13th Annual Summer Seminar takes place June 26-30, 2023
Readiness to Change
Now in its twelfth year, the annual seminar will return as an in-person gathering at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Application deadline: May 8.
17th International Conference on Persons
July 22–26, 2024
Catholic Academy in Berlin / Hotel Aquino
The Hildebrand Project is proud to co-sponsor the International Conference on Persons.
Updates to the event can be found on their Facebook page, here. Questions should be directed to personconference2024@gmail.com.
Call for Papers
July 22-26, 2024, the 17th International Conference on Persons will take place in Berlin, with the aim of bringing together researchers from around the world currently working on the idea of the person.
Papers in any discipline are welcome, so long as the theme is relevant to the ideas of person, personhood, and personality as a philosophical, theological, psychological, social or political concern.
The official language of the conference is English.
Submission Information for Papers
Papers must not exceed a length of 3,000 words and should be prepared for blind review. In the e-mail sent with the submission, please include
- Your name
- Academic status (professor, unaffiliated, student, etc.)
- Institutional affiliation (if any)
- E-mail address
- Paper title
- An abstract not exceeding 200 words
All submissions should be emailed to: personsconference2024@gmail.com.
The deadline to submit abstracts is May 31st, 2024, but please submit as soon as possible. Preliminary acceptance of an abstract will come with instructions as to how the full paper should be adjusted for blind refereeing. An accepted abstract is an invitation to submit a full paper. Only full papers will be accepted for the conference. Those full papers are welcome as submissions at any time prior to the deadline, and will be reviewed for acceptance as soon as they are received. Full texts are due by June 30th, 2024, but they should be submitted earlier if possible. Full papers may be submitted at any time earlier and rolling, prompt notification will be facilitated so that travel arrangements can be made early.
Registration and Conference Dinner
The conference fee is anticipated to be less than €100, and will be lowered if possible. The conference dinner will be held on Wednesday, July 24 at 7pm.
Conference Venue
The Catholic Academy in Berlin was established for the purposes of meetings such as this one. It is a conference center and hotel established by the Catholic Church in the heart of Berlin, within walking distance from the central train station. Rates are very affordable. More information: https://www.hotel-aquino.de/en/catholic-academy-in-berlin.html
Our local host is Dr. Stephan Steiner: steiner@katholische-akademie-berlin.de
Organizing Institutions
- International Conference on Persons
- American Institute of Philosophical & Cultural Thought
- Southern Illinois University (Carbondale)
- Catholic Academy of Berlin
Partner Institutions
- Asociación Española de Personalismo (Spain)
- British Personalist Forum (United Kingdom)
- Cassirer Center for International Exchange and Cooperation, University of Wrocław (Poland)
- Hildebrand Project
- Personalist Association (Poland)
Organizing Committee
- Richard Allen (British Personalist Forum)
- Randall Auxier (American Inst. of Philosophical and Cultural Thought, Southern Illinois University)
- James Beauregard (Rivier University, USA; Hildebrand Project Associated Scholar)
- Jan Olof Bengtsson (Independent scholar, Stockholm, Sweden)
- Juan Manuel Burgos (Asociación de Española de Personalismo,)
- Bogumił Gacka (Director of Christian Personalism Chair, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw; President, Personalist Association Poland)
- Eli O. Kramer (University of Wrocław)
- Laura J. Mueller (West Texas A&M University)
- Diana Prokofyeva (St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Russia)
- James McLachlan (Western Carolina University, USA)
- Jonas Norgaard Mortensen (Cura Institut, Denmark)
- Olav Bryant Smith (California State University Chico)
Hildebrand Seminar in Austria
Taking place March 8–March 13, 2024
Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute of Philosophy
Zisterzienserinnenabtei Mariastern
A-6914 Hohenweiler, Gwiggen 1
Hosted by the Dietrich von Hildebrand Institute of Philosophy & Realist Phenomenological Research, founded by Hildebrand Project Senior Scholar, Josef Seifert. This is not a Hildebrand Project organized event and all questions regarding the seminar should be directed to Dr. Seifert directly: j.seifert@hildebrand-phil.institute.
Seminar Description
Building off of themes found in Dietrich von Hildebrand’s The Nature of Love, Josef Pieper’s About Love, and the works of John Paul II/Karol Wojtyla, Josef Seifert will lead participants on a 5-day excursion into the nature and meaning of love. The seminar is divided into two parts.
The first part (March 8–11) will aim at understanding love, primarily through Hildebrand’s text, The Nature of Love, which Dr. Seifert had the opportunity to study and discuss with Hildebrand prior to its publication. The second part (March 11-13) of the seminar will dive deeper into the philosophy and theology of the body and the meaning of spousal love in the works of the great personalists, particularly John Paul II and Dietrich von Hildebrand.
This event is limited to 24 in-person participants. You can also register to participate via Zoom, limited to 12 participants. Costs are as follows for the 5-day seminar
Full price: 400 € (80 €/day)
Reduced student fee: 200 € (40 €/day)
Participation via Zoom: 100 € (20€/day)
To view the complete seminar description, including housing and payment information, please click this link: Seminar Description (pdf).
About the Host
Josef Seifert
Professor Seifert received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Salzburg in 1969 and, under Professor Robert Spaemann, his habilitation from the University of Munich (Privatdozent) in 1975. He studied chiefly under Balduin Schwarz, the most distinguished German former student of Dietrich von Hildebrand, at the University of Salzburg, and under Gabriel Marcel in Paris. Already as a child (from age 3 on) he knew Hildebrand personally, because Seifert’s mother had been a student of Hildebrand in Munich and both of his parents were Hildebrand’s friends. He is the author of many books, and Europe’s leading student and teacher of Hildebrand’s philosophy.
The Art of Living
Reading Group, beginning January 24
The Heart
Reading Group for Clergy beginning Jan. 17
The Personalism of Edith Stein Book Launch
Jan. 24, 2024