
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
June 3, 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 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
June 4, 2025
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 52, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
June 6, 2025
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
June 10 - 12, 2025
Conference Program & Poster
Organizers
James Conant & Costas Pagondiotis
Location
Conference and Cultural Center of the University of Patras, Rooms II9, I.5
June 19 - 21, 2025
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
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
June 28 - 29, 2025
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
June 30 - July 2, 2025
Conference Program & Poster
Organizers
Sebastian Bürkle, James Conant, Christian Martin, & Marco-Lorenz Seikel
Location
The University of Stuttgart
July 2 - 3, 2025
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
July 9, 2025
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
July 10 - 12, 2025
Conference Website
Conference Website
Conference Program & Poster
Conference Program
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
July 14-15, 2025
Workshop Website
Location
University of Potsdam
Haus 8, Raum, 0.58
Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam
July 17 - 19, 2025
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
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.
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
July 23 - 26, 2025
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.
July 31 - August 2, 2025
Workshop Poster
Course Website & Description
Location
The University of Klagenfurt
August 6 - 9, 2025
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
August 11 - 16, 2025
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