[PHILOS-L] CALL FOR PAPERS. Submission deadline for the conference extended to April 11

[Dominykas Barusevičius]

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[CALL FOR PAPERS. Submission deadline for the conference extended to April 11] 

Ecosocial Ideas: Coexistence and Change.

Interdisciplinary Conference,

August 27-28, 2026

(Post)Authoritarian Landscapes Research Centre, Vilnius University

 

Details:

 

Initiated by the (Post)Authoritarian Landscapes Research Centre (PAScapes) at Vilnius University, Lithuania, conference invites established professionals and researchers to examine the notion of the ecosocial as a landscape, milieu, and site of encounter with a potential to reconfigure coexistence and build practices of transformation. PhD students are also welcome to submit.

 

We invite contributions from philosophy and humanities, social and environmental sciences, memory and genocide studies, STS, ecocriticism and landscape studies, Western and Russian colonialism studies, cognitive sciences, history, archaeology, and beyond.

 

Keynote Speakers: 

 

Luba Jurgenson (Sorbonne University)

Lambros Malafouris (University of Oxford)

Svitlana Matviyenko (Simon Fraser University)

Cary Wolfe (Rice University)

 

Vaiva Daraškevičiūtė (PAScapes, Vilnius University)

Marija Drėmaitė (PAScapes, Vilnius University)

Mintautas Gutauskas (PAScapes, Vilnius University)

Kristupas Sabolius (PAScapes, Vilnius University)

 

Call for papers:

 

The Conference 

Vilnius University, Faculty of Philosophy

August 27-28, 2026

 

Appropriate topics for submission include, among others:

-       ecosocial ontologies and materialities;

-       social, technological, and environmental interactions;

-       aesthetics, art, and the ecosocial;

-       cognitive dimensions of the ecosocial;

-       the methodologies of ecosocial frameworks;

-       genocide, trauma and the ecosocial;

-       ambicolonial (Western and Russian) perspectives and the ecosocial.

 

Abstracts must be 500 words in length; please add your short bio and affiliation. Participation is free, but the number of presentations is limited. Talks will be 30 minutes, including Q&A. 

 

How to submit an abstract

1. Send an email to in...@pascapes.lt  with your abstract attached (acceptable formats: .doc, .docx, .rtf, .pdf).

2. Use the subject line: Conference. Ecosocial Ideas 2026

 

The deadline for submitting an abstract: extended to April 11, 2026. 

Notification of reviewers’ decision: May 1, 2026.

 

Further information:

• Regarding the conference, the organizers do not cover travel and accommodation costs. Coffee breaks will be provided. Lunch breaks and the Conference dinners will be offered for an additional cost.

 

For further information see the conference page and contact: 

https://pascapes.lt/ecosocial-ideas-coexistence-and-change-interdisciplinary-summer-school-and-conference/

in...@pascapes.lt

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