🗓️ 31 May — 1 June, 2026
📍 Clare Hall, University of Cambridge
📋 RSVP here for Open Session June 1st
31 May: Work-in Progress Workshop (closed session)
1 June: Invited Speaker Session (open session - please RSVP)
Aim
This conference aims to establish a sustained and systematic philosophical engagement with the city as an object of inquiry within analytic philosophy. While cities profoundly structure our social, moral, epistemic, and political lives, there has been little comprehensive philosophical treatment of the city as such. With the notable exception of Quill Kukla’s recent work—which opens an important line of inquiry while leaving significant conceptual territory unexplored—there is as yet no coordinated body of research addressing the nature, norms, and lived experience of urban life utilising tools and concepts from within analytic philosophy
⭕️ Deadline for Submission: 15 April 2026
We welcome submissions from graduate students or early-career researchers whose work draw on or engage with the city from epistemology, philosophy of mind, political theory, philosophy of religion, ancient philosophy, and postcolonial thought.
We aim to invite 3-4 speakers for 15 mins talks followed by a seminar style discussion with the invited conference speakers. If interested, please send us the following:
(1) Abstract (max. 250 words) of your contributed paper. We particularly welcome work-in-progress.
(2) Expression of Interest (max. 500 words) describing how your research fits well with the themes of the project and how you think your research can benefit from participating in this event.
Please send these using the following form: https://forms.gle/tJzpF1TFExa4ADUT9
The Architecture of Agency
Aesthetic Justice — a Cardiff City Impact Case Study
Care-washing in The Built Environment
Can Statues Make Values 'Perceptible'?
Order and Disorder in the City — Reflections on Human Agency
Heba Raouf Ezzat (Ibn Haldun)
Alice Roberts (ar945@cam.ac.uk)
Adham El Shazly (ae497@cam.ac.uk)