Upcoming Conferences and Workshops

This page provides details about only some of our major upcoming events — namely, those that are conferences and workshops.

Upcoming Events 

2025-2026

April 10 - 12, 2026
Event Poster
Event Program
Location

Franke Institute for the Humanities

April 19, 2026
Event Poster
Location

University of Chicago

Wieboldt 408

Conference Poster & Program

Conference Poster

Conference Program

Keynote Speaker

Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn University)

Organizers

Hayes Phillips (hhphillips@uchicago.edu), Gray Reichl (reichl@uchicago.edu), & Samuel Wheeler (sjwheeler@uchicago.edu)

Location

University of Chicago

Stuart 105

Commentators
Christopher Benzenberg (Notre Dame Philosophy)
Maya Krishnan (UChicago Philosophy)
T.A. Pendlebury (UChicago Philosophy)
Event Poster

You can access the poster for the event here..

Organizers

Karl von der Luft (UChicago Social Thought, Philosophy)

This event is co-sponsored by the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought & University of Chicago Department of Philosophy

Time & Location

8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

University of Chicago

Conference Website

The conference website can be accessed at the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/third-critique/home 

Speakers

Alix Cohen (Notre Dame)

Nicholas Dunn (Lethbridge)

Sebastian Gardner (UCL)

Johannes Haag (Potsdam)

Ido Geiger (BGU Negev)

Christian Martin (Stuttgart)

Alexander Rueger (Alberta)

Nick Stang (Toronto)

Kristi Sweet (Texas A&M)

Sabina Vaccarino Bremner (UPenn)

Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern)

and others…

Organizers

Adam Katwan (akatwan@uchicago.edu) & Karl von der Luft (kvdluft@uchicago.edu)

Location

University of Chicago

Summer 2026

Conference Program
Conference Website

The conference website can be accessed at the following link: https://isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/appel-propositionscall-papers-stanley-cavell-100 

Organizer

Sandra Laugier

Location

Université Paris 1, Panthéon Sorbonne

Paris, France

Conference Website

The conference website can be accessed at the following link: https://isjps.pantheonsorbonne.fr/actualite/appel-propositionscall-papers-stanley-cavell-100 

Organizer

Piergiorgio Donatelli

Location

Sapienza Università di Roma

Rome, Italy

Conference Website

The conference website can be accessed at the following link: https://cpkp.net/event/materiale-intentionalitat/ 

Location

Paris, France

June 15 - 16, 2026

Technological Forms of Agency

Location

Berlin

June 18 - 20, 2026

Social Forms of Freedom

Location

Berlin

June 23 - 25, 2026

The Second Person

Invited Speakers

Jim Conant, Thodoris Dimitrakos, Naomi Eilan, Wolfram Gobsch, Keren Gorodeisky, Martin Gustafsson, Matthias Haase, Arata Hamawaki, Eric Marcus, Anselm Muller, Jean-Phillipe Narboux, Michael Thompson, Ed Witherspoon

Location

Patras, Greece

June 29 - July 1, 2026
Conference Program
Organizers

Prof. Vasso Kindi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Dr. Lassi Jakola (Finnish Institute of Athens and University of Helsinki)
(jakola@finninstitute.gr)

Location

Athens

Conference Website
Participants

Prof. Matthew Boyle (U of Chicago), Dr. Haley Brennan (NYU), Prof. James Conant (U of Chicago), Prof. Matthias Haase (U of Chicago), Prof. Thomas Khurana (Potsdam), Prof. Sophie Loidolt (TU Darmstadt), Prof. Terry Pinkard (Georgetown), Prof. Ursula Renz (Universität Graz), Dr. Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin), Prof. Owen Ware (U of Toronto), Prof. Dan Zahavi (U of Kopenhagen)

Location

University of Potsdam

Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam

Conference Poster
Conference Program
Location

Seeburg

Düstenbrooker Weg 2, 24105 Kiel

Location

Universität Potsdam

Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany

July 23 - 25, 2026

15th Meeting of Action Network: Practical Thought and Good Action

Location

Universität Leipzig

Course Website
Course Description

This year’s Klagenfurt Workshop will examine Wittgenstein’s treatment of rule following from a fresh perspective by considering how it is intertwined with three further topics: (1) the relation of sign to symbol, (2) the logical character of human expression, (3) the second person. After a first session in which we will briefly discuss some of Saul Kripke’s proposals for how to understand this region of Wittgenstein’s thought—which forms the background of most of the articles we will read—we will turn our attention in the first half of the workshop to a series of debates on how to read (and how not to read) Wittgenstein on rule following that may be understood to pit John McDowell and Cora Diamond against Robert Brandom and Crispin Wright. In the second half of the workshop, we will study some comparatively neglected articles (by Elizabeth Anscombe, David Finkelstein, Elek Lane, and Edward Minar, among others) that home in on one or another aspect of topics (1) – (3).

Workshop Poster

Forthcoming

Location

The University of Klagenfurt

Summer School Website
Summer School Description

Possibly no topic has received more attention in the secondary literature on Wittgenstein than that of rule following. In this year’s Kirchberg Summer School, we aim to examine this topic from a fresh perspective by considering how Wittgenstein’s treatment of it is intertwined with three further topics: (1) the relation of sign to symbol, (2) the logical character of human expression, (3) the second person. A treatment of (1) precedes the stretch of sections in Philosophical Investigations standardly singled out as containing the “rule following considerations”—namely, §§185 – 201. (2) is often thought only first to come in for detailed examination in the stretch of sections in Philosophical Investigations standardly singled out as containing the “private language argument”—namely, §§243 – 305. That (3) is central to any portion of the book often goes completely unnoticed. Where helpful and appropriate, we will supplement our readings from the Investigations with brief excerpts from the Blue and Brown Books, Zettel, Remarks on the Philosophy of Psychology, and Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology.

Summer School Poster

Forthcoming

Location

Kirchberg am Weschel

submission Process

Information on how to submit a paper to the symposium can be found here.

Invited Speakers

Hanne Appelqvist (Helsinki), Hanoch Ben-Yami (Vienna), Gisela Bengtsson (Bergen), William Child (Oxford), James Conant (Chicago), Anne-Marie S. Christensen (Odense), Mauro Engelmann (Minas Gerais), Cecilie Eriksen (Aarhus), Matthew Fielding (Halifax), David Finkelstein (Chicago), Eran Guter (Yezreel Valley), Thomas Hainscho (Klagenfurt), Michel ter Hark (Amsterdam), Richard Heinrich (Vienna), Lars Hertzberg (Abo), Ron Hustwitt (Wooster), Wolfgang Kienzler (Jena), Oskari Kuusela (Norwich), Michele Lavazza (Emilia Reggio), Stefan Majetschak (Kassel), Marie McGinn (York), Denis McManus (Southampton), Ray Monk (Southampton), Gabriele Mras (Vienna), Milijana Pavlovic (Innsbruck), Luigi Perissinotto (Venice), Christoph Pfisterer (Zurich), Martin Pilch (Vienna), Duncan Richter (Virginia), Josef Rothhaupt (Munich), Mario von der Ruhr (Swansea), Simo Säätelä (Bergen), Hans Sluga (Berkeley), Ilse Somavilla (Innsbruck), David Stern (Iowa), Ulrike Tanzer (Innsbruck), Thomas Wallgren (Helsinki), Meredith Williams (New York)

Organizers

Christian Kanzian (Innsbruck)
Volker Munz (Klagenfurt)
Joseph Wang-Kathrein (Innsbruck)
Anja Weiberg (Vienna)

Location

Elementary School
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel
Austria