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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260817T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261204T170000 SUMMARY:Fall 2026 Tulane German Philosophy Workshop Series UID:20260930T143313Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260912T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:The Concept of Chaos: Nietzsche contra Heidegger on Early Greek Philosophy UID:20260930T143314Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:SEMINAR DESCRIPTION
Anaximander&rsquo\;s fragment has been interpreted in various different ways. The young Nietzsche reads in it a &ldquo\;pessimism&rdquo\; comparable to that of Schopenhauer\, whereas Heidegger\, in his 1946 lecture series &ldquo\;The Anaximander Fragment\,&rdquo\; criticizes Nietzsche for projecting a moralistic sentiment onto the early Pre-Socratic. Anaximander&rsquo\;s fragment\, argues Heidegger\, is &ldquo\;neither pessimistic nor nihilistic\; nor is it optimistic. It is tragic.&rdquo\;
Although Heidegger&rsquo\;s critique is probably correct\, it is symptomatic of a more general critique against Nietzsche. In the chapter &ldquo\;The Concept of &lsquo\;Chaos&rsquo\;&rdquo\; in his great book on Nietzsche\, Heidegger asserts that Nietzsche&rsquo\;s conception of chaos is far off from the &ldquo\;original Greek meaning&rdquo\; of a yawning abyss as found in Hesiod. Nietzsche\, however\, seems way more interested in the pluralistic &ldquo\;Anaxagorian chaos\,&rdquo\; which he contrasts with the apeiron of Anaximander. Not to mention their shared interest in Heraclitus&mdash\;could not Heidegger&rsquo\;s defense of Anaximander in the first place be a hint at his perennial critique of Nietzsche&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;modern&rdquo\; thinking? And could not Nietzsche&rsquo\;s preference for Anaxagoras point at a wholly different picture\, where chaos can be freed of its &ldquo\;original Greek meaning&rdquo\;&mdash\;quite ironically\, already in the Pre-Socratics?
In this seminar\, we turn to the Greek origins of the term &lsquo\;chaos\,&rsquo\; contrasting an &ldquo\;abyssal&rdquo\; with a more creative reading. No prior knowledge is required. All key texts will be provided on registration.
TIME
5 SATURDAYS\, weekly\, beginning September 12\, 2026.
1-3 PM Eastern US Time.
SESSIONS
1) The Concept of Chaos: Heidegger contra Nietzsche
2) Nietzsche and the early Pre-Socratics
3) Anaximander&rsquo\;s Fragment
4) Anaxagoras&rsquo\; Fragments
5) Anaxagorian Chaos: Nietzsche contra Heidegger
FACILITATOR
Having lived and studied all around the world\, Hannes Schumacher works at the threshold between philosophy and art. He has carried out intensive research on Hegel and Deleuze\, and he has also published widely on Nishida\, Nāgārjuna\, chaos theory\, global mysticism\, and contemporary art. Hannes is the founder of the Berlin-based publisher Freigeist Verlag\, co-founder of the grassroots art space Chaosmos &infin\; in Athens\, Greece\, and he collaborates extensively with the literary translator Peter Constantine and World Poetry Books\, New York. He has facilitated the following courses and groups at Incite Seminars: &ldquo\;Nishida Kitarō: The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Who&rsquo\;s Afraid of Hegel: Introduction to G. W. F. Hegel&rsquo\;s Science of Logic&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Chaos Research Group&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Reading After Finitude by Quentin Meillassoux&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Deleuze &\; Guattari: What is Philosophy?&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Plato&rsquo\;s chô\;ra through the lens of Derrida&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;Anarchia and Archai: Reimagining the Pre-Socratics&rdquo\; (with Carlos A. Segovia)\; &ldquo\;Reading Nietzsche&rsquo\;s Zarathustra&rdquo\; (current)\; &ldquo\;Liana of the Resurrected&rdquo\;\; &ldquo\;The Body without Organs&rdquo\;\; and &ldquo\;Introduction to Chaos Theory.&rdquo\;
INCITE SEMINARS
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We offer online seminars and reading groups to incite personal exploration and inspire community action. Incite Seminars offers an educational experience. We do so by gathering an engaged group of participants for a dynamic exchange of ideas\, led by skilled facilitators. All of our facilitators have a deep relationship to a subject or topic through intensive study or practice.
Incite Seminars is a 100% member-supported learning community. We depend on member contributions to continue holding space for radical study and practice groups\, putting on rigorous seminars and courses\, and providing our facilitators and organizers with fair compensation. If you are unable to pay the full amount for a session or membership at this time\, we invite you to join us at reduced or no cost with our Solidarity option.
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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 SUMMARY:APA Studies on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies UID:20260930T143316Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T090000 SUMMARY:Otherness (online) UID:20260930T143317Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260930T140000 SUMMARY:Northeastern Modern Language Association UID:20260930T143318Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261001T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261001T080000 SUMMARY:Winter School in Phenomenology: "Phenomenology of the We. Intersubjectivity\, Collective Emotions\, and the Constitution of the Social World" UID:20260930T143319Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Via Porta di Massa 1\, Napoli\, Italy\, 80133 DESCRIPTION:The Winter School \;Phenomenology of the We \;invites graduate students\, doctoral researchers\, and early-career scholars to explore phenomenological approaches to \;intersubjectivity and emotions. The event aims to foster discussion on the structures of shared experience\, collective intentionality\, affective relations\, and the constitution of social life\, bringing classical phenomenological perspectives into dialogue with contemporary debates. The Winter School will feature keynote lectures by \;Dan Zahavi \;and \;Sophie Loidolt.
\nMorning Programme
\nThursday\, 19 November
\nDan Zahavi
The Unity and Plurality of Emotional Sharing
Anna Donise \;
Empathetic Relationships and the Original Self
Friday\, 20 November
\nSophie Loidolt
Philosophy as a Communal Form of Life: Assessing Husserl&rsquo\;s Political Visions in the Kaizo Articles
Anna Pia Ruoppo
Back to the Origins: Ethics and Politics in Martin Heidegger
The \;morning lectures are open to the public\, while the \;afternoon workshops are reserved for 20 selected participants. The workshops are designed to encourage intensive discussion and close interaction among participants and keynote speakers.
\nApplications and presentations
\nThose wishing to participate in the Winter School are invited to submit a \;short motivation letter\, accompanied by a \;brief biographical note. Applicants who would also like to present their work during the afternoon workshops should additionally submit an \;abstract of no more than 1\,000 words. Abstracts should address topics related to the general themes of the Winter School and should be written in English. Of the \;20 participants admitted to the Winter School\, 6 will be selected to give a 15-minute presentation\, followed by discussion. Applicants who are not selected to give a presentation may therefore still be admitted as participants and take part in all afternoon workshops.
\nWe particularly welcome abstracts addressing topics including\, but not limited to:
\nSubmission deadline: \;1 October 2026
Notification of acceptance: \;15 October 2026
Abstracts should be submitted to: \;lorenzo.cavallo2@unina.it \;and \;giulia.salzano@unina.it
\nFurther information regarding the venue and programme will be communicated to selected participants.
ORGANIZER;CN=Anna Donise;CN=Anna Pia Ruoppo: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20261002T170000 SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy of Action UID:20260930T143320Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261001T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261002T170000 SUMMARY:TAUSEND FRONTEN. Kritische Phänomenologien des Krieges UID:20260930T143321Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Universitätsstraße 7\, 1010 Wien\, Vienna\, Austria\, 1010 DESCRIPTION:TAUSEND FRONTEN \;
\nKritische Phä\;nomenologien des Krieges \;
\n1.&ndash\;2. Oktober 2026 ·\; Universitä\;t Wien (NIG) \; \; \;
\nDer Workshop wird von Isis Daras\, Michael Messer und Michael Staudigl organisiert\, mit Unterstü\;tzung der Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy\, des Instituts fü\;r Philosophie und der Fakultä\;t fü\;r Philosophie und Bildungswissenschaft der Universitä\;t Wien. \;
\nFü\;r die Teilnahme ist keine Anmeldung erforderlich.
\nForschungskreis Phä\;nomenologie ×\; skug \;
\nTAUSEND FRONTEN ist der erste Teil eines zweiteiligen Programms\, das der Forschungskreis Phä\;nomenologie gemeinsam mit dem Magazin \;skug \;organisiert. Am Freitagabend folgt im Central Garden am Donaukanal der zweite Teil: \;Salon skug KRIEG &\; »\;KULTURKÄ\;MPFE«\;.
\n·\;·\;·\;
\nABSTRACT
\nDass der Krieg einem Chamä\;leon gleicht und seine Formen und Gesichter vielfach ä\;ndert\, hat Clausewitz klar gesehen. Gleichwohl scheinen bei diesem Denker und nach ihm noch verschiedentlich Essentialisierungen dieses allzu menschlichen Artefakts am Werke\, die durch rezente Arbeiten in den &bdquo\;war studies&ldquo\;\, der interdisziplinä\;ren Gewaltforschung\, aber auch der Kulturanthropologie etc. dekonstruiert wurden. \;
\nDer Workshop setzt es sich zur Aufgabe\, die mannigfaltigen Weisen\, wie Krieg herrscht und droht\, wie er in den (insbesondere westlichen) &bdquo\;mentalen Habitus&ldquo\; (Traverso) eingegangen ist und sich institutionell verkö\;rpert\, phä\;nomenologisch zu analysieren. Anhand konkreter Phä\;nomenanalysen relevanter Erfahrungsrä\;ume und ihrer Verkö\;rperungen sowie Symboliken soll gezeigt werden\, auf welche Art und Weise &bdquo\;Krieg&ldquo\; bzw. &bdquo\;war-like violence&ldquo\; sich in verschiedensten Formen in menschliche Lebenswelten und \;social imaginaries \;einschreiben\, ja diese immer schon prä\;gen. Wie \;formiert \;&bdquo\;Krieg&ldquo\; bzw. das\, was Mary Kaldor und Herfried Mü\;nkler in ihren kardinalen Arbeiten die &bdquo\;Neuen Kriege&ldquo\; genannt haben\, unsere Auffassung von Gemeinschaft\, Sozialitä\;t\, Interaktion\, Politik\, etc.? Inwiefern \;ordnet \;(taxis) er Diskurse\, oft durch eine geradezu normative Gewalt? Inwiefern \;verfeindet \;er\, ohne dass Feindschaft ontologisch vorauszusetzen wä\;re? Inwiefern \;maskiert \;er andere\, etwa kapitalistische Interessen\, die vielfach als probate Heilmittel verkauft werden\, um ihn &ndash\; ein fü\;r alle Mal &ndash\; zu beenden? Inwiefern \;verfü\;hrt \;er und inwiefern ist vielleicht auch noch unser Denken selbst ihm \;verfallen \;(Patočka\, Lé\;vinas)\, nicht zuletzt dadurch\, dass wir ihn oft als Subjekt einer Geschichte unterstellen\, deren Skript anderswo geschrieben wird? Und\, \;last but not least\, inwiefern \;generieren \;seine Realitä\;ten &ndash\; seine Tausend Fronten &ndash\; ihrerseits die strukturelle Indifferenz\, Apathie und letztlich das &bdquo\;todbringende Einvernehmen&ldquo\; (Camus)\, das es braucht\, damit er \;herrscht?
\nIndem er solchen Fragen nachgeht\, mö\;chte der Workshop einen Raum erö\;ffnen\, in dem das breit gefä\;cherte Phä\;nomen der &bdquo\;Neuen Kriege&ldquo\; phä\;nomenologisch beschrieben werden kann. Insbesondere soll es darum gehen\, jene abgrü\;ndige Tendenz einzuordnen\, dass &bdquo\;Krieg&ldquo\; vielfach zur &bdquo\;social condition&ldquo\; (Kaldor) wird und so alle traditionellen Konzepte und Konventionen versuchen\, zu unterwandern\, mittels deren wir seine Realitä\;t ü\;blicherweise fassen &ndash\; und d.h. auch immer irgendwie zu befrieden.
\nBei all dem soll insbesondere auch die Rolle der Phä\;nomenologie hinterfragt werden: Wie kann die Phä\;nomenologie mit kritischen Revisionen ihrer selbst sich fü\;r Diskurse aus post-strukturalistischen feministischen\, post-kolonialen und Kritischen Theorieelementen ö\;ffnen\, die es fraglos braucht\, um die blinden Flecken zu konfrontieren\, die die Philosophie des Krieges &ndash\; von Platon ü\;ber Hobbes bis Hegel und Heidegger &ndash\; mit ausmachen? Nicht zuletzt soll der Workshop einen Ort fü\;r den Austausch der jungen phä\;nomenologischen und post-phä\;nomenologischen Forschung am Institut fü\;r Philosophie in Wien bieten.
\n·\;·\;·\;
\nPROGRAMM
\nDONNERSTAG ·\; 1. OKTOBER 2026
\nOrt: Hö\;rsaal \;3B \;(NIG\, 3. Stock)
\n10:00
\n(Nie) Wieder Krieg als Realitä\;t\, Diskurs und Herausforderung fü\;r die soziale Emanzipation aus feministischer Sicht.
\nOlga Shparaga \;·\; Philosophin im Exil
\n11:30
\nAporien der Verfeindung. Bedeutungsfragen an ein Grenzphä\;nomen
\nEmin Eke \;·\; Universitä\;t Wien
\n14:00
\nÜ\;berlegungen zur Frage\, inwiefern Krieg auf neue Weise &rsaquo\;droht&lsaquo\;.
\nBurkhard Liebsch \;·\; Ruhr-Universitä\;t Bochum
\n15:30
\nThe Madness of Reason: Camus on Ideological Nihilism \;
\nIsis Daras \;·\; Universitä\;t Wien
\n16:30
\nThe Legacy of the Biblical Stranger as the Floating Signified Other
\nDebra Bergoffen \;·\; George Mason University \;
\nvia Zoom
\nFREITAG ·\; 2. OKTOBER 2026
\nOrt: Hö\;rsaal \;2G \;(NIG\, 2. Stock)
\n10:00
\nDas politische Erhabene und der Kriegszustand. Die Ukraine seit dem Februar 2022
\nSerhii Forkosh \;·\; Independent Researcher
\n11:30
\nDer Horror der Beute: Eine Phä\;nomenologie des Zur-Beute-gemacht-Werdens weiblicher* Kö\;rper
\nClaudia Ploner \;·\; Universitä\;t Wien
\n14:00
\nWar\, Identity\, Pathos
\nJames Taylor \;·\; European Center for the Study of War and Peace
\n15:30
\nThe War on Obesity as a War on the Self
\nMichael Messer \;·\; Universitä\;t Wien
\n16:30
\nBeyond Land\, Sea\, and Air: The Expansion of War Domains since the Cold War
\nGeorgi Georgiev ·\; Central European University / Institute for Human Sciences
\n19:00
\nForschungskreis Phä\;nomenologie ×\; skug
\nSalon skug KRIEG &\; »\;KULTURKÄ\;MPFE«\; \;
\nPodiumsdiskussion u. a. mit Olga Shparaga &\; Burkhard Liebsch
\nDanach: Punk-Noir-Konzert &\; DJ-Line
\nOrt: Central Garden\, Untere Donaustraß\;e 41\, 1020 Wien \;
\n·\;·\;·\;
\nForschungskreis Phä\;nomenologie \;
\nInstitut fü\;r Philosophie ·\; Universitä\;t Wien
\nUniversitä\;tsstraß\;e 7\, 1010 Wien
\nphaenomenologie.univie.ac.at
ORGANIZER;CN=Isis Daras;CN=Michael Messer;CN=Michael Staudigl: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z 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:20260930T143322Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261001T090000 SUMMARY:Book: Triadic progression of Artificial Argumentation UID:20260930T143323Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Lima:20261001T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Lima:20261001T234500 SUMMARY:Inceptiones et Receptiones II: Logic and Science in the American Continent UID:20260930T143324Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:America/Lima LOCATION:Lima\, Peru DESCRIPTION:Keynote speakers:
\nCall for abstracts:
\nInceptiones et Receptiones \;II \;invites submissions of abstracts for presentations on the development\, transmission\, reception\, and transformation of logic and science in the American continent. We welcome historical\, formal\, philosophical\, and interdisciplinary contributions examining both original developments in the Americas and the reception\, adaptation\, and transformation of ideas and traditions originating abroad. Contributions may address any period of our intellectual history. Possible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nWe particularly welcome contributions that examine the interplay between inception and reception: how ideas were received\, transformed\, contested\, and developed in new intellectual contexts\, as well as how original contributions from the Americas entered wider international traditions. We also encourage studies of particular works or authors that have been understudied.
\nSubmission deadline: 1 October 2026
\nNotifications: by 30 October 2026.
\nPlease submit an abstract of 500 words to caelo@seplo.org indicating the name of the session.
\nTo learn more about CAELO 1 and discover its other special sessions\, please visit the main event website.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20261002T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20261003T170000 SUMMARY:Inheriting Ordinary Language Philosophy UID:20260930T143325Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261002T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261003T170000 SUMMARY:Theories of First Principles in Early Modern Metaphysics UID:20260930T143326Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Oriel Square\, Oxford\, United States\, OX1 4EW DESCRIPTION:ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
\nThe aim of the workshop is to discuss the conception\, demonstration\, formulation\, and logical implications of first principles in early modern metaphysics leading up to and including Kant.
\nScholars of the early modern period often struggle to describe philosophical developments in early modern metaphysics without resorting to anachronistic descriptions like &ldquo\;rationalism&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;speculativism&rdquo\;. Nevertheless\, since most early modern philosophers drew extensively on their immediate predecessors and contemporaries\, classifications that go beyond one author and enable a focus on philosophical developments in the period are clearly fruitful. We suggest that the theories of first principles provide a promising and non-anachronistic perspective on early modern metaphysics. This is because theories of first principles were a core aspect of early modern philosophical systems\, from Suarez to Kant. Core questions that resonated with early modern authors were thus:
\nAlthough early modern authors grappled with these shared questions\, their conceptions of what the first principles are\, if and how they are to be demonstrated\, and how the different first principles relate to each other are interestingly different. Our workshop seeks to discuss the different theories of first principles that were developed in early modern metaphysics.
\nOn a meta-level\, the workshop seeks to address the role of the theories of first principles in the history of metaphysics and to thereby gain a deeper understanding of the meaning of &ldquo\;metaphysics&rdquo\; in the early modern period. Did Aristotle and the Scholastics also understand metaphysics as a science of first principles? Do contemporary philosophers understand metaphysics as a science of first principles? Or is this conception of metaphysics unique to the early modern period?
\nThe event is free and everyone is welcome to attend. Please register at clara.carus@uni-heidelberg.de by 30th of September.
ORGANIZER;CN=Clara Carus;CN=Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261004T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261025T170000 SUMMARY:(Un)Timely Blanchot UID:20260930T143327Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:a 4-session seminar with Philippe Lynes\, Alex Obrigewitsch\, Kim Schoof &\; Carlos A. Segovia
SEMINAR DESCRIPTION
Blanchot&rsquo\;s work delves into how thinking and writing both reflect and un-reflect our relation to life and death\, challenging conventional notions of presence and temporality. By tracing his influence on Derrida and Nancy\, and exploring the simultaneous timeliness and untimeliness of his thought\, we can ask how reading Blanchot today continues to transform our understanding of language\, life\, and being.
Session I (&ldquo\;Blanchot Today?\,&rdquo\; with Alex Obrigewitsch) will explore Blanchot&rsquo\;s considerations of writing and literature in their exposure of alterity\, disturbance of temporality\, and their inscription of the anonymous and impersonal&mdash\;for it is the ineluctable binding of writing and mortality which Blanchot has exposed to us\, suspending &ldquo\;today&rdquo\; in the double exposure of a coming future which intersects with a &ldquo\;terrifyingly ancient&rdquo\; past. The title of this opening session\, expresses the double question of the (un)timeliness of Blanchot&rsquo\;s work. If we agree with Jacques Derrida&rsquo\;s claim that &ldquo\;never as much as today have I imagined him so far ahead of us as today. Awaiting us\, still to come\, to be read\, to be reread by those very same ones that do it ever since they knew how to read and thanks to him\,&rdquo\; then it is from Blanchot &ldquo\;himself&rdquo\; that we might learn the double sense of our titular question. What can Blanchot teach us that bears the mark of today? Blanchot has never been more timely to read and think with than today\, insofar as &ldquo\;today&rdquo\; is only ever the mobile limit inscribed between a future to come and a past never present. There is no &ldquo\;today\,&rdquo\; no &ldquo\;contemporaneity&rdquo\; for literature\, and its very writing alters our relation to life\, suspending it in a void from whence all emerges and in which all must efface itself.
Session II (&ldquo\;Blanchot &\; Derrida\,&rdquo\; with Philippe Lynes) will\, for its part\, trace the history of Blanchot&rsquo\;s influence on Derrida\, as well as instances of a reciprocal influence in Blanchot&rsquo\;s own work. When discussing the &lsquo\;violent&rsquo\; relationship of deconstruction to its three biggest influences&mdash\;Martin Heidegger\, Emmanuel Levinas and Maurice Blanchot&mdash\;Jacques Derrida explains that Blanchot resists this violence best. In the final interview before his death\, Derrida insisted that a notion of &lsquo\;survivance&rsquo\; or &lsquo\;living-on&rsquo\; lay at the heart of his entire philosophical trajectory\, evoking Blanchot&rsquo\;s notion of &ldquo\;a survival which is not one\, a death which does not put an end to anything.&rdquo\; Derrida&rsquo\;s most sustained engagement with Blanchot takes place in the mid 1970s with the publication of &ldquo\;Pas\,&rdquo\; as well as the second year of his just-published La Chose seminar (1975-1977). Blanchot&rsquo\;s thought also features importantly in &ldquo\;Discourses of the End&rdquo\;&mdash\;Derrida&rsquo\;s 1983 conversations on the apocalypse and the disaster with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy\, as well as his final seminar\, The Beast and the Sovereign (2002-2003).
In turn\, Session III (&ldquo\;Blanchot &\; Nancy\,&rdquo\; with Kim Schoof) will explore how it is possible that such contrasting perspectives on literature and the experience it offers us of being&rsquo\;s origin emanate from one another. It will do so exploring how Blanchot and Nancy write (occasionally in direct response to one another) about literature\, community\, ontology and &ldquo\;the neuter.&rdquo\; For Blanchot\, literature opens us onto the &ldquo\;Outside&rdquo\; where being originates\, where &ldquo\;I am not [&hellip\;]\; no one is there\, but the impersonal is: the outside\, as that which prevents\, precedes\, and dissolves the possibility of any personal relation.&rdquo\; Yet\, it is Blanchot&rsquo\;s perspective on literature that has inspired Jean-Luc Nancy to view literature as an exemplary way of being in the world. In Nancy&rsquo\;s perspective\, literature is the &ldquo\;coming of the world&rdquo\; or\, in the words of Aukje van Rooden\, &ldquo\;the point at which connections are made\, in which (the world) is created as being\, time and again\, a set of relations in which and by which we live.&rdquo\;
Lastly\, Session IV (&ldquo\;Blanchot Unreceived\,&rdquo\; with Carlos A. Segovia) will focus on how Blanchot seems to approach the question of the relation between language and reality à\; rebours of much contemporary thought\, which\, in repudiating their once-assumed transparency\, tends instead to affirm their reciprocal opacity. For Blanchot\, however\, language is neither the thing named nor its mere absence\, but the tentative recovery of its presence through its very loss\; just as in Mallarmé\;&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Sonnet in -yx\,&rdquo\; for instance\, anguish is neither the one felt in the chest by the poet&mdash\;which lacks a voice and hence proves at once present to him as something real but absent due to its silence&mdash\;nor the one named through the universal notion that would conventionally be assigned to it&mdash\;before whose trivial presence the anguish thus felt would recede into absence: it is rather that thing of hard (whether white or black) &ldquo\;nails&rdquo\; like &ldquo\;onyx&rdquo\; by virtue of which word and world become mutually supplementary and translucent to one another. This will be examined both at the crossroads of today&rsquo\;s thought\, thinkable\, and unthought and along with Blanchot&rsquo\;s re-inscription of being as otherness.
TIME
5 SUNDAYS\, weekly\, beginning October 4\, 2026.
10:00-12:00 Eastern US Time.
SESSIONS
1) Blanchot Today?
The Interminable Default\, Between a Coming Future and a &ldquo\;Terrifyingly Ancient&rdquo\; Past with Alex Obrigewitsch
2) Blanchot &\; Derrida
La Mort La Chose
with Philippe Lynes
3) Blanchot &\; Nancy
Literature: Being (In and) Outside (of the World)
with Kim Schoof
4) Blanchot Unreceived
Transparency\, Opaqueness\, Translucence
with Carlos A. Segovia
ABOUT INCITE SEMINARS
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ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261006T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261006T130000 SUMMARY:The Not-Yet Conscious: Phenomenology of Time Consciousness and Creativity UID:20260930T143329Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Not-Yet Conscious: A Phenomenology of Time Consciousness and Creativity
\nThomas Fuchs\, MD\, PhD
Karl Jaspers Professor of Philosophical Foundations of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy\, Heidelberg University
Head\, Section of Phenomenological Psychopathology and Psychotherapy\, Heidelberg University Hospital
Hosted by the Laboratory for Phenomenological Research as part of its lecture series.
\nTuesday\, October 6\, 2026
6:00 PM CEST | 4:00 PM UTC | 11:00 AM CDT
Via Zoom | Free and open to all | Advance registration required
Registration:https://go.uic.edu/Fuchs
For questions\, please contactThByrne@Illinois.edu.
ORGANIZER;CN=Thomas Byrne: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261006T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20270427T170000 SUMMARY:"Ricœur\, Dead or Alive?" Fonds Ricœur Monthly Seminar (ENS\, Paris) UID:20260930T143330Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261007T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Belgrade:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Why Still Education? EDUCATION – COMMUNITY – RESISTANCE UID:20260930T143331Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Bacon and European modernity UID:20260930T143332Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261008T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261009T170000 SUMMARY:Myth and the More-than-Human Community in the Twenty-First Century UID:20260930T143333Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:Voir-Dire: "World-Building" UID:20260930T143335Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:60 university private\, 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. \;
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\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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261013T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261015T170000 SUMMARY:COMET 2026 - Metaphysics in Contemporary Continental Philosophy UID:20260930T143336Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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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Can we ever truly understand another person&rsquo\;s experience?
What can anxiety and boredom reveal about human existence?
Why does time sometimes fly and sometimes drag?
This 10 week online course offers an accessible introduction to phenomenology\, one of the most influential philosophical traditions of the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
\nBeginning with foundational ideas in the work of thinkers such as Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger\, we will explore how phenomenology can help us think about the structure of human experience. Across the course\, we will consider themes including selfhood\, our relationships with others\, embodiment\, spatiality\, temporality\, mood\, and the contribution phenomenology can make to understanding experiences of mental health.
\nThe course is designed for beginners\, so no previous knowledge of phenomenology or philosophy is required. Sessions will combine accessible introductions to key ideas and thinkers with discussion of philosophical questions and examples from everyday experience.
ORGANIZER;CN=Angelos Sofocleous: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261015T090000 SUMMARY:Carol Carfang Nursing and Healthcare Ethics Conference UID:20260930T143338Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:301 South Gulfview Blvd\, Clearwater Beach\, United States\, 33767 DESCRIPTION: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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261015T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261017T170000 SUMMARY:Radical Philosophy Association 18th Biennial Conference UID:20260930T143339Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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. \;
L&rsquo\;&oelig\;uvre de Walter Benjamin s&rsquo\;est prê\;té\;e à\; diverses interpré\;tations\, souvent tendues\, souvent contradictoires entre elles. La litté\;rature critique qui lui a é\;té\; consacré\;e s&rsquo\;est à\; juste titre concentré\;e sur les grands thè\;mes ou tendances qui la traversent \;: le messianisme juif\, le maté\;rialisme historique\, le thé\;ologico-politique\, la philosophie du langage\, la philosophie de l&rsquo\;histoire\, la critique litté\;raire\, l&rsquo\;esthé\;tique dans son rapport à\; la technique\, l&rsquo\;image\, la modernité\;\, le mythe\, l&rsquo\;expé\;rience\, le corps\, etc. Par là\;\, s&rsquo\;é\;clairaient aussi bien les diffé\;rents aspects et le dé\;tail de la pensé\;e benjaminienne que sa grande diversité\; et son hé\;té\;rogé\;né\;ité\;.
\nOn doit cependant &ndash\; à\; contre-courant de cette dissé\;mination &ndash\; noter l&rsquo\;unité\; et la cohé\;rence de cette pensé\;e qui à\; l&rsquo\;occasion de chaque nouvel objet se reprend et se prolonge\, se ré\;é\;crit et se mé\;tamorphose. Aussi divers soient-ils\, les é\;crits de Benjamin participent d&rsquo\;un projet intellectuel critique cohé\;rent\, qui mé\;rite d&rsquo\;ê\;tre mis en relief dans son ampleur et sa gé\;né\;ralité\;. L&rsquo\;ambition de ce numé\;ro d&rsquo\;Appareil est de ré\;pondre à\; cette exigence d&rsquo\;une lecture globale du projet benjaminien\, sans cependant faire violence à\; l&rsquo\;attention qu&rsquo\;elle portait elle-mê\;me pour le petit et singulier\, ce qui ré\;siste à\; subsomption sous le gé\;né\;ral. Il s&rsquo\;agit de travailler à\; mettre en rapport ses thè\;mes\, ses concepts et ses images\, afin de pré\;senter et rendre accessible la problé\;matique philosophique qu&rsquo\;ils constituent. Notre visé\;e est d&rsquo\;insister sur les lieux où\; cette &oelig\;uvre se lie à\; elle-mê\;me dans son dessein gé\;né\;ral\, de tracer les lignes d&rsquo\;une intelligence unifié\;e du projet critique qu&rsquo\;elle met en &oelig\;uvre.
\nCette tâ\;che ne peut ê\;tre accomplie par l&rsquo\;identification d&rsquo\;un terme-clé\; ou d&rsquo\;un motif de l&rsquo\;&oelig\;uvre de Benjamin\, susceptible d&rsquo\;en unifier thé\;matiquement et expressé\;ment l&rsquo\;ensemble. Il s&rsquo\;agit plutô\;t de trouver une question transversale capable de fé\;dé\;rer &ndash\; en mê\;me temps qu&rsquo\;elle les é\;claire dans leur dé\;termination propre &ndash\; les divers aspects de la production benjaminienne. De ce point de vue\, un candidat possible et prometteur est l&rsquo\;enjeu de la mé\;diation\, comprise en un sens large\, qui implique à\; la fois les aspects maté\;riels et intellectuels de l&rsquo\;expé\;rience dans leur mise en rapport historique. Lire Benjamin comme un penseur radical de la mé\;diation permet de tracer un parcours pour explorer son &oelig\;uvre de maniè\;re cohé\;rente\, sans pour autant opé\;rer une reductio ad unum d&rsquo\;une pensé\;e aussi fragmenté\;e\, riche et ré\;sistante à\; toute tentative de systé\;matisation. Le terme de «\; \;mé\;diation \;»\; ne dé\;signe pas un concept\, mais une constellation de problè\;mes thé\;oriques et d&rsquo\;inté\;rê\;ts. La polysé\;mie du terme «\; \;mé\;diation \;»\;\, ainsi que la complexité\; de son histoire culturelle\, nous libè\;rent d&rsquo\;un certain usage de la notion de mé\;dium\, qui trop souvent a enfermé\; la contribution benjaminienne dans la vision ré\;ductrice d&rsquo\;une certaine thé\;orie des mé\;dias\, confiné\;e à\; l&rsquo\;enjeu des mass media et de la communication. De plus\, le spectre plus large de la mé\;diation permet de rattacher les textes classiques de Benjamin sur la mé\;diation technique (reproduction mé\;canisé\;e de la photographie et du ciné\;ma\, à\; laquelle sa contribution à\; maintes fois é\;té\; ré\;duite) à\; l&rsquo\;ensemble de son &oelig\;uvre. Enfin\, comme concept opé\;ratoire (pour reprendre une expression d&rsquo\;Eugen Fink)\, la mé\;diation rend possible la liaison cohé\;rente des usages persistants et cependant divers du concept de mé\;dium tout au long de son &oelig\;uvre. S&rsquo\;en tenir aux diffé\;rentes occurrences textuelles isolé\;es du concept de mé\;dium ne suffit pas à\; lui seul pour reconstruire la problé\;matique critique é\;laboré\;e par Benjamin\, dans toute son ampleur et son unité\;. Celles-ci doivent ê\;tre rapporté\;es à\; la problé\;matique qui les informe et qu&rsquo\;elles participent à\; construire en retour.
\nDans ce numé\;ro\, thé\;matiser le problè\;me de la mé\;diation signifiera é\;galement ré\;flé\;chir aux diffé\;rents dispositifs\, ainsi que leurs agencements spé\;cifiques\, qui mé\;diatisent notre expé\;rience du monde\, les «\; \;appareils \;»\; dont parle notamment Jean-Louis Dé\;otte\, expressé\;ment inspiré\; par Benjamin. En mê\;me temps\, ce focus sur l&rsquo\;horizon problé\;matique de la mé\;diation permettra de penser la mé\;diation au-delà\; de sa dimension strictement lié\;e à\; l&rsquo\;histoire des objets techniques\, en mettant en lumiè\;re son importance pour ré\;flé\;chir\, de maniè\;re plus gé\;né\;rale\, au sens de l&rsquo\;agir humain et de son objectivation dans l&rsquo\;histoire\, et en rejetant toute interpré\;tation purement instrumentale de la question de la technologie. Dans ce contexte\, la question de la mé\;diation exprime le caractè\;re à\; chaque fois situé\; et dé\;terminé\; de maniè\;re singuliè\;re du rapport des socié\;té\;s humaines au monde\, sous lequel il est possible de rassembler un grand nombre de thè\;mes centraux de la pensé\;e de Benjamin\, de l&rsquo\;histoire à\; la thé\;ologie\, de la traduction à\; la critique\, de la corporé\;ité\; à\; la perception\, en passant par l&rsquo\;esthé\;tique et les nouvelles formes de l&rsquo\;art.
\nStructure
\nL&rsquo\;objectif de ce numé\;ro d&rsquo\;Appareil est de mettre en dialogue les diffé\;rentes sphè\;res du dé\;bat autour de la pensé\;e de Benjamin\, en accueillant des contributions consacré\;es à\; l&rsquo\;analyse de son &oelig\;uvre à\; partir de la question de la mé\;diation. Il ne s&rsquo\;agit pas tant de proposer une analyse de l&rsquo\;usage que Benjamin fait de termes tels que «\; \;Vermittlung \;»\; ou «\; \;Medium \;»\; &ndash\; sans bien entendu exclure la ré\;fé\;rence à\; ceux-ci et les passages où\; ils sont utilisé\;s &ndash\;\, que de penser la mé\;diation comme une clé\; hermé\;neutique permettant de ré\;flé\;chir à\; son &oelig\;uvre dans son ensemble\, é\;ventuellement à\; partir d&rsquo\;un texte ou d&rsquo\;un problè\;me spé\;cifique\, mais avec l&rsquo\;ambition de dé\;passer l&rsquo\;analyse d&rsquo\;un phé\;nomè\;ne mé\;dial particulier\, qu&rsquo\;il s&rsquo\;agisse d&rsquo\;une forme artistique\, d&rsquo\;un dispositif technique ou du langage.
\nDans cette perspective\, seront tout particuliè\;rement appré\;cié\;es les contributions qui\, tout en se concentrant sur un point pré\;cis\, conserveront l&rsquo\;ambition de proposer une lecture d&rsquo\;ensemble de la pensé\;e de Benjamin à\; partir du thè\;me de la mé\;diation.
\nLes propositions d&rsquo\;articles (400 \;mots maximum) devront ê\;tre acheminé\;es avant le 15 \;octobre 2026 aux adresses alessandro.decesaris@unifr.chet olivier.dorais@umontreal.ca\, accompagné\;s des informations suivantes \;: nom de l&rsquo\;auteur ou de l&rsquo\;autrice\, affiliation institutionnelle\, adresse é\;lectronique de contact.
\nLes articles dé\;finitifs seront à\; soumettre 31 \;janvier 2026. Ils devront compter entre 20 \;000 et 40 \;000 \;signes et respecter les normes é\;ditorialesde la revue.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261020T123000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261020T133000 SUMMARY:Can sentence starters help students finish their thoughts? UID:20260930T143341Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Talking/Teaching is our online one-hour discussion series about topics in teaching philosophy. Facilitators will take 5-10 minutes providing a concise summary of their thinking on the topic they have chosen\, and enough context and good questions to start and sustain a conversation. No advance preparation is required\, and you need not be an AAPT member to attend.
For full calendar and registration link\, see \;Talking/Teaching &ndash\; American Association of Philosophy Teachers
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20261020T234500 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Kolkata:20261020T234500 SUMMARY:The Art of doing Tribal Philosophy UID:20260930T143342Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Asia/Kolkata LOCATION:North Eastern Hill University\, Shillong\, India\, 793022 DESCRIPTION:Objective of the Workshop:
The workshop seeks to de-stigmatize Tribal and Indigenous Philosophy by challenging the tendency to view tribal thought as primitive\, pre-logical\, or merely cultural rather than philosophical. It recognizes Tribal and Indigenous communities as knowledge producers and philosophical thinkers\, with rich traditions of reflection on reality\, personhood\, ethics\, community\, nature\, and the good life.
With a special focus on Northeast India\, the workshop will explore diverse tribal philosophies through their languages\, oral traditions\, cultural practices\, memories\, relationships with land and ancestors\, and more-than-human worlds. It will also examine questions of identity\, ecology\, healing\, knowledge\, colonial legacies\, and cultural self-determination.
\nThe workshop aims to create a space where Tribal Philosophy is understood not simply as an object of academic study\, but as a living intellectual tradition that contributes to contemporary philosophical thought.
Contact for more Information : \;
Prof. Prasenjit Biswas\, Head\, Dept. of Philosophy\, North-Eastern Hill University\,
\nShillong-793022\, Meghalaya\, India. Email: hrpbiswas82@gmail.com\;
\nPh. No. 9875368100
ORGANIZER;CN=Ka Lyngwiar Pyrkhat and Ki Umpohliew Ka Mynnor in academic Collaboration with the Department of Philosophy NEHU Shillong Duia Trailblazers: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261020T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261020T230000 SUMMARY:Diakrisis: Yearbook of Theology and Philosophy UID:20260930T143343Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION: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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261021T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261021T200000 SUMMARY:Brighton and Hove City’s Historical Links to the Transatlantic Slave Trade UID:20260930T143344Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:University of Brighton\, Grand Parade Campus\, 58-67 Grand Parade\, Brighton\, United Kingdom\, BN2 0JY DESCRIPTION:Brighton and Hove city's historical links to the British empire\, colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade symposium.
\nThe Reparations and Restitution Community Symposium aims to provide an accessible public platform during UK&rsquo\;s annual Black History Month to examine how Britain's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade continues to shape contemporary racial\, social and economic inequalities.
\nThe symposium will bring together internationally recognised scholars\, campaigners and local community leaders\, connecting global debates on Reparatory justice with Brighton and Hove's own historical relationship with transatlantic slavery and empire.
\nMore than a commemorative event\, the symposium is designed as a catalyst for policy dialogue\, civic engagement and institutional change\, encouraging Brighton &\; Hove City Council and other public bodies to consider meaningful Reparative approaches to addressing the city's historical legacy.
\nBrighton and Hove possesses significant historical links to Britain's imperial and slave-trading past through its maritime economy\, commercial networks\, investment histories and civic institutions. Yet these histories remain relatively absent from public consciousness and local policymaking.
\nBy placing Brighton and Hove's own history at the centre of the conversation\, the project seeks to help the city become a national leader in developing thoughtful\, inclusive and evidence-based approaches to historical justice.
\nThe symposium is organised by Brighton and Hove Black History\, in partnership with the Centre for Applied Philosophy\, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the University of Brighton and supported by \;African Night Fever and \;Writing Our Legacy. \;
\nAbout the speakers
\nBert Williams MBE
\nBert Williams MBE is co-founder of Brighton &\; Hove Black History. Born in Jamaica\, Bert has lived in Brighton since 1967. He served in the RAF\, then worked for the NHS. After retiring\, he chaired Black &\; mixed parentage family charity Mosaic. Bert has also organised Chattri Memorial service to honour WW1 Indian Soldiers.
\nIn 2011\, Bert was awarded a MBE in the Queen&rsquo\;s Birthday Honours. In 2017\, he received an honorary Doctor of Letters from the University of Brighton.
\nFor over 40 years\, he has dedicated himself to recording the stories of Black communities in Brighton &\; Hove and across Sussex. You can find out more about his project \; \;Echoes of Brighton&rsquo\;s Past. \;
\nOnyekachi Wambu
\nOnyekachi Wambu is an Associate for Special Projects at the African Foundation for Development (AFFORD)\, where he encourages the contribution of the African diaspora to African and international development and contributes to initiatives advancing justice and reparatory action. He has been actively engaged in the UK debate on African reparations\, connecting grassroots campaigning with policy and political advocacy.
\nHis work contributes to efforts to place reparations\, restitution\, and historical justice more firmly within public and parliamentary discourse in Britain\, including through engagement with the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Afrikan Reparations. Wambu brings a strong commitment to addressing the enduring legacies of slavery\, colonialism\, and racial inequality\, and to building meaningful pathways towards recognition\, repair\, and justice.
\nWambu is also the editor of the anthology Empire Windrush: Reflections on 75 Years &\; More of the Black British Experience\, published in June 2023.
\nProfessor Ahmed Reid
\nProfessor Ahmed Reid is a historian\, author\, and leading scholar of reparatory justice\, with a particular focus on the history and contemporary legacies of slavery\, colonialism\, and racial injustice in the Caribbean and the wider African diaspora.
\nProfessor Reid has also served as Chair of the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent\, contributing to international discussions on racial justice\, human rights\, and reparatory action. His research and public engagement connect historical scholarship with contemporary struggles for justice\, accountability\, and the advancement of the rights and wellbeing of people of African descent globally.
\nIn 2024\, Professor Reid was appointed as a Programme Manager to investigate the Guardian's historical links to transatlantic enslavement\, including the newspaper's historical activities and connections in Jamaica and the Sea Islands of the United States. This work forms part of broader efforts to examine institutional histories of involvement in slavery and to consider questions of historical accountability and repair.
\nCharmaine Simpson \;
\nCurrently works with the Church Commissioners of the Church of England on Project Spire as a Research Engagement Coordinator\, supporting and overseeing research exploring the Church of England&rsquo\;s historical connections to transatlantic African chattel enslavement. Charmaine is also the Chief Executive Officer and cofounder of Black History Studies and the Director of Black History Study Tours Limited\, which is dedicated to promoting cultural tourism to areas of African Heritage. \;
\nA historian\, author\, publisher\, researcher\, film exhibitor and avid social networker\, Charmaine has spent the last 20 years popularising the study of Black History and Black Studies. Charmaine Simpson is also a Financial Educator and Financial Literacy Advocate who organises courses\, workshops and events to improve Financial Literacy in the Community.
ORGANIZER;CN=Luqma Temitayo Onikosi: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z 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:20260930T143345Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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
\n\;
\nConference scope
\nIn recent years\, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed multiple sectors\, from healthcare and finance to education and entertainment. However\, amidst the excitement surrounding these technological developments\, it is essential to critically revisit the philosophical foundations of this plural technology and\, on this basis\, examine the societal\, ethical\, political\, economic\, and ecological challenges it presents. This conference focuses primarily on this foundational dimension and\, through such critique\, seeks to offer a deeper perspective on the notions\, assumptions\, and frameworks of modernity at large. Which modern understandings of nature\, the human\, intelligence\, imagination\, the body\, the mind\, or reason were taken for granted in the development of what is now called &ldquo\;Artificial Intelligence&rdquo\;? Have these onto-epistemological foundations proved adequate\, or have they produced problems that become visible today through the socio-political\, economic\, and ecological crises associated with AI? Also\, an anthropological lens is crucial here\, as AI exposes how culturally situated\, rather than universal\, the modern Western assumptions about the human\, reason\, and technological agency have always been. \;By bringing these foundations into dialogue with alternative anthropologies\, including non-Western and Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies\, the conference also seeks to rethink entrenched West/East divides that structure contemporary imaginaries of both "intelligence" and technological "progress".
\nWhile we wish to approach AI with a critical lens\, this conference is not grounded in technophobia or anti-AI sentiment. We recognize the transformative reality and potential of AI but we don&rsquo\;t align with neo-Luddite efforts to &ldquo\;destroy&rdquo\; or reject this technology altogether. Instead\, our aim is to foster a constructive dialogue that acknowledges AI&rsquo\;s profound influence on our lives while addressing its underlying ontological and epistemological challenges. By bringing together scholars\, researchers\, and practitioners from diverse fields\, this conference seeks to refine our understanding of AI while also identifying flaws within our current phase of modernity that become visible through the global impact of this technology.
\nCall for papers
\nIn this context\, we invite scholars\, researchers\, and thinkers to contribute to a critical examination of Artificial Intelligence in all its forms at our upcoming Critical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology international conference.
\nWe are particularly interested in papers that interrogate (but are not limited to) the following areas:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophical and Ontological Foundations of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Alternative ontologies and/or epistemologies that can either stand as foundations for (a different) AI or critique current AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; AI and Modernity (drawing lines between modern thinkers and contemporary AI).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Socio-Political\, Economic\, and Ecological Implications based on elements of AI that stem from ideas rooted in modernity).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Epistemology and Knowledge Production in the Age of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Constructive Critique Beyond Technophobia (grounded in renewed modern theories -Critical Theory\, Phenomenology\, Anthropology of Technology\, Bergsonian Vitalism\, etc.- or in thinkers who were previously overlooked or not typically associated with AI).
\nThis conference focuses on theoretical approaches to Artificial Intelligence and in this context\, we welcome contributions from a range of fields\, including philosophy\, anthropology\, sociology\, media studies\, and cultural theory\, but despite its theoretical orientation\, the conference also welcomes technical approaches\, as well as contributions from computer engineers\, code developers\, and other branches of informatics\, provided these approaches are situated within the broader philosophical roots of AI. Our aim is to cultivate a space for critical engagement with AI\, which\, while informed by its technical foundations\, transcends the hype and focuses on the onto-political impacts of this field of study and technology.
\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
\n\;
\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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261023T170000 SUMMARY:Utopias of Work: Historical Perspectives UID:20260930T143346Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Oude Boteringestraat 52\, Groningen\, Netherlands\, 9712 GL DESCRIPTION:Recent changes in the world of work &ndash\; \;changes such as growing precarity in people&rsquo\;s access to the goods of work\, the rise of platform work\, the resurgent popularity of the ideal of productive self-sufficiency\, and the unequal impact of automation and AI &ndash\; have renewed interest in how work might be valued\, compensated\, and organized differently. The moral issues raised by these changes are not new\, however\, and we would benefit from revisiting the long history of thinking about ideals of work and its place in the good life. This conference turns to the history of philosophy and political economy for utopian and radical perspectives on work. We will explore how philosophers and political economists from Plato to Gandhi saw the rational or democratic organization of firms\, unions\, and labor markets as means of advancing justice\, freedom\, and virtue at work. In particular\, we are interested in insights from these figures that might help to address today&rsquo\;s injustices surrounding work. The conference will conclude with a panel on the overall relevance of returning to utopian and revolutionary thinkers from our past. What (if anything) can we learn from them for the 21st century? \;
\nKeynote Addresses
\nConference Talks
\nConference Program: \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Lisa Maria Herzog;CN=Tyler Colby Re: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20261023T170000 SUMMARY:Identity and Community in Times of Uncertainty UID:20260930T143347Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20261023T170000 SUMMARY:Identity and Community in Times of Uncertainty UID:20260930T143348Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261022T170000 SUMMARY:International Workshop Counterrevolution and Democratic Transformation UID:20260930T143349Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%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).
ORGANIZER;CN=Leire Urricelqui;CN=Damian Nussbaumer;CN=Christine Abbt: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261023T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261024T170000 SUMMARY:The Kristeva Circle UID:20260930T143350Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Buffalo\, United States DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce that the next annual meeting of The Kristeva Circle will be held at the University at Buffalo\, SUNY\, on October 23-24\, 2026. \;
\nThe Kristeva Circle meeting is an international conference that advances scholarship on\, or influenced by\, philosopher\, psychoanalyst\, and novelist Julia Kristeva. The two-day conference will host a variety of speakers from the United States and abroad. \;
\nIn its 11th iteration\, the theme of the 2026 conference will broadly focus on embodiment. However\, given the tenant of the work of this year&rsquo\;s two keynote speakers we \;encourage submissions that address the work of Julia Kristeva in relation to disability\, gender\, sexuality\, and race.
\nWe are delighted to share that we have two keynote speakers confirmed for this year&rsquo\;s conference. They are as follows: \;
\nWe are seeking abstracts that develop the work of Julia Kristeva\, with preference given to submissions that address embodiment broadly construed\, and more specifically disability\, gender\, sexuality\, and/or race.
\nPlease submit abstracts of 500 words\, prepared for anonymous review\, by April 30\, 2026\, to kristevacircle@gmail.com. In a separate document\, include a short author bio with contact info. For more information on the conference\, please write to the local host\, Elisabeth Paquette\, at epaquette@buffalo.edu.
ORGANIZER;CN=Elisabeth Paquette: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261023T193000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20261024T170000 SUMMARY:Postfaktisch? Über die Zukunft der Wahrheit: Edith Stein Tagung 2026 UID:20260930T143351Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Wollzeile 2\, Vienna\, Austria\, 1010 DESCRIPTION:Programme Friday
\n19:30 &mdash\; Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff
10 Regeln fü\;r die Digitale Welt auf der Basis der 10 Gebote
Saturday
\n09:30 &mdash\; Dr. Monika Adamczyk-Enriquez
Zur Beziehung von Werterkenntnis und personaler Verwirklichung bei Scheler und Stein
Edith Stein Archiv Kö\;ln
11:00 &mdash\; HS-Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Bogaczyk-Vormayr
Ethos &ndash\; Eidos &ndash\; Imagination: Wahrheit als Wiedererinnerung
Universitä\;t Posen
14:30 &mdash\; Prim. Dr. David Oberreiter\, MBA
Soziale Medien in einer postfaktischen Welt &ndash\; Fluch oder Segen?
Kepler Universitä\;tsklinikum Linz
16:00 &mdash\; Dr. Pia Lilienstein
Schö\;nheit und Wahrheit &ndash\; umstrittene Werte in Philosophie und Kunst
Universitä\;t Nü\;rnberg-Erlangen
Melancholic historicity: lost pasts and past losses
\nOrganizers: Katherina Kinzel and Robert Vinkesteijn
\nUtrecht University\, 29+30 October 2026
\nRecent reconceptualizations of historicity&mdash\;most notably in the work of Walter Benjamin and related thinkers&mdash\;have challenged the modern ideal of progress by foregrounding historical experiences of loss and destruction. These approaches question the assumption that history unfolds as a continuous movement in which past suffering is redeemed by future advancement. Instead of viewing the past as dead or completed\, they envision the past as a site of continuous unease and questioning within the present. Forgotten\, suppressed\, or destroyed pasts unsettle present self-understandings and expose their complicity in the ongoing reproduction of loss. \;
\nThis conference explores the question what a &ldquo\;melancholic&rdquo\; conception of historicity that is oriented around experiences of loss\, destruction and defeat looks like. What does it mean to think historically from a standpoint that refuses to forget or &ldquo\;accept&rdquo\; historical losses\, that interrupts linear temporality and breaks with the perpetuation of historical violence in the present. What is the political valence of different attempts at confronting historical loss? What constitutes a philosophically fruitful attitude to lost pasts (the pasts that have been forgotten or suppressed) and past losses (past experiences of loss\, injustice and defeat) that are haunting the present?
\nThis conference brings together \;critical approaches to the philosophy of history\, postcolonial perspectives on loss\, \;theoretical reflections on displacement and genocide\, accounts of ecological loss and destruction and psychoanalytic discussions of (historical) mourning and melancholia.
\nIf you would like to contribute as a speaker\, please send an abstract of maximum 500 words to r.w.vinkesteijn@uu.nl\, the deadline for abstracts is Saturday 28 February 2026. If you have further questions about the scope and topic of this conference\, do not hesitate to get in touch.
ORGANIZER;CN=Katherina Kinzel: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261030T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261031T170000 SUMMARY:Mary and philosophy as a way of life UID:20260930T143353Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Janseniusstraat 1\, Leuven\, Belgium\, 3000 DESCRIPTION:Inspired by Pierre Hadot's work on (ancient) philosophy as a way of life\, the next Sedes Sapientiae Symposium looks at how both Mary and Marian devotion can be understood as embodying this conception of philosophy as a way of life. Did Mary surpass Zeno and Epicurus\, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius in living the philosophical life from the cradle to the cross? \; Is Marian devotion at its heart\, or at least potentially\, a form of 'stoicism for the masses'? \;
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261030T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261030T090000 SUMMARY:Locus UID:20260930T143354Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Dossier Walking-with the Past: Embodiment\, Environment\, and Narrative
\nLocus. Journal of Culture Studies
\nCall for Papers
\nGuest editors: Marieke Borren and Susan Hogervorst
\nAs an everyday act of embodied locomotion\, walking rarely becomes an explicit object of reflection\, let alone an entry point into questions of history and memory. Yet as we move through streets\, landscapes\, ruins\, and memorial sites\, alone or collectively\, walking can reactivate personal memories\, disclose hidden histories\, and inscribe new narratives into shared spaces. Examples range from commemorative marches and heritage walking tours to psychogeographical drifts that excavate urban and peri-urban spaces as palimpsests\, and the prominent role of walking in first-person biographical accounts of displacement. In literary and cinematic representations\, moreover\, walking often mediates between personal memories and the meaningful environments in which they unfold.
\nThis dossier of Locus explores walking as an embodied mnemonic\, narrative\, and pedagogical practice. We are particularly interested in the philosophical question of how walking mediates between body\, environment\, memory\, and history. We therefore invite contributions that approach walking from one of three interconnected perspectives: (1) embodiment and bodily memory\, (2) environment and place\, or (3) narrative and representation.
\nWalking-with the past: a phenomenological perspective
\nWalking may have a particularly strong relation to memory because it is never a purely present activity. From a phenomenological perspective\, the moving body can be understood as a sedimentation of histories and habits: bodily comportment is shaped by past experience\, social norms\, technologies\, infrastructures\, and built environments. Walking is thus not simply an activity performed by a body in space\; it is an embodied way of inhabiting an already meaningful world.
\nAt the same time\, environments are not neutral backdrops or abstract spaces. They constitute structured fields of affordances that enable and constrain particular forms of movement. Streets\, paths\, ruins\, memorial sites\, and infrastructures invite certain trajectories\, rhythms\, and styles of walking while discouraging others. Historical transformations of built environments may thus become sedimented in bodily habits\, while changes in bodily practices can disclose otherwise unnoticed historical layers of place.
\nWalking consequently unfolds in a dynamic relation between historically sedimented bodily habits and environments that themselves bear traces of past events. This raises questions not only about memory and history but also about the phenomenological constitution of bodily subjectivity\, place\, temporality\, and world.
\nThese questions resonate with phenomenological approaches from Husserl and Merleau-Ponty to more recent work on embodiment\, place\, habit\, and environmental experience\, as well as with approaches in 4E cognition and ecological approaches to perception\, including work on affordances and the embodied and situated character of cognition.
\nFrom a cultural memory perspective\, walking can likewise inscribe collective and personal histories into places and reactivate past experiences in the present. Collaborative walking practices in public history\, commemoration\, heritage education\, and psychogeography can make historical layers experientially available through bodily movement. In this sense\, walking may be understood as a form of embodied historical inquiry: a way of encountering the past not merely as an object of representation\, but through situated\, sensory\, and affective engagement with places and environments.
\nThe notion of &ldquo\;walking-with the past&rdquo\; therefore points to a relational and co-constitutive understanding of historical experience. The past is not simply something walkers represent or remember\; it may be encountered\, activated\, and partially re-enacted through movement in places where histories have been sedimented.
\nPossible questions include:
\nWalking and embodied memory
\nWalking\, environment\, and place
\nWalking\, narrative time\, and representation
\nWe particularly welcome philosophical contributions\, including phenomenological and critical-phenomenological approaches to embodiment\, bodily memory\, temporality\, place\, historicity\, habit\, affordance\, and environmental experience. We also welcome contributions from 4E cognition\, ecological approaches to perception\, cultural memory studies\, history\, heritage studies\, psychogeography\, narrative studies\, and the walking arts\, including work that brings these perspectives into dialogue.
\nTypes of contributions
\nWe invite proposals for:
\nThe full call\, including further information about the dossier and submission guidelines\, is available on the Locus Open Journals website.
\nAbout Locus
Locus: Journal of Culture Studies is an interdisciplinary\, diamond Open Access journal published by the Department of Culture Studies at the Open University of the Netherlands. It provides a forum for scholarship across the humanities and culture studies\, including philosophy\, and particularly welcomes interdisciplinary dialogue between academic research and cultural practice. In addition to stand-alone articles\, the journal publishes biannual thematic &lsquo\;dossiers\,&rsquo\; special collections of articles on topical debates. These dossiers cover diverse themes such as the cultural imagination of human and non-human animals\, the coloniality of natural history collections\, performativity\, and embodiment.
We recently completed the migration of Locus to the Open Journals ecosystem. While our current platform is new\, all back issues and articles remain fully available through our former platform. \;
\nSubmission information
\nSubmissions are accepted in English and Dutch. All submissions will undergo editorial review.
\nFor inquiries about the theme\, please contact Marieke Borren: marieke.borren@ou.nl.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260929T014505Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261030T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261030T120000 SUMMARY:Continental Philosophy of Non-Classical Logics UID:20260930T143355Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:fc13:84ff:feef:467f%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Continental Philosophy of Non-Classical Logics
\nCall for Abstracts
\nEditors: Michael J. Ardoline and Corry Shores
\nDeadline for Abstracts: October 30th\, 2026
\nWe invite abstracts for chapters in an edited volume on the Continental Philosophy of Non-Classical Logics. Non-classical logics are formal systems which differ in some important way(s) from classical logic. Because classical logic is partially based on traditional views of rationality\, a non-classical logic is then at least implicitly a critique of that view of rationality and its assumptions. Such critiques of rationality are central to the projects of many canonical philosophers in the Continental tradition. However\, those philosophers rarely if ever formalized their views. Recently\, scholars interested in both continental thought and formal logic have researched which non-classical logics might align with different continental thinkers' accounts as well as what new logics might result from a thinker's critique of rationality.
\nThis volume will bring this work together for the first time and establish the subfield of Continental Approaches to Non-Classical Logics. We are interested in exegetical as well as original formal and non-formal work on this topic\, from scholars coming from either a continental or analytic background. Related work so far has been produced on figures such as Hegel\, Heidegger\, Deleuze\, Deleuze\, and Laruelle. We hope this volume will contribute to deepening these studies\, include works on canonical figures whose potential intersections with non-classical logic have not yet received sustained treatment (such as Levinas\, Kristeva\, or Foucault)\, and on new movements following form the continental tradition such as new materialism\, speculative realism\, object-oriented ontology\, and neo-rationalism.
\nPossible Topics (not limited to):
\nRelevance logics and sense
\nContinental critiques of logic extended to non-classical logics
\nParacompleteness and totality
\nFeminist critiques of traditional rationality and non-classical reasoning
\nParaconsistency and Heidegger
\nKristeva\, the abject\, and the inclosure schema
\nPhenomenology\, intuitionism\, and contradictory experience
\nBadiou on negation and void
\nDifference\, diffé\;rance\, and the law of identity
\nIneffability and reasoning at the limits of thought
\nHegel&rsquo\;s dialectic and dialethism
\nModal logics and Deleuze&rsquo\;s critique of the possible
\nPossible worlds\, impossible worlds\, and life worlds
\nNon-classical logics and non-philosophy
\nAlterity and non-classical negation
\nNon-classical reasoning and the structures of experience
\nUndecidability\, nonmonotonicity\, and the event
\nPluralism\, truth gluts\, truth gaps\, and many-valued logics
\n\nPreliminary interest for this volume has been shown by Edinburgh University Press for their Intersections in Continental and Analytic Philosophy series.
\nPlease email your abstracts to: continentalnonclassicallogic@gmail.com . Abstracts should be between 300-500 words\, include 5-6 keywords\, and be in docx or pdf format. Abstracts should also include in a short bio with the author&rsquo\;s name\, institutional affiliation\, and relevant publications.
\nDeadline for Abstracts: October 30th\, 2026
\nNotification of acceptance by: December 1st\, 2026
\nExpected date for full chapters (6000-8000 words): June 30th\, 2027
\nWe welcome contributions by scholars at any stage of their career and independent scholars.
\nFor further questions\, please email: continentalnonclassicallogic@gmail.com
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The Handbook of Boredom in Modern Literature
Editors:
Mariusz Finkielsztein (University of Gdańsk) mariusz.finkielsztein@gmail.com Josefa Ros Velasco (Complutense University of Madrid) josros@ucm.es
The Handbook of Boredom in Modern Literature is to be a comprehensive monographic study examining boredom as a central aesthetic\, philosophical\, psychological\, and socio-cultural category in the history of modern literature. Rather than relying purely on abstract theory\, this volume approaches boredom through focused case studies devoted to individual authors and their works. Across these chapters\, boredom&mdash\;alongside adjacent states such as ennui\, tedium\, spleen\, acedia\, melancholy\, existential malaise\, and affective exhaustion&mdash\;emerges variously as paralysis\, protest\, privilege\, illness\, and spiritual crisis. By situating close textual readings within the broader intellectual history of modernity\, the volume\, written by a multidisciplinary group of authors\, is to demonstrate that literary boredom is a powerful diagnostic lens on social order\, temporality\, and the modern subject's experience of meaninglessness.
\nVolume Structure &\; Epochal Scope
\nThe volume is planned as a Handbook or Companion and covers not only the most vital writers addressing the theme of boredom but also a broad selection of modern authors (around 60 chapters). The book is to trace the evolution of literary boredom across (tentatively) seven historical and thematic phases:
\nEarly Modernity &\; Enlightenment Foundations: Early reflections on existential void and social routine (e.g. Diderot\, Laclos\, Austen).
\nRomantic Ennui (1770s&ndash\;1840s): Melancholy\, idealist frustration\, and the world-weary anti-hero (e.g.\, Goethe\, de Staël\, Senancour\, Byron\, Chateaubriand\, Constant\, Stendhal\, Sand\, Balzac\, Musset).
\nThe Superfluous Man: The Russian literary archetype of social paralysis\, alienation\, and unfulfilled potential (e.g. Pushkin\, Lermontov\, Goncharov\, Turgenev).
\nBourgeois Boredom\, Realism\, &\; Decadent Spleen: Domestic stagnation\, industrial monotony\, social entrapment\, and aesthetic decay (e.g.\, Dickens\, Flaubert\, Tolstoy\, Fontane\, Chopin\, Ibsen\, Gilman\, Conrad\, Chekhov\, Baudelaire\, Huysmans\, Wilde).
\nModernist Stagnation (Early 20th C.): Temporal distortion\, consciousness\, alienation\, and metaphysical paralysis (e.g.\, Proust\, Joyce\, Pessoa\, Mann\, Kafka\, Woolf).
\nCatastrophism &\; Existential Absurdity (Mid-20th C.): Totalitarian dread\, the absurdity of existence\, and postwar existential malaise (e.g.\, Broch\, Platonov\, Orwell\, H. Miller\, Gombrowicz\, Sartre\, Camus\, Beckett\, Buzzati\, Gracq).
\nPostwar Emptiness\, Consumerism\, &\; Digital Fatigue: Mass society\, late-capitalist hyper-consumption\, information overload\, and contemporary affective exhaustion (e.g.\, Moravia\, Perec\, de Beauvoir\, Ernaux\, Bellow\, Bernhard\, Duras\, DeLillo\, Houellebecq\, Ferrante\, Rourke\, Moshfegh).
\nChapter Guidelines &\; Scope
\nEach chapter must offer an in-depth analysis of the theme of broadly understood boredom in the work of a single author (according to a formula: Boredom in...). The title should include the name and surname of a writer as a main part\, and a freely formulated subtitle.
\nAnalytical Approach: Authors may focus on a single representative work but should analyse boredom across multiple texts of an author to demonstrate how boredom functions as a recurring motif in the author's oeuvre.
\nTarget Audience: Written primarily for readers seeking to deepen their understanding of boredom in a specific author's work (spoilers are permitted)\, while remaining accessible to a general literary audience. Comparative analysis with other writers should be kept to a minimum.
\nRequired Contextual Elements:
\no Biographical Context: Key details situating the writer within their epoch. Where applicable\, personal engagement with boredom (e.g.\, excerpts from letters\, diaries) may be included.
\no Socio-Cultural Context: Historical background necessary to understand the specific societal structures depicting boredom (e.g.\, aristocratic class dynamics\, marital systems\, late-capitalist work environments\, author&rsquo\;s country history and socio-cultural context).
\nSubmission guidelines:
\nThe abstract of the proposed chapter (between 250-500 words) along with a short bio (up to 150 words) and contact information should be sent to editors via e-mail before the end of October 2026.
\nContributors may propose up to two chapters. Each submission must include a brief statement detailing: (a) how the chosen author's work relates to boredom\; and (b) what the contributor's expertise is on the writer. The minimum criteria for inclusion of a writer are: the
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nauthor must address themes of boredom/ennui\, possess at least some international recognition\, and be available in English translation. Poetry is excluded.
\nThe comments and decisions on the proposed chapters will be provided before the end of December 2026. Then\, the proposal for the book will be sent to prospective publishers (Routledge Handbook Series\, The Oxford Handbooks\, The Cambridge Companions or The Palgrave Handbooks). In case of a positive answer from a publisher\, the authors will be asked to prepare the chapter\, between 6\,000 and 8\,000 words including footnotes and references. Technical information will be provided after the publisher accepts the proposal and will depend on the publisher&rsquo\;s style. In case of any doubts and/or questions\, we encourage prospective authors to consult the editors directly.
\nProspective deadline for chapters: mid-2028
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\nTranslation&mdash\;Semiotics&mdash\;Music
\nGuest editors:
\nAnna Rędzioch-Korkuz (University of Warsaw)
\nMałgorzata Grajter (The Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz)
\nJournal:
\nStudia Semiotyczne (Semiotic Studies)
\nhttp://studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/
\nDeadline for submissions:
\nthe 31st of October 2026
\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.
\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.
\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.
\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● Can (and if yes\, then how can) semiotics contribute to solving the conceptual confusion within translation studies as exemplified by translating musical texts?
\n● How can translation and music capitalize theoretically on various theories of semiotics and vice versa?
\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● What methodologies can we use to research the synergy of semiotic systems in musical texts?
\n● How can the concept of &ldquo\;textuality&rdquo\; be rethought when applied to musical compositions as texts to be translated?
\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● How can semiotics challenge the literal and the human in translating musical texts?
\n● How can semiotic approaches account for the performative\, enacted\, embedded and embodied dimensions of musical translation?
\n● How can semiotics bridge the disciplinary gap between musicology and translation studies?
\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
\nAll submitted papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
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\nSpecial Issue - The Divine and the Digital
\n(XVII\, n. 2\, 2026)
\nEdited by Gemma Serrano (Collè\;ge des Bernardins\, Paris).
\nThe relationship between technology and culture is an increasingly discussed topic in the humanities. The analysis of the consequences of the so-called digital turn\, sometimes regarded as an unprecedented cultural transformation\, has developed within an interdisciplinary field encompassing philosophy\, history\, anthropology\, and sociology\, as well as theology and religious studies. Like any technological transformation\, the social implementation of digital technologies has had an impact on religious and spiritual practices on a global scale. For years\, the study of religions has examined how the spread of digital media has influenced our experience of transcendence\, rituals\, communal life\, and belief. At the same time\, theology and religion can offer cultural and theoretical tools to deepen our understanding of technology and can also provide an original perspective on the meaning of transformations in contemporary society.
\nBeyond analysing the fate of theology and religion in the digital age\, it is crucial to recognize that the field of digital technologies opens up horizons of meaning and reflection that are closely intertwined with the domain of spirituality. Our relationship with technology\, more broadly\, is permeated by religion: a wide range of metaphors and notions&mdash\;either explicitly theological or rooted in religious language and practices&mdash\;are pervasively present in public and academic debates on the meaning of technology. In this sense\, many philosophers of technology&mdash\;including\, to name just a few\, Gü\;nther Anders\, Walter Benjamin\, Jacques Ellul\, Martin Heidegger\, Ivan Illich\, Emanuele Severino\, and Norbert Wiener&mdash\;have grounded their reflections in terms imbued with a theological resonance\, and have assigned a central role to the sphere of the divine in their interpretations of technology\, even when working from a secular perspective. A critical engagement with our religious tradition can help us develop analytical models for understanding our relationship with technology\, as well as for analysing our desires\, our fears\, and the socio-technical imaginaries that structure the social space.
\nThis task\, of course\, also entails theoretical and methodological challenges. First\, thinking about the relationship between technology and religion means recognizing the need for an intercultural study of different models for understanding the technical phenomenon. If the European interpretation of technology is rooted in Christian culture\, it becomes crucial to consider other traditions and other frameworks of reference.
\nAt the same time\, reference to digital technologies requires us to address the problem of technology from a historical perspective. The advent of artificial intelligence has made it even clearer that what we call the &ldquo\;digital turn&rdquo\; is in fact a layered and complex phenomenon\, and that digital technologies already have a long history\, which prevents us from thinking of &ldquo\;the digital&rdquo\; as a unified dimension. What\, then\, are the specific features of the so-called &ldquo\;digital age&rdquo\;? How can the analysis of the imaginaries and narratives associated with digital technologies help us shed light on our present?
\nIssue 2/2026 of Lessico di Etica Pubblica will address these themes from an interdisciplinary perspective\, with contributions from philosophy\, theology\, cultural and technological history\, sociology\, and media theory. The following are some of the topics that will be explored:
\nSubmission Guidelines for Article Proposals
\nPapers must be submitted by October 31\, 2026 to the following address:redazione.eticapubblica@gmail.com.
\nContributions in Italian\, English and French are accepted. Maximum length: 35\,000 characters\, including spaces and notes. Authors are also required to include an abstract of no more than 150 words in both Italian and English. The article file must be prepared in anonymous form to comply with the blind peer review process. In a separate file attached to the same email\, authors should provide their full name\, email address\, the title of the article\, and its abstract.
\nSubmissions must conform to the editorial guidelines available at the following link:
https://www.eticapubblica.it/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/LEP_Norme_redazionali.pdf.
Authors are also invited to use the journal&rsquo\;s style sheet available here:
https://www.eticapubblica.it/norme-editoriali/.
Famously\, infamously\, and cited ad nauseum\, Fredric Jameson wrote in 1994&rsquo\;s Seeds of Time that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine the end of capitalism\, a formulation that Slavoj Zizek later borrowed to ask why we cannot even seek to reform capitalism at all. More recently\, the late Mark Fisher returned to this line of inquiry to demonstrate how Capitalist Realism depends upon the mantra that there is no viable alternative to capitalism. At last\, we have begun to see some scattered indications that our apocalyptic imaginaries may have begun to cross this threshold\, carving out fictional spaces wherein we can imagine otherwise or mourn our own entrapment in a system that will survive us all. At last\, our &ldquo\;monsters&rdquo\; may be taking on post-capitalist forms. Their images do not merely furnish fertile ground for the imagination &mdash\; they oblige us to think what may come after capitalism&rsquo\;s collapse.
\nReading contemporary pop-cultural texts through Fredric Jameson&rsquo\;s critique of late capitalism and his theorization of the apocalypse as the horizon of ideological imagination\, we ask how it is possible to stage the persistence of capital\, grief\, and meaning after the end of history has already been announced or enacted. A paradigmatic example is the 28 Later series. The 2002 film 28 Days later arguably rebooted the zombie apocalypse as faster\, stronger\, and scarier pandemic nightmare for the new millennium\, an apt rebrand for the undead in the era of advanced capitalism. But can the first two installments of the 28 Years Later cycle (2025\, Danny Boyle &\; Alex Garland)\, sequels to the 2002 film\, be read as imagining the emergence of hope that humanity might persist beyond the collapse of capitalism through communities organized around mutual aid\, shared resources\, and collective protection? Or does this narrative suggest that a few will always revert to strategies of appropriation over collaboration (as exemplified by Jimmy&rsquo\;s marauding gang)?
\nThe imagination of apocalypse can also be subverted. Rather than staging catastrophe as spectacular rupture\, some texts reimagine the &ldquo\;post-apocalypse&rdquo\; as displaced continuation. The Leftovers (HBO\, 2014&ndash\;2017) is exemplary here\, recasting the post-apocalyptic not as the end of the world but as its afterlife &mdash\; an extended\, undramatic continuation organized around endless\, unresolved mourning. In this afterlife of social relations\, catastrophe is no longer an event but becomes an ordinary form of existence. Rupture is no longer something to be survived but a condition to be inhabited. A different variation on this logic can be found in Fallout\, which invites us to reflect on the post-apocalypse as a continuation of capitalist realism rather than its rupture. Here\, ruin becomes aestheticized order and survival is fully absorbed into systems of extraction and control\, repackaged as commodity\, spectacle\, and routine. The series stages a world in which the end of the world is endlessly repeated\, without exit\, a catastrophe normalized to the extent that it forecloses any possible outside\, except for nostalgic affects.
\nThese texts are valuable not because they accurately depict a future society marked by failure or mourning\, but because they estrange the present. In Jameson's sense\, they reveal that what appears natural and inevitable&mdash\;capitalism\, private property\, wage labour\, and the organization of social life itself&mdash\;is historically contingent and therefore open to transformation.
\nBy contrast\, the recent series Pluribus (admittedly still an unfinished text\, with only its first season released) asks us a different question altogether: whether the end of the individual subject position-- and with it the end of an exploitative system working for the benefit only of the few-- would really amount to an apocalypse\, or could it be the Utopia we haven&rsquo\;t dared to dream of. These are just some of the many recent apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic texts that ask us to consider where we are\, in this moment so steeped in apocalyptic affect\, in relation to Jameson&rsquo\;s proclamation that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. The decisive issue is not whether these narratives depict a more perfect society\, but whether they expand the horizon of what can be politically imagined.
\nWe welcome submissions on any recent (pre- to post covid) pop cultural texts that contribute to our contemporary understanding of apocalyptic imaginaries. While we expect submissions on film\, television\, videogames\, literature and graphic novels\, we would be happy to consider offerings that defy medial boundaries or work within other disciplines\, such as performance or art. We welcome contributions that transcend the fictional conventions of known genres but also works that flesh out apocalyptic imaginaries by drawing from unconventional aesthetic means.
\nProspective contributors may consider examining texts such as:
\nWe imagine contemporary pop-cultural case studies speaking to these themes could engage convincingly with a large variety of texts (Pluribus\, Disco Elysium\, Fallout\, Station Eleven\, The Last of Us\, Severance\, 28 Years Later vol. 1 &\; 2\, Department of Truth and others)
\nWe also welcome submissions engaging other perspectives and topics.
\nPlease submit your abstract (250 words) alongside a short biographical note (50 words) to \;slauro@ut.edu \;by October 31\, 2026.
\nIf your abstract is accepted\, we will invite you to submit a full article by January 31\, 2027. Full articles will be about 8\,000 &ndash\; 9\,000 words long (including an abstract of 250 words\, 3-5 keywords\, references\, footnotes\, etc.)
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\nCounterreading the Canon: Indigenous Philosophical \;Approaches to Foundational Texts
\nWe invite proposals for chapters in this edited volume. The volume brings Indigenous philosophical frameworks to bear on canonical texts in the Western philosophical tradition. It explores what becomes visible when familiar texts are read through Indigenous relational ontologies\, land-based epistemologies\, and ethical and political frameworks.
\nWe seek sustained counterreadings of major figures and texts across ancient\, modern\, and contemporary philosophy. Contributions should use Indigenous philosophical resources to expose assumptions that conventional interpretations leave largely unquestioned and/or open new possibilities for understanding canonical works. The aim is to move beyond calls to diversify the canon by demonstrating how Indigenous philosophy can transform the practices through which canonical texts are interpreted\, evaluated\, and taught.
\nWe welcome engagements with any period of the Western philosophical tradition and with a wide range of Indigenous philosophical traditions and intellectual resources.
\nSubmission Requirements: Please submit a 250-word proposal\, 100-word bio\, and current CV by November 1\, 2026.
\nProposals should be sent to:
\nAshley Lance &ndash\;ashley_lance@brown.edu
\nAndrew Frederick Smith &ndash\; afs52@drexel.edu
\nPlease use the subject line &ldquo\;Counterreading the Canon &mdash\; Chapter Proposal&rdquo\;
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