47^th Annual KJSNA Meetings
2026

Winter 2026	Eastern Division	January 10,2026 Baltimore, MD Marriott Waterfront
Winter 2026	Sonoma State U.	March 6, 2026 Rohnert Park, California
Spring 2026	Legacy of Karl Jaspers	May 8, 2026
Summer 2026	Weber and Jaspers	June 29, 2026
Summer 2026	Periechontologie	2. und 3. Juli 2026

 

APA 122^nd EASTERN DIVISION ANNUAL MEETING (Baltimore, Maryland)

January 7 - 10, 2026

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SESSION ONE

Karl Jaspers and His Contemporaries on Solidarity I

Chair: Alexander Crist (Pensacola State College)

Presenters:

Michael Deckard (Lenoir-Rhyne University)
The Cartesian Abyss: Scientific Method and the Spiritual Situation of our Age

Marnie Binder (California State University, Sacramento)
Revisiting Ortega's "Mass-Man": The Continued Relevance Today

Magnus Ferguson (University of Chicago)
The View from Here: Neighborhood Politics and Cosmopolitan Localism

Carlin Romano (University of Pennsylvania)
Anton Hügli on Jaspers and Communication

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SESSION TWO

Karl Jaspers and His Contemporaries on Solidarity II

Chair: Carlin Romano (University of Pennsylvania)

Presenters:

Harris Bechtol (Texas A&M University, San Antonio)
Faith, Temporality, and Solidarity with the Other: Reading Heidegger and Arendt on Religion

Alexander Crist (Pensacola State College)
Karl Jaspers and Hilde Domin on Solidarity

Aspen Brinton (Virginia Commonwealth University)
Solidarity, Creativity, and Historicity: Reading Jan Patočka's "Art and Time" into the Present

 

Sonoma State University, California

Friday, March 6

10:00 am PST

SESSION THREE

Reopening the Machine Morality Debate

Chair: John P. Sullins (Sonoma State University)

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VIRTUAL ONLINE MEETINGS

Friday, May 8, 2026

SESSION FOUR

The Legacy of Karl Jaspers in Contemporary Psychopathology

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 16:00 (GMT London), 17:00 (CET, Zurich),
1:00 pm (BRT, São Paulo), 21:30 (IST, New Delhi)

Chair: Guilherme Messas (Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medical Sciences, Brazil)

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Monday, June 29, 2026

SESSION FIVE

Karl Jaspers and Max Weber

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 16:00 (GMT London), 17:00 (CET, Zurich),
1:00 pm (BRT, São Paulo), 21:30 (IST, New Delhi)

Chair: Ruth A. Burch (Ludes University, Lugano–Pazzallo, Switzerland)

Speakers:

Songül Köse Özgöçer
(Dokuz Eylul University, İzmir, Turkey)
Responsibility in the Age of Alienation: A Dialogue Between Max Weber and Karl Jaspers

Austin Harrington
(University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
Karl Jaspers, Max Weber, and the Debate about Eurocentrism in Western Thought

Suzanne Kirkbright
(Dorchester, United Kingdom)
Solitude and Friendship: Further Notes on Karl Jaspers and Max Weber

Csaba Olay
(Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary)
Science and Human Existence: Max Weber and Karl Jaspers

 

Donnerstag, 2. Juli 2026

SESSION FIVE

Die praktische Bedeutung der Periechontologie:
Philosophische Anthropologie
(The Event is held in German language)

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 16:00 (GMT London), 17:00 (CET, Zurich),
1:00 pm (BRT, São Paulo), 21:30 (IST, New Delhi)

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Freitag, 3. Juli 2026

SESSION SIX

Die praktische Bedeutung der Periechontologie:
Theologie und Metaphysik
(The Event is held in German language)

9:00 am (US Pacific), noon (US Eastern), 16:00 (GMT London), 17:00 (CET, Zurich),
1:00 pm (BRT, São Paulo), 21:30 (IST, New Delhi)

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