INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
\nRe-examining AI / Rethinking Modernity
\nCritical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology
\nCorfu\, 22-23 October 2026
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\nConference scope
\nIn recent years\, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed multiple sectors\, from healthcare and finance to education and entertainment. However\, amidst the excitement surrounding these technological developments\, it is essential to critically revisit the philosophical foundations of this plural technology and\, on this basis\, examine the societal\, ethical\, political\, economic\, and ecological challenges it presents. This conference focuses primarily on this foundational dimension and\, through such critique\, seeks to offer a deeper perspective on the notions\, assumptions\, and frameworks of modernity at large. Which modern understandings of nature\, the human\, intelligence\, imagination\, the body\, the mind\, or reason were taken for granted in the development of what is now called &ldquo\;Artificial Intelligence&rdquo\;? Have these onto-epistemological foundations proved adequate\, or have they produced problems that become visible today through the socio-political\, economic\, and ecological crises associated with AI? Also\, an anthropological lens is crucial here\, as AI exposes how culturally situated\, rather than universal\, the modern Western assumptions about the human\, reason\, and technological agency have always been. \;By bringing these foundations into dialogue with alternative anthropologies\, including non-Western and Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies\, the conference also seeks to rethink entrenched West/East divides that structure contemporary imaginaries of both "intelligence" and technological "progress".
\nWhile we wish to approach AI with a critical lens\, this conference is not grounded in technophobia or anti-AI sentiment. We recognize the transformative reality and potential of AI but we don&rsquo\;t align with neo-Luddite efforts to &ldquo\;destroy&rdquo\; or reject this technology altogether. Instead\, our aim is to foster a constructive dialogue that acknowledges AI&rsquo\;s profound influence on our lives while addressing its underlying ontological and epistemological challenges. By bringing together scholars\, researchers\, and practitioners from diverse fields\, this conference seeks to refine our understanding of AI while also identifying flaws within our current phase of modernity that become visible through the global impact of this technology.
\nCall for papers
\nIn this context\, we invite scholars\, researchers\, and thinkers to contribute to a critical examination of Artificial Intelligence in all its forms at our upcoming Critical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology international conference.
\nWe are particularly interested in papers that interrogate (but are not limited to) the following areas:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophical and Ontological Foundations of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Alternative ontologies and/or epistemologies that can either stand as foundations for (a different) AI or critique current AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; AI and Modernity (drawing lines between modern thinkers and contemporary AI).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Socio-Political\, Economic\, and Ecological Implications based on elements of AI that stem from ideas rooted in modernity).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Epistemology and Knowledge Production in the Age of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Constructive Critique Beyond Technophobia (grounded in renewed modern theories -Critical Theory\, Phenomenology\, Anthropology of Technology\, Bergsonian Vitalism\, etc.- or in thinkers who were previously overlooked or not typically associated with AI).
\nThis conference focuses on theoretical approaches to Artificial Intelligence and in this context\, we welcome contributions from a range of fields\, including philosophy\, anthropology\, sociology\, media studies\, and cultural theory\, but despite its theoretical orientation\, the conference also welcomes technical approaches\, as well as contributions from computer engineers\, code developers\, and other branches of informatics\, provided these approaches are situated within the broader philosophical roots of AI. Our aim is to cultivate a space for critical engagement with AI\, which\, while informed by its technical foundations\, transcends the hype and focuses on the onto-political impacts of this field of study and technology.
\nKeynote Speakers
\nAgostino Cera\, Associate Professor\, Humanities Department\, University of Ferrara
\nMore Keynote Speakers tba)
\nConference Language
\nEnglish
\nAbstract submission
\nYou are kindly requested to send both your abstract (max. 300 words) and a short CV (max. 150 words) in one .doc file at: \;aicene.research@gmail.com
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\nImportant Dates
\nAbstract submission deadline: June 15\, 2026
\nAbstract acceptance notification: July 31\, 2026
\nConference Program: September 2026
\nScientific Committee
\nFotini Vaki\, Associate Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nKonstantinos Aggelakos\, Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nAnna Apostolidou\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nGiannis Perperidis\, Adjunct Lecturer\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nOrganizers
\nPolitical Philosophy and Digital Technologies Laboratory\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University\, Greece.
\nResearch Project &ldquo\;A(I)nthropology during the Anthropocene: Hybrid research and creative pedagogy at the limits of the human&rdquo\;\, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2025-2028).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260615T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260615T234500 SUMMARY:Technology Ethics in Turbulent Times UID:20260615T031425Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Hoge Steeg 2\, Wageningen\, Netherlands\, 6708 PH DESCRIPTION:The international conference on "Technology Ethics in Turbulent Times. Expanding the Moral Agenda for Transformation" will take place from November 4th to November 6th 2026 at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands. \;
\n
About the conference topic
What do philosophy and ethics of technology mean in turbulent times?
\nThe impact of new technological developments in domains such as artificial intelligence\, synthetic biology\, and quantum technologies is enormous and interconnected with global challenges such as climate change\, authoritarianism\, and geopolitical tensions. Such times demand targeted philosophical and ethical inquiry\, which is the aim of the international conference Technology Ethics in Turbulent Times.
\nWhether your work concerns conceptual analysis\, philosophical methods for studying and evaluating technology\, case-studies in the ethics of (disruptive) technologies\, sustainable technology\, praxis-oriented approaches geared towards design and social implications\, or another related topic: We welcome you to submit an abstract or participate!
\n
Keynote speakers:
Prof. Dr. Soraj Hongladarom (Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University)
Prof. Dr. Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem (University of Pretoria)
Prof. Dr. Catriona McKinnon (University of Exeter)
More information about our keynote speakers can be found here https://www.esdit.nl/conference-2026/programme/
Submissions:
The conference will be structured around 6 thematic tracks. A track may consist of various submission types (single papers\, panels\, and sessions). Details about the various submission types can be found here https://www.esdit.nl/conference-2026/call-for-papers/ Please note: Being part of a special conference track is not a condition for being accepted.
You can find descriptions of the tracks by navigating to the website and clicking on the track titles https://www.esdit.nl/conference-2026/call-for-papers/
\nThe submission deadline \;is June 15\, 2026\, 23:59 CET. This willbe the final deadline. Notes of acceptance will be sent before 1 July 2026.
The conference is organized by the
We look forward to receiving your submissions \;by June 15\, 2026.
ORGANIZER;CN=Mariska Bosschaert: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260617T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260618T170000 SUMMARY:German Jewish Thought\, Critical Theory\, and the Global South UID:20260615T031426Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm 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:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260622T090000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:Melbourne Critical Theory Winter School - Structure and Action: Psychoanalytic Theory Now UID:20260615T031427Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm 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:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Taipei:20260625T083000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Taipei:20260625T170000 SUMMARY:ICIC 2026 - Seventy Years Forward: Liberal Learning for a Changing World UID:20260615T031428Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Asia/Taipei LOCATION:Taichung\, Taiwan DESCRIPTION:ICIC 2026: Seventy Years Forward: Liberal Learning for a Changing World
\nJune 25\, 2026\, Tunghai University\, Taichung\, Taiwan
\nAs Tunghai University approaches its seventieth anniversary\, the International College invites scholars who teach and conduct research in English to share work that reflects the breadth and diversity of academic inquiry within English-medium higher education. We place particular emphasis on scholars teaching in non-English-dominant contexts\, such as international colleges\, where English functions as a shared academic language across linguistic\, cultural\, and disciplinary boundaries.
\nInternational colleges occupy a distinctive position within higher education: multilingual in practice\, globally oriented in outlook\, and committed to both academic breadth and professional preparation. These environments raise important questions about how liberal learning is pursued\, communicated in such contexts. ICIC 2026 provides a forum for exploring these questions indirectly\, through the presentation of diverse research and teaching-related work across disciplines.
\nIn this spirit\, ICIC 2026 welcomes submissions from all academic fields. Submissions need not address the conference theme directly\; rather\, the conference highlights how the full range of scholarly work conducted in English-medium\, internationally oriented settings contributes to liberal learning in an increasingly interconnected world.
\nSubmissions
\nSubmissions can be made using this form\, also accessible via the ICIC website: www.icic.thu.edu.tw.
\nPresenters should submit a title and 300-word abstract.
\nThe deadline for submissions is May 5. Acceptance decisions will be communicated by late May.
\nConference Support
\nFunding permitting\, we anticipate being able to provide two nights of accommodation\, high speed rail tickets from Taoyuan International Airport to Taichung\, and a modest per diem\, for a limited number of participants.
ORGANIZER;CN=Michael Hemmingsen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260706T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20260706T090000 SUMMARY:Inheriting Ordinary Language Philosophy UID:20260615T031429Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Universiteto g. 9\, Vilnius\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in so-called ordinary language philosophy &ndash\; one of the main traditions in 20th century analytic philosophy. The conference will contribute to this renewed engagement by examining the legacy and contemporary significance of the tradition and its leading representatives. At the same time\, the conference aims at critically examining the idea of an ordinary language philosophy tradition itself. The thinkers typically grouped under this label differ substantially in philosophical outlook and method. Assessing the depth and significance of these differences raises broader questions about how unified the tradition really is. Is the current resurgence best understood as the continuation of a shared philosophical approach\, or does it instead consist of diverse and sometimes competing attempts to draw on different elements of this legacy? By addressing these questions\, the conference will both clarify the historical significance of ordinary language philosophy and assess the prospects for its contemporary revival.
\nKeynote speakers
\nAvner Baz (Tufts University)
\nBenjamin De Mesel (KU Leuven)
\nHans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich)
\nMartin Gustafsson (Å\;bo Akademi University)
\nNicole Rathgeb (University of Bern)
\nImportant dates
\nAbstract submission: July 6\, 2026
\nAuthor notification: July 16\, 2026
\nConference: October 2-3\, 2026
\nRegistration fees
\nStudents 50 &euro\;
\nNon-students 100 &euro\;
\n(Registration fee covers the conference dinner\; waivers might be considered)
\nConference Venue
\nFaculty of Philosophy\, Vilnius University\, Universiteto street 9\, Vilnius\, Lithuania.
\nSubmitting an abstract for a presentation (30 minutes including discussion)
\nAbstracts at a maximum length of 400 words should be submitted as Word or PDF to mindaugas.gilaitis@fsf.vu.lt. Make sure to state your name and affiliation clearly in the abstract. The deadline for submission is \;July 6\, 2026. The date of notification is \;July 16\, 2026.
\nOrganizers
\nMindaugas Gilaitis (Vilnius University)\, Martin Gustafsson (Å\;bo Akademi University)
\nPlease direct all inquiries by email to mindaugas.gilaitis@fsf.vu.lt or martin.gustafsson@abo.fi.
\nThe event is free to attend. If you intend to come to the conference as a non-speaker\, please register by sending an email to mindaugas.gilaitis@fsf.vu.lt. The deadline for registration is \;September 25\, 2026.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260707T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260707T234500 SUMMARY:Phenomenological Anthropologies and Forms of the Human UID:20260615T031430Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:In the context of contemporary phenomenology\, the issue of anthropology reappears as an irreducible problem to definitions\, closed typologies\, or normative models of the human being. \;From Husserl to contemporary phenomenologies\, the human being manifests a mode of appearing that occurs in the world\, in the body\, in affectivity\, in relation to the other\, in finitude\, in historicity\, and in openness to what exceeds it. In this sense\, the human phenomenon compels us to think of anthropology without essentialisation\, attentive to donation\, to the event\, to original passivity\, to exposure\, and to the distance the subject maintains from itself.
\nThis dossier invites scientific articles that critically address phenomenological anthropologies\, understood as attempts to think about the human from its mode of appearing\, rather than from a prior definition. The focus is particularly on exploring how the human phenomenon exceeds the classical horizon of philosophical anthropology and opens possibilities for understanding the human being as one who gives itself in encounter\, who is constituted in relation\, who discovers itself thrown\, affected\, exposed\, called\, or received.
\nContributions are expected to engage\, among others\, with issues such as:
\nthe impossibility or necessity of an anthropology without essentialist definition
\nthe status of the lived body and flesh
\ndonation\, passivity\, and receptivity as anthropological keys
\nalterity\, intersubjectivity\, and encounter
\nfinitude\, affectivity\, and vulnerability
\nthe event and its impact on understanding the human
\nthe relationship between anthropology\, phenomenology\, and hermeneutics
\ntensions between subjectivity\, ipseity\, and the decentring of the self
\nArticles may engage with classical and contemporary authors of the phenomenological tradition\, such as Husserl\, Scheler\, Stein\, Plessner\, Gehlen\, Heidegger\, Merleau-Ponty\, Levinas\, Marcel\, Ric&oelig\;ur\, Henry\, Marion\, Dastur\, Falque\, Lacoste\, Waldenfels\, Serban\, Depraz\, Mensch\, Zahavi\, among others\, as well as with current debates surrounding the very possibility of a phenomenological anthropology.
\nThe dossier will be published in Mutatis Mutandis: International Journal of Philosophy. Submissions must strictly adhere to the editorial guidelines\, presentation\, citation\, and evaluation standards available in www.revistamutatismutandis.com.
\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260720T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260731T170000 SUMMARY:Critical Theory Workshop's 18th Annual Summer School UID:20260615T031431Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:54 Bd Raspail\, Paris\, France\, 75006 DESCRIPTION:The primary objective of the CTW&rsquo\;s Summer School is to provide an international forum for trans-disciplinary and politically relevant research that contributes to a coherent and systematic elucidation of the contemporary world. Participants are exposed to the work of contemporary thinkers and engage with current debates with leading scholars from around the globe. Special attention is paid to traditions of thought that have been sidelined or suppressed in the academy\, including critical theory from the global South\, Marxism\, the black radical tradition\, anticolonial theory\, socialist feminism\, and radical ecological thought. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260725T000000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260725T000000 SUMMARY:Phenomenology and the Political: Experience\, Power\, and Methods UID:20260615T031432Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Covilhã\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:International Conference
\nPhenomenology and the Political:
\nExperience\, Power\, and Methods
\n2-3 December 2026
\nUniversity of Beira Interior
\n(Covilhã\;\, Portugal)
\nConfirmed Speakers:
\nThomas Bedorf (Hagen)
\nFrank Chouraqui (Leiden)
\nSteffen Herrmann (Hagen)
\nMariana Larison (Buenos Aires)
\nRicardo Mendoza-Canales (Lisbon)
\nDelia Popa (Vilanova)
\nThe relationship between phenomenology and politics has long been complex and contested. While Husserl famously positioned phenomenology as a rigorous science of essences\, focused on the structures of consciousness and the epoché\;\, he also emphasized the inseparability of experience from its temporal\, cultural\, and historical horizons. His methodological rigor has often been interpreted as apolitical\, privileging descriptive clarity over engagement with collective life. Subsequent phenomenologists&mdash\;ranging from Merleau-Ponty\, Sartre\, and Arendt to Fanon\, Young\, Levinas\, Butler\, Schutz\, and Derrida&mdash\;have demonstrated that these structures of meaning\, intersubjectivity\, and experience carry profound political implications. Their work shows that politics is not only enacted in institutions but lived\, embodied\, and experienced\, and that power\, legitimacy\, and social norms are shaped through both visibility and concealment\, presence and absence.
\nThis conference builds on these insights\, exploring the reciprocal transformation between phenomenology and politics: phenomenology illuminates political phenomena\, while political realities&mdash\;inequalities\, conflicts\, and power asymmetries&mdash\;reshape phenomenological inquiry. The conference seeks to foster dialogue on how political worlds are constituted\, contested\, and transformed through experience\, social practices\, and collective recognition. Particular attention will be given to the relational and structural dimensions of power\, the temporal and historical constitution of political life\, and the ways in which phenomenology can both reveal and be reshaped by these realities.
\nBy foregrounding experience\, structural dynamics\, and methodological innovation\, the conference aims to create a space for international dialogue among scholars investigating how phenomenology and politics transform one another\, offering insights into authority\, legitimacy\, inequality\, and the lived dimensions of political life.
\nWe welcome abstracts addressing\, but not limited to:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Methodological Innovation: How phenomenological methods evolve when applied to political phenomena\, and how engagement with political realities reshapes conceptual and analytic frameworks.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Experience and Embodiment: Lived\, bodily\, and affective dimensions of political life\, including trust\, conflict\, solidarity\, exclusion\, and resistance.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Power\, Presence\, and Absence: How visibility\, concealment\, and structural asymmetries shape political authority\, legitimacy\, and relational dynamics.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Political Ontology and Structures: How social\, institutional\, material\, and historical conditions constitute political realities\, making them intelligible\, contestable\, and transformable.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Temporal and Historical Dimensions: Memory\, anticipation\, rupture\, and the opening of political futures.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Subjectivation\, Emancipation and Agency: How political realities shape subjectivity\, identity\, and collective self-understanding\, and how these processes inform phenomenological inquiry.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Technology and Mediation: The role of technology\, media\, and communication infrastructures in shaping political experience\, authority\, and participation.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Normativity and Epistemic Foundations: How phenomenology illuminates the frameworks through which political knowledge\, critique\, and understanding emerge.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Interdisciplinary Approaches: Contributions from political theory\, cultural studies\, media and communication studies\, or related fields examining the reciprocal shaping of politics and phenomenology.
\nWe welcome proposals for academic contributions that speak to the concerns of the conference as outlined above. Each speaker will have 20 min. for presentation\, followed by 15 min. of questions and discussion. Interested speakers should submit a 400-words abstract\, accompanied by a short biographical note\, including your full name\, institutional affiliation\, and a short bio (100 words)\, to phenomenologyandthepolitical@gmail.com by 25/07/2026. Decision notices will be emailed by 1/9/2026. The conference has been conceived as a two-day in-person event\, but if the number of quality submissions exceeds expectations\, a third day may be added. The conference will be held in English. There is no registration fee\, and the organization cannot cover travel or accommodation costs. For further details or inquiries\, please contact the conference organizers at the above-mentioned email addresses.
\nOrganization: Albano Pina and Janilce Praseres (PRAXIS/UBI)
ORGANIZER;CN=Albano Pina: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260830T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260830T234500 SUMMARY:Sein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance UID:20260615T031433Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Padova\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts:
\nSein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance
\n(Padua\, February 17-19\, 2027)
\nWe are pleased to share the call for abstracts for the conference Sein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance\, organized by the Centro Studi di Critica Heideggeriana (CSCH) on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of Being and Time by Martin Heidegger. The conference will take place from February 17 to 19\, 2027\, at the FISPPA Department of the University of Padua.
\nIn a context that has long been active in Heidegger studies\, the conference aims to bring into dialogue some of the most authoritative voices in the current debate on Heidegger&rsquo\;s work and thought across different philosophical traditions and geographical contexts. Alongside contributions from invited speakers in the regular sessions (Hiroshi Abe\, Francesco Camera\, Paola-Ludovika Coriando\, Costantino Esposito\, Giuliana Gregorio\, Servanne Jollivet\, Giusi Strummiello\, Mark Wrathall\, Holger Zaborowski) and a panel dedicated to the work of the Paduan philosopher Franco Volpi (&ldquo\;Being and Time&rdquo\;: A Practical Philosophy? Interpretative Perspectives in Dialogue with Franco Volpi\, with guest interventions from Jesú\;s Adriá\;n Escudero\, Adriano Fabris\, and Carlo Scilironi)\, the event will include parallel sessions featuring presentations selected through this call for abstracts. Proposed abstracts should focus on the relevance of Being and Time for contemporary thought\, a theme that applicants are encouraged to address from multiple perspectives.
\nThe guiding idea of the conference is to foster engagement with a classic text of twentieth-century philosophy by rereading it from the standpoint of the present and by relating the fundamental questions that run through Heidegger&rsquo\;s masterpiece to the concerns of an era &ndash\; our own &ndash\; shaped by radically transformed conceptual horizons and frameworks of thought. In this perspective\, the call invites contributions that critically engage with Being and Time in light of the questions the text continues to raise one hundred years after its publication. We welcome proposals that explore the relevance of Heidegger&rsquo\;s analyses in relation to themes such as existence\, temporality\, finitude\, historicity\, understanding\, language\, body\, being\, and instrumentality\, bringing these into dialogue with contemporary problems\, trajectories\, and fields of research. The aim is to encourage dialogue among different traditions of thought that have found in Being and Time a major source of inspiration &ndash\; such as hermeneutics\, existential philosophy\, and phenomenology of embodiment &ndash\; or that have engaged with it in original ways\, such as certain areas of analytic philosophy and pragmatism.
\nTo submit a proposal\, applicants are required to send\, no later than August 30\, 2026\, a title and an anonymized abstract in English\, Italian\, or German (max. 3\,000 characters\, including spaces)\, addressing Being and Time and its relevance today. Presentations will be delivered in the same language chosen for the abstract. Please also attach\, in a separate file\, a brief biographical note (max. 150 words). The expected duration of each presentation is 20 minutes\, followed by a 10-minute discussion.
\nThe results of the selection process\, conducted by the selection committee\, will be announced on September 30\, 2026.
\nAll materials must be sent by email to: seinundzeit2027@virgilio.it
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20261002T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vilnius:20261003T170000 SUMMARY:Inheriting Ordinary Language Philosophy UID:20260615T031434Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Vilnius LOCATION:Universiteto g. 9\, Vilnius\, Lithuania DESCRIPTION:Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest in so-called ordinary language philosophy &ndash\; one of the main traditions in 20th century analytic philosophy. The conference will contribute to this renewed engagement by examining the legacy and contemporary significance of the tradition and its leading representatives. At the same time\, the conference aims at critically examining the idea of an ordinary language philosophy tradition itself. The thinkers typically grouped under this label differ substantially in philosophical outlook and method. Assessing the depth and significance of these differences raises broader questions about how unified the tradition really is. Is the current resurgence best understood as the continuation of a shared philosophical approach\, or does it instead consist of diverse and sometimes competing attempts to draw on different elements of this legacy? By addressing these questions\, the conference will both clarify the historical significance of ordinary language philosophy and assess the prospects for its contemporary revival.
\nKeynote speakers
\nAvner Baz (Tufts University)
\nBenjamin De Mesel (KU Leuven)
\nHans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich)
\nMartin Gustafsson (Å\;bo Akademi University)
\nNicole Rathgeb (University of Bern)
\nImportant dates
\nAbstract submission: July 6\, 2026
\nAuthor notification: July 16\, 2026
\nConference: October 2-3\, 2026
\nRegistration fees
\nStudents 50 &euro\;
\nNon-students 100 &euro\;
\n(Registration fee covers the conference dinner\; waivers might be considered)
\nConference Venue
\nFaculty of Philosophy\, Vilnius University\, Universiteto street 9\, Vilnius\, Lithuania.
\nSubmitting an abstract for a presentation (30 minutes including discussion)
\nAbstracts at a maximum length of 400 words should be submitted as Word or PDF to mindaugas.gilaitis@fsf.vu.lt. Make sure to state your name and affiliation clearly in the abstract. The deadline for submission is July 6\, 2026. The date of notification is July 16\, 2026.
\nOrganizers
\nMindaugas Gilaitis (Vilnius University)\, Martin Gustafsson (Å\;bo Akademi University)
\nPlease direct all inquiries by email to mindaugas.gilaitis@fsf.vu.lt or martin.gustafsson@abo.fi.
\nThe event is free to attend. If you intend to come to the conference as a non-speaker\, please register by sending an email to mindaugas.gilaitis@fsf.vu.lt. The deadline for registration is September 25\, 2026.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261022T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20261023T170000 SUMMARY:Re-examining AI / Rethinking Modernity. Critical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology UID:20260615T031435Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Athens LOCATION:Kérkyra\, Greece DESCRIPTION:INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
\nRe-examining AI / Rethinking Modernity
\nCritical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology
\nCorfu\, 22-23 October 2026
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\nConference scope
\nIn recent years\, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly transformed multiple sectors\, from healthcare and finance to education and entertainment. However\, amidst the excitement surrounding these technological developments\, it is essential to critically revisit the philosophical foundations of this plural technology and\, on this basis\, examine the societal\, ethical\, political\, economic\, and ecological challenges it presents. This conference focuses primarily on this foundational dimension and\, through such critique\, seeks to offer a deeper perspective on the notions\, assumptions\, and frameworks of modernity at large. Which modern understandings of nature\, the human\, intelligence\, imagination\, the body\, the mind\, or reason were taken for granted in the development of what is now called &ldquo\;Artificial Intelligence&rdquo\;? Have these onto-epistemological foundations proved adequate\, or have they produced problems that become visible today through the socio-political\, economic\, and ecological crises associated with AI? Also\, an anthropological lens is crucial here\, as AI exposes how culturally situated\, rather than universal\, the modern Western assumptions about the human\, reason\, and technological agency have always been. \;By bringing these foundations into dialogue with alternative anthropologies\, including non-Western and Indigenous ontologies and epistemologies\, the conference also seeks to rethink entrenched West/East divides that structure contemporary imaginaries of both "intelligence" and technological "progress".
\nWhile we wish to approach AI with a critical lens\, this conference is not grounded in technophobia or anti-AI sentiment. We recognize the transformative reality and potential of AI but we don&rsquo\;t align with neo-Luddite efforts to &ldquo\;destroy&rdquo\; or reject this technology altogether. Instead\, our aim is to foster a constructive dialogue that acknowledges AI&rsquo\;s profound influence on our lives while addressing its underlying ontological and epistemological challenges. By bringing together scholars\, researchers\, and practitioners from diverse fields\, this conference seeks to refine our understanding of AI while also identifying flaws within our current phase of modernity that become visible through the global impact of this technology.
\nCall for papers
\nIn this context\, we invite scholars\, researchers\, and thinkers to contribute to a critical examination of Artificial Intelligence in all its forms at our upcoming Critical philosophical\, anthropological and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology international conference.
\nWe are particularly interested in papers that interrogate (but are not limited to) the following areas:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Philosophical and Ontological Foundations of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Alternative ontologies and/or epistemologies that can either stand as foundations for (a different) AI or critique current AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; AI and Modernity (drawing lines between modern thinkers and contemporary AI).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Socio-Political\, Economic\, and Ecological Implications based on elements of AI that stem from ideas rooted in modernity).
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Epistemology and Knowledge Production in the Age of AI.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Constructive Critique Beyond Technophobia (grounded in renewed modern theories -Critical Theory\, Phenomenology\, Anthropology of Technology\, Bergsonian Vitalism\, etc.- or in thinkers who were previously overlooked or not typically associated with AI).
\nThis conference focuses on theoretical approaches to Artificial Intelligence and in this context\, we welcome contributions from a range of fields\, including philosophy\, anthropology\, sociology\, media studies\, and cultural theory\, but despite its theoretical orientation\, the conference also welcomes technical approaches\, as well as contributions from computer engineers\, code developers\, and other branches of informatics\, provided these approaches are situated within the broader philosophical roots of AI. Our aim is to cultivate a space for critical engagement with AI\, which\, while informed by its technical foundations\, transcends the hype and focuses on the onto-political impacts of this field of study and technology.
\n\nKeynote Speakers
\nAgostino Cera\, Associate Professor\, Humanities Department\, University of Ferrara
\nMore Keynote Speakers tba)
\n\nConference Language
\nEnglish
\n\nAbstract submission
\nYou are kindly requested to send both your abstract (max. 300 words) and a short CV (max. 150 words) in one .doc file at: \;aicene.research@gmail.com
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\nImportant Dates
\nAbstract submission deadline: June 15\, 2026
\nAbstract acceptance notification: July 31\, 2026
\nConference Program: September 2026
\n\nScientific Committee
\nFotini Vaki\, Associate Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nKonstantinos Aggelakos\, Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nAnna Apostolidou\, Assistant Professor\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nGiannis Perperidis\, Adjunct Lecturer\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University.
\nOrganizers
\nPolitical Philosophy and Digital Technologies Laboratory\, Department of History and Digital Humanities\, Ionian University\, Greece.
\nResearch Project &ldquo\;A(I)nthropology during the Anthropocene: Hybrid research and creative pedagogy at the limits of the human&rdquo\;\, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2025-2028).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261104T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20261106T170000 SUMMARY:Technology Ethics in Turbulent Times UID:20260615T031436Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Hoge Steeg 2\, Wageningen\, Netherlands\, 6708 PH DESCRIPTION:What do philosophy and ethics of technology mean in turbulent times?
\nThe impact of new technological developments in domains such as artificial intelligence\, synthetic biology\, and quantum technologies is enormous. These developments are interconnected with global challenges such as climate change\, authoritarianism\, and geopolitical tensions. Such turbulent times demand targeted philosophical and ethical inquiry\, which this conference aims to stimulate.
\nWhether your work concerns conceptual analysis\, methodological reflections on studying and evaluating technology\, case-studies in the ethics of (disruptive) technologies\, sustainable technology\, praxis-oriented approaches geared towards design and social implications\, or another related topic:
\nWe welcome you to submit a paper or session proposal\, and/or participate!
You can reach the organizers at: conference2026@ethicsandtechnology.eu
Call for Papers: \;The legacy of M. D. Stafleu
\nJournal: \;Philosophia Reformata \;(www.brill.com/phir)
\nGuest editors: Richard Gunton (Queen Mary University of London) and Gerrit Glas (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
\nDeadline: Papers (5\,000&ndash\;9\,000 words) may be submitted through the journal&rsquo\;s website.
\nMarinus Dirk (Dick) Stafleu (1937&ndash\;2024) wrote extensively on philosophy of physics\, and encyclopedically on the sciences at large. \;Drawing on and critiquing the work of Herman Dooyeweerd\, he made important contributions to a Reformational philosophy of science reaching from mathematics to social and political sciences. \;However\, since his passing in November 2024\, Stafleu's legacy appears largely limited to his 24 papers in Philosophia Reformata\, 5 papers in other peer-reviewed journals\, and some 15 books in English and Dutch\, mostly self-published on his own website (although 5 were published in print by various minor publishing houses).
\nWe invite scholars who have drawn on any of Stafleu's work to contribute to a special issue that will clarify and situate his contributions in the philosophical foundations of physics and of the sciences more broadly. \;Topics might include\, for example:
\nFor more information\, please contact the editorial assistant\, Mathanja Berger: \;mathanja@bergeracademicediting.nl.
\n\nInstructions to Authors: \; https://brill.com/fileasset/downloads_products/Author_Instructions/PHIR.pdf
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261202T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20261203T170000 SUMMARY:Phenomenology and the Political: Experience\, Power\, and Methods UID:20260615T031438Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Covilhã\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:The relationship between phenomenology and politics has long been complex and contested. While Husserl famously positioned phenomenology as a rigorous science of essences\, focused on the structures of consciousness and the epoché\;\, he also emphasized the inseparability of experience from its temporal\, cultural\, and historical horizons. His methodological rigor has often been interpreted as apolitical\, privileging descriptive clarity over engagement with collective life. Subsequent phenomenologists&mdash\;ranging from Merleau-Ponty\, Sartre\, and Arendt to Fanon\, Young\, Levinas\, Butler\, Schutz\, and Derrida&mdash\;have demonstrated that these structures of meaning\, intersubjectivity\, and experience carry profound political implications. Their work shows that politics is not only enacted in institutions but lived\, embodied\, and experienced\, and that power\, legitimacy\, and social norms are shaped through both visibility and concealment\, presence and absence.
\nThis conference builds on these insights\, exploring the reciprocal transformation between phenomenology and politics: phenomenology illuminates political phenomena\, while political realities&mdash\;inequalities\, conflicts\, and power asymmetries&mdash\;reshape phenomenological inquiry. The conference seeks to foster dialogue on how political worlds are constituted\, contested\, and transformed through experience\, social practices\, and collective recognition. Particular attention will be given to the relational and structural dimensions of power\, the temporal and historical constitution of political life\, and the ways in which phenomenology can both reveal and be reshaped by these realities.
\nBy foregrounding experience\, structural dynamics\, and methodological innovation\, the conference aims to create a space for international dialogue among scholars investigating how phenomenology and politics transform one another\, offering insights into authority\, legitimacy\, inequality\, and the lived dimensions of political life.
\nWe welcome abstracts addressing\, but not limited to:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Methodological Innovation: How phenomenological methods evolve when applied to political phenomena\, and how engagement with political realities reshapes conceptual and analytic frameworks.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Experience and Embodiment: Lived\, bodily\, and affective dimensions of political life\, including trust\, conflict\, solidarity\, exclusion\, and resistance.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Power\, Presence\, and Absence: How visibility\, concealment\, and structural asymmetries shape political authority\, legitimacy\, and relational dynamics.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Political Ontology and Structures: How social\, institutional\, material\, and historical conditions constitute political realities\, making them intelligible\, contestable\, and transformable.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Temporal and Historical Dimensions: Memory\, anticipation\, rupture\, and the opening of political futures.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Subjectivation\, Emancipation and Agency: How political realities shape subjectivity\, identity\, and collective self-understanding\, and how these processes inform phenomenological inquiry.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Technology and Mediation: The role of technology\, media\, and communication infrastructures in shaping political experience\, authority\, and participation.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Normativity and Epistemic Foundations: How phenomenology illuminates the frameworks through which political knowledge\, critique\, and understanding emerge.
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; Interdisciplinary Approaches: Contributions from political theory\, cultural studies\, media and communication studies\, or related fields examining the reciprocal shaping of politics and phenomenology.
ORGANIZER;CN=Albano Pina: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20270217T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20270219T170000 SUMMARY:Sein und Zeit Today: Relevance and Resonance UID:20260615T031439Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Padova\, Italy DESCRIPTION:The conference Sein und Zeit \;Today: Relevance and Resonance \;is organized by the Centro Studi di Critica Heideggeriana (CSCH) on the occasion of the centenary of the publication of \;Being and Time \;by Martin Heidegger. The conference will take place from February 17 to 19\, 2027\, at the FISPPA Department of the University of Padua. \;
\nIn a context that has long been active in Heidegger studies\, the conference aims to bring into dialogue some of the most authoritative voices in the current debate on Heidegger&rsquo\;s work and thought across different philosophical traditions and geographical contexts. Alongside contributions from invited speakers in the regular sessions (Hiroshi Abe\, Francesco Camera\, Paola-Ludovika Coriando\, Costantino Esposito\, Giuliana Gregorio\, Servanne Jollivet\, Giusi Strummiello\, Mark Wrathall\, Holger Zaborowski) and a panel dedicated to the work of the Paduan philosopher Franco Volpi (&ldquo\;Being and Time&rdquo\;: A Practical Philosophy? Interpretative Perspectives in Dialogue with Franco Volpi\, with guest interventions from Jesú\;s Adriá\;n Escudero\, Adriano Fabris\, and Carlo Scilironi)\, the event will include parallel sessions featuring presentations selected through a call for abstracts.
\nThe guiding idea of the conference is to foster engagement with a classic text of twentieth-century philosophy by rereading it from the standpoint of the present and by relating the fundamental questions that run through Heidegger&rsquo\;s masterpiece to the concerns of an era &ndash\; our own &ndash\; shaped by radically transformed conceptual horizons and frameworks of thought. \;
\nThe aim is to encourage dialogue among different traditions of thought that have found in \;Being and Time \;a major source of inspiration &ndash\; such as hermeneutics\, existential philosophy\, and phenomenology of embodiment &ndash\; or that have engaged with it in original ways\, such as certain areas of analytic philosophy and pragmatism.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260610T221016Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20300531T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20300531T090000 SUMMARY:Phenomenologies of Religious Experience UID:20260615T031440Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-bd7db559-gt5qm 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) \;