History Conference
Dates - 2 days
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Opens
Friday, May 1, 2026
Location
Berkeley, CA, United States
Venue
University of California, Berkeley
Hosted by
The History of Philosophy Society (HOPS)
“Friction” encapsulates both the discomforts and generativity of encounters between self and other—between thinkers, texts, traditions, and the self and the world; it gestures to the gap between certainty and the unknown/unknowable and the possibilities of translating the untranslatable. The theme embraces newness through encounters with the other but signals dangers of unresolved prejudice, misunderstanding, and rejection. The call for papers invites broad interpretations of "friction" to appre