Husserl Archives Leuven

12/06/2026

The Husserl Archives Leuven is pleased to invite you to the upcoming conference on the new edition of Husserl’s Ideas II:

OLD NEW IDEAS II
Lived Experience, Attitudes, and the Sciences

📅 16–18 June 2026
📍 Hollands College, Leuven
Pater Damiaanplein 9, 3000 Leuven

The full program is available here:
https://hiw.kuleuven.be/hua/events/upcoming-events/old-new-ideas-ii

If you would like to attend remotely, please feel free to contact:
[email protected]

FULL PROGRAM
OLD NEW IDEAS II
Lived Experience, Attitudes, and the Sciences

TUESDAY, 16 JUNE 2026

09:45–10:15
Welcome and Introduction
Emanuele Caminada (KU Leuven)

10:15–11:30
Elementare Hermeneutik in Husserls Ideen II. Ein Versuch zur Systematisierung
Dieter Lohmar (University of Cologne)

11:30–11:45
Coffee Break

11:45–12:30
From Head to Toe: Husserl’s Model of Embodied Historiographic Understanding in Ideas II and Its Blind Spots
Philipp Battermann (University of Cologne)

12:30–14:00
Lunch Break

14:00–15:15
On Methods (TBC)
Sara Heinämaa (University of Jyväskylä)

15:15–16:00
Style et motivation chez Husserl. Un héritage contrarié des Ideen II ?
Adnen Jday (UCLouvain)

16:00–16:30
Coffee Break

16:30–18:00
Reading Seminar
Selected Sections of the New Edition of Ideen II: Thematische Ausarbeitungen zu den H-Bl.
Julia Jansen (KU Leuven)

WEDNESDAY, 17 JUNE 2026

09:30–10:45
The Personal Self in Light of Husserl’s Ideas II
Jagna Brudzinska (Polish Academy of Sciences)

10:45–11:30
The “Open Essence” of the Ego: The Different Meanings of This Essential Openness
Irene Breuer (University of Wuppertal)

11:30–11:45
Coffee Break

11:45–13:00
What Could Edith Stein Have Done Better with the “Ideas II” Project? Husserl, Landgrebe, and Biemel as Improvers
Thomas Vongehr (KU Leuven)

13:00–14:00
Lunch Break

14:00–15:15
From Expressive Embodiment to Spiritualized Objects: Re-reading Husserl’s Ideas II in Light of the New Edition
Francesco Valerio Tommasi (Sapienza University of Rome)

15:15–16:00
Embodiment, Motivation, and Latency: Rethinking the Unconscious in Husserl’s Ideas II
Nicolò De Gregorio (Roma Tre University)

16:00–16:30
Coffee Break

16:30–18:00
Reading Seminar
Selected Sections of the New Edition of Ideen II: Thematische Ausarbeitung Nr. 1, §3–4 (Hua IV–V, 349–356)
Rudolf Bernet (KU Leuven)

19:00
Conference Dinner

THURSDAY, 18 JUNE 2026

09:30–10:45
Husserl’s and Stein’s Social Ontology and Its Roots in Ideas II
Francesca De Vecchi (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan)

10:45–11:30
The Role of Normal Practices for the Objectivity of Spiritual Meanings: Husserlian Reflections
Julian Lünser (University of Cologne / KU Leuven)

11:30–11:45
Coffee Break

11:45–12:30
Energy and Objectivity: Phenomenological Foundations of Classical Physics in Ideas II
Miguel Miret (Utrecht University)

12:30–14:00
Lunch Break

14:00–15:15
Husserl’s Method of Controlled Change of Attitude
Emanuele Caminada (KU Leuven)

15:15–16:00
Genetic Dimensions of Attitudes in Ideas II
Gabriel Barroso (KU Leuven)

16:00–16:30
Coffee Break

16:30–17:30
Closing Remarks and Perspectives on digitalHusserl

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP
For Early Career Researchers and Doctoral Candidates

📅 Monday, 15 June 2026 (preceding the conference)

13:00–13:15
Welcome

13:15–14:00
The Constitution of the Objective Material Thing and of the Spatial World: Between Ding und Raum and Ideen II
Andrea Bauckneht (University of London)

14:00–14:45
The Twofold Concept of the Person in Ideas II: A Response to Heidegger’s Critique of Husserl’s Transcendental-Constitutive Phenomenology
Fangzhou Ren (KU Leuven)

14:45–15:30
Meanings Lost and Found: A Phenomenologist’s Response to Churchland’s Neurophilosophy of Conscience
Ha-Young Lee (KU Leuven)

15:30–16:00
Coffee Break

16:00–16:45
Leiblichkeit und Raumkonstitution in Husserls Ideen II: Von lokalisierten Empfindnissen zur Urerde (im Anschluss an Marc Richir)
Seong Kyeong Joung (University of Wuppertal)

16:45–17:30
The Phenomenology of Home: Shared Selfhood, Homeworld, and Generativity after Husserl
Hye Young Kim (École Normale Supérieure, Paris)

11/06/2026

Volume 244 of the Phaenomenologica, published by the Husserl Archives in Leuven! Marco Cavallaro on the systematic role of theory of science for Husserlian phenomenology, with many lesser known sources. Enjoy!

https://link.springer.com/book/9783032110169?fbclid=IwY2xjawSXVAFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeikP8t08V0T7QKELDWzY3sxwJgBSrBZjR0NEp9w6YtwSiW17zxWxM9Z3LdWk_aem_6cgaPqcieYrq0nnZdFiYkA -information

This book offers the first systematic presentation of Edmund Husserl’s program for a theory of science (Wissenschaftslehre).

01/05/2026

It is our pleasure to invite you to an upcoming workshop on Husserl and Sellars - registration is free, and talks and responses will be livestreamed.

Workshop: Husserl, Sellars, Intentionality
12 May 2026 | KU Leuven

The workshop brings together two philosophical traditions that have had remarkably little to say to each other, given how much they share. Its guiding concern is to explore what the resources of Husserl’s and Sellars’ philosophies, taken together, can contribute to a theory of intentionality, the relationship of lifeworld and scientific theory, and what transcendental method still has to offer the philosophy of mind, including its more naturalistically inclined variants.

The format follows a Collective Research model. Junior researchers, mid-career scholars, and established figures are invited to pool their expertise rather than perform it.

Attendance is free but registration is required for in-person or remote attendance. The registration form is open until 11th May 2026.
Further information: https://husserl-sellars-intentionality.pages.dev

Programme
09:45-10:00 Agnė Valatkaitė - Welcome
10:00-11:30 Gregor Bös [Leuven] - Husserl’s Lifeworld-Foundation of Science and Sellars’ Grain Argument
Coffee Break
12:00-13:30 Luz Christopher Seiberth [Potsdam] - Accepting First Principles
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Agnė Valatkaitė [Leuven] - Grounding Material Inference: Varieties of Evidence and Subjunctive Robustness of Intentional Content
Coffee Break
16:30-18:00 Alexander Porto [Duquesne] - We-Intentions and I-Intentions

Respondents:
Emanuele Caminada
Sybren Heyndels
Julia Jansen
Batoul Sukkar
Henning Tegtmeyer

This workshop is funded by the Husserl Archives, the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, and the Doctoral School of Philosophy at KU Leuven.

27/04/2026

REMINDER! Deadline: Thursday, April 30, 2026

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — Old New Ideas II: Lived Experiences, Attitudes, and Sciences

🗓 Submission deadline: April 30, 2026
June 16–18, 2026
Husserl Archives, KU Leuven

in collaboration with the Husserl Archives in Cologne, Freiburg, and Paris, and the Centre d’études phénoménologiques UCLouvain

Thanks to the 2025 edition of the second volume of "Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy" (Hua IV/V), based on Husserl’s original drafts, it is possible to reconsider the genesis and philosophical project of a work that is central both to the development of the phenomenological method and to the history of twentieth-century philosophy.

The conference aims to promote discussion of the most important aspects revealed by the different textual levels: what can be gleaned from Husserl’s original drafts, what the actual contribution of Edith Stein’s editing was, how Husserl took a position on Stein’s editing and on his own texts, how the 1952 edition (Hua IV and V) by Ludwig Landgrebe and Marly Biemel mediated access to Husserl’s project, and what new lines of research may emerge from a reconsideration of Ideas II.

A central aim of the conference is to assess the new edition of Ideas II from various perspectives and thereby to reappraise its key conceptual and methodological role within Husserl’s phenomenology, within the phenomenological project more broadly, and in its interactions with the natural and human sciences.

📄 The full Call for Abstracts is attached.

Please feel free to share with colleagues and interested researchers.

03/04/2026

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS — Old New Ideas II: Lived Experiences, Attitudes, and Sciences

🗓 Submission deadline: April 30, 2026

June 16–18, 2026
Husserl Archives, KU Leuven
in collaboration with the Husserl Archives in Cologne, Freiburg, and Paris, and the Centre d’études phénoménologiques UCLouvain

Thanks to the 2025 edition of the second volume of "Ideas Pertaining to a Pure Phenomenology and to a Phenomenological Philosophy" (Hua IV/V), based on Husserl’s original drafts, it is possible to reconsider the genesis and philosophical project of a work that is central both to the development of the phenomenological method and to the history of twentieth-century philosophy.

The conference aims to promote discussion of the most important aspects revealed by the different textual levels: what can be gleaned from Husserl’s original drafts, what the actual contribution of Edith Stein’s editing was, how Husserl took a position on Stein’s editing and on his own texts, how the 1952 edition (Hua IV and V) by Ludwig Landgrebe and Marly Biemel mediated access to Husserl’s project, and what new lines of research may emerge from a reconsideration of Ideas II.

A central aim of the conference is to assess the new edition of Ideas II from various perspectives and thereby to reappraise its key conceptual and methodological role within Husserl’s phenomenology, within the phenomenological project more broadly, and in its interactions with the natural and human sciences.

📄 The full Call for Abstracts is attached.

Please feel free to share with colleagues and interested researchers.

24/12/2025

We are deeply saddened by the death, on the 4th of December, of Claire Ortiz Hill. We most recently collaborated with her personally on her translation of Husserl's 1917-18 Lectures on "Logic and General Theory of Science" (Hua 30), which was published in 2019. Claire was widely known for her excellent translations of Husserl’s logical works and pursued them with determination and self-lessness, but her own work also stands out, strong and clear. She published in 2024 her final great investigation "Experience and the Ultimate Structure of Reality: Husserl’s Pursuit of Truth." Her many publications included several books on Husserlian philosophy, logic, and mathematics, for example, "The Road Not Taken: On Husserl’s Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics" (2013); "Husserl or Frege?: Meaning, Objectivity, and Mathematics" (2000); and "Word and Object in Husserl, Frege, and Russell: The Roots of Twentieth-Century Philosophy" (1991). We have lost an exceptionally independent thinker and person, and an important voice that we will greatly miss.

28/09/2025

Volume 23 of the New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy is now out!

Volume XXIII Special Issue 1: Phenomenology and the Frankfurt School Special Issue 2: A book discussion (E. Trizio, Philosophy’s Nature: Husserl’s Phenomenology, Natural Science, and Metaphysics) Aim and Scope: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual...

10/09/2025

We are excited to announce the long-awaited publication of the new critical edition of Husserl's drafts for the second book of Ideas! Watch this space for related upcoming events.

This installation of the Gesammelte Werke is the first edition of Ideas II as Edmund Husserl himself would've wanted it to be designed.

25/07/2025

Everybody needs a holiday some time! - The Husserl Archives are closed for the summer break until August 15. During that time, no tours or research assistance are possible. We are looking forward to welcoming you again when we are back!

02/06/2025

📢 𝐔𝐩𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩

We re delighted to invite you to the upcoming 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 - 𝐏𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐈𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐲: 𝐎𝐥𝐝-𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐬 taking place at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities Cologne.

🗓 05.06.2025
📍 a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for Humanities Cologne
3rd floor "Skyfall"
Aachener Str. 217
50931 Cologne

𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦
10:00-11:00
𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 & 𝐂𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐝 (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠)
Project Presentation: Communities of Dialogue: Russian and Ukrainian Émigrés in Modernist Prague

11:15-12:15
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐨 & 𝐒𝐚𝐫𝐚 𝐃𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐨 (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐞):
Project Presentation: Italian Phenomenology: Receptions, Constellations and Vanishing Points of Phenomenology in Italy, from Banfi to the Present Day

14:00-14:45
𝐄𝐤𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐚 (𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐲𝐤 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐳𝐞𝐜𝐡 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬):
The Critique of Phenomenology in the Italian and Prague Logos: The Strategy of Boris Jakovenko in Constructing National Identity in Exile

14:45-15:30
𝐏𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐠):
Phenomenological Aesthetics: a Central European and Italian Affair

15:45-16:30
𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐨 𝐂𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐨 (𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐞):
Paci in Prague: Husserl meets Marx

𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩
Phenomenology is often mapped through its canonical centers—Freiburg, Paris, Leuven. Yet what happens when we shift the focus toward its so-called margins? This international workshop undertakes a philosophical remapping and turns to two regions that are rarely considered central nodes of the phenomenological
movement, but are nevertheless deeply influenced by it: and .

Although Prague and Italy seem to have little in common at first glance, the history of phenomenology tells a more complex story. Figures of thought such as Jan Patočka, Enzo Paci, Boris Jakovenko and Antonio Banfi are just some of the thinkers who have drawn surprising lines of connection across linguistic, cultural and political boundaries. The aim of the workshop is to make these lesser-known paths visible and to critically question the often marginalized classification of these intellectual spaces.
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