[PHILOS-L] CfA - SUSANNE K. LANGER: Artistic Angles, Philosophical Circles, Poetic Dots, and Technical Lines (Vienna, May 2026)

[Lona Gaikis]

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*The Susanne K. Langer Circle*

*Call for Abstracts* 

SUSANNE K. LANGER: Artistic Angles, Philosophical Circles, Poetic Dots, and Technical Lines

Vienna University of Technology, Austria. 26–29 May 2026.

Call opens: 1 September 2025

Deadline: 1 October 2025

Organized in collaboration with the Research Unit Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP at the Vienna University of Technology and the IVC Institute Vienna Circle at the University of Vienna, this conference illuminates the history and relevance of Susanne K. Langer's philosophy—demonstrating how her thought continues in contemporary debates in philosophy, aesthetics, the arts, and science, and how it is linked to the *city of ideas*, Vienna.

This conference seeks interdisciplinary perspectives on the thought of logician and philosopher of the arts Susanne K. Langer (1895-1985), which spanned the domains of language, mathematics, the arts, life, and mind through logical analysis and synthesis, embodied cognition and symbolic projection.

The symbolistic paradigm central to Langer’s philosophy is gaining increased attention, and the international network of the Susanne K. Langer Circle continues to foster fresh perspectives on her work, while promoting its ongoing relevance and scholarly continuation. Our third, bi-annual conference in 2026 will take place at TU Wien and the University of Vienna, with a local focus on architectural humanities as well as Vienna’s historical relevance for analytic philosophy.

 

We invite scholars from the humanities, the arts, and sciences to contribute papers on topics spanning philosophy, technology, architecture, artistic and speculative research, theoretical or technological approaches. 

As a cross-disciplinary conference, we welcome contributions from fields, including but not limited to:

 

Aesthetics

Anthropology and Ethnology

Archaeology

Architecture 

Biosemiotics

Biotechnology 

Communication Theory, Symbol Theory, and Semiotics

Computer Science 

Creativity Studies 

Historiography

History of Ideas (20th century history of philosophy: Cassirer, neo-Kantianism, pragmatism, philosophy of science, The Vienna Circle)

Information and Computing

Life Sciences 

Literary Criticism

Logic and the Theory of Knowledge

Media Theory

Music(s) and Musicology

Pedagogy and Educational Thought

Performing Arts and Performance Theory

Philosophy of Art and Art Criticism

Poetry 

Popular Culture and Cultural Studies

Programming 

Psychology (Cultural, Gestalt, Developmental, Clinical, Humanistic)

Social and Political Theory

Visual and Sonic Arts

Women's, Gender and Queer Studies

*Submissions*

Call opens: 1 September 2025 

Please submit abstracts of 300–400 words (Chicago Manual of Style), including full name, contact information, affiliation and academic title (if applicable) to: langer-con...@attp.tuwien.ac.at 

 

*Deadline* 

1 October 2025 

Notification of acceptance: 30 October 2025

 

The conference will be held at the Vienna University of Technology and the University of Vienna, Austria. 26–29 May 2026.

 

For further information, visit the Langer Circle website: https://langercircle.sites.uu.nl/ 

For updates on the program, please register as a member: https://langercircle.sites.uu.nl/register/ 

Selected conference proceedings will be published as an edited journal (TU Academic Press).

Conference Committee: Prof. Vera Bühlmann (AT), Dr. Lona Gaikis (AT), Dr. Matthew Ingram (USA), Prof. Randall E. Auxier (USA), Prof. Christian Grüny (DE), Dr. Tereza Hadravová (CZ).

Previous Susanne K. Langer Circle conferences took place in 2022 at the Max-Planck-Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt a.M., and in 2024 at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

*SUSANNE K. LANGER: Artistic Angles, Philosophical Circles, Poetic Dots, and Technical Lines*

In 2026, the Susanne K. Langer Circle hosted at Utrecht University will collaborate with the Research Unit Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics (ATTP) at TU Wien and the Institute Vienna Circle at the University of Vienna.

Lona Gaikis
mag.art. dr.phil. 

independent researcher
—
/ susanne k. langer circle 

in cooperation with 

technische universität wien

institut für architekturwissenschaften

architekturtheorie und 

technikphilosophie
professur bühlmann

https://langercircle.sites.uu.nl/ 

attp.tuwien.ac.at 

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