Conferences

UMass Amherst Biennial Homecoming Conference 2026

Research by graduates of the UMass Amherst PhD programme

Every two years the philosophy department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites back graduates of its PhD programme to present and comment on their current research. The 2026 edition runs for a single day in late October.

24 October 2026 · 13:00 (America/New_York)

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States

University of Massachusetts Amherst, Department of Philosophy

Korean philosophy at Hildesheim, Chinese science at Hangzhou: October's diary

The international philosophy calendar this fortnight leans east. The University of Hildesheim gives four consecutive days to Korean philosophy, from a North American association's conference to a workshop on thinkers of the colonial period; at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, the historiography of science in China is argued as a philosophical problem.

Timothy Williamson