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Upcoming Events
China Keywords: Webinar 5: Information Sovereignty (November 18, 2024) Political Economy and the Good Life: The 2024 Postliberalism Conference (December 13–14, 2024) The 2025 Telos Conference in New York City: China Keywords (March 21–22, 2025)
Recent Events
The 2024 Telos Conference in New York City: Democracy Today? The 2023 Telos Conference in New York City: Forms of War Marking Telos 200: The New Politics of Class The 2022 Telos Conference in New York City: Civilizational States and Liberal Empire—Bound to Collide? Telos Zoom Symposium: The Place of Truth at the University Telos Zoom Discussion: Causes and Consequences of the U.S. Failure in Afghanistan The 2020 Telos Conference in New York City: After the Welfare State: Reconceiving Mutual Aid The 2019 Telos Berlin Conference: Europe’s Constitutional Challenges as a Problem of Culture The 2019 Telos Conference: Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism The 2018 Telos Israel Conference: Asymmetricality, the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict, and Abrahamic Peace The 2018 Telos Europe Conference in Italy: The Endurance of Empire Fifty Years of Telos: 50th Anniversary Event in New York City Earlier Conferences

Calls for Papers

The 2025 Annual Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference in New York: China Keywords / 中国关键词
Please see the call for papers for details about the conference and submissions guidelines. The deadline for proposals is September 1, 2024.

Reckoning with October 7: Israel, Hamas, and the Problem of Critical Theory
Please see the call for papers for details about the conference.
The deadline for submissions is June 1, 2024.

Past Calls for Papers

Gender and Sexuality: Beyond Liberation and Repression
Please see the call for papers for details about the theme.
Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2024.

The Place of Truth at the University: A Telos Zoom Symposium
Please see the call for papers for details about the theme.
Deadline for submissions is October 22, 2021.

The 2022 Annual Telos-Paul Piccone Institute Conference in New York Civilizational States and Liberal Empire—Bound to Collide?
Please see the call for papers for details about the conference theme.
Deadline for abstract submissions is March 15, 2021.

Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary:
Reason, Religion, Humanism

Please refer to our conference description for details about the theme.
Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2019.

Europe's Constitutional Challenges as a Problem of Culture
Please refer to our conference description for details about the theme.
Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2019.

After the Welfare State: Reconceiving Mutual Aid
Please refer to our conference description for details about the theme.
Deadline for submissions is September 1, 2020.









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