NASPH 2025 Conference Info
The 2025 NASPH Annual Meeting will be held from September 18-20 in Washington DC, hosted by Texas A&M University. All conference sessions will be held at The Bush School (1620 L St NW). The conference program and hotel information are below.
1. CONFERENCE PROGRAM – Conference and banquet fees can be paid HERE.
Thursday, Sept. 18
1:50-2:00 Welcome | Carolyn Culbertson (President) and Theodore George (Host)
2:00-2:50 “Let Me Look Again: Towards a Hermeneutics of Attention”
3:00-3:50 “Philosophical Anthropology 100 Years Later: From Homo Transcendens to Homo Interpretans”
4:00-5:00 “Hermeneutic Virtue: From the Common to the Fecund”
Friday, Sept. 19
10:00-11:20 Book Panel: Carlo DaVia and Greg Lynch’s The Event of Meaning in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics | Respondents: Robert Dostal and Csaba Olay
11:30-12:30 “Pictures in Vollzug in Gadamer’s Performative Aesthetics”
12:30-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-2:50 “Interpretation Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide: A Latourian Transformation of the Hermeneutic Context”
3:00-3:50 “The Immemorial Past and the Hermeneutical Schelling”
4:00-5:00 “Stirrings of an Unlikely Metaphysical Reading of Hermeneutics”
6:30 Banquet at Blackfinn Pub (1620 I St NW, Washington, DC 20006)
Saturday, Sept. 20
10:00-10:50 “Morals by Metaphor: The Role of Imagery in Taylor’s Ethics”
11:00-11:50 “Hermeneutics, Language, and the Language of War”
12:00-1:20 Lunch Break
1:20-2:20 “From Judge to Historian: Witnessing as a Hermeneutic Concern”
2:30-3:20 “Communicability and Transcendence: Kant, Gadamer, and the Hermeneutics of Revelation”
3:30-4:00 Business Meeting (including information on the new Journal of Gadamer Studies – all are welcome!)
2. HOTEL INFORMATION – discounted rates available at the following hotels until August 20, 2025:
Residence Inn Washington DC Downtown (1199 Vermont Avenue NW) – $229/night plus taxes and fees
Link for reservation: Residence Inn Washington DC Downtown