Conferences and Workshops
Opening Conference:
Secondary Qualities in the Austro-German Tradition and Beyond
Date: April 21–23, 2022
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, Room 2249a, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Attendance: Attendance possible in person or on Zoom; registration mandatory, please write to twan.stiekel@hu-berlin.de
Participants:
Arnaud Dewalque (Liège); Guillaume Fréchette (Geneva); Laura Gow (Liverpool); Uriah Kriegel (Rice); Kevin Mulligan (Lugano); Martine Nida-Rümelin (Fribourg); Maria Reicher (Aachen); Sonja Rinofner-Kreidl (Graz); Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin); Mark Textor (KCL); Maria Van Der Schaar (Leiden)
Workshop 1:
The Phenomenology of Secondary Qualities
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin
Date: November 16–17, 2023
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, Room 2249a, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Attendance: For registration, please write to twan.stiekel@hu-berlin.de
Participants: Keith Allen (York); Lina de Boer (HU Berlin); Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham); Alessandro Salice (Cork); Twan Stiekel (HU Berlin); Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin); Íngrid Vendrell-Ferran (Marburg)
Workshop 2:
The Metaphysics of Secondary Qualities
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin
Date: April 8–9, 2024
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, Room 2249a, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Attendance: For registration, please write to lina.anne.de.boer@hu-berlin.de
Participants: Lina de Boer (HU Berlin); Johannes Haag (Potsdam); Riccardo Martinelli (Trieste); Twan Stiekel (HU Berlin); Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin); Maren Wehrle (Rotterdam)
Workshop 3:
Secondary Qualities and the Epistemology of Perception
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin
Date: April 10–11, 2025
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, Room 2249a, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Attendance: For registration, please write to kate.audrey.westermaier@student.hu-berlin.de
Participants: Fiona Macpherson (Glasgow); Giulia Martina (TU Dortmund); Søren Overgaard (Copenhagen); Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin); Harald Wiltsche (Linköping)
Closing Conference:
The Physical World and Its Perception: Phenomenology and Analytic Philosophy
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin
Date: June 18–19, 2026
Reading Group
Current Reading:
TBA
Previous Readings:
Winter semester 2023-2024:
Ingarden’s Zur Objektivität der sinnlichen Wahrnehmung
Co-organised with Alessandro Salice, University College Cork
Summer semester 2022-2023:
Ingarden’s Streit um die Existenz der Welt
Winter semester 2022-2023:
Hofmann’s Untersuchungen über den Empfindungsbegriff
Co-organised with Alessandro Salice, University College Cork
Summer semester 2021-2022:
Conrad-Martius’s Zur Ontologie und Erscheinungslehre der realen Außenwelt
Winter semester 2021-2022:
Husserl’s 6th Logical Investigation
Co-organised with Alessandro Salice, University College Cork

Additional Events
Series of Talks:
Monthly Phenomenology
Co-organized with Guillaume Fréchette (University of Geneva), Marta Jorba (Pompeu Fabra University), Alessandro Salice (University College Cork), and Íngrid Vendrell-Ferran (Philipps University Marburg), on behalf of the Network for Phenomenological Research
Venue: online
Date: academic year 2025–26
Earlier seasons:
Conference:
A Historical Turn: Sources and their Uses in Austro-German Philosophy
Annual Conference of Inbegriff – Geneva Seminar for Austro-German Philosophy
Co-organized with Laurent Cesalli (University of Geneva), Hélène Leblanc (Catholic University of Louvain), and Claudio Majolino (University of Lille)
Venue: University of Geneva
Date: December 2-4, 2021
Workshop:
Longue Durée Intentionality
Date: April 25, 2022
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, Room 2249a, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Attendance: Attendance possible in person or on Zoom; registration mandatory, please write to twan.stiekel@hu-berlin.de
Participants:
Elena Băltuţă (Tel-Hai/Haifa); Elise Frketich (FU/HU Berlin); Trevor Griffith (Tulane/FU Berlin); Colin G. King (Providence/Basel); Stephan Schmid (Hamburg)
Workshop:
Phänomenologie und Metaphysik
Co-organised with Alexander Schnell (University of Wuppertal)
Date: May 31, 2024
Venue: University of Wuppertal, Room K.12.18, Building K, Campus Grifflenberg
Participants:
Michael Boch (Wuppertal); Lina de Boer (HU Berlin); Fabian Erhardt (Wuppertal); Leonard Ip (Wuppertal); Alexander Schnell (Wuppertal); Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin
Workshop:
Rediscovering Carl Stumpf
Co-organised with Mark Textor (King’s College London)
Date: Sep 19-20, 2024
Venue: Humboldt University Berlin, Room 3059, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Participants:
Elvira Di Bona (Turin); Denis Fisette (UQAM); Julia Jansen (KU Leuven); Martin Kusch (Vienna); Gianfranco Soldati (Fribourg); Hamid Taieb (HU Berlin); Mark Textor (KCL); Íngrid Vendrell-Ferran (Marburg)