Calendar

25 Oct. 2018, 14:15-16:00

No-Self and the Phenomenology of Ownership

CFS Lecture by Monima Chadha, Department of Philosophy, Monash University, Australia.

29 Nov. - 30 Nov. 2018

Second-Person Engagement and Group Identification

International two-day conference about theoretical and empirical perspectives on second-person engagement and group identification. 

7 Dec. 2018, 14:00-16:00

The Subject(s) of Panpsychism: A Phenomenology of Empty, Extended, and Doubled Selves

CFS Lecture by Jennifer McWeeny, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

13 Dec. 2018, 13:15-16:00

Workshop on intentionality and panpsychism

CFS workshop featuring Michelle Montague and Galen Strawson, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, USA

14 Dec. 2018, 13:15-15:00

The Solo Self

CFS lecture by Galen Strawson, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, USA 

4 Mar. 2019, 14:15-16:00

Hannah Arendt on plurality, basic activities, and different forms of the we

CFS Lecture in Phenomenology by Sophie Loidolt, Institut für Philosophie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

15 Mar. 2019, 13:15-15:00

Presence in the Caregiving Relationship: On Moral Subjectivity, or the Soul

CFS Lecture by Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University.

25 Mar. 2019, 13:15-15:00

Applied phenomenology and the epoché

CFS Lecture by James Morley, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA and Dan Zahavi, CFS.

4 Apr. - 5 Apr. 2019

Recognition, We-Intentionality and Second-Person Engagement

Keynote Speakers:  Andrea Kern (University of Leipzig), Arto Laitinen (Tampere University), Patricia Meindl (University of Copenhagen) and Danielle Petherbridge (University College Dublin) and Dan Zahavi (University of Copenhagen & University of Oxford).

25 Apr. - 27 Apr. 2019

Phenomenology of Social Life

17th annual conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology.
Keynote speakers: Karin Dahlberg (Linnaeus University), Julia Jansen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) and Alva Noë (UC Berkeley).

2 May 2019, 8:00-18:00

Medical humanities: Contributions, new approaches and future pathways

The Symposium focuses on the frontiers of humanities-driven health research, the impact of humanities on health science and health sector practices, and finally on future pathways for expanding the contribution of humanities health research in a Danish context.

20 May 2019, 14:15-16:00

CANCELLED....Emotional sharing offline and online: processes and social consequences

CFS Lecture by Mikko Salmela, Department of Political and Economic Studies, University of Helsinki, Finland

12 Aug. - 16 Aug. 2019

Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind

The Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind is an annual event organized by the Center of Subjectivity Research and co-funded by the PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

25 Sept. 2019, 14:15-16:00

The Horizons of Chronic Shame?

CFS Lecture by Dr Luna Dolezal, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Medical Humanities, Deputy Director of the Liberal Arts Programme, University of Exeter.

27 Sept. 2019, 15:05-17:00

Open House - Interdisciplinarity at Center for Subjectivity Research

We are hosting an afternoon of interdisciplinary lectures and talks. All students and employees at the Faculty of Humanities are more than welcome.

14 Nov. 2019, 14:15-16:00

The We and its Many Forms: Kurt Stavenhagen's Contribution to Social Phenomenology

CFS Lecture by Alessandro Salice, Lecturer, University College Cork, Ireland

28 Nov. 2019, 14:15-16:00

On the use of the notion of narrative in ethics and psychology

CFS lecture by Professor Galen Strawson, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, USA & Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

29 Nov. 2019, 14:15-16:00

The Phenomenology of Free Agency

CFS lecture by Professor Galen Strawson, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, USA & Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen, DK

2 Dec. 2019, 14:15-16:00

Intergroup Contact and Prejudice: Theoretical and Practical Advances

CFS lecture by Professor Miles Hewstone, (University of Newcastle, Australia; Emeritus, University of Oxford)

16 Dec. 2019, 14:15-16:00

Hermeneutics and Social Ontology

CFS Lecture by Shaun Gallagher, Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA.

18 Feb. 2020, 13:15-16:30

Workshop on Contemporary Phenomenology

Workshop on Contemporary Phenomenology

24 Feb. 2020, 14:15-16:00

Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness

CFS Lecture by Philip Goff, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Durham University, UK

27 Feb. 2020, 15:15-17:00

Launch of Who are We?

Official launch of "Who are we? - Self-identity, Social Cognition, and Collective Intentionality"

2 Mar. - 3 Mar. 2020

Social Cohesion

Workshop on Social Cohesion co-organized by CFS and the University of Exeter.

18 Nov. 2020, 13:00

Physical Disabilities: An Enactive Exploration of Normal Embodiment

Public defense of Juan Toro's PhD thesis.

7 Dec. 2020, 9:00-16:00

PhD course: Pure and Applied Phenomenology

Course on key concepts in phenomenology and on the question of how they might be of use to other disciplines than philosophy.

8 Mar. 2021, 14:15-17:00

The Third

CFS Workshop on the social significance of the third.

9 Apr. 2021, 16:00

Second-Person Relations and the We. Perspectives from Phenomenology and Dialogical Philosophy

Public defence of Patricia Meindl's PhD thesis.

1 June 2021, 13:15-15:00

First person plural marking in the world's languages: Egophoricity and clusivity

CFS lecture by Henrik Bergqvist, Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, Sweden.

10 June - 11 June 2021

I and We: Literary Texts and the Constitution of Shared Identities

CFS conference on I and We: Literary Texts and the Constitution of Shared Identities.

30 Sept. 2021, 15:15-17:00

The Force to Bear and to Suffer

CFS Lecture by Rudolf Bernet, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium.

4 Oct. - 5 Oct. 2021

Affective Enclaves: Forging Communities Online and Offline

This two-day workshop will explore why certain shared emotions often result in different emotionally toned enclaves, how they create ingroup attachment or reinforce existing ingroup/outgroup-demarcations.

8 Oct. - 9 Oct. 2021

Familiarity and togetherness

The workshop explores the relationship between familiarity and togetherness from various theoretical perspectives and from several applied cases, including shared emotions, online interactions, social distancing, and dementia.

14 Oct. - 15 Oct. 2021

Husserl and Community

CFS Workshop on Husserl, collective intentionality and social ontology.

11 Nov. 2021, 15:15-17:00

Pragmatism and phenomenology

Inaugural lecture by Shaun Gallagher, Lillian and Morrie Moss Chair of Excellence in Philosophy, University of Memphis, USA.

1 Mar. - 2 Mar. 2022

CFS 20 Years

To mark the 20th anniversary of the Center for Subjectivity Research, we celebrate the achievements of CFS by hosting a workshop figuring advisory board members and former employees.

11 Mar. 2022, 14:15-16:00

Beauvoir and Arendt on the Ambiguities of Belonging

CFS Lecture by Sophie Loidolt, Professor of Philosophy, Technical University Darmstadt.

4 Apr. 2022, 14:15-17:00

Collective action and Institutional Affect

CFS Workshop with contributions by Philipp Wunderlich, Christian von Scheve & Jan Slaby (Freie Universität Berlin).

20 Apr. 2022, 14:15-16:00

Experiencing objects as part of oneself

CFS Lecture by Giovanna Colombetti, Professor of Philosophy, University of Exeter, UK.

28 Apr. - 29 Apr. 2022

Shame, Health and Lived Experience

Workshop on Shame, Health and Lived Experience.

11 May 2022, 14:00-18:00

Josef Parnas

Afskedssymposium for professor emeritus, overlæge, dr. med. Josef Parnas, medstifter af Center for Subjektivitetsforskning, Københavns Universitet.

12 May 2022, 14:15-16:00

Understanding Sophia? On human interaction with AI systems and robots

CFS Lecture by Thomas Fuchs, Karl Jaspers Professor for Philosophy and Psychiatry at the Department of General Psychiatry, Universität Heidelberg.

19 May 2022, 14:15-16:00

When grief ends and anger persists. On the temporality of emotions

CFS Lecture by Eva Weber-Guskar, Professor of Philosophy, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.

20 May 2022, 14:15-16:00

Intentionality in Realist Phenomenology

CFS Lecture by Alessandro Salice, Department of Philosophy, University College Cork, Ireland.

23 May - 24 May 2022

I and We: Self and Community

CFS Conference on I and We: Self and community.

28 June 2022, 9:00-17:00

Community and National Identity

Workshop on Community and National Identity co-organized by CFS and Center for Research of Intersubjectivity and Interpersonal Communication (EHU, Vilnius, Lithuania).

7 Sept. 2022

For, Against, Together: Antagonistic Political Emotions

At this conference, we address what it means to experience antagonistic political emotions and investigate the role such emotions play in group formation, social cohesion, political identity, as well as in-group/out-group demarcation and conflict.

5 Oct. - 6 Oct. 2022

Groups, Movements, Change: Perspectives from Sociology and Phenomenology

CFS Workshop on sociology and phenomenological philosophy.

4 Nov. 2022, 15:15-17:00

Intersubjectivity and Encroachment

CFS Lecture by Professor Sara Heinämaa. University of Jyväskylä, Finland

9 Dec. 2022, 14:00

Mads Gram Henriksen's Doctoral Defence

On Friday 9 December 2022 at 14:00 Mag.art., PhD Mads Gram Henriksen will defend his doctoral dissertation in order to be awarded the doctoral degree in medical science (dr.med.) (DMSc.).

Dissertation

"Self-disorders and Psychopathology: A clinical-phenomenological exploration of schizophrenia spectrum disorders"

12 Dec. 2022, 14:15-17:00

Generativity

CFS Workshop on generativity with talks by Dorothée Legrand (CNRS - Paris) and Tao DuFour (Cornell University)

6 Mar. 2023, 14:15-17:30

Nordic workshop in phenomenology

CFS workshop on phenomenology with Sara Heinämaa, Hans Ruin and Dan Zahavi.

7 Mar. 2023, 15:00-17:00

The Weight of Time: Améry on Aging, Regret and Irreversibility

CFS lecture by Ilit Ferber, Professor of Philosophy, Tel-Aviv University, IL.

19 Apr. 2023, 14:15-16:00

Tactile experience and self/other differentiation

CFS lecture by Joona Taipale, Senior Lecturer, University of Jyväskylä, FI.

15 May - 17 May 2023

Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry VI

Causal Concepts in Psychopathology: Multidisciplinary Perspectives

24 May 2023, 14:15-16:00

On knowing I am not alone in the universe

CFS lecture by Naomi Eilan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Warwick, UK.

1 June - 2 June 2023

Critical phenomenology of the we

CFS Conference on critical phenomenology of the we

29 June 2023, 13:00

Engaging mindfulness: A phenomenological investigation and critique

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Odysseus Stone.

14 Aug. - 18 Aug. 2023

Copenhagen Summer School 2023 in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind

Annual event organized by the Center of Subjectivity Research and co-funded by the PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

7 Sept. 2023, 14:15-16:00

What is the 'Ur-Ich' in Husserl?

CFS lecture by Shigeru Taguchi, Department of Philosophy and Ethics, Hokkaido University, Japan

15 Sept. 2023, 10:00-16:45

Bohr, Quantum Mechanics and German philosophy

Workshop on Bohr and phenomenology 

25 Sept. 2023, 14:15-16:00

Intentionality: One More Time

CFS lecture by John Drummond, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, USA.

29 Sept. 2023, 14:15-16:00

Emotions, Desire, and Motivations to Act

CFS lecture by John Drummond, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, New York, USA.

5 Oct. - 6 Oct. 2023

Us and Them: Phenomenological Perspectives in Dialogue

CFS Conference on us and them.

12 Oct. 2023, 14:00-16:00

Do group agents have free will?

CFS Talk with Christian List, Professor of Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

13 Oct. 2023, 13:00-15:00

Are group agents conscious

CFS Talk with Christian List, Professor of Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

30 Oct. 2023, 14:15-16:00

Community and identification

CFS Lecture by Bernard Yack, Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy, Brandeis University, USA.

2 Nov. 2023, 14:15-16:00

The Moral Value of Communal Loyalties

CFS Lecture by Bernard Yack, Lerman Neubauer Professor of Democracy and Public Policy, Brandeis University, USA.

13 Nov. - 14 Nov. 2023

Love and sexuality

CFS workshop on love and sexuality.

8 Dec. 2023, 14:15-16:00

Sexual love and interpersonal intentionality

CFS lecture by Galen Strawson, University of Texas at Austin, USA.

12 Feb. 2024, 13:00

Madness and Its Double

Public defence of PhD thesis by Helene Borregaard Stephensen.

29 Feb. 2024, 14:15-16:00

The phenomenology and structure of the second-person plural

CFS lecture by Sarah Pawlett Jackson, University of London.

6 Mar. 2024, 14:00-16:00

Collective intentionality, large-group collaboration and embodied we-feeling

Talk by Prof. Dr. Marc Slors, Philosophy of mind and cognition, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University.

8 Mar. 2024, 15:15-17:00

Open House at CFS

Join us for Open House at the Center for Subjectivity Research (CFS)!

15 Mar. 2024, 15:15-17:00

Hannah Arendt’s phenomenology of plurality

CFS lecture by Sophie Loidolt, Professor, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.

22 Mar. 2024, 15:15-17:00

Facial Expressions as Conditions of Communication

CFS lecture by Sara Heinämaa, Professor, University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

6 May - 7 May 2024

Mapping Perceptual Presence

Launch of the new research project Mapping Perceptual Presence.

13 May 2024, 14:15-16:00

Distributed affect and deep place knowledge

CFS lecture by John Sutton, University of Stirling & Macquarie University.

12 June - 14 June 2024

The significance of the second person

Participation by invitation only.

11 Sept. - 12 Sept. 2024

Singularity and the We

An interdisciplinary workshop co-organized with Rasmus Dyring (AU).

25 Sept. 2024, 10:15-12:00

Collective attention

CFS Lecture by Carolyn Jennings, Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Merced, USA

10 Oct. - 11 Oct. 2024

Social Phenomenology

Conference on social phenomenology jointly organized by CFS and CARP (Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology).

24 Oct. 2024, 13:15-15:40

Identities and Imaginaries in Far-Right Cultural Critique

Seminar.

14 Nov. - 15 Nov. 2024

United We Stand: National consolidation in the case of Ukraine

This workshop will focus on the concepts of collective identity, nationalism, national communities, Ukrainian national history, and the Russian-Ukrainian war.

12 Dec. 2024, 14:15-17:00

Sharing and propagating a cultural world

CFS workshop featuring Michael Schnegg (Anthropology, University of Hamburg) and Andrew Inkpin (Philosophy, University of Melbourne)

30 Jan. - 31 Jan. 2025

Copenhagen Winter School in Phenomenology

PhD course on social phenomenology

17 Feb. 2025, 14:15-17:00

Nordic Workshop in Phenomenology

CFS Workshop on phenomenology

27 Mar. 2025, 13:00

Subjectivity and Sociality

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Mette Vesterager.

22 Apr. 2025, 13:00-16:00

What is distinctive about the Second Person?

Public Defence of PhD Thesis by Julia Zaenker.

24 Apr. - 25 Apr. 2025

Intersubjectivity and Collective Memory

Workshop.

2 May 2025, 13:15-15:00

The Warrior Ethos and The Spirit of Nationalism

CSGN talk by Professor Sinisa Malesevic (University College Dublin).

2 May 2025, 15:15-17:00

I and We: Sedimented Consciousness and Generativity

CFS lecture by Saulius Geniusas, Professor of Philosophy, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

9 May 2025, 15:15-17:00

When Death Comes

CFS Lecture by Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada

12 May 2025, 10:15-12:00

The Subject of Time

CFS Lecture by Evan Thompson, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, Canada

22 May - 23 May 2025

Sense of Reality

Workshop on the Sense of Reality.

26 May 2025, 14:15-16:00

Ontology and Social Science Theories: The Case of Group Formation

CFS lecture by Patrik Aspers, Professor of Sociology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

25 Aug. - 29 Aug. 2025

Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind

Annual event organized by the Center of Subjectivity Research and co-funded by the PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

25 Aug. 2025

Copenhagen Summer School in Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind

Annual event organized by the Center of Subjectivity Research and co-funded by the PhD School at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

17 Sept. 2025, 16:15-18:00

The “Secular” We vs. The “Religious” We: On Nationalist Theopolitics

CFS lecture by Yaacov Yadgar, Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies at the University of Oxford, UK.

22 Oct. 2025, 14:15-16:00

Scaffolding Social Freedom: Structural Supports for Intersubjective Autonomy

CFS lecture by Joel Anderson, Professor of Moral Psychology & Social Philosophy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands