Sara Heinämaa: keynote at The Future as a Present Concern – Online Sept 2021

Heinämaa’s keynote paper is titled ‘Phenomenology as Vocation: A Project Instituted by the Will for a Future’. Abstract out now.

Registration CLOSES SOON for the online international conference between the National University of Ireland Galway, The Irish Philosophical Society, and the British Society for Phenomenology. Six exceptional keynotes and some 70 panel speakers.

Prof. Sara Heinämaa will be a keynote speaker at ‘The Future as a Present Concern’, Online, 1-3 September 2021. Heinämaa is Academy Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy / Yhteiskuntatieteiden ja filosofian laitos, University of Jyväskylä / Jyväskylän yliopisto, Finland / Suomi. Her keynote paper for this year’s conference is titled ‘Phenomenology as Vocation: A Project Instituted by the Will for a Future’.

Read Sara Heinämaa’s abstract for ‘Phenomenology as Vocation: A Project Instituted by the Will for a Future’

The Future as a Present Concern (FPC2021) explores the question of the future from phenomenological and other philosophical perspectives. There will be papers on various aspects of this question, whether ontological, ethical, aesthetical, epistemological, and in relation to political theory, gender theory, critical race theory, ecology, philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, and analytic philosophy.

For more information on the conference, including format and registration, check out the FPC2021 website. Registration closes Sunday 22 August 2021.