Past Telos Conferences
The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute has been holding annual conferences in New York City since 2006. The Institute also sponsors individual conferences and symposia throughout the world. Below you will find links to the conference programs (in PDF format) from our previous conferences.
Forms of War
March 31–April 1, 2023
New York, NY
Conference program
Marking Telos 200: The New Politics of Class
October 14–15, 2022
New York, NY
Conference program
Civilizational States and Liberal Empire—Bound to Collide?
April 1–3, 2022
New York, NY
Conference program
After the Welfare State: Reconceiving Mutual Aid
February 15–16, 2020
New York, NY
Conference program
Europe’s Constitutional Challenges as a Problem of Culture
June 20–21, 2019
Berlin, Germany
Conference website
Political Theology Today as Critical Theory of the Contemporary: Reason, Religion, Humanism
February 15–17, 2019
New York, NY
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The Endurance of Empire
August 31–September 2, 2018
Ragusa, Sicily
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Constitutional Theory as Cultural Problem: Global Perspectives
February 16–18, 2018
New York, NY
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After the End of Revolution: Constitutional Order amid the Crisis of Democracy
September 1–2, 2017
Higher School of Economics
Moscow, Russia
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Asymmetrical Warfare: The Centrality of the Political to the Strategic
January 14–15, 2017
New York, NY
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Democracy and Secular Sectarianism
November 17–18, 2016
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi, India
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Sacrifice: Biological and Theological Investigations for Economic and Military/Political Praxis—Conceptualizations, Categories, Applications, and Abuses
June 16–17, 2016
Humboldt University-Berlin, Theologische Fakultät
Berlin, Germany
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Beyond Nostalgia: Ethics, Politics, and the Critique of Modernity
January 16–17, 2016
New York, NY
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The Concept of the People and Consumer Society
September 18–21, 2015
Southwest University, Chongqing, China
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Universal History, Philosophical History, and the Fate of Humanity
February 13–15, 2015
New York, NY
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December 4–7, 2014
Irvine, California
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The Idea of Europe
September 5–8, 2014
L'Aquila, Italy
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Cosmopolitanism and China: Toward a Literary (Re)Construction
August 21, 2014
Beijing, China
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Reconceiving Naturalism: The Speculative Challenge
April 26–27, 2014
Melbourne, Australia
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The Difficulty of Democracy: Diagnoses and Prognoses
February 14–16, 2014
New York City
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Religion and Politics in a Post-Secular World
February 15–17, 2013
New York, NY
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The West: Its Legacy and Future
September 7–9, 2012
L'Aquila, Italy
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Space: Virtuality, Territoriality, Relationality
January 14–15, 2012
New York, NY
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Rituals of Exchange and States of Exception:
Continuity and Crisis in Politics and Economics
January 15–16, 2011
New York, NY
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From Lifeworld to Biopolitics: Empire in the Age of Obama
January 16–17, 2010
New York, NY
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New Administration: War, Class and Critical Theory
January 17–18, 2009
New York, NY
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After the Revolution: 1968 and Today
January 19, 2008
New York, NY
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The 2007 Telos Conference
January 13, 2007
New York, NY
Conference program
The 2006 Telos Conference
January 14, 2006
New York, NY
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