Events

November 6th, 2026

Workshop: Parenthood between Continental and Analytical Philosophy 

With: Eva-Maria Aigner, ELTE Budapest // Teresa Baron, University of Nottingham // Johannes Drerup, TU Dortmund  // Anca Gheaus, Central European University // Anne Sophie Meincke, University of Klagenfurt // Maren Wehrle, Erasmus University // Fiona Woollard, University of Southampton 

Organiser: Dylan Trigg 

Time & Place: November 6th, at Central European University, Vienna, Quellenstrasse 51 | B-421

Registration here. 

Program 

09:45 – 10:00 Introduction
Dylan Trigg, Central European University Vienna

10:00 – 10:45 Teresa Baron, University of Nottingham
“Gender, parenthood, and the analytic project”

10:45 – 11:30 Fiona Woollard, University of Southampton
“Messy Realities, Useful Distinctions: What Parenthood Taught an Analytic Philosopher”

11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break

11:45 – 12:30 Anca Gheaus, Central European University Vienna
“Socialist childhoods”

12:30 – 13:15 Johannes Drerup, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
“It’s the structure, stupid!? On some critiques of liberalism in family ethics”

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch

14:15 – 15:00 Anne Sophie Meincke, University of Klagenfurt
“Pregnancy as Agency”

15:00 – 15:45 Julia López García, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
“Manufacturing Life: Birth and Technology in the 21st Century”

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 16:45 Maren Wehrle, Erasmus University Rotterdam
“Don’t take this for granted. Parenthood between Lived and Represented Normality”

16:45 – 17:30 Eva-Maria Aigner, ELTE Budapest
“Is it simple to be parents in academic philosophy?”

17:30 Close

November 2025

Workshop: Parenthood as Transformative 

With: Anca Gheaus (Central European University) // Line Ryberg Ingerslev (University of Copenhagen) // Cornelia Schadler (University of Vienna) // Claudia Serban (Université Toulouse) // Heidi Wilm (Independent Philosopher, Vienna) // Fiona Woollard (University of Southampton) 

Organiser: Dylan Trigg 

Time & Place: November 7th, at Central European University, Vienna, Quellenstrasse 51 | D-002 Tiered 

Registration here. 

Program 

10:00—10:15 Welcome & Introduction

10:15—11:00: Fiona Woollard (University of Southampton)—"Parental Duties as Transformative: How duties to engage with our children’s interests change us”

11:00—11:45: Anca Gheaus (Central European University)—"What is the place of adults' interests in a child-centred account of childrearing?”

11:45—12:00: Coffee break

12:00—12:45: Claudia Serban (University of Toulouse)—"The Joys of Parenthood?"

12:45—14:00: Lunch

14:00—14:45: Heidi Wilm (Independent Philosopher, Vienna)—"Rhythms of Becoming: Explorations into Pregnancy with Merleau-Ponty”

14:45—15:30: Cornelia Schadler (University of Vienna): “Maybe, maybe, maybe: the production of parenthood while phasing in and out of pregnancy”

15:30—15:45: Coffee break

15:45—16:30: Line Ryberg Ingerslev (University of Copenhagen)—"Rediscovering the Past: Memory in the Context of Transformative Experiences"