Copenhagen Winter School in Phenomenology

The Copenhagen Winter School in Phenomenology is a PhD course that offers a close reading of a classical work in phenomenology. In 2026, the selected text is Edmund Husserl’s Ideen II (1952/2025) (Ideas pertaining to a pure phenomenology and to a phenomenological philosophy II, trans. R. Rojcewicz & A. Schuwer, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989).

The Winter School will consist in two keynote lectures, 6 presentations by participating PhD students, and sessions devoted to a close reading of Husserl's text. The two keynote lectures will discuss Husserl's text and PhD students who wish to present will be expected to also engage with the work in question.

What can we still learn from Husserl’s classical text?

Although Husserl’s work will constitute the point of departure, the systematic focus of the winter school will be broader.  It will also engage with questions pertaining to Husserl’s other works, his relation to other figures in phenomenology, as well as to more overarching questions pertaining to phenomenology of the embodiment, social phenomenology, and the application of phenomenology in the social sciences

The two keynote speakers will be Sara Heinämaa (University of Jyväskylä) and Dan Zahavi (CFS - University of Copenhagen).

Programme

Thursday 29 January 2026

09:15

Opening remarks

09:30

(Keynote) Sara Heinämaa –  Husserl's Critique of the Sciences in Ideas II

10:45

Coffee Break

11:00

Victor Portugal - Kínēsis and Katástēma: On the Rapport Between Phenomenology and Ontology

11:45

Kelly Hrupa – Embodiment in Vulnerability as an Experience of Radical Worldness

12:30

Lunch in the canteen 

13:30

Group discussions I

14:30

Plenum discussion I

15:30

Coffee Break

15:45

Tommaso Bigatti -  Is Concordance Enough? Husserl’s Normative Teleology of Normality

Friday 30 January 2026

09:30

(Keynote) Dan Zahavi –  Sociality and communication

10:45

Coffee Break

11:00

Dmitrii Reznkov – Phenomenological Psychology and Ontology of Spirit as Foundation of the Human Sciences

11:45

Miyuki Ono - Interculturality and the One World Debate

12:30

Lunch in the canteen

13:30

Group discussions II

14:30

Plenum discussion II

15:30

Coffee Break

15:45

Julian Meergans - On taking Phantoms as the Genuine Objects of Hallucinations

16:30

Concluding remarks

ECTS: 1.2 ECTS for participation / 2.7 ECTS for participation with presentation

The course is now full, and registration is closed