propose a talk:
\nScholars interested in presenting should send a 300-word abstract and brief bio-bibliographical information by \;31 August 2026 \;to \;conference.eptcc@gmail.com \;. Notification of acceptance by 15 September 2026. For scholars requiring earlier notification in order to organize travel\, \;early submission \;and acceptance is possible. In that event submissions should be sent by \;1 July 2026 \;for notification by 15 July 2026. Please clearly indicate in the body of the email that you wish to be considered for early acceptance.
\nPresentations should be 25 minutes\, followed by 25 minutes discussion time. \;
\nConference participation open to all and \;free of charge \;for all speakers and participants\, but no funding is available for travel or accommodation.
\nFor specific queries (other than submission of abstracts or registration)\, contact: \;melissa.fox-muraton@clermont-sb.fr \;.
\nRegistration:
\n\;
\nTo participate without presenting a talk\, please register by email to \;conference.eptcc@gmail.com \;by 15 October 2026\, providing your name and institutional affiliation.This sixth edition of the Existential Philosophy for Times of Change and Crisis series seeks contributions exploring issues surrounding identity and community in times of uncertainty.
\nWriting in the aftermath of the Second World War\, Simone de Beauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics centred around the ambiguity of the human condition. Her work critiques traditional ethical frameworks subsuming plurality and ambiguity under the generalisations of normative concepts and practices. Ethics\, she argues\, should enable individuals to assume this ambiguity and plurality\, mindful of the diversity of our human condition. \;Ethics of Ambiguity\, \;notably\, strives to demonstrate how existentialism can be and indeed is inherently moral or social. Beauvoir appeals to us to recognise our freedom and responsibility\, yet at the same time highlights the limits of this freedom in situations of oppression\, and that this freedom is the most precarious in times of &lsquo\;uncertainty&rsquo\;&mdash\;where &lsquo\;crushed by present events\, [one] loses one&rsquo\;s way before the darkness of a future haunted by frightening spectres: war\, illness\, revolution\, fascism.&rsquo\;
\nBeauvoir&rsquo\;s existential ethics sought to respond to the challenges addressed to existentialism\, accused of miserabilism and solipsism. This conference seeks develop on Beauvoir&rsquo\;s works and legacy and those of her contemporaries\, and to explore the resources available within existential philosophy for rethinking the role of identity and community in times of uncertainty and crisis. Does the focus that existential philosophy places on the singular individual impede the construction of community? Does existentialism provide tools for articulating situations of oppression\, and navigating hostile environments? Does it provide guidance for concrete forms of action and activism\, and paths for navigating the uncertainty in the contemporary world?
\nContributions should engage with current issues from the perspectives of thinkers in existential philosophy and phenomenology\, such as Albert Camus\, Theodor Adorno\, Simone Weil\, Emil Cioran\, Simone de Beauvoir\, Jean-Paul Sartre\, Karl Jaspers\, Hannah Arendt\, Martin Heidegger\, and their nineteenth-century predecessors (Kierkegaard\, Nietzsche\, Stirner&hellip\;). \;
\n\;
\nTo propose a talk:
\nScholars interested in presenting should send a 300-word abstract and brief bio-bibliographical information by \;31 August 2026 \;to \;conference.eptcc@gmail.com \;. Notification of acceptance by 15 September 2026. For scholars requiring earlier notification in order to organize travel\, \;early submission \;and acceptance is possible. In that event submissions should be sent by \;1 July 2026 \;for notification by 15 July 2026. Please clearly indicate in the body of the email that you wish to be considered for early acceptance.
\nPresentations should be 25 minutes\, followed by 25 minutes discussion time. \;
\nConference participation open to all and \;free of charge \;for all speakers and participants\, but no funding is available for travel or accommodation.
\nFor specific queries (other than submission of abstracts or registration)\, contact: \;melissa.fox-muraton@clermont-sb.fr \;.
\nRegistration:
\n\;
\nTo participate without presenting a talk\, please register by email to \;conference.eptcc@gmail.com \;by 15 October 2026\, providing your name and institutional affiliation.
ORGANIZER;CN="Mélissa Fox-Muraton";CN="Jakub Gomułka";CN="Maciej Kałuża": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260831T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260831T230000 SUMMARY:Special issue of Trópos on Mimetic Studies: New Theoretical Steps for the Mimetic Turn UID:20260813T010746Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Located at the juncture of philosophy and the arts\, mimesis is one of the most ancient concepts of literary theory and may not initially appear new\, let alone original. It was indeed marginalized and forgotten in the Romantic and modernist periods haunted by the myth of originality. Yet\, in recent years\, scholars across the humanities\, social sciences\, and even the neurosciences\, have returned to the ancient\, yet strikingly contemporary\, realization that humans are an imitative species\, or homo mimeticus (www.homomimeticus.eu).
\nTaking the study of all too human\, posthuman\, and nonhuman forms of imitation beyond its traditional confines within aesthetic realism and mimetic desires\, influential figures in continental philosophy (Nancy\, Malabou)\, literary theory (Miller)\, feminism (Cavarero\, Butler)\, political theory (Connolly)\, New Materialism (Bennet)\, posthuman studies (Hayles)\, history of psychology (Borch-Jacobsen)\, the neurosciences (Gallese) and more\, have joined forces across disciplines to promote a &ldquo\;mimetic (re-)turn&rdquo\; attentive to the relational\, embodied\, plastic\, contagious\, resonant\, and mirroring (im)properties of a chameleon species (see for instance Homo Mimeticus and Homo Mimeticus II).
\nThe goal of this speical issue of Tró\;pos: Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Critique \;is to engage productively\, critically and creatively with the mimetic (re-)turn to both deepen and further the transdisciplinary field of mimetic studies. Please familiarize yourself with this field first via the links above first as we look for contributions that are explicitly positioned within mimetic studies. We are especially interested in the contemporary conceptual masks of mimesis that enable us to further explore the two &ldquo\;faces&rdquo\; of mimesis that go beyond good and evil: understood as a vibrant affect that destabilizes the boundaries of individuation\, mimesis on the one hand generates life-negating pathologies and\, on the other hand\, produces life-affirmative patho-logies. We welcome contributions to new mimetic studies across different disciplines and theoretical schools\, including but not limited to:
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Modernist mimesis (phantom egos\, homo duplex\, crowd behavior)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Mimicry\, interculturality\, decolonization
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Postmodernist mimesis (pastiche\, intertextuality\, simulation)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Mimesis in postcritique &\; affect theory (identification\, apprehension\, attunement)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; (New) fascist mimesis (myth\, disinformation\, post-truth)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Mimetic posthumanism (hypermimesis\, AI simulations\, homo mimeticus 2.0)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; After post-poststructuralist mimesis (Derrida\, Irigaray\, Lacoue-Labarthe\, Nancy\, Lawtoo)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Mimicry after Critical Theory (Benjamin\, Adorno\, Fromm\, Jameson)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Hermeneutics and Mimesis (Heidegger\, Gadamer\, Vattimo)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; New materialist mimesis (contagion\, influx &\; efflux\, entangled humanism\, &ldquo\;flesh&rdquo\;)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Gendered mimesis &\; mimetic inclinations (Irigaray\, Butler\, Cavarero\, Ahmed)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Mimetic resonance (Rosa)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Imitation &\; neuroscience (mirror neurons\, plasticity\, epigenetic mimesis)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Mimesis and (literary) selfhood (life writing\, autofiction\, relating narratives\, autotheory)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Suggestive mimesis (mimetic unconscious\, hypnosis\, empathy\, influence)
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Biomimicry and metamorphosis (beyond human/nonhuman mimesis)
\n&hellip\;
\n-Word length 7.500 words max\, including footnotes\; 200 words abstract (in English)\; 5-6 keywords.
\n-On a separate sheet: author's name\, affiliation\, email and a short bio (50-60 words) \;
\n-Style Chicago Style (footnotes and bibliography):
\nhttps://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide/citation-guide-1.html
\n-Languages: English is preferred but French\, Italian\, and Spanish are also possible
\n-Submit to: n.lawtoo@hum.leidenuniv.nl and m.a.peters@hum.leidenuniv.nl
\n-For more information visit Tropos' website: https://ojs.unito.it/index.php/tropos/Norme
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260831T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260831T230000 SUMMARY:‘Mysticism of Open Eyes’ in: 'Universitas Gedanesis' UID:20260813T010747Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Jan Grzanka\, editor of the biannual scientific journal &lsquo\;Universitas Gedanensis&rsquo\;\, together with Elżbieta Mikiciuk\, invite you to contribute to the next issue of the journal entitled &lsquo\;Mysticism of Open Eyes&rsquo\;.
\nThe motto of the issue is André\; Malraux's words: &lsquo\;The 21st century will be mystical... or it will not be.&rsquo\; We do not interpret them as a striking metaphor\, but as a diagnosis of the times. If Christianity is to survive\, it cannot be an escape from the world\, a form of spiritual escapism. The concept of &lsquo\;mysticism of open eyes&rsquo\;\, developed by Johann Baptist Metz\, means mysticism that does not separate itself from reality\, focused on private spiritual experience\, but is sensitive to suffering\, seeing the faces of others. It is a mysticism of compassio\, compassionate\, especially present with those who have been hurt and concerned about the justice they expect.
\nToday\, in an age of violence\, inequality and new forms of exclusion\, indifference has become one of the most dangerous temptations of &lsquo\;disembodied&rsquo\; and individualistic spirituality\, a pseudo-mysticism that not only replaces shallow religiosity\, but leads faith astray. &lsquo\;Open Eyes&rsquo\; is a protest against a misunderstood path of mystical contemplation. Mysticism will either become a sensitive\, loving presence in the world\, attentive to human beings and all living creatures\, or it will lose itself in non-existence. If the 21st century is not mystical in this sense\, it will become spiritually dead and helpless in the face of apatheism.
\nThe editors plan to publish two issues of the journal\, which will then be used as the basis for a book to be published by the Krakow Society of Authors and Publishers of Scientific Works &lsquo\;Universitas&rsquo\;. For several years now\, a series of publications has been appearing\, based on articles published in the Universitas Gedanensis journal\, supplemented with additional materials and published under the collective title Bibliotheca Culturae Scriptae (Library of Written Culture).
\nEach volume of the series is planned as a separate collective work\, edited by Dr Jan Grzanka and an expert in the field invited to collaborate. In the edition &lsquo\;Mysticism of Open Eyes&rsquo\;\, the co-editor of the volume is Prof. Elżbieta Mikiciuk\, PhD\, from the University of Gdańsk.
\nAll information about the journal and the publishing series is available at: universitasgedanensis.com.pl. The tabs &lsquo\;For authors&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;Reviewing guidelines&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;Publication ethics guidelines&rsquo\; contain detailed guidelines for publishing articles in &lsquo\;UniversitasGedanensis&rsquo\;.
\nPlease send any questions and correspondence to the following email addresses:
\njangrzanka@onet.pl
\nEditor-in-chief of Universitas Gedanensis: Dr Jan Grzanka (SANS-Sopot)
\nmikiciuk.elzbieta@gmail.com
\nCo-editor of the volume: Prof. Elżbieta Mikiciuk\, PhD (University of Gdańsk)
\n\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T120000 SUMMARY:Nighthawk Star: World Philosophy Literary Magazine UID:20260813T010748Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Nighthawk Star: World Philosophies Literary Magazine
\nNighthawk Star is a bi-annual literary magazine that publishes on World Philosophies and Literatures. We seek to give voice to writing and art that engage with philosophical issues from perspectives otherwise marginalised by Anglo-European and Western-style academia\; and are committed to uplifting philosophy from around the world and embracing non-traditional forms of expression. For us\, &lsquo\;World Philosophies&rsquo\; represent the diverse intellectual traditions rendered homeless by well-established academic institutions and philosophies that keenly attend to the lived experience of the individual embedded in their historical\, social\, cultural\, and political contexts. \;Our mission is to support philosophically-minded writers\, thinkers\, and artists who experience marginalisation due to their backgrounds and/or views. We hope to do so by building a platform for sincere literary engagement.
\nCall for Works: \;Mālā (Beads)
\nSubmissions for our second issue are now open under the theme 'Mālā' (Beads).
In Sanskrit\, mālā (माला) means &ldquo\;garland&rdquo\;\, though it has evolved to mean a loop of prayer beads in Hinduism\, Jainism\, Sikhism\, and Buddhism. The Chinese call them &ldquo\;Buddha beads&rdquo\; (佛珠) and the Japanese\, &ldquo\;counting beads&rdquo\; (数珠). It is the misbaḥa (مِسْبَحَة) in Islam and the rosary in Christianity. All over the world\, people have developed the same tradition of appealing to the divine through symbolic\, disciplined repetition. Even where beads do not serve religious purposes\, the sense of their passing through our fingertips becomes a solace for many. What kinds of beads do you carry? Why are they of a certain shape\, colour\, and number? Beads are often made from materials local to a people: consider wood\, stone\, gems\, and seeds\, as well as the thread that holds them together. Besides physical beads\, our lives also are full of metaphorical &ldquo\;beads&rdquo\;: consider the notions of repetition and circularity (saṃsāra)\, counting\, tactility and embodiment\, attention\, ritual\, and religious identification.
\nWhich aspects of your life seem to repeat themselves while grounding you in the present?
\nWe are accepting all genres of writing\, including fiction\, creative non-fiction\, poetry\, and philosophical essays\; we are also accepting works of art\, including scans or photographs of physical mediums\, digitally created art\, as well as photography. We welcome broad interpretations of this theme in prose under 2\,000 words (fiction\, creative nonfiction\, philosophical essay)\, poetry under 40 lines\, and visual art including photography. You may submit up to 2pcs of written work and 3pcs of art each round. As we are not an academic journal but a literary magazine\, we love to see works that are daringly creative both in subject and style.
\nDeadline for submissions is 1st September\, 2026.
\nYou can find more information about making a submission with us on our website linked below. To make a submission\, please use the submissions form on the website:
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T234500 SUMMARY:Kantian Journal. Special Issue "Immanuel Kant on Jesus Christ and Christianity" UID:20260813T010749Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Kant&rsquo\;s attitude toward Jesus Christ and Christianity has received little attention in contemporary Kant studies. Among studies of Kant&rsquo\;s philosophy of religion today\, as for a long time before\, the leading topics include the critique of the proofs for the existence of God and its influence on the subsequent development of theology\, the moral religion of reason and its specific features\, ethical-theology\, the concept of the highest good\, philosophical theology and its tasks\, theodicy\, and the concept of radical evil. Meanwhile\, more specific issues of Kant&rsquo\;s interpretation of the dogmas fundamental to the Christian faith are overlooked by contemporary researchers. This is also true for the dogma of the God-manhood of Jesus Christ\, his resurrection\, and ascension\, which are equally important for all Christian denominations. However\, in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason\, Kant devotes an entire section to Jesus Christ and the &ldquo\;ideal of a humanity well-pleasing to God&rdquo\; which has been incarnated by Him (AA 6\, pp. 60&ndash\;78). The God-manhood of Jesus Christ\, his resurrection\, and ascension are also discussed in The Conflict of the Faculties (AA 7\, pp. 38&ndash\;39). The ideal of &ldquo\;perfect humanity&rdquo\; is also discussed in the Critique of Pure Reason (B 596 / A 568). So\, what role does Jesus Christ play in Kant&rsquo\;s philosophy? How far does Kant&rsquo\;s interpretation of His God-manhood depart from the traditional Christian understanding\, and how does it relate to the interpretations of this dogma that were common among Enlightenment theologians? Is faith in Jesus Christ as the God-man\, his resurrection\, and ascension truly essential for Christianity\, or is it perfectly conceivable\, according to Kant\, without it? And can Kant&rsquo\;s moral religion exist without relying on Jesus Christ as the ideal of humanity well-pleasing to God? These and related issues are to be examined in the special issue &ldquo\;Immanuel Kant on Jesus Christ and Christianity&rdquo\;.
\nGuest Editor &ndash\; Prof. Dr Ludmila Kryshtop
The issue (Kantian Journal\, Vol. 46\, No. 1) will be published by the end of March 2027.
There is now a rich debate within and across diverse traditions of political and moral thought about the meaning\, use\, and desirability of the concepts of land and territory\, and their relation to justice.
\nFor example\, the past fifteen years have been marked by the dedicated theorizing about territorial rights in contemporary Anglo-American moral and political philosophy (see for example: Miller\, 2012\; Moore\, 2014\, 2015\, 2019\; Nine\, 2012\; Ochoa-Espejo\, 2020\; Simmons\, 2016\; Stilz\, 2019). While the first wave focused on core conceptual questions about the nature and scope of various territorial rights (including jurisdiction\, self-determination\, resource control\, and immigration)\, the kinds of agents who hold these rights\, and the normative justifications for them\, this literature has now self-reflexively entered a &ldquo\;second wave&rdquo\; characterised by a deeper concern for questions of global inequality\, decolonization\, overlapping projects of self-determination\, and the environmental crisis (Moore &\; Ugalde\, 2025). For example: What is the extent of morally mandatory restitution in cases of territorial wrongdoing\, including settler colonialism (Luoma\, 2023\; Luoma and Moore\, 2024\; Moore\, 2019\; Stilz\, 2024\; Riebold\, 2022\, 2023)? How may multiple peoples\, with distinct normative and ontological systems\, overlap in the same place without retrenching relationships of structural injustice and inter-group domination (Jourdeuil 2024\, 2025a\, 2025b\; Luoma\, 2022\, 2023\, 2024\, 2025)? What forms of governance are required in ecologically integrated regions spanning borders (Nine\, 2022)? How are territorial rights contingent on respect for biodiversity and ecological integrity (Moore\, 2023\; Kwan\, 2025)? How can the benefits and burdens of natural resources\, energy transition\, and climate change mitigation/adaptation be fairly distributed between groups (Armstrong\, 2017\; De Biaso 2024a\, 2024b\; Li\, 2022\; Moore\, 2019)?
\nConcurrently\, Indigenous scholars\, environmental philosophers\, and eco-phenomenologists interrogate the core normative\, ontological\, and epistemological assumptions of these discourses. Indigenous theorists challenge the hegemony of rights-based territorial frameworks\, contending that the natural world is not a stockpile of &ldquo\;resources&rdquo\; to be distributed and controlled according to a theory of justice\, but is better conceived of as a kinship network populated by beings deserving of intrinsic concern and respect with whom we must live harmoniously (e.g.\, Allard-Tremblay 2023\, 2025\; Burkhart\, 2019\; Mills 2017\, 2018\, 2019\; Simpson 2011\, 2017\; Temin 2023). Eco-phenomenologists challenge conceptions of land as a neutral background container against which we exercise our agency\, demonstrating how land and place structure our lived experience and subjectivity\, our ethical encounter with the alterity of the other-than-human\, and the possibilities for political agency (Casey\, 1993\, 2018\; Ingold\, 2010\; Malpas\, 1998\; Rose\, 2005\; Seamon\, 2018\; Smith\, 2001\, 2011\; Toadvine\, 2019).
\nBeyond political theory\, land and territory are at the heart of intensifying international political conflicts\, including attempted territorial annexations\, rising majority and minority nationalism\, struggles against (neo-)colonialism\, and the global climate crisis. Consequently\, this workshop welcomes submissions that investigate conceptual\, normative\, and applied questions at the intersection of land\, territory\, and justice\, from diverse methodological perspectives including\, but not limited to analytical moral and political philosophy\, environmental philosophy and eco-phenomenology\, Indigenous political thought\, critical theory\, and comparative dialogue.
ORGANIZER;CN=Kaitie Jourdeuil;CN=Michael Luoma: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260903T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260904T170000 SUMMARY:2nd Praxis International Conference "Enacting Emotions in Today’s World" UID:20260813T010751Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Évora\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:Confirmed keynote speakers:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Fabrice Teroni (Université\; de Genè\;ve)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Irene Borges-Duarte (Universidade de É\;vora)
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Pierre Leger (Université\; d&rsquo\;Aix-Marseille)
\nMany thinkers stressed that emotions (at least a significant part of them) do not just happen to us. Since ancient philosophy\, there have been many discussions about how there are active components in our emotions: that they are determined by our judgements\, by our will or by our choices. There have also been many debates about how one&rsquo\;s culture determines one&rsquo\;s emotions. To a larger extent\, this active shaping of emotions is unconscious\, but many thinkers explored the possibility of expressly cultivating certain emotions and transforming our emotional life. What we do shapes our emotions. They are at least in part our responsibility. On the other hand\, emotions decisively affect the way we think about action and act. This reciprocal relation between action and emotions affects our whole life and it is also decisive for the main crises we face today\, such as ecological and climatic disruption\, technological perils\, social and cultural dissolution\, the systemic decay of democratic and geopolitical orders\, the erosion of shared truth\, the atrophy of sustained attention\, global mental health crisis\, and so on. The goal of this conference is to discuss how our enacting of emotions contributes to these and other problems we face\, as well as how we can cultivate different emotions to help us deal with these problems. \;
\nTo discuss this question\, it is of course necessary to determine how emotions result from our activity (whether at an empirical level or at a deeper or transcendental level) or how they are marked by what we do. It is also necessary to consider how our enacted emotions have\, in turn\, a deep impact on our life. Many thinkers studied the way our cognitive processes or our practical decisions are affected by emotions\, and contemporary debates on epistemic\, aesthetic\, moral\, political\, climatic emotions (among others) help us understand how any emotion we enact affects the way we think\, the way we experience things\, and the way we act at the individual and the collective level. Thus\, it stands to reason that all the problems we face today are also to an extent shaped by the emotions we ourselves have enacted and will enact in the future. This involves both perils and opportunities: on the one hand\, emotions can be manipulated to generate reactions\, or to mold perceptions of events\; on the other hand\, one can cultivate emotions to develop capabilities needed in the contemporary world and to build hope\, resilience\, courage\, fortitude\, empathy.
\nWe welcome contributions from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives and methodological frameworks\, fostering a truly interdisciplinary dialogue on these issues.
\nPaper proposals should be sent to praxis@ubi.pt by June 15. They should include an abstract (250-350 words) and a brief biographical note about the authors (up to 100 words). We also welcome panel proposals (3 participants per panel\, preferably mixed gender). Notifications of acceptance and rejection will be sent by July 15. Presentations should not exceed 20 minutes and may be delivered in English\, Portuguese or French. Please note that all presentations must be delivered in person\, as videoconferencing will not be available.
ORGANIZER;CN="Praxis Center for Philosophy, Politics and Culture (University of Beira Interior/University of Évora)": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260907T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260909T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophische Wurzeln des Nationalsozialismus UID:20260813T010752Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Avinguda Blasco Ibáñez\, 30\, Valencia\, Spain DESCRIPTION:The conference is conceived from the basic position \;that the ideological theses expressed and assumed by the nationalsocialism are intellectually disgusting and have had an extremely horrible effect on world history. This is precisely why it seems important to us to critically examine the roots of those theses and to meticulously research their philosophical background. This unmasks and denounces the self-blameful ignorance and maliciousness of National Socialist ideology. We consider this intellectual work to be particularly important today\, when new political movements are silently developing and insinuating similar theses into the public domain\, thereby jeopardizing the future of humanity.
ORGANIZER;CN="Pedro Jesús Teruel": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260908T103000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260908T170000 SUMMARY:A Century of Foucault - Deakin University Graduate Symposium UID:20260813T010753Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Tower 2 level 12/727 Collins St\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3008 DESCRIPTION:This year marks the centenary of the birth of Historian/Philosopher Michel Foucault (1926 &ndash\; 1984) and the 50th anniversary of the French publication of Histoire de la sexualité\;: La volonté\; de savoir. A giant of French poststructuralist thought\, Foucault can be seen as the progenitor of contemporary queer theory and the field of biopolitics. Foucault remains a stalwart of the humanities and his influence extends far beyond the bounds of traditional philosophical discourse to areas such as sociology\, criminology\, and politics.
\nAt Deakin Downtown on September 8\, 2026 at 10:30 AM (AEST) this event will bring together current Australian graduate students to reflect on the legacy and continued influence of Foucault's work.
\nAll are welcome\, we hope you will join us for this exciting and thought provoking day!
\nThis is a hybrid event supported by zoom. Zoom attendance does not require an RSVP with eventbrite.
\nZoom link: \;https://deakin.zoom.us/j/82961833454?pwd=7vKvwKZFKdOhZbHnjJxmTGjte5WKrt.1
\nMeeting ID: 829 6183 3454 // \;Password: 07841049
\n*Lunch catering will be provided for in person attendance\, please be sure to RSVP on the eventbrite page
\n**We also would like to thank the incredible generosity of the Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy (ASCP) and Deakin University's Philosophy and Religious Studies research group (PHIRES) for their support and funding for the event.
\nFor any queries please email \;lauren.p@deakin.edu.au
ORGANIZER;CN=Lauren Pedersen-Hor;CN=Jasper Lear;CN=Beau Kent: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20260908T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20260911T170000 SUMMARY:Historical Narratives and Counternarratives UID:20260813T010754Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Belgrade\, Serbia DESCRIPTION:Organiser: Prof. Milenko Bodin (University of Belgrade)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260911T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260911T234500 SUMMARY:Kant on Violence\, War\, and Genocide UID:20260813T010755Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The serious international situation we are experiencing suggests that we should explore the scope of contemporary dialogue in relation to Immanuel Kant&rsquo\;s work. His texts on the philosophy of history\, his writings on practical matters and the inspiration behind his theoretical approach all demonstrate a clear commitment to peace as the only appropriate framework for coexistence in line with the aspirations of human reason. According to Kant\, reason demands that the Kampfplatz be followed by lasting peace. To what extent are his ideas still relevant today? How can Kantian thought shed light on the current situation? How can his work\, written in eighteenth-century Kö\;nigsberg\, contribute to our era\, in which we are witnessing serious political and legal setbacks such as the Russian invasion of Ukraine\, Hamas terrorism\, the barbarism unleashed by Israel in Gaza\, the violence perpetrated by organised crime through groups such as drug cartels\, and the erosion of the democratic system by Donald Trump&rsquo\;s government in the United States?
\nWe welcome all original contributions that explore these issues within the framework of Kantian thought and its critical reinterpretation. The deadline for submissions on the OJS platform is 11 September 2026. Original manuscripts can be submitted in any of the REK&rsquo\;s languages (Spanish\, German\, Valencian/Catalan\, English\, French\, Italian and Portuguese). To be considered\, submissions must follow the guidelines for authors (pp. 190 ff.).
\nEach submission will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Notification of acceptance will be given by 11 January 2027. The monograph is scheduled for publication in the spring issue on 22 April 2027.
\n\n\; \; Pedro Jesú\;s Teruel and Eduardo Charpenel
\n\; \; Valè\;ncia/Ciudad de Mé\;xico\, October 12\, 2025
\nFrontier Ethics: A Journal of Critical Humanities \;is a new multilingual\, peer-reviewed\, open-access journal dedicated to critical inquiry at the intersections of philosophy\, history\, science and technology studies\, and the politics of life. We publish original research in English\, Japanese\, Chinese\, and Korean.
\nFE takes as its starting point the conviction that the most urgent questions of our time &mdash\; about bodies\, borders\, medicine\, reproduction\, race\, coloniality\, and the governance of life &mdash\; demand forms of thinking that move across disciplinary and linguistic boundaries. We welcome work that is theoretically ambitious\, historically grounded\, and politically engaged.
\nScope
\nWe invite submissions on topics including\, but not limited to:
\nInaugural Special Issue: \;La naissance de Michel Foucault \;&mdash\; Foucault at 100
\nTo mark the centenary of Michel Foucault's birth\, FE's inaugural issue will be a special themed collection exploring the afterlives\, receptions\, and continuing provocations of Foucault's thought across Asia and the world. We particularly welcome contributions that engage Foucault's work from non-European contexts\, address the late lectures and unpublished seminars\, or develop new genealogical approaches to contemporary problems.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260915T234500 SUMMARY:Decentering Design: Technology Through the Maintenance Lens UID:20260813T010757Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Proposed Collected Volume:
\nDecentering Design: Technology Through the Maintenance Lens
\nEditors: Mark Thomas Young (University of Paderborn) &\; Andrea Gammon (TU Delft)
\nRecent work on maintenance in philosophy of technology reflects a growing interest in approaching artifacts and systems as dynamic processes extended through time. As such\, it highlights a shift in focus that is currently underway - away from the traditional concern with how things are initially designed and produced - and towards an examination of the way technologies are often continually re-produced through time by practices of adjustment\, tuning and adaptation.
\nAs a growing body of literature now demonstrates\, approaching technology through the lens of maintenance is crucial\, not only for delineating the environmental\, political and social significance of technologies\, but also for apprehending their ontological\, epistemological and ethical aspects. However\, much work remains to be done in clarifying the conceptual and methodological implications of this growing body of work for philosophy of technology. \;
\nThe proposed volume aims to develop and consolidate the theoretical contribution of maintenance to philosophy of technology by advancing existing discussions and establishing new lines of enquiry around topics which have yet to be considered in relation to maintenance. \;As such\, this call for papers stands as a invitation for researchers to consider how reflecting on the ways in which the technologies they study are sustained over time may further enrich philosophical understandings of technological maintenance. We welcome contributions that address the maintenance of technologies across a range of kinds and scales: from individual artifacts to systems\, networks and infrastructures\, from crafted objects to digital systems\, robotics and autonomous agents. While we are specifically interested in theoretical and empirical contributions which advance the growing discussion on maintenance in philosophy of technology\, studies which aim to so by drawing upon the perspectives and resources of related fields\, such as STS and Media Studies are welcome\, as are critical approaches which highlight limitations in existing conceptual or methodological approaches to the study of maintenance. \;
\nSuggested topics include but are not limited to:
\nWe invite submissions of 300 word abstracts for proposed chapter by September 15th 2026 \;emailed directly to the editors: \;mark [at] markthomasyoung [dot] net &\; A.R.Gammon [at] tudelft [dot] nl
\nAuthors will be notified of acceptance within two weeks of the abstract submission deadline. Accepted contributions will receive an invitation to a chapter development workshop to be held at the University of Paderborn in January 2027 generously funded by the Society for Philosophy of Technology (SPT). Contributions are expected to range from 6000-8000 words (not including references). Those who would like to discuss potential contributions are encouraged to get in contact with the editors. \;
\nAnticipated Timeframe
\nPresentation 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:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260923T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260927T170000 SUMMARY:Praxis-Based Logic and Virtue: Jainism\, Sikhism\, and Chinese Traditions UID:20260813T010759Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:America/Vancouver LOCATION:Vancouver\, Canada DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP Praxis-Based Logic and Virtue: Jainism\, Sikhism\, and Chinese Traditions
\nOrganizer: Agnieszka Rostalska
\nKeynote: Chris Rahlwes\, \;Florida Atlantic University: Intellectual Aparigraha and the Problem of Jain Contextualization
\nThis workshop examines underrepresented traditions of logic and philosophico-religious thought in Asia\, with an emphasis on Sikhism\, Jainism\, and Chinese religious traditions.
\nIt investigates how these traditions apply logic and argumentation within the social sphere.
\nJainism is notable for its engagement with sophisticated\, non-absolutist\, and contextual logic systems that align with modern formal and non-classical logic. This "Engaged Jainism" advocates for "rationality for democracy" and critical thinking by rejecting "one-sided" (ekānta) views\, which are seen as the roots of intolerance and social conflict.
\nSimilarly\, Sikhism contributes a "logic of life" and a "non-oppositional" or paradoxical logic that bridges contradictions typically kept separate by formal systems. This praxis-based logic asserts that true knowledge is only valid when translated into ethical living and the reform of human action\, effectively moving logic from abstract debate into the practical realm of daily ethics.
\nFinally\, the panel incorporates the pragmatic and experiential approaches of Chinese traditions: Confucianism\, Daoism\, and Buddhism\, as well as analytical reconstructions of Mohism. In brief\, these traditions focus on the internalization of virtue and the social manifestation of spiritual truths\, prioritizing the lived application of philosophy within society. Together\, these perspectives challenge the limitations of mere intellectual thinking by emphasizing the practical and ethical dimensions of logic.
\nThe fundamental questions include\, but are not limited to:
\nHow does contextual logic promote a rationality for democracy?
\nWhat are the main characteristics of praxis-based logic?
\nIn what ways does paradoxical logic promote internalization of virtue?
\nWhat processes allow logic to shift from the abstract domain into practical\, ethical\, and societal applications?
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\nThis event is a partnership between UCW\, SFU\, and UBC\, and will take place across three venues in downtown Vancouver. Primarily at UCW\, with one day hosted at SFU and another at UBC.
\nhttps://5wocolor.com/ \;
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\nFor any inquiries regarding this session\, please contact:
\nAgnieszka Rostalska: agnieszka.rostalska@ugent.be
ORGANIZER;CN=Agnieszka Rostalska: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Yerevan:20260924T093000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Yerevan:20260926T170000 SUMMARY:Contested Pasts\, Uncertain Future(S): Heritage\, Memory\, and History UID:20260813T010800Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Asia/Yerevan LOCATION:Alex Manoogian 1\, Yerevan\, Armenia DESCRIPTION:The Laboratory for Philosophy and Theory of History announces its international conference\, to be held on 24-26 September 2026 in Yerevan. Bringing together philosophers\, historians\, anthropologists\, archaeologists\, and scholars of heritage and memory\, the event will provide a platform for critical engagement and dialogue on the ways in which the past is interpreted\, preserved\, and contested across disciplines and societies.
\nThe theme Contested Pasts\, Uncertain Future(s): Heritage\, Memory\, and History traces how societies construct meaning from experiences of destruction\, violence\, and loss\, and how these meanings shape collective identities and future imaginaries. In a world marked by genocide\, war\, cultural erasure\, and ecological devastation\, the conference seeks to question the moral and epistemic responsibilities involved in narrating and creating the past.
\nThe event aims to expand theoretical inquiry into heritage as a field of conflict and negotiation. Heritage is never neutral\; it embodies claims to ownership\, belonging\, and continuity\, often entangled with questions of displacement\, colonial legacies\, and political power. The conference will consider how indigenous and native communities struggle to sustain their historical lands\, languages\, and material cultures amid global pressures of appropriation\, modernization\, and erasure. These issues call for renewed philosophical engagement with the concept of heritage itself: its ontological foundations\, its ethical implications\, and its relation to historical justice.
\nThe conference will explore the intersection of heritage\, memory\, and historiography &ndash\; examining how material remains\, institutional frameworks\, and historical writing intertwine in shaping public understanding of the past. It will also address the challenges posed by relativism\, competing historical claims\, and the erosion of trust in expertise. By combining perspectives from philosophy\, history\, archaeology\, epistemology\, and art\, the event seeks to foster a conversation about the ethics of historical representation and the fragile relationship between knowledge\, authority\, and memory.
\nConfirmed keynote speakers:
\nEwa Domańska (Adam Mickiewicz University\, Poland)
\nLynn Meskell (University of Pennsylvania\, USA)
\nArsen Bobokhyan (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography\, Armenia)
\n\nThose interested in taking part in the conference are invited to send in an abstract of 300-500 words (in .doc or .docx) to lab.philosophy@ysu.am by 15 March 2026. Please name your file following this structure: Surname_Title of the abstract. Accepted participants will be notified by the mid-April.
\nPapers must be presented in either English or Armenian. There is no registration fee.
ORGANIZER;CN=Davit Mosinyan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260924T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260925T170000 SUMMARY:International Conference "The Artificial Mind: Art and Philosophy after AI" UID:20260813T010801Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Konstitucijos pr. 22\, Vilnius\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:International Conference
\nThe Artificial Mind: Art and Philosophy after AI
\n24-25 September 2026
\nNational Gallery of Art
\n22 Konstitucijos Ave. \;
\nVilnius\, Lithuania
\nThe title &ldquo\;Artificial Mind&rdquo\; references Claude Lé\;vi-Strauss&rsquo\; \;The Savage Mind (La Pensé\;e sauvage (1962)\, a foundational work in anthropology\, in which he argues that &ldquo\;savage&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;civilized&rdquo\; thought share the same epistemological architecture &ndash\; differing not in structure but in mode of operations. While the &ldquo\;civilized&rdquo\; engineer works with purpose-built concepts and tools toward a specific end\, the &ldquo\;savage&rdquo\; bricoleur thinks with whatever is at hand\, constructing new meanings from fragments.
\nWith the advent of AI and large language models (LLMs)\, we might speak of a new variation of thought &ndash\; the \;Artificial \;Mind &ndash\; that combines these principles. AI is typically figured as the apotheosis of engineering: a rational\, systematic agent grounded in logic\, computation\, and algorithm. Yet what LLMs actually do resembles \;bricolage \;far more closely &ndash\; repurposing and recombining existing anthropogenetic materials to produce outputs that are heterogeneous assemblages rather than engineered constructions in the strict sense. More fundamentally\, the Artificial Mind points to the technicality of thought itself\, which no longer appears as an autonomous\, interior human faculty\, but as an operational process structured by historically and materially situated practices. \;
\nUnsurprisingly\, AI has provoked philosophy &ndash\; across both its analytic and continental branches &ndash\; into responses\, reflections\, and reservations ranging from careful conceptual revision to outright alarm. Perception\, judgement\, agency &ndash\; domains previously considered exclusive to human reasoning &ndash\; are now contested terrain. Phenomenology asks how mediation by artificial neural networks alters the fundamental structures of experience\; ethics becomes concerned with the conditions of moral formation when the environments that shape us become generative\, while political philosophy &ndash\; with what institutional settings are required when the very capacities of judgement become increasingly automated. \;
\nThe conference invites theoretical and empirical contributions on the tectonic transformations AI has introduced into the conceptual space of the \;post \;&ndash\; at least insofar as it pertains to the human. Conceptually\, this rethinking necessitates a shift from anthropology toward \;postanthropology \;&ndash\; at once a postanthropocentric revision of disciplines confronted with a non-human form of thought\, and a broader interrogation of the Anthropos as the presumed center of agency\, knowledge\, and meaning-making. \;
\nThis rethinking is not without tensions. The apparent radical alterity of the artificial mind remains deeply embedded in all-too-human systems &ndash\; and is therefore inescapably implicated in their structures and mechanisms of exploitation\, extraction\, and control &ndash\; capitalism\, patriarchy\, and colonialism\, among others. As Luciana Parisi observes\, AI is haunted by &ldquo\;the paradox of aesthetics and recursive algorithms that sustain the freedom of \;homo bioeconomicus \;through the prototype of the slave-machine&rdquo\; (2023). In this sense\, AI occupies an ambivalent position: it destabilizes the human/non-human distinction that has historically underpinned oppressive regimes\, while simultaneously intensifying and rearticulating them.
\nAt the same time\, the notion of the artificial points toward artifice &ndash\; the domain of art &ndash\; where meaning has long been produced through practices of bricolage: mediation\, staging\, and re/combination. AI- and algorithmic art render these operations not only explicit but scalable and programmable\, thereby problematizing the status of artistic production: what does it mean to make art after AI? Confronted with the automation of its own conditions of possibility\, will art remain a privileged site of meaning-making or become one modality of algorithmic recombination among many? \; \;
\nRather than a eulogy for the human or for art\, the conference is envisioned as a platform of creative exchange between philosophical and artistic interventions &ndash\; a collective attempt to think our posthuman or more-than-human future(s). In line with Yuk Hui&rsquo\;s programmatic vision\, we want to foster artistic\, conceptual\, and technical practices that &ldquo\;maintain and reproduce biodiversity\, noodiversity\, and technodiversity&rdquo\; (2023) under the homogenizing conditions of automation. \;
\nContributions may address\, but not limited to:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;AI and the transformation of mind\, thought\, and cognition
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Post/Phenomenology of AI and the mediation of embodiment
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Art\, technics\, and creative practices in the age of AI and algorithms
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Agency\, subjectivity\, and authorship in human-machine assemblages
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Ethical\, critical\, and political perspectives on AI infrastructures
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Alternative technological imaginaries and technocultures
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \;Experimental\, speculative\, and situated approaches to AI
\nProposals of up to 250 words should be sent to Denis Petrina (denis.petrina@lkti.lt) by August 15 2026. Please include the speaker&rsquo\;s name and institutional affiliation. Accepted presenters will be notified by August 25 2026. \;
\nA thematic issue of &ldquo\;Athena: Philosophical Studies&rdquo\; is planned for 2027. Extended articles based on conference presentations will be considered for publication. \; \;
\nInformation about the journal: \;https://athena.lt/home
\nConference fee: \;The conference is free of charge. However\, travel and accommodation expenses are to be covered by participants. \;
\nWorking language: \;English
\nFormat: \;The conference is an onsite event.
\nConference organizer: \;Lithuanian Culture Research Institute
\nConference partner: \;National Gallery of Art
\nOrganizing committee: \;Danutė Bacevičiūtė\, Laurynas Norus\, \;Denis Petrina\, Justas Petronis\, \;Augustas Pinkevičius\, Aistis Žekevičius\, Audronė Žukauskaitė
\nContact for enquiries: \;denis.petrina@lkti.lt
ORGANIZER;CN=Justas Petronis;CN=Denis Petrina: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260924T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260925T170000 SUMMARY:Political Philosophy and the Good Life UID:20260813T010802Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Saint Louis University\, Saint Louis\, United States DESCRIPTION:Saint Louis University's Philosophy Graduate Student Association welcomes submissions from graduate students writing on topics at the intersection of political philosophy and the good life.
\nThe conference will be held in person on 24-25 September 2026 at Saint Louis University. In addition to student presentations\, there will be two keynote presentations\, one by Professor Stephen Angle (Wesleyan University) and the other by Professor Dan Haybron (Saint Louis University). \;
\nThe conference theme is Political Philosophy and the Good Life. \;
\nRelevant topics include (but are not limited to):
\nComparative political philosophy
\nCritical theory
\nEquality and egalitarianism
\nHappiness \;
\nLiberal neutrality and perfectionism
\nLiberal theory
\nAlternatives to liberalism
\nPhilosophy of democracy
\nPhilosophy of law
\nPhilosophy of technology
\nSocial ontology
\nSocial metaphysics
\nWell-being theory
\nVirtue politics
\nWe welcome submissions from all philosophical backgrounds.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nSubmissions should be less than 3500 words\, prepared for blind review\, and accompanied by a separate cover page containing the author&rsquo\;s name\, affiliation\, paper title\, word count\, and an abstract of 350 words or fewer.
\nPlease send all submissions to pgsa.conf@slu.edu. Format the subject line of your email as follows: SLUGRADCONF 2026 - [your name] - [your paper title].
\nYou must be enrolled in a graduate program at the time of submission. Current SLU students are ineligible.
\n***The submission deadline is 19 June 2026.
\nConference website: https://sites.google.com/view/pgsaconference/
ORGANIZER;CN=Ryan Powers;CN=Joel Cox: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260924T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260925T170000 SUMMARY:The Foucault Century UID:20260813T010803Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center\, Philadelphia\, United States DESCRIPTION:Michel Foucault&rsquo\;s influence on contemporary thought is unmatched by any other twentieth-century intellectual. Reputed to be the most widely cited scholar in history\, his work has provided a foundational vocabulary in a variety of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. He remains one of the most widely taught figures in institutions of higher education worldwide. Even where Foucault&rsquo\;s name is no longer invoked\, the shaping influence of his corpus has been transformative&mdash\;even revolutionary.
\n2026 marks the centennial of Foucault&rsquo\;s birth and the 50-year anniversary of the publication of his landmark \;History of Sexuality\, Vol. 1. \;The Foucault Century\, a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (September 24&ndash\;25\, 2026)\, offers a renewed assessment of Foucault&rsquo\;s thought. \;
\nForty years after his death\, our understanding of Foucault&rsquo\;s scholarship has been enriched and transformed by a wealth of groundbreaking posthumous publications. These include Foucault&rsquo\;s thirteen courses at the Collè\;ge de France\, lectures and seminars at other institutions around the world from the 1960s to the 1980s\, and the fourth volume of \;History of Sexuality&mdash\;Confessions of the Flesh. More material is coming out all the time\, with Foucault&rsquo\;s 1966&ndash\;1967 public lectures at the University of Tunis now in press.
\nThe Foucault Century \;considers the manifold implications of this expanding corpus. And it takes as its premise that the Foucault we already know&mdash\;or think we know&mdash\;may need to be reconsidered. What has sometimes been called the &ldquo\;textbook image of Foucault&rdquo\; has become an obstacle to fully grasping the depth\, complexity\, and tensions of his thought. \;
\nThe Foucault Century \;will bring together an international group of Foucault specialists to consider a range of problems in the contemporary assessment of Foucault: What questions are being left unasked in the default interpretation of Foucault that has been passed down? What controversies remain unresolved? Which of Foucault&rsquo\;s many voices and guises can be brought into productive conversation with our contemporary intellectual\, political\, and cultural controversies? And which need to be criticized or dismantled? Which Foucaults have been remembered? And which have been forgotten and may need to be brought to light again?
ORGANIZER;CN=Daniele Lorenzini;CN=Donovan Schaefer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20260925T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20260927T170000 SUMMARY:Updating the Totalitarian Question: Subject\, Truth\, and Resistance in Post-Totalitarian Reality UID:20260813T010804Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Ljubljana\, Slovenia DESCRIPTION:v\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML)\;} o\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML)\;} w\\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML)\;} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML)\;} Normal 0 false false false false SL X-NONE X-NONE/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"\; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0\; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0\; mso-style-noshow:yes\; mso-style-priority:99\; mso-style-parent:""\; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt\; mso-para-margin:0cm\; mso-pagination:widow-orphan\; font-size:10.0pt\; font-family:"Calibri"\,sans-serif\; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"\; mso-ansi-language:SL\; mso-fareast-language:SL\;}
\nOn the anniversary of Hannah Arendt's birth\, it is extremely relevant to reconsider her analysis of totalitarianism in the context of contemporary conditions\, which many describe as post-totalitarian\, diffuse\, and systemic. Although 20th-century totalitarianism seems to be historically over\, its structures&mdash\;the breakdown of the public sphere\, the manipulation of reality\, the bureaucratization of guilt\, and the degradation of the individual into a function&mdash\;are present today in more subtle but no less effective forms. It is necessary to go deeper than detecting politics into the very anthropological and ontological core of the problem: the loss of man's capacity for thought\, judgment\, and responsibility. It is precisely this loss that is the fundamental question linking her thinking to Kierkegaard's existential turn\, Havel's analysis of the post-totalitarian system\, and the vision of an existential revolution in the 21st century.
\nFor Arendt\, totalitarianism arises when individuals lose their inner orientation and capacity for personal judgment. The mass man\, as she describes him\, is isolated\, atomized\, and at the same time completely embedded in an ideological system that offers him false certainty. This man does not feel the need to think\; Arendt's "banality of evil" is not driven by fanatics\, but by bureaucrats without inner reflection. Arendt shows that life in such a system produces "subjects without an inner core" who adapt to the logic of necessity and renounce personal responsibility. This condition is a prerequisite for any totalitarian regime\, which is merely a consequence of the disintegration of subjectivity.
\nVá\;clav Havel in The Power of the Powerless continues Arendt's diagnosis\, but shifts it to the context of post-totalitarianism\, where repression is no longer explicit but structured into everyday routines\, symbolic gestures\, and the pressure of conformity. Havel's "life of lies" is not merely a moral category\, but an ontological condition: the individual renounces authentic expression because he is dependent on a system that dictates what is "normal\," "safe\," and "acceptable." The post-totalitarian society that Havel describes is built on millions of small compromises.
\nIt is interesting to note that this situation is emerging in entirely new forms in the 21st century: not only in political regimes\, but also in technological structures\, the attention economy\, algorithmic regulation of information\, and social pressure to performative identity. In this sense\, Havel is more relevant today than he was at the time of his writing.
\nKierkegaard recognized as early as the 19th century that the modern age creates a "public sphere" in which the individual is dissolved into abstraction. "The crowd is untruth" is his radical response to a process that\, in Arendt's and Havel's perspective\, leads to complete depersonalization. The existential turn in Kierkegaard means a return to the inner experience of decision-making: the subject must become responsible to himself\, to his "eternal self\," not to the expectations of the crowd. This is a decision that requires passion\, risk\, and a willingness to be nonconformist.
\nSince 2013\, Kierkegaard conferences and contemporary existential hermeneutics have been exploring this very idea: today\, the subject is losing not only its moral orientation\, but also its ontological weight. The existential turn is therefore necessary not so much as a philosophical fashion\, but as a condition for the preservation of humanity.
\nThe internal transformation of the subject is thus a prerequisite for the transformation of the world. The existential revolution is not political\, but ontological\; it does not build a new ideology\, but restores man as the bearer of truth\, independent of the pressures of the system.
\nWe must therefore transfer the analysis to the immediate present: post-totalitarian tendencies are evident today in digital surveillance\, the algorithmisation of the public sphere\, psychopolitical mechanisms\, the culture of the performative self\, and society's fear of exclusion and the breakdown of dialogue. The existential revolution is thus a break with the structure of "living a lie\," which is no longer tied solely to political repression\, but to the entire configuration of late modernity.
\nWithout internal responsibility\, there is no external freedom\; without personal truth\, there is no political truth\; without the subject\, there is no democracy.
\nWe can argues that the key to understanding contemporary post-totalitarian reality lies in the existential renewal of the single individual. The Hannah Arendt anniversary encourages us to consider her warning together with the existential tradition\, which offers not only a diagnosis but also a path of resistance and transformation.
\n\;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260930T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260930T000000 SUMMARY:The Courage of Truth. Michel Foucault 1926-2026. UID:20260813T010805Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Roma\, Italy\, 00193 DESCRIPTION:Born on 15 October 1926\, Michel Foucault would be 100 years old today. An eclectic scholar and controversial figure on the French cultural scene\, Foucault delivered his final lecture at the Collè\;ge de France in 1984\, exploring the practices and forms of discourse through which the subject might come to speak the truth about themselves. The courage of truth lies with the speaker who takes the risk of expressing\, despite everything\, the whole truth that is in their mind\; and it is also the courage of the listener\, who agrees to accept as true the outrageous truth they have heard. From 1980 onwards\, Foucault had significantly reoriented his research\, shifting from the individual as an object of domination and surveillance to the subject of truth\; more specifically\, to the process through which the individual constitutes and recognises themselves as a subject.
\nThe volumes of The History of Sexuality\, written in his later years\, also explore the forms\, techniques and games of truth through which the individual constitutes themselves as a subject capable of governing themselves and\, by extension\, of governing others. Foucault presents a history of the ethical issues that arise from the techniques of the self&mdash\;those reasoned and voluntary practices through which individuals seek to transform themselves\, to modify their individuality\, and to make their lives a work that expresses certain values and meets specific criteria regarding lifestyle. Throughout his intellectual journey\, Foucault also developed one of the most influential critiques of modernity\, challenging the linear narrative of progress and demonstrating how modern institutions\, forms of knowledge and social practices are permeated by apparatuses of power that produce historically determined forms of subjectivity.
\nHis thinking made a decisive contribution to the renewal of contemporary social theory\, bringing to light a conception of power no longer understood as merely the prerogative of the state or sovereignty\, but rather as a widespread network of relationships\, practices and technologies that give substance to institutions.
\nIn this sense\, his thought represents one of the main points of reference in the post-structuralist debate and continues to offer analytical categories &ndash\; such as discipline\, biopolitics\, governmentality\, apparatuses and processes of subjectivation &ndash\; that are fundamental to understanding the transformations of contemporary societies and to the renewal of the social sciences and humanities. Central to his work is the tension that runs through it: between the technologies of discipline &ndash\; that power which\, through norms and surveillance\, produces docile or subjugated bodies &ndash\; and the technologies of the self\, the practices through which the subject constitutes itself by acting upon itself. These two axes intertwine precisely within governmentality\, a highly topical issue: does self-care\, in the new forms it takes today\, open up a space of freedom\, or is it a shift in the governance of behaviour? In honouring the legacy of Foucault\, the conference aims to critically and reflectively take stock of the current state of research: how are subjectivities and the Self constructed\, between power and emancipation\, in today&rsquo\;s world? Are the social sciences and humanities still &lsquo\;receptive&rsquo\; to his theoretical proposals? To what extent does his critique of modernity continue to provide a key to interpreting contemporary social transformations and new configurations of power? Does the appeal to the value of &lsquo\;humanity&rsquo\; and the human continue to be significant\, or\, as Foucault argued\, does it serve rather to justify the most disparate realisations? In contemporary societies\, how is the relationship between power\, truth and governmentality changing? In the age of thinking machines\, what is the relationship between the body and technology\, and how does it involve the sexed and gendered body? What is the relationship between truth and democracy in an era of crisis for epistemic authorities? If power is no longer the prerogative of the state but a widespread network of relationships and mechanisms\, where does sovereignty lie today\, and how are representation and conflict redefined when governance is exercised over conduct and life? If governing means directing conduct\, what forms of subjectivation does neoliberal governmentality produce today &ndash\; in which the individual has now become an entrepreneur of the self &ndash\; and what counter-conducts emerge where people no longer wish to be governed in this way?
\nThese are just some of the questions that may now be raised by a re-reading of the work of a scholar who\, at every stage of his intellectual journey\, positioned himself at a transdisciplinary crossroads within the humanities. Building on the framework outlined above\, with this call for papers we invite scholars to submit contributions addressing\, in particular but not exclusively\, the following themes:
\n- interpreting the critique of modernity: Michel Foucault&rsquo\;s contribution to the development of contemporary social theory and the post-structuralist debate\;
\n- biopolitics\, governmentality and capitalism in the digital society\;
\n- truth\, intellectuals and power in the post-truth era\;
\n- parrhesia and democracy: speaking the truth as a political practice and the crisis of epistemic authorities\;
\n- neoliberal governmentality\, the governance of conduct and the self-entrepreneurial subject\;
\n- political subjectivation\, counter-conducts and forms of resistance to government\;
\n- surveillance\, security and algorithmic governmentality in democratic societies\;
\n- current applications of the genealogical-critical method in the humanities and social sciences.
\nGUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING A PROPOSAL
\nOpening date for submission of proposals: 29 July 2026
\nGuidelines for submitting proposals: a maximum of 500 words and no more than 5 keywords\, in addition to the proposer&rsquo\;s first name\, surname\, affiliation and email address. The paper must be submitted in .pdf format to the following email address:
\nconferencefoucault@gmail.com
\nDeadline for submission of proposals: 30 September 2026
\nNotification of proposal acceptance: 15 October 2026
\nFor enquiries:
\nConference Scientific Committee
\nconferencefoucault@gmail.com
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 SUMMARY:Otherness (online) UID:20260813T010806Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Dear All\,
\nAlthough submissions to our conference are officially closed\, unforeseen circumstances required us to transfer the SoPheRE Conference on Otherness to an online format. While we regret not being able to meet everyone in person this year\, this transition also creates an opportunity to broaden the scope of our discussions and accept a limited number of additional papers.
\nWe therefore invite new abstract submissions (maximum 500 words)\, formatted for anonymous review. Abstracts must be written in English and sent toconference2026@sophere.org.
\nWe will review submissions on a rolling basis and aim to communicate decisions within approximately one week of receipt. The submission period will remain open until our online capacity is full or till the end of September\, at which time we will need to finalize the conference program.
\nThe original Call for Papers can be found here:
\nKeynote speakers:
\nMichael Barber (Saint Louis University): &ldquo\;The Question of the Ideology of Religious Experience and the Other: Essence\, Social Science\, and Verstehen&rdquo\;
\nPeter Costello (Providence College): &ldquo\;Marked By the Other: A Reading of Husserl and Genesis&rdquo\; \;
\nJoseph Rivera (Dublin City University): &ldquo\;Where to Experience the Other: A Critical Reading of Michel Henry&rdquo\; \;
\nMichael Staudigl (University of Vienna): &ldquo\;Barbarians\, Cannibals\, Terrorists: A Tropological Phenomenology of Otherness&rdquo\; \;
\nWe welcome additional submissions on Otherness in religion\, including\, but not limited to\, questions such as:
\nWith regard to Otherness in social and societal contexts\, we welcome phenomenological reflections on both contemporary and historical issues. We are particularly interested in contributions that apply phenomenological methods to the understanding of social diversity\, conflict\, migration\, exclusion\, inclusion\, and related topics.
\nWe look forward to receiving your submissions.
\nThe Organizers: Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (UC Davis)\, Martin Nitsche (Czech Academy of Sciences)\, Mary Shahanan (Atlantis Technological University)\, Tareq Ayoub (Western University Canada).
ORGANIZER;CN=Olga Louchakova-Schwartz;CN=Martin Nitsche: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 SUMMARY:APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies UID:20260813T010807Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies is sponsored by the American Philosophical Association (APA) Committee on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies. Our publication serves as a vital forum to report on philosophical work by Asian and Asian American philosophers\, explore new developments in Asian philosophy\, and foster discussions on topics of importance to our community and those engaged with these traditions.\n\n\nWe invite scholars to submit essays that contribute to the advancement of Asian and Asian American philosophical scholarship. Our publication embraces a diversity of views and topics. We welcome discussions on recent developments in modern and classical East Asian and South Asian philosophy\, as well as work by Asians and Asian Americans doing philosophy in its various forms. We also consider related work in other disciplines\, literature overviews\, reviews of the discipline as a whole\, and suggestions for spreading and improving the teaching of Asian philosophy.\n\n\nSubmission Guidelines\n\n\nPotential authors should follow these guidelines when preparing their manuscripts:\n\n\n&bull\;Format: Submissions should be limited to ten double-spaced pages and must adhere to the APA submission guidelines.\n\n\n&bull\;Review Process: All manuscripts should be prepared for anonymous review. Each submission will be evaluated by two referees\, and the reports will be shared with the authors.\n\n\n&bull\;Style: References must follow The Chicago Manual of Style.\n\n\n&bull\;Publication Agreement: If a paper is accepted\, the author is required to sign a publishing agreement prior to publication.\n\n\n&bull\;Submission Method: Please submit essays electronically to the editor.\n\n\nBook Reviews\n\n\nWe also welcome book reviews. If you have published a book appropriate for review in APA Studies\, please ask your publisher to send a copy to the editor. To volunteer as a reviewer\, kindly send your CV and a letter of interest mentioning your areas of research and teaching.\n\n\nPlease direct all articles\, comments\, reviews\, suggestions\, and other communications to the editor\, Henrique Schneider\, at hschneider@gmx.ch.\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T140000 SUMMARY:Northeastern Modern Language Association UID:20260813T010808Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Newport\, United States DESCRIPTION:CFP: German Romantic Humor across the Disciplines (9/30/2026\; NeMLA\; Sat March 6 - Tuesday March 9\, 2027)
\n\nTo be held at the 2027 Northeastern Modern Language Association (NeMLA) convention in Newport\, Rhode Island.
\n\;
\nThis panel seeks to bring together scholars of literature\, philosophy\, history\, art history\, theology\, musicology and/or related humanistic disciplines to discuss how humor shaped\, and was shaped by\, German Romanticism.
\n\nGerman Romantics used comedy\, parody\, satire\, transcendental irony\, and other humoristic techniques not only to entertain audiences in new ways\, but also to provoke political debate\, teach\, tread new creative ground\, and philosophize in ways that balance the sharpness of intellect with the acuity of wit particular to their age. In many ways\, while one might consider the Enlightenment the Age of Reason\, one might consider Romanticism the Age of Humor\, be it dark\, bawdy\, provocative\, seemingly nonsensical\, or otherwise.
\n\nBuilding on the influence of the newly launched Routledge book series\, &ldquo\;Humor in Literature and Culture\,&rdquo\; edited by Shun-Liang Chao and Vivienne Westbrook\, this panel takes a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach to humor\, capitalizing on the ways that this concept in its broadest sense can bring together works from a variety of literary genres\, as well as other media and art forms growing in popularity in German-speaking lands in the first half of the nineteenth century.
\n\nPotential topics might include\, but are not limited to:
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; New readings of canonical or less canonical comedic literary or poetic works. \;
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Analyses of operas\, Lieder\, folksongs\, or other musical pieces that use humorous elements to attain particular impact.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Considerations of humoristic techniques\, characters\, and commentaries.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Comparative contributions that juxtapose German Romantic humor with that of other national cultures or historical periods.
\n- \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Discussions of the effectiveness of various humoristic techniques across genres and media.
\n\;
\nPanel will take place in-person but abstracts from presenters who need to present remotely will be considered. Submissions must note whether the speaker is able to present in-person.
\n\;
\nPlease submit abstracts of 150-300 words\, including the submitter&rsquo\;s biographical information through the NeMLA website: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22400
\n\nSubmission deadline: September 30\, 2026
\n\nFor inquiries about the panel\, contact:
\nPascale LaFountain\, Associate Professor of German and French\, Montclair State University (lafountainp@montclair.edu)
ORGANIZER;CN=Pascale LaFountain: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 SUMMARY:Translation—Semiotics—Music UID:20260813T010809Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 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:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261002T170000 SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy of Action UID:20260813T010810Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Faculty of Philology\, University City\, Pl. Menéndez Pelayo\, s/n\, Moncloa - Aravaca\, Madrid\, Spain\, 28040 DESCRIPTION:The aim of the two-day international conference is to explore\, clarify and apply the resources of Continental thought about action and agency. Philosophy of action in the analytic tradition\, while not immune from internal disagreements\, can be thought of as a more-or-less coherent philosophical subfield. While there are exceptions\, Anglo-American philosophers of action tend to share metaphysical commitments (regarding event-causality\, for example\, or the existence of representational mental states)\, canonical references (Anscombe\, Davidson\, Bratman\, et al.)\, and sets of problems regarding action (eg\, &ldquo\;causal deviance&rdquo\;\, the so-called &ldquo\;disappearing agent&rdquo\; problem\, intentional omissions\, etc.). This situation can be \; \;prima facie \; \;contrasted to the scattered and varied approaches to action and agency one finds in the Continental philosophical tradition. Idealism\, Phenomenology\, hermeneutics\, poststructuralism\, new materialisms\, and critical theory\, to name just a few currents in contemporary Continental thought\, are distinguished from one another by seemingly distinct sets of philosophical concerns and vocabularies\, and by diverse metaphysical and methodological commitments. Given the treatment of action and agency in each of these currents is inseparable from specific sets of philosophical concerns and commitments\, it can seem that Continental philosophers do not share enough common ground to talk together about action and agency without talking past one another. In part\, then\, this conference wishes to clarify the extent to which one could meaningfully speak of &ldquo\;Continental philosophy of action.&rdquo\; But also\, working back down from these high-level\, general concerns\, the conference wishes to focus on specific\, field-defining problems of action and agency\, and the resources that might be drawn from Continental thought to address these problems in novel ways. Possible topics of interest might thus include:
\nFormat: Speakers will have 20 minutes to present their paper\, followed by 10 minutes for questions and discussion. \;Those interested in participating should send a 400-word abstract to cpa@ucm.es by 30 April\, 2026. The conference will be in English and attendance is free. More information can be found at: \; \;https://eventos.ucm.es/go/continentalphilosophyofaction \; \;
\nConference organizers: Emma Ingala\, Gavin Rae (Complutense University of Madrid) and Sean Bowden (Deakin University\, Australia). \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Sean Bowden;CN=Emma Ingala;CN=Gavin Rae: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T090000 SUMMARY:Book: Triadic progression of Artificial Argumentation UID:20260813T010811Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Triadic progression of Artificial Argumentation \; Edited by Prof. Beth-Anne Schuelke-Leech and Dr. Asma Tajuddin (co-editors) To be published by Windsor Studies in Argumentation We invite papers for an edited volume tentatively titled Triadic progression of Artificial Argumentation. The volume will examine three main themes: formal logic\, informal logic and human-centric approaches. It aims to bring together researchers from argumentation theory\, artificial intelligence\, explainable AI\, AI ethics\, AI governance\, philosophical traditions\, law\, and related disciplines to explore the emergence of artificial argumentation and future research. \; Submission GuidelinesAuthors must adhere to the following requirements for their manuscripts:
\nPlease submit your papers to the email addresses: tajuddi@uwindsor.ca or Beth-Anne.Schuelke-Leech@uwindsor.ca. The book will be published in 2027 (first quarter or before summer).
\nThis book aims to capture the triadic progression of artificial argumentation by focusing on three main themes. We have summarised the topics below\, but you are free to suggest those that seem fit. \;
\n1. Formalisms
\n&bull\; Logic-based construction
\n&bull\; Rule-based systems
\n&bull\; Abstract argumentation frameworks
\n&bull\; Semantics: distinction between qualitative acceptance and quantitative assessment \;
\nmethods
\n&bull\; Qualitative analysis of arguments
\n&bull\; Normative and descriptive analysis
\n&bull\; Norm-based protocols
\n&bull\; Pragma dialectics
\n2. Informalisms
\n&bull\; Dialogue Theory
\n&bull\; Speech Acts
\n&bull\; Argumentation Schemes
\n&bull\; Protocols and moves
\n&bull\; Preference rankings
\n&bull\; Argument relations
\n&bull\; Audience-centric Models
\n&bull\; Rhetorical analysis
\n&bull\; Multi-agent systems
\n&bull\; Scheme analysis
\n&bull\; Presumptive reasoning
\n&bull\; Practical reasoning
\n&bull\; Goal-oriented agents
\n&bull\; Scheme-based rebuttals
\n&bull\; Dialogue games
\n&bull\; Virtuous argumentation
\n3. Human-centric approaches
\n&bull\; Value-guided argumentation models
\n&bull\; AI Ethics
\n&bull\; AI Governance
\n&bull\; Based on human-centric philosophical traditions (for e.g.\, Boston Personalism\, \;
\nChicago\, Pittsburgh\, Harvard\, etc)
\n&bull\; Debating technologies
\n&bull\; Artificial arguers
\n&bull\; Designing virtuous agents
\n&bull\; Legal reasoning
\n&bull\; Medical decision-support
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261003T170000 SUMMARY:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality UID:20260813T010812Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality Call for Papers and PresentationsDetails
\nThe Call For Proposals
\nThe Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites proposals for an online conference entitled \;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality. \;The proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nThis conference investigates how beliefs\, paranoia\, and conspiratorial modes of knowing shape a contemporary cognitive battlespace in which actors struggle to define truth\, authority\, and reality itself. Drawing on Michel Foucault&rsquo\;s \;Lectures on the Will to Know \;and Julia Kristeva&rsquo\;s \;This Incredible Need to Believe \;(2024)\, we focus on practices of selective fact use and &ldquo\;truth-selecting&rdquo\; that construct alternative epistemic orders while claiming privileged access to what is &ldquo\;really&rdquo\; going on.
\nRather than treating conspiracy thinking as merely political or psychological\, the conference foregrounds its religious dimensions: faith in hidden powers\, moral dualism\, apocalyptic expectation\, and hermeneutical struggle over revelatory access to the real. Conspiracy cultures routinely reproduce theological structures of knowing&mdash\;visions of salvation and corruption\, truth and deception\, initiation and blindness. At the same time\, new forms of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; reframe these religious energies within state and platform attempts to govern perception\, attention\, and trust. Artificial intelligence\, algorithmic media\, and strategic information campaigns do not only deliver messages\; they create digital ecologies in which suspicion becomes faith-like and revelation is continual.
\nThe conference organizers are seeking proposals of high academic quality that take a reflective and analytical approach to both general and specific topics with international appeal or focus. We encourage contributions from scholars of religious studies\, philosophy\, communication\, sociology\, security studies\, psychology\, media\, and related fields. Submissions should engage religion as a dynamic force&mdash\;conceptually\, historically\, or materially&mdash\;within the cognitive battlespaces of our time. We encourage contributions from a spectrum of perspectives\, approaches\, and methodologies.
\nWe are not interested in papers that simply rehearse or promote particular conspiracies\, or that use the conference as a platform for calling out disliked groups. We are not interested in polemics\, jeremiad\, or de facto advocacy pieces. Instead\, we welcome theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous work that takes the religious and epistemic dimensions of cognitive conflict seriously as objects of critical inquiry.
\nTopics and Guiding Questions
\nProposals may address\, but are not limited to\, the following subthemes and questions:
\n1. Paranoid Styles and Truth-Selecting
\nReligious narratives have always negotiated the boundary between revelation and delusion\, authority and transgression. This subtheme explores how conspiratorial and paranoid styles echo older religious hermeneutics&mdash\;selective citation\, esoteric interpretation\, claims to hidden truth&mdash\;while retooling them in secular or digital forms. How do religious movements or quasi-religious publics narrate their privileged access to hidden realities? What theological and philosophical resources&mdash\;including the Foucauldian genealogy of the &ldquo\;will to truth&rdquo\;&mdash\;sustain these modes of &ldquo\;truth selection&rdquo\; and suspicion?
\n2. Zionism\, Antisemitism\, and Global Conspiracy Imaginaries
\nReligious symbols and myths remain central to global conspiracy thinking\, and Judaism occupies a particularly charged position in these narratives. This subtheme invites analyses of antisemitic conspiracies past and present\, from classical &ldquo\;hidden ruler&rdquo\; myths to their algorithmic reprints in digital culture. How do such imaginaries convert theological motifs into political paranoia? What criteria can scholars use to distinguish legitimate critique of religion or state policy from conspiratorial reinscriptions of sacred enmity and eschatological blame?
\n3. AI\, Platforms\, and Paranoid Infrastructures
\nTechnological systems now mediate belief and belonging in ways that rival traditional religious institutions. As artificial intelligence curates information and personalizes experience\, it also reconfigures how suspicion\, revelation\, and trust are produced and distributed. This subtheme asks whether algorithmic systems function as &ldquo\;paranoid infrastructures&rdquo\;&mdash\;digital environments that reinforce particular patterns of attention and faith. How do these systems become sites of religious projection\, and how do AI-generated and synthetic media intersect with conspiracy\, extremism\, and religious imaginary?
\n4. Cognitive Warfare and the Expanded Battlespace
\nThe concepts of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;cognitive domain operations&rdquo\; increasingly shape strategic and policy discourse\, yet they resonate with deeply theological questions about will\, truth\, and freedom. When states and institutions seek to &ldquo\;weaponize&rdquo\; belief or perception\, they enter into the same struggle for reality long theorized within religious and philosophical traditions. How might religious studies and critical theory help decode the sacred undercurrents of this emerging battlefield&mdash\;its rituals\, its eschatologies\, its doctrines of purified mind and corrupted reason?
\n5. Ethics of Information Control and Scholarly Responsibility
\nReligious communities have always wrestled with the ethics of teaching\, interpretation\, and secrecy&mdash\;questions that return urgently in the academy&rsquo\;s role as arbiter of truth amid disinformation. This subtheme invites reflexive discussion of how scholars navigate the line between critique and amplification when studying conspiratorial or extremist movements. What responsibilities accompany the act of curating knowledge&mdash\;or withholding it&mdash\;in an age when information itself is the battlefield?
\n6. Esoteric and Speculative Knowledge
\nReligious and occult traditions offer rich precedents for contemporary speculative and conspiratorial epistemologies. Drawing on Michael Barkun and related theorists of stigmatized knowledge\, this subtheme investigates how claims to esoteric or speculative truth function as alternative forms of knowing and meaning-making\, challenging empiricist and positivist paradigms. What ethical and epistemic possibilities emerge when the speculative is taken seriously as an object of inquiry? Where are the boundaries between credible revelation\, creative speculation\, and dangerous delusion\, and how do such claims sustain communities seeking Reality amid uncertainty?
\nSubmission of Proposals
\nContributors should send an abstract of 300&ndash\;500 words outlining their proposal and its relevance to the conference theme. All proposals should be submitted as email attachments to the editor at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com \;with the subject line header: &ldquo\;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare &ndash\; [Paper Title].&rdquo\;
\nAbstracts of papers\, drafts of papers\, or complete papers are welcome\, as well as proposals for oral presentations\, panel discussions\, or short workshops. Accepted presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review and possible inclusion in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nPublication
\nAs the \;Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory \;works toward a special issue on Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare\, our goal is to create an interdisciplinary forum for rigorous examination of these pressing issues. All conference presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review. Selected articles will be published in a forthcoming special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nQueries
\nFor questions regarding the conference or submissions\, please contact the JCRT editorial office at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com.
\nSponsored by the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) in Collaboration with the University of Denver
\njcrt.org/religioustheory - editor.jcrt@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Adam DJ Brett;CN=Carl Raschke;CN=Kev Grane: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20261002T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20261003T170000 SUMMARY:Inheriting Ordinary Language Philosophy UID:20260813T010813Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Universiteto g. 9\, Vilnius\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in so-called ordinary language philosophy &ndash\; one of the main traditions in 20th century analytic philosophy. The conference will contribute to this renewed engagement by examining the legacy and contemporary significance of the tradition and its leading representatives. At the same time\, the conference aims at critically examining the idea of an ordinary language philosophy tradition itself. The thinkers typically grouped under this label differ substantially in philosophical outlook and method. Assessing the depth and significance of these differences raises broader questions about how unified the tradition really is. Is the current resurgence best understood as the continuation of a shared philosophical approach\, or does it instead consist of diverse and sometimes competing attempts to draw on different elements of this legacy? By addressing these questions\, the conference will both clarify the historical significance of ordinary language philosophy and assess the prospects for its contemporary revival.
\nKeynote speakers
\nAvner Baz (Tufts University)
\nBenjamin De Mesel (KU Leuven)
\nHans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich)
\nMartin Gustafsson (Å\;bo Akademi University)
\nNicole Rathgeb (University of Bern)
\nImportant dates
\nAbstract submission: July 31\, 2026
\nAuthor notification: August 10\, 2026
\nConference: October 2-3\, 2026
\nRegistration fees
\nStudents 50 &euro\;
\nNon-students 100 &euro\;
\n(Registration fee covers the conference dinner\; waivers might be considered)
\nConference Venue
\nFaculty of Philosophy\, Vilnius University\, Universiteto street 9\, Vilnius\, Lithuania.
\nSubmitting an abstract for a presentation (30 minutes including discussion)
\nAbstracts at a maximum length of 400 words should be submitted as Word or PDF to mindaugas.gilaitis@fsf.vu.lt. Make sure to state your name and affiliation clearly in the abstract. The deadline for submission is July 31\, 2026. The date of notification is August 10\, 2026.
\nOrganizers
\nMindaugas Gilaitis (Vilnius University)\, Martin Gustafsson (Å\;bo Akademi University)
\nPlease direct all inquiries by email to mindaugas.gilaitis@fsf.vu.lt or martin.gustafsson@abo.fi.
\nThe event is free to attend. If you intend to come to the conference as a non-speaker\, please register by sending an email to mindaugas.gilaitis@fsf.vu.lt. The deadline for registration is September 25\, 2026.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261006T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20270427T170000 SUMMARY:"Ricœur\, Dead or Alive?" Fonds Ricœur Monthly Seminar (ENS\, Paris) UID:20260813T010814Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 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:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261007T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Why Still Education? EDUCATION – COMMUNITY – RESISTANCE UID:20260813T010815Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Belgrade LOCATION:Kraljice Natalije 45\, Belgrade\, Serbia\, 11000 DESCRIPTION:Schools and universities are increasingly becoming places that reflect global struggles: from culture wars over curriculum content to economic pressures that radically change teachers&rsquo\; working conditions\, the availability of education\, and the very purpose of learning. Within them\, the interests of various social actors inevitably intersect\, and often clash. Educational institutions can serve as instruments of control and reproduction of the existing order &ndash\; entrenching inequalities\, normalizing authority\, and limiting dissent. Conversely\, education can also be a site of resistance - a space for critical thinking\, challenging\, social mobilization\, and the creation of alternatives.
\nContemporary education has a strong moral\, political\, and ideological dimension: it aims\, among other things\, to educate active citizens and skilled entrepreneurs\, encourage care for others and the environment\, foster national identity\, and a sense of belonging. The values of the wider community spill over into the educational system\, but the reverse can also be true - educational institutions and educational actors can contribute to shaping the values of the wider community through their own\, autonomous values. If we view educational institutions as communities that possess a certain autonomy and resilience in relation to the local and wider community\, questions arise about the principles on which they should be built as good communities.
\nOn the other hand\, contemporary social and educational contexts confront us with forms of community that consolidate themselves through exclusion\, as well as with forms of resistance directed against democratic values. Rather than presupposing their emancipatory character\, the conference invites critical reflection on the many directions and forms that community and resistance can take in educational contexts.
\nThis also reopens the question of what education itself is\, and ought to be\, under present social conditions. The conference aims to open an interdisciplinary discussion on the interrelationships between education\, community\, and resistance. Authors are invited to address the following\, as well as other questions they deem relevant to the conference theme:
\n&bull\; What is the meaning of education in new social circumstances?
\n&bull\; In what way does education reproduce or challenge power relations and dominant ideologies?
\n&bull\; In relation to what\, when\, and how can education become a place and practice of resistance?
\n&bull\; How do practices within educational institutions contribute to the transformation of the wider community?
\n&bull\; What can we learn from the movements and protests spurred by educational actors?
\n&bull\; In what ways do various forms of democratic participation in education influence the reflection on and the construction of community?
\n&bull\; What pedagogical practices nurture community\, togetherness\, and a sense of belonging within educational institutions and outside of them? How to overcome alienation within educational institutions?
\n&bull\; How do different forms of non-formal education within the community contribute to the development of critical awareness\, collective action\, and resistance?
\n&bull\; Given the current social circumstances\, can the concepts of community and resistance still function as markers of progressive educational practices?
\nThe conference is open to theoretical and empirical contributions\, case studies\, as well as comparative approaches from all disciplines of social sciences and humanities.
\nKeynote speakers:
\nProf. Michalinos Zembylas\, Open University of Cyprus
\nProf. Aleksandar Baucal\, University of Belgrade
\nProf.Helen Haste\, University of Bath
\nIn addition to individual presentations\, panel proposals of three to four papers\, with a designated convener\, are also welcome. Panel proposals should include the title of the panel\, panel abstract (up to 300 words)\, the title of the individual presentations\, individual paper abstracts (up to 300 words)\, and information about all panel participants.
\nWe especially invite teachers and educators to present school projects and teaching initiatives that embody critical pedagogy\, democratic participation\, or creative resistance. These presentations aim to highlight examples of good practice that connect theory and action\, research and education\, community and resistance. We encourage teachers to submit presentations based on their everyday practice and experiences\, such as:
\n&bull\; school projects related to the main themes of the conference\,
\n&bull\; initiatives that promote students&rsquo\; democratic participation\,
\n&bull\; forms of creative or quiet resistance to injustice and bureaucratic pressures\,
\n&bull\; examples of critical pedagogy in the classroom\,
\n&bull\; ways of connecting the school with the local community.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Bacon and European modernity UID:20260813T010816Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:6 Emile Zola\, Bucharest\, Romania\, 7 000 DESCRIPTION:Leibniz Society of Romania
\nAnnounces the organization of the international symposium on the theme "Bacon and European modernity"\, which will take place on October 8-9\, 2026\, at the Francophone Regional Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences (CEREFREA) in Bucharest.
\nIn the year in which we commemorate four centuries since his passing\, we aim to see the contribution made by Bacon to European modernity\, on the following levels:
\n- Bacon's contribution to the scientific revolution\;
\n- relationship with his contemporaries\;
\n- knowledge reform projects\;
\n- the new instrument of knowledge\;
\n- natural philosophy and experimental philosophy\;
\n- utopian projects and socio-political criticism\, etc.
\nThe list is open\, and any topics in the field of Baconian studies can be addressed - in French or English.
\n\nWe invite interested researchers to send \; title\, \; 10-20 lines abstract and a CV to societatea.Leibniz@yahoo.ro \;or adriannita2010@gmail.com\, until May 1\, 2026\; the acceptance announcement will be May 15\, when the second circular letter will be published containing details regarding the participation fee (60 euros)\, account and other organizational details.
\nOrganizers: Leibniz Society of Romania\, Institute of Philosophy and Psychology "Constantin Rădulescu-Motru"\, Francophone Regional Center for Advanced Research in Social Sciences (CEREFREA) of the University of Bucharest.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Myth and the More-than-Human Community in the Twenty-First Century UID:20260813T010817Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:Workshop Topic
\nCan community&mdash\;and\, more specifically\, the more-than-human community&mdash\;be conceived as anything other than a myth? The term myth itself embodies a fundamental ambivalence: it can signify a lie\, fabrication\, or ideological fiction\, yet it simultaneously refers to a primordial\, sacred\, and potentially non-hierarchical form of speech through which worlds are disclosed and relations instituted. Rather than seeking to resolve this tension\, the workshop places it at the centre of its inquiry\, examining the processes through which community is enacted\, reflected upon\, and mediated. It asks how more-than-human forms of coexistence might be conceptualised through engagement with relational and Indigenous ontologies\, without romanticising or appropriating them. Ultimately\, the workshop questions whether myth can serve not merely as an object of critique but also as a resource for rethinking community beyond identity\, hierarchy\, sovereignty\, and mastery.
\nAgainst this backdrop\, the question of belonging emerges as the political and religious articulation of community: who belongs and on what terms. Contemporary debates oscillate between nationalist and exclusionary imaginaries grounded in identity\, sovereignty\, and closure\, and emerging concepts of more-than-human communities shaped by interdependence\, exposure\, and entanglement in the face of ecological crisis. This workshop starts from the premise that what these formations share is not a stable foundation\, but a constitutive mythic dimension that determines who can speak\, act\, and share responsibility. It asks how the institutionalisation of community through myth can enact an immunitarian logic\, simultaneously protecting certain members while delimiting others\, rendering belonging both a safeguard and a justification for exclusion or even sacrifice.
\nAgainst this background\, the workshop also asks how more-than-human community can be thought politically beyond the logic of sovereignty and moral universalism. How might concepts of vulnerability\, exposure\, becoming-animal\, and ecological entanglement challenge dominant political imaginaries of protection\, mastery\, and immunisation? In this sense\, the workshop seeks to open a space for rethinking community not as a moral or juridical project of inclusion\, but as a fragile\, conflictual\, and transformative field of shared life across species.
\nContent of Submission
\nBracketing the binary between the real and the fictive\, and drawing on thinkers such as Derrida\, Nancy\, Latour\, Haraway &mdash\; as well as Nietzschean and post-Nietzschean critiques of humanism\, morality\, and political sovereignty &mdash\; the workshop explores community as poised between impossibility and inevitability\, between rupture and relational becoming. Focusing on myth as both a totalising and interruptive form\, it investigates how communities take shape through narratives\, practices\, and institutions&mdash\;such as taboo\, sacrifice\, ritual\, law\, technology\, and regimes of purity and pollution&mdash\;and how these determinations are legitimised\, naturalised\, and contested. Centering on the consequences for interspecies relations and ecological entanglements\, the workshop examines how the stabilisation of community simultaneously establishes boundaries and exclusions.
\nRecognising the wide spectrum of questions encompassed by the workshop&rsquo\;s theme\, we invite contributions that engage with\, but are not limited to\, the following questions:
\n \; \; &bull\; Can myth operate as an interruptive rather than totalising form\, enabling non-identitarian\, non-sovereign modes of coexistence?
\; \; &bull\; How can community be approached as a process of exposure and relation rather than a stable foundation\, particularly in more-than-human contexts?
\; \; &bull\; How can Nietzschean critiques of humanism\, morality\, and political sovereignty help to rethink community beyond liberal inclusion and moral universalism?
\; \; &bull\; How might diverse modes of relationality&mdash\;such as kinship\, companion species\, sympoiesis\, and Terrestrials&mdash\;shape\, extend\, or even rethink the notion of community?
\; \; &bull\; How do narratives and practices relate to one another\, and in what ways do myths both reflect and enable practices of eating\, killing\, sacrifice\, care\, mediation\, and automation while drawing lines of inclusion and exclusion?
\; \; &bull\; In what ways can dialogue between postmodern thought and Indigenous knowledge generate productive insights for understanding community\, relationality\, and practice?
Forms of Submission
\nPresentations may take the form of individual papers. To be considered\, proposals must include the presenter&rsquo\;s name\, paper title\, and full contact details (email address and institutional affiliation)\, along with an abstract (500 words) and a brief biographical note. The workshop will take place in Vienna on 8&ndash\;9 October 2026. Presentations will be 20 minutes in length and will be followed by 30 minutes of discussion. Submissions should be sent electronically as a single PDF file. Scholars at all stages of their academic careers are warmly encouraged to apply.
\nContact
\nPlease submit proposals to: myth.community@lists.univie.ac.at until the 17.7.2026 \;
The organizers are exploring publication options\; however\, participation in the workshop does not imply a promise of publication.
This year's meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics will meet at University of California Davis. The meeting will feature a keynote address by Dr. Francis Mootz (University of the Pacific) entitled "Law after Postmodernity: Ontology\, Practice\, and Critique." The program will feature a variety of talks on topics in philosophical hermeneutics -- highlighting scholarship on the thought of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the application of hermeneutic theory to a variety of philosophical and social problems. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Carolyn Culbertson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:Voir-Dire: "World-Building" UID:20260813T010819Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:75 Laurier Ave E\, Ottawa\, Canada\, K1N 6N5 DESCRIPTION:Call for Proposals:
\n&ldquo\;World-Building&rdquo\;
\nOctober 9th &\; 10th\, 2026 at University of Ottawa
\nSubmission Deadline: June 1st\, 2026
\n[La version franç\;aise se trouve ci-dessous]
\nToday&rsquo\;s global community is at a critical juncture in the wake of increasing environmental\, political\, social\, cultural\, and economic crises. Worlds\, as we know them\, are becoming destabilized and fractured and the futures of individual nations as well as their geopolitical relations are uncertain. However\, from this uncertainty and rupture\, opportunity arises to build a better world. The theme\, &ldquo\;World-Building&rdquo\;\, invites graduate students and scholars to share their ideas and research on questions of transformative\, collaborative\, and cooperative processes and practices that envision worlds in their possible futures and the conditions for their realization.
\nVoir Dire: Conference &\; Journal is a joint initiative between graduate students from the philosophy departments at the University of Ottawa\, Saint-Paul University\, and Carleton University. Since an interdisciplinary approach is crucial for identifying\, discussing\, and resolving complex social and political issues\, we welcome proposals from other disciplines and from all areas of philosophy. \;
\nAbstracts and presentations may be in either French or English. Each speaker has 20 minutes to present\, followed by an open discussion period. We invite submissions that engage in research on topics including but not limited to:
\n● Transformation\, solidarity\, and community.
\n● Rights\, dignity\, and freedom: Relationships between human\, animals\, and nature.
\n● Positive and negative roles of dystopian/utopian thinking\, of hope/hopelessness\, of \;
\nnihilism/fatalism\, and of future studies.
\n● Alienation\, reconciliation\, and reparation.
\n● Relation between theory and practice\; justice\; moral and institutional responsibility.
\n● Policy\, commensurability\, feasibility\, and sustainability.
\nFully anonymized abstracts (250-500 words) can be submitted online using the following link:
\nConference Submission Form. You can find the formatting guidelines for abstracts at the beginning of the form and you will be asked to provide a brief bio describing your research interests. Following the conference\, papers may be considered for publication in the Voir Dire journal.
\nFor any questions\, please email us at voirdire.ottawa@gmail.com. \;
\n---------
\nAppel à\; communications :
\n«\; World-Building »\;
\nLe 9 &\; 10 octobre 2026 à\; l&rsquo\;Université\; d&rsquo\;Ottawa
\nDé\;lai de soumission : le 1er juin 2026
\nLa communauté\; mondiale actuelle\, face aux crises environnementales\, politiques\, sociales\, culturelles et é\;conomiques croissantes\, se trouve à\; un moment dé\;cisif. Les mondes\, tel que nous les connaissons\, se dé\;stabilisent et se fracturent\, et l&rsquo\;avenir des nations individuelles et leur relations gé\;opolitiques sont incertaines. Cependant\, de cette incertitude et de cette rupture\, é\;merge l&rsquo\;occasion de bâ\;tir un monde meilleur. Le thè\;me\, «\; World-Building »\;\, invite les é\;tudiant.e.s diplô\;mé\;.e.s et chercheurs.euses à\; partager leurs idé\;es et leurs recherches sur les enjeux relatifs aux processus et pratiques transformatives\, collaboratives et coopé\;ratives qui envisagent les mondes dans leurs futurs possibles et leurs conditions d&rsquo\;avè\;nement.
\nVoir Dire : confé\;rence et revue est une initiative conjointe des é\;tudiant.e.s diplô\;mé\;s des dé\;partements de philosophie de l&rsquo\;Université\; d&rsquo\;Ottawa\, de l&rsquo\;Université\; Saint-Paul et de l&rsquo\;Université\; Carleton. L&rsquo\;utilisation d&rsquo\;une approche interdisciplinaire é\;tant essentielle pour identifier\, discuter et ré\;soudre les problè\;mes sociaux et politiques complexes\, nous accueillons des propositions provenant d&rsquo\;autres disciplines ainsi que des propositions provenant de tous les domaines de philosophie. \;
\nLes ré\;sumé\;s et les pré\;sentations peuvent ê\;tre en franç\;ais ou en anglais. Chaque intervenant.e à\; 20 minutes pour faire sa pré\;sentation\, suivie d&rsquo\;une pé\;riode de discussion ouverte. Nous acceptons des propositions qui abordent\, sans s&rsquo\;y limiter\, les sujets de recherche suivant :
\n● La transformation\, solidarité\; et communauté\;.
\n● Droits\, dignité\; et liberté\; : les relations entre les humains\, animaux et la nature.
\n● Rô\;les positifs et né\;gatifs de la pensé\;e dystopique/utopique\, de l&rsquo\;espoir/dé\;sespoir\, du nihilisme/fatalisme et des é\;tudes de l&rsquo\;avenir.
\n● Alié\;nation\, ré\;conciliation et ré\;paration.
\n● Relation entre la thé\;orie et la pratique\; la justice\; la responsabilité\; morale et institutionnelle.
\n● Politique\, commensurabilité\;\, faisabilité\; et durabilité\;.
\nLes ré\;sumé\;s entiè\;rement anonymisé\;s (250-500 mots) peuvent ê\;tre soumis en ligne à\; travers le lien suivant : Formulaire de soumission. Vous trouverez les directives pour la mise en forme des ré\;sumé\;s au dé\;but du formulaire et vous devrez fournir une brè\;ve biographie dé\;crivant vos inté\;rê\;ts de recherche.
\nÀ\; la suite de la confé\;rence\, les articles pourront ê\;tre pris en considé\;ration pour publication dans la revue \;
\nVoir Dire. Pour toutes questions\, veuillez nous envoyer un courriel à\; voirdire.ottawa@gmail.com. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261013T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261015T170000 SUMMARY:COMET 2026 - Metaphysics in Contemporary Continental Philosophy UID:20260813T010820Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Nijmegen\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:COMET 2026 &ndash\; Metaphysics in Contemporary Continental Philosophy
\n13-15 October | Radboud University\, Nijmegen\, the Netherlands
\nCOMET is the annual expert meeting for metaphysics in contemporary continental philosophy\, hosted at Radboud University by its Center for Contemporary European Philosophy (CCEP).
\nIt brings together researchers across career stages who are doing metaphysical work in or in dialogue with continental philosophy\, and offers a setting to discuss research projects in depth.
\nWe are looking for contributions on what there is and how it is structured\, from any school or methodology within the field.
\nPROGRAM
\nThe meeting opens on Tuesday afternoon with a thematic session on ontologies of process and action\, featuring invited talks by Prof. Rein Raud (Tallinn University) and Dr. Mercedes Valmisa Oviedo (University of Gettysburg).
\nWednesday and Thursday are devoted to open sessions selected through this call. Each day has five speakers\, each with a sixty-minute plenary slot split roughly equally between presentation and discussion. The program also provides ample time between sessions for informal exchanges.
\nThe working language is English. Presentations in Dutch\, French\, and German are also welcome\, provided the speaker makes an English translation of their talk available for participants to follow along. The organizers can assist with translations from and into these languages during discussions
\nSUBMISSION GUIDELINES
\nPlease send an abstract of max. 250 words\, prepared for blind review\, plus a separate document with a biographical note of max. 150 words to comet@ru.nl. The deadline is July 2.
\nSelection is a two-stage process. Abstracts first undergo blind review. From the resulting shortlist\, the organizers compose the final program with an eye to a balanced representation of ideas\, career stages\, and backgrounds.
\nATTENDING WITHOUT PRESENTING
\nIn addition to ten speaker slots\, there are fifteen places for researchers who wish to attend and participate in discussions without presenting. To apply\, send an email with a short motivation and biographical note to comet@ru.nl.
\nPRACTICAL INFORMATION
\nThere is no registration fee. All sessions take place on campus. Speakers and participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation.
\nFurther details about COMET 2026 are available at https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/events/comet-2026. Last year&rsquo\;s program and abstracts can be found there as well.
\nORGANIZERS
\nCOMET 2026 is organized by dr. Arjen Kleinherenbrink and dr. Tim Miechels at the Center for Contemporary European Philosophy (CCEP) of the Faculty of Philosophy\, Theology\, and Religious Studies at Radboud University.
\nPARTNERS
\nCOMET is closely connected to the School of Materialist Research and Malta University's Engaging the Contemporary conference. There is significant overlap in our intellectual aims\, and we invite anyone already involved in one to find their way to the others.
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The Carol Carfang Nursing &\; Healthcare Ethics Conference offers a unique opportunity to discuss contemporary ethical issues with distinguished ethicists\, educators\, philosophers and healthcare professionals interested in complex ethical issues in healthcare.
\nWe invite submissions of abstracts for a 15&ndash\;20 minute presentation and for posters that address any contemporary ethical issue in healthcare at the 2027 Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference. The abstract may not exceed 300 words and must be formatted with one-inch margins in 12 pt. Times New Roman typeface.
\nPotential topics\, both general and specific: \;Healthcare Inequity
\nhttps://www.duq.edu/academics/colleges-and-schools/nursing/events/carfang-nursing-and-healthcare-ethics-conference/index.php
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:Radical Philosophy Association 18th Biennial Conference UID:20260813T010822Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 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. \;
The journal \;Diakrisis: Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy \;invites submissions for its 2026 issue\, dedicated to the theme \;Love\, Conversion\, and Transformation of the Self\, approached from theological\, philosophical\, and phenomenological perspectives.
\nLove and conversion belong among the most decisive experiences shaping human existence. Whether understood as affective relation\, ethical orientation\, spiritual event\, or existential rupture\, love raises fundamental questions about alterity\, freedom\, and selfhood. Conversion\, in turn\, names a moment&mdash\;or a process&mdash\;of reorientation\, often described as \;metanoia\, decision\, or response to an event that precedes and exceeds the subject. Together\, love and conversion articulate a dynamic understanding of the self as capable of transformation\, openness\, and renewal.
\nThis thematic issue seeks to explore the complex relations between love\, conversion\, and the transformation of the self\, without presupposing a fixed hierarchy among them. Is conversion the fruit of an encounter with love\, or does love emerge from a prior act of conversion? How are affectivity\, decision\, and transformation intertwined in religious\, philosophical\, and phenomenological accounts of subjectivity? To what extent can love and conversion be understood as events that reconfigure the self beyond moralism or voluntarism?
\nWe welcome contributions engaging\, among others\, with:
\nSubmissions should offer original research and engage critically with relevant primary sources and contemporary scholarship. Interdisciplinary approaches at the intersection of theology\, philosophy\, and phenomenology are particularly encouraged.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nImportant Dates and Publication Model
\nDiakrisis \;follows an online-first publication model. Articles are published individually online \;as soon as they are accepted \;after peer review and editorial approval. Each article receives a \;DOI upon publication\, making it immediately citable. Final pagination is assigned only when the annual issue is closed (November 30\, 2026).
\nArticles accepted and published online during the year will be collected and arranged into the \;final annual issue\, which will be released in December 2026 with complete pagination and finalized metadata.
\nDeadline: October 20. Manuscripts received by this date will be considered for inclusion in the current year&rsquo\;s volume.
\nPublication month: \;December.
\nSubmission Process
\nWe look forward to your contributions and to fostering rich discussions that bridge theology and philosophy in the exploration of love\, conversion\, and transformation of the self.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261023T170000 SUMMARY:Re-examining AI / Rethinking Modernity. Critical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology UID:20260813T010824Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 TZID:Europe/Athens LOCATION:Kérkyra\, Greece DESCRIPTION:INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
\nRe-examining AI / Rethinking Modernity
\nCritical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology
\nCorfu\, 22-23 October 2026
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\nConference scope
\nIn recent years\, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed multiple sectors\, from healthcare and finance to education and entertainment. However\, amidst the excitement surrounding these technological developments\, it is essential to critically revisit the philosophical foundations of this plural technology and\, on this basis\, examine the societal\, ethical\, political\, economic\, and ecological challenges it presents. This conference focuses primarily on this foundational dimension and\, through such critique\, seeks to offer a deeper perspective on the notions\, assumptions\, and frameworks of modernity at large. Which modern understandings of nature\, the human\, intelligence\, imagination\, the body\, the mind\, or reason were taken for granted in the development of what is now called &ldquo\;Artificial Intelligence&rdquo\;? Have these onto-epistemological foundations proved adequate\, or have they produced problems that become visible today through the socio-political\, economic\, and ecological crises associated with AI? Also\, an anthropological lens is crucial here\, as AI exposes how culturally situated\, rather than universal\, the modern Western assumptions about the human\, reason\, and technological agency have always been. \;By bringing these foundations into dialogue with alternative anthropologies\, including non-Western and Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies\, the conference also seeks to rethink entrenched West/East divides that structure contemporary imaginaries of both "intelligence" and technological "progress".
\nWhile we wish to approach AI with a critical lens\, this conference is not grounded in technophobia or anti-AI sentiment. We recognize the transformative reality and potential of AI but we don&rsquo\;t align with neo-Luddite efforts to &ldquo\;destroy&rdquo\; or reject this technology altogether. Instead\, our aim is to foster a constructive dialogue that acknowledges AI&rsquo\;s profound influence on our lives while addressing its underlying ontological and epistemological challenges. By bringing together scholars\, researchers\, and practitioners from diverse fields\, this conference seeks to refine our understanding of AI while also identifying flaws within our current phase of modernity that become visible through the global impact of this technology.
\nCall for papers
\nIn this context\, we invite scholars\, researchers\, and thinkers to contribute to a critical examination of Artificial Intelligence in all its forms at our upcoming Critical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology international conference.
\nWe are particularly interested in papers that interrogate (but are not limited to) the following areas:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophical and Ontological Foundations of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Alternative ontologies and/or epistemologies that can either stand as foundations for (a different) AI or critique current AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; AI and Modernity (drawing lines between modern thinkers and contemporary AI).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Socio-Political\, Economic\, and Ecological Implications based on elements of AI that stem from ideas rooted in modernity).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Epistemology and Knowledge Production in the Age of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Constructive Critique Beyond Technophobia (grounded in renewed modern theories -Critical Theory\, Phenomenology\, Anthropology of Technology\, Bergsonian Vitalism\, etc.- or in thinkers who were previously overlooked or not typically associated with AI).
\nThis conference focuses on theoretical approaches to Artificial Intelligence and in this context\, we welcome contributions from a range of fields\, including philosophy\, anthropology\, sociology\, media studies\, and cultural theory\, but despite its theoretical orientation\, the conference also welcomes technical approaches\, as well as contributions from computer engineers\, code developers\, and other branches of informatics\, provided these approaches are situated within the broader philosophical roots of AI. Our aim is to cultivate a space for critical engagement with AI\, which\, while informed by its technical foundations\, transcends the hype and focuses on the onto-political impacts of this field of study and technology.
\n\nKeynote Speakers
\nAgostino Cera\, Associate Professor\, Humanities Department\, University of Ferrara
\nMore Keynote Speakers tba)
\n\nConference Language
\nEnglish
\n\nAbstract submission
\nYou are kindly requested to send both your abstract (max. 300 words) and a short CV (max. 150 words) in one .doc file at: \;aicene.research@gmail.com
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\nImportant Dates
\nAbstract submission deadline: June 15\, 2026
\nAbstract acceptance notification: July 31\, 2026
\nConference Program: September 2026
\n\nScientific Committee
\nFotini Vaki\, Associate Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nKonstantinos Aggelakos\, Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nAnna Apostolidou\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nGiannis Perperidis\, Adjunct Lecturer\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nOrganizers
\nPolitical Philosophy and Digital Technologies Laboratory\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University\, Greece.
\nResearch Project &ldquo\;A(I)nthropology during the Anthropocene: Hybrid research and creative pedagogy at the limits of the human&rdquo\;\, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2025-2028).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260812T114833Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261022T170000 SUMMARY:International Workshop Counterrevolution and Democratic Transformation UID:20260813T010825Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:f41f:ccff:feb3:6a6%3 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).
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