APRIL 28 - 30, 2025 - CEU Vienna
THEME
Hosted by the Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations; the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy; and the Department of Philosophy, the 2025 Annual Multidisciplinary Doctoral Conference at Central European University invites scholarly reflections on how futures of flourishing can be envisioned and enacted amid complex global transformations. This year’s theme, “Flourishing Futures: Rethinking Politics, Environments, and Existence”, encourages participants to interrogate and transcend entrenched frameworks, assumptions, and binaries that shape the ways we conceptualize the world and our place within it, while also opening space for empirically analyzing the mechanisms, institutional dynamics and measurable impacts of these frameworks on political, social and environmental outcomes.
This conference invites empirical, and theoretical reflections on governance structures, environmental paradigms, philosophical ideas, and particularly the boundaries and categories that have historically defined them. How do dichotomies such as reason/nature influence politics, ethics, and existence? How might they enable or hinder the possibilities for coexistence, equity, and resilience? Which new categories emerge in the current political dynamics and how do we best understand them? Can we see societies, institutions and various publics adapt to current social challenges? What alternative paradigms, practices, and methodologies can illuminate pathways toward interconnected futures that extend beyond human perspectives?
We encourage participants to engage with these inquiries, drawing from and contributing to interdisciplinary conversations that imagine a world where flourishing extends across entities, species, systems, and ideas.
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RESEARCH AREAS AND DISCIPLINES Analytic and Continental Philosophy |
METHODS Activist, Collective and Participatory Research
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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
ABSTRACTS: January 31, 2025
Abstracts should discuss the general aim of the research; how the research fits into the scholarly literature; the conceptual, theoretical, methodological or empirical approaches used; and the (preliminary) results, if applicable.
Proposals should include:
- A working title.
- An abstract of up to 500 words describing the proposed research.
- Author & co-authors full name, position, and institutional affiliations and email addresses.
- Up to three keywords.
- File name format: (SURNAME_Given Name_Institution_ADC2025).
Submission via link or to adc2025@ceu.edu for non-CEU students
PAPER SUBMISSIONS: March 31, 2025
Submissions are encouraged to actively reflect on their methodological stance and to deploy, utilise and otherwise engage with the non-exhaustive list of methods found above.
Applicants who have accepted abstracts for presentations will need to submit full conference papers by the 31st of March. The organizers will endeavour to provide a discussant for each of the accepted papers. Paper submissions should:
- Be max 8000 words.
- Include a working title; the author’s full name, position, and institutional affiliation.
- Include an abstract and three keywords.
- Be properly formatted in academic style.
- Be properly referenced in the style of the author’s choosing.
- Follow the standard file name format as for abstracts and be rendered in .docx or .pdf.
- Be submitted to to adc2025@ceu.edu
