In Conversation: Exploring the Philosophy of Money and Finance &ndash\; Series III
\nA series of interviews with contributors to The Philosophy of Money and Finance (Hardcover\, OUP 2024\; Paperback\, fall 2025)
\nSchedule
\n"Truth in Financial Accounting"
Author: Christopher J. Cowton (Emeritus\, University of Huddersfield)
Interviewer: Lisa Warenski (CUNY Graduate Center)
Date and Time: 15 January 2026\, 18:00 CET
"Green Central Banking" \;
Authors: Peter Dietsch (University of Victoria)\; Clé\;ment Fontan (University of Louvain)
Interviewer: Jens van't Klooster
Date and Time: 25 March 2026\, 18:00 CET
"On the Wrongfulness of Bank Contributions to Financial Crises"
Author: \;Richard Endö\;rfer (University of Gothenburg)
Interviewer: Kobi Finestone (Univeresity of San Diego)
Date and Time: 01 June 2026\, 18:00 CET
"Bitcoins Left and Right: A Normative Assessment of a Digital Currency"
Authors: Lars Lindblom and Joakim Sandberg
Interviewer: Violet Victoria
Date and Time: October (TBA) 2026\, 18:00 CET
New Generation Research Exchange
\n\;Call for Applications \;
\nSummary \;
\nThe Humane Philosophy Society\, in collaboration the Faculty of Philosophy\, University of Warsaw\, Blackfriars Hall\, University of Oxford\, and Faculty of Philosophy\, Zagreb University invite applications for the New Generation Research Exchange programme. The Exchange programme will give young scholars in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) working on Big Questions of fundamental human importance the opportunity to participate in three fully funded workshops taking place at the Universities of Warsaw\, Zagreb and Oxford. Participants will have the further opportunity to apply to continue the research during a term of funded supervised research at the University of Oxford on the Marek Matraszek Fellowship. Participants&rsquo\; research projects will be assessed by an external committee after the final workshop takes place to determine possible supervisors for research visits to Oxford. The Fellowship will conclude with an alumni workshop in the summer of 2026 to take place in Trogir\, Croatia. \;
\nAn introductory video can be viewed here: \;
\nhttps://youtu.be/vfaPrP2W2Hs
\nEligibility
\nApplicants will normally be MA or early PhD students at Central and Eastern European research institutions\, including universities\, research academies and seminaries\, or young scholars from CEE on equivalent degree programmes outside the region. The programme is intended to support research projects of successful candidates during the final year of their MA course\, or developing their MA research topics for publication\, or with a PhD application in mind\, as well as those beginning to work on a PhD. Proposed projects should broadly fall under the project themes\, which are outlined below. \; It is expected that most applications will be submitted by natural scientists\, theologians and philosophers\, but there are no disciplinary restrictions and applicants with academic backgrounds in other areas are also welcome. Applications are welcome from researchers working in any religious tradition\, and from researchers working in no religious tradition.
\nFor the purposes of the project\, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) is defined as: Albania\, Armenia\, Azerbaijan\, Belarus\, Bosnia and Herzegovina\, Bulgaria\, Croatia\, Czechia\, Estonia\, Georgia\, Hungary\, Kosovo\, Latvia\, Lithuania\, Moldova\, Montenegro\, North Macedonia\, Poland\, Romania\, Serbia\, Slovakia\, Slovenia and Ukraine.
\nActivities
\nSuccessful candidates will participate in a series of three masterclasses during the course of the programme. The meetings will take place over three days each at the Universities of Zagreb\, Warsaw\, and Oxford. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss their work as a group and with invited mentors\, as well as participate in seminars led by prominent visiting speakers. The Fellowship will cover all the costs of participating in each masterclass including travel and accommodation. The fellowship will conclude with an alumni workshop in the summer of 2026 which will cover all participant costs except travel. The total value of the Fellowship is 4000 USD. \;
\nSelected participants will have a further opportunity to receive the Marek Matraszek Oxford Fellowship to complete their work during a term at Oxford University\, where they will be able to work closely with a secondary supervisor to advance their research. The funding for research visits at Oxford University will cover accommodation\, living costs\, college fees\, and supervision and have a total value of 3000 USD. \;
\nSupported Research Themes
\nThe programme will support research which engages with Big Questions of universal human importance. We are especially interested in research into fundamental issues which straddle boundaries between disciplines including philosophy\, psychology\, physical sciences\, social sciences\, theology\, literature and cultural studies. Applicants will be expected to engage with recent developments in their disciplines\, and demonstrate a high standard of academic rigor. Suitable topics include\, but are not limited to:
\n▪ The significance of theological traditions for scientific practice today\;
\n▪ The relations of brains\, minds and human persons\;
\n▪ Whether physical cosmology can explain the origin of the cosmos\;
\n▪ The role of religion in the historical development of science\;
\n▪ The place of values in the natural world\;
\n▪ The relevance of literary works and traditions for understanding and interpreting Big Questions\;
\n▪ Phenomenology of human life and interpersonal relations\;
\n▪ Intellectual traditions in CEE and their import for Big Questions\;
\n▪ Free will and scientific determinism and/or divine foreknowledge\;
\n▪ Empirical psychology and the second person perspective\;
\n▪ Phenomenological approaches to religion\;
\n▪ Understanding notions of God\, good and evil in a scientific age.
\nFor further example areas that explore Big Questions applicants are strongly encouraged to visit the Humane Philosophy Society&rsquo\;s website where example areas of interest are listed.
\nFor more information on the NGRE fellowship programme as well as on NGRE alumni visit: \;https://www.humanephilosophy.com/ngre
\nApplication process
\nApplications for Exchange Fellowships must be submitted no later than 1 August 2025 for the cycle of the programme starting October 2025. Applications must include the following documents. \; \;
\n▪A proposal describing the research the candidate is carrying out\, how far the research is advanced\, and an outline of the work the candidate expects to complete during the course of their final year. \;
\n▪A full curriculum vitae\, and a statement saying how the candidate expects to benefit from participating in the programme
\n▪Two academic references including a reference from the candidate&rsquo\;s supervisor if the research project is part of an MA degree. \;
\n▪A confirmation from the candidate&rsquo\;s institution stating that they are allowed to participate in the programme during the academic year 2025&ndash\;6. \;
\nAll application materials should be submitted via email to info@humanephilosophy.com stating in the subject line: &ldquo\;NGRE application&rdquo\;. The results of the competition will be announced in September 2025.
\nBy submitting an application for the New Generation Research Exchange candidates accept and acknowledge the terms of processing their personal data for the purpose of the application process. For further information concerning the processing of personal data by the University of Warsaw see the personal data information sheet. If you have any questions please contact Dr Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode: m.slawkowski-rode@uw.edu.pl \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Mikolaj Slawkowski-Rode;CN=Marija Selak;CN=Ralph Stefan Weir: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260218T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261209T170000 SUMMARY:Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series 2026 UID:20260712T080227Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:I am excited to share that the \;Reconstructing Carnap Webinar Series \;will resume in \;February 2026! Please find the official flyer attached. All talks will take place from \;4:30 PM to 6:30 PM CET \;(10:30 AM&ndash\;12:30 PM EST).
The webinar can be accessed via the following link: https://meet.google.com/uaq-jqpf-mwr
Schedule of speakers:
The series is organized in collaboration with \;Carnap in Context IV \;(Ö\;AW\, FWF Grant PAT7905424) and \;Rudolf Carnap Digital \;(MCMP\, LMU Munich). \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Caterina Del Sordo;CN=Luca Oliva;CN=Silvano Zipoli Caiani: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260317T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261117T170000 SUMMARY:Wittgenstein's Lecture on Ethics: Online Lecture Series UID:20260712T080228Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Das InterChair Kolloquium ist ein offenes Forum fü\;r Philosophie\, das die Grenzen von Lehrstü\;hlen und Seminarrä\;umen ü\;berschreitet und jede:n dazu einlä\;dt\, ein selbstgewä\;hltes Thema vorzustellen und gemeinsam zu diskutieren &ndash\; egal ob eigene Forschungsarbeit\, Seminararbeit oder persö\;nliches philosophisches Interesse. \; \;
Prä\;sentiert wird in einem Rahmen\, der den Austausch zwischen Studierenden\, Promovierenden und dem weiteren philosophisch Interessierten fö\;rdert. \; \;
Immer mittwochs\, 18 Uhr\, IZPH Bonn.
Zuhö\;rer sind immer herzlichst eingeladen! Dafü\;r muss man sich nicht anmelden! \;
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Dalon Axhimusa: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260422T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T170000 SUMMARY:Representations in Minds\, Brains\, and AI UID:20260712T080230Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This series was prompted by a recent wave of fascinating new work on the topic of representations. We are honored and happy that so many authors agreed to participate and we hope to provide a platform for further interdisciplinary discussion. Most papers are already available and you can find links here: \;https://www.pe.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/philosophie/ii/bewusstsein/lehre.html.en \;
Schedule
22 April\, \;Rosa Cao \;(Stanford): The Scientist in the Machine \;(paper forthcoming)
29 April\, \;Ken Aizawa \;(Rutgers): \;The Evidence for Representation \;
06 May\, \;Corey Maley \;(Purdue): \;Structural Representation is Analog Representation
13 May\, \;Kevin J. Mitchell \;(Dublin): \;The Origins of Meaning: From Pragmatic Control Signals to Semantic Representation
20 May\, \;Eric Hochstein \;(Victoria\, Canada)): \;Neural Representations as Scientific Posits and Metaphysical Entities
10 June\, \;Manolo Martí\;nez \;(Barcelona): \;The Information-Processing Perspective on Representation
17 June\, \;John Krakauer \;(Johns Hopkins/Champalimaud Foundation) &\; \;Bill Ramsey \;(Nevada\, Las Vegas): \;Mental Representation without Neural Representation
24 June\, \;Nina Poth \;(Radboud\, Nijmegen) &\; \;Annika Schuster \;(Dortmund): \;Mental\, Scientific\, and Artificial Representations
01 July\, \;Lotem Elber-Dorozko \;(Jerusalem) &\; \;Devin Gouvê\;a \;(Holy Cross): \;"Neural Representation" is not a Defective Concept
08 July\, \;Zina B. Ward \;(Florida State): \;Directive Representation and the Job Description Challenge
15 July\, \;Krzysztof Dolega \;(Ruhr-University Bochum): The Gloss on the Machine: Egan's Representations in Mechanistic Explanation \;(paper forthcoming)
All sessions will be on Zoom:
https://ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/64692924755?pwd=803uh1OEPBkBrEONeL87zJFudGjlw7.1 \; \;
Meeting-ID: 646 9292 4755 | Passwort: 531564
Everybody interested is welcome!
Le Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone\, cré\;é\; en 2024\, vise à\; favoriser une synergie entre celles et ceux qui\, des amateurs aux chercheuses\, fré\;quentent la pensé\;e de Hannah Arendt. Dans cette optique\, nous cherchons à\; mettre en place un rendez-vous ré\;gulier pour en discuter les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects.
\nDu fait de l&rsquo\;é\;tendue de la francophonie\, ces sé\;minaires auront lieu en ligne. Leur principe sera le suivant : les participant-e-s auront tous et toutes pré\;alablement lu un article ou un chapitre ré\;cent\, lequel sera pré\;senté\; trè\;s rapidement par souci de prioriser les é\;changes (10 minutes) par son autrice ou auteur. À\; partir de celui-ci\, un-e membre du ré\;seau ouvrira (5 min) à\; un dé\;bat plus large afin de discuter\, outre l&rsquo\;article\, les diffé\;rents interpré\;tations et aspects de l&rsquo\;&oelig\;uvre d&rsquo\;Arendt (1h30).
\nProgramme 2026\nEn 2026\, nous proposons quatre sé\;ances ordinaires du sé\;minaire et une sé\;ance spé\;ciale : «\; Arendt et la science é\;conomique »\;\, «\; Arendt et le travail »\;\, «\; Liberté\;\, volonté\;\, politique »\;\, «\; Arendt et la violence »\;\, «\; Philosophie\, é\;ducation et politique »\;.
\nLe sé\;minaire est ouvert à\; toutes et tous sans inscription pré\;alable \; n&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas à\; venir y assister et y participer. Les articles et textes discuté\;s sont disponibles sur le site du RAF. N&rsquo\;hé\;sitez pas non plus à\; nous contacter pour toute demande d&rsquo\;information complé\;mentaire.
\nLe RAF ?\nLe Ré\;seau Arendtien Francophone (RAF) se veut un espace divers et pluriel\, rassemblant une communauté\; de doctorant-e-s\, enseignant-e-s\, chercheurs/ses\, intellectuel-le-s et toute personne inté\;ressé\;e ou engagé\;e dans l'é\;tude et la diffusion de la pensé\;e d'Hannah Arendt en France et le monde francophone. À\; travers cette plateforme\, nous souhaitons favoriser les é\;changes intellectuels\, offrir une visibilité\; accrue aux travaux de recherche et cré\;er des liens solides entre francophones s'inté\;ressant à\; et puisant dans l'&oelig\;uvre de cette autrice majeure du XXe siè\;cle.
\nOutre l&rsquo\;organisation de ce sé\;minaire et d'é\;vè\;nements acadé\;miques lié\;s à\; la pensé\;e d'Arendt\, le ré\;seau actualise continuellement un site web qui met à\; disposition : une bibliographie des textes de langue franç\;aise consacré\;s à\; Arendt ou la mobilisant\, un annuaire des membres du ré\;seau\, un agenda des activité\;s francophones qui lui sont dé\;dié\;es et une lettre d'information mensuelle.
\nN'hé\;sitez pas à\; rejoindre le ré\;seau ou à\; nous contacter pour rejoindre l&rsquo\;é\;quipe d&rsquo\;animation !
\n ORGANIZER;CN="Rémi Zanni": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260528T163000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260924T170000 SUMMARY:Inner Speech Colloquium UID:20260712T080232Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are happy to announce another season of the online Inner Speech colloquium starting next month\, with a new list of speakers: \;
\n- May 28th - Gary Lupyan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
\n- June 25th - \;Kasia Jaszczolt (University of Cambridge)
\n- July 16th - \;Romain Bourdoncle (Collè\;ge de France) &\; Axel Baptista (Institut Jean Nicod)
\n- August 20th - Aleksandr Fadeev (University of Leuven)
\n- September 24th - Keith Frankish (University of Sheffield) \;
\nTimes are all 16:30 CEST
\nMore info about the first talk coming soon. We hope to see many of you there next month! For more information or to subscribe to the mailing list\, contact: jonida.kodra@uni-osnabrueck.de
\nBest regards\,
\nJonida Kodra\, Daniel Mü\;ller and Mathijs Geurts (University of Osnabrü\;ck and \;University of Salzburg)
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonida Kodra;CN=Mathijs Geurts;CN="Daniel Lennart Müller": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260601T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260731T170000 SUMMARY:AI and Data Ethics Summer Training Program UID:20260712T080233Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Boston\, United States DESCRIPTION:AI + Data Ethics (AIDE) Summer is a 9-week\, in-person training program intended for graduate students with advanced training in applied ethics\, ethical theory\, philosophy of science\, metascience\, epistemology\, or other areas with potential research applications to artificial intelligence (AI) and big data who would like to develop research capacities in the ethics of AI\, data ethics\, and the philosophy of technology. \;
\nDesigning AI and machine learning systems to promote human flourishing in just and sustainable ways will require a robust and diverse AI and data ethics research community. However\, there are few graduate programs that train students in these areas. The aim of this summer long\, in person training program is to supplement resources in students&rsquo\; home universities with philosophical and technical skills necessary to research in this area.
\nAIDE Summer 2026 especially welcomes epistemologists\, philosophers of science\, and metascience researchers interested in developing a research program in the philosophy of AI and computation.
\nThe 2026 AIDE Summer Program was made possible by generous funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Northeastern's Khoury College of Computer Science.
\nThe summer 2026 program will run from Monday\, June 1st through Friday\, July 31.
\nApplications are due Thursday January 15th\, 2026 at 11:59pm anywhere in the world.
ORGANIZER;CN=Kathleen A. Creel;CN=John Basl: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260604T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261024T170000 SUMMARY:Stanley Cavell at 100. An International Centennial Conference UID:20260712T080234Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:Roma\; Paris\; Boston\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Stanley Cavell at 100 \; An International Centennial Conference \; \;
Paris: \;4-5 June 2026 \;| Organized by Sandra Laugier\, Université\; Paris 1 Panthé\;on Sorbonne \; Rome: 8-9 June 2026 \;| Organized by Piergiorgio Donatelli\, Sapienza Università\; di Roma \; Boston: 23-24 October 2026 \;| Organized by Juliet Floyd\, Boston University \; \; \;
In 2026\, we mark the centenary of \;Stanley Cavell (1926&ndash\;2026)\, one of the \;most original and wide-ranging American philosophers of the twentieth century. Cavell&rsquo\;s work traversed traditional disciplinary boundaries&mdash\;engaging deeply with philosophy\, literature\, film\, opera\, psychoanalysis\, politics\, and both American and European traditions of thought. In the spirit of his intellectual breadth and transnational sensibility\, we are organizing a three-part international conference to celebrate his life\, work\, and legacy in Paris\, Rome\, and Boston.
\nWhy This Conference Matters
\nStanley Cavell transformed philosophy into an act of acknowledgment&mdash\;of self\, of others\, and of the everyday. His writings on skepticism\, language\, film\, and the ordinary remain vital at a time when trust in both language and human connection faces renewed challenges. From \;Must We Mean What We Say? \;to \;The Claim of Reason\, from \;The World Viewed \;to \;Pursuits of Happiness\, and through his readings of Emerson and Thoreau\, Cavell helped redefine the scope and style of philosophical writing and teaching.
\nHis engagement with Wittgenstein and Austin reinvigorated the ordinary language tradition\, while his interests in modernism\, cinema\, and American transcendentalism forged a philosophical voice that responded to&mdash\;and often transcended&mdash\;the academic context.
\nThis centennial conference will bring together philosophers\, literary scholars\, and critics to reflect on Cavell&rsquo\;s legacy and extend the conversations he began.
\nThis call for papers concerns all three installments&mdash\;Paris\, Rome\, and Boston&mdash\;of the Cavell at 100 conference.
\nSuggested Themes:
\nWe welcome proposals that engage with the following themes or propose new directions for exploring Cavell&rsquo\;s thought.
\nConference Foci:
\nParis will focus especially on Ordinary Language Philosophy\, Film\, and Popular Culture.
\nRome will center mainly on Ethics\, Politics\, and Forms of Life.
\nBoston will treat primarily Philosophy and Literature\, Tragedy\, Music\, and the Idea of America.
\nSome themes&mdash\;such as skepticism\, modernism\, the ordinary&mdash\;cut across all three conferences.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260605T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:Italian Phenomenology Today 2026 UID:20260712T080235Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Kerpener Str. 30\, Cologne\, Germany DESCRIPTION:Description
\nThis lecture series draws together scholars interested in the rich history and ongoing evolution of phenomenology within the Italian philosophical tradition. It provides a forum for regular discussions where participants can present their latest research or recent publications. Topics will span from the historical and cultural roots of Italian phenomenology and its dialogues with other philosophical traditions&mdash\;including Marxism\, Existentialism\, Pragmatism\, Idealism\, Hermeneutics\, (Post-)Structuralism\, and Neo-Thomism&mdash\;to its intersections with disciplines such as psychology\, psychoanalysis\, sociology\, anthropology\, political theory\, and art. A key objective of the series is also to examine how Italian phenomenological concepts and frameworks can contribute to contemporary debates in fields such as the philosophy of mind\, social and political philosophy\, aesthetics\, and the theory of art and literature. By doing so\, the series fosters dialogue within the phenomenological tradition and across broader philosophical and interdisciplinary contexts.
\nParticipation
\nThe series will be conducted in a \;hybrid format\, both in person at the Husserl Archive in Cologne and online via Zoom. To register\, please email \;italianphenomenology@gmail.comwith the subject &ldquo\;Registration Lecture Series 2026.&rdquo\; The Zoom link will be provided the day before each session.
\nOrganizers: Marco Cavallaro\, Sara Dameno
\nThis series is organized as part of the \;ItaPhen \;project \;and hosted by the Husserl Archive in Cologne.
\nThis lecture series is funded by the \;German Research Foundation (DFG) \;as part of the \;ItaPhen \;project.
\nProgram
\nPlease find the program of the Lecture Series in the PDF attached. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260704T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260724T170000 SUMMARY:Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026: Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene UID:20260712T080236Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Rome LOCATION:Città di Castello\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Call for applications: Deadline extended to March 1 2026
\nCollegium \;Phaenomenologicum \;2026: \;Climate Philosophy in the Capitalocene
\nThe theme for the Collegium Phaenomenologicum 2026 is climate philosophy in the anthropocene. \;Climate philosophy responds to environmental destabilization by discussing climate temporalities and spatialities\, eco-politics\, climate justice\, climate affects\, and the ethical and political reorientations demanded by climate change. Climate philosophy also rethinks climate\, partly in response to global heating\, as world in the phenomenological sense and as history and habitat of life on earth. The Capitalocene references the Anthropocene dominated by colonial capitalism and its uneven and ongoing histories. In the first week\, we will question\, in discussion with phenomenology and climate science\, how the temporal framing of climate change is narrated. The second week moves the focus to space by exploring\, principally in conversation with deconstruction and French philosophy more broadly\, how climate change alters the sense of world beyond globalization. The final week&rsquo\;s course draws on eco-marxism\, bio-politics\, and eco-feminism to propose a fundamental rethinking of the political at the end of the world.
\nThe Collegium runs from July 6th to 24th\, 2026\, preceded by the participants' conference on July \;4th and 5th. \;The deadline to apply has been extended to March 1\, 2026\, and \;we welcome applications from within philosophy and related disciplines concerned with the overarching theme. \;
\nFurther details of the topic and the lecturers\, abstracts for each of the three courses\, and application forms are available on the website at
\nhttps://collegiumphaenomenologicum.org/ \;
\nFor all enquiries contact:
\nMatthias Fritsch (director) \;matthias.fritsch@concordia.ca
\nRebecca van der Post (graduate assistant) \;graduateassistant2026@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Matthias Fritsch: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260708T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260716T170000 SUMMARY:PIKSI-Boston 2026 UID:20260712T080237Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, United States DESCRIPTION:PIKSI-Boston is a week-long summer philosophy program that encourages undergraduates to pursue advanced study in the field. About twenty undergraduate fellows attend the institute\, participating in seminars led by graduate teaching fellows\, one-on-one mentorship sessions with teaching fellows\, and lectures and panels on graduate school and academia featuring visiting professors. The program takes place at MIT in July and organized through a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, the University of Massachusetts Boston\, and Harvard University.
\nHow To Apply: The application materials for the Alain Locke Fellows at PIKSI-Boston include a transcript\, writing sample\, two short essay answers\, and recommendations from two faculty members. Please note that international students are fully eligible for this fellowship. The application form and recommender submission forms are available below.
\nImportant Dates: \;Summer Institute (July 8-16\, 2026)
\nThe 42nd Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics will take place at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, July 10th&ndash\;12th\, 2026.
Manuel Davenport Keynote Address: \; Cynthia Willett Cynthia Willett is the Samuel Candler Dobb's professor of philosophy at Emory University. Her current book project\, A Musicology of Everyday Life\, is a study of the social dynamic of musical and vibrational atmospheres through New Phenomenology\, Resonance Theory\, and Attunement Theory. This study probes the nuances of tone\, rhythm\, vibration\, timbre for ethical cultures within and across human and non-human social groups. Her ongoing research focuses on three key areas: music/tragedy/blues\; transspecies cosmopolitanism\; and humor/irony. The research is anchored in ancient and contemporary concepts of eros and hubris\; call and response\; affective attunements and dissonances\; symbolic social space and its violations.
Michael Manson Artist Keynote Address: Liz Harris \; Liz Harris is an artist based on the North Oregon coast. She has recorded and performed since 2005 under the names Grouper\, Nivhek\, Raum\, Helen and Mirrorring\; and releases music and art editions on her imprint YELLOWELECTRIC\, as well as kranky records. Harris&rsquo\; project Nivhek has received various commissions and has been presented internationally\, including performances and installations in Bergen\, Murmansk\, Munich\, Krakow and London. Her most recent commission from Portland Institute of Contemporary Art\, ENGINE\, combines field recordings of drag races and train yards with string arrangements. The work began inside a decade-long obsession with engine noise. \;
You can find the Call for Abstracts at \;https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1869644 \;
Workshop: Rational Action and Belief &ndash\; Recognising and Responding to Reasons
\nDo rational actions and beliefs require us to recognise reasons as reasons? If so\, what does such recognition consist in\, and what role does it play in responding rationally to reasons? \;
\nWe invite submissions of abstracts for a workshop on these and related questions. \;
\n\;
\nKey Information
Date &\; Location: October 29&ndash\;30\, 2026\, Heidelberg University
Invited speakers: Carlotta Pavese (Oxford)\, Kurt Sylvan (Southampton)
Funding: travel expenses up to &euro\;600 and accommodation in Heidelberg will be covered
Contributed slots: up to six
Abstract length: ca. 1000 words
Submission email: \;rational_action_belief@protonmail.com
Submission deadline: July 12\, 2026
Notification: by the end of July
\;
\nWorkshop Themes
\nDoes forming an intention or belief in a rational manner require recognising that the corresponding action or belief enjoys some form of rational support? Many action theorists and epistemologists answer this question affirmatively. For a doctor&rsquo\;s belief that the patient has measles to be rational\, it must be based on a suitable reason. That the patient has Koplik spots is such a reason. But it seems insufficient to rationalise the belief that the patient has measles\, unless the doctor recognises that Koplik spots support that belief. Similar examples for actions abound.
\nOn this view\, rational belief and rational action respond not only to reasons but also to their being reasons for those beliefs or actions. This idea is often captured by appeals to a \;taking condition\, or by the requirement that rational reasons must be \;treated as normative reasons. While such views have gained prominence in recent epistemology and action theory\, they raise pressing questions about the nature of responding to normative reasons. \;
\nWe invite contributions that explore the role of recognising\, taking\, or appreciating reasons in rational belief and action\, including critical perspectives.
\nTopics include (but are not limited to):
\n·\; \; \;Do rational action and belief require the recognition that the action or belief enjoys support\, for example that the evidence supports a particular conclusion?
\n·\; \; \;What does this recognition require? Does it require a doxastic state\, for example\, that the evidence supports p\, or is the recognition condition non-doxastic?
\n·\; \;If the recognition condition is non-doxastic\, then how does it operate? Does it involve the exercise of some non-doxastic skill\, is it a form of rule following\, or something else entirely? \;
\n·\; \; \;If the recognition condition is doxastic\, then how does it avoid regress problems? Can an appeal to additional non-doxastic factors block such regresses?
\n·\; \; \;Is recognising normative support sufficient for rational action or belief\, or does responding to that recognition introduce additional constraints?
\n·\; \;Can the basing of action or belief on reasons be analysed into constituent psychological states\, or does such analysis generate explanatory regresses? \;
\n·\; \;What is the correct semantic theory for linguistic expressions of acting and believing for reasons\, such as &ldquo\;therefore&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;because&rdquo\;?
\nPlease send your submission\, prepared for blind review\, together with a separate title page containing the author&rsquo\;s details (name\, title\, affiliation\, and email address) to \;rational_action_belief@protonmail.com. Please direct all queries to the organisers Andreas Mü\;ller (andreas.mueller.philosophie@em.uni-frankfurt.de) and Tobias Wilsch (tobias.wilsch@gmail.com). Queries sent to the submission email may be overlooked.
ORGANIZER;CN=Tobias Wilsch;CN=Andy Mueller: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260712T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260712T234500 SUMMARY:RADIATION: Connection Across Distance\, A Cross-disciplinary Conference UID:20260712T080240Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Arnolfini Arts\, Bristol\, United Kingdom\, BS1 4QA DESCRIPTION:RADIATION: Connection Across Distance
\nA Cross-disciplinary Conference
\nArnolfini\, Bristol\, UK 12 &ndash\; 14 Nov 2026
\nWe commonly understand radiation as the circulation of energy in the form of light\, heat\, and radio waves\, illumination and glow\, or the emission of particles from radioactive substances. This includes ultraviolet radiation\, X and gamma rays and radioactive materials. The early 20th century medical use of X-rays was exquisitely captured by Duchamp in his 1910 painting Portrait of Dr. Dumochel. In this work\, the French physician is shown with a red aura &ndash\; presumably depicting the erythema of radiation &ndash\; while parts of his body are missing to connote the mysterious ability of X rays to invisibilise flesh while making bones and internal organs visible. A little over a century later\, diagnostic mammograms\, full-body airport security scans\, even personal radiation-emitting devices (mobile phones) are the norm. Ionising radiation is used in Heritage Studies to identify underdrawings while gamma radiation eliminates bacteria that threaten to damage cultural objects\, books and statues.
\n\; \; \; \;However\, this source-process-effect frame\, prevalent in many\, if not most disciplines\, is not the only way to think radiation. Several years ago\, researchers from the University of Regensburg\, Germany\, discovered a phenomenon akin to negative radiation. When an electron moves through a material it often collides with other electrons. This causes de-acceleration. Although an electron with negative mass loses energy in the same way that an electron with positive mass does\, the effect of that loss is\, counterintuitively: acceleration. In other words\, if a ball with negative mass falls into water\, it is not slowed down by friction but instead sped up. Using a new type of semiconductor and irradiating it with a red laser\, the Regensburg team found that\, surprisingly\, the electrons emitted a blue glimmer. This signalled a conversion of low-energy red light into the high-energy blue light arising from electrons with negative mass (Lin et al 2021). Experiments such as these beg the question of the scope of &lsquo\;negative&rsquo\; radiation\, caused by phenomena like negative force.
\n\; \; \; \;In the cultural and socio-political realms\, the invisible working of radiation is captured by two past-laden concepts: aura and hauntology. As a &lsquo\;strange tissue of space-time\,&rsquo\; and a &lsquo\;unique apparition of distance in proximity&rsquo\; (Benjamin 1979)\, aura amplifies energies accruing in everyday practices as affective presence. It turns sedimentations of mnemonic processes into &lsquo\;weakly radioactive materials&rsquo\; (Sloterdijk 2016)\, as can be seen from the so-called &lsquo\;merged objects&rsquo\; &ndash\; such as the Salish blankets\, made of mountain goat\, dog hair\, and vegetation\, that are part animal\, part hunter\, part weaver\, and part wearer (Tepper 2017). Their purpose is to gather cross-species and cross-temporal relations into a single\, culturally energised object. Similarly\, accrued medial aura is the topic of much contemporary art\, such as Kubisch and Norment&rsquo\;s sonic installations\, which rely on the medial memory of transmitters. The crackling of an old record\, inscribed through cycles of use\, and remediated in a sound installation\, creates fulcrums of energy similar to that of &lsquo\;merged objects.&rsquo\;
\n\; \; \; \;Hauntology\, along with spectrality\, was initially a rumination on ontology. It suggested that being is displaced by the shadow of the spectre of being (Derrida 1993)\, and that past-orientated resurgences undermine the solid foundations of the present (Jameson 1999). This can be felt in the residual working of obsolete hegemonies that continue to exert influence on the material and psychic spaces of social life. Unlike trauma\, which is marked by a rupture\, hauntological radiation is a form of low-frequency persistence that lingers in habits and inherited assignments of energy\, imperceptibly turning the past into the behavioural and cognitive architecture of the present. Carrying the frequencies of absent systems\, and of that which &lsquo\;has not yet happened but is already effective in the virtual &ndash\; as an attractor shaping current behaviour&rsquo\; (Fisher 2012: 19)\, hauntings co-constitute energy fields. But this is not to say that all hauntings are immaterial\, as is often thought. In Barad&rsquo\;s reading\, they are an &lsquo\;ineliminable feature of existing material conditions&rsquo\; (Barad 2017: 107)\, as\, from the perspective of quantum physics\, haunting is not about human experience\, but rather about &lsquo\;indeterminacies of time-being\, materially constitutive of matter itself&rsquo\; (113).
\nSimilarly\, in this conference\, we are interested in the less visible actual and potential radial arrangements &ndash\; as forms of agencement of actual or virtual objects and un-objects\, spaces and negative spaces\, organisms\, pre- and post-organic matter\; proto-techniques and technologies that can be assimilated into what is often called &lsquo\;third nature.&rsquo\;
\nWe invite contributions from Media Studies\, Art and Art-Science\, Philosophy (including Philosophy of Science)\, Cultural and Heritage Studies\, Materials Science and Environmental Studies in the form of individual panel presentations (theoretical or practice-based) or curated panels that address but are not limited to the following topics:
\n&bull\;Contemporary alchemy (the notion that every being and/or thing can potentially produce or store energy)
\n&bull\;Art-science experiments with cross-medial radiation (e.g. sonic lasers)
\n&bull\;Projective radiations of new materials or new uses of existing materials\, plants and environments (e.g. graphene and hyperaccumulators)
\n&bull\;Biological and geometrical radial arrangements (e.g. radical versus networked spread)
\n&bull\;Explorations and genealogies of radio-enabled technologies and engineering practices (e.g. GPS\, Galileo\, Wi-Fi and RFID)
\n&bull\;Propelling or accelerating processes arising from a re-configuration or re-alignment of forces and technologies
\n&bull\;Counterintuitive readings of radiation (e.g. the use of radioactive waste as a source of energy despite obvious dangers)
\n&bull\;Political and ideological radiation (soft power\, influence) \;
\n&bull\;Infrastructural radiation (capital\, energy networks) \;
\n&bull\;Computational and algorithmic radiation (data\, AI\, virality)
\n&bull\;The post-industrial sublime (e.g. hydrogen colliders and sites of industrial devastation)
\n&bull\;Radiation as action-at-a-distance (conceptual History of Physics) \;
\n&bull\;Novel readings of the work of Henri Becquerel\, Marie Curie\, J.M. Maxwell\, Richard Feynman and Rudolf Peierls beyond the &lsquo\;environmental damage of positivistic science&rsquo\; approach
\nPlease send 250 w proposals for individual papers or artistic interventions of 15 min in length\, accompanied by a 100 w bio and a concise list of AV requirements to ENERGYPhilosophyofPractice@dundee.ac.uk by 23:59 GMT on 20 July 2026. Proposals for panels of no more than 1500 w in length (including abstracts and bios) should be sent by 23:59 GMT on 12 July 2026. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 30 July 2026. \;
\nThis conference\, supported by Arnolfini and UWE Bristol\, is part of the 2023 &ndash\; 2027 AHRC-funded research project ENERGY: A Philosophy of Practice (AH/X009114/1).
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260713T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:9th Derrida Today Conference UID:20260712T080241Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 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:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260713T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:Trust & Cooperation UID:20260712T080242Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Universitätstrasse 7\, Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:Over the course of five days participants will have the opportunity to engage with renowned experts in discussions on the topic of trust and cooperation on the interpersonal and institutional level\, as well as within the contexts of climate change and immigration. Trust and cooperation have become front and center issues in today&rsquo\;s world. The nature of global \; challenges - from refugees seeking asylum to the ecological \; crises of climate change and biodiversity loss - renders cooperation ever more crucial to overcoming them. Key questions revolve around the nature of trust and the nature of cooperation respectively\, as well as around the relationship between trust and cooperation\, intersecting the fields of social and political philosophy\, as well as applied ethics and political epistemology.
\nConfirmed instructors: \;
\nLeah Henderson (University of Groningen)
\nBenjamin McMyler (University of Minnesota)\,
\nKieran Oberman(The London School of Economics and Political Science)
\nGuest speakers:
\nKeith Harris (University of Vienna)
\nMore to be confirmed!
\nTrust &\; Cooperation: Vienna Summer School 2026
\nWe welcome applications from PhD students (prioritized)\, advanced MA students and postdoctoral researchers in philosophy and related disciplines.
\nParticipants will explore current research in these fields\, attend keynote lectures\, thematic discussions and interactive workshops\, as well as present their own work\, and receive valuable feedback from invited scholars. The goal of this Summer School is to provide doctoral students with direct access to leading researchers whose work&mdash\;whether directly or indirectly&mdash\;relates to these themes.
\nApplication &\; Fees \; \;
We welcome applications from PhD students (prioritized)\, advanced MA students and postdoctoral researchers in philosophy and related disciplines. Two modes of participation are possible: 1) attendance\, 2) presentation &ndash\; if they would also like to give a presentation.
To apply for participation\, please send the following documents to Joachim Raich (joachim.raich@univie.ac.at): \;
\nThe maximum number of participants at the summer school will be 25.
\nThe \;summer school fee is 75 Euros. The fee includes the student union fee of 25 Euros\, which is required by Austrian law to register at the University of Vienna and to receive a certificate of completion of the summer school. \;
\n4ECTS can be accreditted by the University of Vienna to all students who complete the summer school.
\nPlease\, \;submit your application by April 14\, 23.59 CET.
Contact Email: \;joachim.raich@univie.ac.at
We will notify you of the decision by April 16.
Diversity Statement \;
We strongly encourage applications from members of disadvantaged and underrepresented groups. \;
An international workshop on the place of analogical reasoning in Immanuel Kant&rsquo\;s critical philosophy
ORGANIZER;CN="Sofie Møller";CN=Micha Glaeser: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260713T094500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260713T170000 SUMMARY:4th Annual Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm UID:20260712T080244Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Fraunhoferstraße FH420\, Berlin\, Germany DESCRIPTION:Come join us for the fourth annual Berlin Workshop on Speech and Harm! Attendance is free but registration is requested. There will be a self-paid reception and dinner after the event.
ORGANIZER;CN=Quill R Kukla;CN=Willow Starr;CN=Elin McCready;CN=Axel Gelfert: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260713T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260714T170000 SUMMARY:British Society for Ethical Theory 2026 UID:20260712T080245Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:University of Leeds\, Leeds\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Please see the BSET website (link below) \;for a complete schedule and registration information.
\nAll welcome!
\nKeynotes:
\nSubmitted papers:
\nReasons and Resentment - Cara Addleman\, Oxford
\nPrudential Particularism - James Brown\, UCL
\nComplaints and the Risky Procreation Asymmetry - Owen Clifton\, Regina
\nLeaving the Present Behind - Emma Curran\, Oxford
\nBlame\, Rationality and Contrary-to-Duty Imperatives - Zeb Dempsey\, USC
\nHow Should I Feel About What We Did Together? - Ahmet Gonullu\, Bilkent
\nInnocent Apologies - Ilya Shemmer\, NYU
\nDoes Justice Require an Unequal Distribution of Parental Duties After Birth? - Fiona Woollard\, Southampton
\nUntil 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:
\nAbout
\n&ldquo\;Formal Ethics&rdquo\; sits at the intersection where logic\, decision theory\, game theory\, social choice theory\, and computational philosophy engage with central questions in moral and political theory. The field builds on the foundational contributions of Kenneth Arrow\, Amartya Sen\, John Harsanyi\, Richard Braithwaite\, Lennart Å\;qvist\, and others\, while its scope continues to expand. Recent work extends across formal analyses of freedom and responsibility\, welfare economics and population ethics\, deontic logic and natural-language semantics\, theories of value\, and computational studies of how norms and conventions form\, evolve\, and stabilize.
\nThe conference series mirrors this growth and diversification. Previous editions have been hosted by the University of Groningen (2010)\, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitä\;t Mü\;nchen (2012)\, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2014)\, the University of Bayreuth (2015)\, the University of York (2017)\, Ghent University (2019)\, Vanderbilt University (2022)\, and most recently the University of Greifswald (2024).
\nPlenary Speakers include Peter Vanderschraaf (University of Arizona)\, Mark Budolfson (UT Austin) and Janice Dowell (Syracuse). \;
\nCall for Papers
\nFormal Ethics 2024 will feature a single track for contributed talks of 40-45 minutes. \;Authors should submit an extended abstract (1000 words max\, pdf format) to formalethics2026@yahoo.com.
\nNotifications of acceptance will be sent by March 15th\, 2026.
\nSubmissions in all areas of formal ethics\, broadly construed\, are welcome. Contributions need not be formal in nature but should show familiarity with applying formal tools and results to ethical investigations.We welcome submissions from members of underrepresented groups\, as well as early career researchers and students.
\nAll submissions should be prepared for anonymous review.
\nImportant Dates
\nDeadline for submission: January 30th\, 2026
\nNotification of acceptance: March 15th\, 2026
\nConference dates: July 13-15
\nLocal Organizer
\nJustin Bruner (University at Buffalo). Please contact Justin at jbruner@buffalo.edu with any questions about the conference.
ORGANIZER;CN=Justin Bruner: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260714T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260715T170000 SUMMARY:Forms of Knowledge in Wittgenstein UID:20260712T080248Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Düsternbrooker Weg 2\, Kiel\, Germany\, 24105 DESCRIPTION:Wittgenstein&rsquo\;s work is permeated by investigations into the forms and structures of human knowledge: our propositional knowledge of facts articulated in meaningful sentences\, the unarticulated and inarticulable know-how of our language games\, the &ldquo\;Now I know!&rdquo\; of rule-following\, my practical knowledge of what I want\, intend\, and do\, the &ldquo\;knowledge what it&rsquo\;s like&rdquo\; of lived experience\, my second-person knowledge of the mental states of others\, the inescapable certainties of our forms of life that are beyond doubt. How these forms of knowledge are constitutively distinct from and yet mutually dependent on one another is the theme of the 8th Wittgenstein Forum of the International Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. How do the diverse language games of knowledge relate to one another\, how are they interconnected? How are different forms of knowledge acquired and transmitted\, in what ways do they manifest themselves\, and how can they be questioned\, doubted\, and developed? The presentations at the forum are intended as contributions to a perspicuous presentation of the grammar of knowledge according to Wittgenstein.
ORGANIZER;CN=David Lauer;CN="Yara Windmüller": METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Lagos:20260714T080000 DTEND;TZID=Africa/Lagos:20260716T170000 SUMMARY:ISBEE WORLD CONGRESS 2026 - RETHINKING BUSINESS ETHICS FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH: LOCAL INSIGHTS\, GLOBAL IMPACT UID:20260712T080249Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Africa/Lagos LOCATION:Ekounou\, Yaoundé\, Cameroon ORGANIZER;CN=Thierry Ngosso Ngosso: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260714T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260714T180000 SUMMARY:What’s Wrong with Adaptive Preferences? UID:20260712T080250Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Fribourg\, Switzerland ORGANIZER;CN=Anthony Taylor;CN=Ralf M. Bader: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260715T070000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260715T073000 SUMMARY:Unilateralism and the Omnilateral Will UID:20260712T080251Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Fribourg\, Switzerland ORGANIZER;CN=Anthony Taylor;CN=Ralf M. Bader: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052811Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260714T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20260714T234500 SUMMARY:Praxis-Based Logic and Virtue: Jainism\, Sikhism\, and Chinese Traditions UID:20260712T080252Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:America/Vancouver LOCATION:Vancouver\, Canada DESCRIPTION:WORKSHOP Praxis-Based Logic and Virtue: Jainism\, Sikhism\, and Chinese Traditions
\nOrganizer: Agnieszka Rostalska
\nKeynote: Chris Rahlwes\, \;Florida Atlantic University: Intellectual Aparigraha and the Problem of Jain Contextualization
\nThis workshop examines underrepresented traditions of logic and philosophico-religious thought in Asia\, with an emphasis on Sikhism\, Jainism\, and Chinese religious traditions.
\nIt investigates how these traditions apply logic and argumentation within the social sphere.
\nJainism is notable for its engagement with sophisticated\, non-absolutist\, and contextual logic systems that align with modern formal and non-classical logic. This "Engaged Jainism" advocates for "rationality for democracy" and critical thinking by rejecting "one-sided" (ekānta) views\, which are seen as the roots of intolerance and social conflict.
\nSimilarly\, Sikhism contributes a "logic of life" and a "non-oppositional" or paradoxical logic that bridges contradictions typically kept separate by formal systems. This praxis-based logic asserts that true knowledge is only valid when translated into ethical living and the reform of human action\, effectively moving logic from abstract debate into the practical realm of daily ethics.
\nFinally\, the panel incorporates the pragmatic and experiential approaches of Chinese traditions: Confucianism\, Daoism\, and Buddhism\, as well as analytical reconstructions of Mohism. In brief\, these traditions focus on the internalization of virtue and the social manifestation of spiritual truths\, prioritizing the lived application of philosophy within society. Together\, these perspectives challenge the limitations of mere intellectual thinking by emphasizing the practical and ethical dimensions of logic.
\nThe fundamental questions include\, but are not limited to:
\nHow does contextual logic promote a rationality for democracy?
\nWhat are the main characteristics of praxis-based logic?
\nIn what ways does paradoxical logic promote internalization of virtue?
\nWhat processes allow logic to shift from the abstract domain into practical\, ethical\, and societal applications?
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\nThis event is a partnership between UCW\, SFU\, and UBC\, and will take place across three venues in downtown Vancouver. Primarily at UCW\, with one day hosted at SFU and another at UBC.
\nhttps://5wocolor.com/ \;
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\nFor any inquiries regarding this session\, please contact:
\nAgnieszka Rostalska: agnieszka.rostalska@ugent.be
ORGANIZER;CN=Agnieszka Rostalska: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260715T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260715T090000 SUMMARY:Mathematical Proof in the Age of AI: Conceptual Implications of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Mathematical Research UID:20260712T080253Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Bergen\, Norway DESCRIPTION:This conference will be about the conceptual-philosophical implications of AI-based proving and autoformalisation for mathematics. Examples include the resolution of various Erdos problems by Google DeepMind&rsquo\;s Alethia model\, the recent disproof of the unit distance conjecture by OpenAI&rsquo\;s GPT model\, and the (partial) autoformalisations of sphere packing in dimension 8 and 24 by the model Gauss from Math Inc. \;
We aim to reflect on how these technologies may transform mathematical practice\, with a concentration on the practice of creating and verifying proofs. While some view the use of LLMs\, and AI in general\, as heralding a new era of machine-assisted mathematics\, others caution against overestimating their capabilities and warn of the downsides of automating mathematics. The workshop aims to critically assess the role of AI-based mathematics\, striking a balance between optimism and scepticism.
We invite the submission of titles and abstracts suitable for presentation at the conference. \;
Submitted talks will have a timeslot of roughly 45 minutes including Q &\; A. Abstracts should be no longer than 500 words\, and should be accompanied by a short (1-page) CV. \;
Submissions are welcome from related disciplines (philosophy\, mathematics\, computer science\, STS\, HPS\, etc.) but should directly address philosophical questions about the use of AI in mathematical research\, such as relating to changes in mathematical practice\, the social epistemology of mathematics\, the nature of computer generated proofs\, creativity in mathematical research\, etc.
Please submit these abstracts to F.Tanswell@TU-Berlin.de with the subject &lsquo\;Abstract Submission&rsquo\;.
\nSubmission deadline: 15th July 2026.
\nNotification of result: 15th August 2026.
The conference will be livestreamed\, recorded\, and made available online (with speakers&rsquo\; permission).
The Object(s) of Literature
\nJuly 15-17\, 2026
\nInstituto de Estudos da Linguagem (IEL)\, Unicamp
\n\n\n\nHenry James once famously asserted that &ldquo\;The only reason for the existence of the novel is that it does attempt to represent life.&rdquo\; He went on to add that\, therefore\, &ldquo\;the novel is history.&rdquo\; Given that the novel had become\, in James&rsquo\;s time\, the modern form of literature par excellence\, James&rsquo\;s proclamation (along with his late 19th-century impulse to associate novelistic practice with the &ldquo\;art of the fiction&rdquo\;) implies that the literary is forever bound to the vicissitudes of the social. The larger implication is clear: literature must forever endure a crisis of definition. At any given moment\, what are its objects or objectives? What life or world(s) does it aim to represent and transform? What power or authority does it retain to do so? These questions are even more pressing in our current state of accelerationism. Everywhere\, it seems\, mutations abound: the digital revolution has drastically enhanced the producibility of messages\, turning the emission of signs into an existential necessity (even as it plunges us into a new regime of attention\, much more accustomed to\, if not dependent upon\, experiences of visual and aural shock)\; digital platforms are blurring the boundaries between writing and performance\, between authors and audience\; at the very moment inequality is reaching unheard-of levels\, challenging even imagination&rsquo\;s capacity to represent the gap between the richest and the poorest\, literary production is scrambling to keep pace with market-driven formats\; for the first time in almost a century new actors pose a serious threat to established forms of hegemony\; and\, perhaps most pressingly\, the increasingly refused reality of climate change has required new modes of representation such as &ldquo\;apocalyptic realism.&rdquo\; Meanwhile\, the institutional and political spaces that have long sustained literary culture&mdash\;bookstores\, newspapers\, universities&mdash\;are under attack.
\nIt is in view of this complex and multilayered framework of transformations that the Association for Philosophy and Literature proposes The Object(s) of Literature as the topic for its 2026 conference\, to be held at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp)\, Brazil. Or rather\, with a focus on what we might call the temporal kernel of literature&rsquo\;s tenuous ontology\, we ask the following: What are the object(s) of literature\, in both the sense of its materiality and its aims? Is it a bounded textual artifact\, a social practice\, a mode of attention\, or something else entirely? Is there an objective to literature? Given literature's inherent freedom\, what could that be? Or perhaps\, and following (again) James\, what &ldquo\;intensity&rdquo\; can or does (or must) literature claim today if there can be &ldquo\;no intensity at all\, and therefore no value\, unless there is freedom to feel and say&rdquo\;?
\nPapers can be proposed (in English\, Portuguese\, or Spanish) on any of the concepts outlined above\, focusing on both (or either) the philosophical and the more conventionally literary.
\nMore specific questions and topics include\, but are certainly not limited to\, the following:
\n&bull\; What has become of literature&rsquo\;s freedom\, so painfully conquered\, to break all taboos in language\, sexually\, morally\, religiously etc.? How tenable is it now\, how problematic has it become?
\n&bull\; What today is the role of philosophy as literature?
\n&bull\; How might we now re-read Hegel&rsquo\;s famous pronouncement of the &ldquo\;end of art&rdquo\;?
\n&bull\; How does the literary register differently in its different modalities: in print\, online\, as film\, television\, etc.?
\n&bull\; How solid or defined is the space of the literary within contemporary societies&mdash\;or\, how strong is its penetration within these societies?
\n&bull\; In a world ever more permeated by the for-the-other logic of the commodity form\, what is the ontological status of literature&rsquo\;s inescapable in-and-for itself&mdash\;or rather\, its longstanding commitment to the modernist mantra &ldquo\;art for art&rsquo\;s sake&rdquo\;?
\n&bull\; With the increasing distancing of literature from the world of entertainment and fun\, now almost fully monopolized by social media\, how can one reconceptualize aesthetic pleasure\, or the Barthesian &ldquo\;pleasure of the text&rdquo\;?
\n&bull\; How has social media redefined literary practice and further commodified the role of the artist (via platforms such as BookTok\, etc.)?
\n&bull\; How is the slow but on-going death of cinema (and cinemas) tied to the current state of the literary?
\n&bull\; With its diminishing social relevance\, literature has become ever more dependent on educational institutions for securing funding and readers. How does this entrenchment within the university affect literature&rsquo\;s objecthood?
\n&bull\; How has literary theory and philosophy responded to these changes in the objects of literature&mdash\;both as objective and in terms of its materiality?
\n&bull\; With the benefit of hindsight\, how is one to interpret such recent developments as the politization of reading and the segmentation of scholarship through the proliferation of &ldquo\;studies&rdquo\; and increased disciplinarization?
\n&bull\; What role can (or does) the literary play in recent philosophical materialisms or realisms and thus efforts to assert the agential &ldquo\;truth&rdquo\; of nonhuman others?
\n&bull\; How do recent returns to Indigenous epistemologies challenge Western literary concepts like authorship\, textuality\, and aesthetic value?
\n&bull\; How are recent efforts to demonize (or willfully misrepresent) critical race theory reflected in today&rsquo\;s literary production? Or rather\, how has Afropessimism reframed questions about the objects and objectives of literature?
\n&bull\; Can we&mdash\;and how might we&mdash\;confuse contemporary debates about gender with our ever-evolving approaches to genre?
\n&bull\; How has or might generative AI literary transform our understanding of literature&rsquo\;s purpose (as art and/or an object of study)?
\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProposals will be accepted for individual papers\, panels (of 3-4 participants)\, or roundtables (of 4-6 participants). Proposals can be submitted in English\, Portuguese\, or Spanish by following the submission link. For individual submissions\, abstracts are restricted to no more than 300 words. For panels or roundtables\, submit a single proposal\, consisting of a 300-word panel abstract along with titles for all included papers. You will also be asked to supply a short biography for each participant. Proposals are Due Dec 1\, 2025.
\n\n\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260715T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20260715T170000 SUMMARY:Philosophy\, Evidence and Policymaking UID:20260712T080301Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Brussels LOCATION:Rijnstraat 50\, Den Haag\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:This workshop brings together researchers working on the theory and philosophy of science and evidence in policymaking as well as practitioners such as knowledge-brokers\, policymakers and policy advisors. It is organised by researchers at University of Antwerp\, University of Groningen and the VU Amsterdam in collaboration with the Science for Policy project at the Netherlands&rsquo\; Ministry of Education\, Culture &\; Science.
\nThe workshop is aimed at both early-career and senior researchers who are interested in the theory and the practice of evidence generation for and use in policymaking and the interaction between science and policy. This field of research addresses questions such as: What type of evidence should one use to develop policies? What should the role of scientific advisors be in policymaking? Does it make sense to rank evidence in hierarchies? How should policymakers deal with scientific expert disagreement? What does an appropriate role for non-epistemic values look like in evidence and science for policy?
\nWe invite you to send abstracts on the abovementioned topics\, as well as on related ones. Abstracts should:
\nNot exceed 300 words (references excluded)\;
\nBe sent in an anonymised document to the following email address: ebpolicy.network@gmail.com\;
\nBe suitable for a 30-minute presentation (+15 minutes of Q&\;A)\;
\nBe sent by the deadline: 15 July 2026 (notification of acceptance on 1 August 2026)\;
\nParticipation in the workshop without sending an abstract is possible by filling out the registration form no later than 15 August 2026. \;
\nThe first part of the workshop will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Donal Khosrowi (University of Hannover) and\, after\, presentations of the selected abstracts. After the lunch break\, the second part of the workshop will include a keynote lecture by Dr. Jaakko Kuosmanen (Finnish Academy of Science and Letters) and structured dialogues in break-out groups with practitioners\, aimed at making participants reflect together on various topics related to evidence and policy.
\nMoreover\, the workshop aims to encourage interaction between researchers and practitioners. Therefore\, the workshop will also include sessions in which there is structured dialogue between participating researchers and practitioners from the Netherlands&rsquo\; government.
\nQuestions can be sent to \;ebpolicy.network@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Geertjan Holtrop;CN=Kato Van Roey;CN=Helena R. Slanickova: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260715T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20260715T230000 SUMMARY:"On Trial". Claiming Feminist Justice in Dark Times - Between Law\, Testimony\, and Politics UID:20260712T080302Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 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.
\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:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:SLR: Science\, Language and Reality. Themes from the Philosophy of Susan Haack UID:20260712T080303Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Madrid LOCATION:Edificio FES\, Campus Miguel de Unamuno\, P.º Francisco Tomás y Valiente\, s/n\, Salamanca\, Spain\, 37007 DESCRIPTION:The SLR Conference: Science\, Language and Reality. Themes from the Philosophy of Susan Haack aims to deepen the tradition of analytic philosophy by exploring points of intersection between three of its central areas: philosophy of science\, metaphysics\, and philosophy of language. The conference seeks to bring together scholars from around the world working on these topics in order to foster dialogue\, exchange of ideas\, and mutual enrichment.
\nThe intellectual inspiration for this year conference is found in the philosophical work of Susan Haack\, whose contributions exemplify the fruitful interaction between philosophy of science\, and philosophy of language within the analytic tradition. Haack&rsquo\;s work has consistently emphasized the importance of understanding scientific inquiry through an integrated philosophical perspective&ndash\;one that connects questions about evidence\, truth\, and justification with issues concerning meaning\, reference\, and the structure of scientific theories. Her development of foundherentism and her defense of a critical\, commonsense form of scientific realism illustrate how philosophical reflection on science inevitably engages with both metaphysical and semantic questions. We are specially interested in contributions that connect these discussions with Susan Haack's philosophy in a broad sense.
\nIn recent decades\, developments in analytic philosophy have increasingly shown that many fundamental questions concerning the nature of scientific knowledge&mdash\;such as scientific realism\, the structure of scientific theories\, explanation in science\, and the ontological status of entities posited by science&mdash\;require close engagement with both metaphysical and semantic issues. In particular\, the analysis of scientific ontology\, laws of nature\, causation\, and modality is deeply intertwined with questions about reference\, meaning\, and linguistic representation within scientific theories.
\nThis conference aims to provide a forum for examining these connections from a variety of philosophical perspectives. By bringing together researchers working in philosophy of language\, philosophy of logic\, philosophy of science\, and pragmatism\, the event seeks to encourage interdisciplinary dialogue and to promote collaboration among research groups working in these areas.
\nSubmission Guidelines
\nWe invite submissions of a short abstract (max. 300 words) through our submission system (Easychair) and by our mail slrconference2026@gmail.com by 1 June 2026. To submit\, please prepare your abstract for blind review. The total time allocated to each contributed talk at the conference will be 30 minutes\, of which max. 20 minutes will be for presenting the research and rest will be for Q&\;A. Participants are encouraged to submit their work for consideration for publication in a special issue of Teorema. Revista Internacional de Filosofí\;a.
\nTimeline
\nConference registration fees:
\n&bull\; Faculty: 100&euro\;
\n&bull\; Non-faculty/PhD/Postdoc: 50&euro\;
\nList of Topics
\nThe SLR Conference Organizing Committee invites submissions about the following topics of interest related with the work of Susan Haack\, among others:
\nProgram Committee
\nConcha Martí\;nez Vidal (USC)\, Javier Cumpa (UCM)\, Obdulia Torres (USAL)\, Ana Cuevas Badallo (USAL)\, Marta Campdelacreu (UB)\, Atocha Aliseda (UNAM)\, Rodrigo Ló\;pez Orellana (UVal)\, Alfredo Marcos (UVA)\, Antonio Blanco Salgueiro (UCM)\, Noemí\; Sanz (UIB)\, Susana Gó\;mez Ló\;pez (UCM)
\nOrganizing committee
\nVioleta Conde\, Benedicto Acosta\, Llanos Navarro\, Andrei Moldovan
\nInvited Speakers
\nVenue
\nEdificio FES\, Universidad de Salamanca
\nCampus Miguel de Unamuno\, P.º\; Francisco Tomá\;s y Valiente\, s/n
\nSalamanca\, 37007\,
\nSpain
\nContact
\nAll questions about submissions should be emailed to \;slrconference2026@gmail.com
\nSponsors
\nFundació\;n General de la Universidad de Salamanca
ORGANIZER;CN=Violeta Conde;CN=Benedicto Acosta;CN=Llanos Navarro;CN=Andrei Moldovan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T230000 SUMMARY:CFP for publication: “The Cinema of Democracy – Event and Reinvention of the Mass” UID:20260712T080304Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CFP for publication: \;&ldquo\;The \;Cinema of Democracy &ndash\; Event and Reinvention of the Mass&rdquo\; \;
\nExtended Deadline: July 15\, 2026 \;
\nAbstract \;In the essay \;Cinema as a Democratic Emblem\, Alain \;Badiou \;proposes that we understand cinema as a space for the \;irruption \;of a &ldquo\;purely democratic element&rdquo\;: the &ldquo\;mass&rdquo\;\, whose \;manifestation \;entails\, each time\, \;the undoing \;of \;any pre-existing model of itself. \;It is \;an intense &ldquo\;evental \;energy&rdquo\; that cannot be \;stabilised \;into a \;definitive form \;(2005\, \;p. \;6). \;
\nBadiou&rsquo\;s \;concept of the emblem no longer functions to preserve symbolic or \;identitarian \;stability\; instead\, it \;serves \;as an imperative of movement\, exposing democracy to its own continual differentiation. \;Under these conditions\, democracy designates less a constituted political form than an openness that finds in cinema a privileged operator &mdash\; a regime of \;emergence \;that resists the \;crystallisation \;of the political. \;As Nicole \;Brenez \;observes\, the mass that \;manifests \;within cinema &ldquo\;creates itself in the name of a lack&rdquo\;\, \;finding in this \;original absence \;the catalyst of its figural metamorphosis \;(2023\, \;p. \;85). \;
\nThe present \;call for papers \;operates \;within this problematic horizon\, encouraging research proposals that explore\, as cinema&rsquo\;s own generative force\, the emergence of a mass in flight\, continually exposed to its own reinvention. \;
\nGilles Deleuze&rsquo\;s thought constitutes a decisive precedent\, pointing out that cinema addresses a &ldquo\;people who are missing\,&rdquo\; making this absence the &ldquo\;new foundation&rdquo\; upon which modern political cinema is built\, dedicated to dissolving any entrenched framework at the heart of democracy (1989\, p. 216). \;
\nDeparting from approaches that reduce cinema to the construction of identifiable political subjects\, that is\, to a representational \;structure\, this proposal instead foregrounds cinema as an index of the &ldquo\;post-foundational&rdquo\; character of the demos of democracy\, whose manifestation never converges into a \;totalising \;figure\, remaining beyond any form of political capture (Marchart\, \;2007). \;
\nRecent work\, such as that of Jun Fujita Hirose\, explores this perspective by highlighting the revolutionary becoming of images\, whose \;potentia \;does not lie in the \;actualisation \;of an idea of the nation\, but in the continuous production of the nation&rsquo\;s non-coincidence with itself: the people become &ldquo\;phantasmatic\,&rdquo\; finding in this spectral condition their &ldquo\;line of flight&rdquo\; (Hirose\, \;2020\, \;p. \;59). We find the same intuition in Jean-Luc Godard: &ldquo\;the voice of Mozambique. From what mouth does this voice emerge? What is its face?&rdquo\; (Godard\, \;1979\, \;p. \;93). The crucial point is to preserve a deserted\, problematic image\, akin to Hitchcock&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;emptied subjects&rdquo\;\; that is\, figures which\, while structuring and influencing the action\, remain a presence without content\, exposing not exactly an individual &ldquo\;I&rdquo\; but an anonymous\, always-to-be-formed &ldquo\;we&rdquo\; (Ling\, \;2011\, \;p. \;177). In this sense\, it becomes a question of &ldquo\;making of the image a common place (un lieu du \;commun) where the commonplace of images of the people used to reign&rdquo\; (Didi-Huberman\, \;2012\, \;p. \;159). \;
\nFor Claude \;Lefort\, democracy is bound up with this formless\, &ldquo\;empty&rdquo\; we \;(Lefort\, \;1991). \;Rather than a lack to be remedied\, this \;emptiness \;functions as a positive criterion for cinema&rsquo\;s creative act and vision. \;From within this theoretical constellation\, the \;JSTA &ndash\; Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts \;invites researchers to submit original articles for the thematic dossier The Cinema of Democracy: Event and Reinvention of the Mass\, devoted to the study of cinema as a space through which democracy &ldquo\;can be thought\, experienced and enacted&rdquo\; beyond any normative framework (Kim\, \;2023). \;
\nPossible research paths include: \;
\nGuest Editors: Diogo Nó\;brega (School of Arts\, Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts\; Nova Institute of Philosophy\, IFILNOVA)\, Hugo Monteiro (Institute of Philosophy - University of Porto\, Centre for Research and Innovation in Education (inED)\, Lucas Ferraç\;o Nassif (Nova Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA)
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Fourth Austrian Summer School in Phenomenology UID:20260712T080305Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:The Austrian Society for Phenomenology launches its fouth international summer school. Our objective is to promote the research of young scholars (bachelor\, master\, and doctoral students) that sheds new phenomenological light on current debates in epistemology\, metaethics\, and metaphysics. The descriptive analysis of lived experience\, the eidetic study of the various modes of intentionality\, and the epistemic role and normative dimensions ascribed to experience constitute the cornerstones of phenomenological research. In particular\, Husserl&rsquo\;s conceptions of originary givenness\, evaluative experience\, and eidetic intuition are among the various seminal contributions we find in the phenomenological tradition. Currently\, promising research is done that utilizes such conceptions in order to develop phenomenological perspectives on experiential justification\, the debate between epistemic internalism and externalism\, the theory of value\, (moral) emotions\, moral epistemology\, issues surrounding metaphysical realism and anti-realism\, as well as the epistemology and metaphysics of essence\, modality\, and metaphysical dependence relations. We would like to encourage students to develop phenomenological insights and teachings systematically and in view of contemporary debates in philosophy. Our ambition is to promote such phenomenological research by providing a platform to connect with\, discuss with\, and receive feedback from peers and experts. Each conference day is devoted to one of the subtopics of the event.
\nThe conference will be an \;online event. \;If you wish to participate in the summer school but not to give a talk\, please provide a short statement of motivation (not more than 150 words) and specify your name\, affiliation\, and research interests.
\nCall for Papers
\nIf you wish to participate in the summer school and give a talk\, please apply with an (extended) abstract of the paper you wish to present. Submissions should not exceed 500 words\, must be written in English (conference language)\, and should be prepared for blind review.
\nThe submission deadline is July 15\, 2026.
\nPlease send your applications/submissions and general inquiries to: laurentia[dot]adam[at]uni-graz[dot]at
\nWomen and members of other traditionally underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
\nPreliminary schedule
\nSeptember 1
\nPhenomenological Approaches to Metaethics
\nNicolas de Warren (Penn State University): TBA
\n3 student presentations commented on by Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (University of Graz)
\nSeptember 2
\nPhenomenological Approaches to Epistemology
\nMirja Hartimo (University of Helsinki): TBA
\n3 student presentations commented on by Philipp Berghofer (University of Graz)
\nSeptember 3
\nPhenomenological Approaches to Metaphysics
\nKit Fine (New York University): TBA
\n3 student presentations commented on by Michael Wallner (University of Graz)
ORGANIZER;CN=Philipp Berghofer;CN=Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl;CN=Michael Wallner: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:UK XPHI Online: 2026 Series UID:20260712T080306Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to announce a call for abstracts for the next series of UK XPHI Online. This is a monthly online workshop devoted to discussion of work in progress in experimental philosophy (broadly construed). We feature work from all areas of experimental philosophy\, by researchers at all career stages\, from the UK and all over the world. The workshop meets once a month on Teams\, typically the second Wednesday of each month (16:00-18:00 UK time)\, for a two-hour session that typically features two talks (each 40 minutes plus 15 minutes Q&\;A). This call is for a series starting in October 2026. To submit\, please email the organizers an abstract of up to 500 words by July 15\, 2026 to james.andow@manchester.ac.uk.
\nThis series is organised by:
\nEugen Fischer (UEA)
\nJoanna Demaree-Cotton (Oxford)
\nJames Andow (Manchester)
ORGANIZER;CN=James Andow;CN=Joanna Demaree-Cotton;CN=Eugen Fischer: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:“Magic and Critique” – Pólemos (2026/2) UID:20260712T080307Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:This issue of \;Polemos \;aims to investigate the fertility of the concept of magic as a key to interpreting our contemporary condition\, starting from the recognition of its fundamental ambivalence. What is the aesthetic and political potential of magical dispositifs\, and what are the dangers of a &ldquo\;return to magic&rdquo\;? Is there such a thing as &ldquo\;good magic&rdquo\; and\, conversely\, &ldquo\;bad magic&rdquo\;? Or is it rather a matter of different ways of deploying its mechanisms and effects? From this perspective\, any serious and well-grounded inquiry into the concept of magic must necessarily be accompanied by a &ldquo\;critique of magic&rdquo\;: not a mere demystification\, but an analysis of the conditions\, implications\, and limits of its use as a philosophical category and as an aesthetic-political tool.
\nArticles (maximum length: 40\,000 characters\, including spaces)\, accompanied by an abstract of 1\,000 characters\, should be sent to \;cfp@rivistapolemos.it \;by July 15\, 2026 (in one of the following formats: .doc\, .docx\, .odt). Kindly submit the article and abstract in a single document suitable for anonymous review (double-blind peer review). Contributions directly addressing the suggested research lines are particularly welcome. Articles concerning related areas will also be taken into consideration. Submissions are accepted in Italian\, English\, French\, German\, and Spanish.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality UID:20260712T080308Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality\nCall for Papers and Presentations\nDetails\nThe Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) invites proposals for an online conference entitled \;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare: Information\, Interpretation\, Conspiracy\, and the Struggle for Reality. \;The proceedings will be considered for publication in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nThis conference investigates how beliefs\, paranoia\, and conspiratorial modes of knowing shape a contemporary cognitive battlespace in which actors struggle to define truth\, authority\, and reality itself. Drawing on Michel Foucault&rsquo\;s \;Lectures on the Will to Know \;and Julia Kristeva&rsquo\;s \;This Incredible Need to Believe \;(2024)\, we focus on practices of selective fact use and &ldquo\;truth-selecting&rdquo\; that construct alternative epistemic orders while claiming privileged access to what is &ldquo\;really&rdquo\; going on.
\nRather than treating conspiracy thinking as merely political or psychological\, the conference foregrounds its religious dimensions: faith in hidden powers\, moral dualism\, apocalyptic expectation\, and hermeneutical struggle over revelatory access to the real. Conspiracy cultures routinely reproduce theological structures of knowing&mdash\;visions of salvation and corruption\, truth and deception\, initiation and blindness. At the same time\, new forms of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; reframe these religious energies within state and platform attempts to govern perception\, attention\, and trust. Artificial intelligence\, algorithmic media\, and strategic information campaigns do not only deliver messages\; they create digital ecologies in which suspicion becomes faith-like and revelation is continual.
\nThe conference organizers are seeking proposals of high academic quality that take a reflective and analytical approach to both general and specific topics with international appeal or focus. We encourage contributions from scholars of religious studies\, philosophy\, communication\, sociology\, security studies\, psychology\, media\, and related fields. Submissions should engage religion as a dynamic force&mdash\;conceptually\, historically\, or materially&mdash\;within the cognitive battlespaces of our time. We encourage contributions from a spectrum of perspectives\, approaches\, and methodologies.
\nWe are not interested in papers that simply rehearse or promote particular conspiracies\, or that use the conference as a platform for calling out disliked groups. We are not interested in polemics\, jeremiad\, or de facto advocacy pieces. Instead\, we welcome theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous work that takes the religious and epistemic dimensions of cognitive conflict seriously as objects of critical inquiry.
\nTopics and Guiding Questions\nProposals may address\, but are not limited to\, the following subthemes and questions:
\n1. Paranoid Styles and Truth-Selecting\nReligious narratives have always negotiated the boundary between revelation and delusion\, authority and transgression. This subtheme explores how conspiratorial and paranoid styles echo older religious hermeneutics&mdash\;selective citation\, esoteric interpretation\, claims to hidden truth&mdash\;while retooling them in secular or digital forms. How do religious movements or quasi-religious publics narrate their privileged access to hidden realities? What theological and philosophical resources&mdash\;including the Foucauldian genealogy of the &ldquo\;will to truth&rdquo\;&mdash\;sustain these modes of &ldquo\;truth selection&rdquo\; and suspicion?
\n2. Zionism\, Antisemitism\, and Global Conspiracy Imaginaries\nReligious symbols and myths remain central to global conspiracy thinking\, and Judaism occupies a particularly charged position in these narratives. This subtheme invites analyses of antisemitic conspiracies past and present\, from classical &ldquo\;hidden ruler&rdquo\; myths to their algorithmic reprints in digital culture. How do such imaginaries convert theological motifs into political paranoia? What criteria can scholars use to distinguish legitimate critique of religion or state policy from conspiratorial reinscriptions of sacred enmity and eschatological blame?
\n3. AI\, Platforms\, and Paranoid Infrastructures\nTechnological systems now mediate belief and belonging in ways that rival traditional religious institutions. As artificial intelligence curates information and personalizes experience\, it also reconfigures how suspicion\, revelation\, and trust are produced and distributed. This subtheme asks whether algorithmic systems function as &ldquo\;paranoid infrastructures&rdquo\;&mdash\;digital environments that reinforce particular patterns of attention and faith. How do these systems become sites of religious projection\, and how do AI-generated and synthetic media intersect with conspiracy\, extremism\, and religious imaginary?
\n4. Cognitive Warfare and the Expanded Battlespace\nThe concepts of &ldquo\;cognitive warfare&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;cognitive domain operations&rdquo\; increasingly shape strategic and policy discourse\, yet they resonate with deeply theological questions about will\, truth\, and freedom. When states and institutions seek to &ldquo\;weaponize&rdquo\; belief or perception\, they enter into the same struggle for reality long theorized within religious and philosophical traditions. How might religious studies and critical theory help decode the sacred undercurrents of this emerging battlefield&mdash\;its rituals\, its eschatologies\, its doctrines of purified mind and corrupted reason?
\n5. Ethics of Information Control and Scholarly Responsibility\nReligious communities have always wrestled with the ethics of teaching\, interpretation\, and secrecy&mdash\;questions that return urgently in the academy&rsquo\;s role as arbiter of truth amid disinformation. This subtheme invites reflexive discussion of how scholars navigate the line between critique and amplification when studying conspiratorial or extremist movements. What responsibilities accompany the act of curating knowledge&mdash\;or withholding it&mdash\;in an age when information itself is the battlefield?
\n6. Esoteric and Speculative Knowledge\nReligious and occult traditions offer rich precedents for contemporary speculative and conspiratorial epistemologies. Drawing on Michael Barkun and related theorists of stigmatized knowledge\, this subtheme investigates how claims to esoteric or speculative truth function as alternative forms of knowing and meaning-making\, challenging empiricist and positivist paradigms. What ethical and epistemic possibilities emerge when the speculative is taken seriously as an object of inquiry? Where are the boundaries between credible revelation\, creative speculation\, and dangerous delusion\, and how do such claims sustain communities seeking Reality amid uncertainty?
\nSubmission of Proposals\nContributors should send an abstract of 300&ndash\;500 words outlining their proposal and its relevance to the conference theme. All proposals should be submitted as email attachments to the editor at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com \;with the subject line header: &ldquo\;Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare &ndash\; [Paper Title].&rdquo\;
\nAbstracts of papers\, drafts of papers\, or complete papers are welcome\, as well as proposals for oral presentations\, panel discussions\, or short workshops. Accepted presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review and possible inclusion in a special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nPublication\nAs the \;Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory \;works toward a special issue on Religion\, Politics\, and Cognitive Warfare\, our goal is to create an interdisciplinary forum for rigorous examination of these pressing issues. All conference presenters will be invited to submit finished articles for peer review. Selected articles will be published in a forthcoming special issue of the \;JCRT.
\nQueries\nFor questions regarding the conference or submissions\, please contact the JCRT editorial office at \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com.
\nSponsored by the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory (JCRT) in Collaboration with the University of Denver
\njcrt.org/religioustheory \; - \; \;editor.jcrt@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Adam DJ Brett;CN=Carl Raschke;CN=Kev Grane: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Zicklin Center Workshop in Normative Business Ethics UID:20260712T080309Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:3730 Walnut Street\, Philadelphia\, United States\, 19104 DESCRIPTION:Call for Abstracts for The Zicklin Center Normative Business Ethics Workshop Series
\nOver the 2026-2027 academic year\, the Zicklin Center for Governance and Business Ethics at the Wharton School\, University of Pennsylvania\, will convene a regular works-in-progress series for scholars working in normative business ethics (NBE). In particular\, the Series will workshop papers pursuing business ethics issues from a normative perspective\, or papers in moral or political philosophy with implications for the market\, distributive justice\, labor relations\, the role of business in society\, etc.
\nWorkshop Objectives
\nThe Series is part of an effort to foster normative business ethics in the academy and the public sphere. This particular initiative has two key objectives: First\, it endeavors to provide a regular forum for scholars working on business ethics from a normative perspective. The community of such scholars is relatively small\, and dispersed across numerous institutions\, and there are few opportunities for these individuals to convene and share work. This Series is an effort to connect these scholars and to enrich their shared intellectual life. Second\, the Series aims to be especially valuable to junior faculty and advanced graduate students\, by providing them with feedback from\, and opportunities to interact with\, more established members of the normative business ethics community. To that end\, we hope to have (at least) one junior author and one senior author at each session.
\nWorkshop Format
\nThe workshop will meet six times over the academic year. Any academic or practitioner with an interest in normative business ethics is invited to attend the sessions. Attendees are expected to read the papers in advance\, and to come with feedback for the paper authors. To maximize the opportunity for paper improvement\, authors will not present their papers\; we will instead spend our time together on questions and comments for the author.
\nSessions will be held on Fridays\, beginning at 1:00 pm unless otherwise indicated. We will discuss two to three papers at each session. Attendees are expected to read the papers in advance\, and to come prepared to offer feedback.
\nWe plan to hold all sessions in-person\, on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania\, in Philadelphia.
\nSession Dates:
\nSeptember 25th\, 2026
\nOctober 30th\, 2026
\nJanuary 29th\, 2027
\nFebruary 26th\, 2027
\nMarch 19th\, 2027
\nApril 16th\, 2027
\nCall for Abstracts
\nWe invite abstract submissions from \;faculty and post-docs\, and from graduate students who have advanced to the ABD stage. \;Preferential treatment will be given to those who have not presented work at the Series before\, and we especially welcome submissions from women and under-represented minorities.
\nThe abstract should propose a paper in normative business ethics\, as described above. We ask that submissions offer a fairly detailed sense of the paper without exceeding 500 words.
\nWe ask that applicants identify three of the above dates\, in order of preference\, at which they would like to present their work. Please send your abstract to Brian Berkey &ndash\; bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu -- by July 15th\, 2026. Individuals will be notified about whether their paper has been selected for presentation by August 3rd\, 2026.
\nInformation for Selected Authors
\nThe Zicklin Center will cover reasonable travel and accommodation expenses for paper authors for the session at which their paper will be discussed.
\nReimbursement for travel expenses is subject to two conditions. By accepting the offer to workshop a paper\, the paper author pledges that:
\n1. \; \; \; \; The paper they will share is at a stage of development where the author can incorporate feedback gained at the workshop (e.g.\, the paper is not yet in page proofs or in print)\; and
\n2. \; \; \; \; The paper author will send their draft paper to the organizers no fewer than 14 days before their presentation date.
\nFor co-authored papers\, we can ordinarily only provide travel funding for one of the authors\, though other co-authors are welcome to attend.
\nPlease address any questions about the CFA or the workshop to one of the organizers: Brian Berkey (bberkey@wharton.upenn.edu)\, Amy Sepinwall (sepin@wharton.upenn.edu)\, Julian Jonker (jonker@wharton.upenn.edu)\, or Paul Forrester (pforr@wharton.upenn.edu).
ORGANIZER;CN=Brian Berkey;CN=Amy J. Sepinwall;CN=Julian Jonker;CN=Paul Forrester: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052812Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Anti-Democratic Communication UID:20260712T080310Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Waterloo\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Manipulative language has played a vital role in the rise of authoritarian regimes and the undermining of democracy worldwide. This topic will be the focus of a two-day networking workshop to be held at the University of Waterloo (November 28-29\, 2026)\, on Anti-Democratic Communication. \; \;Confirmed speakers include Esa Diaz Leon\, Jonathan Ichikawa\, Tim Kenyon\, Anna Klieber\, Neri Marsili\, Mari Mikkola\, and Jason Stanley. \; \;The workshop is intended to be the founding event of an international network in social and political philosophy of language. \; \;It will be followed by a special journal issue including papers from the workshop. \; \;Six travel bursaries of up to $1000 CAD are available for presenters of accepted papers. (The event is sponsored by SSHRC\, the University of Waterloo\, Brock University\, and the University of Toronto.)
\n\nAbstracts of 500-750 words are invited on any topic in social and political philosophy of language. \; \;We are especially interested in papers addressing issues related to threats to democracy\, and to papers addressing topics related to Canadian politics. Please send your abstract\, prepared for anonymous review\, to Eric Devall at edevall@uwaterloo.ca. \; \;
\n\nDEADLINE: July 15\, 2026. \; \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Jennifer Saul: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052813Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260715T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260715T234500 SUMMARY:Concordia GPSA Conference 2026 UID:20260712T080311Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:Room GN-MR-18 1175 St-Mathieu St.\, Montréal\, Canada\, H3H 2L4 DESCRIPTION:CONCORDIA GRADUATE PHILOSOPHY STUDENT CONFERENCE 2026 \;
\nCall for Abstracts
\nHeld on: September 26th &\; 27th
\nConcordia University / Hybrid
\nSUBMISSION DEADLINE
\nJuly 15\, 2026
\nApplicants will be informed of the decision by
\nAugust 15\, 2026
\nThe conference returns after a year's absence with a renewed commitment to promoting graduate research that pushes the boundaries of philosophical inquiry. We invite work that addresses our return in its broadest sense&mdash\;a return to questions\, traditions\, and forms of thought\, as well as departures and transformations that arise from them&mdash\;instead of a set theme for the issue. To uphold the conference's dedication to rigorous and innovative research\, we encourage submissions from all branches of philosophy as well as interdisciplinary work that interacts with the philosophical tradition.
\nInvited areas include (but are not limited to):
\nSpeakers should prepare a presentation longer than 15 minutes and not exceeding 20 minutes\, followed by a 10-minute Q&\;A session. Proposals should include a 250-500 word abstract\, submitted through email as a .pdf or .docx document to gpsaconference@outlook.com. In a separate cover sheet\, please include the following information:
\nJOURNAL LAUNCH
\nThe return of the graduate conference accompanies the return of our student journal. Join us in celebrating the amazing work of our editors and authors at the conference. Copies of the journal will be available for distribution.
\nCONFÉ\;RENCE DES É\;TUDES SUPÉ\;RIEUR EN PHILOSOPHIE 2026 À\; CONCORDIA
\nAppel aux Communiqué\;s
\nDate: 26 &\; 27 septembre
\nUniversité\; Concordia/ Hybride
\nDATE LIMITE DE SOUMISSION
\n15 juillet 2026
\nLes pré\;sentateurs sé\;lectionné\;s seront contacté\;s avant le
\n15 aoû\;t 2026
\nL&rsquo\;appel aux communiqué\;s pour la confé\;rence des é\;tudes supé\;rieures en philosophie de l&rsquo\;Université\; Concordia est maintenant ouvert. La confé\;rence fait son retour avec un engagement renouvelé\; à\; la promotion de la recherche en é\;tudes supé\;rieures qui repousse les frontiè\;res du questionnement philosophique. Nous vous invitons à\; soumettre des travaux qui abordent notre retour &mdash\; un retour aux questions\, aux traditions\, aux formes de pensé\;e\, mais aussi aux é\;carts et aux transformations qui en é\;mergent &mdash\; de multiples faç\;ons\, sans thè\;me pré\;cis. Dans le but d&rsquo\;offrir une confé\;rence consacré\;e à\; une recherche\, qui est non seulement rigoureuse\, mais aussi innovante\, nous encourageons la soumission d&rsquo\;articles de toutes les branches de la philosophie\, ainsi que de travaux interdisciplinaires qui entrent en dialogue avec la tradition philosophique.
\nSujet invité\; (non limité\; à\; ce qui suit):
\nLes participant.e.s auront un minimum de 15 minutes et un maximum de 20 minutes pour leurs pré\;sentations\, suivies d&rsquo\;une courte pé\;riode de questions. Les propositions doivent inclure un ré\;sumé\; de 250 à\; 500 mots\, soumis par courriel sous forme de document .pdf ou .docx à\; l&rsquo\;adresse gpsaconference@outlook.com. Sur une page de couverture distincte\, veuillez inclure les informations suivantes :
\nLANCEMENT DU JOURNAL
\nLe retour de notre confé\;rence accompagne le lancement de la nouvelle é\;dition de notre journal é\;tudiant. Venez cé\;lé\;brer avec nous le travail exemplaire que nos auteurs et é\;diteurs ont fait pour faire naî\;tre ce beau projet. Des exemplaires du journal seront distribué\;s durant la confé\;rence.
ORGANIZER;CN=Zacharie Michaud: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052813Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260716T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260717T170000 SUMMARY:Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit and the Principle of Sufficient Reason: On the Metaphysics of Ground in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period UID:20260712T080312Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Jungiusstr. 11C\, Hamburg\, Germany DESCRIPTION:In this conference\, we wish to trace the history of two of the most famous principles of metaphysics\, the ex nihilo nihil fit principle (NIF for short) and the principle of sufficient reason (PSR). We will discuss their interrelation\, beginning with medieval metaphysics through to early modern metaphysics\, and approach the theme from historical\, systematic\, analytic\, comparative\, and contextual perspectives. We will ask how representatives of the NIF and the PSR in the Medieval and Early Modern period legitimized\, restricted\, and applied these principles. In this context\, we will examine the concepts of reason\, nothing\, being\, becoming\, and ground. Is there such a thing as nothing\, and what do we mean by &ldquo\;nothing&rdquo\;? Could nothing ever be something? Could we say something comes from nothing? Is all of existence and every being intelligible in terms of a reason or ground\, and if so\, in what sense? When posing these questions\, we will discover that the different conceptions of the NIF and the PSR circle around a determination of what is intelligible and what is not. As a common thread running through the conference\, we will thus ask which accounts of the NIF and the PSR remain philosophically compelling today\, and why?
\nSpeakers: Fatema Amijee ·\; Kü\;bra Bahç\;i ·\; Sebastian Bender ·\; Julia Borcherding ·\; Jon Bornholdt ·\; Clara Carus ·\; Michael Della Rocca ·\; Samuel Levey ·\; Jeffrey McDonough ·\; Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra ·\; Sonja Schierbaum
\nFor the full program and registration (by 14 July 2026\, 23:59 CEST)\, please visit: https://shorturl.at/3o33o
\nThe conference is generously supported by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
\nWe warmly invite you to attend in Hamburg in person or virtually.
\nOrganized by Clara Carus (Heidelberg) and Stephan Schmid (Hamburg).
\nAssociated CFP: We're pleased to announce that we will edit a special issue of the journal History of Philosophy and Logical Analysis on the same topic. For further information and to submit a paper\, please visit: https://brill.com/view/journals/hpla/hpla-overview.xml?contents=editorialContent-135986
ORGANIZER;CN=Stephan Schmid;CN=Clara Carus: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052813Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260716T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260716T170000 SUMMARY:Neo-Emotions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Feelings and Change UID:20260712T080313Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Essen\, Germany\, 45127 DESCRIPTION:The concept of &lsquo\;neo-emotions&rsquo\; is based on the idea that our emotional range changes over time and in context. Not only have the meanings of classic terms such as anger\, happiness\, or embarrassment been transformed\, but new kinds of emotions have also emerged. This workshop brings together scholars from different disciplines to examine how feelings become established emotions\, which conditions catalyse &lsquo\;inventing&rsquo\; new emotions\, and what role digital technologies and AI play in this context.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260712T052813Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260716T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20260718T170000 SUMMARY:Joy\, Care\, and Resistance UID:20260712T080314Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@fe80:0:0:0:5864:16ff:fe1a:92fe%3 TZID:America/Toronto LOCATION:University of Waterloo\, Waterloo\, Canada DESCRIPTION:Forty-Third International Social Philosophy Conference
\nA joint conference by the North American Society for Social Philosophy (NASSP) and the
\nCanadian Society Working for Inclusion in Philosophy (CSWIP)
\nUniversity of Waterloo
\nWaterloo\, Ontario\, Canada
ORGANIZER;CN=Christopher Lowry: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR