Husserl Archives Leuven

12/06/2026

The Husserl Archives Leuven is pleased to invite you to the upcoming conference on the new edition of Husserl’s Ideas II:

OLD NEW IDEAS II
Lived Experience, Attitudes, and the Sciences

📅 16–18 June 2026
📍 Hollands College, Leuven
Pater Damiaanplein 9, 3000 Leuven

The full program is available here:
https://hiw.kuleuven.be/hua/events/upcoming-events/old-new-ideas-ii

If you would like to attend remotely, please feel free to contact:
[email protected]

FULL PROGRAM
OLD NEW IDEAS II
Lived Experience, Attitudes, and the Sciences

TUESDAY, 16 JUNE 2026

09:45–10:15
Welcome and Introduction
Emanuele Caminada (KU Leuven)

10:15–11:30
Elementare Hermeneutik in Husserls Ideen II. Ein Versuch zur Systematisierung
Dieter Lohmar (University of Cologne)

11:30–11:45
Coffee Break

11:45–12:30
From Head to Toe: Husserl’s Model of Embodied Historiographic Understanding in Ideas II and Its Blind Spots
Philipp Battermann (University of Cologne)

12:30–14:00
Lunch Break

14:00–15:15
On Methods (TBC)
Sara Heinämaa (University of Jyväskylä)

15:15–16:00
Style et motivation chez Husserl. Un héritage contrarié des Ideen II ?
Adnen Jday (UCLouvain)

16:00–16:30
Coffee Break

16:30–18:00
Reading Seminar
Selected Sections of the New Edition of Ideen II: Thematische Ausarbeitungen zu den H-Bl.
Julia Jansen (KU Leuven)

WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2026

09:30–10:45
The Personal Self in Light of Husserl’s Ideas II
Jagna Brudzinska (Polish Academy of Sciences)

10:45–11:30
The “Open Essence” of the Ego: The Different Meanings of This Essential Openness
Irene Breuer (University of Wuppertal)

11:30–11:45
Coffee Break

11:45–13:00
What Could Edith Stein Have Done Better with the “Ideas II” Project? Husserl, Landgrebe, and Biemel as Improvers
Thomas Vongehr (KU Leuven)

13:00–14:00
Lunch Break

14:00–15:15
From Expressive Embodiment to Spiritualized Objects: Re-reading Husserl’s Ideas II in Light of the New Edition
Francesco Valerio Tommasi (Sapienza University of Rome)

15:15–16:00
Embodiment, Motivation, and Latency: Rethinking the Unconscious in Husserl’s Ideas II
Nicolò De Gregorio (Roma Tre University)

16:00–16:30
Coffee Break

16:30–18:00
Reading Seminar
Selected Sections of the New Edition of Ideen II: Thematische Ausarbeitung Nr. 1, §3–4 (Hua IV–V, 349–356)
Rudolf Bernet (KU Leuven)

19:00
Conference Dinner

THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 2026

09:30–10:45
Husserl’s and Stein’s Social Ontology and Its Roots in Ideas II
Francesca De Vecchi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan)

10:45–11:30
The Role of Normal Practices for the Objectivity of Spiritual Meanings: Husserlian Reflections
Julian Lünser (University of Cologne / KU Leuven)

11:30–11:45
Coffee Break

11:45–12:30
Energy and Objectivity: Phenomenological Foundations of Classical Physics in Ideas II
Miguel Miret (Utrecht University)

12:30–14:00
Lunch Break

14:00–15:15
Husserl’s Method of Controlled Change of Attitude
Emanuele Caminada (KU Leuven)

15:15–16:00
Genetic Dimensions of Attitudes in Ideas II
Gabriel Barroso (KU Leuven)

16:00–16:30
Coffee Break

16:30–17:30
Closing Remarks and Perspectives on digitalHusserl

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
For Early Career Researchers and Doctoral Candidates

📅 Monday, 15 June 2026 (preceding the conference)

13:00–13:15
Welcome

13:15–14:00
The Constitution of the Objective Material Thing and of the Spatial World: Between Ding und Raum and Ideen II
Andrea Bauckneht (University of London)

14:00–14:45
The Twofold Concept of the Person in Ideas II: A Response to Heidegger’s Critique of Husserl’s Transcendental-Constitutive Phenomenology
Fangzhou Ren (KU Leuven)

14:45–15:30
Meanings Lost and Found: A Phenomenologist’s Response to Churchland’s Neurophilosophy of Conscience
Ha-Young Lee (KU Leuven)

15:30–16:00
Coffee Break

16:00–16:45
Leiblichkeit und Raumkonstitution in Husserls Ideen II: Von lokalisierten Empfindnissen zur Urerde (im Anschluss an Marc Richir)
Seong Kyeong Joung (University of Wuppertal)

16:45–17:30
The Phenomenology of Home: Shared Selfhood, Homeworld, and Generativity after Husserl
Hye Young Kim (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

11/06/2026

Volume 244 of the Phaenomenologica, published by the Husserl Archives in Leuven! Marco Cavallaro on the systematic role of theory of science for Husserlian phenomenology, with many lesser known sources. Enjoy!

https://link.springer.com/book/9783032110169?fbclid=IwY2xjawSXVAFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeikP8t08V0T7QKELDWzY3sxwJgBSrBZjR0NEp9w6YtwSiW17zxWxM9Z3LdWk_aem_6cgaPqcieYrq0nnZdFiYkA -information

This book offers the first systematic presentation of Edmund Husserl’s program for a theory of science (Wissenschaftslehre).

01/05/2026

It is our pleasure to invite you to an upcoming workshop on Husserl and Sellars - registration is free, and talks and responses will be livestreamed.

Workshop: Husserl, Sellars, Intentionality
12 May 2026 | KU Leuven

The workshop brings together two philosophical traditions that have had remarkably little to say to each other, given how much they share. Its guiding concern is to explore what the resources of Husserl’s and Sellars’ philosophies, taken together, can contribute to a theory of intentionality, the relationship of lifeworld and scientific theory, and what transcendental method still has to offer the philosophy of mind, including its more naturalistically inclined variants.

The format follows a Collective Research model. Junior researchers, mid-career scholars, and established figures are invited to pool their expertise rather than perform it.

Attendance is free but registration is required for in-person or remote attendance. The registration form is open until 11th May 2026.
Further information: https://husserl-sellars-intentionality.pages.dev

Programme
09:45-10:00 Agnė Valatkaitė - Welcome
10:00-11:30 Gregor Bös [Leuven] - Husserl’s Lifeworld-Foundation of Science and Sellars’ Grain Argument
Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 Luz Christopher Seiberth [Potsdam] - Accepting First Principles
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Agnė Valatkaitė [Leuven] - Grounding Material Inference: Varieties of Evidence and Subjunctive Robustness of Intentional Content
Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Alexander Porto [Duquesne] - We-Intentions and I-Intentions

Respondents:
Emanuele Caminada
Sybren Heyndels
Julia Jansen
Batoul Sukkar
Henning Tegtmeyer

This workshop is funded by the Husserl Archives, the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the Doctoral School of Philosophy at KU Leuven.

27/04/2026

REMINDER! Deadline: Thursday, April 30, 2026

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — Old New Ideas II: Lived Experiences, Attitudes, and Sciences

🗓 Submission deadline: April 30, 2026
June 16–18, 2026
Husserl Archives, KU Leuven

in collaboration with the Husserl Archives in Cologne, Freiburg, and Paris, and the Centre d’études phénoménologiques UCLouvain

Thanks to the 2025 edition of the second volume of "Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy" (Hua IV/V), based on Husserl’s original drafts, it is possible to reconsider the genesis and philosophical project of a work that is central both to the development of the phenomenological method and to the history of twentieth-century philosophy.

The conference aims to promote discussion of the most important aspects revealed by the different textual levels: what can be gleaned from Husserl’s original drafts, what the actual contribution of Edith Stein’s editing was, how Husserl took a position on Stein’s editing and on his own texts, how the 1952 edition (Hua IV and V) by Ludwig Landgrebe and Marly Biemel mediated access to Husserl’s project, and what new lines of research may emerge from a reconsideration of Ideas II.

A central aim of the conference is to assess the new edition of Ideas II from various perspectives and thereby to reappraise its key conceptual and methodological role within Husserl’s phenomenology, within the phenomenological project more broadly, and in its interactions with the natural and human sciences.

📄 The full Call for Abstracts is attached.

Please feel free to share with colleagues and interested researchers.

03/04/2026

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — Old New Ideas II: Lived Experiences, Attitudes, and Sciences

🗓 Submission deadline: April 30, 2026

June 16–18, 2026
Husserl Archives, KU Leuven
in collaboration with the Husserl Archives in Cologne, Freiburg, and Paris, and the Centre d’études phénoménologiques UCLouvain

Thanks to the 2025 edition of the second volume of "Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy" (Hua IV/V), based on Husserl’s original drafts, it is possible to reconsider the genesis and philosophical project of a work that is central both to the development of the phenomenological method and to the history of twentieth-century philosophy.

The conference aims to promote discussion of the most important aspects revealed by the different textual levels: what can be gleaned from Husserl’s original drafts, what the actual contribution of Edith Stein’s editing was, how Husserl took a position on Stein’s editing and on his own texts, how the 1952 edition (Hua IV and V) by Ludwig Landgrebe and Marly Biemel mediated access to Husserl’s project, and what new lines of research may emerge from a reconsideration of Ideas II.

A central aim of the conference is to assess the new edition of Ideas II from various perspectives and thereby to reappraise its key conceptual and methodological role within Husserl’s phenomenology, within the phenomenological project more broadly, and in its interactions with the natural and human sciences.

📄 The full Call for Abstracts is attached.

Please feel free to share with colleagues and interested researchers.