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
February 13, 2026
Location & Time
University of Chicago
Weiboldt Hall 408
Chicago, IL 60637
12:00 p.m.
Sponsors
This event is co-sponsored by the Seminary Co-op, the Chicago-Paris Center, and the Department of Philosophy
For more information, contact samueljwheeler@uchicago.edu
February 14, 2026
Kant at the Lake
Speakers
2:00 – 3:00 Maya Krishnan (University of Chicago), topic TBA
3:30 – 5:30 Tobias Rosefeldt (Humboldt-Universität), topic TBA
Location
University of Chicago
February 27 - 28, 2026
Event Website
Location
DePaul University
March 19 - 21, 2026
Aesthetic Forms of Mindedness
Invited Participants & Talk Titles
Matthew Boyle (University of Chicago): “The Expressiveness of Human Faces”
James Conant (University of Chicago): “Family Resemblance, Composite Photography, and Unity of Concept: Goethe, Galton, Wittgenstein”
Dina Emundts (FU Berlin) & Jutta Müller-Tamm (FU Berlin): “Wahrnehmung von Bewegung: Kaleidoskop und Wasserfall”
Eva Geulen (ZfL/HU Berlin): “Morphology Then and Now”
Hanna Hamel (TU-Berlin): “The Art of Memory in Large Language Models: A Morphological Approach”
Jan Lietz (FU-Berlin): „Infrastrukturalismus. Claude Lévi-Strauss‘ materialistischer Anschluss an J.W. Goethe”
Andrea Kern (Universität Leipzig): “Kierkegaard on Aesthetic and Ethical Forms of Thinking”
Thomas Khurana (Universität Potsdam)“Sensus Communis: Kant on the Art of Genus-Beings” or “Spirit is Artist: Aesthetics and Politics of Second Nature in Hegel”
Florian Klinger (University of Chicago): TBA
Catriona MacLeod (University of Chicago): “Goethe’s Revisioning of Philostratus’s Imagines (1818).”
Thomas Pendlebury (University of Chicago) & Sam Berstler (MIT): “The Function of Criticism”
Discussants
Matthias Haase (University of Chicago), Ethel Matala de Mazza (HU Berlin), Katrin Trüstedt (ZfL), Johannes Haag (Universität Berlin)
Location
Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
Pariser Straße 1, 10719 Berlin
Call for Abstracts
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 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
James Conant (UChicago), Theodoris Dimitrakos (University of Kent), Naomi Eilan (Warwick University), Wolfram Gobsch (University of Zurich), Martin Gustafsson (Åbo Akademi), Matthias Haase (UChicago), Arata Hamawaki (Auburn University), Eric Marcus (Auburn University), Anselm Müller (Trier University), Jean-Phillipe Narboux (Strasbourg University), Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh), Ed Witherspoon (Colgate University)
Location
Patras, Greece
June 29 - July 1, 2026
Call for Papers
Invited Speakers
James Conant (University of Chicago)
Constantine Sandis (University of Hertfordshire)
Thomas Wallgren (University of Helsinki)
Location
Athens
Organizers
Prof. Vasso Kindi (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
Dr. Lassi Jakola (Finnish Institute of Athens and University of Helsinki)
(jakola@finninstitute.gr)
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
3rd International Chicago/Stuttgart Conference:
Classic German Philosophy and Early Analytic Philosophy
Location
Stuttgart, Germany
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
Fourth International Klagenfurt Wittgenstein Workshop:
Rules, Understanding, and Practice: Brandom, Diamond, McDowell, Wright, and Others on Wittgenstein
Workshop Poster
Forthcoming
Instructors
James Conant & David Finkelstein
Course Website & Description
Forthcoming
Location
The University of Klagenfurt
August 4 - 8, 2026
Summer School Poster
Forthcoming
Instructors
James Conant & David Finkelstein
Summer School Website & Description
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