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:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261030T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270507T170000 SUMMARY:Monthly Phenomenology UID:20261113T094544Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;&ndash\;
We are very pleased to announce the 7th season (2026&ndash\;2027) of:
MONTHLY PHENOMENOLOGY
An online forum of discussion on recent work in phenomenology
Description: This series of talks gathers together scholars interested in phenomenology and its relation to contemporary issues in philosophy\, especially in the philosophy of mind. It establishes a forum of discussion where people can meet on a regular basis and present their work-in-progress or recent publications. The topics addressed will stretch from the history of early phenomenology to the systematic application of phenomenological insights in recent debates in analytic philosophy.
Schedule: The talks will take place once a month on a Friday from October to May. Time: \;4:15pm CET\, 3:15pm GMT/GMT+1\, 10:15am ET. Talks last 90 minutes\, including a 45 minutes Q&\;A.
Participation: Talks are held on \;zoom. To participate\, please send an email to \;hamid.taieb@hu-berlin.de \;with the heading "Registration Monthly Phenomenology". A zoom link will be sent to you the day preceding each talk. \; \;
Programme:
Thomas Szanto (Europa-Universitä\;t Flensburg)
The Phenomenology and Affective Politics of Feelings of Belonging
30 October 2026 \;
Andrew Butler (Boston University) \;
Husserl&rsquo\;s Metaphysical Realism: Essence\, Sense\, Experience \;
13 November 2026 \;
Esther Neuhann (Goethe-Universitä\;t Frankfurt/Freie Universitä\;t Berlin)
Embodied Integrity \;
11 December \;2026
Nicolai K. Knudsen (Aarhus University) \;
Shall We? Invitations\, Equality\, and the Routes to Joint Action \;
29 January 2027
Laura Gow (University of Liverpool) \;
Cognitive Phenomenology and Belief-discordant Behaviour \;
12 \;February 2027
Alfredo Tomasetta (IUSS Pavia) \;
Is Intentionality Phenomenal? A Debate in Classical Indian Philosophy
5 \;March 2027
Ali Kerem Eroglu (University of Liè\;ge) \;
Intentionalism without Retention: Brentano on Temporal Experience \;
9 April 2027
Minna-Kerttu Kekki (University of Helsinki) \;
Phenomenology of the State: From Edith Stein to the Present \;
7 May 2027
Convenors: \;
Guillaume Fré\;chette (University of Geneva) \;
Marta Jorba (Pompeu Fabra \;University) \;
Alessandro Salice (University College Cork) \;
Hamid Taieb (Humboldt University Berlin) \;
Í\;ngrid Vendrell-Ferran (Philipps University Marburg)
Organized on behalf of the \;Network for Phenomenological Research \; \;
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It is with great pleasure that we announce the call for abstracts for the colloquium &ldquo\;From Leibniz to Kant: Ruptures and Continuities&rdquo\;\, to be held from November 10 to 13\, 2026\, at the Faculty of Philosophy\, Languages\, and Human Sciences of the University of Sã\;o Paulo (FFLCH&ndash\;USP).
\nThe colloquium will feature keynote lectures\, panel discussions\, and communications. Communications will be limited to a maximum of 30 minutes\, with additional time for questions. Abstracts should be between 200 and 400 words. We also request the submission of a preliminary bibliography\, limited to 300 words. Submissions may be made only by graduate researchers (master&rsquo\;s and doctoral students)\, as well as by holders of master&rsquo\;s and doctoral degrees. Abstracts may be submitted in Portuguese\, Spanish\, English\, French\, German\, or Italian. They will be evaluated by a scientific committee\, which reserves the right to select them according to criteria of philosophical rigor and historical-thematic delimitation. After acceptance\, full papers of between 2\,500 and 3\,000 words must be submitted to the organizing committee.
\nExtended deadline for abstract submission: 10/07/2026
ORGANIZER;CN=Pedro Casalotti Farhat;CN=Robson Carvalho dos Santos;CN="Caio Aruanã Batista": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20261113T070000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20261113T070000 SUMMARY:The Right of War in Grotius and Hobbes UID:20261113T094546Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/Istanbul LOCATION:Middle East Technical University Üniversiteler Mahallesi\, Dumlupınar Bulvarı No:1\, Ankara\, Turkey\, 06800 DESCRIPTION:The Hobbes Scholars International Association Sixth International Conference
\n13-14 November\, 2026
&ldquo\;The Right of War in Grotius and Hobbes&rdquo\;
Department of Philosophy - Middle East Technical University
Ü\;niversiteler Mahallesi\, Dumlupınar Bulvarı No:1\, 06800 Ç\;ankaya/Ankara Turkey
We invite papers on theories of war in Grotius and Hobbes for presentation and discussion during the Sixth International Conference Thomas Hobbes organized by the Hobbes Scholars International Association which is to be held on 13-14 November 2026 at the Middle East Technical University.
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Format of the conference :
Presentation of 20 minutes and discussion
Languages :
English and French
If you would like to present a paper\, please send a short abstract (no more than 500 words) by August 20 2026 to Liang PANG (Email : ).
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We will inform you of the result of the selection by August 31 2026.
If your contribution is accepted\, you will have to send the complete paper by October 15 2026.
Keynote lectures :
Yves Charles ZARKA\, Emeritus Professor at the Sorbonne\, Université\; Paris Cité\;
James GRIFFITH\, Assistant professor\, Middle East Technical University
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Pr. Didier MINEUR
President of the Hobbes Scholars International Association
Professor at Sciences Po Rennes \; Researcher at PHILé\;POL\, Université\; Paris Cité\;
Format of the conference :
Presentation of 20 minutes and discussion
Languages :
English and French
I Seminá\;rio Internacional de Fenomenologia e Existencialismo: Angú\;stia\, Medo e Cura
\nO I Seminá\;rio Internacional de Fenomenologia e Existencialismo: Angú\;stia\, Medo e Cura\, promovido pelo Nú\;cleo de Teoria dos Direitos Humanos (NTDH) da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)\, será\; realizado no dia 17 de novembro de 2026\, em formato on-line.
\nO evento propõ\;e um espaç\;o de reflexã\;o e diá\;logo filosó\;fico sobre as experiê\;ncias da angú\;stia\, do medo e da cura\, a partir de diferentes perspectivas da fenomenologia e do existencialismo\, considerando suas dimensõ\;es ontoló\;gicas\, existenciais\, é\;ticas e intersubjetivas.
\nA programaç\;ã\;o reunirá\; pesquisadores de instituiç\;õ\;es brasileiras e estrangeiras\, com apresentaç\;õ\;es e debates que estabelecem interlocuç\;õ\;es com o pensamento de Husserl\, Heidegger\, Merleau-Ponty\, Levinas\, Gadamer\, Edith Stein e Camus\, alé\;m de contribuiç\;õ\;es da filosofia antiga.
\nO seminá\;rio busca favorecer o intercâ\;mbio acadê\;mico e aprofundar a compreensã\;o dessas experiê\;ncias fundamentais da existê\;ncia humana\, considerando tanto seus fundamentos filosó\;ficos quanto suas possibilidades de interpretaç\;ã\;o no mundo contemporâ\;neo.
\nData: 17 de novembro de 2026
Horá\;rio: 8h à\;s 20h (horá\;rio de Brasí\;lia)
Modalidade: On-line
Transmissã\;o: Canal do NTDH/UFRJ no YouTube
Participaç\;ã\;o: O evento está\; aberto à\; participaç\;ã\;o de estudantes\, docentes\, pesquisadores e demais interessados\, na condiç\;ã\;o de ouvintes.
\nInscriç\;õ\;es e programaç\;ã\;o completa:
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Ana Paula Barbosa-Fohrmann: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261120T230000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261120T230000 SUMMARY:DePaul Philosophy Graduate Student Conference 2027 UID:20261113T094549Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:DePaul University\, Chicago\, United States DESCRIPTION:From East to West and Back: Kyoto School in Dialogue with Western Philosophy
\nThe Philosophy Department at DePaul University is pleased to announce the DePaul Philosophy Graduate Student Conference 2027\, to be held in person on February 6&ndash\;7\, 2027\, at DePaul University in Chicago\, Illinois.
\nThis year&rsquo\;s conference\, &ldquo\;From East to West and Back: Kyoto School in Dialogue with Western Philosophy\,&rdquo\; explores the rich and complex philosophical exchanges between the Kyoto School and Western philosophy. We are pleased to welcome Prof. Gregory S. Moss\, Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Chinese University of Hong Kong\, as our keynote speaker.
\nProf. Moss is the author of Hegel&rsquo\;s Foundation-Free Metaphysics: The Logic of Singularity (2020)\, which received the HegelPD Prize in 2022\, and Absolute Dialetheism: Hegel\, Schelling\, and the End of Alterity (2026)\, recently published by Edinburgh University Press. His keynote address will draw from his new manuscript\, Hegel and Nishida.
\n\nCall for Papers
\nThe Kyoto School represents one of the most significant encounters between Japanese philosophy and Western philosophical thought. Its philosophers engaged deeply with figures such as Kant\, Hegel\, Fichte\, Schelling\, Husserl\, Heidegger\, and others\, while simultaneously developing philosophical approaches grounded in their own intellectual and cultural contexts. The resulting dialogue was neither simply an adoption of Western philosophy nor a rejection of it\, but a complex process of inheritance\, transformation\, criticism\, and philosophical creation.
\nThis conference invites graduate student papers that investigate the ways in which philosophers of the Kyoto School understand\, inherit\, develop\, transform\, or criticize the thought of familiar Western philosophers and philosophical traditions. At the same time\, we welcome contributions that bring Western philosophical traditions\, as well as philosophical traditions from other cultural and intellectual contexts\, into dialogue with the Kyoto School\, whether by engaging\, evaluating\, challenging\, or developing its philosophical practices.
\nWe particularly welcome papers that explore\, but are not limited to:
\n- Kyoto School engagements with Kant\, Hegel\, Schelling\, Fichte\, Husserl\, Heidegger\, and other Western philosophers\;
\n- Nishida Kitarō\, Tanabe Hajime\, Nishitani Keiji\, and other Kyoto School philosophers\;
\n- Comparative approaches to Japanese\, Western\, Chinese\, Indian\, Buddhist\, Daoist\, or other philosophical traditions\;
\n- The concepts of absolute nothingness\, basho\, pure experience\, self-awareness\, dialectic\, contradiction\, mediation\, and alterity\;
\n- Kyoto School approaches to metaphysics\, epistemology\, phenomenology\, logic\, ethics\, aesthetics\, and philosophy of religion\;
\n- The relationship between philosophical traditions and their cultural or historical contexts\;
\n- Questions concerning translation\, interpretation\, appropriation\, and philosophical inheritance\;
\n- Contemporary philosophical engagements with the Kyoto School\; and
\n- New possibilities for philosophical dialogue between East Asian and Western traditions.
\nWe also encourage submissions that move beyond conventional comparative philosophy and consider whether engagement between different philosophical traditions can generate new philosophical problems\, methods\, or conceptual possibilities.
\n\nSubmission Guidelines
\nWe invite submissions from current graduate students (MA and PhD) in philosophy and related disciplines.
\nSubmissions should:
\n(1) Consist of a full paper in Word or PDF format\, suitable for a 30-minute presentation\, approximately 3\,000&ndash\;4\,000 words\;
\n(2) Be prepared for blind review\; and
\n(3) Be accompanied by a separate cover page containing the paper title\, author's name\, institutional affiliation\, graduate student status (MA or PhD)\, and contact information.
\nPlease email submissions as a PDF or Word document to: depaulgradconference2027@gmail.com
\nThe submission deadline is November 20\, 2026.
\nDecisions regarding submissions will be announced approximately two weeks after the submission deadline.
ORGANIZER;CN=Edward Kwok: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261124T100000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261124T170000 SUMMARY:Reading philosophies of nature and beauty: close reading as method in the history of philosophy UID:20261113T094550Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Australia/Sydney LOCATION:Paramatta Rd\, Camperdown NSW\, Sydney\, Australia\, 2006 DESCRIPTION:&ldquo\;Reading philosophies of nature and beauty: close reading as method in the history of philosophy&rdquo\;\, is a workshop taking place at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 24 November 2026.
The event is the product of a collaboration between "Extending New Narratives" SSHRC (Canada) major award and &ldquo\;Women Philosophers on the Natural and the Human" ARC Future Fellowship (Dalia Nassar)
You can view the event poster \;here
Overview
\nAs historians of philosophy\, we are directly acquainted with the method of &lsquo\;close reading&rsquo\;\, but are rarely challenged to articulate what\, exactly\, this methodology entails\, and how it can be better practiced. This one-day event brings together senior scholars with early career researchers within the history of philosophy to discuss the role of close reading in our own work and its implications for our discipline. The day will begin with a masterclass conducted by an experienced historian of philosophy\, and will conclude with a workshop of presentations from graduate students and ECRs showcasing their research and the role of close reading within it. \;
\nThe masterclass and workshop is complementary to the conference &ldquo\;The Natural and the Beautiful: Women Philosophers on Nature\, Beauty\, and Art&rdquo\; hosted at the University of Sydney over 25-27 November\, and will take place the day before the conference begins: Tuesday 24 November 2026. The event runs from 10am to 5:30pm\, in Quadrangle room N494. \;
\nIt is open to early career historians of philosophy working on theories of nature\, organic life\, beauty\, and environmental aesthetics (and adjacent fields)\, with a particular interest in the philosophical contributions of women and other underrepresented figures. This workshop aims to provide an opportunity for scholars to showcase their own textual practices and to work collaboratively to articulate how strategies of close reading serve as a specific method of philosophical analysis. \; \;
\nAs such\, key questions include:
\nSpeakers: \;
\nLocation:
\nThe event will take place in-person only at the University of Sydney\, in Quadrangle room N494. For this workshop\, all are welcome to attend\, and no registration is required.
ORGANIZER;CN=Campbell R: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261211T070000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20261211T070000 SUMMARY:Hannah Arendt Circle 2027 UID:20261113T094551Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Paderborn\, Germany DESCRIPTION:The Hannah Arendt Circle will meet in person at Paderborn University\, Germany from June 23rd-June 25th 2027. Any and all interdisciplinary research relating to the life and work of Hannah Arendt is welcome for consideration.
\nWe invite submissions of abstracts (750 words) for presentation. The deadline for submission is December 11th. \;
\nAnonymised abstracts (prepared as Word doc. or PDF) and any queries should be submitted to thehannaharendtcircle@gmail.com \;
\n\n** UPDATE: In 2027\, the Hannah Arendt Circle will be offering a student award to help defray travel and accommodation costs for currently enrolled graduate students (in any discipline). If you would like to be considered for this award\, please state this on your submission. If you have already submitted and would still like to be considered\, please send an email to that effect to \;thehannaharendtcircle@gmail.com \; \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20261211T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20261212T170000 SUMMARY:The Significance of Enlightenment Philosophy in European Culture UID:20261113T094552Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Lublin\, Poland DESCRIPTION:The conference is planned as an in-person event\; however\, online participation will also be possible (primarily for participants presenting papers from abroad). Conference languages: Polish and English.
\nThis is the latest edition in a series of conferences initiated in Lublin in 2014. Subsequent editions have been held in Toruń\, Krakó\;w\, Lublin\, Poznań\, and again in Lublin and Toruń.
\nWe invite philosophers interested in the Enlightenment\, as well as scholars from other disciplines whose research focuses either directly on this period or on its consequences\, continuations\, and critiques.
\nThe conference will focus on Enlightenment philosophy\, its sources and continuations\, as well as its influence on culture in the broadest sense\, both positive and negative. The organizers propose human action &ndash\; in its various conditions\, dimensions\, meanings\, and evaluations as the guiding theme of this year&rsquo\;s conference.
\nSuggested topics include:
\nReason\, passions\, emotions\, and interest as motives of human action &ndash\; debates concerning the rationality of action and the sources and determinants of human decisions.
\nFreedom\, determinism\, and responsibility &ndash\; the problem of free will\, the causal determinants of action\, and the foundations of moral and legal responsibility.
\nIndividual autonomy and the emancipation of human action &ndash\; the ideal of the self-determining subject and the liberation of human activity and agency from the authority of tradition\, established authorities\, and inherited hierarchies.
\nMorality\, religion\, and the secular foundations of human action &ndash\; the autonomization of ethics\, natural law\, moral sentiments\, utility\, and happiness\, as well as debates concerning religious and non-religious justifications of morality.
\nHappiness\, virtue\, duty\, and utility as goals and criteria of action &ndash\; transformations in conceptions of the good life and the moral evaluation of actions in Enlightenment philosophy\, its sources\, and its continuations.
\nThe individual\, society\, and the common good &ndash\; relations between self-interest and the common good\, cooperation and conflict\, property\, exchange\, and the social determinants of action.
\nPolitical action\, freedom\, and individual rights &ndash\; citizenship\, the social contract\, authority and obedience\, toleration\, human rights\, and the right to rebellion and to transform the existing order.
\nKnowledge\, education\, and human perfectibility as foundations of rational action &ndash\; the significance of knowledge\, science\, and education for the formation of the individual and the reform of society.
\nAction\, progress\, and transformations of the social world &ndash\; the possibility of consciously reforming law\, institutions\, and customs\; individual and collective action\; and the intended and unintended consequences of human activity.
\nSources\, continuations\, and critiques of Enlightenment conceptions of action &ndash\; ancient and early modern antecedents of Enlightenment practical philosophy\, as well as later reinterpretations and critiques of the ideals of autonomy\, rationality\, and progress.
\nOther topics are also welcome. We are interested both in papers presenting research on Enlightenment theories and in studies of earlier theories that constituted their sources or other points of reference.
\nThe deadline for paper proposals is 20 November 2026. Notification of acceptance will be sent by 25 November 2026.
\nPlease submit the title of your paper together with an abstract of 400&ndash\;500 words to: leszek.kopciuch@mail.umcs.pl. All submitted abstracts will be subject to review.
\nFor in-person participants\, the conference fee is PLN 500 and covers two lunches and the conference dinner. Online participation is free of charge. Payment details will be provided at a later date.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T230000 SUMMARY:Call for Papers (Special Issue) - Play and Phenomenology: World\, Symbol\, Resistance UID:20261113T094553Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This special issue of Tijdschrift voor Filosofie: Louvain Journal of Philosophy explores the philosophical significance of play within phenomenology and its broader implications for understanding world\, embodiment\, symbolism\, freedom\, and resistance.
\nIt addresses the relation between human play and world-play\, including the phenomenology of phantasy and ludic experience\, Eugen Fink&rsquo\;s conception of play as a symbol of the world\, and the connections between play\, embodiment\, shared existence\, and political space.
\nThe issue welcomes historical and systematic contributions engaging with phenomenological approaches to play\, particularly in the work of Husserl\, Eugen Fink\, Heidegger\, Patočka\, and Merleau-Ponty.
\nSubmission: Extended abstracts of 500&ndash\;800 words.
\nDeadline: 15 December 2026.
\nGuest Editor: Iulian Apostolescu
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8619-5018
Full Call for Papers:
https://www.academia.edu/180107744/Play_and_Phenomenology_World_Symbol_Resistance_Call_for_Papers_Special_Issue
CALL FOR PAPERS
\nSpecial Issue of The Journal of Ethics: Fate and narrative identity
\nDeadline for submission of full draft: 1 January 2027
\nLength of paper: 8\,000-11\,000 words\, including footnotes but not including references at the end.
\nThis special issue starts with the autobiographical question: who am I? What are the most important constituents of my identity? We might distinguish involuntary components such as my birth nationality\, my ethnicity\, by socio-economic background\, my gender\, from voluntary components such as my profession\, my marriage\, my political allegiance\, my long-term residence. But even involuntary components admit of more-or-less voluntary interpretations of the meaning of such components. An ethnic identity can yield a sense of belonging or indifference\, an unwanted constraint can be changed into a catalyst for important life choices.
\nVoluntary identity components and voluntary interpretations usually admit of a narrative description of how they came to play the important role in my identity\, and of how I see their role in the future. As part of that narrative description\, I might ask myself which components are somehow essential to who I am &ndash\; in other words\, without that component\, I cannot imagine being me. Most often these components will begin their narrative role with an event of pure luck. In such a case\, I may be tempted to speak of that event as fateful. So this special issue is about the question: what does it mean to see a narrative identity component as 'my fate'? What can the concept of fate contribute to my and others&rsquo\; understanding of my life?
\nImportantly\, we are NOT directly interested in the concept of fate as denying free will. We are not directly interested in any kind of metaphysical notion\, divine or otherwise\, that might determine my future. Instead\, our autobiographical perspective is primarily about making sense of our past and present\, in the sense described by Robert Solomon&rsquo\;s article &lsquo\;Fate and Fatalism&rsquo\; Philosophy East and West\, Vol. 53\, No. 4 (Oct.\, 2003)\, pp. 435-454.
\nSolomon offers many examples. He himself\, a professional philosopher\, started at university studying medicine\, and on an impulse took a philosophy elective that steered him into a whole new area of interest. He wants to call the impulse fateful. Now it might be said that given his (known and unknown) dispositions\, he was fated to switch to philosophy sooner or later\, and if he had missed this one elective\, other opportunities would have caught his eye. As such we might reach for Heraclitus&rsquo\;s mantra of &ldquo\;character is destiny&rdquo\;. But consider another of Solomon&rsquo\;s examples: two people have been married to one another for many years\, and as such have deeply influenced one another&rsquo\;s identity. And yet their meeting\, their subsequent romantic availability\, their mutual attraction\, their cohabitational compatibility\, their shared interests etc. &ndash\; all of that was radically contingent. Retrospectively\, however\, that meeting (and everything else) was necessary\, fated\, in order for them to become who they are now\, individually\, and jointly\, many years later.
\nWe&rsquo\;re not only interested in Solomon&rsquo\;s retrospective view of fateful events\, we&rsquo\;re also interested in the experience of practical necessity (a phrase coined by Bernard Williams in his 1981 article of that name). Here the agent\, in the present\, discovers what she &lsquo\;must&rsquo\; do\, given who she is\, what she has become\, what roles she fills\, who she is in a relationship with\, where she works etc.. Such a discovery about oneself may be more or less surprising\, and more or less acceptable and understandable among one&rsquo\;s friends (who know her more or less well). Williams&rsquo\;s concept has spawned some philosophical discussion\, but his and others&rsquo\; heroes do not usually use the word &lsquo\;fate&rsquo\; &ndash\; the question is whether they are entitled to do so\, while taking themselves and being taken seriously.
\nWe welcome submissions on the following topics: (not exhaustive)
\nSubmission instructions for Authors
\nAuthors must make use of the standard online EM system used by The Journal of Ethics. All manuscripts will go through the standard double-blind peer-review process according to The Journal of Ethics&rsquo\; guidelines. As a matter of general policy on special issues\, all submission will also be checked by the editor-in-chief. All manuscripts should be prepared according to the journal&rsquo\;s guidelines provided on The Journal of Ethics website. \;
\nCo-editors:
\n \; \; \; \; \; ·\; \; \; Katrien Schaubroeck\, University of Antwerp\, Belgium.
katrien.schaubroeck@uantwerpen.be
\; \; \; \; \; ·\; \; \; Christopher Cowley\, Charles University\, Czech Republic\, and University College Dublin\, Ireland.
Christopher.cowley@ff.cuni.cz
For twenty years\, Back to the Things Themselves! (BTTTT!) has been an annual attempt to put aside the more conventional scholarly practice of textual exegesis and critique\, and return to the lived world to divine the essential structures of experience through careful phenomenological description.
\nIn short\, BTTTT!&lsquo\;s main aim is to &ldquo\;do phenomenology&rdquo\;&mdash\;that is\, to generate original descriptions of phenomena in the lifeworld.
\nhttps://btttt.net/cfp/
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270110T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270110T234500 SUMMARY:Thomas Carlyle and the Twenty-First Century: Reexamining Carlyle Amid Political\, Economic\, Technological\, and Religious Change UID:20261113T094556Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Durham\, United States DESCRIPTION:Carlyle Conference\n\n\n\nCall for Papers\nThomas Carlyle and the Twenty-First Century\nReexamining Carlyle Amid Political\, Economic\, Technological\, and Religious Change
\nUniversity of New Hampshire
May 28&ndash\;29\, 2027
Nearly a decade has passed since scholars last gathered for a major international conference devoted to Thomas Carlyle&rsquo\;s life\, writings\, intellectual networks\, reception\, and legacies. Following conferences at Villanova (2007)\, Dumfries (2008)\, Edinburgh (2012)\, Oxford (2016)\, and Cambridge (2019)\, Thomas Carlyle and the Twenty-First Century will provide an opportunity to assess the current state&mdash\;and consider the future&mdash\;of Carlyle studies.
\nThe conference coincides with the completion or maturation of several major scholarly enterprises:
\nThese achievements invite both celebration and reassessment. What new questions become possible now that scholars have access to an unprecedented range of Carlylean texts\, letters\, editions\, and digital resources? What can Carlyle studies contribute to nineteenth-century studies and to broader debates in intellectual\, political\, religious\, economic\, and cultural history? Conversely\, what might the concerns of the twenty-first century reveal anew about Carlyle and his world?
\nThe conference particularly invites reconsiderations of Carlyle in relation to political\, economic\, technological\, and religious challenges that connect&mdash\;and distinguish&mdash\;the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. How did Carlyle understand ideological division\, political authority\, democracy\, revolution\, nationalism\, social cohesion\, and international conflict? How did his diagnoses of industrial capitalism engage questions of inequality\, poverty\, exploitation\, class antagonism\, commodification\, and globalization? How might his critique of the &ldquo\;Mechanical Age&rdquo\; be reread in a period increasingly shaped by automation\, artificial intelligence\, digital media\, and rapid technological transformation? How did Carlyle respond to religious doubt and secularization\, to Christianity and Islam\, and to the search for faith and spiritual authority in a disenchanted world?
\nThese questions require sustained critical attention to the political and ethical limitations of Carlyle&rsquo\;s thought. How should twenty-first-century scholarship approach his arguments concerning hierarchy\, authority\, race\, slavery\, empire\, democracy\, and political violence? Where do Carlyle&rsquo\;s diagnoses illuminate problems that remain recognizable today\, and where do his proposed remedies reveal the historical limitations\, contradictions\, or dangers of his thinking? Rather than presuming Carlyle&rsquo\;s contemporary relevance\, the conference invites participants to investigate the forms that his relevance&mdash\;or irrelevance&mdash\;might take.
\nWe welcome new readings of Carlyle&rsquo\;s major works\, including Sartor Resartus\, The French Revolution\, On Heroes\, Hero-Worship\, and the Heroic in History\, Past and Present\, and Latter-Day Pamphlets\, as well as his biographies\, histories\, journalism\, correspondence\, and lesser-studied essays. Papers might examine Carlyle&rsquo\;s treatments of historical crisis\, revolution\, leadership\, work\, belief\, social order\, modernity\, and renewal\; his rhetoric and experiments with literary form\; or the extent to which his writings anticipated\, misread\, or remained bound to the political and intellectual conditions of the nineteenth century.
\nThe conference welcomes papers on all aspects of Thomas Carlyle&rsquo\;s life\, writings\, thought\, reception\, networks\, and influence. We also invite work on Jane Welsh Carlyle and on the wider intellectual\, literary\, political\, and cultural worlds in which the Carlyles participated. Papers might consider how the Carlyles imagined historical rupture and renewal\; how their writings circulated internationally and across disciplines\; or how Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle have repeatedly disappeared from&mdash\;and returned to&mdash\;scholarly and public attention.
\nWe particularly encourage scholarship that reconsiders established interpretations in light of current approaches to nineteenth-century studies. Proposals are welcome from scholars at all career stages and from a wide range of disciplines\, including literary studies\, history\, intellectual history\, political thought\, economic thought\, philosophy\, religious studies\, book history\, art history\, Victorian studies\, and the digital humanities.
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nWe also welcome papers examining Carlyle in relation to particular writers and thinkers\, including Plato\, Aristotle\, Immanuel Kant\, Johann Gottlieb Fichte\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, G. W. F. Hegel\, Ralph Waldo Emerson\, Henry David Thoreau\, Margaret Fuller\, John Stuart Mill\, Charles Dickens\, Karl Marx\, Friedrich Engels\, Friedrich Nietzsche\, Virginia Woolf\, and other figures whose work illuminates Carlyle&rsquo\;s intellectual networks\, reception\, or legacy.
\nAt a moment when the writings of Thomas and Jane Welsh Carlyle are more comprehensively available than ever before\, the conference asks a broader question:
\nWhat remains unread\, underexamined\, or misunderstood in the Carlyles&mdash\;and what should the next generation of Carlyle scholarship seek to discover?
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSubmission Information\n\n\nPlease submit an abstract of your paper of approximately 250&ndash\;300 words\, together with a brief biographical note\, to Brian Wolfel at Brian.Wolfel@unh.edu by January 10\, 2027.
\nProposals for individual papers\, panels\, roundtables\, and alternative formats are welcome. Individual papers will normally be 15 minutes in length.
\nThe co-organizers of the conference are as follows: \;
\nBrian Wolfel (Brian.Wolfel@unh.edu)
\nDavid Sorensen (dsorense@sju.edu)
\nBrent Kinser (bkinser@wcu.edu)
\n\nThomas Carlyle and the Twenty-First Century
University of New Hampshire
May 28&ndash\;29\, 2027
How to Make Sense of Long-Term Developments in the History of Modern Science\, Philosophy\, and Culture? A Cross-Disciplinary Conference
\n\nMay 25&ndash\;26\, 2027\, KU Leuven / Université\; libre de Bruxelles
\n\nRecent decades have seen a remarkable expansion of research on modern thought across science\, philosophy\, and culture. On the one hand\, scholars have developed increasingly fine‑grained forms of contextual and textual analysis. On the other hand\, they have expanded the field beyond the traditional canon by questioning Eurocentric narratives\, foregrounding marginalized writers and movements\, and tracing alternative lineages. Despite its great merits\, however\, this expansion has reinforced the tendency to focus on individual authors\, local contexts\, and the immediate reception of one author by another. As a result\, contemporary research rarely asks how developments that unfold across long temporal arcs&mdash\;sometimes spanning several generations\, sometimes crossing disciplinary boundaries&mdash\;can be understood.
\nThis tendency has its roots in the rejection by twentieth-century scholarship of grand teleological narratives\, especially those associated with Hegelian historiography. In response\, many authors have sought to conceptualize long‑term developments in science\, philosophy\, and culture in non-teleological terms. Historians of ideas and philosophy turned\, for instance\, to the structural analysis of systems (Martial Gueroult)\, to histories of concepts (Reinhart Koselleck)\, and contextualist approaches to intellectual history (Quentin Skinner). Other twentieth-century perspectives include the longue duré\;e approach of the É\;cole des Annales in France (Marc Bloch\, Fernand Braudel)\, analyses of civilizational processes (Norbert Elias)\, historical epistemologies of the sciences (Hé\;lè\;ne Metzger\, Thomas Kuhn)\, and genealogical reconstructions (Michel Foucault).
\n\;Reassessing these approaches as well as exploring new directions\, this cross-disciplinary conference addresses the question of how long‑term developments in modern science\, philosophy\, and culture can be conceptualized. Which tools\, methods\, and models allow us to make sense of the ways in which conceptual\, scientific\, and cultural textual productions emerged\, persisted\, interacted\, transformed\, and dissolved across time? Which twentieth-century perspectives on long-term intellectual developments across the modern world can be transferred from one disciplinary context to another? By bringing together researchers from a range of disciplines&mdash\;e.g.\, history of science\, history of philosophy\, history\, history of ideas\, sociology\, anthropology\, and cultural studies&mdash\;the conference aims to stimulate dialogues on these and similar questions. Proposals from historians\, anthropologists\, sociologists\, and related fields are especially welcome.
\n\;
\n\nConfirmed speakers
\n\nKarin de Boer &mdash\; KU Leuven
\nDina Emundts &mdash\; Freie Universitä\;t Berlin
\nCatherine Kö\;nig-Pralong &mdash\; É\;cole des hautes é\;tudes en sciences sociales\, Paris
\nMartin Mulsow &mdash\; Universitä\;t Erfurt
\nDimitry Nikulin &mdash\; New School for Social Research
\nElí\;as José\; Palti &mdash\; University of Buenos Aires
\nArnaud Pelletier &mdash\; Université\; libre de Bruxelles
\n\nFormat: hybrid
\nVenue: KU Leuven
\n\nAbstracts of no more than 500 words \;should be submitted through the electronic form available at the website. The abstracts\, including the title\, should be prepared for double-blind review by removing any identification details.
\n\nPresentation time will be 40 minutes + 20 minutes for discussion. We offer limited travel grants to early career researchers without research funding of their own.
\n\nSubmission deadline: January 11\, 2027
\n\nNotification of acceptance by February 19\, 2026.
\n\nWebsite: https://hiw.kuleuven.be/cmprpc/events/longtermdevelopmentsleuven2027/home
\n\nContact: marie.lauwers@ulb.be
\n\n\nOrganizers
\n\nKarin de Boer (KU Leuven)\, Marie Lauwers (Université\; libre de Bruxelles)\, Arnaud Pelletier (Université\; libre de Bruxelles)\, Shahab Vesali (KU Leuven)
\n\nThe conference is organized in the context of the EOS research project Responses to Newton&rsquo\;s Mathematical-Experimental Paradigm in 18th-Century Philosophy (RENEW18) funded by FWO and F.R.S.-FNRS. See https://www.renew18.be/
ORGANIZER;CN=Karin de Boer;CN=Arnaud Pelletier;CN=Shahab Vesali;CN=Marie Lauwers: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270118T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270118T090000 SUMMARY:Byung-Chul Han and Contemporary Culture UID:20261113T094558Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers: Byung-Chul Han and Contemporary Culture
\nOnline symposium\, Friday 19 March 2027
\nHosted by European University Cyprus
\nByung-Chul Han&rsquo\;s slim volumes of philosophy now circulate widely in English\, with more than twenty books translated since 2015. These books offer a cosmopolitan account of a digital age in which technology allows power to seduce rather than repress\, and in which contemplation and even idleness become essential for the survival of love and community. His accounts of burnout\, transparency\, psychopolitics\, the &ldquo\;infocracy\,&rdquo\; the disappearance of ritual and of things\, the loss or expulsion of the other\, the necessity of shared time\, and the crisis of narration have also travelled far beyond academic philosophy.
\nYet within English-language critical theory his work\, which seems to have a high degree of relevance to contemporary cultural objects and movements\, has received comparatively little sustained application. The immediate aim of this symposium\, then\, is to put Han&rsquo\;s concepts to work as diagnostic tools: our focus is less on his philosophy in the abstract than on what it can do when brought to bear on specific cultural objects\, texts and practices. Here we follow Deleuze&rsquo\;s remark that a theory &ldquo\;is exactly like a box of tools&hellip\; It must be useful. It must function\,&rdquo\; and indeed Han&rsquo\;s own pronouncement in *The Agony of Eros* that theory is &ldquo\;an essential decision that causes the world to appear [&hellip\;] in a wholly different light.&rdquo\;
\nWe welcome contributions from across the humanities and social sciences\, including literary studies (print and digital)\, cultural studies\, media and communication studies\, film and television\, games studies\, theology\, visual culture and art history\, design\, and more. Papers will as standard be 15 minutes\, though we are prepared to be flexible in terms of length and format.
\nWe are delighted that Professor Steven Knepper will be the keynote speaker for this symposium. Professor Knepper is\, among his other achievements\, co-author of *Byung-Chul Han* (Polity\, 2024)\, the only full-length critical introduction to Han&rsquo\;s work.
\nDepending on the number and quality of responses\, and the range of subjects covered\, the aim is for this symposium to result in publication\, either a focused journal special issue or a broader collection of essays with a university press. Scholars at any stage of their career are very welcome to submit.
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\n- Burnout and the achievement-subject in fiction\, film\, art or games
\n- Psychopolitics and the shaping of subjectivity by platforms\, apps or other technologies of mediation
\n- Storyselling in social media influencer personae\, autofiction\, and other forms of self-presentation
\n- Counterexamples: digital practices that sustain ritual\, contemplation and/or community
\n- The Crisis of Narration applied to fiction\, journalism or online culture
\n- The shitstorm/swarm as mode of digital communication
\n- Non-things: smartphones\, digital artworks\, e-books\, Instapoems\, text on screen more broadly
\n- The aesthetics of the smooth in art and design
\n- Generative AI and cultural production as technology of control (*Infocracy*\, *Non-Things*)
\n- Datafication&rsquo\;s assault on subjectivity
\n- The defence of love/eros in the achievement society
\n- Ritual and play as cultural practices under pressure
\n- Boredom\, contemplation and the *vita contemplativa* as manifested in cultural objects
\n- Shanzhai: copying and translation in globalised culture
\n- Han as a writer &ndash\; essayistic form\, brevity and/or readability as tactic
\nPlease send the following to by Monday 18 January 2027:
\n- an abstract of 250&ndash\;300 words\, including the title
\n- a brief bio-note of no more than 100 words
\nPapers should be given in English. There is no fee for attendance. For any questions\, please contact the organiser at .
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20270201T000000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20270201T000000 SUMMARY:Scottish Philosophy Beyond the Canon UID:20261113T094559Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Asia/Tokyo LOCATION:3 Chome-10-2\, Mitaka-shi\, Japan\, 181-8585 DESCRIPTION:CSSP invites the submission of abstracts for the 2027 conference at the International Christian University in Tokyo\, Japan.
\nMuch work has been done on the &ldquo\;canon&rdquo\; of Scottish philosophy\, the emblematic texts like Smith&rsquo\;s Wealth of Nations or Hume&rsquo\;s Treatise of Human Nature\, but the world of letters in 17th-\, 18th-\, and 19th-century Scotland included a vibrant mix of literary forms including pamphlets\, poems\, plays\, novels\, satires\, sermons\, and magazine articles\, as well as translations into and out of English\, and appropriations and reinterpretations of canonical literature.
\nPapers on all topics related to Scottish philosophy are welcome\, but we especially invite papers relating to Scottish philosophy beyond the confines of the typical canon. The conference will also feature talks connected to the in-progress edited collection Reason and Revelation: Scottish Philosophy and Christian Theology\, with invited speakers: Bradford Bow (Aberdeen)\, Deborah Boyle (College of Charleston)\, Giovanni Gellera (Geneva)\, Eugene Heath (SUNY - New Paltz)\, and Tim Stuart-Buttle (York).
\nSubmit abstracts of 300-500 words as anonymized email attachment to: cssp@fordham.edu. Emails should contain author name(s)\, contact and affiliation\, and must be received by Feb. 1\, 2027. Authors will be notified by Feb. 28\, 2027. If accepted\, papers should be prepared for a 30-minute presentation.
ORGANIZER;CN=Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy (cssp): METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270204T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270204T200000 SUMMARY:Noch einmal: Heidegger's Crisis. Philosophie und Politik im Nationalsozialismus UID:20261113T094600Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Hans Sluga on his influential book Heidegger&rsquo\;s Crisis (1993). Sluga moves beyond the individual case of Heidegger to analyze how a systemic crisis in early 20th-century philosophy paved the way for National Socialism. By revisiting this dark chapter\, we will discuss why philosophy struggles with its own past and how we can critically navigate the relationship between philosophical thought and political action today.
\n\nThe lecture will be held in German.
ORGANIZER;CN=David Palme: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20270206T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20270207T170000 SUMMARY:DePaul Philosophy Graduate Student Conference 2027 UID:20261113T094601Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:DePaul University\, Chicago\, United States ORGANIZER;CN=Edward Kwok: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270319T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270319T170000 SUMMARY:Byung-Chul Han and Contemporary Culture UID:20261113T094602Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:# Call for Papers: Byung-Chul Han and Contemporary Culture
\n\n**Online symposium\, Friday 19 March 2027**
\nHosted by European University Cyprus
\n\n**Deadline for abstracts: Monday 18 January 2027**
\n\nWebsite:
\n\nByung-Chul Han&rsquo\;s slim volumes of philosophy now circulate widely in English\, with more than twenty books translated since 2015. These books offer a cosmopolitan account of a digital age in which technology allows power to seduce rather than repress\, and in which contemplation and even idleness become essential for the survival of love and community. His accounts of burnout\, transparency\, psychopolitics\, the &ldquo\;infocracy\,&rdquo\; the disappearance of ritual and of things\, the loss or expulsion of the other\, the necessity of shared time\, and the crisis of narration have also travelled far beyond academic philosophy.
\n\nYet within English-language critical theory his work\, which seems to have a high degree of relevance to contemporary cultural objects and movements\, has received comparatively little sustained application. The immediate aim of this symposium\, then\, is to put Han&rsquo\;s concepts to work as diagnostic tools: our focus is less on his philosophy in the abstract than on what it can do when brought to bear on specific cultural objects\, texts and practices. Here we follow Deleuze&rsquo\;s remark that a theory &ldquo\;is exactly like a box of tools&hellip\; It must be useful. It must function\,&rdquo\; and indeed Han&rsquo\;s own pronouncement in *The Agony of Eros* that theory is &ldquo\;an essential decision that causes the world to appear [&hellip\;] in a wholly different light.&rdquo\;
\n\nWe welcome contributions from across the humanities and social sciences\, including literary studies (print and digital)\, cultural studies\, media and communication studies\, film and television\, games studies\, theology\, visual culture and art history\, design\, and more. Papers will as standard be 15 minutes\, though we are prepared to be flexible in terms of length and format.
\n\nWe are delighted that Professor Steven Knepper will be the keynote speaker for this symposium. Professor Knepper is\, among his other achievements\, co-author of *Byung-Chul Han* (Polity\, 2024)\, the only full-length critical introduction to Han&rsquo\;s work.
\n\nDepending on the number and quality of responses\, and the range of subjects covered\, the aim is for this symposium to result in publication\, either a focused journal special issue or a broader collection of essays with a university press. Scholars at any stage of their career are very welcome to submit.
\n\n## Possible topics
\n\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\n\n- Burnout and the achievement-subject in fiction\, film\, art or games
\n- Psychopolitics and the shaping of subjectivity by platforms\, apps or other technologies of mediation
\n- Storyselling in social media influencer personae\, autofiction\, and other forms of self-presentation
\n- Counterexamples: digital practices that sustain ritual\, contemplation and/or community
\n- The Crisis of Narration applied to fiction\, journalism or online culture
\n- The shitstorm/swarm as mode of digital communication
\n- Non-things: smartphones\, digital artworks\, e-books\, Instapoems\, text on screen more broadly
\n- The aesthetics of the smooth in art and design
\n- Generative AI and cultural production as technology of control (*Infocracy*\, *Non-Things*)
\n- Datafication&rsquo\;s assault on subjectivity
\n- The defence of love/eros in the achievement society
\n- Ritual and play as cultural practices under pressure
\n- Boredom\, contemplation and the *vita contemplativa* as manifested in cultural objects
\n- Shanzhai: copying and translation in globalised culture
\n- Han as a writer &ndash\; essayistic form\, brevity and/or readability as tactic
\n\n## How to submit
\n\nPlease send the following to by **Monday 18 January 2027**:
\n\n- an abstract of 250&ndash\;300 words\, including the title
\n- a brief bio-note of no more than 100 words
\n\nPapers should be given in English. There is no fee for attendance. For any questions\, please contact the organiser at .
\n \; ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270525T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20270526T170000 SUMMARY:Long-Term Developments in the History of Modern Science\, Philosophy\, and Culture UID:20261113T094603Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Andreas Vesaliusstraat 2\, Leuven\, Belgium\, 3000 DESCRIPTION:Recent decades have seen a remarkable expansion of research on modern thought across science\, philosophy\, and culture. Despite its great merits\, however\, this expansion has reinforced the tendency to focus on individual authors\, local contexts\, and the immediate reception of one author by another. As a result\, contemporary research rarely asks how developments that unfold across long temporal arcs&mdash\;sometimes spanning several generations\, sometimes crossing disciplinary boundaries&mdash\;can be understood. Reassessing these approaches as well as exploring new directions\, this cross-disciplinary conference addresses the question of how long-term developments in modern science\, philosophy\, and culture can be conceptualized. Which tools\, methods\, and models allow us to make sense of the ways in which conceptual\, scientific\, and cultural textual productions emerged\, persisted\, interacted\, transformed\, and dissolved across time? Which twentieth-century perspectives on long-term intellectual developments across the modern world can be transferred from one disciplinary context to another? By bringing together researchers from a range of disciplines&mdash\;e.g.\, history of science\, history of philosophy\, history\, history of ideas\, sociology\, anthropology\, and cultural studies&mdash\;the conference aims to stimulate dialogues on these and similar questions.
ORGANIZER;CN=Karin de Boer;CN=Arnaud Pelletier;CN=Shahab Vesali;CN=Marie Lauwers: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20270528T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20270529T170000 SUMMARY:Thomas Carlyle and the Twenty-First Century: Reexamining Carlyle Amid Political\, Economic\, Technological\, and Religious Change UID:20261113T094604Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Durham\, United States DESCRIPTION:Please submit an abstract of your paper of approximately 250&ndash\;300 words\, together with a brief biographical note\, to Brian Wolfel at Brian.Wolfel@unh.eduby January 10\, 2027.
\nProposals for individual papers\, panels\, roundtables\, and alternative formats are welcome. Individual papers will normally be 15 minutes in length.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20270623T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20270625T170000 SUMMARY:Hannah Arendt Circle 2027 UID:20261113T094605Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Paderborn\, Germany DESCRIPTION:The Hannah Arendt Circle will meet in person at Paderborn University\, Germany from June 23rd-June 25th 2027. Any and all interdisciplinary research relating to the life and work of Hannah Arendt is welcome for consideration.
\nWe invite submissions of abstracts (750 words) for presentation. The deadline for submission is December 11th. Please submit all abstracts to thehannaharendtcircle@gmail.com \; \;
\n\n** UPDATE: In 2027\, the Hannah Arendt Circle will be offering a student award to help defray travel and accommodation costs for currently enrolled graduate students (in any discipline). If you would like to be considered for this award\, please state this on your submission. If you have already submitted and would still like to be considered\, please send an email to that effect to \;thehannaharendtcircle@gmail.com \; \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20271021T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Tokyo:20271023T170000 SUMMARY:Scottish Philosophy Beyond the Canon UID:20261113T094606Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Asia/Tokyo LOCATION:3 Chome-10-2\, Mitaka-shi\, Japan\, 181-8585 DESCRIPTION:Much work has been done on the &ldquo\;canon&rdquo\; of Scottish philosophy\, the emblematic texts like Smith&rsquo\;s Wealth of Nations or Hume&rsquo\;s Treatise of Human Nature\, but the world of letters in 17th-\, 18th-\, and 19th-century Scotland included a vibrant mix of literary forms including pamphlets\, poems\, plays\, novels\, satires\, sermons\, and magazine articles\, as well as translations into and out of English\, and appropriations and reinterpretations of canonical literature. Papers on all topics related to Scottish philosophy are welcome\, but we especially invite papers relating to Scottish philosophy beyond the confines of the typical canon. The conference will also feature talks connected to the in-progress edited collection Reason and Revelation: Scottish Philosophy and Christian Theology\, with invited speakers: Bradford Bow (Aberdeen)\, Deborah Boyle (College of Charleston)\, Giovanni Gellera (Geneva)\, Eugene Heath (SUNY - New Paltz)\, and Tim Stuart-Buttle (York). Submit abstracts of 300-500 words as anonymized email attachment to: cssp@fordham.edu. Emails should contain author name(s)\, contact and affiliation\, and must be received by Feb. 1\, 2027. Authors will be notified by Feb. 28\, 2027. If accepted\, papers should be prepared for a 30-minute presentation.
ORGANIZER;CN=Center for the Study of Scottish Philosophy (cssp): METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20261109T221412Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20300531T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20300531T090000 SUMMARY:Phenomenologies of Religious Experience UID:20261113T094607Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:244d:cdff:fe82:b4b2%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This series invites proposals in classical phenomenology\, French phenomenology\, pre- and post-phenomenologies\, and in methodologies that bridge phenomenology and analytic philosophy. The relation between phenomenology and religious experience can be considered in a variety of modes: epistemic (phenomenology as a "rigorous science" of religious experience in Husserl's sense)\; ontic (phenomenology as a way to access the core motive\, or regulative ideal\, of religion)\; analogical (phenomenological experience as a secular version of religious experience)\; generalizing (religious experience turning into phenomenological experience when stripped from its dogmatic frame)\, etc. Proposals can take critical\, descriptive\, theoretical\, comparative\, historical\, or other approaches\, and they can focus on the interplay between religious or spiritual experience and assorted theoretical approaches\, or proceed from such experience towards building a new theory. In accord with Husserl&rsquo\;s original intent\, the series welcomes attempts to locate spiritual or religious experience within a broader theory of the sciences (Wissenschaftslehre) and to expand phenomenology towards transcendental philosophy and metaphysics.
The series covers five areas:
1) Clarifications of religious and spiritual experience\, its formal phenomenological research\, and its relationships to art\, textuality\, culture\, anthropology\, politics\, and comparative religion\;
2) Metaphysical extensions of the phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience\;
3) Existential and psychological analyses\, in different traditions\, of religious and spiritual experience\;
4) Theologies of religious experience\, with or beyond a specific focus on ritual and liturgy\, including liberation theologies\, feminist theologies\, theologies at the intersection of religious experience and race\, social status\, etc.\;
5) The phenomenology of religious and spiritual experience as applied to and/ or examined within medicine\, nursing\, and the health sciences and the natural and social sciences.
The series is published in cooperation with the Society for the Phenomenology of Religious Experience\, \;www.sophere.org.
Editors: \;Michael Barber (michael.barber@slu.edu)\, Peter Costello (PCOSTELL@providence.edu)\, Olga Louchakova-Schwartz (founding editor\, \;olouch@ucdavis.edu)\, and Martin Nitsche (nitsche@flu.cas.cz)
Advisory Board: \;Jason Alvis (University of Vienna)\, Angela Ales Bello (Pontifical Lateran University)\, Michel Bitbol (The French National Center for Scientific Research)\, Carla Canullo (University of Macerata)\, David Ciavatta (Ryerson University)\, Crina Gschwandtner (Fordham University)\, Neal DeRoo (The King&rsquo\;s University)\, Thomas Fuchs (University of Heidelberg)\, James G. Hart (University of Indiana)\, Richard Kearney (Boston College)\, Jeff McCurry (Duquesne University)\, Felix O&rsquo\;Murchadha (National University of Ireland\, Galway)\, Dermot Moran (Boston College)\, Tom Nenon (The University of Memphis)\, Ryōsuke Ōhashi (Universities of Kyoto and Osaka)\, Vincent Pastro (Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University and Aquinas Institute of Theology\, St Louis)\, Hans Rainer Sepp (Charles University)\, Michel Staudigl (University of Vienna)\, Claudia Welz (Aarhus University)
Staff editorial contact: \;Jana Hodges-Kluck (jhodges-kluck@rowman.com) \;