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 

May 13 - 15, 2025
Conference Poster
Conference Website & Program

The conference website can be accessed here: https://helgavarden.com/kant-the-isms-conference/ 

The conference program can be accessed here: https://helgavarden.com/conference-program/ 

Location

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Room 210 (General Lounge) Illini Union.

Summer 2025

Event Description (in German)

Professor James Conant (University of Chicago) und Professor Christoph König (Universität Osnabrücke / Berlin) veranstalten am 3.6.2025, von 14-16 Uhr, im Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv ein Seminar zum Thema »Sagen und Zeigen bei Wittgenstein: Dichtung, Logik und Philosophie«. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Ludwig Wittgensteins Bemerkungen im Jahr 1917 Paul Engelmann gegenüber, die sich auf Ludwig Uhlands Gedicht ›Graf Eberhards Weißdorn‹ beziehen, und das Gedicht selbst. Indem Wittgenstein in diesen Bemerkungen die Begriffe Sagen, Zeigen und Unaussprechliches verwendet, die in seinem großen ersten Werk ›Tractatus logico-philosophicus‹ (1918 abgeschlossen) zentral sind, wird von den Bemerkungen über Uhlands Gedicht her der ›Tractatus‹ selbst zum Gegenstand. Es wird sich zeigen, dass die Standardauffassung, Wittgenstein wolle sagen, das Unaussprechliche sei jenseits der Sprache, seine Auffassung nicht trifft, sondern dass das nötige Zeigen vielmehr dem Sagen intern sei.

Seminar Poster (in German)
Location

Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv

Universität Innsbruck

Innrain 526020  Innsbruck, Austria

Event Description (in German)

Professor James Conant (University of Chicago) veranstaltet am 4.6.2025, von 14-16 Uhr, im Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv ein Seminar zum Thema  »Wir kennen uns.« Grundlage des Seminars ist eine Arbeit, die er mit seinem Kollegen Matthias Haase (University of Chicago) geschriebenen hat. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Überlegungen von Ludwig Wittgenstein und Stanley Cavell zum Wissen von dem Bewusstsein anderer Personen. In der zeitgenössischen analytischen Philosophie wird Skeptizismus über die Möglichkeit des Wissens von Fremdpsychischen zumeist parallel zum Skeptizismus über die Möglichkeit des Wissens von der Außenwelt behandelt. Nach Wittgenstein und Cavell ist dies jedoch ein Fehler: Wissen vom Fremdpsychischen und Wissen von der Außenwelt unterscheiden sich nicht nur in ihrem Inhalt, sondern auch in ihrer Form. Der formale Unterschied besteht genau darin, dass letzteres Wissen ein zwischenmenschliches Verhältnis betrifft. Der paradigmatische Fall des Wissens von Anderen ist das reziproke Verhältnis zweier Personen, die einander kennen. Das Thema des Seminars ist die Untersuchung der unterschiedlichen Dimensionen dieser Asymmetrie zwischen Wissen von anderen Personen und Wissen von Gegenständen in der Welt.

Seminar Poster (in German)
Location

Forschungsinstitut Brenner-Archiv

Universität Innsbruck

Innrain 526020  Innsbruck, Austria

Conference Poster
Organizer

Irmena Tsankova (tsankova_irmena@phd.ceu.edu)

Location

Institute of Philosophy of the University of Vienna

Hörsaal 2i, Neue Institutsgebäude (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010, Wien

Conference Program & Poster
Organizers

James Conant & Costas Pagondiotis

Location

Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras, Rooms II9, I.5

Speakers
  • Anne Marie Christensen
  • James Conant
  • Eli Friedlander
  • Nora Hämäläinen
  • Wolfgang Kienzler
  • Oskari Kuusela
  • Nimrod Matan
  • Anat Matar
  • Lucia Morra
  • Gilad Nir
  • Yi ping Ong
  • Jonathan Soen
  • Chon Tejedor
  • Anja Weiberg
Conference Poster
Organizers
Nimrod Matan (nimrodmatan@gmail.com), Gilad Nir (Gilad.nir@yahoo.com), and Jonathan Soen (johnsoen@gmail.com)
Location

The University of Potsdam, Campus am Neuen Palais, Room 1.08.0.56

Here is a Map.

Event Description

In their joint presentation “Being Known to Each Other”, James Conant (Chicago) and Matthias Haase (Chicago) will argue that the fundamental case of the second person relation between persons partakes of a logically distinctive form. In the recent literature, skepticism about other minds is often treated on analogy with skepticism about knowledge of the external world. In this paper Conant and Haase argue that this is mistaken: knowledge of other minds differs from knowledge of external objects not merely in content, but also in form. This formal difference is due to the former kind of knowledge involving a relation between persons. Τhe fundamental form of this relation exhibits logical features not present in knowledge of a mere thing, including mutual acknowledgement and reciprocal address. The latter two features are particularly emphasized in the work of Stanley Cavell.  Following his lead, Conant and Haase seek to elucidate several deep asymmetries between skepticism about the external world and skepticism about other minds. Not least of these is that the latter, unlike the former, can be lived—and hence is a form of skepticism partaking of an irreducibly existential aspect.

Organizers

Christian Martin (christian.georg.martin@gmail.com)

Location

The University of Stuttgart

Institute of Philosophy, Room M17.15

June 26 - 27, 2025
Conference Poster & Website
Participants

Brian O’Connor, Peter Dews, Alain Ehrenberg, Eli Friedlander, Veronica Galfione, Thomas Khurana, Luca Illetterati, Karen Ng, Terry Pinkard, Francesca Raimondi, Jörg Schaub, Vladimir Safatle, Isabel Sickenberger, Natalie Stoljar

Organizers

Isabel Sickenberger & Alexey Weißmüller

Location

University of Potsdam

Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam

Conference Poster
Invited Speakers
  • Agata Bielik-Robson (Nottingham/Warsaw)
  • James Conant (Chicago)
  • Juliet Floyd (Boston)
  • Martin Gustafsson (Turku)
  • Adam Lipszyc (Warsaw)
  • Alice Morelli (Venice)
  • Marcin Poręba (Warsaw)
  • Vincent Vincke (Brussels)
Location

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 3, Room 4

Organizers

Sebastian Bürkle, James Conant, Christian Martin, & Marco-Lorenz Seikel

Location

The University of Stuttgart

Invited Speakers

Prof. Claudi Brink (University of New Hampshire)
Prof. Pirachula Chulanon (Toronto Metropolitan University)
Dr. Mathis Koschel (University of Southern California)
Prof. Maya Krishnan (The University of Chicago)
Dr. Konstanty Kuzma (Stuttgart University)
Prof. Christian Martin (Stuttgart University)
Prof. Thomas Pendelbury (The University of Chicago)

Conference Program
Location

The University of Stuttgart

Kollegiengebäude IV (1.OG)

Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 24d

70174 Stuttgart

July 6 - 8, 2025

1st Annual Chicago/Kraków Graduate Conference

Call for Papers
Location

The University of Kraków

Event Website
Organizers

This talk is organized by Volkbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz & The New Institute: Centre for Social Critique at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Please be aware that you must have a ticket in order to attend this event. Tickets can be purchased at the following website: https://www.volksbuehne.berlin/#/de/spielplan 

Location

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

Roter Salon

Linienstraße 227, 10178 Berlin

Conference Website

Conference Website

Conference Program & Poster

Conference Program

Conference Poster

Organizers

Holmer Steinfath (holmer.steinfath@phil.uni-goettingen.de) & James Conant (jconant@uchicago.edu)

Location

The University of Göttingen

Humboldt Allee 19, room PH 0.133

Workshop Website
Location

University of Potsdam

Haus 8, Raum, 0.58

Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam

Speakers
  • Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena & Reggio Emilia),
  • Pascal Brixel (Northwestern)
  • Luca Ferrero (UC Riverside)
  • Alec Hinshelwood (Universität Leipzig)
  • Ben Laurence (University of Chicago)
  • Karen Ng (Vanderbilt)
  • Sarah Paul (NYU)
  • Kate Petroff (University of Chicago)
  • Christoph Schuringa (Northeastern University London)
Organizers

Matthias Haase (haase@uchicago.edu), Adrian Haddock (adrian.haddock@uni-leipzig.de), & Erasmus Mayr (erasmus.mayr@fau.de)

Location

Felix Klein Lecture Hall, Paulinum, Augustusplatz 10, 04109 Leipzig

July 21 - 22, 2025
Conference Description & Website

A fundamental concern of the early and the later Wittgenstein is language and its significancefor philosophy.  By centring on the concept of expression, and in particular on how this concept figures in the work of Wittgenstein, this workshop seeks to explore the ways in which attention to language can inform, and potentially transform our understanding of a range of philosophical concerns.  These include: the nexus between mind and world; the asymmetry between self and other; the possibility of personal identity over time; the idea ofconceptual articulation; and the very idea of a theory of meaning.

Conference Website

Invited Speakers

Organizers: Adrian Haddock and Jonas Held

Speakers: 

Stina Bäckström (Södertörn)

David Finkelstein (Chicago)

Adrian Haddock (Leipzig)

Jonas Held (Leipzig)

Eylem Özaltun (Koç)

Maria van der Schaar (Leiden)

James Shaw (Pittsburgh)

Peter Sullivan (Stirling)

Location

University of Leipzig (Vortragssaal Albertina)

Theoretische Philosophie
Beethovenstraße 15
04107 Leipzig

Conference Website
Organizer

The annual meeting is locally organized by Tabea Rohr (tabea.rohr@uni-jena.de).

Location

The conference will take place in the Rosensäle, Fürstengraben 27, in the center of Jena.

Summer School Website

For information regarding the 16th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summer School: https://www.alws.at/16th-ludwig-wittgenstein-summerschool/

Location

Elementary school
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria

Conference Website

For information regarding the 46th International Wittgenstein Symposium: https://www.alws.at/

Location

Elementary school
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria