Activities

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

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

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)