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 

Summer 2026

Conference Program & Poster
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

Event Poster
Location

Room 1070, Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6

Berlin, Germany

June 16 - 17, 2026
Conference Program
Location

Human Abilities, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Humanities

Schönhauser Allee 10-11, Room 4.17

Berlin, Germany

Registration Information

To register for this event, you must email Samuel Wheeler (sjwheeler@uchicago.edu).

Workshop Poster
Location

Humboldt Universität Berlin

Lichthof im Hauptgebäude (Unter den Linden 6)

Registration Information

To register for this event, you must email Antonia Augsbach (antonia.augsbach.1@hu-berlin.de).

Workshop Poster & Program
Location

Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6

June 23 - 25, 2026
Conference Poster & Program
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 Poster & Program
Conference Website
Location

University of Potsdam

Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam

Conference Poster & Program
Location

„Casino IT“, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 24d, 70174 Stuttgart

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

Speakers
Stina Backstrom & Andrea Kern (Universität Leipzig)
Jason Bridges (University of Chicago)
Lucy Campbell (University of Warwick) 
Matthias Haase (University of Chicago)
Ana Lopez & John Schwenker (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Eric Marcus (Auburn University)
Erasmus Mayr (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Glenda Satne (University of Wollongong)
Sergio Tenenbaum (University of Toronto)
Registration
The workshop is pre-read: the papers will be distributed to the participants of the workshop.
For access to the papers, please register for the workshop with Jack McGrath (jack.mcgrath@uni-leipzig.de)
Organizers
Matthias Haase (University of Chicago)
Adrian Haddock (Universität Leipzig)
Erasmus Mayr (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Jack McGrath (Universität Leipzig)
Location

Universität Leipzig

Vortragssaal der Bibliotheca Albertina

Beethovenstr. 6, 04107 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

You can access the workshop poster here.

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

Summer 2027

July 15 - 17, 2027

Chicago – Göttingen Graduate Conference

Location

The University of Göttingen