Upcoming and Recent Conferences and Workshops

This page provides details about only some of our major upcoming events — namely, those that are conferences and workshops.

In the Near Future

Location

Rosati Room (300), Richardson Library at DePaul University, Lincoln Park Campus

Speakers

Jennifer Dobe (Grinnell), Avery Goldman (DePaul), Patrick Kain (Purdue), and Janum Sethi (University of Michigan)

March 18-20, 2024
Location

The Franke Institute, The University of Chicago

Speakers

Keynote: Rainer Forst, Lea Ypi

Speakers: Loren Goldman, Barbara Herman, Cecilia Sebastian, Inés Valdez, Helga Varden, Garreth Williams, and more

Location

Foster 505, The University of Chicago

Speakers

Rainer Forst (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Summer 2024

Location

Wrocław

Invited Speakers
Irad Kimhi, Ian Blecher, James Conant, Gabriela Besler, Adam Chmielewski, and Jean-Philippe Narboux

 

Organizers
Marcin Rychter (m.rychter@uw.edu.pl) and Eli Kramer (eliornerkramer@gmail.com)
Location
Here is a link to the conference venue: https://fuglsangherregaard.dk/
The place is located roughly 1.5 hours drive from Copenhagen. We are planning to arrive there around 10 am on June 12, and leave around 4 pm on June 14. The organizers will book hotel rooms for the invited participants in Copenhagen from June 11-12, and from June 14-15, and in all likelihood will book a bus that can transport the participants from the Copenhagen hotel to Fuglsang and back again.
Invited Speakers

Stina Bäckström, Nancy Bauer, James Conant, Steven Crowell, Naomi Eilan, Matthias Haase, Thomas Khurana, and Dan Zahavi

Organizers
This workshop on the 2nd person is jointly organized by the CFS and the CCGP
Location

CRNS, Paris

Invited Speakers

Léa Boman (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Hugo Clémot (Université Gustave Eiffel), Élise Domenach (ENS Louis-Lumière), Piergiorgio Donatelli (Sapienza Università di Roma), Martine de Gaudemar (Université Paris Nanterre), Jeroen Gerrits (SUNY Binghamton), Sandra Laugier (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Daniele Lorenzini (University of Pennsylvania), Paola Marrati (Johns Hopkins University), Jean-Philippe Narboux (Université de Strasbourg), Paul Standish (University College London), and David Zapero (Universität Bonn)

Organizers

Sandra Laugier (sandra.laugier@gmail.com) and Daniele Lorenzini

June 25-27, 2024
Location

Patras, Greece

Invited Speakers

Costas Pagondiotis

Organizers
Location

University of Stuttgart

Faculty Discussants
Host: Christian Martin (Stuttgart)
Faculty Discussants: Silver Bronzo (Chicago/Stuttgart), James Conant (Chicago), and
David Wörner (Zurich)
Call for Papers
Organizers

Giuliano Infantino, M.A. and Marco Seikel, M.A. (anditslegacy@gmail.com)

Location
Universität Potsdam
Invited Speakers

 Eli Friedlander, Thomas Khurana, Christoph Menke, Dalia Nassar, Lara Ostaric, Birgit Sandkaulen, Sebastian Rödl, David Wellbery, Alexey Weissmüller, and others.

 

Organizers
Location
Universität Leipzig
Invited Speakers

 

 

Organizers
Location
University of Göttingen
Göttingen, Germany
Call for Papers
Organizers

Holmer Steinfaith (holmer.steinfath@phil.uni-goettingen.de)

July 19-20, 2024
Location
Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam
Potsdam University
Invited Speakers

 

 

Organizers
Aug 1- 3, 2024

2nd International Klagenfurt Wittgenstein Workshop

Privacy, Expression, the Human Body, and Other Minds: Cavell, McDowell, and Stroud on Wittgenstein

Location

University of Klagenfurt/Austria, Stiftungssaal

Invited Speakers

Jim Conant, David Finkelstein (University of Chicago), and Volker A. Munz (University of Klagenfurt)

Organizers

Volker Munz (volker.munz@aau.at)

August 6-10, 2024

15th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summer School

Privacy, Expression, And Grammar: PI §§243-308

Location

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

Invited Speakers

James Conant (Chicago) & David Finkelstein (Chicago)

Organizers

Volker Munz (volker.munz@aau.at)

August 11-17, 2024

45th International Wittgenstein Symposium

Facets of Reality – Contemporary Debates

Location

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

Invited Speakers

Ásta (Durham)
Rami Ali (Tucson)
Singa Behrens (Bielefeld)
Karen Bennett (New Brunswick)
Sarah Bernstein (Notre Dame)
Paul Boghossian (New York)
Niels de Haan (Vienna)
Esa Díaz-León (Barcelona)
Matt Dougherty (Vienna)
Matti Eklund (Uppsala)
Brian Epstein (Medford)
Maegan Fairchild (Michigan)
Katharina Felka (Graz)
Martin Glazier (Geneva)
Verónica Gómez Sánchez (Berkeley)
Yannic Kappes (Vienna)
Eve Kitsik (Vienna)
Jon Litland (Austin)
Antonella Mallozzi (Providence)
Alyssa Ney (Davis)
Daniel Nolan (Notre Dame)
Kevin Richardson (Durham)
Sonia Roca-Royes (Stirling)
Gideon Rosen (Princeton)
Carolina Sartorio (New Brunswick)
Jonathan Schaffer (New Brunswick)
Erica Shumener (Syracuse)
Olla Solomyak (Jerusalem)
Amie Thomasson (Hanover)
Anand Vaidya (San Jose)
Barbara Vetter (Berlin)
Lisa Vogt (Berlin and Lucerne)
Michael Wallner (Graz and Klagenfurt)
Nathan Wildman (Tilburg)
Timothy Williamson (Oxford)
Charlotte Witt (Durham)

Organizers

Volker Munz (volker.munz@aau.at)

Asya Passinsky (Vienna), Julio De Rizzo (Vienna) & Benjamin Schnieder (Vienna)

Location

University of Southampton, Highfield Road
Southampton, SO17 1BF United Kingdom

Invited Speakers
  • Anita Avramides (Oxford)
  • Yuval Avnur (Scripps)
  • Lucy Campbell (Warwick)
  • Annalisa Coliva (UCI)
  • Jim Conant (Chicago)
  • Rick Furtak (Colorado)
  • Stephen Mulhall (Oxford)
  • Marilyn Piety (Drexel)
  • Duncan Pritchard (UCI)
  • Mark A. Tietjen (Stony Brook)
Organizers

This conference is organized by The Ethics of Doubt Project, directed by Genia Schönbaumsfeld. 

Recent Events

Location

Social Sciences 122, The University of Chicago

Speakers

Jason Bridges, Anastasia Giannakidou, Jean-Baptiste Gourinat, Philippe Huneman, Matthieu Husson, Kristján Kristjánsson, Pavlos Kontos, Matthew Landauer, Gabriel Lear, Christine Noille, Alda Mari, Sorin Adam Matei, Josiah Ober, CD.C Reeve, Nancy E. Snow, and Christopher Wild

Location

Mundelein 519, Loyola University Chicago, Lakeshore Campus

Speakers

Jim Kreines, PhD. Professor of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College

Location

Rosenwald Hall Room 405, University of Chicago

Speakers

Rachel Cohen, Richard Moran, and Robert Pippin

Location
Kresge 3-438
Northwestern University
Speakers

Morganna Lambeth (Cal State, Fullerton), Abigail Iturra (Northwestern), Andrew Cutrofello (Loyola University, Chicago), Luigi Filieri (JGU-Mainz/Marquette University), Kenni Zellner (Northwestern), Peter Fences (Northwestern), Bryan Pankhurst (Oberlin), Emily Lemmon (University of Iowa), Ryan Dahomey (Northwestern, Music), David Benjamin Johnson (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Eskil Elling (Northwestern), Mark Alznauer (Northwestern)

 

Fall 2023

Location
Harper Memorial Library, Room 130
Chicago, IL
Speakers

Christoph Menke (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main)

Summer 2023

Location
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 E 57th St. 
Chicago, IL
Speakers
Silver Bronzo
(University of Chicago)
Nicholas Koziolek
(Washington University in St. Louis)
Michael Kremer
(University of Chicago)
Thomas Lockhart
(Auburn University)
Gilad Nir
(Universität Potsdam)
Andrew Pitel
(University of Chicago)
Ryan Simonelli
(University of Chicago)
Julia Tanney
(unaffiliated)
Wim Vanrie
(Ghent University)
Organizers:

Matthew Boyle
(University of Chicago)
James Conant
(University of Chicago)
Kaidi Pan
(University of Chicago)
William Weaver
(University of Chicago)
Program

Friday, May 19

10:00am

Opening Remarks

10:15am

Silver Bronzo: Non-Picturing Uses of Language and the Tractatus’ Self-Understanding

12:15pm

Lunch

2:00pm

Michael Kremer: What Was Ryle’s ‘Concept of Mind’?

4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:30pm

Julia Tanney: Magical Thoughts (or The Problem of Content)

 

Saturday, May 20

10:00am

Ryan Simonelli: Consequence, Coherence, and Consequence Again: Rethinking the Philosophical Significance of the Sequent Calculus

12:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm

Nic Koziolek: Inference and Knowledge How: Lessons from Ryle

4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:30pm

Gilad Nir: Kremer, Wittgenstein and the Good of Philosophical History

 

Sunday, May 21

10:00am

Tom Lockhart: Logic and Anti-Psychologism

12:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm

Wim Vanrie: Kremer on Tractarian showing and Knowledge-How

4:00pm

Coffee Break

4:30pm

Andrew Pitel: Kant’s Organicism and the Category of Substance

Registration

Please see the event website: https://philevents.org/event/show/110597

Location
Wrocław, Poland
Speakers

Organizers:
Marcin Rychter
Eli Kramer

Guests:
Irad Kimhi
James Conant
Jean Philipe Narboux
Gabrial Bressler
Adam Chmielewski

Program
12th
Irad Kimhi – First Lecture (90)
Short break
Discussion (all guests- 15-20 minutes each) (90)
Break
James Conant – Lecture (90)
Discussion (all guests) (90)

 

13th
Philosophers on „Thinking and Being”
Conant (45)
Questions (15)
Bessler (45)
Questions (15)
Narboux (45)
Break 
Chmielewski (45)
Questions (15)
Rychter (45)
Questions (15)
Short break
Discussion (all guests) (45)

 

 

14th

 Irad Kimhi – Second Lecture (90)

Discussion (90- 15-20 minutes each respondent)

Registration

Please email: eliornerkramer@gmail.com

June 12 - 14, 2023

On the Dialectics of the Ethical: Kant and Hegel

Location

The conference will take place at the Centre for Ethics of the University of Zurich, Kutscherhaus, Zollikerstr. 115, CH-8008 Zurich, Seminarraum ZOB E 2, from June 12th to 14th 2023.

Speakers

There will be two keynote lectures, one by Ludwig Siep and one by Sebastian Gardner. And there will be nine sessions with presentations of pre-read papers. The presenters are Carla Bagnoli, Stephen Engstrom, Matthias Haase, Gunnar Hindrichs, Nadine Mooren, Dean Moyar, Karin Nisenbaum, Christoph Halbig, and Wolfram Gobsch. Each session will be 75 Minutes long, and it will be kicked off by a short presentation, ideally not longer than 20 Minutes, so as to leave plenty of room for discussion. The conference languages are English and German.

Preliminary Program

June 12th 2023

  • 18:00 – 20:00   Ludwig Siep (Münster):

Keynote: “Jenseits der Ethik: Sittlichkeit?“

June 13th 2023           

  • 09:15 – 10:30   Stephen Engstrom (Pittsburgh):

“Good and Evil in Human Nature”

  • 10:45 – 12:00   Carla Bagnoli (Modena):

N.N.

  • 14:00 – 15:15   Karin Nisenbaum (Syracuse):

“The Form of the Highest Good in Kant and Hegel”

  • 15:45 – 17:00   Dean Moyar (Johns Hopkins):

“Exorcising Diabolism: Fichte and Hegel on the Conscious Willing of Evil”

  • 17:30 – 19:30   Sebastian Gardner (London):

Keynote: N.N.

June 14th 2023

  • 09:15 – 10:30   Gunnar Hindrichs (Basel):

“Wille ohne Wahl“

  • 10:45 – 12:00   Wolfram Gobsch (Zürich):

“Radical Evil and Ethical Life”

  • 14:00 – 15:15   Nadine Mooren (Münster):

“Der Stellenwert des Bösen im objektiven und absoluten Geist bei Hegel“

  • 15:45 – 17:00   Christoph Halbig (Zürich):

“Hegels unterlassene Tugendlehre“ 

  • 17:15 – 18:30   Matthias Haase (Chicago)

N.N.

Registration

Please email Wolfram Gobsch: wolfram.gobsch [at] gmx.net

June 28 - 29, 2023
Location

The conference will take place at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Roter Salon, in Berlin, Germany.

Speakers

With Sabina Bremner, Patrick Eiden-Offe, Anton Ford, Eli Friedlander, Federica Gregoratto, Lucilla Guidi, Matthias Haase, Alec Hinshelwood, Rahel Jaeggi, Thomas Khurana, Manon Garcia, Daniele Lorenzini, Karen Ng, Oliver Precht, Francesca Raimondi, Christian Schmidt, Christoph Schuringa, Ross Shields, Georg Spoo, Michael Thompson, Tobi Wieland, Vanessa Wills, Lea Ypi, and others.

Program

June 28, 2023

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Roter Salon

  • 10.00 – 10.15 am – Thomas Khurana (Potsdam): Introduction

  • 10.15 – 11.30 am – Matthias Haase (University of Chicago): Reproduction and Recognition 

    Chair: Georg Spoo (Universität Freiburg)

    11.45 am – 1.00 pm – Alec Hinshelwood (Potsdam): Marx on Rational Animality

    Chair: Lucilla Guidi (Universität Potsdam)

    1.00 – 2.30 pm – Lunch

    2:30 – 3:45 pm – Christoph Schuringa (Northeastern University London): Hegel, Marx, and the Actualization of Philosophy

    Chair: Sabina Bremner (University of Pennsylvania)

    4.00 – 5.15 pm – Vanessa Wills (George Washington University): Marx and Morality Revisited

    Chair: Jonathan Soen (Tel Aviv University)

    5.30 – 7.00 pm – Lea Ypi (London School of Economics): What is Moral Socialism?

    Chair: Daniele Lorenzini (University of Pennsylvania)

June 29, 2023

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Roter Salon

  • 10.00  11.15 am Karen Ng (Vanderbilt): Species-Being: Ethical Life and Social Critique

    Chair: Tobi Wieland (FU Berlin)

    11.15 am – 12.30 pm – Thomas Khurana (Potsdam): The Resurrection of Nature: Marx’s Dialectical Naturalism

    Chair: Federica Gregoratto (FU Berlin)

    12.30 – 1.30 pm – Lunch

    1:30 – 2:45 pm – Michael Thompson (University of Pittsburgh): Action, Production, Labor, Life

    Chair: Anton Ford (University of Chicago)

    3.00  4.15 pm – Rahel Jaeggi (HU Berlin): Progress and Regression

    Chair: Manon Garcia (FU Berlin)

    4.30 – 6.00 pm – Marx im Anthropozän: Krise, Aufstand, Transformation – Podiumsdiskussion mit Patrick Eiden-Offe (ZfL Berlin), Francesca Raimondi (FU Berlin), Christian Schmidt (HU Berlin)

Location

The University of Stuttgart, Institute of Philosophy

Speakers

See Program

Program

Please see the program poster

Registration

Participation in the conference is free, but places are limited. To register, please contact christian.martin@philo.uni-stuttgart.de before July 1. 

Location

TBA

Speakers

TBA

Program

TBA

Registration

TBA

Location

University of Göttingen

Alte Mensa: Wilhelmsplatz 3, 37037 Göttingen

Speakers

Adam Katwan

Emily Shein

Marco Seikel

Gray Reichl

Paskalina Bourbon

Roman Kirk

Julian Braunwarth

Jack Fantini

Greg Brown

David Haunschmid

Lisa Burger

Robert Reimer

Jacob McDowell

Katharina Schulz

Registration

Registration for presentations is closed. For attendance, please email daniele.bruno [at] uni-goettingen.de

Location

University of Klagenfurt, Lower Austria

Speakers

This is a mini seminar workshop co-taught by James Conant and David Finkelstein.

Program

The Mini-Seminar will seek to understand how my relation to my own words is wholly different from my relation to those of other people; wherein the asymmetry lies between the use of a range of verbs (such as “believe,” “know,” and “perceive”) in the first-person present indicative form and other uses of the same verbs (e.g., in the second-person or past tense form); and how the logical grammar of these verbs is related to that of expressions of emotion, of mood, and of sensation, including expressions that take the form of avowals. Finally, we will explore why Wittgenstein thinks a philosophical investigation of these three points ought to lead to an expansion and transformation of our entire conception of logic.

Registration

Please email: Volker.Munz@aau.at

August 1 - 5, 2023

14th Ludwig Wittgenstein Summerschool

Location

Elementary school
Markt 300
A-2880 Kirchberg am Wechsel

Austria

Speakers

with Lars Hertzberg (Åbo) & David G. Stern (Iowa)
Scientific Organisation and Direction: Volker A. Munz (AAU, Klagenfurt)

Program

The summer school is addressed to advanced university students in philosophy.
Elementary knowledge of Wittgenstein’s philosophy is desirable.
Applicants are asked to send a transcript record and a 3-page preparatory essay on a selected subject dealing with Wittgenstein’s last writings (particularly the terms “inner” and “outer” in Wittgenstein’s writings on philosophy of mind). Essential reading is thus:

Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1994): Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, Vol. 2. The Inner and the Outer, 1949–1951. Edited by G. H. von Wright. Reprint. Oxford et al.: Blackwell.