Feminism gives us a vision\, a framework\, and tools to upend systems. One of those systems is how we think of language and the self. Is it possible to say what is true\, when stories are always already framed by the world in which they take place? What role does autofiction play in our own lives\, in the process of resistance\, in the call for that which remains invisible? The poetic attention inherent in autofiction\, in escrevivê\;ncia\, that is inherent in the work\, is created for and by and to address the necessity of the impossible. Autofiction as an act of God\, of the transcendent that manifests itself in the real\, in lived experience\, and as such is aimed at resisting the patriarchy.
\nIn this symposium we aim to bring together people with whom this theme resonates\, and we ask people to share from their own life\, practise\, profession\, in order to create an ongoing conversation as a way to build resilience. We explicitly invite people to embrace the difference they bring in to contribute towards this shared endeavour. \;
\nAutofiction as Resistance as a method
\nDuring this week we aim to work together on exploring the themes that are central to this circle also in the way we participate. We explicitly invite people to share their insights\, artistic practises and theoretic understanding in a way that invites collaborative thinking. For this reason academic presentations are not accepted\, although a presentation can be a part of a larger workshop. Please indicate in your application how much time you would need for your intervention\, and a brief description on how you aim to use the time allotted to your session. First-time experiments are as welcome as tested concepts. \;
\nParticipants without workshops/sharing of their own personal project/ideas are also most welcome to collaborate during the week in the interactive program. \;
\nAbout Nordic Summer University (NSU):
\nNSU is a space for collaboration between disciplines/peoples/ideas. During the Summer Session several study circles\, each hosting their own program\, will come together &ndash\; participants are welcome to join different circles/programmes during the week. NSU is a horizontal organisation\, being present means you are a member and part of the organisation.
\nCosts
\nNSU offers a limited amount of grants and scholarships. If you are interested in receiving one (which means a reduced participation fee of 100 euro for the whole week)\, please let us know while applying. \;
\n100 euros Scholarship (in shared 4-bed rooms with shared bathroom)
\n1250 euros Institutional price/any room type
\n900 euros Institutional price PhD/any room type
\n950 euros Single room
\n700 euros Bed in double room
\n1000 euros Double room 1 adult 1 child
\n1200 euros Family room 1 adult 2 children
\n1800 euros Family room 2 adults 2 children
\n1500 euros Family room 2 adults 1 child
\n500 euros Camping \;
\nThis includes accommodation and all meals for the full week. The price also includes NSU membership\, so it is not necessary to purchase it separately. Those who have already attended a winter symposium and paid the membership will receive a discount code to deduct the membership fee. No refunds will be given if participants pay membership twice by mistake\, so please mention in your application that you already attended an NSU event this year\, to receive a discount code.
\nDeadlines
\nPlease send us a short text explaining your aim / topic / idea\, how much time you would need to host the experience\, and what materials you would require (paper/paint/bicycles)\, which we will try to accommodate. \;
\nPlease send us your application by April 5th. Especially if you would like to be considered to receive a grant/scholarship\, as decisions on grants/scholarships will be made at the end of April. Deadline to confirm and pay your spot as a grant/scholarship receiver is May 1st. \;
\nOther applicants are accepted on a rolling basis. Final deadline to apply: May 10th. By May 15th you will need to register and pay for the accommodation.
\nApplications and queries can be send to: nicole.nobyeni@nsuweb.org
\nPlease be aware that everyone involved at Nordic Summer University is collaborating on a voluntary basis.
\nAbout the Circle:
\nHow to think/write/be/inter-act without being limited by an already outlined goal/outcome/impact? How to explore what is messy/confused/embodied while accepting that exploration is always also taking place within philosophy/genre/language/life &ndash\; within what is. That is\, our attempt to explore\, to transcend our sites of speech happens in this world and is framed by the situatedness of our lives. Could it be otherwise? This study circle aims to take advantage of the network\, space and openness provided by the Nordic Summer University to raise questions that cannot be answered/grounded/voiced\, for philosophers/writers/feminists and/or/as-well-as those who are other(s/ed/ing). \;
\nThis study circle will explore the liminality of not belonging in a discipline/space/frame/ category/nation. Accepting language as the limit/tool/curse and an unavoidable starting point\, building upon the work of Irigaray/Arendt/Ettinger\, this state of exception of being-with/in/of language is not simple put aside\, but accepted as a reality which is &ldquo\;disturbing\, overwhelming\, and sometimes too close for comfort&rdquo\;. \;
\nThese tensions open up a liminal space &ndash\; how to think/write/be/inter-act within such a space\, while being an/Other\\not-I/(m)\\Other within feminist philosophy? How to write/create/live as a being that is more than the categories available to mark/describe/situate them? How to explore power as a temporary space\, a moment\, political and liminal? How to read and ground ourselves in feminist philosophy while also living/m-othering/PhD-ing? How to even ask/write/question these questions\, without falling prey to the linearity inherent in what/who/why it means to question? \;
\nMore information: https://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-4-an-other-not-i-m-other-in-feminist-philosophy/ \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Nicole Des Bouvrie: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260515T234500 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Manila:20260515T234500 SUMMARY:Diskurso 2026: Philosophy at the Margins UID:20260516T073007Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Asia/Manila LOCATION:University of the Philippines Los Baños\, Los Baños\, Philippines DESCRIPTION:The UPLB Sophia Circle is the premier student philosophical organization of the University of the Philippines Los Bañ\;os (UPLB). The Academic Year 2025-2026 marks a significant milestone in the history of the organization as we celebrate our 25th anniversary. True to our commitment to stimulate awareness and enthusiasm in the field of philosophy\, we conclude our celebration by reviving Diskurso\, the organization&rsquo\;s conference series during the pandemic\, with the theme: &ldquo\;Philosophy at the Margins.&rdquo\;
\nThe conference features undergraduate papers on the conditions and liberation of marginalized identities and communities. The conference will be held onsite on June 5\, 2026 at the University of the Philippines Los Bañ\;os. The conference is made possible through the support of the American Philosophical Association and in partnership with the Women Doing Philosophy (WDP)\, UPLB Philosophy Division\, and the UPLB Department of Humanities.
\n\nThe conference features works on philosophy at the margins. Creative literary works are required to present a full paper or presentation demonstrating how the work is philosophical.\n \;\n\nThe International Conference &ldquo\;Woman and Human Progress in the Enlightenment&rdquo\; will be held remotely on May 22nd-24th\, 2026. The conference is organized by members of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw and is co-financed by the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. \;To register (free of charge) and receive the Zoom link\, please email womanhumanprogress@gmail.com.
\nThe conference aims to examine the Enlightenment ideal of human progress and its influence on socio-political and educational reforms of this era\, as well as to bring to light the work of understudied\, early feminist thinkers who argued against the gendered nature of this ideal. Accordingly\, the conference will center on the following three topics: The Enlightenment Ideal of the Development of Humanity and Rational Progress\; Pedagogical reforms of the Enlightenment\; Early feminist contestations of the gendered conception of becoming enlightened in Poland and Germany: a comparative approach. \;The event will feature keynote talks by professors renowned for their expertise in these fields\, including Corey Dyck (University of Western Ontario)\, Robert Louden (University of Southern Maine)\, Charlotte Sabourin (Douglas College)\, and Anna Tomaszewska (Jagiellonian University).
\n\nConference program:
\nDay 1\, Friday\, 22 May:
\nSession I (11:00-13:45 (all times in CEST))\, moderated by Dr Olga Lenczewska:
\n11:00-11:30 \; \; \;Welcoming remarks and introductions
\n11:30-12:15 \; \; \; \; Prof. Agnieszka Nogal (University of Warsaw\, Poland): \;&ldquo\;The Cost of Kantian Reason: Feminist Philosophy and the Unintended Consequences of Dualism&rdquo\;
\n12:15-13:00 \; \; \; \; Prof. Nuria Sá\;nchez Madrid (Complutense University of Madrid\, Spain): \;&ldquo\;The German Enlightenment towards the Domination of Women: Kant\, von Hippel\, and Holst&rdquo\;
\n13:00-13:45 \; \; \; \; Dr Federico Rossato (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg\, Germany): \;&ldquo\;Philosophia wolfiana non facit philosophum: Luise Gottsched and the Project for a Radical Volksaufklä\;rung in the Context of the Hochaufklä\;rung&rdquo\;
\n13:45-15:00 \; \; \; \; Break
\nSession II (15:00-16:30)\, moderated by Dr Olga Lenczewska:
\n15:00-15:45 \; \; \; \; Ms. Elżbieta Filipow (University of Warsaw\, Poland): \;&ldquo\;Differences in Human Nature between Women and Men and the Consequences for Rational Progress of Humanity in Light of Kantian Anthropology and Ethics&rdquo\;
\n15:45-16:30 \; \; \; \; Dr Bjö\;rn Freter (Towson University\, USA): \;&ldquo\;Philosophical Subversion in Johanna Charlotte Unzer&rsquo\;s Grundriß\; einer Weltweisheit fü\;r das Frauenzimmer&rdquo\;
\nDay 2\, Saturday\, 23 May:
\nSession III (9:00-11:30)\, moderated by Ms. Elżbieta Filipow:
\n9:00-10:00 \; \; \; \; \; \; KEYNOTE LECTURE | \;Prof. Robert Louden (University of Southern Maine (emeritus)\, University of Hawaii\, USA): \;&ldquo\;Basedow and Girls&rsquo\; Education: An (Ir)resolvable Contradiction?&rdquo\;
\n10:00-10:45 \; \; \; \; Ms. Linda Brancaleone (The Magna Græ\;cia University of Catanzaro\, Italy): \;&ldquo\;Education\, Family\, and Emancipation: Wollstonecraft and de Gouges as Precursors of Radical Feminism&rdquo\;
\n10:45-11:30 \; \; \; \; Prof. É\;va Antal (Eszterhá\;zy Ká\;roly Catholic University\, Hungary): \;&ldquo\;Mary Wollstonecraft&rsquo\;s Educational View on the History of the French Revolution&rdquo\;
\n11:30-14:30 \; \; \; \; Break \; (due to time zone differences)
\nSession IV (14:30-17:00)\, moderated by Dr Kinga Elert:
\n14:30-15:15 \; \; \; \; Mr. Antoni Odorowski (Jagiellonian University\, Poland): \;&ldquo\;Princess Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach as an Enlightened Patroness of Science&rdquo\;
\n15:15-16:00 \; \; \; \; Dr Wojciech Kozyra (University of Warsaw\, Poland): \;&ldquo\;The Jewish Fear of Progress: The Cases of Mendelssohn and Ascher&rdquo\;
\n16:00-17:00 \; \; \; \; KEYNOTE LECTURE \;| \;Prof. Charlotte Sabourin (Douglas College\, Canada): \;&ldquo\;A Topic of Study for the Philosopher: Femininity and the Culture of Enlightenment&rdquo\;
\nDay 3\, Sunday\, 24 May:
\nSession V (10:00-12:30)\, moderated by Prof. Rafał Wonicki:
\n10:00-11:00 \; \; \; \; KEYNOTE LECTURE | \;Prof. Anna Tomaszewska (Jagiellonian University\, Poland): \;&ldquo\;Kant on Swedenborg and the Enlightenment Women&rsquo\;s Religiousness&rdquo\;
\n11:00-11:45 \; \; \; \; Dr Guillem Sales Vilalta (Spanish National Research Council\, Spain): \;&ldquo\;The Dream of Reason and Its Monsters: Mary Wollstonecraft&rsquo\;s Vindications and Their Reworking in Mary Shelley&rsquo\;s Frankenstein&rdquo\; \;
\n11:45-12:30 \; \; \; \; Dr Federico Rampinini (University of Graz\, \;Austria): \;&ldquo\;Unsocial Sociability Reframed: Amalia Holst between Rousseau and Kant on Progress&rdquo\;
\n12:30-13:30 \; \; \; \; Break
\nSession VI (13:30-16:00)\, moderated by Dr Olga Lenczewska:
\n13:30-14:15 \; \; \; \; Dr Kinga Elert (University of Warsaw\, Poland): \;&ldquo\;Gabrielle Suchon&rsquo\;s Political Celibacy as a Critique of the Compulsory Sexuality and the Heteropatriarchal Institution of Marriage&rdquo\;
\n14:15-15:00 \; \; \; \; Dr Konrad Wyszkowski (University of Warsaw\, Poland): \;&ldquo\;Eleonora Ziemięcka: Progressive Function\, Conservative Content&rdquo\;
\n15:00-16:00 \; \; \; \; KEYNOTE LECTURE \;| \;Prof. Corey Dyck (University of Western Ontario\, Canada): \;&ldquo\;Amalia Holst and Elisa Reimarus on Children&rsquo\;s Religious Education&rdquo\;
\n16:00-16:15 \; \; \; \; Concluding remarks
\nConference organizers: Dr Olga Lenczewska\, Ms. Elżbieta Filipow\, Dr Kinga Elert. \;
\nAcademic committee: Dr Magdalena Gawin\, Prof. Paweł Łukó\;w\, Prof. Agnieszka Nogal\, Prof. Magdalena Środa\, Prof. Rafał Wonicki.
\nPatrons and sponsors: \;Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange\, \;Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw\, Polskie Towarzystwo Filozoficzne.
ORGANIZER;CN=Olga Lenczewska;CN="Elżbieta Filipow";CN=Kinga Elert: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260526T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260529T170000 SUMMARY:2026 Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop UID:20260516T073009Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Buffalo\, United States DESCRIPTION:It is with great pleasure that we announce the opening of applications for the 2026 Feminist Decolonial Politics Workshop.
\nThe workshop will be held in a hybrid format\, with both in-person and online participation options. We are especially excited to centre this year&rsquo\;s workshop on reading the work of Hortense Spillers\, one of the most influential theorists of our time. Spillers is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University\, and her scholarship has been foundational to feminist\, Black\, and decolonial thought.
\nParticipation in the workshop is by application only\, and applicants must be accepted in order to attend.
\nPlease apply by February 1st\, 2026- \;https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd2j_UHI86_2DmCWUNZB84BsH2fYRYoBpU_7CtJwq_v2MZkwg/viewform
\nFor detailed information regarding the workshop structure\, and application process\, please visit our website.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260528T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260529T170000 SUMMARY:Consent\, Ethics\, and Sexual Education UID:20260516T073010Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Vancouver LOCATION:1866 Main Mall\, Vancouver\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Date and time
\nMay 28th\, 9:00-16:45\; May 29th\, 9:00-16:45.
\nSee supporting materials for a copy of the provisional schedule. \;
\nConfirmed speakers
\nOrganizer
\nJonathan Ichikawa
\nTopic
\nConsent is standardly thought to demarcate permissible sexual interactions from sexual assault. But a growing number of recent scholars have emphasized the limits of an exclusive focus on consent in sexual ethics\, and called for alternate frameworks for articulating and ameliorating elements of rape culture.
\nThis conference will further explore and develop this direction in sexual ethics. \;It will connect \;scholarly philosophical work with the experience and perspectives of contemporary sex educators\, \;providing opportunities for knowledge sharing across academic and applied contexts. \;
\nContact
\nThis event is free and open to all interested in attending\; however\, registration is required. To register\, please email the conference coordinator\, Ash Lindsley-Kim at \;ash.lindsleykim@ubc.ca. \;
\nFunding
\nThis event is possible due to generous financial support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council\, the Society for Applied Philosophy\, the Canadian Journal of Philosophy\, the UBC Philosophy Department\, and UBC&rsquo\;s Hampton Fund.
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Ichikawa: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T080000 SUMMARY:(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other UID:20260516T073011Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Gibbet Hill Road\, Coventry\, United Kingdom\, CV4 7AL DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
\nAbstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between \;July 7th\, 2025\, and \;October 15th\, 2025.
\nPlease include a short biography (100 words) and institutional affiliation with your submission.
\nApproved abstracts will be informed by \;December 2025.
\nThe final paper must be sent by \;May 1st\, 2026\, for internal circulation.
\nWe invite scholars to submit proposals for our upcoming conference\, which will examine how colonial and neocolonial powers have influenced representations of non-Western countries and their peoples in literature\, the arts\, and the media. This event seeks to investigate how these representations have been instrumental in constructing negative stereotypes\, enforcing cultural hierarchies\, and sustaining hegemonic narratives that marginalise indigenous\, local\, and non-Western communities.
\nColonial and imperial discourses\, as &ldquo\;a cultural domination from abroad&rdquo\; (Da Silva &\; Matheus\, 2024)\, have long employed literary and artistic productions of Other Non-Western subjects\, portraying them as exotic\, primitive\, or even barbaric. From the portrayal of Native Brazilian Indigenous peoples as cannibals in Early Modern Portuguese colonial literature to the transformation of \;One Thousand and One Nights \;through Neoclassical French translations that distorted its original Arabic cultural context\, such narratives have served to reinforce Western dominance and justify subjugation.
\nMore recently\, in a postcolonial context\, various productions continue to operate in the shadows of (neo)colonialism and (neo)imperialism\, often carrying colonial overtones (Qiao\, 2018). Neocolonial cultural productions\, such as the French-directed \;Emilia Pé\;rez (a film about Mexican drug cartels cast with American actors)\, continue to generate controversy over who has the authority to tell certain stories and how these depictions are received by the communities they claim to represent. Western agents (e.g. translators\, producers\, directors\, editors\, publishers\, and reviewers) stillreframe productions from the Global South through a (neo)colonial and (neo)orientalist lens\, constructing Western-centric narratives about these works\, their countries\, and their people. For example\, American and British agents often situate Chinese personal stories within Western dominant narratives of a &ldquo\;dark&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;dystopian&rdquo\; China\, translating them according to their hegemonic standards (Tan\, 2024).
\nThis conference will examine the mechanisms through which (neo)colonial powers have influenced literary\, artistic\, and media portrayals of non-Western subjects\, as well as their impacts on their self-identification. We seek to explore questions such as:
\nWe welcome proposals from a range of disciplines\, including but not limited to Literature\, History\, Film Studies\, Philosophy\, Translation Studies\, Cultural and (Post)colonial Studies\, \;Journalism\, and Media Studies. Papers may address historical cases or contemporary examples and may take a comparative\, theoretical\, or case-study approach.
\nRELEVANT DETAILS \;
\nAs an interdisciplinary conference\, it aims to capture the attention of scholars examining (neo)colonial representations and how perceptions of the Others are shaped through various media.
\nThis conference is tailored for national and international scholars\, students\, and early-career researchers interested in Literature\, Art\, Cultural Studies\, History\, Philosophy\, Sociology\, etc. As our conference will follow the \;Society for Latin American Studies&rsquo\; \;Climate Action Plan\, we also warmly invite colleagues to endorse the \;BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme \;and follow the \;BPA Environmental Travel Policy.
\nThe conference will take place in person at the University of Warwick on \;May 30th\, 2026.
\nWe look forward to your contributions and an engaging discussion.
\nPlease\, send your abstract to both emails: \;
\nGustavo Ruiz da Silva: \;gustavo.da-silva@warwick.ac.uk
\nXiaoyan Tan: \;xiaoyan.tan@warwick.ac.uk
\nNo fees will be charged for this conference.
\nPUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY
\nThe \;Warwick Series in the Humanities (with Routledge) \;publishes the varied and multidisciplinary outcomes of projects funded by the HRC. Following this tradition\, our conference will organise an edited volume based on the presented papers\, and offer its publication to Routledge.
ORGANIZER;CN=Gustavo Ruiz da Silva;CN=Xiaoyan Tan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T170000 SUMMARY:(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other UID:20260516T073012Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Gibbet Hill Road\, Coventry\, United Kingdom\, CV4 7AL DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
\nAbstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between \;July 7th\, 2025\, and \;October 15th\, 2025.
\nPlease include a short biography (100 words) and institutional affiliation with your submission.
\nApproved abstracts will be informed by \;December 2025.
\nThe final paper must be sent by \;May 1st\, 2026\, for internal circulation.
\nWe invite scholars to submit proposals for our upcoming conference\, which will examine how colonial and neocolonial powers have influenced representations of non-Western countries and their peoples in literature\, the arts\, and the media. This event seeks to investigate how these representations have been instrumental in constructing negative stereotypes\, enforcing cultural hierarchies\, and sustaining hegemonic narratives that marginalise indigenous\, local\, and non-Western communities.
\nColonial and imperial discourses\, as &ldquo\;a cultural domination from abroad&rdquo\; (Da Silva &\; Matheus\, 2024)\, have long employed literary and artistic productions of Other Non-Western subjects\, portraying them as exotic\, primitive\, or even barbaric. From the portrayal of Native Brazilian Indigenous peoples as cannibals in Early Modern Portuguese colonial literature to the transformation of \;One Thousand and One Nights \;through Neoclassical French translations that distorted its original Arabic cultural context\, such narratives have served to reinforce Western dominance and justify subjugation.
\nMore recently\, in a postcolonial context\, various productions continue to operate in the shadows of (neo)colonialism and (neo)imperialism\, often carrying colonial overtones (Qiao\, 2018). Neocolonial cultural productions\, such as the French-directed \;Emilia Pé\;rez (a film about Mexican drug cartels cast with American actors)\, continue to generate controversy over who has the authority to tell certain stories and how these depictions are received by the communities they claim to represent. Western agents (e.g. translators\, producers\, directors\, editors\, publishers\, and reviewers) stillreframe productions from the Global South through a (neo)colonial and (neo)orientalist lens\, constructing Western-centric narratives about these works\, their countries\, and their people. For example\, American and British agents often situate Chinese personal stories within Western dominant narratives of a &ldquo\;dark&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;dystopian&rdquo\; China\, translating them according to their hegemonic standards (Tan\, 2024).
\nThis conference will examine the mechanisms through which (neo)colonial powers have influenced literary\, artistic\, and media portrayals of non-Western subjects\, as well as their impacts on their self-identification. We seek to explore questions such as:
\nWe welcome proposals from a range of disciplines\, including but not limited to Literature\, History\, Film Studies\, Philosophy\, Translation Studies\, Cultural and (Post)colonial Studies\, \;Journalism\, and Media Studies. Papers may address historical cases or contemporary examples and may take a comparative\, theoretical\, or case-study approach.
\nRELEVANT DETAILS \;
\nAs an interdisciplinary conference\, it aims to capture the attention of scholars examining (neo)colonial representations and how perceptions of the Others are shaped through various media.
\nThis conference is tailored for national and international scholars\, students\, and early-career researchers interested in Literature\, Art\, Cultural Studies\, History\, Philosophy\, Sociology\, etc. As our conference will follow the \;Society for Latin American Studies&rsquo\; \;Climate Action Plan\, we also warmly invite colleagues to endorse the \;BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme \;and follow the \;BPA Environmental Travel Policy.
\nThe conference will take place in person at the University of Warwick on \;May 30th\, 2026.
\nWe look forward to your contributions and an engaging discussion.
\nPlease\, send your abstract to both emails: \;
\nGustavo Ruiz da Silva: \;gustavo.da-silva@warwick.ac.uk
\nXiaoyan Tan: \;xiaoyan.tan@warwick.ac.uk
\nNo fees will be charged for this conference.
\nPUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY
\nThe \;Warwick Series in the Humanities (with Routledge) \;publishes the varied and multidisciplinary outcomes of projects funded by the HRC. Following this tradition\, our conference will organise an edited volume based on the presented papers\, and offer its publication to Routledge.
ORGANIZER;CN=Gustavo Ruiz da Silva;CN=Xiaoyan Tan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260601T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260602T170000 SUMMARY:Women's Liberation at Sixty: 1966-2026 UID:20260516T073013Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:11 Rue de Constantine\, Paris\, France DESCRIPTION:Women&rsquo\;s Liberation at Sixty: 1966-2026
\nUniversity of London Institute in Paris
\n1-2 June\, 2026
\n2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in the USA. As a liberal feminist organization\, NOW was limited in its scope\, but its formation helped to usher in the "wave" of more expansive\, radical political activism\, theorizing\, and social transformation known internationally as the Women&rsquo\;s Liberation Movement.
\nIn the decade that followed\, Women&rsquo\;s Liberation Movements (WLMs) emerged and flourished in the USA as well as in many other parts of the world. In some cases\, WLMs were borne out of women&rsquo\;s experiences of sexism within the context of progressive political movements for civil rights or workers' rights\, radical student movements\, anti-war movements\, and anti-colonial movements. In many cases\, the formation of WLMs was inspired by feminist activism taking place in other parts of the world\, and the WLMs\, on the whole\, were internationalist in scope.WLM activists were engaged in and committed to promoting what bell hooks has since referred to as &ldquo\;revolutionary feminism&rdquo\;\; they aimed to &ldquo\;have a radical transformative impact on society&rdquo\; that did not simply manage "sexism\, sexist exploitation\, and oppression&rdquo\; but\, rather\, intended to eradicate them (hooks [1984] 2015\, 30 and [2000] 2015\, 1). Consistent with this objective\, WLMs developed alternative feminist institutions\, such as rape crisis centers and domestic violence shelters\, research centers\, and museums. They also produced alternative feminist media\, including journals like off our backs (USA)\, Spare Rib (UK)\, MeJane (Australia)\, and Cahiers du \;fé\;minisme (France). \;WLM feminists were clear and direct about their willingness to deploy militant strategies and tactics in order to change the world\, and to accept the risks associated with doing so. &ldquo\;Struggle\,&rdquo\; hooks writes\, &ldquo\;is rarely safe or pleasurable&rdquo\; ([1984] 2015\, 30).
\nInternational WLMs did indeed bring about major social transformations. Some of the defining accomplishments of the WLMs include:
\nDespite these important accomplishments\, WLMs were constrained by their own internal contradictions. Not least among these was a hierarchisation of oppressive structures which positioned gender oppression as anterior to questions of race\, class\, and sexuality. It is in response to this lack of what we now refer to as an intersectional perspective within the WLMs that many foundational theories of women of color feminisms\, working-class feminisms\, and lesbian feminisms emerged. Moreover\, across diverse international contexts\, the originary radicalism of WLMs struggled against and in some cases failed to resist liberal and right-wingfeminisms. Finally\, in many cases WLMs dissolved before fully achieving their more radical goals.
\nThe organizers of this conference believe that the present moment\, in which many of the gains of Women&rsquo\;s Liberation are being challenged\, minimized\, rolled back\, and ridiculed provides an optimal time for critical\, international reflection upon and engagement with the contributions\, contradictions\, limitations\, and contemporary import of &ldquo\;Second Wave&rdquo\; feminist theory and activism. Relevant and timely questions to be addressed include but are not limited to:
\nWhich feminist figures and texts seem especially relevant for navigating our current reality?
\nAre there figures and texts which we ought to abandon?
\nWhat resources exist within the theories and practices of the WLM that might be able to address 21st-century feminist challenges\, such as:
\nDo WLMs afford insight into feminist coalition-building that can facilitate the creation of national\, broad-based\, politically efficacious\, intersectional feminist movements? Can they help us to develop effective and mutually-supportive international coalitions?
\nAre there resources in WLMs that can strengthen and expand trans-inclusive feminisms and oppose TERFism?
\nAre there resources in WLMs for bolstering gendered bodily integrity and sexual self-determination? For generating emancipatory feminist sexual ethics?
\nDoes WLM theorizing help us to acknowledge the fact that\, as Judith Butler has recently observed\, state attacks on trans people and trans identity\, gender-affirming care\, and reproductive freedom are underpinned by the same heteronormative logic such that these attacks cannot be effectively opposed in isolation?
\nDoes WLM theory and activism help us to think through and implement effective modes of opposition?
\nCan WLM struggles for abortion rights and access to safe and effective birth control serve as examples for feminist activism aimed at not only protecting reproductive freedom but also promoting reproductive justice more broadly?
\nCan these struggles help to navigate contexts where reproductive freedom has been curtailed or even eradicated?
\nAre there resources in WLMs that can help us to better conceptualize and therefore oppose the oppressive effects of imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy in its various \;contemporary manifestations?
\nDo contemporary feminists need to adopt (versions of) the aggressive and even militant modes of political action employed by segments within WLMs? What would these look like today?
\nWhat can we learn from the failures of the WLMs in ensuring the longevity of a contemporary feminist movement?
\nHow can we ensure that the movement is\, from its beginning\, an anti-racist\, anti-bourgeois\,anti-homophobic movement?
\nHow can we ensure that feminism&rsquo\;s radical demands remain central as liberal responses to contemporary crises are more widely distributed through the press and social media algorithms?
\nSubmission guidelines
\nWe invite abstracts from scholars\, researchers\, writers\, and activists working in any discipline as well as interdisciplinary approaches on topics including but not limited to the above. Advanced graduate and \;postgraduate students are welcome to apply.
\nSubmissions and presentations should be in English.
\nAll presenters will be allowed a total of 30 minutes: 20 minutes to present their work and ten minutes for Q&\;A.
\nPlease anonymise your submission by sending two separate documents to \;WLMat60@gmail.com:
\n1) An anonymised abstract ONLY of up to 300 words\, including a title and four keywords.
\nThe document should be named: Short title_ WLMat60_abstract
\n(E.g. Women&rsquo\;s Liberation Today_WLMat60_abstract).
\n2) A separate document with the title of your contribution and author information\, including name\, affiliation\, short bio (100 words)\, and contact details. The document should be named: Short title_WLMat60_ author information
\n(E.g. W omen&rsquo\;s Liberation Today_WLMat60_author information).
\nThe deadline for submissions is midnight (Central European Time) on Friday 27th February \;2026. Decisions will be conveyed Monday 2nd March. Practical information about travel and \;lodging will be distributed to conference participants shortly thereafter.
\nPresenting at this conference will require a registration fee of &euro\;80 for those with access to institutional funding and &euro\;40 for those without access to institutional funding. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Dianna Taylor: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260601T170000 SUMMARY:TPTN Workshop: Designing Political Theory Curricula UID:20260516T073014Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:York\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:An important part of teaching political theory and philosophy involves the designing of curricula\, programmes and modules. However\, in doing so\, political theorists may face any number of challenges and obstacles. We often teach broad cohorts of students\, including students who may have little interest in political theory. How can we ensure our teaching is engaging them? We may need to design assessment to fit the module content\, but what are the best ways to assess the skills political theorists seek to impart? How can we ensure that our teaching speaks to and engages students from different backgrounds\, or provides them with the skills they need to succeed beyond academia? This workshop creates a space to share research and experience regarding the design and delivery of political theory teaching.
\nQuestions that might be addressed include:
\n- How to design modules for different cohorts of students?
\n- How to design assessments for political theory modules?
\n- How to design inclusive and diverse curricula? \;
\n- How to balance competing demands from students\, institutions\, employers and/or society when designing curricula?
\n\; If you're interested in presenting something at this workshop\, please email a short (300 word) abstract to adam.fusco@york.ac.uk and \;john.wilesmith@ucl.ac.uk before 27 \;April 2026
ORGANIZER;CN=Sara Van Goozen;CN=Adam Fusco;CN=John Wilesmith: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260601T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260602T170000 SUMMARY:Verdrängte Opfer: Eugenik\, Biopolitik und die Frage des unwerten Lebens mit Dagmar Herzog UID:20260516T073015Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Zollikerstrasse 115)\, Zürich\, Switzerland DESCRIPTION:Workshop: Verdrä\;ngte Opfer: Eugenik\, Biopolitik und die Frage des unwerten Lebens
\nUniversitä\;t Zü\;rich
\nOrganisation: Franziska Felder (Institut fü\;r Erziehungswissenschaft) &\; Adam Knowles (Philosophisches Seminar)
\nWir bitten um Anmeldung fü\;r den Workshop bei Iris \;Hostettler (sekretariat.felder@ife.uzh.ch). Fü\;r den Abendvortrag am 01.06. ist keine Voranmeldung nö\;tig.
\n1. Juni 2026
\nNachmittagsworkshop\, Kutscherhaus\, Ethikzentrum der Universitä\;t Zü\;rich (Zollikerstrasse 115)
\n14.00-15.30 Adam Knowles (Universitä\;t Zü\;rich): &bdquo\;The New Fascist Body: Ethnonationalist Discourses of Degeneration and Regeneration&ldquo\;
\n16.00-17.30 Franziska Felder (Universitä\;t Zü\;rich)\, &bdquo\;Eugenische Phantasmen: Die Neuerfindung der deutschen Sonderpä\;dagogik nach 1945 und die Rollen ihrer zentralen Akteure&ldquo\;
\nAbendvortrag 18.30-20.00 (UZH KOL F-101\, Rä\;mistrasse 71)
\nDagmar Herzog (CUNY): &bdquo\;Eugenische Phantasmen &ndash\; Die lange Vor- und Nachgeschichte der NS-&sbquo\;Euthanasie&lsquo\;-Morde&ldquo\;
\n2. Juni 2026\, 9:00-16:00
\nKutscherhaus\, Ethikzentrum der Universitä\;t Zü\;rich (Zollikerstrasse 115)
\n9.00-10.00: Marietta Meier (Universitä\;t Zü\;rich): &bdquo\;Stillstand am Rande des Fortschritts: &sbquo\;Unheilbar&lsquo\; in der Psychiatrie des 20. Jahrhunderts&rdquo\;
\n10.15-11.15: Constantin Kilcher (University of Cambridge): &bdquo\;Auch eine Schweizer Geschichte: der Zü\;rcher Moment der Europä\;ischen Eugenik&ldquo\;
\n11.30-12.30: Martin Lengwiler (Universitä\;t Basel): &bdquo\;Zwang in modernen Wohlfahrtsstaaten: Erkenntnisse aus der Geschichte der Sozialhilfe&ldquo\;
\n13.30-14.30: Regina Schidel (Universitä\;t Frankfurt a. M): &bdquo\;Der Nü\;tzlichkeitstopos in der Philosophie - Verdinglichung\, instrumentelle Rationalitä\;t und deren Kritik&ldquo\;
\n14.45-15.45: Lisa Dillinger (Universitä\;t Zü\;rich): &bdquo\;&sbquo\;Nie wieder ist jetzt?&lsquo\; Zur Aktualitä\;t Adornos &sbquo\;Erziehung nach Auschwitz&lsquo\; in Zeiten demokratischer Erosion&ldquo\;
\n15.45: Abschluss
\n16.00: Apé\;ro
ORGANIZER;CN=Adam Knowles: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260601T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260601T170000 SUMMARY:Free and Inclusive Speech in Times of Polarisation UID:20260516T073016Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Ottawa\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Free and Inclusive Speech in Times of Polarisation
\nUniversity of Ottawa\, June 1\, 2026 \;
\nOrganized by Nils Holtug (University of Copenhagen) and Patti Tamara Lenard (University of Ottawa) \;
\nIt is already well-repeated that democratic states are increasingly polarized. One manifestation of this polarization is in the nature of public discourse\, which is increasingly aggressive\, disrespectful and ugly &ndash\; more and more interlocutors call each other names\, wish ill on each other\, and call for their respective &ldquo\;cancellations.&rdquo\; Our workshop focuses on how we can have genuine political and moral conversations in these times of heightened sensitivity\, frustration and conflict over basic values and norms. Our starting point is the suggestion that earlier political theorization of the conditions for respectful deliberation\, and the strategies to protect speech/expression therein\, require updating for the present moment. In light of that\, we are seeking contributions that consider questions such as:
\nWe have travel support available for (some of) those who need it. The deadline for submitting abstracts (300 words) for consideration is December 15\, 2025\, to \;patti.lenard@uottawa.ca \;and \;nhol@hum.ku.dk. \; Would-be contributors should note that the Canadian Political Science Association&rsquo\;s annual meeting will be at University of Ottawa\, from June 2-4 (https://cpsa-acsp.ca/ \;- deadline for proposals to CPSA is November 10\, 2025).
ORGANIZER;CN=Patti Tamara Lenard;CN=Nils Holtug: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260601T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260601T130000 SUMMARY:Free and Inclusive Speech in Times of Polarisation UID:20260516T073017Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Ottawa\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Free and Inclusive Speech in Times of Polarisation
\nUniversity of Ottawa\, June 1\, 2026 \;
\nOrganized by Nils Holtug (University of Copenhagen) and Patti Tamara Lenard (University of Ottawa) \;
\nIt is already well-repeated that democratic states are increasingly polarized. One manifestation of this polarization is in the nature of public discourse\, which is increasingly aggressive\, disrespectful and ugly &ndash\; more and more interlocutors call each other names\, wish ill on each other\, and call for their respective &ldquo\;cancellations.&rdquo\; Our workshop focuses on how we can have genuine political and moral conversations in these times of heightened sensitivity\, frustration and conflict over basic values and norms. Our starting point is the suggestion that earlier political theorization of the conditions for respectful deliberation\, and the strategies to protect speech/expression therein\, require updating for the present moment. In light of that\, we are seeking contributions that consider questions such as:
\nWe have travel support available for (some of) those who need it. The deadline for submitting abstracts (300 words) for consideration is December 15\, 2025\, to \;patti.lenard@uottawa.ca \;and \;nhol@hum.ku.dk. \; Would-be contributors should note that the Canadian Political Science Association&rsquo\;s annual meeting will be at University of Ottawa\, from June 2-4 (https://cpsa-acsp.ca/ \;- deadline for proposals to CPSA is November 10\, 2025).
ORGANIZER;CN=Patti Tamara Lenard;CN=Nils Holtug: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260601T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260601T234500 SUMMARY:Another Sense of Earth at the End of Worlds: Environmental Humanities in the Face of Crises UID:20260516T073018Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:1704 W Mulberry St\, Denton\, United States\, 76201 DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers for the Fourth Philosophy and Religion Graduate Student Conference at the University of North Texas (UNT) \;
\nIn a time of crises overshadowed by impressions of the precarity and contingency of the plurality of worlds we live in\, we invite interdisciplinary\, critical reflection on the meaning and stakes of our senses of world and ending. While totalizing narratives of crises oscillate between techno-optimistic visions of geoengineering and dystopic pessimism\, this conference seeks to contextualize dominant understandings of endings to envision new conceptions of time\, relations\, and finality beyond the hegemonic imaginaries.
\nFor whom and what do the apocalyptic bells of the end of the world sound? What does it even mean to conceive of &ldquo\;our&rdquo\; world as ending? Who&rsquo\;s included and excluded from this sense of world? What does it mean for traditions in which the end of the world is inevitable\, cyclical\, or has already come to pass? What would this so-called &ldquo\;end of the world&rdquo\; even mean for people who&rsquo\;ve already endured innumerable ends to their ways of life? \;
\nTaking up the gauntlet thrown by Thomas Nail in Theory of the Earth\, we ask for submissions that problematize static\, dominant conceptions of world and think with him on what it means\, in the context of crises\, to imagine how &ldquo\;this stable ground is becoming increasingly unstable&mdash\;for some of us more than others.&rdquo\; In this spirit\, the conference seeks to engage with forms of thought that emphasize the radically plural character of sense-making\, ways of knowing\, and temporal existence. We welcome submissions that build upon these critical and marginalized perspectives to challenge assumptions of crisis and delimit what worlds are at stake. Within these broad thematic horizons\, we aim to bring together a diverse set of perspectives into dialogue and reconceptualize our relationship to planet Earth. \;
\nWe cordially invite graduate students from all fields and disciplines to submit their research and perspectives on the following themes:
\nIndigenous &\; non-Western conceptions of world-making\, cataclysm\, and/or time
\nFeminist/Queer theories on resistant subjectivities and spaces in the face of precarity
\nGeophilosophical approaches from traditions historically excluded from philosophy (ex. Sikhism\, Buddhism\, Hinduism\, etc.) \;
\nPhilosophies of science and normative theories that utilize a planetary approach \;
\nRelational ontologies\, specifically those with nonhuman and more-than-human beings
\nPhenomenological accounts of temporality\, &ldquo\;world collapse\,&rdquo\; and futurity
\nCritical theories on the &ldquo\;Anthropocene&rdquo\; and the role of capitalism in the ongoing environmental crisis
\nEcocritical perspectives on the role of technology and natural science in organizing our sense of the Earth
\nConference Details
\nThe conference will be held in-person at the University of North Texas\, Denton\, TX\, from November 13th-15th. This conference does not require registration fees. \;
\nThe conference will feature Thomas Nail\, a Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver\, as the keynote speaker\, whose materialist interventions in conceptions of earth and planet\, particularly in Theory of the Earth\, pose deep and transformational reflections on imaginaries of time\, space\, and world for our context of apocalypse and crisis.
\nSubmission Guidelines Prepare an abstract of 500 words to be submitted to prgraduateconferenceUNT@gmail.com by June 1\, 23:59 PM CST for review by the graduate conference committee. In the body of your email\, please include author affiliation including your current year and place of graduate study as well as your preferred email for conference communications.
\nEach accepted presenter will have the opportunity to deliver a 20-minute presentation\, followed by a 10-minute response from a UNT Philosophy and Religion graduate student\, culminating in a 15-minute Q&\;A session.
\nKey dates:
\nAbstract Submission Deadline: June 1\, 23:59 PM CST \;
\nNotification of Acceptance: July 31\, 23:59 PM CST \;
\nFinal Paper Deadline: October 1\, 23:59 CST
\nFor inquiries and clarifications\, please contact prgraduateconferenceunt@gmail.com. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20260604T090000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20260605T170000 SUMMARY:Information Segregation: Mechanisms and Consequences UID:20260516T073019Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Africa/Johannesburg LOCATION:Johannesburg\, South Africa DESCRIPTION:Physical segregation of human beings has an epistemic aspect: when individuals are required to occupy separate spaces\, information is consequently segregated\, creating barriers to the generation and transmission of knowledge. \; If there is a norm that says folks who live uptown ought to stay uptown and folks who live downtown ought to stay downtown\, an obvious consequence will be ignorance\, both uptown and downtown\, of what things are like on the other side of town. \; This kind of ignorance is a familiar feature of racial segregation\, and more broadly of norms that proscribe freedom of movement. \; This conference is devoted to discussion of the mechanisms that sustain information segregation and its epistemological\, ethical\, and political consequences\, along with related issues in ethics\, political philosophy\, and social epistemology. \; \;
\nSpeakers:
\nThe University of the Philippines Los Bañ\;os Philosophy program distinguishes itself through its specialization in applied philosophy and cultivation of critical\, creative\, caring\, and collaborative thinking among its students. As a consequence\, the discussion and application of philosophical theories\, concepts\, and methods inevitably lead to reflection on social issues confronting the world today. Philosophical discussions and reflections in classrooms often foreground the reality of the oppression of marginalized identities.
\nThe members of the UPLB Sophia Circle\, the premier philosophical organization at UPLB\, have always been committed to bringing philosophical theories into practice through a philosophical education that emphasizes application. In a time when global powers exhibit renewed forms of colonialism\, sexist conservative rhetoric justifying the subjugation of women is increasingly deployed on social media\, and corruption prevails as a sign of indifference to the impoverished\, the organization believes that looking into the conditions of peripheral identities becomes paramount. Thus\, on the UPLB Sophia Circle&rsquo\;s 25th \; anniversary\, the organization aims to provide an avenue for discourse on the conditions and liberation of marginalized communities. \;
\nThroughout the years\, there have been many works by Filipino thinkers about philosophy at the margins. Many of these works reflect on the realities Filipino philosophers experience or observe because of their identities (as Filipinos\, indigenous peoples\, women\, or queer people) or the communities in which they are immersed (such as indigenous and urban poor communities\, and the male-dominated academe\, among others). Hence\, the conference aims to broaden the discourse\, as there have been very few conferences in recent years that provide space dedicated to engagement and reflection on oppression and marginalization. In doing so\, the organization hopes that the conference inspires undergraduate students to continue writing on philosophies at the margins\, amplifying the voices and stories of marginalized identities.
ORGANIZER;CN=Justine Inocando: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260605T080000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20260607T170000 SUMMARY:A Summer of Social Ontology in Wuhan UID:20260516T073021Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Asia/Shanghai LOCATION:Wuhan\, China ORGANIZER;CN=Peter Finocchiaro: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260608T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260610T170000 SUMMARY:The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity Conference UID:20260516T073022Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Bologna\, Italy DESCRIPTION:TEARS CONFERENCE\, 8-10 June 2026
\nPhilosophy Department\, University of Bologna
\nOrganizers: Laurencia Sá\;enz Benavides &\; Pia Campeggiani
\nI am happy to announce the conference entitled &ldquo\;The Emotional Aspects of Resistance and Solidarity&rdquo\;. This conference aims to bring in post-graduate students\, early career academics and established scholars whose work on the socio-political aspects of narrative practices\, affects and emotions can offer illuminating perspectives on some of the issues addressed by the \;TEARS project\, such as:
\nThe conference will take place on the 8th-10th June 2026\, at the Philosophy Department of the University of Bologna\, Via Azzo Gardino 23\, Sala Rossa (June 8th &\; 9th)\; Via Zamboni 38\, Sala Apollo (June 10th). \;
\nThis conference is supported by the European Union&rsquo\;s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement n°\;1011105929 Project TEARS
\nIf you wish to attend this event\, please register here: \;https://forms.gle/CQvzuoV7YSiautBs5 \;
\nFor any inquiries\, please email \; \;maria.saenzbenavides@unibo.it \;or \;laurenciasaenz@gmail.com \;
\nConference Programme:
\nKeynote Speakers: Maria Pia Lara (UAM) &\; Mariana Ortega (Penn State University)
\nDay 1. Monday June 8th. \;
\nVenue: Sala Rossa\, Via Azzo Gardino 23. \;
\n14: 30 Welcome
\n15:00-16:00 &ldquo\;From outlaw emotions to moral injury: Rethinking the affective disruptions of norms&rdquo\; Ditte Munch-Jurisic (Copenhagen) \;
\n16:00-17:00 &ldquo\;Feelings and Epistemic Resistance&rdquo\; Caleb Ward (Hamburg)
\n17:00 Keynote address: Maria Pia Lara (UAM)
\n19:30 Social Dinner
\nDay 2 Tuesday June 9th. \;
\nVenue: Sala Rossa\, Via Azzo Gardino 23
\n8:00-9:00 \; &ldquo\;The emancipatory power of narrative practices&rdquo\; Laurencia Saenz Benavides (Bologna)
\n9:00-10:00 &ldquo\;Pedagogical perspectives on loneliness narratives in extremist and emancipatory movements&rdquo\; Ruth Rebecca Tietjen (Tilburg) \;
\nBreak
\n10:15-11:15 \;&ldquo\;The Unfinished &lsquo\;We&rsquo\;: Longing for Belonging\, Loneliness\, and the Affective Fault Lines of Political Communities&rdquo\; Marie Wuth (Erlangen-Nü\;rnberg).
\n11:15-12:15: TBC Tris Hedges (Copenhagen)
\n12:30-14:30 Lunch
\n14:30-15:30 &ldquo\;Mass Masochism&rdquo\; Serena Gregorio (Justus-Liebig-University Giessen). \;
\n15:30-16:30 &ldquo\;&lsquo\;Something new must be created at all costs&rsquo\;. Affects of Societal Transformation&rdquo\; Henrike Kohpeiß\; (Lü\;neburg)
\nBreak
\n17:00 Keynote lecture: Mariana Ortega (Penn State University)
\n19:30 \;Dinner \;
\nDay 3. Wednesday June 10th. \;
\nVenue: Sala Apollo\, 38 Via Zamboni \;
\n9:00-11:00 Concluding remarks
\nEnd of the conference
\n ORGANIZER;CN="Laurencia Sáenz Benavides": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260609T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260610T170000 SUMMARY:Normativity and Gender Workshop UID:20260516T073023Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Helsinki LOCATION:Tampere\, Finland DESCRIPTION:It is natural to theorize gender within a normative framework: gender is not a neutral classificatory category\, but one which encodes evaluative assumptions\, sets standards of correctness\, and generates reasons and obligations for individuals. At the same time\, philosophical thought about normativity itself - for instance\, about the nature of agency\, reasons\, authority\, or objectivity - has been shaped by socially situated assumptions. As a result\, the intersection between gender and normativity as areas of philosophical theorizing can be particularly fruitful\, enhancing our understanding of both categories and motivating revisions to our existing accounts of either. \; \;
\nWe invite abstracts for three contributed talks that explore issues concerning normativity\, gender\, and their connections. Abstracts that lie a the intersections between different fields or subfields of philosophy are also welcome. Possible topics can include but are not limited to: \; \;
\nSubmissions from underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged.
\nAbstract details \;
\nLength: 750-1000 words\, suitable for a 30-minute presentation with a 45-minute Q&\;A\, or a 45-minute presentation with a 30-minute Q&\;A. \;
\nDeadline: 15 March 2026 \;
\nNotification of Acceptance: End of March \;
\nSubmission: Please submit your abstracts to normativityandgender@gmail.com. The submission should be attached to the email in .pdf format and prepared for blind review. Please include the following information separately in the body of the email: your name(s)\, affiliation(s)\, the title of your talk\, and whether you consider yourself to be a member of an underrepresented group. \;
\nAbout the workshop \;
\nThe workshop is in-person only. The venues are accessible and childcare is available during the presentations\, if required. \; \;
\nUnfortunately\, we are unable to provide monetary assistance for travel or accommodation. \; \;
\nThis workshop is organized by the Normativity\, Gender\, and Mathematics project\, funded by Kone Foundation\, and the Quasi-Realism project\, funded by the Research Council of Finland. \; \;
\nOrganizers: Laura Nicoară\, Siiri Porkkala\, Jenni Rytilä\;\, Teemu Toppinen\, Vilma Venesmaa. \;
\nFor any questions\, please contact the organizers at normativityandgender@gmail.com. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20260610T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20260610T234500 SUMMARY:'Sex between Law and Morality' IVR Special Workshop UID:20260516T073024Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Istanbul LOCATION:İstanbul\, Turkey DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers
\nIVR World Congress in Istambul\, \; June 28 &ndash\; July 3\, 2026 \;
\nSpecial Workshop "Sex between Law and Morality"
\n"Sexual autonomy is one of the most important as well as fragile aspects of human lives. Any violation of it is perceived as a serious moral wrong\, often deserving of criminal punishment. However\, the understanding of what constitutes sexual autonomy and what can infringe on it is subject to dynamic change in response to various social shifts. Questions about consent limits\, implications of unequal power dynamics for sexual relationships or morally grey areas of sex remain fundamentally relevant for both philosophy and law.
\nThis workshop invites contributions that explore sex and sexual autonomy from the perspective of moral philosophy\, ethics\, feminist studies\, and legal theory. Papers may engage in a critique of existing frameworks regarding sexual ethics\, analyse challenges arising for the protection of sexual autonomy in law or contribute to debates regarding so-called &ldquo\;grey rape&rdquo\;. The aim of the workshop is to foster careful philosophical analysis and provide a forum for exploring how current understandings of sex\, consent\, and sexual autonomy can be defended\, reinterpreted\, or contested in light of contemporary political and legal challenges.
\nSuggested topics include (but are not limited to):
\nThe limits of criminalisation: how far can we go in the protection of sexual autonomy?
\nEthics and legal regulation of sexual relations in liberal and illiberal frameworks
\nFeminist approaches and critiques of unequal power dynamics in sexual ethics
\nThe scope of sexual consent and its grey areas
\nFolk understanding of sex: experimental jurisprudence in studies on sexual ethics
\nIs there a right to sex?
\n#MeToo: what are the lasting implications of the movement?
\nEthics of belief and epistemology in sexual relationships"
\nOrganizational Information
\nConvenors: Klaudyna Horniczak (Jagiellonian University)\, Maciej Juzaszek (University of Silesia in Katowice)\, and Karolina Śliwecka (Jagiellonian University).
\nContact: maciej.juzaszek@us.edu.pl
\nAbstracts of no more than 500 words should be submitted no later than June 10\, 2026\, to:
\nmaciej.juzaszek@us.edu.pl
\nNotifications of acceptance will be sent on a rolling basis\, no later than June 12 2026. Applicants are kindly reminded of the registration deadlines: regular registration ends on April 30\, 2026\, and late registration closes on June 15\, 2026. https://ivr2026istanbul.org/registration/
ORGANIZER;CN=Maciej Juzaszek;CN="Karolina Śliwecka";CN=Klaudyna Horniczak: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260611T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20260612T170000 SUMMARY:Dialogue in Democratic Education UID:20260516T073025Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Helsinki LOCATION:Pentti Kaiteran katu 1 \, Oulu\, Finland DESCRIPTION:Dialogue in Democratic Education -Conference \; University of Oulu\, 11.-12.6.2026 We are pleased to announce a joint conference that specifically invites academic researchers engaged in the study of dialogue\, democracy\, and education. This collaborative event aims to foster rigorous scholarly exchange\, encourage interdisciplinary perspectives\, and deepen theoretical and empirical inquiry in these intersecting fields. Researchers from philosophy\, pedagogy\, history\, political science\, and related disciplines are encouraged to contribute their expertise as we collectively advance academic understanding and innovation within democratic education. Keynote speakers and invited panelists of the main event include Nicholas Burbules\, Silvia Edling\, Andrea English\, Maughn Gregory\, Walter Kohan\, Jonas Lieberkind\, and Dina Mendonç\;a.
\nAs part of the conference\, a pre-seminar and workshop on philosophizing with children and young people and the Community of Philosophical Inquiry pedagogy will be held on June 10. The pre-seminar will feature presentations and a panel discussion with Maughn Gregory\, Walter Kohan\, and Dina Mendonç\;a &ndash\; internationally recognized experts in the field. Further details and registration for the pre-seminar will be made available in early 2026.
\nConference theme
\nDialogue has traditionally been situated at the very heart of democracy. Recently\, however\, the role of dialogue in both democracy and democratic education has been contested from different perspectives. The increasing difficulty to establish a genuine dialogue between political rivals in the present polarized political culture has led to seeking alternative interpretations and approaches to understanding the nature of democracy (e.g. conflict-based\, agonistic). On a theoretical level\, discussion-based models of democracy have been challenged for their over-idealized and normative nature. In the same vein\, democratic education and pedagogy have been argued to be unfeasible considering the institutional realities of schooling and persistent educational inequalities. Still\, the idea of democracy as dialogue seems vital and worth sustaining. In pedagogical practices\, dialogue\, deliberation\, and debate all belong to the broader category of discussion-based approaches. Rational and evidence-based forms of dialogue\, deliberation\, and debate can still be justifiably regarded as crucial modes of communication for the functioning of democratic society as a whole. The purpose of the conference is to examine the significance and realizations of these modes of communication in the context of democratic education.
\nWe invite presentations on a broad range of topics concerning the relationship between dialogue\, deliberation\, debate\, education\, democracy and the related concepts. We are also interested in contributions focusing on or fostering dialogue between different theories and fields of research in relation to these themes. In addition to contributions in the field of philosophy of education\, which is the primary focus of the conference\, we invite papers addressing these issues from various perspectives\, including but not limited to\, pedagogical practices\, teachers and teacher education\, empirical research on education\, history of education\, and political science. On abstract submissions\, see further information on page \;Presentations.
\nOrganizers: \;
\nResearch Consortium \;Education for Deliberation: Practices of Inquiry in Dialogue-Based Democratic Education \;(DELIBERATE\; Research Council of Finland) &\;
The Philosophy of Democracy Education research group (DEMOED)\, University of Oulu &\;
The Finnish Network of the History and Philosophy of Education
Conference web-page: \;Dialogue in Democratic Education -Conference
This one week seminar will explore 17th and 18th-century texts about slavery from Europe and America. Prof. Jorati will direct an intensive week of summer classes for the benefit of a small group of recent PhDs whose main research and teaching are in the relevant area. Up to six individuals from among those who apply will be selected to participate in five days of intense classes on the announced subject. Travel\, housing and food for the duration of the classes will be paid by the \;JHP \;up to $2\,000. Applications due by Feb. 1\, 2026. To apply visit \;https://jhp.wisc.edu/summerseminar.html.
\n\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Eileen C. Sweeney: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260620T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260620T234500 SUMMARY:The Nature of Social Identities: Metaphysics\, Epistemology\, and Politics UID:20260516T073027Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Arna Nováka 1\, Brno \, Czech Republic\, 60200 DESCRIPTION:The Department of Philosophy\, Faculty of Arts\, Masaryk University in Brno\, Czech Republic\, invites submissions for a conference on the metaphysical and epistemological foundations of social identities\, organised within the research project Identity Politics: Metaphysics and Epistemology.
\nConference Theme
\nIn recent decades\, political and social debates have increasingly focused on identity-based groups defined by characteristics such as race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, disability\, class\, religion\, or age. These developments have generated extensive discussion in political philosophy and social theory. However\, many of the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions underlying identity politics remain insufficiently examined.
\nThis conference aims to investigate the nature\, constitution\, and epistemic role of social identities. In particular\, we seek to explore the mechanisms through which identities emerge as robust social and political entities\, and the ways in which identity-related features&mdash\;such as lived experience\, self-identification\, social recognition\, and shared narratives&mdash\;contribute to their formation and persistence. \;
\nAnother central aim is to examine whether different identities (for example\, race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, or class) are constituted through similar or distinct metaphysical and epistemic mechanisms. Comparative approaches that analyse similarities and differences across identities are especially welcome. \;
\nThe conference will also address the epistemological aspects of social identities\, including questions concerning situated knowledge\, epistemic authority\, intersectionality\, and conflicts among different socially situated perspectives.
\nTopics
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nMetaphysics of Social and Political Identities
\nEpistemology of Social Identity
\nSubmissions from metaphysics\, epistemology\, social philosophy\, feminist philosophy\, philosophy of race\, and related areas are welcome.
\nKeynote speaker: Kristina Rolin (Tampere University)
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nPlease submit an anonymous abstract of 400&ndash\;500 words.
\nThe submission should be attached to the email in .pdf format and prepared for blind review. Please include the following information separately in the body of the email: your name(s)\, affiliation(s)\, contact information\, the title of your talk.
\nImportant Dates
\nConference Details
\nSubmission
\nPlease send submissions to: belohrad@phil.muni.cz
\nContact
\nFor inquiries\, please contact: Radim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. (belohrad@phil.muni.cz)
\nOrganizing committee
\nRadim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. \;
\nZdeňka Jastrzembská\;\, Ph.D. \;
\nMarek Picha\, Ph.D.
\nDagmar Pichová\;\, Ph.D.
ORGANIZER;CN=Radim Belohrad: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260625T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY UID:20260516T073028Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Wieniawskiego 1\, Poznań\, Poland\, 61-712 DESCRIPTION:QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY
\nInternational Conference
\n25-26 June 2026
\nAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań\, Poland
\nFaculty of Philosophy
\nThe international conference Queer: Present! Visibility Through the Body aims to examine queer visibility in contemporary culture\, exploring it across a range of contexts. The title of the conference alone may serve as a catalyst for reflection on various aspects of queer visibility\, demonstrating that queer culture is present today in many forms. However\, queer people are constantly fighting to remain visible and gain access to more divergent visibility. This visibility often encounters strong resistance\; opponents view the queer body as imposing its presence\, disrupting social order and manifesting as unnecessary excess or exaggeration.
\nDuring the conference\, we will highlight the physical presence of queer genders\, sexualities and romantic relations and intimacies. This is why the title of our conference is provocative: queer is present and embodied\; it is expressed in the body.
\nDo queer bodies experience encounters with others and strangers differently when moving within cultural boundaries?
\nWhen writing about corporeality\, we draw inspiration from Sara Ahmed&rsquo\;s queer phenomenology. Ahmed reminds us that\, culturally\, the divergence of sexual orientation is equated with being outside the boundaries of heteronormativity\, as if initiating a discussion about it implied queerness. From a phenomenological stance\, sexual desire and gender identity shape not only the boundaries of our world and our experience of the body: our physicality is a lens through which the outside world could perceive our intimate visibility.
\nSilence\, secrecy\, hypocrisy and concealing one's sexuality\, desire and gender identity due to shame or fear or a culturally rooted habit are pertinent characteristics associated with the lack of queer visibility. A wider and more satisfactory presence can be achieved by creating one's own culture and by establishing better social attitudes and legal frameworks\, more accurate terms and rooting novel expectations or &lsquo\;novel tradition&rsquo\;\, although this could outrage apologists for the politics of silence. It is not easy to achieve visibility in the present moment! However\, new traditions are created and emerge before our very eyes: films\, literary works\, memorials to victims of persecution\, queer rituals and\, finally\, the concept and presence of Pride &mdash\; a joyful rejection of the humiliating concept of shame. The present allows us to document all cases of queer resistance against the politics of hatred. The goal of the narrative of hatred is to hide queer people once again and deprive them of visibility. It is an attitude that is contrary to science and is fed by invented harmful myths\, prejudices and superstitions.
\nQueer visibility is not only an emancipatory strategy based on the idea of equality. It is also the daily struggle of every queer person for dignity and visibility. Any attempt to hide queerness is deceptive\, as it creates the false impression that it does not exist or is not needed by anyone.
\nWe invite submissions from scholars\, PhD candidates\, and independent researchers.
\nTopics for suggested panels and papers may include (but are not limited to):
\n1. Cultural transformations that have shaped the contemporary narrative of queer visibility.
\n2. Changes in rooted attitudes\, social\, legislative and political moods often result in significant progress and emancipation\, but can also lead to regression and increased aggression towards queer individuals.
\n3. Tactics\, risks\, politics\, dramatics\, performance\, experimentations\, exploration of visibility in different areas of art and cultural products.
\n4. Queer visibility in performance\; Queer in Cinema\, Dance and Theatre.
\n5. The contribution of queer people to art\, from poetry to mass media.
\n6. Prospects for future visibility based on the present.
\nThe organisers are open to proposals for both individual presentations and panels. Keynote speeches are planned. Detailed information will be updated on the conference website https://queer.web.amu.edu.pl
\nConference language: English.
\nPresentation length: 15-25 minutes\, depending on the final number of accepted contributions. Format: on-site.
\nVenue: Collegium Minus\, ul. Wieniawskiego 1\, Poznań.
\nRegistration
\nDeadline for submission of abstracts is: for panels 20 February 2026 and for individuals presentations 28 February 2026. They should be sent by email to queer@amu.edu.pl (or marjed7@amu.edu.pl)
\nSubmissions should include a max. 200-word abstract with a 100 word author bio and the contact information gathered in a single PDF-FILE.
\nNotification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026.
\nRegistration fee: 150 EUR or 150 USD.
\nThe fee included a coffee breaks\, a two-course lunch to all participants (25 and 26 June) and a banquet (25 June).
\nImportant additional information:
\n- we plan to publish articles in 2027 (an edited collection).
\n- during the conference\, we will be hosting the management team from the Queer Museum in Warsaw\, the first queer museum in Poland and the third in Europe.
\nKeynote Speakers:
\nProf. Dan Healey\, University of Oxford
\nProf. Joanna Mizielińska\, University of Warsaw
\nDr. Kush Patel\, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
\nConference Organizers:
\nProf. Marek Jedliński (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
\nDocent Antu Sorainen (University of Helsinki)
\nDr. Krzysztof Witczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
\nScientific Committee:
\nProf. Dan Healey\, University of Oxford
\nDr. Kush Patel\, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
\nDr. Efstratia Oktapoda\, Sorbonne University
\nDr. Tamas Nagypal\, Mount Royal University
\nDr. Jana Kantorikova\, Sorbonne University
\nDr. Iga Mergler\, Wilfrid Laurier University
\nDr. Agata Mergler\, York University
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Krzysztof Witczak;CN="Marek Jedliński";CN=Antu Sorainen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20260628T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Istanbul:20260703T170000 SUMMARY:'Sex between Law and Morality' IVR Special Workshop UID:20260516T073029Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Istanbul LOCATION:İstanbul\, Turkey ORGANIZER;CN=Maciej Juzaszek;CN="Karolina Śliwecka";CN=Klaudyna Horniczak: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260713T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:9th Derrida Today Conference UID:20260516T073030Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:5th Arrondissment Rue d'Ulm\, Paris\, France DESCRIPTION:The Derrida Today Conference will focus on the ongoing value of either Derrida&rsquo\;s work\, or deconstruction\, to the political-ethical\, cultural\, artistic\, public debates and philosophical futures that confront us. The conference is interdisciplinary and invites contributions from a range of academic\, disciplinary and cultural contexts. Papers and panel proposals from academics\, independent scholars\, and graduate students are welcomed. The conference encourages contributions on diverse topics and contemporary issues\, and from any discipline in relation to Derrida&rsquo\;s work and/or deconstruction.
\nInformation about Abstract deadlines\, Registrations\, Speakers\, Keynotes\, etc. can be found on the Derrida Today website at: derridatoday.com
\nAbstract submission closes: 15th Jan 2026
\nAll abstracts and enquiries to: conference@derridatoday.com
\nKeynotes: David Farrell Krell\, Isabelle Alfandary\, Elissa Marder\, Marc Crepon
\nSpecial Speakers and Panels to be announced on website
ORGANIZER;CN=Nicole J. Anderson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260713T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:Critical Theories of Fascism - Lisbon Praxis Summer School 2026 UID:20260516T073031Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Alameda da Universidade\, 1600-214 Lisboa\, Lisbon\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:Until recently\, there was a general assumption that fascism had been decisively defeated\, because the horrors of WWII seemed to have left fascism morally bankrupt and politically untenable. Yet\, in the early twenty-first century\, the spectre of fascism has resurfaced. This re-emergence should not be understood as a simple repetition of the 1930s\, but rather as the mutation of fascist tendencies into contemporary conditions. \; One of its defining features is the appropriation of democracy itself. Across different contexts\, authoritarian movements have risen to power through electoral means\, exploiting popular discontent with mainstream politics and using democratic institutions to advance illiberal agendas. Their rhetoric frequently invokes a narrative of national rebirth\, the restoration of a lost &lsquo\;greatness\,&rsquo\; and the reclamation of sovereignty from &lsquo\;corrupt elites\,&rsquo\; &lsquo\;globalists\,&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;dangerous outsiders.&rsquo\; Furthermore\, contemporary fascism permeates everyday life\, normalizing misogyny\, homophobia\, and racism\, and fostering an atmosphere in which authoritarianism appears desirable or inevitable. Its resurgence is closely tied to the expansion of digital media\, which accelerates the spread of conspiracy theories\, hate speech\, and extremist propaganda. Online platforms serve not only as organizational hubs but also as aesthetic arenas where fascist symbols are repackaged in playful or subcultural styles\, obscuring their violent and destructive implications.
\nWhile the ways through which fascism is currently expressed are becoming increasingly visible\, the causes of its re-emergence are more complex\, and so are the challenges they pose to theory. Max Horkheimer famously said that &lsquo\;Whoever is not willing to talk about capitalism should also keep quiet about fascism&rsquo\;\, implying that fascism is always in the background everywhere where capitalism reigns and it intensifies when capitalist realities become unbearable. In this sense\, globalisation and neoliberalism have produced widening inequalities\, labour precarity\, and a pervasive sense of uncertainty and dislocation &mdash\; fertile ground for fascist narratives that promise security\, belonging\, and stability. Yet the Marxist tradition sustained a robust critique of capitalism during the decades of emergence of neoliberalism and globalisation &mdash\; decades in which fascism was widely considered defeated &mdash\; \; but this alone did not prevent its resurgence. Understanding fascism&rsquo\;s reappearance therefore requires a more expansive analysis of its ideological complexity\, attending not only to its entanglement with capital\, but also to race\, gender\, nation\, and empire. At the same time\, as Theodor W. Adorno observed\, fascism possesses an &lsquo\;intrinsically untheoretical nature.&rsquo\; For this reason\, the premise of this Lisbon Praxis Summer School is that fascism&rsquo\;s conditions of emergence and its ways of operating can &mdash\; and must &mdash\; be grasped through renewed critical resources.
\nWith the aim of mobilising Critical Theory&rsquo\;s analytical and explanatory force to understand the contemporary resurgence of fascism and to explore possibilities for its eradication\, the Lisbon Praxis Summer School 2026 will address the following clusters of questions:
\nThe conference\, organized by the Arendt \;Center \;as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project &ldquo\;Rewriting Rights&rdquo\; &ndash\; \;explores the double sense in which feminist justice is \;&ldquo\;on trial&rdquo\; \;today &mdash\; in courtrooms\, where the performance and performativity of legal proceedings expose the structural limits of institutional justice\, and in culture\, where dominant narratives continue to normalize gendered violence. The conference aims to brings feminist philosophy and critical theory into dialogue with socio-legal perspectives to ask what more transformative forms of justice might look like.
\nKeynote speakers:
\nThe conference will also include a workshop on Women&rsquo\;s Courts and Tribunals on Crimes against Women.
\nWe invite submissions from researchers working in \;feminist philosophy\, critical theory\, political theory\, socio-legal theory\, gender studies\, or related fields.
\nWe particularly welcome contributions from early-career researchers and scholars from diverse geographical contexts. \;
\nFor further details\, including submission guidelines and thematic areas\, please consult the full call for abstracts at the link below. \;
\nSubmission deadline: 15 July 2026
\nE-mail for submission and inquiry: \;ontrial.conference@gmail.com
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260720T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260731T170000 SUMMARY:Critical Theory Workshop's 18th Annual Summer School UID:20260516T073033Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq 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:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260724T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260801T170000 SUMMARY:The F-word: autofiction as resistance to patriarchy UID:20260516T073034Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Riga LOCATION:Saulkrasti\, Latvia DESCRIPTION:Feminism gives us a vision\, a framework\, and tools to upend systems. One of those systems is how we think of language and the self. Is it possible to say what is true\, when stories are always already framed by the world in which they take place? What role does autofiction play in our own lives\, in the process of resistance\, in the call for that which remains invisible? The poetic attention inherent in autofiction\, in escrevivê\;ncia\, that is inherent in the work\, is created for and by and to address the necessity of the impossible. Autofiction as an act of God\, of the transcendent that manifests itself in the real\, in lived experience\, and as such is aimed at resisting the patriarchy.
\nIn this symposium we aim to bring together people with whom this theme resonates\, and we ask people to share from their own life\, practise\, profession\, in order to create an ongoing conversation as a way to build resilience. We explicitly invite people to embrace the difference they bring in to contribute towards this shared endeavour. \;
\nAutofiction as Resistance as a method
\nDuring this week we aim to work together on exploring the themes that are central to this circle also in the way we participate. We explicitly invite people to share their insights\, artistic practises and theoretic understanding in a way that invites collaborative thinking. For this reason academic presentations are not accepted\, although a presentation can be a part of a larger workshop. Please indicate in your application how much time you would need for your intervention\, and a brief description on how you aim to use the time allotted to your session. First-time experiments are as welcome as tested concepts. \;
\nParticipants without workshops/sharing of their own personal project/ideas are also most welcome to collaborate during the week in the interactive program. \;
\nAbout Nordic Summer University (NSU):
\nNSU is a space for collaboration between disciplines/peoples/ideas. During the Summer Session several study circles\, each hosting their own program\, will come together &ndash\; participants are welcome to join different circles/programmes during the week. NSU is a horizontal organisation\, being present means you are a member and part of the organisation.
\nCosts
\nNSU offers a limited amount of grants and scholarships. If you are interested in receiving one (which means a reduced participation fee of 100 euro for the whole week)\, please let us know while applying. \;
\n100 euros Scholarship (in shared 4-bed rooms with shared bathroom)
\n1250 euros Institutional price/any room type
\n900 euros Institutional price PhD/any room type
\n950 euros Single room
\n700 euros Bed in double room
\n1000 euros Double room 1 adult 1 child
\n1200 euros Family room 1 adult 2 children
\n1800 euros Family room 2 adults 2 children
\n1500 euros Family room 2 adults 1 child
\n500 euros Camping \;
\nThis includes accommodation and all meals for the full week. The price also includes NSU membership\, so it is not necessary to purchase it separately. Those who have already attended a winter symposium and paid the membership will receive a discount code to deduct the membership fee. No refunds will be given if participants pay membership twice by mistake\, so please mention in your application that you already attended an NSU event this year\, to receive a discount code.
\nDeadlines
\nPlease send us a short text explaining your aim / topic / idea\, how much time you would need to host the experience\, and what materials you would require (paper/paint/bicycles)\, which we will try to accommodate. \;
\nPlease send us your application by April 5th. Especially if you would like to be considered to receive a grant/scholarship\, as decisions on grants/scholarships will be made at the end of April. Deadline to confirm and pay your spot as a grant/scholarship receiver is May 1st. \;
\nOther applicants are accepted on a rolling basis. Final deadline to apply: May 10th. By May 15th you will need to register and pay for the accommodation.
\nApplications and queries can be send to: nicole.nobyeni@nsuweb.org
\nPlease be aware that everyone involved at Nordic Summer University is collaborating on a voluntary basis.
\nAbout the Circle:
\nHow to think/write/be/inter-act without being limited by an already outlined goal/outcome/impact? How to explore what is messy/confused/embodied while accepting that exploration is always also taking place within philosophy/genre/language/life &ndash\; within what is. That is\, our attempt to explore\, to transcend our sites of speech happens in this world and is framed by the situatedness of our lives. Could it be otherwise? This study circle aims to take advantage of the network\, space and openness provided by the Nordic Summer University to raise questions that cannot be answered/grounded/voiced\, for philosophers/writers/feminists and/or/as-well-as those who are other(s/ed/ing). \;
\nThis study circle will explore the liminality of not belonging in a discipline/space/frame/ category/nation. Accepting language as the limit/tool/curse and an unavoidable starting point\, building upon the work of Irigaray/Arendt/Ettinger\, this state of exception of being-with/in/of language is not simple put aside\, but accepted as a reality which is &ldquo\;disturbing\, overwhelming\, and sometimes too close for comfort&rdquo\;. \;
\nThese tensions open up a liminal space &ndash\; how to think/write/be/inter-act within such a space\, while being an/Other\\not-I/(m)\\Other within feminist philosophy? How to write/create/live as a being that is more than the categories available to mark/describe/situate them? How to explore power as a temporary space\, a moment\, political and liminal? How to read and ground ourselves in feminist philosophy while also living/m-othering/PhD-ing? How to even ask/write/question these questions\, without falling prey to the linearity inherent in what/who/why it means to question? \;
\n\nMore information: https://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-4-an-other-not-i-m-other-in-feminist-philosophy/ \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Nicole Des Bouvrie: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260813T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260814T170000 SUMMARY:Feminism and the Corporation: Radical Metaphysics\, Radical Politics? UID:20260516T073035Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Dublin LOCATION:Dublin\, Ireland DESCRIPTION:A two-day workshop on feminist philosophy\, social ontology and the corporation. The workshop forms a part of the ERC grant Corporate Moral Progress\, and will take place at Trinity College Dublin. \;
\nInvited Speakers
\nJade Fletcher (St Andrews)
\nCarol Gould (CUNY)
\nNaï\;ma Hamrouni (UQTR)
\nVanessa Wills (George Washington)
\nWorkshop Summary
\nFeminist philosophy has gone from strength to strength in recent years\, with feminist work on social ontology and power asking us to rethink our very understanding of the social world. However\, one relative lacuna in this growing field has been feminist work on the corporation. With philosophers like Å\;sa Burman urging emancipatory metaphysicians to engage with the &lsquo\;economic base&rsquo\; alongside work on traditional topics like gender and race\, this conference seeks to find ways to begin to fill that gap. In a world where corporate domination is near-universal\, where platforms like Google are rapidly entrenching a new (and potentially post-capitalist) ruling class\, and where corporate power has helped to give rise to increasingly fascist national governments around the world\, the need for feminist theorisations and critiques of the corporation has never been more urgent.
\nSuggested topics for papers at the conference include (but are by no means limited to): \;
\nWhat would a feminist metaphysics of the corporation look like?
\nHow does a feminist analysis contribute to our understanding of corporate power?
\nWhat can the Marxist feminist tradition tell us about our contemporary moment?
\nDo recent transfeminist accounts of social reproduction give us new ways of analysing our relationships to corporations?
\nHow should we think about ideology and the corporation?
\nCan the corporation as a social form be a site of moral progress?
\nIs there a nonideal social ontology of the corporation?
\nCan corporations have genders?
\nWhat does the corporation look like in a technofeudal world?
\nCan the corporation care?
\nWe invite submission of abstracts of no more than 750 words. Submissions should be sent to cullm@tcd.ie \;
\nThe deadline for submissions is March 9th 2026.
\nAccessibility
\nThe planned location\, Trinity Business School\, is wheelchair accessible\, and we are keen to provide for other disability accommodations - please let us know if we can make the workshop more accessible for you! \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Matthew J. Cull: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260902T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260904T170000 SUMMARY:MANCEPT Workshop on Intimate (In)Justices UID:20260516T073036Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Manchester\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Convenors: Kristin Kä\;uper\, Isobel Logan\, Charlotte Curran (University of Leeds)
Contact: \;i.j.logan@leeds.ac.uk
This workshop will explore the relationship between intimacy and justice. We will ask: When and how should considerations of justice extend into our intimate lives and influence our actions? How are intimate relationships shaped by\, reproduce\, and resistant to broader structures of injustice and oppression? Should we worry about the distribution of opportunities for intimacy? How do we balance the responsibilities of the individual\, communities\, and the state in promoting just forms of relating?
We hope to better understand the ways in which hegemonic norms\, institutions\, and intersecting forms of oppression structure intimate life\, governing who is able to form certain relationships\, which relationships are socially valued\, and how power operates within them. We seek to explore the potential of intimate practices and communities of care as sites of resistance\, solidarity\, and social transformation.
We are particularly interested in \;exploring \;non-normative ways of relating (e.g. asexuality/aromanticism\, polyamory\, relationship anarchy) and matters of intersecting identities that are underrepresented in philosophy (e.g. sexuality\, disability\, race\, age\, socio-economic status).
By intimacy\, we mean forms of closeness and connection upon which special relationships are based. This encompasses a wide range of relationships\, including but not limited to sexual\, romantic\, platonic\, collegial\, familial\, and parental relationships\, whether in-person or technologically mediated.
Registration opens in April
\nFurther details about the MANCEPT workshops can be found here: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/activities/mancept-workshops-2026/ \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Isobel Logan;CN="Kristin Käuper";CN=Charlotte Curran: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260902T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260904T170000 SUMMARY:MANCEPT Workshop - Epistemic Injustice and Backlash UID:20260516T073037Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Manchester\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:MANCEPT Workshop - Epistemic Injustice and Backlash: Call for Abstracts \; Recent years have been characterized by significant backlash to progressive social movements and social changes such as the #MeToo movement\, the Black Lives Matter movement\, and the increased visibility of trans people in public life. Dimensions to this backlash include the electoral &ndash\; i.e.\, the rise of far-right political parties\; the legal &ndash\; legislation\, executive orders and judicial decisions e.g. overturning rights to abortion and gender-affirming healthcare\, banning affirmative action and DEI initiatives\, and excluding trans people from participation in sport\; and the necropolitical &ndash\; e.g. the misogynistic murder of René\;e Good and the rising tide of anti-trans violence. A further important dimension to this backlash is the epistemic &ndash\; e.g. the widespread repudiation of the testimonies of Christine Blasey Ford and Amber Heard\, the ridiculing of slogans such as &lsquo\;defund the police&rsquo\;\, and the growing dissemination of myths and disinformation concerning trans people. This dimension to the backlash has recently begun to receive philosophical attention\, with aspects of it being theorized variously as 'hermeneutical backlash' (George &\; Goguen 2021)\, 'hermeneutical sabotage' (Edgoose 2024)\, and 'hermeneutical disarmament' (Morgan 2025) &ndash\; all phenomena thought either to constitute or to result in epistemic injustices. It has also been argued that previously proposed strategies for preventing epistemic injustices are frequently ineffective when confronted by backlash\, prompting a search for other strategies which might be pursued more effectively towards this end (Clanchy forthcoming). Much work on epistemic injustice and backlash remains to be done\, however &ndash\; especially in light of the epistemic injustice literature&rsquo\;s &lsquo\;methodological commitment to the primacy of the nonideal&rsquo\; (Medina 2013: 11). The aim of this workshop is to provide a space for the development of such work.
We invite submissions of abstracts of up to 500 words to a MANCEPT workshop on this topic. Abstracts should be submitted by \;May 1st \;and should be sent to \;han.edgoose@glasgow.ac.uk
Questions that papers may address include\, but are not limited to:
&bull\;How is the epistemic dimension related to other dimensions of backlash?
&bull\;To what kinds of epistemic injustice does backlash give rise? What strategies can be most effectively pursued to prevent epistemic injustices in times of backlash? What kinds of epistemic agency can be exercised by members of targeted groups (Pohlhaus 2020)?
&bull\;Does 'epistemic injustice' (Fricker 2007) in fact provide an adequate framework for thinking about these issues? What about these issues might this framework miss or distort but the frameworks provided by e.g. 'epistemic oppression' (Dotson 2014) or 'epistemologies of ignorance' (Mills 2007) capture?
&bull\;How should previous work on epistemic injustice and e.g. the #MeToo movement (e.g. Jackson 2018) or the Black Lives Matter movement (e.g. Anderson 2017) be developed or rethought in light of the current backlash?
&bull\;What practical lessons can be drawn for the present moment from a study of the epistemic dimension of previous backlashes (e.g. Faludi 1991)?
&bull\;Who bears responsibility\, in both backward- and forward-looking senses (Young 2011)\, for the epistemic dimension of backlash?
&bull\;How can thinking about epistemic injustice and backlash inform methodological debates concerning the relative merits of ideal and nonideal theory? \; The panel will take place in-person at the University of Manchester\, between September 2nd \;and September 4th \;2026. Further details about the MANCEPT workshops can be
found here: \;MANCEPT Workshops 2026 - Research Explorer The University of Manchester \; Han Edgoose and Nick Clanchy (organisers) \;
Liberal and democratic institutions are facing unprecedented challenges. The recent rise of radical right‑wing populist movements and their transnational networks and the access to government in several European countries of radical-right populist parties is testified by restrictive norms on migration\, equality rights\, and welfare.
Scholarly attention has focused on far-right stances concerning anti-migration and EU scepticism. The panel aims to explore and deepen the intersecting role that reproductive rights\, environmental and wider health policies play in shaping the political offer of the European and American far right.
Furthermore\, building on existing studies\, this panel examines the existence of common underlying ideologies of conservative\, libertarian\, and radical right‑wing populist actors enabling them to collaborate across borders to reshape policy agendas at national and EU‑level. It also investigates the transnational role of conservative think tanks in the broader dynamic of far-right discourses and their interplay in domestic policy outcomes.
We invite paper proposals on all aspects of rethinking the relationship between conservative and reactionary thinking\, politics and discursive struggles\, the development of social conservative policies that curb gender equality\, reproductive rights\, universal welfare model\, and environmental justice. Possible topics may be:
-Historical Reconstruction and Philosophical Analysis of Reactionary and Conservative Thoughts on Healthy Society\, Traditional Family\, Health and Social Welfare\, Environmentalism\;
-Discursive Strategies and Ideological Reframing: How do conservative and populist actors appropriate progressive language (e.g.\, &ldquo\;equal rights\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;free speech\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;protecting families&rdquo\;) to advance discriminatory or anti‑rights agendas? How do these movements collaborate or reinforce each other&rsquo\;s narratives and policy goals?
-Policy Content and Ideological Convergence: How do stances on public health\, sexual and reproductive rights\, climate policy\, environmental regulation\, and gender equality interlink or align across conservative and libertarian actors? Is there a common ideology or political agenda that unites various far-right parties in Europe and the United States?
-Can we identify a coherent European radical right agenda\, or do national contexts produce divergent models?
-Think tanks\, metapolitics\, and hegemony in the public discursive sphere\;
-Public Health\, Pandemic Measures\, and Antivax Movements\;
-Reproductive health policy\; broader ideological alignments linking opposition to reproductive rights with other policy domains which impact health and social policies.
This panel aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue across political science\, global health\, gender studies\, environmental policy\, and critical theory. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions. We invite scholars at all career stages\, especially young scholars\, to submit abstracts that engage with these themes.
To submit a paper\, please send an anonymized abstract of no more than 500 words\, suitable for a 30 minute presentation (followed by 30 minutes of Q&\;A)\, to Corrado Piroddi (corrado.piroddi@tuni.fi) or Valentine Berthet (valentine.berthet@tuni.fi)\, by Monday 18 May.
Successful applicants will be notified shortly afterwards.
Who "knows" what Gender is? Arguments and Debates at the Intersection between Epistemic Injustice and Gender Identity
\nOrganisers: Miriam Ronzoni (University of Manchester)\; Esa Dí\;az Leó\;n \;(University of Barcelona).
\nApplication form:
\n\nIn \;recent years\, the "Gender Wars" have dominated public debates in several Western countries. Whilst in the US the debate is largely one between progressives and conservatives\, the UK debate\, and many other European debates\, are often framed as being internal to feminism and what a feminist public policy should look like. Gender critical feminists argue that gender is an oppressive social construct\; thus\, the feminist thing to do with it is simply to destroy it (while failing to recognize trans identities). Trans-inclusive scholars contend that both gender and gender identity cannot be erased without committing very serious harms to some of the already most marginalised people. Predictably\, very different public policy agendas follow.
\nAt closer look\, however\, trans-inclusive scholars and activists agree that gender is largely a social construct. The idea that trans activists and scholars consider gender identity (whether cis or trans) as immutable and innate is largely a myth. The trans-inclusive claim is\, however\, that something can be a social construct yet be very real and serve important social purposes within a certain social context &ndash\; such that destroying the concept *whilst maintain the broader social context* would produce significant harms. Most trans-inclusive actors also agree that gender has many oppressive elements &ndash\; yet contend that\, all things considered\, trans-inclusion is the most promising way to deconstruct those elements. Gender critical feminists usually counter-argue that this stand is simply confused: if gender and gender identity are not something innate but social constructs\, then what are they if not just the oppressive creation of the patriarchy? What else can they be? Thus\, according to gender critical feminism\, either gender identity is conceived as something immutable and innate &ndash\; and that is an implausible claim\, or it is part of an oppressive ideology which should be dismantled. Everything else is mysterious.
\nThis workshop aims to bring together this debate with developments in feminist epistemology. Recently\, much has been written about how the marginalised can be wronged not just in material terms\, but also in their &ldquo\;capacity as knowers&rdquo\; (Fricker 2007). This can happen because their very plausible accounts of their lived experiences are discredited\; because mainstream language and knowledge lack the terms and concepts for their experiences\; and because\, as a result\, marginalised people have struggled to make sense of their own experiences &ndash\; both to themselves and to others. All of this is compatible with marginalised people being\, in spite of all\, very competent or even uniquely insightful knowers in certain domains (Medina 2013).
\nThe workshop asks whether this can be the case for the concepts of gender and gender identity. Could it be that\, when the opponent says that trans-inclusive accounts of gender identity are &ldquo\;confused\,&rdquo\; &ldquo\;mysterious\,&rdquo\; or &ldquo\;don&rsquo\;t make sense\,&rdquo\; epistemic marginalisation is playing a role? It would not\, after all\, be the first time. A standpoint of uncertainty and puzzlement is not necessarily one of ignorance: it can indeed be the starting point of productive epistemic innovations. Indeed\, paradigmatic cases of hermeneutical injustice confirm that: the working women who struggled to make sense of their experience of unwelcome sexual flirtation in the workplace are the very same women who went on and developed a new concept for it &ndash\; workplace sexual harassment.
\nThe aim is to explore whether this can apply to trans-inclusive conceptual innovations about gender and gender identity and\, if so\, how barriers of intelligibility can be overcome. Conceptions of gender identity are undergoing revisions in feminist philosophy (e.g.\, Barnes 2022\, Cosker-Rowland 2023\, Cull 2024\, Hernandez &\; Bell 2025\, Jenkins 2023). Our aim is to further explore the connections between debates about conceptual innovations on gender and gender identity\, on the one hand\, and questions about epistemic injustice\, epistemic marginalization and conceptual interventions\, on the other hand.
\nIf you are unsure about whether your proposal might fit\, please feel free to reach out to the organisers before submitting.
\nTo apply\, please fill in and submit the application form below by 30th April \;(EXTENDED UNTIL 7 MAY):
\n\nReferences
\nBarnes\, Elizabeth (2022). Gender without Gender Identity: The Case of Cognitive Disability. Mind 131 (523):836-862.
\nBriggs\, R &\; B. R. George (2023). What Even Is Gender? Routledge.
\nCosker-Rowland\, Rach (2023). Recent Work on Gender Identity and Gender. Analysis 83 (4):801-820.
\nCull\, Matthew J. (2024). What Gender Should Be. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
\nFricker\, Miranda (2007). Epistemic injustice: power and the ethics of knowing. New York: Oxford University Press.
\nHernandez\, E. M. &\; Bell\, Rowan (2025). Much Ado About Nothing: Unmotivating "Gender Identity". Ergo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 12 (50):1313-1340.
\nJenkins\, Katharine (2023). Ontology and Oppression: Race\, Gender\, and Social Reality. New York: OUP.
\nMedina\, José\; (2013). The Epistemology of Resistance: Gender and Racial Oppression\, Epistemic Injustice\, and the Social Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press.
ORGANIZER;CN=Esa Diaz-Leon;CN=Miriam Ronzoni: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260903T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260904T170000 SUMMARY:CEE Forum of Young Legal\, Political and Social Theorists UID:20260516T073040Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Katowice\, Poland DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to invite you to apply and register for the 18th CEE Forum of Young Legal\, Political and Social Theorists\, which will take place on 3&ndash\;4 September 2026 at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland).\n\nThis year's theme\, "Reconstructing Justice in a Changing World\," encourages reflection on how law\, politics\, and social theory respond to contemporary crises\, conflicts\, technological transformations\, and shifting normative frameworks. We welcome submissions from early-career scholars working in legal theory\, political philosophy\, social and constitutional theory\, and related disciplines.\n\nThe CEE Forum is a long-standing international initiative that creates a space for rigorous discussion\, constructive feedback\, and academic networking across Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.\n\nSubmission Details\nAbstract length: up to 400 words\nDeadline for abstracts: 30 April 2026\nNotification of acceptance: 15 May 2026\nConference dates: 3-4 September 2026\nVenue: University of Silesia\, Katowice\, Poland\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Maciej Juzaszek: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260903T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260904T170000 SUMMARY:Queering Private Law UID:20260516T073041Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:London\, United Kingdom ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260911T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260911T090000 SUMMARY:TransCare 2nd Edition UID:20260516T073042Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Dublin LOCATION:Cork\, Ireland DESCRIPTION:Healthcare education and research continue to grapple with the limits of inherited epistemologies: frameworks that have long marginalised\, pathologised\, or erased trans\, gender-diverse\, and intersex lives. Scholarship on \;epistemic injustice \;(Hall 2017\; Wesp et al. 2019) and \;situated knowledges \;(Haraway 1988) shows how these exclusions are embedded in the very processes through which knowledge is produced and legitimised. Insights from gender/sex pluralism (Monro 2005\; 2019\; Preciado 2013) further highlight how institutional systems struggle to \;accommodate the complexity of lived identities \;within and beyond binary frameworks. Transformative inclusion within healthcare settings therefore requires more than updated curricula or revised clinical guidelines: it calls for new methodological imagination (see e.g. Pendleton &\; Pezaro 2025).
\nThis year&rsquo\;s TransCare conference invites \;scholars\, practitioners\, educators\, and community researchers \;to explore how \;creative\, interdisciplinary\, and humanities‑driven methodologies \;can reshape the production of knowledge in healthcare. Building on the 2024 edition&rsquo\;s focus on educational tools\, TransCare turns its attention to the research practices that make such tools possible. We ask how \;arts‑based\, participatory\, speculative\, and community‑led approaches \;can open pedagogical and methodological pathways that affirm gender diversity\, challenge normative assumptions\, and cultivate critical and trans‑affirming pedagogies and research.
\nTo do so\, we aim to foreground methodology not as a technical procedure but as a site where \;knowledge\, care\, and power intersect. Approaches that centre \;lived experience\, relationality\, and reflexivity \;can unsettle dominant epistemic frames and generate new possibilities for teaching and practice. Attending to the \;affective and embodied dimensions of research \;and care (Malatino 2020\; 2022) further highlights the need for methodologies that recognise and value ways of knowing and dealing with trans and intersex communities\, particularly in challenging social and political settings.
\nThe 2026 edition continues TransCare&rsquo\;s commitment to interdisciplinary exchange by emphasising methodology as a site of care\, ethics\, and transformation (Puig de la Bellacasa 2017). \;We welcome contributions that rethink how education and research are designed\, conducted\, interpreted\, and taught\, and that imagine new infrastructures for trans\, gender-diverse\, and intersex&ndash\;inclusive healthcare education.
\n\;
\nScope of Contributions
\nWe welcome contributions from across disciplines\, sectors\, and methodological traditions. Submissions may address\, but are \;not limited \;to\, the following areas:
\nWe particularly encourage submissions that experiment with form\, challenge disciplinary boundaries\, or propose new infrastructures for trans\, gender‑diverse\, and intersex&ndash\;inclusive healthcare research and education. However\, please do not be intimidated: \;all approaches and levels of experimentation are welcome.
\n\;
\nPublication Opportunity
\nWe are also collecting expressions of interest for a \;collected volume on creative\, interdisciplinary\, and humanities‑driven methodologies for trans\, gender‑diverse\, and intersex&ndash\;inclusive healthcare research and education.
\nIf you wish to be considered for inclusion in this edited collection\, \;please indicate this when submitting your abstract by ticking the box in the form. \;
List of References
\nHall\, K. Q. (2017). Queer epistemology and epistemic injustice. In I. J. Kidd\, J. Medina\, &\; G. Pohlhaus Jr. (Eds.)\, \;The Routledge handbook of epistemic injustice \;(pp. 158&ndash\;166). Routledge.
\nHaraway\, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. \;Feminist Studies\, 14(3)\, 575&ndash\;599.
\nMalatino\, H. (2020). \;Trans care. University of Minnesota Press.
Malatino\, H. (2022). \;Side affects: On being trans and feeling bad. University of Minnesota Press.
Monro\, S. (2005). \;Gender politics: Activism\, citizenship and sexual diversity. Pluto Press.
\nMonro\, S. (2019). Non-binary and genderqueer: An overview of the field. \;International Journal of Transgenderism\, 20(2&ndash\;3)\, 126&ndash\;131.
\nPendleton\, J.\, &\; Pezaro\, S. (2025). From midwife to lead perinatal practitioner: A utopian vision. \;Birth\, 52(3)\, 511&ndash\;516.
\nPreciado\, B. P. (2013). \;Testo Junkie: Sex\, drugs\, and biopolitics in the pharmacopornographic era. The Feminist Press.
\nPuig de la Bellacasa\, M. (2017). \;Matters of care: Speculative ethics in more than human worlds. University of Minnesota Press.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Valeria Venditti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260911T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20260912T170000 SUMMARY:TransCare 2nd Edition UID:20260516T073043Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Dublin LOCATION:Cork\, Ireland DESCRIPTION:Creative Practices for Trans\, Gender‑Diverse and Intersex Inclusive Healthcare Research and Education 11&ndash\;12 September 2026 | University College Cork\nTransCare began in 2024 with funding from Research Ireland&rsquo\;s New Foundations scheme to discuss the needs and concerns of intersex\, trans and gender‑diverse people in health settings and envision gender‑affirmative education for healthcare professionals. \;The first edition was hosted in collaboration with \;Society for Women In Philosophy Ireland \;and marked the launch of PATHI\, the \;Professional Association for Trans Health Ireland\, which works to advance trans‑affirming\, evidence‑based healthcare and support practitioners across the island.
\nThanks to the \;Health Research Board&rsquo\;s CES Scheme 2025\, TransCare returns in 2026 with a renewed focus on creative and interdisciplinary methodologies for trans\, gender‑diverse\, and intersex&ndash\;inclusive healthcare research and education.
\nThe conference is organised by Dr Valeria Venditti (they/them\; she/her)\, College Lecturer in Healthcare at the School of Nursing and Midwifery\, University College Cork. The 2026 scientific committee includes people with lived experience\, Dr Valeria Venditti\, Mx Ryan \;Biskupović-Goulding \;(College Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing\, SONM\, UCC)\, and Dr Meg Ryan (Assistant Professor in Psychology and Director of the MSc in Global Mental Health\, Trinity College Dublin)
\n\nThe CFP is open!
\n\n ORGANIZER;CN=Valeria Venditti: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261006T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20261007T170000 SUMMARY:The Nature of Social Identities: Metaphysics\, Epistemology\, and Politics UID:20260516T073044Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Arna Nováka 1\, Brno \, Czech Republic\, 60200 DESCRIPTION:The Department of Philosophy\, Faculty of Arts\, Masaryk University in Brno\, Czech Republic\, invites submissions for a conference on the metaphysical and epistemological foundations of social identities\, organised within the research project Identity Politics: Metaphysics and Epistemology.
\nConference Theme
\nIn recent decades\, political and social debates have increasingly focused on identity-based groups defined by characteristics such as race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, disability\, class\, religion\, or age. These developments have generated extensive discussion in political philosophy and social theory. However\, many of the metaphysical and epistemological assumptions underlying identity politics remain insufficiently examined.
\nThis conference aims to investigate the nature\, constitution\, and epistemic role of social identities. In particular\, we seek to explore the mechanisms through which identities emerge as robust social and political entities\, and the ways in which identity-related features&mdash\;such as lived experience\, self-identification\, social recognition\, and shared narratives&mdash\;contribute to their formation and persistence. \;
\nAnother central aim is to examine whether different identities (for example\, race\, gender\, sexual orientation\, or class) are constituted through similar or distinct metaphysical and epistemic mechanisms. Comparative approaches that analyse similarities and differences across identities are especially welcome. \;
\nThe conference will also address the epistemological aspects of social identities\, including questions concerning situated knowledge\, epistemic authority\, intersectionality\, and conflicts among different socially situated perspectives.
\nTopics
\nPossible topics include\, but are not limited to:
\nMetaphysics of Social and Political Identities
\nEpistemology of Social Identity
\nSubmissions from metaphysics\, epistemology\, social philosophy\, feminist philosophy\, philosophy of race\, and related areas are welcome.
\nKeynote speaker: Kristina Rolin (Tampere University)
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nPlease submit an anonymous abstract of 400&ndash\;500 words.
\nThe submission should be attached to the email in .pdf format and prepared for blind review. Please include the following information separately in the body of the email: your name(s)\, affiliation(s)\, contact information\, the title of your talk.
\nImportant Dates
\nConference Details
\nSubmission
\nPlease send submissions to: belohrad@phil.muni.cz
\nContact
\nFor inquiries\, please contact: Radim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. (belohrad@phil.muni.cz)
\nOrganizing committee
\nRadim Bělohrad\, Ph.D. \;
\nZdeňka Jastrzembská\;\, Ph.D. \;
\nMarek Picha\, Ph.D.
\nDagmar Pichová\;\, Ph.D.
ORGANIZER;CN=Radim Belohrad: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261031T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261031T090000 SUMMARY:Special Issue of Análisis Filosófico: “Oppressive Argumentation: Silencing and Oppressive Speech in Argumentation” UID:20260516T073045Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers
\nSpecial Issue of Aná\;lisis Filosó\;fico: &ldquo\;Oppressive Argumentation: Silencing and Oppressive Speech in Argumentation&rdquo\;
\nThis special issue aims to collect original articles in Spanish and English devoted to the analysis of oppressive discourses within our argumentative practices\, with a particular emphasis on those commonly found in Latin American contexts. Informal logic\, epistemology\, and gender studies will serve as the central&mdash\;though not exclusive&mdash\;perspectives guiding this special issue.
\nWe may understand &ldquo\;oppressive discourse&rdquo\; as a speech act that harms a person or group\, whose consequences contribute to the perpetuation of their conditions of subordination. One way in which oppression manifests itself is by depriving such individuals or groups of credibility (and\, consequently\, of epistemic authority)\, thereby reproducing discriminatory forms of subordination. This (epistemic) form of oppression typically accounts for the silencing of certain marginalized groups. This special issue will place particular emphasis on analyzing these forms of oppression\, as well as the discursive and argumentative mechanisms that sustain them.
\nLanguage is a powerful force\, deeply intertwined with social practices and ways of life: harmful stereotypes about individuals or groups are forged and reinforced through discursive activities. Thus\, in order to prevent epistemic injustices\, it is necessary to intervene in the discursive domain of power by critically reflecting on its influence on credibility\, epistemic authority\, and the prejudices associated with epistemic agents\, as well as on the fallacies and argumentative errors committed by those who produce oppressive discourses. Informal logic\, epistemology\, and gender studies have much to contribute to this area\, and this issue seeks to highlight contributions from these philosophical fields by examining recurring forms of discussion and argumentation in cases and examples drawn from everyday life. As a final outcome\, this collection aims to show how philosophical argumentation can both help mitigate situations of epistemic injustice and contribute to identifying and dismantling harmful prejudices that promote discrimination.
\nSubmissions are invited on topics including\, but not limited to:
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Discursive silencing and epistemic exclusion in argumentative contexts
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Epistemic injustice in practices of debate and deliberation
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Epistemic authority in argumentation
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Fallacies and argumentative errors in oppressive discourses
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Relations between social power\, language\, and argumentation
\n● \; \; \; \; \; Philosophical analysis of oppressive speech in Latin American contexts
\nSubmissions must be made through the Aná\;lisis Filosó\;fico website (https://analisisfilosofico.org/index.php/af/about/submissions)\, following the author guidelines (https://analisisfilosofico.org/index.php/af/guia-autores). When submitting the manuscript\, authors should include a note in the &ldquo\;Comments for the Editor&rdquo\; field indicating that the submission is intended for this special issue. All submissions will undergo double-blind peer review by external referees. The deadline for submissions is October 31\, 2026. For inquiries\, please contact:pyrosuarezcaro@gmail.com.
\nThe guest editorial team is composed of Pyro Suarez (lead editor)\, Pamela Lastres (editorial supervisor)\, and Luz Muñ\;oz (editorial assistant)\, all members of the research project &ldquo\;Silencing and Discourses of Oppression in Peru: Intersections between Informal Logic\, Epistemology\, and Gender Studies&rdquo\; at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261101T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261101T234500 SUMMARY:The Relevance of Michel Foucault in the Face of Global Surveillance\, Post-Truth and New Forms of Governance UID:20260516T073046Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Labyrinth: An International Journal of Philosophy\, Value Theory\, and Sociocultural Hermeneutics \;is preparing a special issue in honor of the 100th \;anniversary of Michel Foucault's birth. The publication aims to highlight the continued relevance of Foucault&rsquo\;s conception of power. His analyses of power are particularly pertinent in the present age because he describes power not only as domination of a person/group over other individuals or groups\, but also as extensive networks such as those involved in money laundering\, drug trafficking\, and the Epstein network\, to name but a few examples. Furthermore\, his theories on discipline\, surveillance\, and governmentality are essential for comprehending digital surveillance and the optimization of power and social control in today's world. Foucault also pointed out ways in which the subject can free itself from external influences and begin to "govern" itself. His revelations about the relationships between power and truth\, as well as power and knowledge\, are crucial in this regard.
\nScholars working in the field of Foucault's philosophy are invited to submit a \;brief abstract and bio-bibliographic information \;by \;April 30\, 2026. The bio-bibliographic information should include the following: name\, academic degree\, academic position\, academic affiliation\, and five to seven main publications.
\nAuthors with finished\, unpublished papers are welcome to submit them with an abstract. Final papers should be proofread and formatted according to the journal guidelines (i.e.\, print-ready) and submitted no later than \;November 1\, 2026.
\nAs a multilingual Journal \;Labyrinth \;accepts papers in English\, French\, and German.
\nFor more information about the journal policies and the submission guidelines please visit: \;https://www.axiapublishers.com/ojs/index.php/labyrinth/AuthorGuidelines
\n\;All abstracts and papers should be sent to labyrinth[at]axiapublishers.com
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261106T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261107T170000 SUMMARY:Social Categories of the Future UID:20260516T073047Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Los_Angeles LOCATION:1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, United States DESCRIPTION:Recent years have seen an explosion of work on social categories\, including gender\, race\, disability\, and sexual orientation. But little attention has been paid to what these and other categories might look like in the future. \;
\nFor example\, trans philosophy is just beginning to broach the topic of futuristic social categories\, while social metaphysics has just begun to investigate gender abolitionism (the view that gender categories should be abolished in a more just future.) Philosophers of AI have just begun thinking about how artificially intelligent entities will fit into human-constructed social structures\, or whether they will develop their own social hierarchies.
\nWe plan to bring together researchers from different approaches and viewpoints working on these and related topics. Topics for abstracts include\, but are not limited to:
\nThe existence and nonexistence of gender categories in the future\, and their level of grain
\nGender abolitionism
\nChanging notions of ability\, disability\, and health given new technologies and scientific breakthroughs
\nChanging notions of biological sex given advances in reproductive technology
\nRacial\, ethnic\, and religious categories of the future
\nAmeliorative construction and destruction of social categories \;
\nSocial categories and hierarchies of artificial intelligent agents
\nThis workshop is generously funded by the International Social Ontology Society and the Department of Philosophy at University of California\, Santa Cruz.
\nOrganizers: Sara Bernstein and Nico Orlandi
\nPlease send extended abstracts of no more than 1500 words to socialcategoriesofthefuture@gmail.com. Deadline: July 15\, 2026 (anywhere in the world).
\nSmall travel bursaries may be available for graduate students and precariously employed attendees. Please email the organizers to find out more.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261113T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261115T170000 SUMMARY:Another Sense of Earth at the End of Worlds: Environmental Humanities in the Face of Crises UID:20260516T073048Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:1704 W Mulberry St\, Denton\, United States\, 76201 DESCRIPTION:Another Sense of Earth at the End of Worlds: Environmental Humanities in the Face of Crises
The Fourth Philosophy and Religion Graduate Student Conference \;
at the University of North Texas (UNT) \;
In a time of crises overshadowed by impressions of the precarity and contingency of the plurality of worlds we live in\, we invite interdisciplinary\, critical reflection on the meaning and stakes of our senses of world and ending. While totalizing narratives of crises oscillate between techno-optimistic visions of geoengineering and dystopic pessimism\, this conference seeks to contextualize dominant understandings of endings to envision new conceptions of time\, relations\, and finality beyond the hegemonic imaginaries.
For whom and what do the apocalyptic bells of the end of the world sound? What does it even mean to conceive of &ldquo\;our&rdquo\; world as ending? Who&rsquo\;s included and excluded from this sense of world? What does it mean for traditions in which the end of the world is inevitable\, cyclical\, or has already come to pass? What would this so-called &ldquo\;end of the world&rdquo\; even mean for people who&rsquo\;ve already endured innumerable ends to their ways of life?
Taking up the gauntlet thrown by Thomas Nail in Theory of the Earth\, we ask for submissions that problematize static\, dominant conceptions of world and think with him on what it means\, in the context of crises\, to imagine how &ldquo\;this stable ground is becoming increasingly unstable&mdash\;for some of us more than others.&rdquo\; In this spirit\, the conference seeks to engage with forms of thought that emphasize the radically plural character of sense-making\, ways of knowing\, and temporal existence. We welcome submissions that build upon these critical and marginalized perspectives to challenge assumptions of crisis and delimit what worlds are at stake. Within these broad thematic horizons\, we aim to bring together a diverse set of perspectives into dialogue and reconceptualize our relationship to planet Earth. \;
\n\nWe cordially invite graduate students from all fields and disciplines to submit their research and perspectives on the following themes:
\nIndigenous &\; non-Western conceptions of world-making\, cataclysm\, and/or time
\nFeminist/Queer theories on resistant subjectivities and spaces in the face of precarity
\nGeophilosophical approaches from traditions historically excluded from philosophy (ex. Sikhism\, Buddhism\, Hinduism\, etc.) \;
\nPhilosophies of science and normative theories that utilize a planetary approach \;
\nRelational ontologies\, specifically those with nonhuman and more-than-human beings
\nPhenomenological accounts of temporality\, &ldquo\;world collapse\,&rdquo\; and futurity
\nCritical theories on the &ldquo\;Anthropocene&rdquo\; and the role of capitalism in the ongoing environmental crisis
\nEcocritical perspectives on the role of technology and natural science in organizing our sense of the Earth
\nConference Details
\nThe conference will be held in-person at the University of North Texas\, Denton\, TX\, from November 13th-15th. This conference does not require registration fees. \;\nThe conference will feature Thomas Nail\, a Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver\, as the keynote speaker\, whose materialist interventions in conceptions of earth and planet\, particularly in Theory of the Earth\, pose deep and transformational reflections on imaginaries of time\, space\, and world for our context of apocalypse and crisis.\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261119T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261121T170000 SUMMARY:Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Conference UID:20260516T073049Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:Hyatt Centric Chicago Magnificent Mile\, 633 N St Clair St\, Chicago\, IL\, United States ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261203T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20261204T170000 SUMMARY:"On Trial". Claiming Feminist Justice in Dark Times - Between Law\, Testimony\, and Politics UID:20260516T073050Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Via San Francesco 22\, Verona\, Italy DESCRIPTION:The conference\, organized by the Arendt \;Center \;as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Project &ldquo\;Rewriting Rights&rdquo\; &ndash\; \;explores the double sense in which feminist justice is \;&ldquo\;on trial&rdquo\; \;today &mdash\; in courtrooms\, where the performance and performativity of legal proceedings expose the structural limits of institutional justice\, and in culture\, where dominant narratives continue to normalize gendered violence. The conference aims to brings feminist philosophy and critical theory into dialogue with socio-legal perspectives to ask what more transformative forms of justice might look like.
\nKeynote speakers:
\nThe conference will also include a workshop on Women&rsquo\;s Courts and Tribunals on Crimes against Women.
\n\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20270409T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20270409T230000 SUMMARY:Call for Papers: Hypatia Special Issue ‘Gender and Nation’ UID:20260516T073051Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:'Gender and Nation' Special Issue of \;Hypatia \;(43.3)\, Summer 2028
\nAcross the globe\, nationalist projects are being renewed and intensified\, mobilizing &ldquo\;gender&rdquo\; as a central site of social and political struggle. From anti-gender movements and border regimes to racialized citizenship policies and digital surveillance\, contemporary nationalisms draw on gender and related intersectional structures to organize political belonging\, govern populations\, and delineate whose lives are recognized as part of &ldquo\;the nation.&rdquo\; These developments lend a particular urgency to examining the philosophical stakes of the relationship between &ldquo\;gender&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;nation&rdquo\; today.
\nThis special issue of \;Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy \;invites philosophical engagements of the topic of &ldquo\;Gender and Nation.&rdquo\; We seek contributions that interrogate how nations are imagined\, experienced\, constituted\, and governed through gendered logics that shape various forms of exclusion\, political subjectivity\, citizenship\, and national belonging. While broadly soliciting contributions that (re)consider &ldquo\;the nation&rdquo\; alongside &ldquo\;gender\,&rdquo\; we also wish to mark the 30th \;anniversary of Nira Yuval-Davis&rsquo\; influential book\, \;Gender and Nation. \;Yuval-Davis&rsquo\; work has been foundational for studies on gender and nationalisms\, and has inspired countless feminist analyses of the idea and lived experience of &ldquo\;the nation.&rdquo\; In the 30 years since the book&rsquo\;s publication\, the world has changed in unimaginable ways\, with the last decade\, in particular\, witnessing a resurgence in nationalist fervour that forms part of a global shift to the right. An assessment of and reengagement with &ldquo\;gender and nation&rdquo\; is therefore not only apt\, but arguably more pressing than ever\, given that such nationalist resurgence has deployed gendered dynamics that are deeply troubling from a feminist perspective.
\nQuestioning whether the idea and attendant realisation of &ldquo\;the nation&rdquo\; can ever be straightforwardly adopted by feminists\, this special issue also provides an opportunity to highlight past and present feminist resistance to misogyny and sexist policymaking underlying patriarchal nation-building projects. Indeed\, there are numerous examples of feminist activism and scholarship challenging nationalism\, but also reconfiguring and claiming &ldquo\;the nation&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;nationalism&rdquo\; in progressive terms. Building on the by now large and influential feminist literature on nationalisms\, of which \;Gender and Nation \;is a stalwart\, we invite contributors to take stock of work on &ldquo\;the nation&rdquo\;\, and to present new and promising ways of thinking about the theme of \;gender and nation. To this end\, articles might address\, without being limited to\, the following questions:
\nContributors working in and across various relevant disciplines (e.g. philosophy\, gender studies\, sociology\, literature\, politics\, and disability studies) are invited to address these questions philosophically\, and to do so drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks (such as critical race theory\, crip theory\, queer theory\, and postcolonial theory). We welcome contributions from diverse social\, cultural\, and geographical contexts\, including those approaching &ldquo\;gender and nation&rdquo\; through decolonial\, Indigenous\, queer of colour\, trans\, and Black feminist frameworks.
\nSubmissions must be written in English and prepared for anonymous review. We will accept both traditional article submissions (up to 10\,000 words long\, excluding footnotes and references) and musings (4\,000 words including footnotes\, but not references). Musings are not merely short research articles\; they are often more personal and/or more concerned with current issues than full-fledged academic articles\, and they are typically less rooted in particular bodies of literature. However they are approached\, Musings should seek to catalyse philosophical reflection on important issues in feminist philosophy. (For examples\, please see the recently published Musings on our \;FirstView \;pages.) We encourage submissions to be written in a style accessible across relevant disciplines\, and with an eye to understanding concrete social and political phenomena. \;
\nDeadline for submission: \;9th \;April 2027
\nPlease submit your original manuscript electronically through the Cambridge University Press online submission and review system \;ScholarOne. Manuscripts need to be prepared for anonymous review. More information may be found in the \;Manuscript Preparations Guidelines.
\nFor any questions on this special issue\, contact the guest editors: Clara Fischer (C.Fischer@qub.ac.uk) and Fulden İbrahimhakkıoğlu (fulden@metu.edu.tr). \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260509T171349Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:29990101T033000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:29990201T120000 SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Creativity and Improvisation in Thought\, Practice\, and Mind: An Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20260516T073052Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:6001 Dodge Street\, Omaha\, United States\, 68182 DESCRIPTION:*Please note that this event has officially been postponed. More information will be made available asap in the near future*
\nMany human cognitive capacities and processes may be deployed creatively\, from unique choices made for oneself up through novel cultural shifts. Similarly\, large swaths of our daily lives are taken up with performing spontaneous\, on-the-fly\, and unplanned activities that are\, in a word\, improvised. \; Charting out the nature of both creativity and improvisation\, taken individually or together\, remains an open and pressing issue. In this conference\, we will delve into various philosophical\, theoretical\, empirical\, and interdisciplinary issues that are related to creativity and improvisation. A non-exhaustive list of related questions and themes for this topic include:
\n- What is the relationship between improvisation and creativity?
\n- What is the relationship between creative activity and well-being?
\n- What is the best way to model individual and collective creativity?
\n- Is creativity in the arts the same thing as in other domains\, such as in science or business?
\n- What are the pros and cons of different scientific operationalizations of creativity and improvisation?
\n- Provide a conceptual analysis of creativity and/or improvisation.
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