https://calenda.org Lodel 1.0 https://calenda.org/1416087 https://calenda.org/1416087 Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) invites you to submit a manuscript for publication in the first special issue of its new journal Res Practica, to be launched formally in the Fall of 2026 and which will replace Les Ateliers de l’éthique / The Ethics Forum. Edited by Christine Tappolet (UdeM) and Christian Nadeau (UdeM), this special issue aims to explore the plurality of forms that responsibility takes in our individual, social, and institutional practices. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1411921 https://calenda.org/1411921 Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Building on Jack Goody’s (2007) highly influential thesis of The Theft of History, this workshop aims to address an “institution” that this critique of the Eurocentric historiographical model imposed on “the rest of the world” left largely unaddressed: the institution of art. Call for papers Strasbourg (67) https://calenda.org/1398517 https://calenda.org/1398517 Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The tradition of algorithmic music, which aims to design explicit and interpretable algorithms for generating music, has long been the primary provider of artificial music. But the rise of machine learning changes the game by making it possible to employ implicit but opaque algorithms—trained on datasets but whose details, by design, elude direct human understanding. It is this new tension that we aim to explore in this international conference. What changes does machine learning, and especially deep learning, bring to how musicians, listeners, and philosophers create, appreciate, and think about music? Call for papers Nantes (44) https://calenda.org/1397329 https://calenda.org/1397329 Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Of many films one might say what Michel Chion has clearly observed : one need only strip the sound from a sequence of moving images for its perceptual coherence to begin to unravel. Sound participates in the very constitution of the cinematographic image : it sustains its temporality, organises its space, and models its sensible presence. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1393980 https://calenda.org/1393980 Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Departing from approaches that reduce cinema to the construction of identifiable political subjects, that is, to a representational structure, this proposal instead foregrounds cinema as an index of the “post-foundational” character of the demos of democracy, whose manifestation never converges into a totalising figure, remaining beyond any form of political capture. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1389452 https://calenda.org/1389452 Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 This international conference asks whether the biomedical humanities can intervene in the very constitution of the phenomena they study. We propose to rethink the body as a relational entity shaped by biological, social, environmental, and existential assemblages—moving beyond traditional partitions (body/mind, nature/culture, biological/social) that structure contemporary medicine. Conference, symposium Mons (7000) https://calenda.org/1387037 https://calenda.org/1387037 Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 According to Camus, the world we live in is absurd. While this can become manifest to us in nearly any situation, Camus is adamant that the world’s absurdity is not owing to any specific features. Rather, it is intrinsically relational and results from the unresolvable tension of two elements : the unbridgeable hiatus between a reason that seeks understanding and a world that remains strictly irrational. If it is our understanding that opens up the world for us, at the same time, the world irrevocably resists being fully grasped. The absurdity thus creates a human desire for clarity that will never see its fulfilment. Study days Cambridge https://calenda.org/1382907 https://calenda.org/1382907 Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 Petrus Hispanus’ Tractatus, or Summulae logicales, composed in the mid-thirteenth century, came to occupy a central place in the study of logic from the late thirteenth century onward. Commented in several studia and then by Buridan at the University of Paris, it was gradually adopted across European universities and remained in use until the seventeenth century, surviving in hundreds of manuscripts and hundreds of printed editions. Summer School Porto https://calenda.org/1381317 https://calenda.org/1381317 Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200 The international conference Placebo, Hypnosis and Functional Disorders aims to articulate three domains that have historically evolved along distinct trajectories: research on placebo and nocebo effects, hypnosis and suggestion, and the broad field of psychosomatic medicine. These domains are increasingly converging toward shared theoretical frameworks, while also exhibiting a diversity of methodological and experimental approaches rooted in their respective disciplinary traditions. Call for papers Villers-lès-Nancy (54) https://calenda.org/1379624 https://calenda.org/1379624 Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The Maison de la création et de l’innovation (MaCI), UGA’s Center for the Humanities, is launching its annual Post-doctoral Fellowship Programme funded by the France 2030 ANR project GATES (Grenoble ATtractiveness and ExcellenceS). The postdoctoral fellows will be hired on a fixed-term two-year contract. Scholarship, prize and job offer Saint-Martin-d'Hères (38) https://calenda.org/1377488 https://calenda.org/1377488 Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This special issue of Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities - book series invites contributions that revisit the concept of khôra, introduced in Plato’s Timaeus as a “third kind” beyond being and becoming, a matrix, a receptacle, and reinterpreted in contemporary philosophy, most notably by Derrida. Situated between presence and absence, intelligibility and materiality, khôra resists stable categorization while remaining indispensable for thinking space, inscription, and receptivity. We seek papers that engage khôra across disciplines, exploring its implications for spatial theory, media, politics, ecology, and aesthetics, as well as its limits and possible reconfigurations today. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1365493 https://calenda.org/1365493 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 This conference aims to explore the loss of artworks in Balkan,Central, and Eastern European studies. We propose to researches three main themes : the loss of the physical media of artworks, the loss as a subject of art and reflection and the loss as a theoretical imagination. Call for papers Paris (75) https://calenda.org/1367289 https://calenda.org/1367289 Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The aim of the workshop is to address this question by bringing together different perspectives from philosophy, psychology, and psychiatry on existentialism and the Absurd. It explores how reflecting on the Absurd may disrupt and challenge contemporary debates on self, world, and others but also significantly inform approaches in social philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, and psychotherapy. Call for papers Cambridge (CB39DA) https://calenda.org/1360527 https://calenda.org/1360527 Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Séminaire de recherche organisé durant le semestre de printemps 2026 (février-mai 2026) par la chaire d’esthétique et de philosophie de l’art (Prof. Emmanuel Alloa, université de Fribourg). Lecture series Fribourg (1700) https://calenda.org/1359347 https://calenda.org/1359347 Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 The goal of the TACT network (Touch, Arts, Affects) is to interrogate the experience of touch across arts and media. The fourth series of our webinar will address touch in history, disability aesthetics, and literature. Seminar https://calenda.org/1355641 https://calenda.org/1355641 Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Attention constitutes one of the most fundamental yet under-theorized dimensions of human experience. Despite its centrality to perception, cognition, action, and intersubjectivity, the philosophical investigation of attention as a concept in its own right remains surprisingly underdeveloped. This international conference represents the first major initiative of a four-year research program (2025-2029) dedicated to establishing the philosophy of attention as a major field of contemporary philosophical inquiry. Call for papers Coimbra (3000-000) https://calenda.org/1349400 https://calenda.org/1349400 Tue, 20 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Aujourd’hui, la mission de consoler les personnes en souffrance est majoritairement dévolue à des professionnels du soin, des associations, quelquefois à la religion, le plus souvent aux exercices de développement personnel, dont certains se prétendent fondés sur l’enseignement des philosophes antiques. De fait, Grecs et Romains faisaient volontiers appel aux méthodes des orateurs et aux arguments des philosophes pour modérer le chagrin suscité par les événements malheureux (décès, maladie, vieillesse, exil, injustice, etc.). Seminar Aix-en-Provence (13) https://calenda.org/1347427 https://calenda.org/1347427 Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 We are pleased to announce the opening of registration for the international one-day conference French and Francophone Philosophers and the Development of LGBTQIA+ Movements in the 20th Century, funded by the Race Equality Fund (Aberystwyth University), the SFS Workshop and Conference Grant (The Society for French Studies) and the ECR Research Workshop Grant (The Learned Society of Wales), taking place on Saturday, 7th February 2026, at Aberystwyth University, Wales (UK). The conference language is English. Conference, symposium Aberystwyth https://calenda.org/1345774 https://calenda.org/1345774 Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0100 Conference dedicated to Alfonso de Castro's heresiographical treatrise “Adversus omnes haereses” (1534, 1546, 1547, 1556), an important milestone in Catholic heresiography that emerged from the interconfesional controversy with Protestantism. Conference, symposium Madrid (28040) https://calenda.org/1334967 https://calenda.org/1334967 Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0100 Fondazione 1563 is pleased to launch the sixth call for applications of the Turin Humanities Programme (THP) to award up to 4 two year fellowships for advanced studies on After the Enlightenment: Histories, Debates, and Reinterpretations. Candidates are invited to propose projects examining how the concept of the Enlightenment has been constructed, adapted, contested and (re)appropriated in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries—that is, after the historical period conventionally associated with it. Scholarship, prize and job offer Turin https://calenda.org/1319001 https://calenda.org/1319001 Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 This international one-day conference, held during LGBTQ+ History Month, will explore the relationship between French and Francophone philosophy and the development of LGBTQIA+ movements across the twentieth century. The intellectual contributions of figures such as Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Monique Wittig, and Hélène Cixous profoundly shaped how we think about gender, sexuality, embodiment, and power. The aim of this event is to bring together academic research, creative expression, and political engagement. Call for papers Aberystwyth https://calenda.org/1318581 https://calenda.org/1318581 Wed, 05 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0100 Building on Scientiae’s interdisciplinary legacy, and its study of the production and circulation of knowledge, we will underscore the interconnectedness of regions, periods, cultures, and material and intellectual traditions in the period between 1400 and 1800. Although centred around the emergence of modern natural science, Scientiae is intended for scholars working in any area of early-modern intellectual culture. The Scientiae network encompasses the long Renaissance period and seeks to integrate historiographical reflection into an approach that, since its creation, has been firmly rooted in epistemology and the history of science, as well as intellectual history, and the practice of knowledge in dialogue. Call for papers Nantes (44) https://calenda.org/1316446 https://calenda.org/1316446 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100 With this special issue of Lexique journal our aim is to explore the question of the end of life and bereavement to open up a discussion on its lexical representations in order to facilitate communication around the sensitive subject of death. A variety of methods will be adopted, including corpus-, interview-, and questionnaire-based methods, in order to observe the representation of death-related issues at the lexical level. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1316033 https://calenda.org/1316033 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0100 The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence is looking for contributions on the work of Frederick Nietzsche. Abstracts are due January 5, 2026. Final publication is planned for December 2026. This special issue will be guest-edited by M. Blake Wilson, California State University. Call for papers Budapest (H-1119) https://calenda.org/1306173 https://calenda.org/1306173 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Women have long contributed to the development of theology and philosophy, yet their voices have often been marginalized, mediated through restrictive frameworks, or silenced altogether. This seminar approaches communication not only as a neutral means of expression, but also as a form of power: the choice of medium, style, and platform can grant authority, negotiate legitimacy, or challenge dominant structures. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1308233 https://calenda.org/1308233 Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 We firstly aim to examine the criticisms levelled at the idea of humanism in recent decades, in particular from the ‘environmentalism’ viewpoint, without neglecting the possible dialogue between humanism and environmentalist perspectives. We propose, in particular, to investigate tensions and paradoxes within humanistic projects, which emerge when their rhetorical and conceptual tools are used to realise a decentralisation of perspective, dethroning the human subject from its self-proclaimed and presumed centrality in the cosmos, in order to look at man/woman from the point of view of the animal or even to rethink her/him in a plural space of living beings and non-living entities. Conference, symposium Naples (80133) https://calenda.org/1305584 https://calenda.org/1305584 Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The journal Langues, discours et inter cultures is launching a call for papers for its Volumes 9-2 December 2025, on the theme Literature and Philosophy: Between Theories and Practices. This issue aims to examine the relationship between literature and philosophy from a multidisciplinary perspective. How do writers address philosophical questions related to the human condition? And what is the interest that philosophy has for literary works? Call for papers https://calenda.org/1299607 https://calenda.org/1299607 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 Over the past decade, scholarship on digital authoritarianism has rapidly expanded, highlighting how governments and political actors increasingly appropriate digital technologies to surveil, discipline, and mobilize populations. While much of this work has focused on state-driven practices of control, censorship, and surveillance, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI)—and more recently, generative AI systems—has introduced us to a new terrain on which ideological struggles play out. Beyond the familiar logics of repression and manipulation, AI is being instrumentalized by political actors, intellectual entrepreneurs, and transnational networks who seek to frame, deploy, and reorient AI in line with illiberal worldviews. Call for papers https://calenda.org/1299156 https://calenda.org/1299156 Wed, 01 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0200 The nostalgia for lost touch, like the utopian hopes for assistive touch, responds to haptic scenarios of comfort and consolation. What happens, however, when touch does not just alleviate but generate trouble? Can we complicate these curative narratives of touch by engaging with the frictions, failures and disputes of tactile experience? Drawing on the polysemy of trouble in critical theory, this conference proposes to interrogate haptic trouble as a site of sensory and social subversion, urging us to acknowledge the unresolved discontents of the haptic, to embrace its critical disturbances, and to test its emancipatory potentialities. Conference, symposium Paris (75005) https://calenda.org/1297383 https://calenda.org/1297383 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0200 This two-day conference will bring public and private international lawyers together with political and legal philosophers to discuss the complex issues raised by property in outer space, including its relations to the notions of territory, jurisdiction and sovereignty, but also the international legal status of scientific research, data and samples. Conference, symposium Paris 05 Panthéon (75005)