SPEAKERS

• Call for Abstract submissions closed 15 January 2026.

• Submission review notifications (successful and unsuccessful) were sent to everyone who submitted an abstract on the morning (UK time) of 1 February 2026.

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80 SPEAKER PAPERS - TO BE CONFIRMED

There were 140 unique submissions for the BSP26 conference call for abstracts, and of these, 80 papers have been selected to be presented at the event. Speakers will be confirmed at close of the early bird  registration period, when bios and abstracts of the confirmed speakers will be published here.

• Foteini Alafouzou - Heidegger and Derrida on Self-affection, time (and) space

• Nisar Alungal Chungath - Bodies and Things: Philosophical Reflections on Material Engagement and Agency

• Pablo Andreu - Can a God Still Heal Us? Pain, Faith, and the Medical Encounter

• Marcell Bárdos - World-Disclosure in the Age of Cybernetics: Film, Mood, and the Genealogy of Total Enframement

• Aaron Bernstein - False Gods and De-Worlding: Heidegger, Stiegler, and Algorithmic Temporality

• Brig Brigham - Being-Historically-Mad: reading Heidegger's Beyng with Foucault's Unreason

• Steven Burik - Can the God come from the East? Heidegger and Daoism on Technology

• Andrew Butler - Heidegger’s Ontological Pluralism: Modes of Being, Potentiality, and the Metaphysics of Presence

• Benjamin Cail - The Late Heidegger and Artificial Intelligence: Can We Think a Non-Calculative Machine?

• Mihnea Chiujdea - Heidegger on the Three Planks of the Uncanny

• Noam Cohen - Heidegger and a Phenomenology of Drive

• Daniel Cohen - Securing the Topic of Heidegger’s Discussion of Death

• Rachel Coventry - Poetry, Parataxiis, and the Withdrawl of the Gods

• Cristina Crichton - Towards the de-deification of the human: contributions of the (dis)appearance of metontology to the question of ethics in Heidegger

• Naomi Davis - Aletheia in the Corridor: Unconcealing the ‘Coercive Mood’ of Sexual Harassment through Walking Interviews

• Jill Drouillard - The Thrust of Destiny [Geschick] in American Populist Nationalism

• Jiahui Du - The Nature of Modern Science: An Interpretation of Heidegger's "Mathematical Project"

• Marcel Dubovec - Heidegger and the Basic Disposition of Knowledge

• Richard Elliott - Spinoza’s Concept of God in Heideggerian Onto-theology

• Max K. Feenan - Cybernetics at the End of Philosophy: Heidegger, Technicity, and Dangerous Promises (Co-author / co-presenter Nathan Mulder)

• Martina Frongillo - Where Does Art Stand? Heidegger’s Question of Openness and the Stakes of Abstraction

• Rui Ge - Kierkegaard, Husserl, and Heidegger: Divine-givenness and the incomplete selfhood

• Mark Gilks - A phenomenology of war: Being-against

• Zura Gvenetadze - Sacred Re-Called

• Christos Hadjioannou - Stiegler’s interpretation of Heidegger on the saving power of Gestell and das Man

• Omar Hansali - The Saving Power of Language: Dwelling, Poetic Saying, and Responsibility in Heidegger and Eliot

• Joanna Hodge - What calls for thinking? Reading Heidegger with Jean-Luc Nancy

• Reuben Hughes - The Look of the Gods: Heideggerian Religious Experience as Limit-Situation

• Niall Keane - On Originary Action and Getting Beyond the Theory and Practice Debate

• Minna-Kerttu Kekki - Criticizing Edit Stein’s philosophy of education critical of Heidegger’s Being and Time

• Ryan Kemp - Condemned to Imagine: Heidegger, Imagination and the Crisis of Addiction Recovery (Co-author / co-presenter Georgios Petropoulos)

• Charlotte Knowles - Becoming Oneself: Towards a Heideggerian-Feminist Account of Authenticity

• Karl Kraatz - Beyond Enframing: Heidegger’s Philosophy as a Framework for AI Critique

• Jonathan Krude - How the danger can save us

• Matthew Kruger-Ross - Only Heidegger Can Save Us(?) from AI: Saying, Showing, and the Forgetfulness of Language

• Darshna Kumar - Beyond the Wordless Stone: Heidegger and Advaita Vedanta

• King-Ho Leung - Heidegger, Atheism and Existential Gratitude

• Pablo Lopez-Silva - The Porous Self and the Intersubjective Nature of Schizophrenia

• Mark Malkovich - Artificial Intelligence and the Reconfiguration of Being: From Technē and Physis to a New Ontological Threshold

• Bence Marosan - Can Dasein save itself through authentic paideia? Heidegger on education and the outlines of a Heideggerian pedagogy

• Francesco Menichetti - Heidegger and Jean-Luc Nancy: from salvation to the ecstasy of reality

• Sam Miller - The Question Concerning AI Music: Authenticity and Heidegger’s Saving Power

• Nathan Mulder - Cybernetics at the End of Philosophy: Heidegger, Technicity, and Dangerous Promises (Co-author / co-presenter Max K. Feenan)

• Christopher Myers - Between Humanism and Posthumanism: A Hermeneutic Reading of Heidegger’s Vision for the Future of Human Beings and Gods

• Laura Jane Nanni - The Porous Self: An Alternative Self-Model for Psychiatric Research

• Lutz Niemann - A Cosmopolitan ethos: Eugen Fink as a Critical Reader of Heidegger

• Felix Ó Murchadha - Attuning to the End of the World: Heidegger on Divinity, Time and Mood

• Alex Obrigewitsch - Silence is No Guardian: Heidegger, Hölderlin, Mascolo, and a “Communism of Thought”

• Charlie Oliver - Resisting the Impoverishment of the Everyday: Heideggerian Releasement as Habitual Practice for a Modern Malaise.

• Anshuman Patra - The Fate of the Metaphysical God: Heidegger’s Critique of Technology and AI in the Postmodern Era

• Georgios Petropoulos - Condemned to Imagine: Heidegger, Imagination and the Crisis of Addiction Recovery (Co-author / co-presenter Ryan Kemp)

• Matteo Pietropaoli - Heidegger and the Anthropocene. Can Only Gaia Save Us?

• Dror Pimentel - Dikē: The Violence of the Origin in Heidegger and Freud

• João Pinheiro da Silva - Dwelling in Time: Can Poetry and Myth Still Save Us?

• Erin Plunkett - "To be always waiting"

• Marek Pokropski - Husserl’s dialectic of the scientific reason

• Marlene Prosdocimo - Only a God Can Await Us: On the Heideggerian Preparation for the Appearing or the Absence of a God

• Ananya Rajoo - Enframing in the Age of Algorithms and the Relevance of Art as Site for Contemplation

• Gonçalo Reis de Carvalho - Heidegger on the ontological role of Kant's Categories

• Nataliia Reva - “Only a God Can Save Us”? War as an Ethical–Ontological Condition Beyond Politics and Law

• Paul Sandu - From Hermeneutics of Life to Ontology of Destiny: A Structural Tension in Heidegger’s Freiburg Lectures

• Gregor Schäfer - On Late Heidegger’s An-Archic Ethics

• Enrico Schirò - Seduction as De-Ontology: Baudrillard’s Hidden Dialogue with Heidegger

• Leonhard Schneider - Can Practical Self-Conceptions Still Confer Meaning? Heideggerian, Kantian, and Feminist Perspectives on Practical Identity

• Louise Shale - “The Darkening of the World Never Reaches the Light of Beyng": Reading Heidegger in a Time of War and of Coming War

• Divya Singh - The Digital They: Enframing, Homelessness, and the Evasion of Dasein in Generation Z

• Jessie Stanier - Multi-species and multi-sensory visioning: a critical-phenomenological evaluation (Co-author Phil Tovey)

• Max Steinwandel - Heidegger and Hegel: The Question of Secularisation

• Carlos Suarez Tavernier - The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Urinal

• Ole Thijs - The question concerning planetary technology

• Paul Tran-Hoang - Heidegger and Weyl on Time and the Continuum

• Nianzu Tu - The One and Its Self-Identification: A New Hermeneutic Account of das Man

• Manuel Ugalde-Duarte - Psychoanalysis and the Porous Self

• Luis Felipe Varela - Phenomenology and the Links between the Porous and Narrative Nature of the Self in Schizophrenia

• Christian Vassilev - Musical Attunement and the Opening of Ethos as Abode

• Andrea Vitangeli - Heidegger on the Promise and Limits of Kant’s Aesthetics

• Yixin Wang - Das Man, Being-with, and Authenticity in Being and Time

• Joe Ward - Heidegger and Husserl on Sache and Ding an sich: Back to the things (in) themselves?

• Jan Henrik Wasserziehr - Heidegger’s Frage nach der Technik as Immanent Critique

• Daniel Watts - Obstinate Waiting: Early Heidegger on Christian Self-Becoming'

• Scarlett Xie - The Silence of the Earth: A Heideggerian Critique of Generative AI

• Hakhamanesh Zangeneh - Decolonizing The History of Being: on Medieval Truth

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