We are inviting submissions for the upcoming NASPH Annual Meeting (Sept. 18-20, 2025), hosted by Texas A&M in Washington, DC. The official CFP flier can also be found here.
Papers on any topic in philosophical hermeneutics are welcome. Please submit your paper of 3000-5000 words, prepared for blind review, by June 1, 2025 to nasphermeneutics@gmail.com.
The Canadian Hermeneutic Institute invites abstract submissions for presenting at the upcoming Institute, which will be held from June 4-6, 2025 at Aloft Calgary University, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Lectures and papers will center around the topic “Friendship and Other Virtues: Considerations for a Hermeneutical Humanism.” The Visiting Scholar present will be Professor James Risser, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Seattle University.
If you would like to present at the Institute, please complete the abstract submission section of the registration form. The deadline for submission of abstracts is March 15, 2025. Presenters will be notified no later than March 31, 2025 as to whether their abstract has been accepted.Successful presenters will be required to present for 20 minutes and answer questions for 20 minutes. PowerPoint will not be available in the meeting room. All presenters will be required to register for the Institute.
There is one 500 CAD student scholarship. Interested philosophy students can apply by emailing Prof. Nancy Moules (njmoules@gmail.com). Scholarship applicants need not be presenting a paper at the conference, but priority will be given to students who are.
The 2024 NASPH Annual Meeting will be held from September 12-14 at Grand Valley State University. All conference sessions will be held at the Seidman College of Business, 50 Front St. SW, Grand Rapids. The conference program, parking, hotel information, general information about Grand Rapids, and a guide to restaurants are below.
1. CONFERENCE PROGRAM – Conference and banquet fees can be paid HERE.
Thursday, Sept. 12
2:00-2:10 Welcome | Carolyn Culbertson (President) and David Vessey (Host)
2:15-3:15 “Gadamer’s Poet of the Return: Hilde Domin and the Return to Language” (paper) | Alexander Crist
3:30-4:40 “Written for Me and No One Else: The Humanities without Humanism” | David Liakos
4:55-5:55 “Practical Wisdom in a Conspiratorial Age” (paper) | Darren Walhof
Friday, Sept. 13
9:00-10:00 “‘A Breach in the Smooth Front of Opinion’: The Nascent Political Radicality of Gadamer’s Theory of Experience” (paper) | John Arthos
10:15-11:35 Book Panel: Carolyn Culbertson’s Gadamer and the Social Turn in Epistemology | Respondents: Georgia Warnke, Ashley Krieger
11:50-12:50 “Heidegger and Gadamer on Making Phenomenology Hermeneutical” (paper) | Haley Burke
1:00-2:25 Lunch Break
2:30-3:30 “Interpretive Metaethics: Hermeneutics’ Neglected Contribution to Ethical Theory” (paper) | Michiel Meijer
3:45-5:15 Gadamer and Adorno: An Auseinandersetzung | Speakers: Christian Lotz, Lambert Zuidervaart
6:00-9:00 Banquet at San Chez (38 Fulton St. W.)
Saturday, Sept. 14
9:15-10:30 “Patient-Centered Measurement: Ethics, Epistemology and Dialogue in Contemporary Medicine” (paper) | Leah McClimans
10:45-11:45 “Pain, Health, and Play: Gadamer’s Carnal Hermeneutics” (paper) | Joey Aloi
11:45-12:15 Business Meeting
12:15-1:35 Lunch Break
1:40-2:50 “Speech, Storytelling, and Care in Hannah Arendt” | Magnus Ferguson
3:05-4:25 Book Panel: Cynthia Nielsen’s Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics | Respondents: Karen Davis, Dan Tate
2. PARKING – On Thursday and Friday, guests should park in the Fulton Lot. See campus map HERE. Please note that no pass will be needed for this lot only; guests can pull up and the gate will open for them to enter and park. On Saturday, parking is not enforced, so guests are welcome to park right out front of SCB in the Mount Vernon Lot.
3. HOTEL INFORMATION – discounted rates available at the following hotels until August 20, 2024:
Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown – $140/night plus taxes and fees
Link for reservation: Holiday Inn: Grand Rapids Downtown, or call 616-235-7611
Courtyard Marriott Grand Rapids Downtown – $179/night plus taxes and fees
Link for reservation: Courtyard Marriott Grand Rapids Downtown, or call 877-901-6632
4. GENERAL INFORMATION about Grand Rapids can be found HERE.
5. RESTAURANTS nearby can be found HERE.
The CFP for the 2024 NASPH Annual Meeting can be found here. This year’s conference will be held September 12-14 at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, MI.
Papers on any topic in philosophical hermeneutics are welcome. Please submit your paper of 3000-5000 words, prepared for blind review, by June 1, 2024 to nasphermeneutics@gmail.com.
The Canadian Hermeneutic Institute invites the submission of an abstract for presenting at the upcoming Institute. Papers must be related to topics being presented by Professor George (see below).
The deadline for abstract submission is March 20, 2024. Further details on how to submit an abstract are available at www.CHIannual.com.
PROGRAM
Hermeneutics the Wide World Over: For a Theory of Interpretation Beyond the Context of Tradition
Prof. Theodore George, Professor of Philosophy and Presidential Impact Fellow, Texas A & M University
View the program here.
View Dr. George’s biography here.
VENUE
The 2024 will take place in person (not online or recorded), at the Aloft Calgary University. Rooms have been reserved at the special group rate of $149 + taxes for CHI attendees. Please click here to book your room with the conference group rate.
The Hermeneutics in Real Life project is pleased to announce that it will be hosting an online Hermeneutics Seminar this coming June. The seminar seeks to address the apparent decrease in teaching attention to hermeneutics internationally and is geared toward an introduction of the subject to existing scholars new to the field, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates.
The seminar will be held over the course of the week of June 17-21, with classes twice daily and then daily office hours. Instruction will be in English. Rather than begin with a course in classic texts in hermeneutics, the seminar will focus on Johann Michel’s very timely and topical book, Homo Interpretans: Towards a Transformation of Hermeneutics (2019). Professor Michel will join us in one of the final classes. Registrants will receive a certificate on successful completion of the course. Future variations of the seminar will pursue classic hermeneutics texts and specific areas of application.
More information on the seminar, including registration, is available at the Hermeneutics in Real Life website (www.hinrl.org). Registration is open until March 31.