PSSA Annual Conference, Cape Town, 23–25 January 2026 | Early-bird registration ends 25 October 2025

[PSSA 2026]

The annual conference of the Philosophical Society of Southern Africa takes place at the University of Cape Town, 23–25 January 2026. Please see poster attached.

Now that the presentation abstract submission deadline has passed, normal delegate registration is open.

To be part of the conversation, follow these two easy steps:

• Send an e-mail to PSSA...@gmail.com, requesting a PSSA 2026 Application Form

• Return the completed Application Form with proof of conference fee payment to PSSA...@gmail.com

If you register by 25 October 2025, you will be eligible for the special early-bird rate.

Conference fee for early registration (by 25 October 2025)

Southern Africa:        Student ZAR690/EUR34

  Non-student: ZAR1,500/EUR74

Rest of world:            Student ZAR1,640/EUR81

  Non-student ZAR3,000/EUR148

About the keynote speakers

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò is Professor of African Political Thought at Cornell University. He studied at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and the University of Toronto. His book How Colonialism Preempted Modernity in Africa was joint winner of the Frantz Fanon Outstanding Book Award of the Caribbean Philosophical Association in 2016. His other books include Legal Naturalism, Africa Must Be Modern, Against Decolonisation, Does the U.S. Need a Truth and Reconciliation Commission? and Can a Liberal Be a Chief? Can a Chief Be a Liberal?

Sara Heinämaa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä, Vice-president of the Philosophical Society of Finland, and a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters. She studied at the University of Helsinki and held the Gadamer Chair at Boston College in 2025. She is author of Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference and co-editor of New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics, Consciousness, Psychology and Philosophy, Contemporary Phenomenologies of Normativity, Values of Love and Ethical Reflection, Phenomenology as Critique and Chiasmic Encounters.

Catarina Dutilh Novaes is Professor and University Research Chair in Philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She was a professorial fellow at Arché, St Andrews, from 2019 to 2024 and is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. She studied at the University of São Paulo and Leiden University. Her book The Dialogical Roots of Deduction won the Lakatos Award in 2022. She is also author of Formal Languages in Logic and Formalizing Medieval Logic Theories, and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Logic and Insolubles and Consequences.

Accommodation in Upper Campus Residence (directly adjoining the conference venue)

For a stay of four nights (22–26 January), including breakfast in the UCR dining hall each morning and annual membership of the PSSA at no extra charge:

• Student ZAR626.50 per night (single room)

• Non-student (apart from assoc prof/prof) ZAR714 per night (single room)

• Assoc prof/prof ZAR839 per night (single room)