Upcoming 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

May 19 - 22, 2023
Location
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 E 57th St. 
Chicago, IL
Guests

Guests:

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

June 12 -14, 2023
Location
Wrocław, Poland
Guests

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.

Guests

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

The Future of Marx

Location

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

Guests

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)

Registration

Please see: https://cpkp.net/event/marx-and-the-future-of-philosophy/

July 5 - 7, 2023

Conceptions of Nature in Classical German Philosophy

Location

The University of Stuttgart, Institute of Philosophy

Guests

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. 

July 13 - 15, 2023

12th Annual Meeting of Action Network

Location

TBA

Guests

TBA

Program

TBA

Registration

TBA

July 20 - 22, 2023

Call for Papers: 5th Göttingen / Chicago Graduate Conference

Location

University of Göttingen

Call for Papers
We warmly invite graduate students from the University of Chicago to submit a paper on any theme, topic or figure in philosophy, for the 5th Göttingen / Chicago Graduate Workshop. The conference will take place on 20th-22nd July 2023, and will be hosted by the University of Göttingen. 
 
Half of the presentations will be from graduate students and recent PhDs from the Philosophy Department of the University of Chicago and other half from graduate students and recent PhDs from the Philosophy Departments of the Universities of Göttingen, Leipzig and Potsdam.  Faculty members from these departments will participate as moderators and discussants. The papers will be pre-circulated so as to allow for maximally in-depth discussion.
 
The conference is an excellent opportunity for expanding your philosophical network, receiving constructive feedback on your work, and getting to know some of the students and faculty at both ends of the cooperative network between the Philosophy Departments at UChicago and the three departments in Germany with which it cooperates most intensively in Germany. Graduate students at all stages of their graduate career, as well as young researchers and post-doctoral fellows, who have recently defended their dissertations, are encouraged to submit papers.
 
Please submit your paper to Kaidi Pan (pankaidi@uchicago.edu) by midnight June 1st, 2023. In the subject field, please include the words ‘Göttingen Graduate Conference’. Submissions will be evaluated by a committee of faculty members of the participating departments. Students and other potential presenters from Chicago, Leipzig or Potsdam who have any questions about this should contact Prof. Conant. Those at Göttingen should contact Prof. Steinfath.
 
The Chicago Center for German Philosophy will cover the trans-Atlantic travel costs and the Department at Göttingen will cover accommodation and local transportation costs for students and faculty participating in the conference.
 
Yours,
 
Jim Conant, Matthias Haase, and Holmer Steinfath
July 27 - 29, 2023

Wittgenstein and Moore’s Paradox

Location

University of Klagenfurt, Lower Austria

Guests

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

Guests

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.

Registration

Please refer to: https://www.alws.at/14th-ludwig-wittgenstein-summerschool/

In the More Distant Future

June 25 - 27, 2024

12th Annual Patras / Chicago Conference

Location

University of Patras

Guests

TBA

Program

TBA

Registration

TBA