Talks and academic events

Recent and forthcoming talks, selected invited lectures, and major academic organization. A full list is available upon request.

Tobias Endres giving a presentation at the international conference Myth and Rationality
Presentation at the international conference Myth and Rationality, JGU Mainz.

Current and forthcoming talks, 2025–2026

All listed 2025 and 2026 talks and public academic events, excluding internal or less relevant items.

  1. 8 July 2026

    “Zwischen »obligation naturelle« und »morale complète« – Cassirer als Leser Bergsons,” lecture series Aspekte des Politischen, organized by Sascha Freyberg, University of Hamburg.

  2. 3 July 2026

    “L’expression avant l’énonciation : passivité du sens et symbolique naturelle,” conference L’expression et ses phénomènes, organized by Tristan Barberousse, Luz Ascarate, and Camille Bultez, ENS Ulm, Paris.

  3. 9 June 2026

    “Nietzsche et Bergson,” Atelier Bergson 2025/26, organized by Caterina Zanfi, Tobias Endres, and Mathilde Tahar, École normale supérieure, Paris.

  4. 7 May 2026

    “Elastic Perception and Symbolic Normativity: Beyond ‘Reason in Perception’,” international conference Reason in Perception, organized by Daniel Neumann and Denis Džanić, University of Graz.

  5. 10 April 2026

    “De l’animal symbolicum au capax formae : Cassirer (1920–1945), Davos 1929, et le problème anthropologique après 1945,” research seminar Anthropologie et philosophie après 1945 (V), organized by Florence Burgat, Jean-Claude Monod, and Christian Sommer, ENS Ulm, Paris.

  6. 13 March 2026

    “Passages entre spatialités hétérogènes : le ‘problème de l’espace’ à Davos (Cassirer/Heidegger),” international workshop D’un espace à l’autre. Penser les passages entre espaces hétérogènes, organized by Manon Gille and Mildred Galland-Szymkowiak, ENS/CNRS, Paris.

  7. 12 December 2025

    “À l’origine de la conscience : le symbolisme ‘naturel’ comme expression passive,” workshop L’origine du langage. Les apports de l’anthropologie philosophique, organized by Étienne Bimbenet, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.

  8. 16 October 2025

    “An Intercultural Perspective on Bergson’s Engagement with the Linguistics of His Time,” final meeting of the international network Global Bergsonism, organized by Sait Özervarlı, Philippe Bourmaud, Caterina Zanfi, and M. Uveys Han, YTU, Istanbul.

  9. 8 October 2025

    “At the Origin of Consciousness: ‘Natural’ Symbolism as Passive Expression,” international conference Myths and Rationality. 100 Years of Cassirer’s Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, vol. 2: Mythical Thinking, organized by Anne Pollok and Luigi Filieri, Mainz.

  10. 30 September 2025

    Roundtable on Nietzsche als Hermeneut, with Denis Thouard, Christian Berner, Carlotta Santini, David Simonin, and Caterina Zanfi, École normale supérieure, Paris.

  11. 8 April 2025

    “La philosophie du langage de Bergson et ses sources,” Atelier Bergson 2024/25, organized by Caterina Zanfi and Mathilde Tahar, École normale supérieure, Paris.

  12. 16 January 2025

    “Le bergsonisme en dialogue avec le néo-kantisme,” fifth meeting of the international network Global Bergsonism, organized by Povilas Aleksandravičius and Caterina Zanfi, Mykolas Romeris University Vilnius / ENS Paris.

Selected academic organization

Selected major conferences, workshops, research groups, and long-term seminar organization.

  1. since June 2025

    Co-organizer of Atelier Bergson at the École normale supérieure, Paris, with Caterina Zanfi and Mathilde Tahar.

  2. June 2024

    Co-organizer of the international Authors-meet-Critics on Kyoto in Davos, TU Braunschweig, with Domenico Schneider and Ralf Müller.

  3. October 2021

    Co-organizer of the international conference Objectivity and Truth in Cassirer’s Philosophy of Culture and Philosophy of Science, TU Braunschweig / KU Leuven, with Simon Truwant.

  4. June 2021

    Co-organizer of the international conference Kyoto in Davos II, TU Braunschweig / Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, with Ralf Müller and Domenico Schneider.

  5. September 2020

    Co-organizer of the international conference Kyoto in Davos: The Question of the Human from a Cross-Cultural Vantage Point, TU Braunschweig / Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, with Ralf Müller and Domenico Schneider.

  6. 2020–2022

    Co-founder of a working group on interculturally oriented philosophy of culture, with Ralf Müller and Domenico Schneider.

  7. 2012–2021

    Co-founder of the Ernst Cassirer working group at the Innovation Centre for Knowledge Research (IZW), TU Berlin, with Martina Plümacher and Christian Möckel.