Art der Ankündigung: Call for Paper (Veranstaltung)

Doktorand:innen-Workshop für Erstakademiker:innen

organisiert von Hamid Taieb und Barbara Vetter

in Zusammenarbeit mit der Gesellschaft für analytische Philosophie (GAP)

und der Kollegforschungsgruppe „Human Abilities“

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 21.-22. April 2027

Der Workshop richtet sich an Promovierende sowie Personen kurz vor oder nach der Promotion im Fach Philosophie, die als erste in ihrer Familie studiert haben. Er bietet ihnen die Möglichkeit, sich untereinander und mit etablierten Philosoph:innen über ihre Projekte und Forschungsergebnisse auszutauschen. Außerdem dient er der Vernetzung und dem Austausch mit anderen “firstgen”-Philosoph:innen.

Der Workshop hat keinen inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt. Alle Themen der im weitesten Sinne analytischen Philosophie (inkl. analytisch ausgerichteter Philosophiegeschichte) sind herzlich willkommen.

Ablauf:

20 bis 25-minütige Vorträge der Teilnehmer:innen mit anschließender Diskussion; zusätzlich ausführliche individuelle Feedbackgespräche mit Beratung zur Karriereplanung durch ausgewiesene Philosoph:innen.

Zusätzlich wird eine Gesprächsrunde zum Thema Armut und Reichtum und deren Auswirkungen auf die Chancengleichheit in der Bildung mit Stefan Gosepath (FU Berlin) stattfinden.

Da die Teilnehmerzahl aus organisatorischen Gründen begrenzt werden muss, wird es ein Auswahlverfahren geben.

Kosten:

Die Tagung ist kostenlos. Wir planen, Unterkunft und Reisekosten (im Umfang einer Bahnfahrt 2. Klasse) für alle Teilnehmenden zu finanzieren.

Organisationsteam:

Hamid Taieb, HU Berlin

Barbara Vetter, FU Berlin

Zusätzliche Expert:innen:

Christine Bratu, Universität Göttingen

Maria Kronfeldner, Central European University

Christian Neuhäuser, TU Dortmund

Christof Rapp, LMU München

sowie

Stefan Gosepath, FU Berlin

Bitte schicken Sie Bewerbungen bis zum 31. Dezember 2026 an:

aneta.miernik@fu-berlin.de

Die Bewerbungsunterlagen sind:

• Dissertationsprojekt (max. 3 Seiten);
• Lebenslauf;
• Motivationsschreiben, inklusive Erläuterung zur Motivation für die Teilnahme an einem Workshop für Erstakademiker:innen.

Bitte schicken Sie das Motivationsschreiben als eigene Datei. Das Dissertationsprojekt und der Lebenslauf werden durch das Organisationsteam und die Expert:innen bewertet, das Motivationsschreiben wird nur dem Organisationsteam zugänglich sein (und wird natürlich vertraulich behandelt).

Zu- und Absagen werden voraussichtlich bis spätestens Mitte Februar 2027 verschickt.

At this interdisciplinary workshop, we explore questions about the nature of bias and the ways it influences, and is shaped through, public discourse. Relevant topics include, but are not limited, to

• Conceptual, formal, and normative accounts of bias
• Surveys of different types of bias
• The role of bias in argumentation and argument evaluation
• Case studies of bias in public discourse
• Deliberation under condition of, and as a remedy for, bias
• Bias and rationality in public discourse
• Implicit attitudes, fundamental beliefs, and stereotypes
• Bias and group identity

Invited talks will be given by Justin Bruner (University at Buffalo), Ulrike Hahn (Birkbeck, University of London), Aileen Oeberst (University of Potsdam), and Mariusz Urbański (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań).

Everyone is invited to submit their work for presentation. We would particularly like to encourage PhD students and postdocs to submit recent and in-progress work. We will be happy to offer support for travel and accommodation expenses for accepted presentations.

Please see the workshop webpage for details on how to submit.

International Conference

Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

6 to 8 April 2027, in person

Keynotes: Prof. Eefje Cuppen (Rathenau Institute) and Prof. Benjamin Sovacool (Boston University)

Climate change, the energy transition, forever chemicals and nuclear waste will occupy societies for decades or centuries. At the same time, acute crises seem to demand short-term responses, and democratic institutions are under pressure. This conference brings together researchers from philosophy, political science, STS, sociology, technology assessment and related fields to examine the prospects and limits of long-term governance.

We particularly welcome philosophical contributions. Long-term governance raises questions about what we owe to future generations, how such obligations can be justified, and how they relate to democratic decision-making in the present. We invite papers that clarify, defend, or contest normative approaches to long-term governance, examine their institutional implications, or explore how different approaches relate to one another.

Topic areas

1. Configuring long-term governance: structures, procedures and institutions that strengthen the long-term nature of policy
2. The multi-level challenge: implementing long-term governance in multi-level settings
3. Time and temporality: different temporalities in long-term governance and the resulting conflicts
4. The normative foundations: rights, sufficiency, or longtermism?
5. Monitoring and evaluation: assessing the effectiveness, efficiency and legitimacy of governance strategies
6. Open topic: promising and failed experiences across policy fields

Submission: Abstracts of max. 300 words via the submission form on the conference website. Please indicate a first and second choice of topic area. The conference language is English. Presentations will be grouped into parallel sessions of three to four papers per 90 minutes.

Important dates

Abstract deadline: 25 October 2026

Notification of acceptance: 1 December 2026

Early bird registration deadline: 31 December 2026

Registration fees (gross): EUR 258.68 regular early bird, EUR 287.42 regular standard; EUR 143.71 for students and PhD candidates early bird, EUR 172.45 standard.

Conference website: https://www.itas.kit.edu/veranstaltungen_2026_ltgconference.php

Organizing team at ITAS-KIT: Sophie Kuppler and Dirk Scheer (responsible), Eike Düvel, Andreea Koch, Michael Schmidt, Laura Müller, Patrick Stuhm

3rd Dortmund Disputes on Economic Justice

Date: June 3 and 4, 2027.

Location: Dortmund, Germany

Keynotes: Christopher Freiman (West Virginia University), Ingrid Robeyns (Utrecht University)

The annual ‘Dortmund Disputes on Economic Justice’ serve as a forum for discussing questions of economic justice, including the role of markets, the nature of property, the justifiability of taxes, the importance of workplace democracy, the problem of economic inequality, and, more generally, the merits of capitalism and socialism. While debates on economic justice often occur within specific political camps, the Dortmund Disputes aim to foster discussion across political boundaries by bringing together scholars with diverse outlooks – liberal egalitarian, libertarian, socialist, conservative, or otherwise – who share the goal of advancing our understanding of economic justice.

Following two successful installments in 2025 and 2026, the third installment will take place on June 3–4, 2027. The keynote speakers are Christopher Freiman and Ingrid Robeyns. Christopher Freiman, Professor at West Virginia University, works on a range of topics in social and political philosophy, including markets, democratic theory, and migration. He has defended libertarianism, most recently in Libertarianism: The Basics (2025). Ingrid Robeyns, Professor of Philosophy at Utrecht University, works on political philosophy, with a focus on economic justice, the capability approach, and methodological questions. Her latest book is Limitarianism: The Case Against Extreme Wealth (2024).

We invite scholars to apply with an abstract of around 500 words for a 40-minute talk. Abstracts will be selected based on their quality, fit with the spirit of the conference, and relevance to the research interests of the keynote speakers. They should be sent as PDF attachments to Karina Jahnke [karina.jahnke@tu-dortmund.de], prepared for blind review. The deadline for submission is January 15, 2027.

Organizers of the Conference: Peter Königs, Christian Neuhäuser

Organizers of the Conference Series: Peter Königs, Christian Neuhäuser, Lea Prix, Dick Timmer (TU Dortmund University)

Contact: christian.neuhaeuser@tu-dortmund.de

The Significance of Suffering in Theory and Practice 

Call for Abstracts and Registration

Annual Conference of the German Society for Utilitarian Studies

University of Bielefeld, November 19-21, 2026

This year’s annual conference of the German Society for Utilitarian Studies (Gesellschaft für Utilitarismusstudien) will focus on the Significance of Suffering in Theory and Practice. What is suffering, and which entities can suffer? What is severe or unbearable suffering, in particular, and should it take priority over happiness and other prudential, moral, or political values or reasons? If so, what kind of priority and why?

Our speakers include Roger Crisp (Oxford), David Enoch (Oxford), Felicia Knaul (UCLA), Jennifer Corns (Glasgow), Michael Brady (Glasgow), Bjørn Morten Hofmann (NTNU), Claudia Bozzaro (Münster), Leonard Dung (Bochum), and Dieter Birnbacher (Düsseldorf/GUS Honorary President). 

To participate in person or online, please email adriano.mannino@hm.edu. Participation is free. The conference will start Thursday afternoon, November 19, and end Saturday afternoon, November 21, 2026 (schedule TBA). You are welcome to attend only part of the conference.

Our schedule also has room for additional speakers. Please attach your abstract or paper if you would like to give a talk––we will notify you within a few days of submission. We can fully cover travel costs within Europe, and at least partly from elsewhere.

Suitable topic areas include but are not limited to: the concepts and mental phenomena of pain, suffering, aversion, etc., and the concepts of severity and unbearability; pain and suffering as they relate to the theory of illbeing and wellbeing, value and disvalue; to intra- and interpersonal (non)aggregation, nonidentity, and population-level choices; to Kantian dignity, contractualism, virtue ethics, and other nonconsequentialist perspectives; to the concept of illhealth and issues in biomedical ethics or normative health economics more broadly (e.g., unbearability and end-of-life care, the measurement of suffering and the QALY/DALY/WELLBY metrics, patient prioritization and triage); to other areas of applied ethics (e.g., research ethics, animal ethics, AI ethics, applied population ethics/future ethics); to issues in political philosophy/theory and practice; and to the history of utilitarian thought and rivaling traditions. 

The German Society for Utilitarian Studies (Gesellschaft für Utilitarismusstudien) is an association of scholars interested in utilitarian thought. Its aim is to foster engagement with the utilitarian tradition in philosophy and adjacent disciplines. Needless to say, the association welcomes utilitarians and non-utilitarians alike.

We are grateful to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft for supporting our 2026 annual conference.

The Young Network for Wittgensteinian Philosophy (YNWP) is a global community of early-career philosophers, students, and enthusiasts dedicated to exploring and advancing the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. This is not only exegetical work but also the application of Wittgensteinian Philosophy in contemporary questions.

We are pleased to announce the 2026 Annual Meeting of the Young Network for Wittgensteinian Philosophy, which will take place on 30 and 31 October 2026 in Düsseldorf, Germany, at Heinrich Heine University’s „Haus der Universität“.

### Keynote Speaker

Martin Kusch (University of Vienna)

2nd keynote TBC

### Call for Papers

We invite contributions engaging with Wittgenstein’s philosophy in its broadest sense. Submissions may address Wittgenstein’s work on language, logic, mind, mathematics, epistemology, ethics, culture, or other areas of his thought, as well as the application of Wittgensteinian ideas and methods to contemporary philosophical problems.

We particularly encourage contributions from early-career researchers and welcome both exegetical work on Wittgenstein and papers that develop or apply Wittgensteinian approaches to current philosophical debates.

Participation is free, we will provide snacks and drinks but we cannot cover any travel expenses.

The meeting will be held exclusively in person.

### Submission Guidelines

Deadline: 31 August 2026

What to submit: A title and an abstract of no more than 500 words on a Wittgensteinian topic of your choice.

Submission form: https://forms.gle/f9VFwHM4DkMkS6xK7 or send an email to d.sarikaya@uni-luebeck.de with the Subject „YNWP Submission“. 

Notification of acceptance: 07 September 2026

### Organization

Jordi Fairhurst Chilton (KU Leuven), Paul Hasselkuß (Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, chair), José Antonio Pérez-Escobar (UNED), Deniz Sarikaya (Universität zu Lübeck)

### Support

The meeting is supported by Prof. Dr. Markus Schrenk, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) and the German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP).

We look forward to welcoming you to Düsseldorf for two days of discussion and exchange on Wittgensteinian philosophy.

Die Initiative Öffentliche Philosophie Berlin hat einen neuen offenen Call for Speaker für die Vortragsreihe im WiSe26/27 (Deadline 31.8.26).

Den Call for Speaker und mehr Infos zur Initiative findet ihr / finden Sie auf oeffentliche-philosophie.de

Wir würden uns auch sehr freuen, wenn Dozierende gezielt Studierende, die an spannenden Hausarbeiten arbeiten, darauf aufmerksam machen würden.

Leider können wir keine Fahrtkosten erstatten.

Ort: Auditorium, Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin

Die zunehmende Bedeutung digitaler Räume und von KI für das Leben von Kindern und Jugendlichen wirft dringende ethische, technische und gesellschaftliche Fragen auf. Der Workshop widmet sich dem Digital Well-Being von Kindern aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive. Im Zentrum steht die Frage, unter welchen technischen, sozialen, rechtlichen und pädagogischen Bedingungen digitale Umgebungen zu einem gelingenden Aufwachsen beitragen können. Digital Well-Being wird dabei nicht nur als Abwesenheit digitaler Risiken verstanden, sondern als Zusammenspiel von Schutz, Teilhabe, Befähigung und entwicklungsangemessener Autonomie. Digitale Technologien eröffnen Kindern und Jugendlichen dabei neue Möglichkeiten der Kommunikation, Bildung, Unterhaltung und des Spiels sowie der sozialen Teilhabe. Zugleich entstehen Spannungsfelder im Hinblick auf Privatheit und Sicherheit, z. B. durch algorithmische Empfehlungssysteme, manipulative Designstrukturen oder im Kontext von Cybermobbing, exzessiver Nutzung, digitaler Ungleichheit oder durch den Zugang zu potenziell schädlichen Inhalten und Interaktionen. Auch technische und regulatorische Schutzmaßnahmen wie Altersverifikation – etwa durch KI-gestützte biometrische Verfahren – können in diesem Zusammenhang diskutiert werden. Sie versprechen besseren Schutz für Minderjährige, werfen aber zugleich Fragen nach Datenschutz, Diskriminierung, Zugangsgerechtigkeit, Autonomie und möglichen Einschränkungen von Freiheitsrechten auf. Aktuelle politische und rechtliche Entwicklungen, etwa Altersgrenzen für soziale Medien, machen deutlich, wie umstritten das Verhältnis von Schutz, Teilhabe und wachsender Selbstbestimmung junger Menschen ist. Wachsende Bedeutung erhalten zukünftig daher vor allem Maßnahmen der Bildung und Befähigung. Der Workshop lädt Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen ein, u. a. aus Philosophie, Psychologie, Soziologie, Technik- und Medienwissenschaft, Medizin, Kindheitswissenschaften, Pädagogik sowie Rechts- und Regulierungsforschung. Willkommen sind theoretische, normative, empirische, technische, rechtliche und praxisbezogene Beiträge zu Fragen der digitalen Kindheit. Dazu zählen etwa Analysen zu Plattformregulierung, Designverantwortung, digitalen Schutzsystemen, Teilhabegerechtigkeit, Familien- und Bildungskontexten und Fragen der Medienbildung und -kompetenzen sowie zu Grundbegriffen wie Digital Well-Being, Kindeswohl, Vulnerabilität, Verantwortung und emerging bzw. gradueller Autonomie Ziel des Workshops ist es, Perspektiven auf ein gelingendes digitales Aufwachsen zu entwickeln, zentrale Begriffe zu schärfen und interdisziplinäre Forschungsfragen im Spannungsfeld von digitalem Wohlergehen, Schutz und Autonomie zu identifizieren und interdisziplinär zu vernetzen.

Format:

Der zweitägige Workshop umfasst Keynotes, disziplinäre Inputs sowie interaktive Workshop-Phasen. Er dient zugleich der Vernetzung und Vorbereitung weiterführender Forschungsprojekte (z.B. DFG-Anträge, Publikation). Das Programm geben wir rechtzeitig vor dem Workshop bekannt.

Einreichungen:

Wir bitten um Abstracts (300–500 Wörter) bis zum 15.07.2026 an ingrid.stapf@unituebingen.de oder an a.bagattini@kit.edu

Die Beiträge werden im Rahmen eines Review-Verfahrens ausgewählt. Angestrebt wird eine anschließende gemeinsame Publikation. Für Nachwuchswissenschaftler und Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen können ggf. Reisestipendien angeboten werden.

Call for Abstracts: Workshop „The Political Theory of Labour Unions“

January 21-22, 2027

Munich School of Politics and Public Policy at TU Munich

What is the role of labour unions in a democratic society? Although empirical researchers have provided a plethora of answers to this question, contemporary political theory and political philosophy have been largely silent on this topic. This workshop aims to bring together researchers in political theory and political philosophy working on labour unions and related topics in order to exchange ideas and set the agenda for future research. The goal is to discuss questions like the following:

– What is the role of labour unions in a democratic society, both ideal and non-ideal?

– What makes labour unions legitimate, both internally and externally?

– What tools can labour unions legitimately employ to achieve their goals and when?

– What is the role of labour unions in combating injustice, economic and otherwise?

The workshop will take place in person at the School of Politics and Public Policy in Munich on January 21 and 22, 2027.

Confirmed speakers:

– Lore-Marie Junghans (Hamburg)

– Mie Inouye (Bard College)

– Steven Klein (KCL)

– Vincent Harting (LSE)

– Philipp Stehr (HfP Munich, Organiser)

We invite submissions for another three of four slots for presentations on the political theory and philosophy of labour unions, broadly conceived. If you’re interested, please send an anonymised 500-word abstract to theory@hfp.tum.de. The workshop will be pre-read, so presenters should be able to share the full paper by about early January. The deadline for the submission of abstracts is July 31st.

There will likely be funding available to cover accommodation, but the details aren’t fully settled yet. So, applicants should be prepared to cover their own expenses. We expect to be able to confirm the definite funding situation at the time of communicating acceptance for presentation at the workshop.

**Workshop: The legacy of logical empiricism between and during the two world wars and its political implications for today**

Much of what is today known as analytic philosophy has its roots in logical empiricism, in particular in the Vienna Circle, the Unity of Science Movement, and its associated researchers (such as the Berlin Society of Scientific Philosophy or the Lwów-Warsaw School). These persons worked in a challenging political climate shaped by the First World War, inspired by hopes for scientific and social progress on the one hand and haunted by the rise and eventual seizure of power by fascism on the other. The assessment of the political significance of this philosophical movement within the German-speaking world was strongly influenced by critical theory, particularly by Horkheimer, who accused the positivist movement of separating science and philosophy from political questions. On the other hand, key figures in logical empiricism were highly politically active (especially Otto Neurath) and were particularly vulnerable to the political developments, falling victim to fascism (such as Janina Hosiasson).

Today, almost a century later, we are witnessing a resurgence of authoritarian political forces, an increase in armed conflicts, an erosion of human rights, a range of crises, and a large-scale ecological collapse. Within the workshop, we want to reflect on the social and political dimensions of logical empiricism, recognize its achievements in a difficult historical environment, and critically discuss its political significance for our current situation.

Currently confirmed speakers are Silke Körber and Ádám Tamás Tuboly. The workshop is organized by Corina Strößner (University of Greifswald) and Georg Brun (University of Bern), and is part of SOPhiA 2026 (https://sophia-conference.org/).

There are two open slots for presentations of 20 mins (+20 mins of discussion). We welcome contributions that can inform debates about the political significance of logical empiricism, including, but not limited to:

 * Biographical work on philosophers of logical empiricism, especially on their historical environment.

 * Political and activist dimensions of the unity of science movement.

 * Political criticism of positivism and engagement with it.

 * Social and political responsibilities of academia today, focusing on analytic philosophy.

Limited funding for costs of travelling (by train or bus) and accommodation is available. Since SOPhiA is a graduate conference, we are especially interested in contributions from early-career researchers. However, the workshop slots are also open to contributions from postdocs. If you are interested in submitting a talk, please send us an abstract of approximately 350 but at most 500 words by July 31st. The abstract and inquiries can be sent to corina.stroessner@uni-greifswald.de.