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

Location & Time

University of Chicago

Weiboldt Hall 408

1050 E 59th St Room 408

ChicagoIL 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

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

Commentators
Christopher Benzenberg (Notre Dame Philosophy)
Maya Krishnan (UChicago Philosophy)
T.A. Pendlebury (UChicago Philosophy)
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

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

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

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)

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

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

Summer School Poster

Forthcoming

Instructors

James Conant & David Finkelstein

Summer School Website & Description

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