L&rsquo\;Università\; di Barcellona\, in collaborazione con il Seminario Internazionale di Studi Danteschi e la rivista Theory and Criticism of Literature and Arts\, organizza la giornata di studi L&rsquo\;ATTUALITÀ\; DELLA VITA NUOVA \;(Barcelona\, 22 maggio). L&rsquo\;incontro si svolgerà\; in presenza e in remoto\; per la partecipazione via Zoom è\; richiesta la prenotazione tramite il link fornito dopo la registrazione.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050912Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260528T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260529T170000 SUMMARY:Workshop on Meaning\, LLMs\, and Experience UID:20260522T075327Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Warburger Straße 100\, Paderborn\, Germany\, 33098 DESCRIPTION:Philosophers are increasingly interested in the status of \;meaning \;in contemporary artificial intelligence&mdash\;especially in Large Language Models (LLMs). This is true both for meaning in a broadly semantic sense (e.g.\, How should we analyze the meaningfulness of LLM outputs\, given that LLMs are not agents and presumably do not themselves mean or understand?)\, and in the broader normative or ethical sense of their meaning or significance in our lives and practices. In both cases\, little attention has thus far been paid to \;human experience \;as something that both presumably differentiates us from LLMs in meaning contexts\, and that is a central component of our meaningful engagement with them. \;
\nThe goal of this workshop is to bring together scholars for in-depth engagement of work in progress on these issues from a variety of traditions and perspectives in and adjacent to philosophy\, including analytic philosophy\, phenomenology\, history of philosophy\, science and technology studies\, and social theory. We are especially interested in work that makes connections between the semantic and ethical aspects of meaning in relation to experience and LLMs\, and work that engages more than one of the above-listed traditions and perspectives.
\nThe workshop will take place on \;28 and 29 May 2026 at Paderborn University (Paderborn\, Germany)\, a small historical German city about midway between Cologne and Hannover\, easily reachable from either major city (and either city&rsquo\;s airport) by train or car. Paderborn also has an airport that is served by Munich. \;
\nParticipants have been selected based on anonymized extended abstracts (program available below). Drafts of each work in progress will be made available to members of the workshop four weeks in advance. Workshop sessions will take the form of extended\, detailed discussions of each draft\, rather than formal presentations\, with the goal of helping authors to develop their work. There will also be ample time reserved for informal conversation. Others are welcome to attend the workshop as in-person auditors\; please email jacobrump[at]creighton.edu for access to the drafts. \;
\nThe workshop is organized in conjunction with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship of Jacob Rump\, guest researcher at Paderborn University for 2025 and 2026\, in collaboration with Paderborn philosophers Suzana Alpsancar and Sebastian Luft.
\n\;Inquiries may be directed to jacobrump[at]creighton.edu
ORGANIZER;CN=Jacob Rump;CN=Suzana Alpsancar;CN=Sebastian Luft: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050912Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260528T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260530T170000 SUMMARY:The Origins of Totalitarianism Today. From the Crises of Democracies to New Beginnings UID:20260522T075328Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Warburger Str. 100\, Paderborn\, Germany\, 33098 DESCRIPTION:When Hannah Arendt&rsquo\;s The Origins of Totalitarianism was first published in 1951\, it was widely hailed as the first work to offer a systematic conceptualization of the political catastrophe that had menaced European civilization in the preceding decades. The book continues to attract both academic and non-academic readership. In many ways\, The Origins is the epitome of the surge of interest towards the contemporary relevance of Arendt&rsquo\;s thinking. It is telling that in 2016\, following Donald Trump&rsquo\;s first election as president\, The Origins became an international bestseller once again. In the face of widespread fear that we are sliding into a new era of authoritarian rule\, if not totalitarianism proper\, understanding the origins and elements of what Arendt called &lsquo\;total domination&rsquo\; continues to be of foremost political importance and central to the democratic project.
\n75 years after the publication of The Origins\, this international and interdisciplinary conference will gather scholars from different fields of studies critically interested in the current relevance of her reflections in Arendt&rsquo\;s study of &ldquo\;the totalitarian phenomenon as occurring\, not on the moon\, but in the midst of human society.&rdquo\; Empirically and politically\, many different aspects of totalitarian domination she itemizes in this book continue to threaten democratic self-governance today\, sometimes in their already-known and sometimes in a novel guise. These threats include conspiracy theories\, ideology\, loneliness\, mass superfluity\, statelessness or the crisis of human rights\, and this list is far from being complete.
ORGANIZER;CN=Maria Robaszkiewicz;CN="Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260528T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260529T170000 SUMMARY:Varieties of Intuition in Early Phenomenology UID:20260522T075329Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Montréal\, Canada DESCRIPTION:The annual conference of the North American Society for Early Phenomenology will be held at the \;Université\; de Montré\;al\, \;May 28-29th. The keynote speakers are Maxime Doyon (UdeM) and Iris Laner (Mozarteum Salzburg). \; \; Conference Theme: \;Varieties of Intuition in Early Phenomenology: One of the most inspiring aspects of the early phenomenological movement was its expanded notion of intuition. Breaking from models centred on sense-data and concept-application\, early phenomenologists investigated diverse forms of intuitions as intentions of presence and absence\, immediacy and mediacy\, while also reconceiving the role of norms and values in sensory consciousness. In this way\, early phenomenologists offered new orientations for investigations of perception\, aesthetic contemplation\, imagination\, memory\, empathy\, and more. \;Relatedly\, this expansive intuitive register enabled them to produce rich descriptions of perceptual objects\, artworks\, fictional entities\, other minds\, essences\, laws\, and values. \;NASEP welcomes papers exploring the contribution of early phenomenologists to varieties of intuition and papers illustrating how these contributions have informed more recent approaches to philosophical investigations into sensory\, aesthetic consciousness\, broadly construed. \;We are particularly interested in papers that draw attention to thinkers and problems that have been historically neglected and/or underrepresented.
Abstracts should be \;400-600 \;words and include a short bibliography. Abstracts must be prepared for blind review and sent to patrick.eldridge@unb.ca \;
Deadline for submissions has been extended to \;March 6thand decisions will be sent out no later than \;March 16th.
Now celebrating its 15th anniversary\, the Aquinas Philosophy Workshop brings together renowned scholars from universities worldwide for lectures and discussions. Join us in Washington\, D.C. this May to explore Aquinas in the company of leading scholars and students! The theme for this year&rsquo\;s conference is &ldquo\;Aquinas on Act and Potency.&rdquo\; It is an exciting opportunity to do a deep dive into this important doctrine and its implications for a variety of different disciplines\, from metaphysics to politics. \; \;
\nFeatured Speakers:
\nProf. Gregory Doolan (The Catholic University of America)\, Prof. Matthew Minerd (Byzantine Catholic Seminary of Saints Cyril and Methodius)\, Prof. Jeffrey Brower (Purdue University)\, Prof. Jennifer Frey (University of Tulsa)\, Prof. Catherine Peters (Loyola Marymount University)\, Fr. Ambrose Little\, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260529T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Hong_Kong:20260531T170000 SUMMARY:Karl Popper in China UID:20260522T075331Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Asia/Hong_Kong LOCATION:HKUST\, Hong Kong\, Hong Kong DESCRIPTION:Karl Popper in China
\n29 - 31 May 2026\, HKUST
\nKeynote Speakers
Adam Chmielewski (University of Wroclaw)
Zhilin Zhang (Fudan University)
Organising Committee
Zaza Doborjginidze
Xiaotao Liu (co-chair)
Yafeng Shan (co-chair)
Qinyi Wang
Qiyue Zhang
Funder
The Karl Popper Charitable Trust
Conference Description
Karl Popper (1902-1994) is widely considered as one of the mostinfluential philosophers of science and one of the most prolific thinkers in the 20th century. His work heavily influenced the development of philosophy of science in China\, especially in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Many renown Chinese philosophers of science were first attracted to the field because of their reading of Popper. In 1987\, there was a conference on Popper's philosophy at Wuhan University\, sponsored by George Soros\, Popper's for er student. It featured talks by leading Popper scholars and philosophers of science (e.g. I n Hacking and Alan Musgrave) and leading Chinese philosophers (e.g. Fan Dainian and Jiang Tianji) at the time. The proceedings of the conference were published as an edited volume by Routledge in 1992. Recently there was a revival of interest in the work of KarlPopper in China. This conference aims to examine the influence of Popper&rsquo\;s work on the development of philosophy of science in China and assess and explore his legacy on contemporary philosophy of science in China.
Flyer
Submit an abstract (https://app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/80087/submitter) (Deadline: 5 March 2026)
Programme
Registration (Deadline: 29 April 2026)
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1979376924665
Contact
If you have any questions\, please contact Qiyue Zhang (qiyue.zhang@connect.ust.hk). .
Open Philosophy (https://www.degruyterbrill.com/opphil) invites submissions for the topical issue "Kant's Concept of Spontaneity and its Legacy in Later Theories of Subjectivity\," edited by Jessica Segesta (University of Palermo\, Italy) and Valentina Dafne De Vita (University of Halle-Wittenberg\, \;Germany).
\n
DESCRIPTION
Spontaneity is a pivotal concept in Kant&rsquo\;s critical philosophy\, shaping its theoretical\, practical\, and aesthetic dimensions. Yet\, although Kant himself identifies spontaneity as the transcendental element that defines both the knowing and acting subject\, he never fully addresses its broader implications. Instead\,spontaneity often operates as an unexamined presupposition within his system\, leaving key questions about its role largely unexplored\, especially regarding the determination of subjectivity.
In its preliminary definition\, Kantian spontaneity refers to an action arising from an internal principle\, independent of external sources or constraints. In this sense\, the notion of spontaneity closely aligns with the concept of &ldquo\;autonomy&rdquo\;. This initial and broad definition highlights Kant&rsquo\;s connection to both the Leibnizian and earlier Aristotelian accounts of spontaneity\, while also raising a critical question: Is such activity fully determined by a subject entirely aware of its sources\, or is it unintentional and involuntary? The question is whether the knowing and acting subject is unaware of this activity\, or if spontaneity is governed by the conscious intentions and will of the individual. Kant does not provide a clear or explicit resolution to this essential dilemma. Moreover\, it remains largely unclear whether spontaneity serves as a determining factor in the subject&rsquo\;s ontological status\, or if it merely represents a normative characteristic essential for self-recognition as subject in knowing and acting\, as well as in free aesthetic production.
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This special issue aims to explore the Kantian notion of spontaneity by investigating its origins\, focusing on its core aspects\,and examining its status across various areas of critical philosophy. The issue also aims to investigate the development of the concept of spontaneity in later philosophies\, with particular emphasis on modern and contemporary theories of subjectivity. This includes how Kantian spontaneity influenced later thinkers\,contributing to the formation of modern conceptions \; of subjectivity\, consciousness\, and action. Finally\, the issue welcomes contributions that address the relevance of this concept in contemporary debates\, particularly regarding topics such as artificial intelligence\, moral autonomy\, and the direct implications for epistemology and ontology.
Contributions may focuson\, but are not limitedto\, the following topics:
\nAuthors publishing their articles in the special issue will benefit from:
\n
HOW TO SUBMIT
Submissions will be collected by June 4\, 2026.
To submit an article for this special issue of Open Philosophy\, authors are asked to access the online submission system at http://www.editorialmanager.com/opphil/
Please choose: Kant's Concept of Spontaneity
\nBefore submission the authors should carefully read over the Instruction for Authors\, available at:
https://www.degruyter.com/publication/journal_key /OPPHIL/downloadAsset/
OPPHIL_Instruction%2 0for%20Authors.pdf
All contributions will undergo critical review before being accepted for publication.
\nFurther questions about this thematic issue can be addressed to Jessica Segesta
(jessica.segesta@unipa.it) or Valentina Dafne De Vita (valentina.de-vita@phil.uni-halle.de).
In case of technical problems with submission\, please contact
Assistant.Managing.Editor@degruyterbrill.com
Because Open Philosophy is published under an Open Access model\, as a rule\, publication costs should be covered by so-called Article Publishing Charges (APC)\, paid by authors\, their affiliated \;institutions\, funders\, or sponsors.
\nAll financial details can be discussed with OA Portfolio Manager\, Magdalena Skoneczna at:
magdalena.skoneczna@degruyterbrill.com
Find us on facebook:https://www.facebook.com/DGOpenPhilosophy
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260604T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260605T170000 SUMMARY:European Seminars of Philosophy of Education UID:20260522T075333Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:6 rue due Colonel Combes\, Paris\, France\, 75007 ORGANIZER;CN=Julian Culp;CN=Johannes Drerup: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260605T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260605T170000 SUMMARY:CRMEP Graduate Conference | Title: Reading Capital 60 Years On UID:20260522T075334Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:55-59 Penrhyn Road\, London\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:The publication of Reading Capital \;[Lire le capital] marked an event in the full philosophical sense of the term: at the same time a rupture and irreversible beginning. A collaborative\, seminary effort between multiple authors - convened by Louis Althusser - the text proposed a radical new reading of Das Kapital\, one that was intentionally partial and unorthodox\, and all the more productive for being so. Its almost immediate success within both domestic and international circles inaugurated a new tradition of philosophical thought under the banner of structural Marxism\, thematising notions such as symptomatic reading\, militant science\, structural causality and theoretical anti-humanism. The precocious seminary contributors invariably went on to become hugely influential forces themselves\, from Pierre Macherey\, Jacques Ranciere\, and Roger Esablet\, to the beloved\, one-time Professor at the CRMEP\, Etienne Balibar.
On the occasion of its 60-year anniversary\, this conference seeks to revisit the intellectual legacy of Reading Capital\, investigating its contemporary relevance\, as well as the polemics that have emerged since its publication. We thereby invite papers that critically reflect on this legacy\, drawing attention to the limits of the work as well as its unexplored potentials. We would also like to welcome papers that engage with \;Capital \;itself\, and the various other readings that have become canonised in the intervening decades. Papers will therefore be categorised into the following streams:
Conference Programme and Schedule
9:30 &ndash\; Arrival
10:00&ndash\;11:15am &ndash\; 1st Keynote \;
Svenja Bromberg (Sociology\, Goldsmiths College\, University of London)
&lsquo\;What becomes of &lsquo\;critique&rsquo\; after the epistemological break and the late Marx&rsquo\;s entrance to science? &mdash\; Marx&rsquo\;s method after and beyond Reading Capital&rsquo\;
Break: 11:15&ndash\;11:30
11:30&ndash\;1:00pm &ndash\; Panel 1: Reading Capital
This panel invites papers that directly engage with Marx&rsquo\;s \;Capital \;project as a critical text\, focusing on unresolved problems of interpretation\, translations\, intellectual histories\, lacunae and tensions\, and so on.
Cooper Francis (CRMEP Alumnus)
&lsquo\;The Structure of Exchange Society&rsquo\;
Nicole S. Monaghan (CRMEP MA)
&lsquo\;On the Concept of the Proletariat&rsquo\;
Billie Cashmore (CRMEP PhD)
&lsquo\;The Appearance of Value in Capital&rsquo\;
Lunch Break: 1:00pm&ndash\;2:00pm
2:00&ndash\;3:30m &ndash\; Panel 2: Reading Reading Capital
Readings of \;Reading Capital \;itself\, attending to thematics raised by one or more of its component texts\, the continuity/discontinuity of the project as a whole\, the resulting trajectories of its individual authors\, or the circumstances of its production and reception histories.
Felicia Jing (New School for Social Research/Johns Hopkins University)
&lsquo\;Science: from Munich to May&rsquo\;
Ralph Kalid (Concordia University)
&lsquo\;Althusser&rsquo\;s Critique(s) of Hegel and the Turn to Spinoza&rsquo\;
Michael Giesbrecht (Duquesne University)
&lsquo\;The Work of Concepts: Pierre Macherey on Marx&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;Process of Exposition&rdquo\; in Capital and Materialist Epistemology&rsquo\;
Break: 3:30&ndash\;3.45pm
3.45&ndash\;5:15pm &ndash\; Panel 3 : Reading readings of Capital
Finally\, readings of one or more of the various interpretative traditions to which \;Capital \;- and Marx&rsquo\;s wider corpus - have given rise\, evaluated in critical relation to structural Marxism. These could include\, but are not limited to: Postcolonial and feminist readings\, German Critical Theory\, the Neue-Marx Lekture\, Value-Form Theory\, Operaismo and Autonomia Operaia\, the &lsquo\;State debates&rsquo\;\, Legal Form Theory\, Political Marxism\, Social Reproduction Theory.
Thomas Waller &\; Sean O&rsquo\;Brien (UC Dublin\; University of Bristol)
&lsquo\;Marx to the Letter&rsquo\;
Anna Beria (CRMEP)
&lsquo\;Reading Capital and Reading Reading Capital Through the Concept of Life&rsquo\;
Daniel Fraser (UC Cork)
&lsquo\;Useful Angels: Marxist Modernity in Bolí\;var Echeverrí\;a and Walter Benjamin&rsquo\;
Break: 5:15&ndash\;5:30pm
5.30pm&ndash\;6:45pm &ndash\; Closing Keynote
Peter Hallward (Professor of Modern European Philosophy\, CRMEP)
&lsquo\;Must the Working Class Die so the Proletariat Can Live?&rsquo\;
6.45 &ndash\; End
Call for Contributions: Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity
\nKeynote Presenters: \;
\nAndrew Goffey (University of Nottingham)
\nBrigitte Hart (Sound artist\, Shortwave Collective)
\nWhen crisis becomes a permanent state rather than an exceptional rupture\, fragility assumes the form of an existential condition visible across social\, ecological\, and political domains. Under such circumstances\, the production of knowledge increasingly shifts toward anticipatory regimes&mdash\;risk modelling\, foresight studies\, and adaptive infrastructures designed to navigate instability. Contemporary problems appear as hybrid entities: complex issues that exceed the grasp of any single discipline and demand collaborative investigation capable of rendering them perceptible and registering fragile relations that cannot be stabilised or fixed.
\nIn this context\, the problem of disciplinarity&mdash\;of relations between disciplines and collaboration across them&mdash\;acquires renewed urgency. Contemporary ecological frameworks in the humanities further intensify this concern by grounding the crossing of boundaries in an existential condition. This expansion of the problematic invites a reconsideration of an older question: what do the prefixes inter-\, trans-\, non-\, or post- differentially signify when applied to disciplinarity? Which form of disciplinarity adequately captures our present condition?
\nWhile the laboratory has served as a central model&mdash\;a metonym for interdisciplinary collaboration\, anchoring the emergent mode of scientific praxis called &ldquo\;research&rdquo\;&mdash\;today research also unfolds across privately funded para-institutions\, hybrid platforms\, and transient project-based networks. However\, collaborations between artists and social theorists with natural scientists remain structurally asymmetrical: artistic practice is often reduced to the visualization of scientific data\, while social theory has long remained under pressure to imitate the methods of the hard sciences. In this context\, the symposium seeks to examine the tangible forms of contemporary cross-disciplinary collaboration and the conceptual frameworks that sustain them.
\nThe symposium approaches this question under the long shadow of post-1968 French philosophy\, whose insistence on the inherent intertwinement of politics and aesthetics continues to shape contemporary thought. As a guiding reference\, we take the framework developed by Bruno Latour\, approached here through the twin themes of \;fragility and the aesthetics of sensitivity. Latour may be seen as the synthetic inheritor of this philosophical trajectory\, insofar as his anthropology of laboratory science leads to a non-disciplinary\, transversal form of social ontology that immanently connects science\, aesthetics\, and politics. His model advances a form of collective pragmatism oriented toward the proposal of new entities for social existence&mdash\;entities defined relationally as fragile networks of attachments. Scientific instruments function as sensitive devices that inscribe and thereby render these entities visible\, thereby making them open to collective concern.
\nThe symposium is thus both a call for dialogue and an invitation to rethink disciplinarity under the increasingly urgent\, deteriorating\, and transitional conditions of the present. We are interested in contemporary artistic and theoretical practices\, particularly those that combine the two and critically reflect on their disciplinary\, institutional\, and methodological conditions. If\, as Fé\;lix Guattari reminds us\, &ldquo\;there is no general pedagogy relative to the constitution of a living transdisciplinarity\,&rdquo\; then where and how might such a transdisciplinarity be practiced today? \;
\nPossible contributions might focus on: \;
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nAbstract: \;max. 300 words
\nPresentation length: \;20 minutes \;with time reserved for discussion.
\nPlease send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note to: \; k2035920@kingston.ac.uk
\nDeadline for submissions: \;26 April 2026
Notification of acceptance: \;10 May 2026
The event is organised as a \;PhD student-led symposium supported by the Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260617T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260619T170000 SUMMARY:18th International Critical Theory Conference UID:20260522T075336Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Via Barberia 4\, Bologna\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Since 2007 every year we organize the international Critical Theory conference in different academic venues. These conferences usually gather between 110 and 150 speakers from all over the world from prestigious academic and non-academic institutions. Among the past keynoters we had the pleasure of hosting major scholars such as \;Deborah Cook\, Peter Dews\, \;Andrew Feenberg\, \;Rahel Jaeggi\, \;Martin Jay\, \;Stephan Lessenich\, \;Max Pensky\, Stefano Petrucciani and many others. \;
\nThe 2026 Conference will be hosted by Alma Mater Studiorum\, University of Bologna &ndash\; Department of the Arts (DAR) \, located in Via Barberia 4\, Bologna\, Italy. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260617T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260618T170000 SUMMARY:German Jewish Thought\, Critical Theory\, and the Global South UID:20260522T075337Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Lindenallee 39\, Essen\, Germany\, 45127 DESCRIPTION:What is missing in the histories of German Jewish thought and of Critical Theory is a sustained account of their relations to European imperialism and colonialism. This workshop asks how apparently non-systematic references irritate established meanings\, allowing the Global South to penetrate into European philosophical modernity.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260622T090000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School - Structure and Action: Psychoanalytic Theory Now UID:20260522T075338Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Australia/Melbourne LOCATION:Old Arts\, University of Melbourne\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3010 DESCRIPTION:The CRAM Critical Theory Winter School is an annual event that takes up a pressing topic confronting contemporary critical theory and philosophy. The 2026 Winter School\, taught by Sigi Jö\;ttkandt and Justin Clemens\, will interrogate the conditions of action within the structures of our contemporary situation.
\nThe relation of &lsquo\;Structure and action&rsquo\; is the most enduring of psychoanalytic preoccupations. Under what conditions\, asked Jacques Lacan\, do actions &ldquo\;give the lie&rdquo\; to the structures upon which they operate? How has such action been misrecognised in the past\, and to what extent must it remain so for the sake of the present? Whether thought in terms of continuity or break\, revelation or generation\, the psychoanalytic theory of how actions succeed existing structures and precede new ones presses urgent ethical\, epistemological\, and political questions. To pose the question of &lsquo\;psychoanalytic theory now\,&rsquo\; then\, necessitates a rigorous rearticulation of contemporary structures \;and \;the actions &ndash\; latent\, virtual\, as yet unnamed &ndash\; that would be capable of transforming them. For psychoanalysis\, the relation between structure and action is lived\, by the subject\, as the difference between repetition and transformation.
\nOur two instructors leading the 2026 CRAM Winter School are globally recognised for their scholarly and pedagogical responses to these questions. Sigi Jö\;ttkandt (UNSW) and Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne) will lead participants in a full week of immersive collaborative study and intensive discussion. Attendees will be offered a substantial programme of masterclasses\, reading groups\, public lectures\, and screenings designed to further the critical inquiry into the very structures and actions our instructors have spent their careers articulating.
\nWe especially encourage graduate students and early-career researchers to apply.
\nStructure:
Each participant will attend five 3-hour reading groups (reading packs will be supplied)\, two 2-hour masterclasses\, and two 1.5-hour public lectures throughout the week. In addition to this core program\, several optional activities will be scheduled.
Fees:
$120 student/unwaged
$180 waged
$300 waged with institutional support
Participants are responsible for independently organising their travel and accommodation.
\nHow to apply:
Please prepare a short statement giving detail of your current/previous education and the describing the relevance of the Winter School theme to your current research interests. Submit via the link at our webpage by 20 May. \;
Places are strictly limited. Successful applicants will be notified by 22 May.
Bursaries:
We are able to offer several travel bursaries of up to $500 to graduate students and scholars unable to access institutional funds travelling from overseas\, interstate\, or regional Victoria. Bursary recipients will also have their participation fee waived. Please indicate in your application whether you wish to be considered for a bursary.
Instructors:
Professor Justin Clemens works at the intersection of literary studies\, psychoanalysis and contemporary European philosophy. He has written extensively on figures such as Sigmund Freud\, Jacques Lacan\, Alain Badiou\, and Giorgio Agamben\, as well as on themes of technology\, slavery\, torture\, and love. Among his scholarly publications are \;Barron Field in New South Wales \;(2023)\, co-authored with Thomas H. Ford\, \;What is Education? \;(2017)\, edited with A.J. Bartlett\, and \;Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy \;(2013). In addition to his scholarly research\, he also publishes poetry and criticism.
Professor Sigi Jö\;ttkandt specialises in 19th and 20th century British and American literature\, Lacanian psychoanalysis\, and continental philosophy. She is the author of several books\, including most recently \;The Nabokov Effect: Reading in the Endgame\, and has published widely on such topics as Henry James\, Jacques Lacan\, Alain Badiou\, love\, aesthetics\, feminism\, and environmental philosophy. She is a founding Director of Open Humanities Press and edits \;S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique.
ORGANIZER;CN=Critical Research Association Melbourne (cram): METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260629T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260701T170000 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein and Ancient Philosophy UID:20260522T075339Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Athens LOCATION:Athens\, Greece DESCRIPTION:Call for papers open
\nWittgenstein and Ancient Philosophy \;(29.6&ndash\;1.7.2026 Athens\, Greece)
\nLudwig Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s relation to the history of ancient philosophy constitutes a riddle. Wittgenstein was certainly not a scholarly oriented philosopher\, who would have commented at large on classical works like Aristotle&rsquo\;s \;Metaphysics\, or entered disputes concerning their correct interpretation. On the other hand\, it is well known that Wittgenstein had read select classical philosophical authors and was deeply impressed by them: after all\, he started his \;Philosophical Investigations \;with a Latin quotation from St. Augustine&rsquo\;s \;Confessiones\, and he refers or alludes to Plato&rsquo\;s dialogues in many contexts (e.g. PI §\;46). Some manuscripts and typescripts contain further references to various ancient philosophers.
\nThe conference &ldquo\;Wittgenstein and Ancient Philosophy&rdquo\; invites scholars to discuss Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s relation to the heritage of ancient (Greek and Roman) philosophy. We invite contributions that explore the topic understood in a broad fashion. Possible themes include &ndash\; but are not limited to &ndash\; Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s references to ancient authors\; connections and parallels between Wittgenstein and early Greek philosophy\, Socrates\, Plato and Platonism\, Aristotle\, and Hellenistic and Roman schools of thought\; or classics of ancient philosophy revisited in the light of Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s insights (and vice versa). We are also open to promising papers that discuss Wittgenstein in relation to other genres of ancient Greek literature.
We welcome paper proposals for the conference. Abstracts up to 500 words should be submitted by email to \;wittgenstein@finninstitute.gr. Abstracts should include the author&rsquo\;s name\, affiliation\, contact information\, and the title of the paper. Accepted proposals will be given a presentation time of 40 minutes (25 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion).
The deadline for proposals is \;31 January 2026.
Notification of acceptance will be sent out by \;28 February 2026.
There is no conference fee. However\, selected speakers should be prepared to pay for their own travel and accommodation.
\nInvited keynote speakers:
James Conant (University of Chicago)
Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire)
Thomas Wallgren (University of Helsinki)
Organizing committee:
\nProf. Vasso Kindi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
\nDr. Lassi Jakola (Finnish Institute of Athens and University of Helsinki)
ORGANIZER;CN=Vasso Kindi;CN=Lassi Jakola: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260629T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260702T170000 SUMMARY:Levinas as Educator UID:20260522T075340Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Universiteto str. 9\, Vilnius\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:How to teach philosophy has always been one of philosophy&rsquo\;s central questions. \;In person\, in some sense\, but how precisely\, and why? The traditional answers usually rely on distinguishing between opinion and knowledge and aligning this epistemological distinction with an ontological-metaphysical distinction between appearance and reality: truth\, based in the real\, can be taught. \; Socrates\, seeking definition\, interrogated his interlocutors face-to-face\; Plato established an Academy and published Dialogues\; Aristotle set up a Lyceum and published his lectures. \;Levinas calls for a fundamental reorientation of intelligibility\, finding its source not in knowledge and being but in moral responsibility\, in ethics. \;Levinas\, throughout his adult life\, was a teacher\, from 1930 at a Jewish school in Paris through to the 1980s\, when\, after WWII\, he became Director of the same school\, and for fifteen years\, from 1961 to 1976\, he was also a French university professor. His life and thought are devoted to teaching as an integral part of ethics. &ldquo\;Teaching\,&rdquo\; Levinas wrote at the start of Totality and Infinity (1964)\, &ldquo\;is not reducible to maieutics\; it comes from the exterior and brings me more than I contain. \; In its non-violent transitivity\, the very epiphany of the face is produced.&rdquo\; \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260701T090000 SUMMARY:Interpreting the New Heidegger UID:20260522T075341Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:I am pleased to invite you to submit your work to a Special Issue of \;Philosophies \;focused on recently published texts by Martin Heidegger.
\nI welcome original research articles that focus on material published in the \;Gesamtausgabe \;in 2013 or later. The articles will familiarize readers who may not be Heidegger specialists with some of the newest available primary sources\, provide illuminating contexts and perspectives\, and open avenues for future research.
\nPlease see the link for further information.
\nRichard Polt\, Guest Editor
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260704T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260724T170000 SUMMARY:Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026: Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene UID:20260522T075342Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Città di Castello\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Call for applications: Deadline extended to March 1 2026
\nCollegium \;Phaenomenologicum \;2026: \;Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene
\nThe theme for the Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026 is climate philosophy in the anthropocene. \;Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities\, eco-politics\, climate justice\, climate affects\, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by climate change. Climate philosophy also rethinks climate\, partly in response to global heating\, as world in the phenomenological sense and as history and habitat of life on earth. The Capitalocene references the Anthropocene dominated by colonial capitalism and its uneven and ongoing histories. In the first week\, we will question\, in discussion with phenomenology and climate science\, how the temporal framing of climate change is narrated. The second week moves the focus to space by exploring\, principally in conversation with deconstruction and French philosophy more broadly\, how climate change alters the sense of world beyond globalization. The final week&rsquo\;s course draws on eco-marxism\, bio-politics\, and eco-feminism to propose a fundamental rethinking of the political at the end of the world.
\nThe Collegium runs from July 6th to 24th\, 2026\, preceded by the participants' conference on July \;4th and 5th. \;The deadline to apply has been extended to March 1\, 2026\, and \;we welcome applications from within philosophy and related disciplines concerned with the overarching theme. \;
\nFurther details of the topic and the lecturers\, abstracts for each of the three courses\, and application forms are available on the website at
\nhttps://collegiumphaenomenologicum.org/ \;
\nFor all enquiries contact:
\nMatthias Fritsch (director) \;matthias.fritsch@concordia.ca
\nRebecca van der Post (graduate assistant) \;graduateassistant2026@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Matthias Fritsch: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260710T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260710T170000 SUMMARY:Losing Oneself: Self-Alienation in Post-Kantianism and Beyond UID:20260522T075343Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:32 Russell Square\, London\, United Kingdom\, WC1B 5DN DESCRIPTION:Royal Holloway\, University of London and the London Post-Kantian Seminar host a one-day conference entitled &ldquo\;Losing Oneself: Self-Alienation in Post-Kantianism and Beyond&rdquo\;. The event receives funding from the Mind Association and Royal Holloway.
\nIt is among the most human and yet most dehumanizing experiences to lose oneself&mdash\;to suffer self-alienation. This can be brought on by everyday emotions like shame or guilt about a job done badly or a friend left hanging\; it can be a consequence of inhumane conditions of labour\; it can go along with traumatic or violent events\; and it can be a core experience of those going through persecution\, internment\, and civilizational collapse. Crucially\, even the mere reflection on oneself as human can engender self-alienation. The phenomenon of self-alienation thus has an array of aspects that range from the psychological via the social\, political\, existential\, and metaphysical\, to the aesthetic and literary.
\nIn modern times\, an important philosophical tradition that responds to this vulnerability of human life is post-Kantianism broadly construed: first taking center stage in Fichte\, Hegel\, and Marx\, the problem of self-alienation was further developed by Arendt\, the Frankfurt School\, and then post-Wittgensteinian authors like Cavell\, Diamond\, and Crary. The problem also reaches beyond post-Kantianism and is at the center of current debates in political philosophy\, philosophy of action\, feminism\, \;philosophy of gender\, \;aesthetics\, and the philosophy of epistemic injustice. This conference brings together authors from within and beyond the post-Kantian tradition\, as well as junior and senior researchers.
\nThe event is free and open to all! To register and for any inquiries please contact: jens.pier@rhul.ac.uk.
\nSpeakers and Respondents:
Benedict Blunt (Oxford) \;
Diana Craciun (UCL)
Lizzy Holt (UCL)
Thomas Khurana (Potsdam)
Quill Kukla (Georgetown/Hanover)
Spencer Alexandria Nabors (Georgetown)
Jens Pier (Royal Holloway)
Francey Russell (Barnard/Columbia)
James Ternent (Cambridge)
Mutatis Mutandis: Revista Internacional de Filosofí\;a (0917 - 4773) llama a enviar artí\;culos sobre fenomenologí\;a para el dossier "Antropologí\;as fenomenoló\;gicas y formas de lo humano". El editor invitado para este dossier es Francisco Novoa Rojas de la Universidad de la Santí\;sima Concepció\;n\, Chile.
\nEn el contexto de las transformaciones contemporá\;neas de la fenomenologí\;a\, la cuestió\;n de la antropologí\;a reaparece como un problema irreductible a definiciones esenciales\, tipologí\;as cerradas o modelos normativos del ser humano. Lejos de proponer una nueva definició\;n de lo humano\, las antropologí\;as fenomenoló\;gicas se sitú\;an en el nivel del fenó\;meno mismo\, allí\; donde la experiencia desplaza continuamente los intentos de clausura conceptual.
\nDesde Husserl hasta las fenomenologí\;as contemporá\;neas\, el ser humano se manifiesta no como una esencia fija\, sino como un modo de aparecer que se da en el mundo\, en el cuerpo\, en la afectividad\, en la relació\;n con el otro\, en la finitud\, en la historicidad y en la apertura a lo que lo excede. En este sentido\, el fenó\;meno humano obliga a pensar una antropologí\;a sin esencializació\;n\, atenta a la donació\;n\, al acontecimiento\, a la pasividad originaria\, a la exposició\;n y a la distancia que el sujeto mantiene consigo mismo.
\nEste dossier invita a recibir artí\;culos que aborden crí\;ticamente las antropologí\;as fenomenoló\;gicas\, entendidas como intentos de pensar lo humano a partir de su modo de aparecer y no desde una definició\;n previa. Interesa particularmente explorar có\;mo el fenó\;meno humano desborda el horizonte clá\;sico de la antropologí\;a filosó\;fica y abre posibilidades para comprender al ser humano como alguien que se da a sí\; mismo en el encuentro\, que se constituye en la relació\;n\, que se descubre arrojado\, afectado\, expuesto\, llamado o recibido.
\nSe esperan contribuciones que dialoguen\, entre otros\, con problemas como:
\nLos artí\;culos pueden dialogar con autores clá\;sicos y contemporá\;neos de la tradició\;n fenomenoló\;gica\, tales como Husserl\, Scheler\, Stein\, Plessner\, Gehlen\, Heidegger\, Merleau-Ponty\, Levinas\, Marcel\, Ric&oelig\;ur\, Henry\, Marion\, Dastur\, Falque\, Lacoste\, Waldenfels\, Serban\, Depraz\, Mensch\, Zahavi\, entre otros\, así\; como con debates actuales en torno a la posibilidad misma de una antropologí\;a fenomenoló\;gica.
\nLos trabajos deben ajustarse estrictamente a sus normas editoriales y lineamientos de presentació\;n\, citació\;n y evaluació\;n disponibles en https://revistamutatismutandis.com/index.php/mutatismutandis/normas
\nPlazo má\;ximo para enviar el artí\;culo completo 10 de julio de 2026.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260723T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260729T170000 SUMMARY:Edith Stein Sommerakademie 2026: Postfaktisch? Über die Zukunft der Wahrheit UID:20260522T075345Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Teresianum\, Piazza di San Pancrazio 5A\, Roma\, Italy\, I-00152 DESCRIPTION:Die Sommerakademie wird folgende Themen behandeln:
\nEdith Stein widmet sich intensiv dem Studium von Wahrheit. Wir werden uns somit nicht nur mit den Werken Edith Steins beschä\;ftigen\, sondern uns vielmehr wie sie und in ihrem Geist die fundamentale Frage nach Wahrheit aus biblischer\, theologischer\, philosophischer\, anthropologischer und spiritueller Perspektive stellen.
\nDie Sommerakademie mö\;chte grundlegende Fragen des christlichen Lebens wissenschaftlich erö\;rtern. Dieses Jahr soll ganz der Frage nach Wahrheit gewidmet sein. Die Sommerakademie richtet sich hauptsä\;chlich an junge Menschen unter 35 Jahren\, ist jedoch auch fü\;r Teilnehmer auß\;erhalb dieser Altersgruppe offen. Bei begrenzter Kapazitä\;t haben junge Menschen Vorrang.
\nWahrheit. Fü\;r immer verloren?
\nProf. Dr. Tonke Dennebaum\, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitä\;t Mainz
\n
Kann man heute noch von &bdquo\;Wahrheit&ldquo\; sprechen? Zeigen nicht Philosophie und Naturwissen-schaft\, dass wir davon lieber die Hä\;nde lassen sollten? Und doch ist die Sehnsucht nach Wahrheit heute groß\; &ndash\; aber auch verfü\;hrerisch und vielleicht sogar gefä\;hrlich. Wie also kann ein Bekenntnis zur Wahrheit aussehen\, das klar und eindeutig ist\, und zugleich den Heraus-forderungen der pluralen Welt gerecht wird?
Zur Beziehung von Werterkenntnis und personaler Verwirklichung bei Scheler und Stein
\nDr. Monika Adamczyk-Enriquez\, Edith-Stein-Archiv zu Kö\;ln\, Ignatianum Universitä\;t in Krakau
\n
Max Scheler\, einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der philosophischen Axiologie im 20. Jahrhundert\, entwickelte eine grundlegende Beschreibung von Werten und ihrer Hierarchie und betonte dabei ihren idealen Charakter. Zugleich zeigte er die erkenntniserschließ\;ende Rolle des Fü\;hlens und der personalen Akte fü\;r die Erfassung von Werten auf.
Edith Stein greift Schelers Ansatz auf\, verschiebt jedoch den Akzent. Wä\;hrend bei Scheler die Beziehung zwischen Person und Werten primä\;r in einer erkenntnistheoretischen Perspektive erscheint\, richtet Stein den Blick stä\;rker auf die Person selbst als Ort der Aneignung und Verwirklichung von Werten. Ihr Interesse gilt der inneren Struktur der Person\, der Verantwortlichkeit sowie den Bedingungen personaler Reifung und Entwicklung. Die Teilnehmenden erhalten einen Einblick in die Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede beider Ansä\;tze und werden eingeladen\, darü\;ber nachzudenken\, wie Werte im eigenen Leben erkannt\, angeeignet und verwirklicht werden kö\;nnen.
Schö\;nheit und Wahrheit - umstrittene Werte in Philosophie und Kunst
Dr. Pia Lilienstein\, Universitä\;t Erlangen-Nü\;rnberg
\n
Rom gilt als Geburtsstä\;tte des Barock\, jener Kunstepoche\, die Schö\;nheit dynamischer\, intensiver\, sinnlicher und dramatischer als je zuvor inszenierte und die die christliche Weltanschauung und Offenbarung in eindrucksvolle Kunstwerke ü\;bersetzte. Die Kü\;nstlerinnen und Kü\;nstler um 1900 brachen vehementer noch als diejenigen des 19. Jahrhunderts mit dieser Kunst- und Bildauffassung. Friedrich Nietzsche z.B. rebellierte gegen die platonische Trias des Guten\, Wahren und Schö\;nen und schrieb &bdquo\;Die Wahrheit ist hä\;sslich: Wir haben die Kunst\, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zu Grunde gehen&ldquo\;. Edith Stein\, als Zeitgenossin der Klassischen Moderne hingegen schrieb an Roman Ingarden\, dass sie es im Leben mit der Kultur und in der Kunst mit der Schö\;nheit hielte und in beidem die Harmonie suche\, also im Grunde das Ordnende\, Erhabene und Transzendente. \;
Der moderne Zweifel am Wert der Schö\;nheit und an der Wahrheit von Bildern wird mit den digitalen Sehgewohnheiten und dem Bildmedium der KI-generierten Bilderwelten zu einer Selbstverstä\;ndlichkeit. Gleichzeitig schä\;rft sich in der Kunst das Bewusstsein fü\;r den Wert leiblicher Wahrnehmungen und ä\;sthetischer Erfahrungen als Erkenntniszugä\;nge. Der Rü\;ckblick in vergangene Kunstepochen und ein Vergleich von Edith Stein mit Kü\;nstlerinnen ihrer Generation kö\;nnte interessante Impuls fü\;r das aktuelle Nachdenken ü\;ber diese Fragen geben.
Neben dem philosophisch-kunsthistorischen Teil soll es auch die Gelegenheit geben\, gemeinsam die durch Architektur und kü\;nstlerischen Inszenierung verdichtete\, ä\;sthetisch-spirituelle Atmosphä\;re eines barocken Kirchenbau zu erkunden.
Wahrheit in der Technik\, Wirtschaft und Produktinnovation
Prof. Dr. Sarah Spiekermann-Hoff\, Department fü\;r Wirtschaftsinformatik und Operations Management der Wirtschaftsuniversitä\;t Wien
\n
Welchen Beitrag kann die materiale Wertethik (Scheler\, Hartmann) und Wahrnehmungspsychologie (Fuchs) zum Thema "Wahrheit in der Technik\, Wirtschaft und Produktinnovation&ldquo\; leisten? An diesem Tag geht es zunä\;chst um die Art\, wie Schelers materiale Wertethik in ein &bdquo\;Value-based Engineering&ldquo\; fü\;r IT und KI Produkte ü\;bersetzt worden ist. Hier wird die philosophische Wertontologie fü\;r IT Design vorgestellt\, wie sie heute im ISO-Standard 24748-7000 verankert ist und weltweit genutzt wird. Ein kleiner IT Design Workshop rahmt diesen Teil ein. Ferner wird das Theme Werte in der Ö\;konomie besprochen und wie ein Wertverstä\;ndnis im Sinne Schelers fundamental abweicht zu dem\, was wir heute in der Ö\;konomie als Wert begreifen.
Der Einfluss der Psyche auf die Umsetzung von Werthaltungen
Prim. Dr. David Oberreiter MBA\, Institut fü\;r Psychotherapie des Kepler Universitä\;tsklinikums Linz
\nInnerpsychische Vorgä\;nge beeinflussen einerseits das Erkennen von Werten als auch die Fä\;higkeit\, jene Werte zu verwirklichen. Es gibt psychische Zustä\;nde\, die es erschweren oder gar unmö\;glich machen\, Wahrheiten zu erkennen und sich gemä\;ß\; diesen zu verhalten. Andere psychische Aspekte hingegen sind fö\;rderlich fü\;r die Verwirklichung von Werten. Begü\;nstigende psychischen Faktoren sollten im Fokus der eigenen Entwicklung stehen.
\nWeitere Informationen\, einschließ\;lich Teilnahmegebü\;hren und Unterkunftsmö\;glichkeiten\, finden Sie unter:
ORGANIZER;CN=Joshua Roe: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260827T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260830T170000 SUMMARY:EAJS2026\, the 18th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies ヨーロッパ日本研究協会 (EAJS) UID:20260522T075346Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Poznań\, Poland DESCRIPTION:https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/eajs2026/paper/101689
\nhttps://research.berkeley.edu/surf-fellows/jiaqian-zhu/
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260828T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260828T103000 SUMMARY:'Here and There:' Food\, Safety and Community in Contemporary Performance Art 「あちらとこちら」：現代パフォーマンス・アートにおける食、安全、そしてコミュニティ UID:20260522T075347Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Poznań\, Poland DESCRIPTION:https://coolhunting.com/link-about-it/does-this-soup-taste-ambivalent/
\nhttps://dajf.org.uk/event/the-art-of-soup-a-taste-of-fukushima
\nhttps://ocula.com/magazine/conversations/ei-arakawa-frieze-presentation/
\nhttps://nomadit.co.uk/conference/eajs2026/paper/101689
\nhttps://research.berkeley.edu/surf-fellows/jiaqian-zhu/
\nhttps://nomadit.co.uk/conference/eajs2026/pp/101689
\nPaper short abstract In the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami\, artists attempt to explore ways to present the motif of &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\; beyond geographic confinement&mdash\;beyond Japan. Given restricted access to the nuclear zone\, how do artists respond to &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\; without direct physical proximity to Fukushima? Paper long abstract
\nIn the wake of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami\, artists attempt to explore ways to present the motif of &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\; beyond geographic confinement&mdash\;beyond Japan. Given restricted access to the nuclear zone\, how do artists respond to &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\; without direct physical proximity to Fukushima? How do overseas Japanese artists represent what took place back in their homeland? How do people outside Japan gain the access to experience and respond to &ldquo\;3/11&rdquo\;? To grapple with this representational dilemma of &ldquo\;here and there\,&rdquo\; this paper looks at the performance art of the contemporary Japanese artist Ei Arakawa&mdash\;Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent? (2014). In this conceptual project\, he attempted to mediate a geographic gap between New York (where he works) and Fukushima (where he comes from). He also intended to reach a geographical balance between Fukushima and the international audience by bringing his family to Frieze London. In dialogue with Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent?\, this paper brings comparative examples of Rirkrit Tiravanija&rsquo\;s installation Untitled (Free/Still) (2007) and the socially engaged art piece Conflict Kitchen (2010). This paper attempts to extend the metaphor of a geographic boundary to invisible yet crucial boundaries among people\, and to further spatialize what Nicolas Bourriaud regards as relational aesthetics. Visual representations of &ldquo\;here and there&rdquo\; can thus be thematically translated into a rendering of boundaries between artists and spectators/participants\, between social environment and human beings and between different ethnic groups. Moreover\, this paper examines the instrumental role of food in performance art. With the same incorporation of food\, these works take advantage of the taste to unite people from different backgrounds\, and to provide a corporeal medium to raise concerns for nuclear radiation and safety. The remediation of food\, in art practice and social media\, further produces a micro-social and micro-political narrative to think of food safety\, human safety\, and community conflicts.
\nAbstract in Japanese (if needed): 「あちらとこちら」：現代パフォーマンス・アートにおける食、安全、そしてコミュニティ 要旨では、2011年の東日本大震災と津波のあと、アーティストたちが 「3/11」を日本の外でどう表現するか を考える研究だと説明されています。特に、福島に直接近づけない状況で、アーティストはどう反応するのか、海外にいる日本人アーティストは故郷で起きたことをどう表すのか、日本の外にいる人はどうやってその出来事に触れ、応答するのか、という問いが立てられています。中心事例として扱われるのは、Ei Arakawa の Does This Soup Taste Ambivalent? (2014) です。要旨によれば、この作品は ニューヨークと福島の地理的な隔たりを媒介しようとした企画として読まれています。比較される例として、Rirkrit Tiravanija の Untitled (Free/Still) (2007) と、社会参加型アートの Conflict Kitchen (2010) も挙げられています。福島の出来事を、食べ物を使ったアートで世界の人にどう伝えるかを考える発表です。 そして、食べ物は人をつなぐだけでなく、安全や不安、社会の対立について考えさせる力を持つ、というのがポイントです。
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260901T234500 SUMMARY:Kantian Journal. Special Issue "Immanuel Kant on Jesus Christ and Christianity" UID:20260522T075348Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Kant&rsquo\;s attitude toward Jesus Christ and Christianity has received little attention in contemporary Kant studies. Among studies of Kant&rsquo\;s philosophy of religion today\, as for a long time before\, the leading topics include the critique of the proofs for the existence of God and its influence on the subsequent development of theology\, the moral religion of reason and its specific features\, ethical-theology\, the concept of the highest good\, philosophical theology and its tasks\, theodicy\, and the concept of radical evil. Meanwhile\, more specific issues of Kant&rsquo\;s interpretation of the dogmas fundamental to the Christian faith are overlooked by contemporary researchers. This is also true for the dogma of the God-manhood of Jesus Christ\, his resurrection\, and ascension\, which are equally important for all Christian denominations. However\, in Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason\, Kant devotes an entire section to Jesus Christ and the &ldquo\;ideal of a humanity well-pleasing to God&rdquo\; which has been incarnated by Him (AA 6\, pp. 60&ndash\;78). The God-manhood of Jesus Christ\, his resurrection\, and ascension are also discussed in The Conflict of the Faculties (AA 7\, pp. 38&ndash\;39). The ideal of &ldquo\;perfect humanity&rdquo\; is also discussed in the Critique of Pure Reason (B 596 / A 568). So\, what role does Jesus Christ play in Kant&rsquo\;s philosophy? How far does Kant&rsquo\;s interpretation of His God-manhood depart from the traditional Christian understanding\, and how does it relate to the interpretations of this dogma that were common among Enlightenment theologians? Is faith in Jesus Christ as the God-man\, his resurrection\, and ascension truly essential for Christianity\, or is it perfectly conceivable\, according to Kant\, without it? And can Kant&rsquo\;s moral religion exist without relying on Jesus Christ as the ideal of humanity well-pleasing to God? These and related issues are to be examined in the special issue &ldquo\;Immanuel Kant on Jesus Christ and Christianity&rdquo\;.
\nGuest Editor &ndash\; Prof. Dr Ludmila Kryshtop
The issue (Kantian Journal\, Vol. 46\, No. 1) will be published by the end of March 2027.
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:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261029T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20261030T170000 SUMMARY:Melancholic historicity: lost pasts and past losses UID:20260522T075350Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Utrecht\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:Melancholic historicity: lost pasts and past losses
\nOrganizers: Katherina Kinzel and Robert Vinkesteijn
\nUtrecht University\, 29+30 October 2026
\nRecent reconceptualizations of historicity&mdash\;most notably in the work of Walter Benjamin and related thinkers&mdash\;have challenged the modern ideal of progress by foregrounding historical experiences of loss and destruction. These approaches question the assumption that history unfolds as a continuous movement in which past suffering is redeemed by future advancement. Instead of viewing the past as dead or completed\, they envision the past as a site of continuous unease and questioning within the present. Forgotten\, suppressed\, or destroyed pasts unsettle present self-understandings and expose their complicity in the ongoing reproduction of loss. \;
\nThis conference explores the question what a &ldquo\;melancholic&rdquo\; conception of historicity that is oriented around experiences of loss\, destruction and defeat looks like. What does it mean to think historically from a standpoint that refuses to forget or &ldquo\;accept&rdquo\; historical losses\, that interrupts linear temporality and breaks with the perpetuation of historical violence in the present. What is the political valence of different attempts at confronting historical loss? What constitutes a philosophically fruitful attitude to lost pasts (the pasts that have been forgotten or suppressed) and past losses (past experiences of loss\, injustice and defeat) that are haunting the present?
\nThis conference brings together \;critical approaches to the philosophy of history\, postcolonial perspectives on loss\, \;theoretical reflections on displacement and genocide\, accounts of ecological loss and destruction and psychoanalytic discussions of (historical) mourning and melancholia.
\nIf you would like to contribute as a speaker\, please send an abstract of maximum 500 words to r.w.vinkesteijn@uu.nl\, the deadline for abstracts is Saturday 28 February 2026. If you have further questions about the scope and topic of this conference\, do not hesitate to get in touch.
ORGANIZER;CN=Katherina Kinzel: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261124T090000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Sydney:20261124T170000 SUMMARY:Reading philosophies of nature and beauty: close reading as method in the history of philosophy UID:20260522T075351Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Australia/Sydney LOCATION:Paramatta Rd\, Camperdown NSW\, Sydney\, Australia\, 2006 DESCRIPTION:Graduate students and early career researchers are invited to submit expressions of interest for &ldquo\;Reading philosophies of nature and beauty: close reading as method in the history of philosophy&rdquo\;\, a masterclass and workshop taking place at the University of Sydney on Tuesday 24 November 2026.
\nOverview
\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.
\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:
\nLocation:
\nThe event will take place in-person only at the University of Sydney.
\nEligibility:
\nBoth the masterclass and workshop are open to ECRs and graduate students working on underrepresented figures in the history of philosophy\, with a particular interest in scholars working on philosophies of nature\, beauty\, aesthetic theory or environmental ethics and aesthetics\, broadly construed. Participants are invited to submit a 150-200 word abstract for a talk showcasing their work\, and focusing on the textual practices that inform their historical and philosophical research. Speakers are encouraged to conduct a guided close reading of a short passage as part of their presentation. \;
\n(ECR is defined as up to five years post-PhD\, and up to seven years with career interruptions. Career interruptions include childcare\, working out of academia\, prolonged uncertain and casual work within academia.)
\nExpressions of Interest:
\nIf you wish to present at the workshop\, please submit an abstract with your EOI at the link below. Please also fill out the EOI if you wish to simply attend. Abstracts are due 1st of June 2026. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Campbell Rider: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260520T050913Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20300531T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20300531T090000 SUMMARY:Phenomenologies of Religious Experience UID:20260522T075352Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq 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) \;