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 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
May 20, 2026
Commentators
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
May 22 - 24, 2026
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
June 4 - 5, 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
June 8 - 9, 2026
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
June 11 - 12, 2026
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
July 3 - 4, 2026
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
July 9 - 11, 2026
Call for Abstracts
Location
Stuttgart, Germany
July 14 - 15, 2026
Conference Poster
Conference Program
Location
Seeburg
Düstenbrooker Weg 2, 24105 Kiel
July 20 - 21, 2026
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
July 28 - August 1, 2026
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
August 4 - 8, 2026
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
August 9 - 15, 2026
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