INTERNATIONAL HERBERT MARCUSE SOCIETY 

The eleventh (11th) biennial conference of the International Herbert Marcuse Society was held at York University's Founders College in Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, December 4-7, 2025. Beginning in 2005, with its first conference organized by Professor Arnold L. Farr, at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia, the Marcuse Society has held biennial conferences every other year; moreover, during this time, the Marcuse Society has sponsored numerous scholarly events, projects, and programs, including a celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, held in 2014, at Columbia University's Butler Library, which, in 2025, became the home of the Douglas Kellner Archive. 

The Marcuse Society's 2025 biennial conference was entitled "CRITICAL LEGACIES," as a major focus of this conference was the examination of the significant contributions of Douglas Kellner, Andrew Feenberg, and Charles Reitz—who, for decades, have illuminated and extended the critical legacy of Herbert Marcuse. 

The Marcuse Society's three officers, Imaculada (Leca) Kangussu, Robert Kirsch, and Andrew Lamas, as well as past officer and current Board member, Terry Maley, and Marcuse Society PhD Postdoctoral Fellow Maor Levitin served as the 2025 conference organizing committee. 

The 2025 conference also inaugurated what we hope will become a biennial tradition—the Fellows Gathering, which was a day-long meeting of the Marcuse Society's PhD Research Fellows, Postdoctoral Fellows, and their faculty supervisors/mentors. 

This pre-conference meeting was, in a sense, an "anti-conference"—as there were no papers, no keynotes, and no formal presentations. Rather, we gathered to create intellectual community through a day of personal reflections and small group discussions—guided by the idea that by sharing what is in our heads and hearts we might generate close bonds of personal relations and enduring solidarity...and greater clarity about our responsibilites as critical intellectuals.