The network organizes annually Congresses for Doctoral Researchers in Philosophy.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The 2026 Congress for Doctoral Researchers in Philosophy in Tampere University.
Mon 14 – Wed 16 December 2026
NOTICE: We were forced to postpone the timing of the congress from October to December!
The congress will be organized as a two or three day event depending on the amount of accepted presentations. The abstract should include the title of the presentation together with the name, affiliation, and e-mail address of the participant. The name(s) of the supervisor(s) of the dissertation should also be indicated. Send your one page abstract via e-mail to tommi.vehkavaara@tuni.fi at the latest 1 June 2026.
The format of the congress is the following:
- About 40 min. slots (20 min talk + 20 min discussion) for each individual speaker.
- Recruitment of competent supervisors/commentators.
- No parallel sessions.
- All the participants will be accommodated by the organizer
- Congress dinner (Mon or Tue evening)
Besides the abstract, the participant must submit also the full paper later upon registration (after the notification of acceptance), and it should be 10-12 pages in length, and presentable in about 20 minutes. The main function of the full paper is to provide material for the commentator for the preparation of comments. The full paper should thus be a readable text, but not necessarily ready for publication yet. It is sent only to the commentator.
Both the accepted abstract and the registration with a full paper are required for the participation in the congress!
The presentations can be given either in English or in Finnish, but the use of English is strongly encouraged.
Important Dates and Deadlines:
1 June 2026 Submission of one-page abstracts
10 June 2026 Notification of acceptance
30 November 2026 Registration with full papers (10-12 pages)
14–16 December 2026 The congress itself
Abstracts: TBA
Program: TBA
Congress Venue: Tampere University (main campus), Main building (Päätalo) Lecture room C8
Getting there. Map of Campus Area
Accommodation: Hotel Scandic Postitalo, Rautatienkatu 21, 33100, Tampere
Congress dinner: TBA
Instructions to the chairs (may be useful to presenters too).
Possible credits are to be negotiated by the doctoral researchers themselves at their own units.
The abstracts and papers (and all questions) should be sent via e-mail to tommi.vehkavaara@tuni.fi
PAST CONGRESSES
The first nine congresses were held October 2016-2025 in Tampere, each as a three day event (Mon-Wed) with 17 to 28 presentations. In 2020 the congress was cancelled because of the COVID-19.