by nasph | Aug 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
The 2026 meeting of the North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics will take place at the University of California Davis (Davis, CA) from Thursday, October 8th to Saturday, October 10th. The conference program and hotel information are below:
Conference Program:
Thursday, October 8th
1:50-2:00 p.m. Welcome | Carolyn Culbertson (President) and Carlo DaVia (Host)
2:00-2:50 p.m. David Vessey – “Gadamer and the Sophists”
3:00-3:50 p.m. Weian Ding – “Hermeneutic Exposure: Cora Diamond, Gadamer, and the Ethical Inflection”
4:00-4:50 p.m. Dana Belu – “What Technological Rationality Doesn’t Teach Us: Heidegger, Marcuse and hooks on Education”
Friday, October 9th
9:45-10:35 a.m. Alexander Crist – “Melville, The Confidence-Man, and Pseudo-Solidarity: A Challenge to Gadamerian Solidarity”
10:45-11:35 a.m. Lucas Gronouwe – “Suspicion or Trust?: A Postcritical Reading of the Gadamer-Derrida Debate”
11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. David Zoller – “The Emptiness of Language in Heidegger’s Hermeneutics”
12:45-2:00 p.m. Lunch Break
2:00-2:50 p.m. Eddie Li – “What Does Gadamer Reject when he Rejects Enlightenment?”
3:00-3:50 p.m. Hunter Roy – “What Remains Unsaid: Hermeneutics and the Un-experienceable”
4:00-5:00 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Francis Mootz III– “Law After Postmodernity: Ontology, Practice, and Critique”
6:30p.m. Banquet @ My Burma (500 1st St, Ste 11)
Saturday, October 10th
9:45-10:35 a.m. Antoine Pageau St-Hilaire – “Gadamer and Aristotle: Questions Concerning Ethics’ Alleged ‘Independence from Metaphysics’”
10:45-11:35 a.m. Stefan Uhlig – “Overly Close Reading and Generic Hermeneutics?”
11:45a.m.-12:45p.m. Elena Romagnoli – “The Enigma of the Body: Gadamer’s Performative Aesthetics and Embodied Dialogue”
12:55 p.m. Business Meeting and In Memoriam for Nicholas Davey (1950-2026)
Hotel Information:
Discounted hotel rates are available at the following hotels until Monday, September 7th:
- The Aggie Inn (245 First Street, Davis, CA, 95616) – HERE
- Best Western Plus Palm Court Hotel (234 D Street, Davis, California 95616) – HERE.
We hope to see you there!
by nasph | Mar 7, 2026 | Uncategorized
We are now inviting submissions for this year’s NASPH Annual Meeting (October 8th – 10th, 2026), which will be at the University of California, Davis.
Papers on any topic in philosophical hermeneutics are welcome. Please submit your paper of 3000-5000 words, prepared for blind review, by June 1, 2026 to nasphermeneutics@gmail.com.
by nasph | Feb 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
On Friday, February 20th, 2026 (7:00–9:50 p.m CST), NASPH will host a satellite session at this year’s meeting of the Central APA in Chicago, IL. The topic of this session will be “Plurality and Reality,” and the session will take place at the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in room G15G.
Two presentations will be featured in the session:
- Pol Vandevelde (Marquette University): “A Hermeneutics of Difference for an Interactive Reality”
- Jennifer Gaffney (Loyola University Chicago): “Objectivity in the Space of Politics: On Arendt’s Contribution to Hermeneutic Realism”
by nasph | Oct 14, 2025 | Uncategorized
Program: https://www.spep.org/website/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/SPEP63vOct12.pdf
8:00-8:05 Welcome — Carolyn Culbertson (Florida Gulf Coast University)
8:05-8:55 Niall Keane (University of West England), “Gadamer’s Linguistic Vision of the World and its Limits: Addressing Some Tensions in the New Realist Interpretation”
8:50-9:40 Facundo Bey (Instituto de Filosofía Ezequiel de Olaso – Centro de Investigaciones Filosóficas (CIF/CONICET), “Gadamer’s Question Concerning the Human Being: Bildung, Reason, and Technology in the Twilight of the Second World War”
9:40-10:30 Jessica Frazier (University of Oxford), “Modern Sublime: Gadamer on Beauty, Truth, and Globalism”
by nasph | Aug 5, 2025 | Uncategorized
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
